【正文】 me you spend working for a pany, the more time you may get for a vacation 1. The govemment of the United States makes it a rule for workers to have a weekend almost once a month. A. 1day B. 2day C. 3day D. 4day 2. Workers in the United States sometimes work from ． A. Monday to Saturday B. Tuesday to Sunday C. Thursday to Friday D. Tuesday to Friday 3. Which statement is NOT true according to this passage? A. Only a few shops remain open on New Year?s Day B. Most of the worker needn?t work on Christmas Day． C. Days on vacation must be more than all the holidays in a year. D. All the workers have a halfmonth vacation 4. The reason why someone has to divide his vacation into several parts is that A. no one can be found to take his place B. he hasn?t a most high position C. he plays an important role in his work D. he hasn?t been working for his pany for a long time 5. Which of the following is the best title for this passage? A. Holidays in the United States． B. vacation in the United States C. How DO the workers Spend Their Holidays D. Something About the holidays and Vacation in the Passage 4 Sarah Winchester was a very rich woman. She didn?t buy many jewels or fancy clothes. Instead, she spent millions of dollars to build a house. The strange thing about Sarah?s house was that it was never finished. Work on the house went on for 38 year because Sarah was afraid to stop building it. Sarah?s house was near San Jose, California Every day, a crew of carpenters, plumbers, and other workers arrived there. Sarah wanted more rooms and more doors and more windows, so the workers kept on building them. The house was seven floors high and had 160 rooms. There were 2020 doors and 10000 windows. There were also three elevators, nine kitchens, and 47 fireplaces. Why did Sarah want a house that kept geeing bigger? The reason seemed to be that Sarah was afraid of dying. She thought she would die when the house was finished， so she made certain that it was never finished. Sarah Winchester?s plan seemed to have worked because she lived to be 83 years old. Finally, her house was finished. 1. What did Sarah keep doing to her house? A. Making it cleaner． B. Making it quieter． C. Making it bigger． D. Making it more beautiful 2. The story says that Sarah?s house had A. 7 floors B. 40 floors C. 160 floors D. 3 floors 3. Who did the work on Sarah?s house? A. Sarah herself and other workers. B. Sarah?s children and other workers. C. Carpenters and plumbers and other workers D. Engineers and other workers． 4. How long did the work on the house continue? A. For 7 years． B. For38 years． C. For 83 years． D. The story doesn?t tell． 5. Sarah?s house was finally finished A. when she moved in B. when she spent all her money C. when she died D. when she was seriously ill Passage 5 The diner is only a humble restaurant, but it has a special place in American life. Diners appear in our novels, plays, poems, and movies. Many artists have used diners as scenes for their paintings. Why are diners so fascinating to us? The diner attracts many different kinds of people. It is a heaven for lonely truck drivers far away from home. Construction workers learn about new jobs in distant cities. Traveling salesmen exchange gossip with one another. Teenagers sit in their booths, eating hamburgers. The people who work in diners are also interesting. Where did the new waitress e from? Will she remain here, or will she suddenly run off one day, as the last one did? And is the shortorder cook really an escaped prisoner, fleeing from the law? Everyone es to the diner for a different reason. Some want to work there. And some want to eat there. Some stay for years, and others stay only for a few minutes. But, for all of them, the diner is a bright, warm stopover between the endless stretches of an open road. 1. What?s the main idea of paragraph 27 A. The attraction of diners to different people. B. Food offered at diners. C. How people eat at diners. D. When people e to diners. 2. The purpose of the last paragraph is to A. tell us about the reason for people ing to diners B. `invite us to try diners as a stopover between stretches of an open road C. give a summary of the whole passage D. state the major point of the preceding paragraph 3. Why do truck drivers like a diner? A. It?s a place to gossip. B. It?s a place for flies and a hamburger C. It?s a haven against loneliness. D. It?s a place to learn about new jobs. 4. Diners attract A. only truck drivers B. many different kinds of people C. novelists D. escaped prisoners 5. Diners are—— A. quiet B. unpleasant C. luxurious D. fascinating Passage 6 In the past two years, millions of Americans have suddenly embraced the bicycles as if it were a startling new invention. Annual bike sales doubled between 1960 and 1970, and there are nearly 70 million bikes in the United States today. That?S more than two for every three automobiles. Of course, the bike has been around for more than 150 years, and this isn?t America?s first bicycle boom. A wave of bike enthusiasm swept the land in the late 1800s and bicycle production hit two million units in 1897. Then with the ing of the auto, bicycling declined。 once students have passed this exam, they are allowed to specialize, so that twothirds or more of their course will be in physics, chemistry, classical languages, or whatever they wish to study at greater length. The final examination, at eighteen, covers only the content of the special subjects. Even at the universities， students study only in their concentrated area, and very few students ever venture outside that subject aga