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根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择一个最佳答案。

Neighborhood yentas are well—known women. They spend most of their time watching people around them. The yentas have this title for this. “Yenta” is a Yiddish word. It means a trouble maker or a talkative person. Nobody in the street is safe from their eyes or tongue.

Yentas certainly are not bad people. They pass on messages and advice. They give up-to-the-minute weather reports. They know who is doing what. They see，hear，and know all and usually repeat it. They have called themselves reporters.

 Some of the yentas’ neighbors think them so interested in others’ things that they forget their own. Sometimes, however ,a child has to be found，or a robbery has to be reported. Then what yentas do are helpful. Every neighborhood appreciates its yentas very much. It doesn’t matter what their color，belief or accent is.

1. From the passage we know that a yenta___________ .

    A. is famous for watching people walking     B.1ikes talking about others

    C. can be either a man or a woman           D. is not a help at all

2.If you live near a yenta，you_________.

    A. will not be safe                     B. can’t stop yourself from being watched

    C. will be stopped when you pass by      D. have to pay for their help

3.When you are in trouble，yentas_____________ .

   A. will make a joke on you               B. will watch you all the time

   C. can sometimes give you a hand         D. will report that to the police

4.The word “up-to-the-minute” means________ .

  A. oldest     B. best       C. latest     D. worst

5.Which of the following is NOT true? 

  A. We can get weather reports from yentas.

  B. You can learn things about neighbors from yentas.

  C. Yentas are sometimes a help to others.

  D. Yentas care more about themselves than about others.

   　　If someone says to you: “give me five”, do not search your pocket to get five yuan! It will make others laugh! The person's not asking for your money, but your fingers.

　　In the US, "give me five" or "give me the high five" is a popular gesture (动作). You can see it often in films or on TV. It means the clapping (拍) of each other's raised (举起的) right hands together.

　　People do it when they meet for the first time or something happy happens. For example, a student has good marks in exams or wins a lottery ticket (彩票).If a football team wins a game, the players will give high fives to everyone around to celebrate.

　　This gesture may come from the old Roman gesture of raising the right arm for the emperor(皇帝). This showed that the person raising his arm did not have a sword (刀) in his hand.

　　Why not try to give the high five to your friends?

1. “Give me five” is a gesture to _______.

　A. make people laugh   B. ask for money　C. celebrate success   D. give my five yuan

2. The gesture “give me five” is the clapping of _______.

　A. toes   B. hands    C. arms    D. fingers

3. When you ______, you give your friends high fives.

　A. lose your money     B. go back home

　C. win a football game   D. pick up some money

4. The gesture started in _______ according to the story.

　A. Rome  B. America   C. China    D. Britain

5. Why did the Romans raise the right arm for the emperor? Because ______.

　A. they were proud of their emperor

　B. they were happy to see the emperor

　C. they wanted to show their respect to the emperor.

　D. they wanted to show there were no swords in their hands

Dick lived in England. One day in January he said to his wife， "I'm going to fly to New York next week because I've got some work there." "Where are you going to stay there？" his wife asked. "I don't know yet." Dick answered. "Please send me your address from there in a telegram （电报），" his wife said. "All right，" Dick answered.

    He flew to New York on January 31st and found a nice hotel in the center of the city. He put his things in his room and then he sent his wife a telegram. He put the address of his hotel in it.

　　In the evening he didn't have any work， so he went to a cinema. He came out at nine o'clock and said， "Now I'm going back to my hotel and have a nice dinner."

　　He found a taxi （出租车） and the driver said， "Where do you want to go？" But Dick didn't remember the name and address of his hotel.

　　"Which hotel are my things in？" he said， "And what am I going to do tonight？" But the driver of the taxi did not know. So Dick got out and went into a post office. There he sent his wife another telegram， and in it he wrote， "Please send me my address at this post office."

　　Choose the right answer

1. Dick flew to New York because ___.

  A. he went there for a holiday　　           B. he had work there

  C. he went there for sightseeing （观光）　　 D. his home was there

2. Why did his wife want a telegram from him？

 A. Because she didn't know his address yet

 B. Because she wanted to go to New York， too

 C. Because she might send him another telegram

 D. Because she couldn't leave her husband by himself in New York

3. Where did Dick stay in New York？

 A. In the center of the city.B. In a hotel. C. In a restaurant.D. At his friend's house.

4. Who would send him the name and address of his hotel？

 A. The manager （经理） of his hotel.       B. The police office.

 C. The taxi driver.　　　　                 D. His wife.

5. Which of the following is not true？

 A. Dick stayed at a nice hotel in the center of the city.

 B. Dick didn't work on the first night of his arrival.

 C. Dick forgot to send his wife a telegram.

 D. Dick wanted to go back to his hotel in a taxi.

MSG(monosodium glutamate) is a food additive(食品添加剂),which has been widely used by many food factories all over the world since it appeared first in Japan in 1909.

  MSG is a substance that is added to some food to improve its original(原先的) taste and color. It is used in foods around the world such as cakes, bread, frozen meats, fish and vegetables. In the beginning, people thought MSG was safe just like salt and sugar. However, in 1968 some people reported they seemed to have bad reactions(反应) to MSG after having had a meal at a restaurant. They included headaches and quick heartbeat(心跳). It was also reported that MSG excited a person’s brain and caused his death in Japan. Scientists think that MSG may lead to many neurological disorders(神经紊乱). In mice studies done by a university, the evidence showed the mice didn’t want to eat the food including MSG.

  Today many food companies “hide” MSG on food labels(标签) by using different names. If you see “natural flavorings (调味品) ”,“hydrolyzed protein” and  “spices” in a food label, you are probably seeing a hidden way to “report” MSG in a food label. Every time we have a meal in a restaurant, we always feel the food very delicious to taste, but sometimes it is dangerous for our health because some poisonous （有毒的）food additives have been added to the food.

  To protect people’s health, our governments, from central to local, are taking actions to stop factories producing poisonous food additives.

1.Monosodium Glutamate is ______ .

  A. a food       B. an additive   C. a factory     D. a country

2.MSG is often used in ______.

 A. frozen meats   B. cups        C. clothes      D. book covers

3. The examples in the second paragraph tell us ________.

 A. the food including MSG is delicious

 B. people like to eat in a restaurant

 C. mice like eating the food including MSG

  D.MSG is not safe sometimes

4.If you see “natural flavorings”, “hydrolyzed protein” and “spices” in a food label, you will 

   know ­­­­­­­_____________.

  A. you must eat the food in a hidden way B. the food label must be hidden

  C.MSG is probably added to the food    D. you must report the food to your parents

5.The underlined word “substance” in the article means __________.

  A. color     B. material      C. taste      D. Food

阅读下面短文，将短文中画线部分的句子翻译成中文。

1.When I was growing up, I was embarrassed(尴尬的) to be seen with my father. He was very shot, what’s more, something was wrong with his foot. When we walked together, people would laugh at us. So he always said, “ You go by yourself. I will try to catch up with you.”

It’s far from my home to his factory, and he went there on foot. 2.No matter how bad the weather was, he almost never missed a day, and would make it to the office even if others could not. 3.When snow or ice was on the ground, it was impossible for him to walk, even with help. However, he never talked about himself. What he looked for in others was a “ good heart”, and if he found me, the owner was good enough for him.