Question

【題目】Americans think much about time. From children they learn to value (珍視) time. As children they are taught to be on time to go to school, to work and to do everything. When they are having a good time, they say that time goes easily. When a person is dying, they say he is living on a borrowed time.

Time is money. Time is knowledge. Time is everything in America. A working American has to work hard for eight hours a day or forty hours a week. This is the working time. In his free time, he also works hard for more money. Even on Saturday and Sunday he also works hard as usual. In the street you can hardly see a man walking slowly. They walk very fast. In fact, they are running.

They love time because time can bring them money and lots of things. But sometimes they also hate time , because they feel they have become servants (仆人)of the clock.

【1】 What do the Americans mean by “ Time is money”?

A. If someone has time and works hard , he can make a lot of money.

B. It takes quite a lot of time to make money.

C. Working hard can bring people health.

D.It is not easy to make money.

【2】Americans think it to be wrong_____

A. to work late

B. to get up early

C. to be late for school

D. to be on time to do everything

【3】 From this passage we can be sure that ___________.

A. Americans live in a quick rhythm(節(jié)奏)

B. Americans live a hard life

C. Americans are good at saving time

D. Americans always walk fast

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】A

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文給我們介紹的是美國人的時間觀念，他們覺得時間非常的寶貴，時間就是金錢，時間就是一切，因此他們對時間非常的苛刻，他們的生活節(jié)奏也非常的快。但有時候他們也覺得自己就像是時間的仆人。

【1】A細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文第二段的內(nèi)容A working American has to work hard for eight hours a day or forty hours a week…In his free time, he also works hard for more money可知，美國人認為時間就是金錢，因為如果你有時間，你就可以努力工作，去賺很多的錢。故選A。

【2】C推理判斷題。根據(jù)文意可知，美國人的時間觀念很強的，他們非常珍惜時間，因此A選項：工作到很晚；B選項：早起以及D選項：按時去做每件事，這都是符合美國人的時間觀念的，而C選項：上學遲到這是不對的，是不守時的表現(xiàn)，故選C。

【3】A細節(jié)理解題。 根據(jù)文意和短文第二段中In the street you can hardly see a man walking slowly. They walk very fast. In fact, they are running可知，美國人時間觀念很強，他們非常看重時間，他們的生活節(jié)奏非常的快，故應該選A。