Proverb Today
Care and diligence bring luck.
谨慎和勤奋,带来好运气。
Part One Vocabulary
1.Farm incomes in this country used to ________ far behind the national average.
A. retreatB. retard
C. lag D. linger
2.A good night’s sleep within 30 hours of trying to remember a new task is a _______ of having good recall in the weeks ahead, scientists have found.
A. appealingB. call
C. request D. prerequisite
Part Two Reading
Whether you do or do not open a gift in the presence of the giver. whether you should or should not turn the plate over to look at the maker s symbol on the back. whether you put your coat on before or after you leave the host s house. whether you eat as quietly or as noisily as possible. whether you carry on a conversation during a meal. whether you walk in front of or behind a seated person. whether it is a friendly or an offensive gesture to put your hand on the arm of the person with whom you are talking——these and a thousand other questions are matters of cultural definition. None of them is inherently right or wrong, and none is good or bad manners except as a society defines it so.
Question:The topic sentence for this paragraph is__________________.
Part Three Error Dection and Correction
1.Either humans and animals learn by experience, and what is learned influences the planning
[A] [B] [C]
and carrying out of simple actions.
[D]
2.Sometimes in life we do things that we might not feel like to do, but we do them anyway
[A] [B] [C]
because we feel “it’s the right thing to do”.
[D]
答案
Part One
1 C 2 D
Part Two
None of them is inherently right or wrong, and none is good or bad manners except as a society defines it so.
Part Three
1A Both 2 B doing