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best title for this passage would be______________.A. Jenna and I B. Friends ForeverC. Friendship is very important.D. Friendship is very necessary.47. How would the author and Jenna get along with each other after Christmas?A. They would be close friends again.B. They would not speak to each other.C. They would lose touch with each other.D. They would go on fighting with each other.48. What can we learn from the underlined sentences?A. The author was sure Jenna felt sorry for her.B. The author didn’t think Jenna was still angry with her.C. The author hadn’t thought Jenna would send her a Christmas card.D. The author knew Jenna would e to see her and said sorry to her.49. Which of the following is the right time order according to the passage?a. Jamie became the author’s friend.b. The author felt lonely and unhappy.c. Jenna, Jamie and the author fought.d. Jenna brought the author a Christmas card.e. The author was sorry for what she did.f. Jenna and the author promised to be lifelong friends.A. fabced B. acfbdeC. abcfed D. facbdeBThe United States is full of cars. There are still many families without cars, but some families have two or more. However, cars are used for more than pleasure. They are a necessary part of life.Cars are used for business. They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other way to get to their jobs. When salesmen are sent to different parts of the city, they have to drive in order to carry their products. Farmers have to drive into the city in order to get supplies.Sometimes small children must be driven to school. In some cities school buses are used only when children live more than a mile away from the school. When the children are too young to walk too far, their mothers take turns driving them to school. One mother drives on Mondays taking her own children and the neighbors39。 as well. Another mother drives on Tuesdays, another on Wednesday, and so on. This is called forming a car pool. Men also form car pools, with three or four men taking turns driving to the place where they all work.More car pools should be formed in order to put fewer cars on the road and use less gas. Too many cars are being driven. Something will have to be done about the use of cars.50. The United States is filled with cars, but . A. not every family has a car B. few families have two cars or even more C. every American has a car D. every family has a car51. What39。s the main idea of the second paragraph? A. Workers drive cars to offices and factories B. Salesmen drive to carry their products. C. Farmers drive into cities to get supplies. D. Cars are widely used.52. Which statement is true according to the third paragraph? A. Small children are driven to school. B. All children go to school by bus in some cities.C. Mothers drive their children who can39。t walk to school. D. School buses pick up all children.53. The traffic in and around cities is a great problem because . A. too many cars are being driven B. there are too many car pools C. people put fewer cars on the road D. there is less gasCWhen my daughter was in the fifth grade, she came home from school almost every night with three or more hours of homework. It was my duty to help her get it done. One night she worked until midnight doing homework. I felt annoyed, but I didn’t want the teacher to think I was lazy, so I never plained. I wasn’t sure, but it seemed to me that five hours of homework was a bit too much for a fifth grade student. Later, I found out that parents and educators have discussed about homework for more than a century. Parents who like more homework want to give their children every advantage to succeed in today’s world. Some educators see homework as a way to help students perform better in tests. Other parents dislike the recent trend (趨勢(shì)) toward more homework. They don’t want to stay up until midnight helping their children. They would prefer to spend their time going to the park or reading some really good books with their children. Added to the opposition are those who say that homework increases the gap (差距) between the rich and the poor, since middl