---How do you like my new car?

           ---I like it, but would you please ____ park it on the road?

         A. not     B.don’t     C.not to      D. to not

根据对话情景和内容，从对话后所给的选项中选出能填入每一空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两个多余选项。

– He is very good, isn’t he?

– __1__   

– I said the singer was great.

– _2__   

– Have you seen him before?

– __3__I think he probably writes the music and words because I’ve never heard any of the songs before.

– It’s not fair.

– _4_                                                     

– People with musical ability like that having to stand around here to make a living.

– Perhaps he enjoys it or makes more money than you think.

– __5__

 

A. What do you mean?

B. Sorry, what did you say?

C. I hope so.

D. Do you like popular music?

E. Be quiet, listen to him.

F. Yes and interesting to watch.

G. Oh, yes. He’s always at exactly the same place on Saturdays when I come into town. 

 

 

Do you like to eat out? Do you like to eat quickly? Do you like inexpensive food? Some people go to fast-food restaurants for these reasons. In the past, people usually went to diners（小餐馆）for these reasons. In fact, many people in the States still go to diners today for the same reasons.

A man named Walter Scott had the first “diner” in 1872. It wasn’t a real diner. It was only a food cart. People on the street walked up to the cart to buy food. These carts served late-night workers who wanted a cup of coffee and a late-night meal. The meal was a sandwich or boiled eggs. In 1887, Samuel Jones built the first diner big enough to allow the customers to come inside. However, they did not sit down. Later, people built diners with counters and stools, and people sat down while they ate.

Before long, many diners stayed open around the clock. In other words, people were able to eat in diner at any time. Diners changed in other ways, too. The original menu of sandwiches and coffee became bigger. It included soup, favorite dishes, and a breakfast menu. In addition, diners soon became permanent buildings. They were no longer carts on wheels.

Diners today look similar to  the diners of the early 1900s. They are usually buildings with large windows. Inside, the diners have shining counters with stools, booths, and tables and chairs. People can eat all three meals in a modern diner.

Today, many people eat in fast-food restaurants such as McDonald’s and Burger King. However, the diner remains an American tradition, and thousands of people still enjoy eating there. It was popular a century ago, and it is still popular today.

1.A man named Walter Scott had the first “diner” in 1872. Why is the word “diner” in quotation marks(引号)？

A.Because it is spelled differently from “ dinner”

B.Because the first diner was not what it is now

C.Because diner was a new word

D.Because it is a special kind of restaurant

2.What meals did the first diners serve?

A. only breakfast    B. Only lunch   C. Only night-meals  D. All of the above

3.According to paragraph 3, diners changed in __________

A. Two ways      B. three ways     C. four ways       D. five ways

4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Diners existed before a fast-food restaurant

B．The menu included more food than sandwiches and coffee

C．Burger King is a fast-food restaurant

D．Sandwiches became bigger

5.The main idea of the passage is that ______________.

A. The diner is a traditional , popular place to eat in the United States

B.Samuel Johns built the first diner big enough to allow the customers to come inside

C.American diners serve many types of food 24 hours a day to their customers

D.Diners are different from fast-food restaurants in many ways

 

—Do you like cooking, Sally?

—      . Luckily I’ve never had to worry about it.

A. Never mind       B. Not really       C. I don’t agree   D. You said it

 

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第三部分阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Why You Should Celebrate Your Mistakes

When you make a mistake, big or small, cherish (珍视) it like it’s the most precious thing in the world. Because in some ways, it is.

Most of us feel bad when we make mistakes, beat ourselves up about it, feel like failures, get mad at ourselves.

And that’s only natural: most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad, that we should try to avoid mistakes. We’ve been scolded when we make mistakes—at home, school and work. Maybe not always, but probably enough times to make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.

Yet without mistakes, we could not learn or grow. If you think about it that way, mistakes should be cherished and celebrated for being one of the most amazing things in the world: they make learning possible; they make growth and improvement possible.

By trial and error—trying things, making mistakes, and learning from those mistakes—we have figured out how to make electric light, to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, to fly.

Mistakes make walking possible for the smallest toddler, make speech possible, make works of genius possible.

Think about how we learn: we don’t just consume information about something and instantly know it or know how to do it. You don’t just read about painting, or writing, or computer programming, or baking, or playing the piano, and know how to do them right away. Instead, you get information about something, from reading or from another person or from observing usually … then you construct a model in your mind … then you test it out by trying it in the real world … then you make mistakes … then you revise the model based on the results of your real-world experimentation … and repeat, making mistakes, learning from those mistakes, until you’ve pretty much learned how to do something. That’s how we learn as babies and toddlers, and how we learn as adults. Mistakes are how we learn to do something new—because if you succeed at something, it’s probably something you already knew how to do. You haven’t really grown much from that success—at most it’s the last step on your journey, not the whole journey. Most of the journey was made up of mistakes, if it’s a good journey.

So if you value learning, if you value growing and improving, then you should value mistakes. They are amazing things that make a world of brilliance possible.

56. Why do most of us feel bad about making mistakes?

A. Because mistakes make us suffer a lot.

B. Because it’s a natural part in our life.

C. Because we’ve been taught so from a young age.

D. Because mistakes have ruined many people’s careers.

57. According to the passage, what is the right attitude to mistakes?

A. We should try to avoid making mistakes.

B. We should owe great inventions mainly to mistakes.

C. We should treat mistakes as good chances to learn.

D. We should make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.

58. The underlined word “toddler” in Paragraph Six probably means _______.

A. a small child learning to walk             B. a kindergarten child learning to draw

C. a primary pupil learning to read                     D. a school teenager learning to write

59. We can learn from the passage that _______.

A. most of us can really grow from success

B. growing and improving are based on mistakes

C. mistakes are the most precious things in the world 

D. we read about something and know how to do it right away