When a rather dirty, poorly dressed person kneels at your feet and puts out his hands to beg      a few coins, do you hurry on, not    what to do, or do you feel sad and hurriedly     some money? What should our attitude    beggars be? There can be no question that the world is full of terribly sad stories. It    be terrible to have no idea where our next meal is going to come from. It seems      not to give some money to beggars.

    , most of the world's great religions order us to be open-hearted and    what we have with those less lucky than ourselves. But has the world changed? Maybe what was morally right in the old days,     one knew exactly who in the village had suffered misfortune and needed help, is no longer the best idea. Quite a few people will not give to beggars. Let us look at their     .

First, some believe that many city beggars dress up     to look pitiable and actually make a good    from begging. Giving to beggars only encourages this sort of evil.

        , there is the worry that the money you give will be spent on beer, wine or drugs.

 Thirdly, there is the opinion     there is no real excuse for begging. One might be poor, but that is no reason for losing one's sense of     and self-dependence.

     There is an opinion that the problem should be handled by the government     ordinary people. Some people think beggars should go to the local government department and      help.

     It is hard to come to any final conclusion: there are various     and we must     them differently. A few coins can save a life in some situations, and even if the money is wasted, that does not take away the moral goodness of the     .

1.A. to                B. with              C. at           D. for

2.A. knowing        B. expecting        C. demanding    D. settling

3.A. put away         B. hand over        C. take in        D. get out

4.A. at                B. in                  C. over          D. towards

5.A. must              B. can             C. need          D. might

6.A. warm-hearted   B. generous          C. cruel          D. considerate

7.A. Strangely        B. Honestly         C. Certainly       D. Surprisingly

8.A. give               B. donate           C. share         D. contribute

9.A. why               B. when              C. what         D. how

10.A. arguments       B. quarrels          C. sayings       D. talks

11.A. on show          B. on purpose        C. for fun        D. by accident

12.A. money           B. comfort           C. living         D. decision   

13.A. Secondly         B. Surely            C. Possibly       D. Then

14.A. what               B. whether          C. that           D. which

15.A. goodness         B. pride             C. security        D. responsibility

16.A. rather than      B. or rather          C. other than      D. but also

17.A. produce         B. receive           C. earn           D. offer

18.A. cases              B. events             C. conditions     D. states

19.A. go with          B. communicate with  C. deal with       D. meet with

20.A. giver            B. receiver          C. villager        D. government

 

选择正确的词组,并用其适当形式填空(10分，每空1分)

take place;        in the shape (of);        before long;     set off;   look forward to;       lose weight;         be curious about;     be tired of;        earn one’s living         keep one’s word;

1. I have eaten the same food for a month, now I ____________it and I will never try it

any more.

2. After graduation, she’s going to __________ by working on her father’s farm.

3. We can believe him, he always__________.

4. At the Festival of Halloween, children usually dress up _________ ghosts.

5. The holiday that everyone______________ has come.

6. Mr. Greens will _________ for Beijing tomorrow.

7. The child in African had no enough food, _____________, she staved to death.

8. If you _____________Australian cities, just read the book written by Dr. Johnson.

9. The best way to________ is keeping on doing exercise.

10. We have never discovered what __________ between the couple that day.

 

【小题1】I had a very happy day today because we had no school though it is Tuesday today. I played football with my friends on the playground in our school. Then we had a big dinner with a lot of our friends.
【小题2】Today was a special day. After the bell rang for the lesson, we all sat up straight, waiting for our maths teacher. Today in former years we would place something on the top of the door so that when someone entered, it would fall onto that person. But this year, we put nothing on the top of the door. But as our maths teacher was entering, we all shouted “Take care”. The teacher got a surprise and raised his head but saw nothing. We all laughed and said “April fool”.
【小题3】Early this morning I got up and woke up my sister Jane. Together we went from door to door to call on my friends. It was a day for us to play. We gathered on the square of the town with our New Year’s gift. We exchanged our gifts and played all kinds of games on the square. How happy we were!
【小题4】This evening we had a Halloween party in the open. We were all dressed in witch’s outfit and wore masks. We sang and danced happily. We couldn’t figure out who was who though we were all such close friends or neighbors.
【小题5】Today I gave a kiss to the girl I love most in front of all my classmates. I didn’t say anything before. But today I was brave enough to kiss her on the face with my classmates and my history teacher near at hand.

A．Near Year’s Day It falls on the first day of the year. The year should begin happily, they say, so that it will end happily. And on the first morning of the New Year, children in Scotland, Wales and the English border countries rise early so that they may make the round of their friends and neighbors. “On January 1st,” writes a 13-year-old Scottish girl, “I always go New Year’s Gifting with my sister and friends, about four of us. I get up about 7 o’clock and call for my friends and go round the houses and farms.”

B．Shrove Tuesday For centuries Shrove Tuesday has been a day of high festival for apprentices (学徒) and schoolchildren. It has been a day of feasting, and cock fighting, a day for football , and rowdiness (吵闹). And it is pleasing to find that it is still a special day for children in some parts of England, where “Pancake Day (薄煎饼日),” as they call it, is kept as a school holiday.

C．Kissing Friday A teacher writing to the Yorkshire Post tells how after Ash Wednesday, comes Kissing Friday. A few days ago, when she arrived at a country school and was taking a mixed class of 13-year-old children in country dancing, she saw the leading boy suddenly lean across and kiss his partner, who showed no sign of embarrassment. When, as teacher, she expressed her surprise, the boy said, “It’s all right, Miss. You see, it’s Kissing Friday”. And he explained that on Friday following Shrove Tuesday any boy had the right to kiss any girl without being resisted.

D．April Fool’s Day

The first day of April ranks amongst the most joyous days in the juvenile (青少年) calendar. It is a day when you hoax (愚弄) friends of yours with jokes like sending them to the shop for some pigeon’s milk, or telling them to dig a hole because the dog has died; when they come back and ask where the dead dog is, you say “April fool” and laugh at them.
E. May Day
On the first of May, in country districts, young maidens (少女) rise early and go out into the dawn, as they have done for centuries, to wash their faces in the May dew (露水). In Somerset children call this “kissing the dew”. In most places, the girls do so to ensure that they shall have a beautiful complexion (肤色) for the rest of the year.
F. Halloween
It falls on October 31. Many children attend Halloween parties. “The best thing about the party is that you should go in fancy dress, ” says a girl. The most popular dress is a Witch’s outfit, or something to do with lucky charms. It is said that one of the luckiest things at a Halloween party is for a person to come in with a lump (块) of coal.

Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it, and the business of trying it on follows at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone's satisfaction.

For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else, he offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute impolitely; he does so with skill: “I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the color you mentioned.” Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: “This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.”    

Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only “having a look round”. She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lockout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to and fro, often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a laborious process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.

1.The passage mainly talks about ________.

A. differences between men and women shoppers

B. A man goes shopping because he needs something

C. How women go about buying clothes.

D. Women are better at shopping than men

2.The underlined sentence “the price is a secondary consideration” in the first paragraph means when a man is shopping ________.

A. he buys good quality things, so long as they are not too dear

B. he buys whatever he likes without considering its value

C. he does not mind how much he has to pay for the right things

D. he often buy things without giving the matter proper thought.

3.What does a man do when he can not get exactly what he wants?

A. He buys a similar thing because of the color he wants.

B. He usually does not buy anything.

C. At least two of his requirements must be met before he buys.

D. So long as the style is right, he buys the thing.

4.What is the most obvious difference between men and women shoppers?

A. Men do not try clothes on in a shop while women do.

B. Women bargain for their clothes, but men do not.

C. The time they take over buying clothes.

D. Men go shopping based on need, but women never.

 

On Halloween, children in American like to _____ as ghosts to frighten people.

A．dress up          B．put on            C．make up          D．spy on