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　　From Monday till Friday most people are busy__1__or studying, __2__in the evenings and on weekends they___3___enjoy ___4___. Some watch TV or go to movies; others engage in sports. It ___5___ individual（个人的）interests. ___6___ many different ways to spend our spare time.

　　Almost everyone has some kind of hobby. It may be anything ___7___collecting stamps___8___model airplanes. Some hobbies are very expensive, but others___9___anything at all. Some collections are worth a lot of money, others are ___10___only to___11___.

　　I know a man who has a coin___12___worth seven thousand dollars. A short time ago he bought a rare fifty-cent piece worth 250 dollars! He was very happy about that and thought the price was___13___. On the other hand, my younger brother collects match boxes. He has almost 600 of them but I___14___if they are worth any money. However, to my brother they are extremely___15___ ___16___makes him happier than to find a new match box for his collection.

　　That's___17___a hobby means, I guess. It is something we like to do in our spare time simply___18___of it.___ 19___in dollars is not important but the pleasure it___20___us is important.

(1)A.with 　　 working	B.working
C.At 　　 working	D.with 　　 work
(2)A.but	B.however
C.when	D.and
(3)A.like	B.consider
C.are 　　 thought to	D.are 　　 free to
(4)A.it	B.sports
C.themselves	D.lives
(5)A.depends 　　 on	B.is 　　 of
C.decides	D.depends
(6)A.Everyone 　　 has	B.There 　　 has
C.There 　　 are	D.People 　　 invent
(7)A.for 　　 example	B.such 　　 as
C.from	D.like
(8)A.to 　　 making	B.and 　　 make
C.to 　　 make	D.besides 　　 making
(9)A.are 　　 not	B.are 　　 not worthy
C.don't 　　 cost	D.aren't 　　 cost
(10)A.important	B.expensive
C.good	D.valuable
(11)A.their 　　 own	B.their 　　 owners
C.themselves	D.young
(12)A.which	B.collecting
C.collected	D.collection
(13)A.expensive	B.low
C.cheap	D.reasonable
(14)A.am 　　 sure	B.doubt
C.think	D.believe
(15)A.valuable	B.expensive
C.important	D.cheap
(16)A.It	B.What
C.Nothing	D.Everything
(17)A.how	B.what
C.why	D.called
(18)A.to 　　 Enjoy	B.for 　　 pleasure
C.for 　　 the fun	D.to 　　 please ourselves
(19)A.The 　　 value	B.The 　　 money
C.The 　　 expenses	D.The 　　 cost
(20)A.that 　　 gives	B.gives
C.giving	D.is 　　 given

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　　In San Francisco, an old man and his dog climbed up the  1 of a bus with some difficulty. After the senior citizen had put his  2 into the fare box. The driver told him that  3 would be fifty cents for  4 . “Just a quarter for  5 and you  6 fifty cents for my dog?” asked the man  7 .“That's the  8 ,” said the driver, hand  9 the fare box. “Full fare for  10 .” The other passengers  11 in silence as the man fished around in his  12 for the half  13 that wasn't  14 at all. Then the old man broke the  15 . “Say, my dog's eleven years old,” he said. “That's  16 as seventy-seven, so  17 a senior citizen. too.”

　　“Yeah, I guess  18 right,” the driver said, laughing. “So just  19 another quarter.” The man  20 the coin into the box and  21 proudly down the passageway (通道), explained, “We old  22 have to  23 around.”

　　An old person  24 the age of 65 only has to pay  25 the bus fare in the U.S.

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阅读理解

阅读下面短文，并做后面的题目。从四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

Some of the older people in the United States face a number of serious problems. For one thing, more than ten per cent of all “senior citizens” in the United States are extremely poor. As a matter of fact, recent reports suggest that about one-seventh of the people over the age of sixty-five live below the poverty level. Aged people also have more health problems than younger people. A third area for concern comes from the fart that the public transportation has not been designed with old people in mind; their activities are often limited to whatever is within walking distance. And finally, there is the separation from family, which causes loneliness. Many older people live by themselves (this is particularly true of widows(寡妇) and divorced(离婚的) women . And then there are the “forgotten five percent”, the older people who have been sent to “old age homes” (sometimes called “nursing homes”) by families who either cannot or will not take care of them.

1．The purpose of writing this passage is probably ________.

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A．to let its readers know the problems of old people

B．to show that old people in the U. S. are not happy

C．to show that no one really cares for old people in the U.S.

D．to make known the wisdom of the author of finding the problems

2．What percentage of the Americans above the age of 65 live in poverty?

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A．About one per cent.

B．About five per cent.

C．About fourteen per cent.

D．About thirty per cent.

3．According to the passage, the designers of the American public transportation ________.

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A．did not think of the special needs of old people

B．paid much attention to the old people

C．wanted to separate old people from others

D．asked old people not to walk too far

完形填空

　　In San Francisco, an old man and his dog climbed up the  1 of a bus with some difficulty. After the senior citizen had put his  2 into the fare box. The driver told him that  3 would be fifty cents for  4 . “Just a quarter for  5 and you  6 fifty cents for my dog?” asked the man  7 .“That's the  8 ,” said the driver, hand  9 the fare box. “Full fare for  10 .” The other passengers  11 in silence as the man fished around in his  12 for the half  13 that wasn't  14 at all. Then the old man broke the  15 . “Say, my dog's eleven years old,” he said. “That's  16 as seventy-seven, so  17 a senior citizen. too.”

　　“Yeah, I guess  18 right,” the driver said, laughing. “So just  19 another quarter.” The man  20 the coin into the box and  21 proudly down the passageway (通道), explained, “We old  22 have to  23 around.”

　　An old person  24 the age of 65 only has to pay  25 the bus fare in the U.S.

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Eight-year-old Bethany and seven-year-old Eliza are having a great time jumping around in the orchard of their home in a village near Penrith. They can play any time they like because they don't go to school. Instead, they are educated at home by their parents, Paul and Veronika Robinson. But they don't have lessons, have never used a timetable and learn only what and when they want to learn. .www..com

“I want my kids to have freedom in their childhood, not spend it in an institution," says 37-year-old Veronika, "School is all about control and following the rules." Veronika and her 56-year-old husband Paul have never experienced the daily rush to get dressed and out of the door that is common in most households with school-aged children. "We get up at our leisure - usually around 8:30," says Veronika. "We might visit a friend, or go to the library, and on Tuesdays we shop at the market. In summer, we spend most of our time outside and the girls entertain themselves a lot.” .www..com

New research due to be published this spring reveals a very different picture of Britain's home educators. "Out of 297 families, 184 said that they never use a timetable,” says Mike Fortune-Wood of Home Education UK. "Ninety per cent never or rarely use textbooks, and nearly all said that happiness, contentment and self-fulfillment were more important than academic achievement. Only 15% felt that planning what to learn was very important.” .www..com

So far, so good. But what, you might ask, are the children actually learning?

"It wasn't important to me that the girls could read by a certain age, but they both picked it up for themselves at around seven," says Robinson. "Weighing cooking ingredients uses maths, and making a shopping list teaches them to write. Observing five hens has taught the girls about survival of the fittest. "

But what about when the children grow up? Can they go to university? The home educators' answer is they can if they want to. There are a variety of routes into higher education, but probably the most common is to join a local college. This is what Gus Harris-Reid has done. "I was educated at home all my life. I'd never had a lesson or been inside a classroom until I started GCSEs," says the 18-year-old. "I'm now studying for 4 A-levels at Exeter Colle ge. I've had no problem with the work or with fitting in." When asked to reflect on his experience of home education, his considered response is, "Like a permanent holiday, really!" Not a bad start for someone who plans to take a mechanical engineering degree next year. .www..com

What is the topic of this article?

　　A. New ways of learning to read and write   B. Problems with UK schools

　　C. Home education in the UK                    D. Wild, undisciplined children

According to the article, in homes with school-going children, ______.

　　A. mornings are rushed and stressful.

　　B. the children hardly ever go outside.

　　C. the family wakes up around 8:30am.

　　D. the children must ask permission to go to the toilet.

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

　　A. Most home educators believe that happiness is more important than good grades.

　　B. Most home educators believe that planning is important.

　　C. Most home educators do not follow a timetable or use textbooks.

　　D. Most home educators are not worried about when their children learn to read and write.

What does the article say about home-educated children getting into university?

　　A. They learn so many useful skills at home that universities are happy to accept them.

　　B. They can get into university if they have 4 A-levels.

　　C. They can go to school later and get the qualifications they need in order to enter university.

D. Home education is so relaxed that they are likely to experience problems when faced with the pressures of a degree course.