Professional Documents
Culture Documents
I. Reading Comprehension
The traditional English breakfast is bacon and eggs, but the West Germans eat more
eggs per person than the English. The people of West Germany are also the world’s
greatest beer-drinkers.
The Italians drink more wine than the French. The people of Sweden hold the world
record for coffee-drinking, but it is the Irish who drink the most tea even more than the
British.
The Irish also consume the most calories an average of 3,470 per person per day. They
grow potatoes! The British spend a lot of time at the dentist because they are the
greatest sweet-eaters in the world. The Chinese eat the least sugar.
The greatest meat-eaters in the world are the Uruguayans, and the people of Sri Lanka
eat the least meat. The French eat the most cheese and drink the most champagne!
16. Mozart (write) ............ more than 600 pieces of music. He was born on January 27,
1756. He died 35 years later.
A. wrote
B. writing
C. write
17. It was warm, so I (take) .......... off my coat.
A. took
B. take
C. takes
18. She .......... the plate.
A. isn't drop
B. didn't dropped
C. didn’t drop
19. "What (she / do)........ at this time yesterday?"
A. was she doing
B. did you do
C. do you do
20. She just (go) ........ to the shops. She has bought lots of things for dinner.
A. went
B. has gone
C. gone
This is Boney. Boney is an African elephant. It is an actor in the circus. It works for THE
WORLD CIRCUS. Boney works very much. Boney can ride a bike, juggle, and dance
but it cannot play any instruments. It loves the circus and it works every day from
4.40pm to 22.00pm every evening. Before the shows it has fruit, bread, and water for
dinner. Boney is a very good actor. Boney lives in the circus. It lives in a circus cage with
other elephants. Its cage number is 33 and it sleeps on the 1st part of the cage. Boney
loves apples but it doesn’t like bananas. It loves sweets and chocolate