【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 。 B. the wonderful music C. the sweet voices D. the beautiful scenes( ) 44. Mary and her daughter spent _______ watching the movie. A. $30 B. $40 C. $45 D. $60( ) 45. According to the passage, the movie most probably (最有可能) tells a _______story. A. funny B. sad C. terrible D. trueBTom and Joseph are best friends. They spent their summer vacation in Africa. When they were walking through the desert (沙漠), they started to argue (爭吵) about something. Tom became very angry and slapped (掌擊) Joseph in the face. Joseph felt hurt, but he didn’t say anything to Tom. Then Joseph wrote in the sand (沙地), “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept on walking until they found a small lake. They decided to have a bath. But when Joseph got in the water, he started to sink (下沉). Tom jumped in after him and pulled him out. His friend saved his life. After he became well again, Joseph wrote on a stone, “Today my best friend saved my life.” Tom couldn’t understand it. “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand. Now you write on a stone. Why?” he asked. “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand, and the wind can take it away.” Joseph answered. “But when someone does something good for us, we must write it in stone so that no wind can ever take it away.”( ) 46. Tom and Joseph went on a trip in _______. A . Europe B. America C. Africa D. Asia( ) 47. Tom slapped Joseph because _______. A. he wanted to play a trick on Joseph B. he argued with Joseph and got angry with him C. Joseph took him the wrong way in the desert D. Joseph played with sand ( ) 48. When they found a nice place, they decided to_______.A. buy some sand and stones for their friends B. find something delicious to eatC. have a swimming petition D. have a rest and wash themselves( ) 49. The underlined (畫線) sentence means that we should _______.A. let other know we are angry with them B. forgive (原諒) others for bad things as time goes byC. make sure what we write will always be there D. keep important things in sand but not on stone( ) 50. The most suitable title (標(biāo)題) of this article may be _______. A. Tom saved Joseph B. Tom slapped Joseph C. A friendship saved in stone D. Travel in AfricaCAmerican and British people both speak English of course. But sometimes there are some important differences between British English and American English. First of all, they sound very different. Often, Americans don’t say each word separately. They say words together. Americans may say “I dunno” instead of “I don’t know”. Or they may say “Whaddya say?” instead of “What did you say?” However, the British are more careful. They usually say all the words and keep them separate.Sound is not only the difference. Words sometimes have different meanings too. For example, the vocabulary for cars and driving is very different. Americans drive trucks, but in England people drive lorries.Many expressions (短語) are also different in the two countries. In England, if you are going to telephone your friends, you “phone them up”. In America, you “give them a call”. When you are saying goodbye in England you might say “Cheerio!” In America you might say “See you later.”There’re also some differences in grammar. For example, Americans usually use the helping verb “do” when they ask a question. They say “Do you have a storybook?” But the British often leave out the helping verb. They say “Have you a storybook?”Most languages are like this. Languages change over time. When people live in separate places, the languages change in different ways. This is w