What am I doing with my daughter at home? Rather than read aloud from books, we

go to dinner and have a very good time. This is usually when her Mom isn't around, and this is when my little girl and I relate better. They're alone together so much. We're seldom alone. When we're alone together, she and I somehow behave differently. We learn about each other. She learns that I'm her father. I learn that she's my daughter. It's a strange feeling, but any parent knows what I'm talking about when I say that I often look at my daughter and wonder just whose kid she is. Where'd she suddenly come from? And why on earth did she pick Laura and me for parents?

When my daughter and I are alone she'll hold my hand and say, “I just love you so much, Daddy!” She's so used to my leaving that when I tell her she and I are going to hang out all night, she gets this great look on her face and says, “We've got so much to do, Dad!” There's nothing like it in the world.

I want my relationship with my daughter to keep growing, so I've been giving my wife a couple of hundred dollars each week and making her go to the shopping center with her girlfriends, or something—anything!

But this closeness is not without its problems. When I'm sitting there playing with her Barbie doll(巴比娃娃)， washing her hair, a voice in me suddenly says, “I've got to get a drink and get out of here.” Right in the middle of all this pleasantness, the voice goes, “Look at yourself! You're washing dolls!”

1.Why does the husband give his wife so much money each week?

A. He wants her to buy more things for the family. 

B. She can do whatever she likes with the money. 

C. He can spend more time with his daughter. 

D. She can spend more time with her friends.   

2. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The father spends more time with the daughter than the mother does. 

B.The daughter is happy when the father tells her he will be away.

C.The father is happy, hearing “We've got so much to do, Dad!” 

D.The father is sure that the daughter is not his own.   

3.What does the last paragraph tell us about the father?

A.He doesn't enjoy being with his daughter. 

B.He doesn't like washing his daughter's hair. 

C.He likes to enjoy himself by going out for a drink. 

D.He has mixed feelings when he is with his daughter.   

Many people imagine that Cover up means you don't _________get a tan. Nothing to show for your holiday. What a shame!

Not so. With Cover up, you can get brown if you want to. The point of Cover up is to protect your skin from the damaging rays of the sun—the ones which, according to the doctors, make your skin look older.

That's what Solex Cover up is all about—protection for your skin. It has a Sun Protection Factor of 8, which makes it suitable for anyone.

Find out how it works for you by referring to the Solex Sun Table. On sale wherever Solex is.

With SolexCover up, you can tan as slowly as you like. As gently as you like. And with much less chance of peeling(脫皮).

Your tan will look better. Your skin will stay young longer.

Solex Cover up

Gentle tan…Full protection

1. The phrase “get a tan” in the first paragraph means “_________”.

A. keep away from the sun on your holiday

B. become darker because of sunshine

C. look younger after your holiday

D. show you have been in the sun 

2.Solex Cover up can be used to _________.

A. protect your skin from sunburn

B. cover yourself up on a windy beach

C. help you get a tan quickly

D. help your skin peel gently 

3.What is the main purpose of the text?

A. To advise people on how to protect their skin.

B. To warn people of the danger of sun rays.

C. To help sell Solex Cover up.

D. To show how to get a tan.

The heavy snow ___ me __ to school.

A.prevent, driving    B.kept, driving   C.forbade, from driving  D. stopped, to drive

Exciting as its special effects are ____,there is too much violence in the film.?

      A.to watch         B.to be watched?

      C.watching         D.being watched?

I don't really work here; I ___ until the new secretary arrives.

 A. just help out  B. have just helped out  C. am just helping out   D. will just help out

Mike pretended ___ Chinese when I came into the classroom.

 A. to reading   B. reading   C. to be reading    D. to be read

Profits in his company went up by 25% last year,and _____ so far this year though the

   financial situation is bad.?

     A.haven’t decreased

     B.didn’t decrease?

     C.haven’t been decreased

     D.weren’t decreased?

We can’t _______our fate.Instead,we should take a positive attitude to the present

   situation.?

      A.submit to           B.correspond to?

      C.subscribe to            D.compromise to?

—Tom says he is too tired to go on.?

   —He can’t be.He ____for an hour.?

   A.just worked  

   B.has only been working?

   C.has just worked

   D.had only been working?

This is not what I ____ him to say.

 A. hoped    B. expected     C. has hoped   D.thought