英语卷·2017届湖南省长沙市雅礼中学高三上学期月考（四）（2016-12）

英语卷·2017届湖南省长沙市雅礼中学高三上学期月考（四）（2016-12）

湖南省长沙市雅礼中学2017届高三上学期月考（四）英语试题 第Ⅰ卷 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）‎ 第一节（共5小题：每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）‎ ‎ 听下面5段对话，每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话读一遍。‎ 例：How much is the shirt?‎ A. £19.15 B. £9.18 C. £9.15‎ 答案是C ‎1.What does the man probably do?‎ A.A shop assistant . B. A policeman. C.A postman.‎ ‎2.How did is the man’s daughter?‎ A.Six months old. B.One year old. C.Two years old.‎ ‎3.When did the woman plan to go to Spain?‎ A. In spring B.In summer. C.In autumn.‎ ‎4.Where will the speakers go first?‎ A. A restaurant B.A cinema. C.In autumn.‎ ‎5.What does the man think of the lecture?‎ A. It was interesting. B.It was far beyond his understanding. ‎ C.It was long but easy to understand.‎ 第二节（共15小题：每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）‎ ‎ 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。‎ 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。‎ ‎6.What does the man usually do at home?‎ A. Do the washing-up. B.Wash clothes. C.Clean the car.‎ ‎7.What does the man promise to do at last?‎ A. Do all the housework from next weekend.‎ B.Clean the kitchen after cooking.‎ C.Prepare meals every day.‎ ‎8.How long will the man most probably rent the bike?‎ A.From 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.‎ B.From 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.‎ C.From 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.‎ ‎9.What will happen if the man brings the bike black after 7:00 p.m?‎ A.He has to pay for the helmet.‎ B.He can’t get the 50 dollars back.‎ C.He has to pay 15 dollars more.‎ ‎10.Why is the woman a bit nervous?‎ A.She is afraid of getting up late.‎ B.She is a newcomer to the school.‎ C.She isn’t ready for the coming exam.‎ ‎11. What must the students do before morning reading?‎ A. Hand in homework.‎ B. Do morning exercises.‎ C. Go to the teacher’s office.‎ ‎12.What can the students do if they feel hungry?‎ A.Ask the teacher for some food.‎ B.Have something to eat in class.‎ C.Eat something during the break.‎ 听9段材料，回答第13至16题。‎ ‎13.Where is the woman going at the beginning?‎ A. Bergner’s B.Penny’s C.Lisa’s ‎14. When should the woman have called Helen?‎ A. At 3:45 B.At 4:15 . C.At 4:45.‎ ‎15.What’s the man’s telephone number?‎ A. 61199621 B.62199621 C.61299622‎ ‎16.What’s the relationship between the man and the woman?‎ A.Husband and wife. B.Boss and employee. C.Friends.‎ 听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。‎ ‎17.What kind of English lessons does the speaker recommend?‎ A.Examination skills.‎ B.Reading and writing.‎ C.Listening and speaking.‎ ‎18.How can a learner take the lessons when he is not online?‎ A. By using the downloaded sound files.‎ B.By making conversations with others.‎ C.By reviewing words,phrases and idioms.‎ ‎19.What is mentioned as an advantage of the speaker’s online course?‎ A. It helps learners to make friends.‎ B.It offers learners better study methods.‎ C.It improves learner’s listening and speaking skills quickly.‎ ‎20.What is the speaker’s idea about learning English?‎ A. Being confident in learning.‎ B.Learning English little by little.‎ C.Having clear learning goals.‎ 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）‎ 第一节 （共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分）‎ ‎ 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。‎ A Do you want to make good food choices? Read on.‎ OpenTable OpenTable helps people choose restaurants when they want to go out to eat. It is a free service that shows users restaurant availablility based on where and when they want to dine. OpenTable users can also make restaurant reservations directly through the app or website. It gives users points when they make reservations. The points can add up to discounts on restaurant visits.‎ Epicurious Epicurious is a free app and website to help users find recipes（菜谱） and become better cooks. The app has more than 30,000 recipes and can create a shopping list based on the ingredients in a recipe.Users can search by ingredients or by vegetables that are in season where they live. The app also rates recipe for popularity and other qualities. Users can also give advice about making the recipes. Each recipe has a list of ingredients,perparation time,instructions as well as a photo of the finished meal.‎ Calorific app What does 200 calories look like? It can be hard to picture.For example,200 calories of broccoli（花椰菜）and 200 calories of cake look very different! The app Calorific shows just that.Calorific provides images of 200 calories worth of food. The pictures can help people on a diets and those who just want to eat healthier. The app also a provides the weights of each food pictured.The app is free for iPad and iPhone. There is also a version that provides more information for a price.‎ Harvest An app called Harvest informs users about seasonal fruits and vegetables in different areas. This can be helpful in planning meals. Harvest also tells about pesticide（杀虫剂）use and organic food. Users can learn the best ways to safety store food.‎ ‎22.What can people do through using Calorific?‎ A. Better control their diets.‎ B.Get instructions from cooks.‎ C. Learn about the ingredients of a meal.‎ D.Learn about the cost of restaurant food.‎ ‎23.What do we know about Harvest?‎ A.It keeps pesticide use a secret.‎ B.It gives discounts to seasonal fruits.‎ C.It mainly recommends organic food.‎ D.It tells how to keep food fresh longer.‎ B To Richard Dorsay, a 36-year-old homeless Chicagoan, it was, at last, a place to call his own.‎ ‎ But to everyone else, it was the Lake Shore Drive road bridge, so when Chicago city authorities discovered Dorsay living inside the bridge’s steel structure last month, they had no choice but to drivehim away.‎ He had been living in the bridge for three years.He also furnished it with a television,a microwave and a PlayStation, and borrowed power from the municipa（市政的）electricity supply. But that wasn’t the most extraordinary thing. The most extraordinary thing was that the Lake Shore Drive Bridge is a drawbridge. ‎ ‎“The first time, it was scary,” Dorsay told a reporter from the Chicago Sun-Times, recalling how a bell would ring and his home would tip into the air, allowing ships to pass along the Chicago River below. “ After that, it was almost like riding a ferry’s wheel.”Brian Steele, a spokesman for the Chicago Department of Transportation, puts it more straightforwardly. “Essentially,”he says,“it changed his living space from horizontal(水平的) to vertical(垂直).” ‎ ‎ Dorsay had a history of homelessness and emotional problems, but in the bridge, he thought, he had finally found a kind of stability. “You”ve got to be kind of agile(敏捷的),” he admitted. “but it doesn’t take genius to figure out what to do”Dorsay is now without a home, though he is currently staying with his parents. Gray, his father, said, “ I’ve always hoped that he would find a place and he would seek employment, He is strong enough and bright enough to do something.”‎ ‎24.According to Richard Dorsay,why did he like in the bridge?‎ A. It was free. B.He felt more secure there. C.It was an extraordinary thing. D.He liked scary things.‎ ‎25. What did city authorities do when they found Dorsay living in a bridge ?‎ A.They advised him to leave. B.They gave him a bus ride.     ‎ C.They forced him to leave.         D.They sent him to his parents.‎ ‎26.The underlined word “borrowed” in the second paragraph means that______.‎ A. he would give the power back to the municipal electricity supply later B. he used his power given by the municipal electricity supply.‎ C. he had asked for the permission to use power from the city electricity supply.‎ D.he found a way to use electricity from the city without permission. ‎ ‎27.What made the bridge a scary place to live?‎ A.The bridge rose up to let ships pass. B.His living space was vertical.‎ C.It was steel structured. D.It was not a safe place to live.‎ C Tougher prison sentences reduce crime,particularly burglary, according to research.The study,by researchers at Birmingham University academics,also finds that during periods when police discover more offences, crime tends to fall overall, suggesting that level of police activity have a direct effect on criminal activity.‎ The researchers concluded that an increase of just one month in the average sentence length for burglaries—from 15.4 to 16.4 months—would reduce burglaries in the following year by 4,800,out of an annual total of 962,700.‎ For frauds（诈骗）, an increase in sentences from 9.7 to 10.7 months would result in a reduction of 4,700 offences a year, out of 242,400.The report declares this to be “a substantial effect, especially when we consider that the length of sentence usually corresponds to approximately half the actual time spent in custody（拘留）”.‎ The report says there is undeniable evidence that more continuous and effective policing cuts crime.“More uncovering is associated with great reductions in crime. It plays a continuous role in preventing crime,”says the study, which found that a 1% increase in the uncovering rate would prevent 26,000 burglaries, 85,000 thefts, 2,500 robberies and 1,800 frauds a year.‎ However,the director of campaigns at the Howard League,Andrew Neilson,questioned the claims,“The effect of prison on reducing crime has never been proven and this research falls short of doing so,”Neilson said,“There are numerous international examples of jurisdictions（司法管辖区） which have experienced both falls in crime and falls in prison numbers.”‎ ‎“Factors such as a good economy,more expenses spent on security operation and improved home security had greater roles to play in the fall in crime in England and Wales than an increase in the use of imprisonment.”‎ Neilson also said that the research ignored “the clear failure of prison,as proven by reoffending rates”.‎ ‎28.What kind of relationship does the research aim to discover?‎ ‎ A.The relationship between prison time and the crime rate.‎ ‎ B.The relationship between the number of prisons and the crime rate.‎ ‎ C.The relationship between prison time and the crime type ‎ D.The relationship between the number of prisons and the crime type.‎ ‎29.What can we learn about the conclusion of the research?‎ ‎ A.There are more burglaries than frauds annually.‎ ‎ B.Sentences for fraud are more serious than those for burglaries.‎ ‎ C.Over 5,000 burglaries were cut when the sentence length increased by a month.‎ ‎ D.If a person is charged with fraud,he or she will be sentenced to about 15 months in prison.‎ ‎30.What is Andrew Neilson’s attitude towards the findings of the research?‎ ‎ A.Supportive. B.Doubtful. C.Neutral（中立的）. D.Worried.‎ ‎31.In Andrew Neilson’s opinion,the government can help the fall in crime in all of the following ways EXCEPT .‎ ‎ A.developing a good economy B.improving home security ‎ C.increasing funding for the police D.building more prisons D ‎ SOOT—also known as black carbon—heats up the atmosphere because it absorbs sunlight.But for years the institutions that focus on climate policy have played down the role of pollutants such as black carbon that stay in the atmosphere for a short time and concentrated on carbon dioxide, which, once created, tends to remain there. That may soon change.‎ A new study concluded that the soot was the second-most-damaging greenhouse agent after CO2 and about twice as bad for the climate as had been thought until now. The consequences are intense.It found that the black carbon around at the moment has a warming effect of about 1.1 w/m2.This is greater than that of methane（甲烷）and second only to the 1.7w/m2 of carbon dioxide. ‎ Black carbon is especially damaging to frozen regions, because when soot falls on snow and ice it increases the amount of light and heat they absorb. The new assessment may therefore help explain why the Arctic has been melting faster than anyone had expected. The study argues that warming is likely to be especially marked in the high positions of the northern part of the globe—northern Canada, Alaska, northern Europe and Siberia. It also gives a warning that black carbon, by changing regional precipitation（区域性降水）patterns, may affect Asian monsoons（季风）.‎ ‎ The biggest impact of soot, though, is not on the climate but on health—through lung and ‎ other diseases. A study estimated that controlling releases of black carbon could save 2.4 million lives a year, regardless of any effects on the climate.‎ It might seem that the new study is one more item of bad environmental news. Not so. It should be easier to deal with black carbon than with CO2. Whereas CO2 is long-lasting and an inevitable by-product of burning fossil fuels, soot drops out of the atmosphere within weeks. Stop putting it there and it will rapidly go away—a potentially easy win.Dealing with them is also cheaper than cutting CO2 releases and does not need global agreement, because the local benefits would be the main point, so no one could free-ride on the emission-cutting efforts of others. Instead, the good of the climate would be free-riding on local self-interest. ‎ ‎32.Why have the institutions paid less attention to soot?‎ ‎ A.It is too small in amount to be noticed.‎ ‎ B.It just stays in the atmosphere for a short time.‎ ‎ C.It belongs to carbon dioxide.‎ ‎ D.It is beyond their study.‎ ‎33.Why has the Arctic been melting faster than expected?‎ ‎ A.Soot has much stronger damaging power.‎ ‎ B.People play down the role of soot.‎ ‎ C.The amount of rain increases.‎ ‎ D.The globe is becoming warmer.‎ ‎34.What is the fundamental reason for people to deal with the spot?‎ ‎ A.Soot can change regional precipitation patterns.‎ ‎ B.Soot can fasten the melting pace of frozen regions.‎ ‎ C.Soot can cause acid rain.‎ ‎ D.Soot can cause diseases.‎ ‎35.What does the word“free—ride” really mean in the last paragraph?‎ ‎ A.Getting to a certain place without paying the fee.‎ ‎ B.Gaining benefits without doing any efforts.‎ ‎ C.Giving somebody a free ride.‎ ‎ D.Driving a car in one’s own power.‎ 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）‎ 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。‎ If you’re tired of feeling bad, especially around this time of year when the weather’s warming up and everyone is talking bikinis maybe you do need a new look, but this one should have nothing to do with your weight, size or shape。‎ This look takes cultivating what’s on the inside. 36. It means “I’m actually perfect just the way I am!”‎ Here’s a few tips on how to begin:‎ ‎ 1.Know your heart We’re paying more attention to external issues than we are to our hearts. That’s why people are dying out there: if we spent half as much time noticing and tending to our hearts, we would be a lot healthier emotionally.37. ‎ ‎2.Be grateful It’s hard to be grateful for something you hate. My clients with eating disorders and body image concerns can’t generally find one thing to like about their physical appearance, but I challenge them to risk looking beyond what they see and begin to cultivate an attitude of gratefulness for what their physical body allows them to do.38. Start small, but start somewhere。‎ ‎3.Stop Comparing Don’t look at the girl at the gym, the guy on the magazine or the hot chick at the beach to judge yourself.39. If you feed yourself a steady diet of garbage, that’s how you’re going to feel—like garbage。‎ ‎40. The choice to ignore the cultural demands. A choice to live, really live a full and abundant life where you’re content with who you are, not what you look like.‎ A.Hold a child. Run a marathon. Write a poem. Play an instrument. Touch a loved one. ‎ B.It means being fearless about who you are both inside and out.‎ C.By paying attention to what’s happening to it as the losses of life unfold.‎ D.Invest in your heart—know your value and change your world.‎ E.Only one thing is necessary to revolt against the societal norms that demand we be thin to be valued: choice.‎ F.Don’t let your concern for your size,your weight or your body image rob you of life.‎ G.Start thinking about your strengths, your features.‎ 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）‎ 第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）‎ ‎ 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。‎ ‎ In the severe winter,another snowstorm attacked the whole world.Soaring above the boundless snowfield,a male eagle was for only one aim: 41 .‎ ‎ This strong eagle hunted for the food with his 42 eyes,but what jumped into his view was just the endless snow.‎ The air temperature suddenly dropped,the originally thick 43 of the male eagle turned very thin.Helplessly,he uttered a long and loud cry and 44 on the cliff.The male eagle had already flied for one whole day,yet hunting nothing....‎ Time changed back to the day before.After watching her husband fly away from the nest,the female eagle gently held to her bosom the two baby eagles who were nearly frozen to death.‎ ‎ Maybe they could not 45 the arrival of the spring,but the female eagle thought 46 their father could bring back the food.One baby eagle made a feeble（微弱的）cry,which the other 47 even couldn’t make.‎ ‎ Nearby the female eagle there was a dead 48 ,the prey of the male eagle By then this prey,which 49 the family of four for ten days,had turned into a skeleton.At the end of that short day,which seemed like 50 ,the female eagle still couldn’t see her husband come back,obviously feeling that one baby eagle,became increasingly 51 .‎ ‎ Rather than look at 52 her two babies one by one,the female eagle thought she should do something.She 53 her own chest with the beaks,the feathers that fell off her body being blown here and there by the icy wind.With feeble strength,she told her last baby who was still at the edge of death:“ 54 …”.Outside,the male eagle,who stood for a long time keeping close watch on the food,shook out the snow 55 on her wings.After making a yowl,he made his best efforts to 56 two wings,flying into the sky.He overlooked the land,which was still a vast 57 of whiteness.Suddenly,a leaden object jumped into his eyes.‎ The male eagle nosed down （俯冲）.That was another gray rabbit.At that moment,the ‎ rabbit didn’t hide or escape,but crept tightly upon the snowfield.The male eagle seized the rabbit with craws and killed it.When getting ready to fly away,the 58 before his eyes made him shocked.Just now under the body of the old gray rabbit lay four 59 baby rabbits.‎ Love is broad and deep,yet also 60 .‎ ‎41.A.the animals B.the house C.the food D.the meat ‎42.A.sharp B.big C.straight D.flexible ‎43.A.furs B.wings C.stomach D.feathers ‎44.A.sat B.landed C.stood D.leaned ‎45.A.live up to B.hold on to C.come up to D.reach to ‎46.A.what if B.how C.if D.when ‎47.A.still B.hardly C.ever D.even ‎48.A.rabbit B.goat C.mouse D.chicken ‎49.A.helped B.maintained C.provided D.sustained ‎50.A.a hard life B.a long life C.a boring life D.a terrible life ‎51.A.warm B.soft C.ice-cold D.hard ‎52.A.helplessly B.painfully C.heavily D.hopelessly ‎53.A.pulled over B.pulled out C.pulled in D.pulled apart ‎54.A.Eat me B.Touch me C.Hug me D.Strike me ‎55.A.fell B.dropped C.accumulated D.sprayed ‎56.A.fold B.unfold C.cover D.uncover ‎57.A.scenery B.boundary C.expanse D.field ‎58.A.view B.scene C.outlook D.spot ‎59.A.little B.cute C.frozen D.pitiful ‎60.A.cruel B.merciful C.awful D.precious 第Ⅱ卷 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）‎ 第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）‎ ‎ 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。‎ Mentally strong people don’t have their time 61. (waste) feeling sorry for ‎ themselves,and they don’t give away their power.They don’t allow others to control them, and they don’t give someone else power 62. Them.‎ You won’t hear a mentally strong person 63. (complain) about lost luggage or traffic jams. Instead, they focus on 64. they can control in their lives. They recognize that sometimes, the only thing they can control is their attitude.‎ They don’t want to please everyone.Mentally strong people recognize that they don’t need to please everyone all the time. They’re not afraid to say no or speak up 65. necessary. They strive to be kind and fair, but can handle other people 66. (be) upset if they didn’t make them happy.‎ Mentally strong people don’t waste time dwelling on the past and wishing things could be different. They acknowledge their past and can say what they 67. (learn) from it. However, they don’t constantly relive（回味）bad experiences or fantasize about the glory days. Instead, they live for the present and plan for the future.‎ They don’t make 68. same mistakes over and over.Mentally strong people accept responsibility for their 69. (behave) and learn from their past mistakes. As a result, they don’t keep repeating those mistakes over and over. Instead, they move on and make 70. (good) decisions in the future.‎ 第四部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）‎ 第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）‎ ‎ 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。‎ ‎ 增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。‎ ‎ 删除:把多余的词用斜线（)划掉。‎ ‎ 修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。‎ 注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；‎ ‎ 2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。‎ My dear teachers and fellow students,‎ We’ll say goodbye to our mother school. How time flew! Now it’s really hard for me to putting my feeling into words. The past three years have been really a wonderful journey with you guys, full of laugh and tears.‎ To make journey safe and fruitful, our great teachers contributed their time, energy, love and the whole heart. Here, we are extremely grateful for all what you, ‎ dear teachers, have done for us.‎ It’ll soon be the time for us to depart, unless unwillingly. But it is not the end. It just means that we’re going to begin a new journey.‎ Finally, on behalf of all the graduates present here, let me extend my sincere wishes for our mother school and respect teachers. Thank you! ‎ 第二节 书面表达（25分）‎ 假如你是李华，家境殷实。从小到大你的父母为你包办一切，你觉得自己过于依赖父母。随着年龄的增长，你想成为一个独立的、负责人的成年人，请你根据以下要点给父母写一封建议信。‎ 要点：‎ ‎1.国外许多名人把财富捐给慈善机构，而不是留给孩子；‎ ‎2.“授之以鱼”不如“授之以渔”，希望父母能给予自己机会，培养自己的独立性。‎ 注意：1.词数100左右；‎ ‎ 2.开头和结尾已写好，不计入总字数；‎ ‎ 3.不能出现真实的学校和姓名。‎ 湖南省长沙市雅礼中学2017届高三上学期月考（四）英语试题答案 题序 ‎1‎ ‎2‎ ‎3‎ ‎4‎ ‎5‎ ‎6‎ ‎7‎ ‎8‎ ‎9‎ ‎10‎ ‎11‎ ‎12‎ ‎13‎ ‎14‎ ‎15‎ 答案 C C B A B C A C B B A C A A C 题序 ‎16‎ ‎17‎ ‎18‎ ‎19‎ ‎20‎ ‎21‎ ‎22‎ ‎23‎ ‎24‎ ‎25‎ ‎26‎ ‎27‎ ‎28‎ ‎29‎ ‎30‎ 答案 A C A C B A A D B C D A A A B 题序 ‎31‎ ‎32‎ ‎33‎ ‎34‎ ‎35‎ ‎36‎ ‎37‎ ‎38‎ ‎39‎ ‎40‎ ‎41‎ ‎42‎ ‎43‎ ‎44‎ ‎45‎ 答案 D B A D B B D A G E C A D B B 题序 ‎46‎ ‎47‎ ‎48‎ ‎49‎ ‎50‎ ‎51‎ ‎52‎ ‎53‎ ‎54‎ ‎55‎ ‎56‎ ‎57‎ ‎58‎ ‎59‎ ‎60‎ 答案 A D A D B C A D A C B C B C A 61. wasted 62.over 63.complaining 64.what 65.when/if 66.being 67.have learned 68.the 69.behavior 70.better 短文改错：‎ ‎1.after-in 2.flew-flies 3.putting-put 4.have-has ‎5.laugh-laughter/laughs 6.make journey-make the journey 7.去掉all或what ‎8.what-that 9.unless-though/although 10.respect-respectable/respected 听力材料 Text 1‎ M: Here are two packages for you from New York. Could you please sign your name here? W: Sure. Thanks. ‎ Text 2‎ W: Look how thin the mommy is—and she had a baby only six months old. ‎ M: Yeah, my wife gets really depressed when she sees moms like that. She had our daughter two years ago and she still can't lose weight.‎ Text 3‎ W: I wanted to go to Spain in August but it's so expensive.‎ M: Well, summer is peak season, so it's the most expensive time. Why not go later in the year? ‎ Text 4‎ W: I'm hungry. Shall we go for a bite to eat? ‎ M: Sounds good. ‎ W: And then how about going to see the new film? ‎ M: It's wonderful. ‎ Text 5‎ W: Yesterday’s lecture was excellent, right? ‎ M: The topic was interesting, but the lecture was much more difficult, and I couldn’t follow it completely.‎ Text 6‎ W: Oh, no! Not again! This happens every day. ‎ M: What’s wrong? ‎ W: Look at the mess, Jim! You have your supper and never do the washing-up afterwards. M: I don’t do the washing-up but I wash the car every week. ‎ W: I don’t care about that. You never help me with the housework! ‎ M: That’s not true, darling. I prepare your meals, right? ‎ W: Oh! So what? The kitchen’s always a mess afterwards. You cook meals and I do the rest every day. ‎ M: Calm down. OK, I will do everything in our house from next weekend.‎ Text 7‎ M: I'd like to rent a bike for a day. How much does it cost? ‎ W: It's 20 dollars a day. A day is from 9:00 in the morning until 7:00 in the evening. M: So, if I brought the bike back at 7:30, would I have to pay for an extra day? W: Yes, and there's a deposit to pay as well. It's 50 dollars. Then when you bring the bike back, we'll give you back the 50 dollars. But if you didn't bring the bike back before 7:00 pm, we'd keep the money, of course. ‎ M: Well, you don't need to worry. I'll surely bring the bike back at 5:00. Do you have helmets, by the way? ‎ W: Of course. It's free to rent a helmet. Let's go and choose a bike and a helmet for you.‎ Text 8‎ M: Hi, Tracy. You’re getting ready for tomorrow’s lessons, aren’t you? ‎ W: Oh, yes, but I’m a bit nervous. I don’t know what will happen in class or how I’ll get along with my new classmates… ‎ M: I can understand. Just take it easy. You’ll make a lot of new friends very soon. W: Thank you. ‎ I’ll try my best to get used to my new school life as soon as possible. By the way, what time does the first class begin? ‎ M: At 8 o’clock. But before that we have 10 minutes to hand in homework and then 20 minutes for morning reading. ‎ W: So we must get to school before 7:30, right? ‎ M: Right. W: And how long does each class last? ‎ M: 45 minutes, with a 10-minute break. ‎ W: Well, I hear that lunchtime is nearly 12 o’clock and I think I’ll be starving by then. ‎ M: Don’t worry. There’s a 30-minute break after the second class, so we can buy something to eat. Or you may take some cookies and fruits to school. ‎ W: That’s good.‎ Text 9‎ W: Darling, I’m going to stop by Bergner’s first. It’s got some quality stuff. Who knows, some of their dresses might be on sale. ‎ M: Bergner’s? ‎ W: It’s a fairly well-known store like Penny’s. I need to get something for Lisa’s birthday. She’s into name brands. Any suggestions? ‎ M: A Gucci handbag or Calvin Klein T-shirt might be nice. Oh, I have a 15% discount card for Penny’s. Let’s go ahead and use it. Here it is. ‎ W: It’s wonderful. We can save some money for our home. Oh, no! I was supposed to give Helen a call an hour ago. It’s already a quarter to five. I left my phone with her. She must be still waiting for my call. ‎ M: Use my phone, Darling. ‎ W: OK. Is my telephone number 61199621? ‎ M: Oh, my god. You still don’t remember it. It’s 61299621. Only the last number is different from mine. Mine is 2. ‎ W: Don’t blame me. I have changed it for only three days. ‎ M: OK. You should write it down on your notebook.‎ Text 10‎ M：Hello. My name’s John Williams. I’m an English teacher. And I have started a website to ‎ help you improve English listening and speaking skills as quickly as possible. My online English lessons take just 5 to 10 minutes each day to complete. And there are no advertisements to take your attention away. You can also download the sound files to your computer and exercise them and take your lessons again anytime. I’ve designed the online English course to be a very easy, cheap and quick way to improve your English speaking, listening and conversation skills. And also to improve your listening scores in English exams. Every day, you’ll learn some new English vocabulary, idioms and phrasal verbs. And you’ll feel more confident in working and making friends in English. You’ll also learn correct English pronunciation. I always make sure my online English lessons are short, interesting and easy to remember. My idea of learning English is that it is best for you to learn a little each day and remember it clearly. This idea doesn’t mean a new method, but instead it is a concept. I hope you can accept. Whether you’re taking other English classes or not, and no matter what method you use, I can help you to achieve your English learning goals.‎