For most people, the word "fashion (時尚)" means "clothes". But people may ask the question, "What clothes are in fashion?" And they use the word "fashionable" in the same way:
"She was wearing a fashionable coat. His shirt was really a fashionable colour. "
But of course there are fashions in many things, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. There are even fashions in school subjects, jobs ... and in languages.
Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1750 was different from one of 1650. A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1860.
Today fashions change very quickly. Some of this is natural. We hear about things much more quickly than in the past. Newspapers, radios, telephones and television send information from one country to another in a few hours.
New fashions mean that people will buy new things, so you see there is money in fashion.
小題1:Most people think that "fashion" means __________.
A．subjectsB．holidaysC．booksD．clothes
小題2:By          we can see that fashions change as time goes.
A．finding a job
B．looking at pictures
C．eating in a restaurant
D．wearing a fashionable coat
小題3:In the 5th paragraph the writer mentions            kinds of ways to send information.
A．threeB．fourC．fiveD．six
小題4:"There is money in fashion" means
A．people like fashion and money
B．fashionable things are expensive
C．one can make money through fashion
D．a(chǎn) fashionable man makes much money
小題5:The passage is mainly about              .
A．the changes of fashions
B．the kinds of colours
C．the money in fashion
D．the differences between houses

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:B
小題4:C
小題5:A
短文屬于說明文。講述了時尚的表現(xiàn)，以及隨著時間及科技發(fā)展時尚的發(fā)生的變化。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從短文第一段“For most people, the word "fashion" means "clothes".”可知。
小題2:綜合理解題。從第三段“Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures…”可知。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。從第五段最后一句“Newspapers, radios, telephones and television”可知，提到了四種。
小題4:推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段“New fashions mean that people will buy new things”作者的觀點(diǎn)是人們要花錢買新時尚，所以這里的意思是，通過新時尚可以掙錢。
小題5:主旨大意題。短文主要講的是時尚的表現(xiàn)和時尚的變化，所以B、C、D三項(xiàng)與此關(guān)系不大，應(yīng)排除。
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A．be used to be the best in riding
B．the pubic had belief in him
C．he could not control his horse easily
D．the other riders had agreed to fail in the race
小題2:The reason why American runner Edewin Moses was regarded as a
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A．due to his honest in the races he ran in
B．duo to his great effort(努力) shown in more than one hundred races
C．that he won over 100 competitions before the 1984 Olympic Games
D．that the old meaning of “shoo-in’ had changed
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A．“Shoo-in” came from the word “shoo”.
B．The US runner Moses was worthy of (配得上 ) a shoo-in.
C．The public did not know they were being cheated
D．Some riders bet a lot of money on the chosen horse.
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D．used for any athlete or competitor that too clever to be cheated
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(1)Put some iron nails at the bottom of a test tube.
(2)Push some cotton wool down the tube.
(3)Leave the tube for one week.
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Iron in air-free water
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(1)Half-fill a test tube with water.
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(3)Put two or three clean nails in the water.
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A．read and writeB．sing and dance
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C．thirty minutes.
D．Thirty-five minutes;,
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C．The lid open.
D．The water will come out.
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B．Ten minutes.
C．Thirty minutes.
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