Cars are very popular in Americ When the kids are fourteen years old,

1.1.________________ Some children think that they go to school just to learn their mother tongue, English and other foreign languages, mathematics, geography, history, science and a few other subjects. 2.________________ Are these the only things they should learn at school?

Actually children go to school to prepare themselves for the time when they will be grown up and will have to support themselves. 3.________________ but there is one more important reason why children go to school. There is more to education than just learning facts. We go to school above all to learn how to learn. Learning is not just for school but for life. 4.________________ A man who really knows how to learn will always be successful because whenever he is faced with a Therefore, children do not go to school just to learn languages, mathematics, geography, etc. 5.________________

选项： A:Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use in their lives, B:Nowadays most children go to school but few of them have ever asked why they go there. C:But why do they learn these things? D:Therefore we don't need to learn any more after we have finished our studies at school. E:They go to school to learn how to learn. F:Nowadays most children like to go to school. G:So even after we have left school, we have to continue to learn.

2. Four people can drive four cars instead of riding together in one car.

3.What does the author think is the problem about cars in the United States?选项： A:There is a shortage of gasoline for cars. B:There are too many cars in the streets and on the roads. C:There are not enough cars to go around. D:Some families still do not have their own cars.

4.Modern life is impossible without traveling. The fastest way of traveling is by plane. With a modern airliner you can travel in one day to places which it takes a month or more to get to a hundred years ago. Traveling by train is slower than by plane, but it has its advantages. You can see the country when you are traveling through. Modern trains have comfortable seats and dining-cars. They make even the longest journey enjoyable. Some people prefer to travel by sea when possible. There are large liners and river boats. You can visit many other countries and different parts of your country on them. Ships are not so fast as trains or planes, but traveling by sea is a very pleasant way to spend a holiday.Many people like to travel by car. You can make your own timetable. You can travel three or four hundred miles or only fifty or one hundred miles a day, just as you like. You can stop wherever you wish - where there is something interesting to see, at a good restaurant where you can enjoy a good meat, or at a hotel to spend the night. That is why traveling by car is popular for pleasure trips, while people usually take a train or plane when they are traveling on business.4）、When people travel on business, they usually take a plane or a car. 选项： A:T B:F

5.(3) Motor homes have become popular because ______. 选项： A: they can take people to another city when people are free B: they can let families have a happier life when they go out for their holidays C: some people think motor homes are cheap D: big families can put more things in motor homes

6.Modern life is impossible without traveling. The fastest way of traveling is by plane. with a modern airliner you can travel in one day places which it took a month or more to get to a hundred years ago.Traveling by train is slower than by plane, but is has its advantages. you can see the country you are traveling through. modern trains have comfortable seats and dining-cars. ___They___ make even the longest journey enjoyable.Some people prefer to travel by sea when possible. there are large liners and river boats. you can visit many other countries and different parts of your country on them. ships are not so fast as trains or planes but traveling by sea is a very pleasant way to spend a holiday.Many people like to travel by car. you can make your own timetable. you can travel three or four hundred miles or only fifty or one hundred miles a day, just as you like, you can stop where ever you wish -where there is something interesting to see, at good restaurant where you can enjoy a good meal, or at a hotel to spend the night. that is why traveling by car is popular for pleasure trips, while people usually take a train or plane when they are traveling on business.问When people travel on business, they usually take a plane or a car. 选项： A:T B:F

7.One of the most difficult decisions I have ever made in my life was whether I should go to university after finishing high school or not to go to college after high school.

8.A/an ______ driver fee is what you are charged with when you have more than one person driving the rental car. A:

9.The following are all now true except __________. 选项： A: they may choose to have children or not B: the man may take care of the children some of the time. C: the woman is the most important person in the house D: the woman may want to go to work

10.(2)

Most American families are smaller than the families in other countries. Most American families have one or two parents and one or two children each.

Children in the US will leave their parents’ home when they grow up. They usually live far from their parents because they want to find good jobs. They often write to their parents or telephone them. And they often go to visit their parents on holiday.

Parents usually let their children choose their own jobs. Americans think it important for young people to decide on their lives by themselves.

Children are asked to do some work around their house. And in many families, children are paid for doing some housework so that they learn how to make money for their own use.

3.They visit their parents ____ .

on weekends

on weekdays

at anytime

on holiday

11.There is something wrong with my car. It will take me one hour to have it ________

12. Nowadays, many college students have learned how _______ (drive) cars.

13.As the price of oil keeps ________, people have to pay more for driving a car.选项： A:to go up; B:going up; C:gone up; D:go up

14.Four people can ride together in one car instead of _____ four cars to work. 选项： A: drive B: drived C: drives D: driving