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Teach your children good manners and habits. Children need to arrive at the school punctually, and be polite to their teachers and classmates. Parents need to teach these skills at home. Nothing is sweeter than children who say “please” and “thank you”, and these are children their teachers are certain to love.
64. The first paragraph serves as ________.
A. an explanation B. an introduction C. a background D. a guidance
65. What should parents do according to the passage?
A. They should ask their children’s teachers questions at times.
B. They should prepare their children cookies as well as fruits.
C. They have to require their children to get materials for learning themselves.
D. They ought to have discussions over difficulties with their children patiently.
66. Which of the following statements is Not true?
A. Hungry and tired children can’t focus on their study.
B. Children should go to school on time and learn to behave well.
C. Teachers aren’t able to decide if parents do homework for their children.
D. Teachers are impressed when children take an active part in class.
67. The passage mainly tells us that being parents, you should ________.
A. help your children to impress their teachers at school
B. ask your children to get ready for classes before going to school
C. teach your children to be polite to both their teachers and classmates
D. remind your children to observe all the rules when at school
D
Some time ago I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn’t think that there would be any difficulty in getting it repaired, as there are a whole lot of antique(古董) shops near my home. So I left home one morning carrying the chair with me. I went into the first shop expecting a friendly reception. I was quite wrong. The man wouldn’t even look at my chair.
The second shop, though slightly more polite, was just the same, the third and the fourth-so I decided that my approach must be wrong.
I entered the fifth shop with a plan in my mind. I placed the chair on the floor and said to the shopkeeper, “Would you like to buy a chair? Twenty pounds,” I said. “OK,” he said, “I’ll give you twenty pounds.” “It’s got a slightly broken leg,” I said. “Yes, I saw that. It’s nothing.”
Everything was going according to the plan and I was getting excited. “What will you do with it? I asked. “Oh, it will be easy to sell once the repair is done.” “I’ll buy it,” I said. “What do you mean? You’ve just said sold it to me,” he said. “Yes, I know but I’ve changed my mind. I’m sorry. I’ll give you twenty-seven pounds for it.” “You must be crazy,” he said. Then suddenly the penny dropped. “I know what you want. You want me to repair your chair.” “You’re right,” I said, “and what would you have done if I had walked in and asked ‘Would you mend this chair for me?’” “I wouldn’t have agreed to do it,” he said. “We don’t do repairs, not enough money in it and too much trouble. But I’ll mend this for you. Shall we say for a fiver?” He was a very nice man and was greatly amused by the whole thing.
68. We can learn from the text that in the first shop the writer ________.
A. was rather impolite B. was warmly received
C. asked the shopkeeper to buy his chair
D. asked the shopkeeper to repair his chair
69. The underlined word “approach” in the second paragraph means __________.
A. plan to deal with things B. decision to sell things
C. idea of repairing things D. way of doing things
70. The expression “the penny dropped” in the last paragraph means that the shopkeeper ______.
A. changed his mind B. saw the writer’s purpose
C. accepted the offer D. decided to help the writer
71. From the text, we can learn that the write was a _____ person.
A. smart B. tricky C. cautious D. humorous
E
Happy Leap Day! Leap Day, you ask? Yes, it’s February 29. You may notice this date didn’t appear on last year’s calendar, or the year before that, or … That’s because Leap Day happens once every four years -and 2008 is a leap year. A leap year has 366 days instead of the usual 365 that an ordinary year has. An extra day is added to the calendar in a leap year, and here’s why: