學苑中心同等學力英語考試每周一練第二期

  proverb today

care and diligence bring luck.

謹慎和勤奮,帶來好運氣。

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