【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 s waiting in line at the airport in Santo Domingo. She was leaving her native country to join her sister in the United States. She spoke English very well. Though she was very happy she could go abroad, she was feeling sad at leaving her family and friends. As she was thinking all about this, she suddenly heard the airline employee asking her to pick up her luggage and put it on the scales（稱）. Maria pulled and pulled. The bag was too heavy and she just couldn’t lift it up. The man behind her got very impatient. He, too, was waiting to check in his luggage. ―What’s wrong with this girl? He said, ―Why doesn’t she hurry up? He moved forward and placed his bag on the counter, hoping to check in fist. He was in a hurry to get a good seat. Maria was very angry, but she was very polite. And in her best English she said,―Why are you so upset? There are enough seats for everyone on the plane. If you are in such a hurry, why can’t you give me a hand with my luggage? The man was surprised to hear Maria speak English. He quickly picked up her luggage and stepped back. Everyone was looking at him with disapproval. 1. Maria’s story happened ________. A. when she was leaving America B. on her way back to Santo Domingo C. before she left the USA D. when she arrived at the airport 2. You believer that the work of the airline employee mentioned in the story is to _______ at the airport. A. help carry people’s luggage B. ask people to pick up the luggage C. check people’s luggage D. take care of people’s luggage 3. ―Why are you so upset? Maria said to the man. She wanted to tell him that he should not be _______. A. surprised B. sad C. unhappy D. sorry 4. ―Everyone was looking at him with disapproval. This sentence means that the people around felt _______. A. worried about Maria B. worried about the man C. sorry for Maria’s manners D. sorry for the man’s manners 5. The author mentioned Maria’s age at the beginning of the story in order to show that _________. A. she was young but behaved properly B. she would not have left home alone C. everyone around her was wrong D. it was not good that nobody offered to help her Passage 5Dear Professor Liu,Please accept my greeting from New York. I am just beginning my graduate studies here at this university. It is the third week of classes now. My roommate, Tom, is also a graduate student like me. He is studying biology (生物學(xué)). He is from Houston. We are now on good terms.Our dormitory is well equipped (配備). There are all kinds of electric home appliances. But we don39。t have a TV set. I am going to buy one this afternoon. The view on the window is pleasant, and the weather is hot in the summer right now. It is about 38 degrees outside the room. But we have air conditioning in the room, so I feel OK.How are you getting on? Are you still working on your paper now?Please say Hello to those who have taught me. I miss all of you very much.LoveWang Hui1. Wang Hui is writing to her former teacher. 2. From the passage, we know that Wang Hui is a new graduate student in New York. 3. Tom is from Houston. 4. Wang Hui thinks her dormitory is too big. 5. Wang Hui is going to move to another room. Passage 6 In the UK, in business situations, when you meet someone for the first time you shake hands and say, How do you do?. This is not really a question, and the reply to it is another greeting such as How do you do? or Hello or I39。m very pleased to meet you or, if you have met the person sometime before, It39。s good to see you again.You don39。t shake hands every time you meet someone, you just greet them. If you are invited to someone39。s house for dinner, it is usual to take a present some chocolates or flowers or, if you know them quite well, a bottle of wine. If you do not know the host well, don39。t be the last person to leave. Telephone the next day to thank the host for the meal. English people don39。t like to talk about personal things, and tend to avoid religion, politics and money.Good topics for small talk are the weather, holidays, weekend activities, gardens and architecture (建筑物), especially houses and homes. When you go to a pub or bar, it39。s usual to take turns to buy a drink for everyone in your group and pay for the drinks when you get them from the bar and before you drink them.1. The first paragraph tells us how to greet someone in business situations. 2. If you are invited to someone39。s house for dinner, it39。s better to leave before the last guest leaves if you don39。t know the host quite well. 3. English people don39。t like talking about money and marriage. 4. In the last paragraph the sentence “…, it39。s usual to take turns to buy a drink for everyone in your group…” means it39。s usual to go Dutch . 5. The subject matter of the passage is British way of greeting people. Passage 7Martin Luther King was a black minister, who became a great leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. When he was young, he was strongly influenced by Thoreau and Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi’s idea of nonviolent resistance. Having received a Ph. D from Boston University, he became a political and religious leader of the nonviolent civil rights movement in 1955. On August 28, 1963, he led over 250,000 Americans on a march in Washington . to fight for the Civil Rights Law to guarantee equality for all people, and delivered his best known speech ‘I Have a Dream’ before the Lincoln Memorial. The ‘dream’ is a dream of brotherly love