(3)

Most of American businesses are open five days a week. American school children attend school five days a week as well.

American families usually have a 1 ______(两天)weekend. The weekend is Saturday and Sunday. Over the weekend people spend their time 2 _______ (以许多不同的方式) . Many families enjoy weekends 3 ______(一起) . They may go shopping, go for a drive or visit friends. They may also invite friends over and 4 ______ (聚会) at home. Many American families participate(参加)in sports during the weekend. 5 _______ (跑步), biking, playing volleyball and swimming 6 _____ (流行)in summer. Skiing and skating are the 7 _____ (最喜爱的) winter sports.

Weekends are also a time for American families to work on something in their yards or in 8 ______(他们的) houses. Many families plant flowers and have vegetable gardens. Some families use the weekends 9 _______(粉刷)or repair their houses. 10 ______(对大部分美国人来说), weekends are very busy.

(4)

Perhaps more than any other people, Americans have come to depend on their cars. The family car 1 _________(一直是) a common thing 2 _______(从……以来) the early twentieth century, and it has changed American life. Many people have moved 3 _______(外面) of the large cities to the suburbs. Some Americans spend 4 ________(每天两小时) or more in their cars 5 _______ (去上班) and home again. Cars have become the 6 _______ (工具) of transportation for most Americans going shopping, and even going on vacations.

Americans 7 ______(过去常常) like big cars, and gasoline used to be very inexpensive. Recently, 8 _______(然而), the cost of gasoline has increased, smaller cars have become 9 _______(更常见). Also foreign cars have become very common. Americans have bought 10 _______(大量的)Japanese and German cars. They have bought cars from several other countries as well.

(5)

Each morning a rich man found a poor man sitting on a park bench(长凳). The poor man always sat there, 1___________ (看着)the big hotel in which the rich man lived. 2_________(有一天)the rich man got out of his car and said to the poor man, "Excuse me, but I just want to know why you sit here and look at my hotel 3_________ (每天早晨)." "Sir," said the poor man, "I am a failure. I have no money, no home. I sleep 4________ (在这条长凳上), and every night I dream(梦想)that one day I'll sleep in that hotel." The rich man said, "Tonight your dream will 5________ (变为现实). I'll pay for the best room in that hotel for you a whole month."

6_________ (几天以后), the rich man went by the poor man's room to ask him how he was enjoying himself. 7___________ (使他惊讶的是), he found that the man had 8__________ (搬出了)the hotel, back to his park bench. When the rich man asked why, the poor man said, "You see, when I'm down here sleeping on my bench, I dream I'm up there, 9____________ (在那个大宾馆里). It's a wonderful dream. But when I was up there, I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream, and I couldn't get any sleep 10________ (根本)."

(6)

On October 12, 1989, some Chinese scientists were working at the computers to 1________ (寻找)the information they needed. Suddenly they saw a lot of very bright spots crossing the computers’ screens. 2__________(同时), they stopped their work to check some parts of the computers. To their horror, they 3___________ (发现)that most of their stored information was got rid of by computer viruses! Obviously all these computers had been infected by computer viruses.

4___________ (据说)that the computer viruses were made by a group of young men like playing tricks. They all had excellent 5_________ (教育). They created the viruses just to show their intelligence. 6___________ (这种)computer viruses is named Jerusalem Viruses. These viruses can stay in computers 7___________ (很长时间). When the time comes they will attack the computers by lowering the functions, damaging their normal programs or even getting rid of all the information..

We now come to know that Jerusalem Viruses often attack computers 8__________ (在星期五)and they are spreading to a lot of computers. Among the countries that suffered computer viruses are Britain, Switzerland, the US and some 9________ (其它的)countries. But till now how to get rid of the terrible viruses 10__________ (仍然是)a problem.

(7)

In American high school 1 _______(大多数) students take English, science, math and history.

2 _______(在英语课堂上) , the students study grammar and read famous literature. In science class, they study biology, chemistry or physics. History is 3 ________(更有趣) to some students because they learn about important events and places 4 ________(在美国) . Students take 5 ______(其它) courses, too. These are electives. Some study 6 ________(音乐)because they feel it is more enjoyable. Some study 7 _________(计算机科学)because they 8 ________(认为)it is more practical.

9 ______(在各自课堂上) , teachers give students exams. Some exams are more difficult than others, but a good student can always do 10 ______(好).

(8)

One kind of vacation that many Americans enjoy is camping. Each summer 1_____ (数百万的) Americans drive to the countryside where they find places 2_____ (野营). The national parks, many of which are 3 _____(在山里) , are favourite camping places. Campers enjoy the 4 _______(新鲜空气), the lakes and the forests which they find in these parks. Campers hike, swim and fish. They can also find 5 ______(许多种)animals and plants in the parks. Mostly campers have trailers which they drive or pull behind their cars to their campsites. Trailers are like houses 6 ______(在轮子上). They have many conveniences which people have in their homes, 7_______(例如)electricity and hot water. But 8 _______(大多数) campers don’t have trailers. They camp in tents which they 9________ (搭起)in their campsites. Campers in tents don’t have the conveniences that campers in trailers have. Tent campers enjoy 10 _________(一种简单的生活) .

(9)

All big cities are quite similar. Living in a modern Asian city is not very 1 (不同於)living in an American city. The same cannot be said about living 2 (在农场上), however.

In many parts of the world, farmers and their families live 3 (在村庄和城镇里). In the United States, however, each farm family lives on its own fields, often beyond the sight of any neighbors. 4 (不用) traveling from a village to the fields every morning, American farmers stay 5 (在他们的土地上)throughout the week. They travel to the nearest town 6 (在星期六)for shopping or on Sundays for church. The children ride on buses to large schools which serve 7 (所有的农场家庭) living in the area. In some areas, there are small schools serving a few farm families, and the children walk to school.

8 (当然)life keeps changing for everyone, including farmers. Today there are cars, good roads, radios, and television sets. And of course there are modern machines for farming. All of these have changed farm life.

For many years, however, farming in America was often a lonely way of living. Farmers 9 (不得不)deal with their own problems, instead of getting help from others. They 10 (学会)to try new methods, and to trust their own ideas instead of following older ways.

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A teacher from a western country visited a school in an 1_______ (东方国家). In one class, she watched sixty children as they learned 2_______ (画)a cat. The teacher drew a big ○ 3_________ (在黑板上), and sixty children copied it on their papers. The teacher drew a small ○ on the top of the first and then put two △△ on top of it. The children drew 4_________ (以同样的方式). The lesson went on until there were sixty-one cats in the classroom. Each student’s cat 5________ (看上去)exactly like the one on the board.?

The visiting teacher watched the lesson and 6________ (感到惊讶). The teaching methods(ways) were very much different from the way of teaching in her country. A children’s art lesson in her own country produced a roomful of pictures, each one is quite 7_________ (不同于)the others. Why? What makes this difference in educational methods? In a classroom in any country, the teacher teaches more than art or history or language.?

8__________ (在一个国家里)such as the United States or Canada, students are asked to work by themselves and find answers 9_________ (他们自己). The students are helped to learn to have their own ideas. In countries such as China and Japan, students often work together and help each other in the classroom, but the teachers teach and the students listen. The students are asked to memorize a lot. They 10__________ (必须)learn the same textbook. They do the same homework and give the same answers.?

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He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15,1929. He was black. He lived 1________ (仅仅)thirty-nine years, but he became world-famous in that short time. He 2 _______(长大) in the southeastern part of the United States. He studied at Morehouse College where he met many outstanding men whose ideas he found important and exciting. There he read the writings of Thoreau, which gave him many ideas 3 ________(关于自由) .

After he graduated from Morehouse, he 4 ______(接着) to study at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Boston University. At Boston University, he met his wife, Coretta. 5 ________(1954), after he got his Ph.D.degree, he became the minister of a small church 6 _________(南方的) . There he became the leader of the black people, who were poor and without power. He gave speeches and led marches. For his ideas and actions, he went to jail 7 ____(一段时间).

8 _______(许多年以后), in Washington, D.C., he spoke to a crowd of 250,000 people. He told them, “I have a dream.” That speech is still 9 ______(著名). In 1964 he won the Nobel Peace Prize. His work was not 10______(结束) when he died on April 4, 1968. Who was he? He was Martin Luther King.

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Dear Mr. Costa,

I’m sorry it has taken me so long to write. I’ve been very busy with work and school, but I’ve 1 ________(想起)you often.

How’ve you been lately? Did you have a good Christmas and New Year’s? Mac says you’ve been working hard at the restaurant and that business is very good. What 2 _______(别的) have you been doing?

I had a short but good vacation. Mac and I went to Chicago for 3_______ (几天)before Christmas, but I 4 ______(不得不) come back and work between Christmas and New Year’s (including Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve)! 5 _____(每次)something like that 6 _______(发生)I wonder if I really want to work in the hotel business.

The other day I was thinking about the fun we used to have 7 ______(在我们英语课堂上). I haven’t seen many of our classmates since the course was over. 8_____ (事实上), the only one I see very often is Tomiko. I’d really like to get in touch with Franco. Does he 9 _______(曾经) write to you? If so, could you please send me his address?

Well, Mac and I are going skating and he 10 ______(在等我), so I guess I’d better say goodbye now. Write as soon as you can.

Love,

Maria

【练习答案】

(1)1. around 2. get along well 3. each other 4. go on 5. miss 6. make new friends 7. Many places 8. think of 9. longer 10. yourself

(2)1. thousands of 2. famous 3. on the train 4. noise 5. what they said 6. full of 7. However 8. success 9. come out 10. A week later

(3)1. two-day 2. in many different ways 3. together 4. have a party 5. Running 6. are popular 7. favourite 8. their 9. to paint 10. For most Americans

(4)1. has been 2. since 3. outside 4. two hours a day 5. going to work 6. means 7. used to 8. however 9. more common 10. large numbers of

(5)1. looking at 2. One day 3. every morning 4. on this bench 5. come true 6. A few days later 7. To his surprise 8. moved out of 9. in that big hotel 10. at all

(6)1. look for 2. At the same moment 3. found out 4. It is said 5. education 6. This kind of 7. for a long time 8. on Fridays 9. other 10. remains

(7)1. most 2. In English class 3. more interesting 4. in the United States 5.other 6. music 7. computer science 8. think 9. In each class 10. well

(8)1.millions of 2. to camp 3. in the mountains 4. fresh air 5. many kinds of

6. on wheels 7. such as 8. most 9. set up 10. a very simple life

(9)1. different from 2. on farms 3. in villages or towns 4. Instead of 5. on their land 6. on Saturdays 7. all of the farm families 8. Of course 9. had to10. learned

(10)1. eastern country 2. to draw 3. on the blackboard 4. in the same way 5. looked 6. was surprised 7. different from 9. themselves 10. have to

(11)1. only 2. grew up 3. about freedom 4. went on 5. In 1954 6. in the south 7. for a short time 8. Many years later 9. famous 10. finished

(12)1.thought about 2. else 3. a few days 4. had to 5. Every time 6. happens7. in our English class 8. In fact 9. ever 10. is waiting for me

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