For most people, the word "fashion (???)" means "clothes". But people may ask the question, "What clothes are in fashion?" And they use the word "fashionable" in the same way.

"She was wearing a fashionable coat. His shirt was really a fashionable colour. "

But of course there are fashions in many things, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. There are even fashions in school subjects, jobs . . . and in languages.

Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1750 was different from one of 1650. A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1860.

Today fashions change very quickly. Some of this is natural. We hear about things much more quickly than in the past. Newspapers, radios, telephones and television send information from one country to another in a few hours.

New fashions mean that people will buy new things, so you see there is money in fashion.

1.Most people think that "fashion" means __________.

A. subjects         B. holidays         C. books    D. clothes

2.By          we can see that fashions change as time goes.

A. finding a job                     B. looking at pictures

C. eating in a restaurant               D. wearing a fashionable coat

3.In the 5th paragraph , the writer mentions            kinds of ways to send information.

A. three    B. four       C. five        D. six

4."There is money in fashion" means       .

A. people like fashion and money

B. fashionable things are expensive

C. one can make money through fashion

D. a fashionable man makes much money

5.The passage is mainly about             .

A. the changes of fashions           B. the kinds of colours

C. the money in fash ion             D. the differences between houses

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   More and more people around the world are joining in dangerous sports. Some people climbed the highest mountains, some traveled into unknown parts of the world, some sailed small boats across the largest sea.      1.   

   Bungee jumping ( 蹦极 ) and motorcycle racing are quite dangerous sports. Bungee jumping only lasts a few minutes or even seconds. You jump from a high place , 200 meters above the ground , and there is a rubber band ( 带子 ) tied to your legs.   2.  

About 2,000,000 people around the world have tried bungee jumping.

Why do people join in these dangerous sports? Some scientists say that it is because modern life has become safe and it is not interesting.    3.     They had to go out and look for food, and life was like a fight but was interesting.

    4.     They live and work in safe places, buy food in shops, and there are doctors and hospitals to look after them if they become ill.

5.Which of the following is WRONG?

A. People like to join in dangerous sports because they need excitement.

B. Traveling into unknown parts of the world is not a dangerous sport.

C. In bungee jumping, you jump down with a rubber band tied to your legs.

D. In the past, people lived in danger because the living condition was poor.

The food in White Rose Restaurant was cheap and good, but nobody seemed to want to eat there. There were very few people going to eat there. The owner was very worried about it.

     Then he thought of a good idea. A few weeks later, his restaurant was always full of men and their girlfriends.  Whenever a gentleman came with a lady, a kind waiter would give each of them a beautiful menu. The menus looked exactly the same on the outside, but there was an important difference inside. The menu that the waiter handed to the man gave the correct price for each dish and each bottle of wine, while the menu that he handed to the lady gave a much higher price! So when the man calmly ordered dish after dish and wine after wine, the lady thought he was much more generous than he really was! The man could make a good impression on the lady.

1.How was the food in White Rose Restaurant?

      A. Cheap and good.                    B. Cheap but bad.

      C. Expensive and bad.                  D. Expensive but good.

2.When a gentleman and his girlfriend went into the restaurant, the waiter would give

                a beautiful menu.

      A. the gentleman  B. the lady        C. each of them    D. neither of them

3. According to the passage, when a gentleman and his girlfriend had a meal at the restaurant, the meal would be paid by     

    A. the lady only                       B. the gentleman only

    C. both of the gentleman and the lady      D. the gentleman or the lady

4.What might the lady think of her boyfriend after having a meal together at this restaurant？

     A. She thought he wanted to impress her.

     B. She thought he pretended to be rich.

     C. She thought he was very generous.

     D. She thought he was the owner of the restaurant.

5.What does the story mainly suggest?

     A. People like to go to expensive restaurants.

     B. A restaurant owner should design different menus for different guests.

     C. The men should pretend to be generous before their girlfriends.

     D. It’s helpful for businessmen to learn customers’ thoughts

Long, long ago there were only a few thousand people in the world. These people move form place to place over the land, hunting animals for food.
　　 No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed. They did not have to look for food any more. They could stay in one place and grow it.
　 People began to live near one another. And so the first village grew. Many people came to work in the villages. These villages grew very big. When machines appeared(出现), life in the villages changed again. Factories were built. More and more people lived near the factories. The cities grew very big.
　 Today some people are moving back to small towns. Can you tell why?
56.(　 )The best title(题目)of the text should be ___.
A. Cities or Villages　　　 B. Back to Towns 　C. How Cities Grew　　　　　

57.(　 ) The underlined word "they" in the second paragraph refers to(指的是) ___.
A. villages　 B. animals　 C. people

58.(　 ) When factories were built, ___.
A. more people live near the factories
B. people began to live in the factories
C. many people began to work in village

59.(　 )We can learn from the text that ___.
A. people like to work only in big cities
B. some people don't like to live in big cities
C. there will be no small towns in the future(将来)

60.(　 ) In what order did people do the following things?
a. Worked in villages　　　 b. Lived near the factories.
c. Learned to grow food.　 d. Built factories.
e. Began to live near each other.
A. d, b, a, e, c　　　　　 B. e, a, c, d, b,
C. c, e, a, d, b