“Home, sweet home” is a phrase that express an essential attitude in the United States.

blem, because most families love home cooking! The food tastes good and warm, and a family meal brings everyone together.In some families, meals are often the only times everyone sees one another the same time.

Another reason people enjoy home cooking is that it is often away of showing love.A parent who makes some cookies(小甜饼)is not just satisfying(满足)a child's sweet tooth.She or he is sending a message.The message says, “I care about you enough to spend an hour making cooking hat you will eat up in 15 minutes if I let you.”

There is also something about the smell of home cooking.The smell of home cooking pleases people of all ages.It makes most of us feel good and loved，even if we are the ones doing the next time you smell a cake making，stop for a moment and pay attention to your mood(心情).

1.Fewer people cook now because they have no time.()

A.T

B.F

2.A parents spends an hour making cookies just to satisfy her or his child's sweet teeth.()

A.T

B.F

3.The writer thinks the smell of home cooking makes people happy.()

A.T

B.F

4.The main idea of this passage is that homemade cookies taste better.()

A.T

B.F

5.A family meal can bring the family members together.()

A.T

B.F

A.Sweet Home Chicago

B.Cheek to Cheek

C.The Girl From Ipanema

D.How Insensitive

A.Sweet Home Chicago

B.Cheek to Cheek

C.The Girl From Ipanema

D.How Insensitive

A.Sweet Home Chicago

B.Cheek to Cheek

C.The Girl From Ipanema

D.How Insensitive

A.Sweet Home Chicago

B.Cheek to Cheek

C.The Girl From Ipanema

D.How Insensitive

"Home, sweet home" is a phrase that expresses an essential

attitude in the United States. Whether the reality of life in the

family house is sweet or no sweet, the cherished ideal of home 【M1】 ______

has great importance for many people.

This ideal is a vital part of the American dream. This dream,

dramatized in the history of nineteenth century European settlers

of the American West, was to find a piece of place, build a house 【M2】 ______

for one's family, and started a farm. These small households were 【M3】 ______

portraits of independence: the entire family--mother, father, children,

even grandparents--live in a small house and working together to 【M4】 ______

support each other. Anyone understood the life-and-death importance 【M5】 ______

of family cooperation and hard work. Although most people in the

United States no longer live on farms, but the ideal of home ownership 【M6】 ______

is just as strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.

When U.S soldiers came home before World War Ⅱ, for example, 【M7】 ______

they dreamed of buying houses and starting families. But there was 【M8】 ______

a tremendous boom in home building. The new houses, typically in

the suburbs, were often small and more or less identical, but it satisfied 【M9】 ______

a deep need. Many regarded the single-family house the basis of their 【M10】 ______

way of life.

【M1】

A 10-year-old girl who weighs 175 pounds has been told by doctor :"diet or die ".

Brooke Walker keeps eating junk food(垃圾食品)and already weighs more than Britain's fattest teenager did at the same age .she's been warned by the doctor that they can do no more for her .Next month ,she will begin a healthy eating and exercise plan to save her life.

Brook, who’s too large for girls’ clothes and has to wear boys’ clothes, has been laughed at all her life. She stays indoors much of the time. ”when ”I look in the mirror I feel sad,” she said.

“Doctors have told me that unless I lose weight and exercise I will be very, very sick when I grow up. I have tired really hard to do as the doctors say. But every time I play outside, people stop and look at me and call me “fatso”. I end up crying in my room. ”

Brooke’s weight increased quickly when she developed a love of takeaways and fatty junk food. She often ordered food from shops or restaurant and ate at home. Her daily meal used to be potato chips, chocolates, pizza, and sweet drinks. Brooks’ mum Stacey, a busy single mum, admits Brooke suffered from being dished up with fast food in her early year.

In the first seven days she won’t be able to phone home, but she’s determined to succeed. “I can’t wait to go,” she says. “I am not afraid of going away. My one wish is to lose weight and look like other girls. I am tired of being called fatty and want it to end.”

32、what does the underlined word “diet” most probably mean in the text？()

A.To limit(限制) food

B.To do exercise

C.To see a doctor

D.To go outdoors

33、How does Brooke feel about being fat？()

A.calm

B.sad

C.angry

D.nervous

34、What has caused Brooke’s health problem？()

A.Poor family background

B.bad eating habit

C.lack of exercise equipment

D.little food at home

In the summer vocation, I usually go to my relative’s home in the country to rest after many months in school in the city. The summer days I recently spent _1_ me with happy memories. Let me tell you our daily program _2_ the short stay and the country life we enjoyed there. We usually get up at six and took a walk _3_ the beautiful grassland of wild flowers. The air was so clean and fresh. The pretty birds had just risen from their sleep and were jumping from branch to branch, singing their merry songs. Soon the rays of the sun could be seen on the river. We _4_ under the shade of trees for an hour and then went home. During the afternoon, we went to swim in a small river till the glorious sun was _5_ in the west. Sometimes, after it rained, the sky _6_ to be more beautiful. After supper, people began to enjoy the refreshing soft wind outside. Then _7_ came the bright moon. Occasionally one or two meteors (流星) would suddenly run across the sky as if they were playing with the fireflies. _8_, the world was warpped in sleep. The sweet notes of flute were heard _9_ the woods. Oh, how touching the _10_ was! It made us forget all the worries of life. [共10题]

(1)

(A) gave (B) brought (C) filled (D) offered

(2)

(A) during (B) in (C) between (D) before

(3)

(A) to (B) along (C) into (D) towards

(4)

(A) lay (B) lie (C) lain (D) laid

(5)

(A) rising (B) arising (C) setting (D) setting down

(6)

(A) got (B) looked (C) felt (D) watched

(7)

(A) around (B) about (C) over (D) out

(8)

(A) Now and then (B) From then on (C) By and by (D) Up till now

(9)

(A) over (B) in (C) through (D) across

(10)

(A) music (B) song (C) voice (D) sound