初中英语拓展阅读(5)
初中英语拓展阅读(5)
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There are many things we need to know but we do not learn at school. For example, if we want to use our allowance wisely, we need to shop carefully. We need to know how to compare the prices of things in different shops. We need to be able to compare the quality of different brands. We need to know how to make sensible choices when we shop. Knowing how to make such choices is a “life skill”, and we need these skills if we are to lead a useful and happy life.
Some of these choices are small. For example, will I take an apple for lunch or a pear? Will I take a bus to school today or will I walk? Will I wear the red T-shirt or the blue one to the movies? Other choices are more important. For example, will I eat healthy food for lunch or will I eat junk food because it is tastier? Will I work hard at all my lessons or will I only work hard at the lessons which I enjoy? We make decisions like these every day.
Making wrong choices can result in unhappiness. We have to realize that the choices we make can affect the rest of our life. Just as importantly, our choices can also affect other people. Next time you decide to waste time in class, play a joke on someone or talk loudly at the movies, consider this: who else does my choice affect?
Choose the best answer for each question.
( )1. What helps us use our allowance more wisely?
A. Comparing the prices and the quality.
B. Buying things in different shops.
C. Choosing different brands.
D. Choosing famous brands.
( )2. Why do we need “life skills”?
A. To know how to shop sensibly.
B. To lead a useful and happy life.
C. To compare brands and prices.
D. To learn things at school.
( )3. Which of these choices is the most important?
A. Which fruit to take for lunch.
B. How to get to school.
C. Which T-shirt to wear to the movies.
D. Which subject to work hard at.
( )4. Why is it important to make right choices?
A. Because they can affect the rest of our life.
B. Because they can make us waste time.
C. Because they keep us from being happy.
D. Because we make choices every day.
( )5. Who do our choices may affect?
A. Ourselves and our parents. B. Only ourselves.
C. Ourselves and other people.
D. Everybody except us.
Help: allowance n. 补助;津贴
brand n. 品牌
sensible adj. 明智的
B
A new fast food store has just opened near Carl’s school. Carl and his classmates often go there after school. , so many students enjoy eating there. Let’s see what are sold
there and the prices.
Choose the best answer for each question.
( )6. The underlined word “reasonable” means _______ in Chinese according to the passage.
A. 有理由的 B. 合理的
C. 不错的 D. 很贵的
( )7. If you have only $3, what food can you buy?
A. A chocolate. B. An egg sandwich.
C. A hot dog. D. An apple pie.
( )8. Julia has ordered a hamburger, a large glass of orange juice and two apple pies. How much does she have to pay?
A. $13.90. B. $13.75.
C. $13.80. D. $9.80.
( )9. If Lucy wants to have food, drinks and desserts together with $10, what will she probably buy?
A. A hamburger, coffee and two ice creams.
B. Turkey, orange juice and an apple pie.
C. Vegetables, coke and fresh fruit.
D. An egg sandwich, orange juice and an ice cream.
( )10. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The cheapest dessert in Blue Rose Fast Food Store is ice cream.
B. In Blue Rose Fast Food Store, only five kinds of drinks are sold.
C. You can eat fish sandwiches in Blue Rose Fast Food Store.
D. There is a school near Blue Rose Fast Food Store.
C
Joseph Emmons is blind. He has a trained dog called Buster that leads him to where he wants to go. Buster is a Seeing Eye dog.
Although Mr. Emmons has a handicap, it isn’t a big problem. He has a helpful job and he earns his own money. Mr. Emmons sells brooms to people in this part of the city. He has worked every day except Sunday for forty years.
After his breakfast, Mr. Emmons holds Buster, carries brooms and sells from house to house. People choose a broom and they pay him while Buster sits and waits beside his master. It takes four and one half months to walk to every house in this part of the city. So Mr. Emmons visits each house every four months, and by then people are usually ready to buy new brooms.
But these days he has a problem. His brooms last so long that sometimes they are still good after four months. Then nobody needs to buy a new one. Mr. Emmons likes his job and is proud of his brooms. He picks up a new supply of brooms every week. He says, “If you don’t sell people something good, they’re not going to buy from you the second time you come around.”
Mark these statements with “T”(True) or “F”(False).
( )11. Buster is a Seeing Eye dog and he is trained to lead Mr. Emmons to everyplace.
( )12. Every day Buster sells brooms with Mr. Emmons.
( )13. Mr. Emmons sells brooms from door to door around the whole city.
( )14. Mr. Emmons believes that if he sells something bad, he will lose most of his customers.
( )15. This story tells us how this disabled man lives on himself.
Help: handicap n. 生理缺陷
broom n. 扫帚
customer n. 顾客
Key: 1-5 ABDAC 6-10 BCADC 11-15 TFFTT