Dinner,for English people,is the richest meal of the day and is a very formal meal.Many people even

A.won’t

B.dinner

C.can’t

D.don’t

A．Christmas trees

B．Christmas stockings

C．Christmas dinner

D．Christmas party

—Would you like to come up to myprtment for dinner tonight —_____, but I’m too busy.No proble—Would you like to come up to myprtment for dinner tonight —_____, but I’m too busy.No problem B．I’d love to C．ll right D．Thnk youll the sme

A．No problem

B．I’d love to

C．All right

D．Thank you all the same

life. Lunch is for them a kind of gratuity paid to the body. They hurriedly toss it a fruit or a fish and go back to work. Certain writers, in rebellion, have founded the club, "Three Hours for Lunch", but they are an agreeable exception. Even at dinner, general conversation is rare. Everyone talks to his neighbor. After dinner the men linger at the table, a custom inherited from England. In New York your host will often propose taking you to the theatre, or else he will provide a pianist, a singer, a lecturer. The idea of leaving the guests to themselves, and expecting them to get pleasure out of meeting one another, astonishes and even appalls him. His excessive modesty does not permit his imagining that his friends can be happy merely in being in his house, with one another. He treats them like children. On Christmas Eve you will see, in some of the pleasant homes in New York, Christmas trees for grown people. In other places, after a dinner at which you exchange ideas, there will be a magician who will do his best to amuse the oldsters. There you must realize that the absence of conversation in American homes comes, not from absence of ideas or lack of intelligence of understanding, but from an unconquerable shyness and a prodigious self-distrust.

The Americans hurry through lunch because ______.

A．they are ambitious

B．they have rebelled against English customs

C．they don' t think it is important

D．talking while eating is impolite

Section III Translation

Directions:

Translate the following text from English into Chinese. Write your translation

on ANSWER SHEET.

A fifth grader gets a homework assignment to select his future career path from a

list of occupations. He ticks “astronaut” but quickly adds “scientist” to the list and

selects it as well. The boy is convinced that if he reads enough, he can explore as

many careerpathsas he likes. And so he reads-everything from encyclopedias to

science fiction novels. He reads so passionately that his parents have to institute a “no

reading policy” at the dinner table.

That boy was Bill Gates, and he hasn’t stopped reading yet-not even after

becoming one of the most successful people on the planet. Nowadays, his reading

material has changed from science fiction and reference books: recently, he revealed

that he reads at least 50 nonfiction books a year. Gates chooses nonfiction titles

because they explain how the world works. “Each book opens upnewavenues of

knowledge to explore”, Gates says.

stom only since 1890. Before this time, people only had two meals a day—breakfast and dinner. In the 16th century, breakfast was only to break one’s fast(开戒, 即开始吃东西). But 200 years later it had become a large meal, not just for family, but for numbers of guests as well. It was a social event. It began at 10 a.m. and lasted until 1 p.m. Then breakfast began to be less popular. It became, instead, a lighter meal and was taken at much earlier hour. By 1850 it had been pushed back to 8 a.m. and became a family meal. Dinner, however, went the other way. In the 16th century it was eaten at 11 a.m. Years later, it moved to the early afternoon, then to 5 p.m. By 1850 dinner time had reached 7 p.m. Lunch is a recent idea. It first appeared as a snack to fill the gap between breakfast and dinner.

1.People did not have lunch ______.

A.until 1890

B.after 1890

C.since 1890 Dby 1890

2.“Dinner, however, went the other way” means “______”.

A.dinner didn’t go there with breakfast

B.dinner took the same way as breakfast

C.dinner got later

D.dinner is the same with breakfast

3.Breakfast has been a family meal since the ______ century.

A.17th

B.18th

C.16th

D.19th

4.The passage is mostly concerned with ______.

A.what people eat for breakfast

B.what people eat for dinner

C.the history of supper

D.the history of the three meals

5.The passage leads us to believe that ______.

A.our custom of meals is based on an English custom

B.before 1890 people didn’t eat three meals a day

C.breakfast is the most important meal for us

D.three meals a day is a long tradition

A.Voiced

B.Voiceless

C.Bilabial

D.Dental

an embarrassing subject for English people, and one they tend to be ashamed of, though during the present century class-consciousness has grown less and less. But it still exists. Broadly speaking, it means there are two classes, the "middle class" and the "working class" (We shall ignore for a moment the old "upper class", since it is extremely small in numbers; but some of its members have the right to sit in the House of Lords, and some newspapers take a surprising interest in their private life.) The middle class consists chiefly of businessmen and professional people of all kinds. The working class consists chiefly of manual and unskilled workers.

The most obvious difference between them is in their accent. Middle-class people use slightly varying kinds of "received pronunciation" which is the kind of English spoken by BBC announcers and taught to overseas pupils. Typical working-class people speak in many different local accents which are generally felt to be rather ugly and uneducated. One of the biggest barriers of social equality in England is the two-class education system. To have been to a so-called "public school" immediately marks you out as one of the middle class. The middle classes tend to live a more formal life. Their midday meal is "lunch" and they have a rather formal evening meal called "dinner", whereas the working man's dinner, if his working hours permit, is at midday, and his smaller, late-evening meal is called supper.

It has been government policy to reduce class distinctions. Working-class students commonly receive a university education and enter the professions, and working-class incomes have grown so much recently. However, regardless of one's social status, certain standards of politeness are expected of everybody, and a well-bred person is polite to everyone he meets, and treats a laborer with the same respect he gives an important businessman. Servility inspires both embarrassment and dislike. Even the word "sir", except in school and in certain occupations (e.g. commerce, the army etc.) sounds too servile to be commonly used.

The "upper class" in England today______.

A．are extremely small in number so that media pays no attention to them

B．still uses old words like "sir" in their everyday life

C．can sits in the House of Lords

D．refers only to the royal family

A.phones

B.allophones

C.voices

D.phonemes

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