He said the eighteenth and last lesson () quite easy.

A.is

B.was

C.are

D.were

n modern times, May Day also became a traditional day for countries to honor workers.

In eighteen eighty-nine, Socialists held an international congress in Paris. They chose May first as a workers' holiday and a day for demonstrations. Since then, the first of May has been observed as International Labor Day.

The United States, however, had already settled on another day. Peter McGuire was a New York labor leader. He is said to have suggested the first Monday in September as a holiday to honor labor. He said it was a nice time of the year for a celebration. He suggested parades to show the strength of labor organizations. And he urged people to end the day with outdoor parties.

The first Labor Day celebration in the United States took place in New York City on September fifth, eighteen eighty-two. About ten thousand workers marched through the streets. Then everyone went to a park to eat a meal and hear speeches and music. The idea quickly spread throughout the country. In eighteen ninety-four, Congress approved a bill to declare Labor Day a national holiday.

For years, the first Monday in September was a day when American workers demonstrated for better conditions and pay. Today, the Labor Day weekend is mostly observed as a time to enjoy the last warm days of summer.

When did Americans celebrate May Day？

A．The 1st of May.

B．The 1st of September.

C．The 1st Monday in September.

D．The 1st Monday in May.

suffering from a computer related disease. It is said that the boy was so obsessed with computers that he acquired a "mechanical disillusioned mentality, " which inhibited his emotional development and caused him to think and dream in computer language.

"For example, "the boy said, "I could wake up in the night and think: Line 10 go to the bathroom. "The young man was so disoriented that he lost his ability to tolerate the ambiguity of normal human interactions, instead requiring precise and literal instructions -- much like computer commands -- in order to complete simple tasks.

Bord, a psychologist, says that computer-obsessed kids and adults often suffer such symptoms, and people are going to see a generation of kids growing up who are losing access to human emotion. They develop machine standard for themselves, and he feels that this does not portend well for their healthy development.

When did the person suffer from the computer related disease？

A．At the age of 7.

B．At the age of 8.

C．At the age of 9.

D．At the age of 18.

r. Thompson often went to a bar near his house.But he never took his son, Tom, because he was too young.Then when Tom had his eighteenth birthday, Mr. Thompson took him to his usual bar for the first time.They drank for an hour.Tom drank a bit.Then Mr. Thompson said to his son,“Now, Tom, I want to teach you a useful lesson.How do you know when you’ve had enough？ Well, I’ll tell you.Do you see those two lights at the end of the bar？ When they seem to become four, you’ve had enough and should go home.”

“But, Dad,”said Tom,“I can only see one light at the end of the bar.”

20、Young people ______ allowed to drink in a bar until eighteen()

A.is not

B.are not

C.many

D.must

21、When Tom was a child, his father often went to a nearby bar______ taking him()

A.by

B.for

C.with

D.without

22、On Tom’s eighteenth birthday, he drank together with his father in that bar for ______()

A.the first time

B.once

C.many times

D.eighteen times

23、Father wanted to tell his son ______()

A.the time to drink

B.something about the light

C.when to stop drinking

D.something about the bar

24、In fact (事实上), there ______ at the end of the bar

A.was one light

B.were two lights

C.were three lights

D.were four lights

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Peter joined the army when he was eighteen, and for several months he was taught【16】be a good soldier. He did quite well【17】everything except【18】. One day he and his friends were practising their shooting, and all of them were doing quite well【19】Peter. After he had shot【20】the target (靶子) nine times and had nut lilt it once, the officer who was trying【21】the young soldiers to shoot said, "You're quite hopeless, Peter! Don't waste your last bullet (子弹). Go behind that wall and shoot yourself【22】it."

Peter felt ashamed. He went behind the wall, and a few seconds【23】the officer and the other young soldiers heard the sound of a shot.

"Heavens!" the officer said. "Has that silly man really shot【24】？"

He ran behind the wall anxiously, but Peter was all-right. "I'm sorry, sir," he said, "but I【25】again."

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A．who to

B．how to

C．what to

听力原文： The young man was a French nobleman, the son of one of the richest and most important families of France. He had heard about the revolution taking place in America. He wanted to go and help.

He was only eighteen years old. He was tall, handsome, and a familiar figure in the high society of Paris. His family tried to stop him. They asked the King of France to throw him into jail in order to stop him. But the young nobleman had already bought his ship and gathered some young friends to go with him. He escaped and came to America. The young man was the Marquis de Lafayette.

Upon his arrival, he discovered that no one knew him here. He had been promised that he would be an officer in the American army, but Congress said that it wanted no more foreign officers. Lafayette sat down and cried. He could not go back to France. Instead, he offered to serve as a volunteer— without pay. Congress accepted. Later Lafayette met Washington. A great affection grew up between the two men, as between father and son. Lafayette became Washington's personal aide.

Once toward the end of the war, the men under Lafayette's command were all in rags. Lafayette asked Congress for new uniforms. Congress had no money with which to buy uniforms. Using his own personal credit, Lafayette went to the merchants of Baltimore and, at his own expense, bought a new uniform. for each man —two thousand in all. In this way, his men were able to go on fighting.

(23)

A．He wanted to fight against the Americans.

B．He wanted to visit George Washington.

C．He wanted to do business with the Americans.

D．He wanted to help the American Revolution.

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ion of labor and to explain part of its advantages. He gives as an example the process by which pins were made in England. "One man draws out the wire, another strengthens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top to prepare it to receive the head. To make the head requires two or three distinct operations. To put it on is a separate operation, to polish the pins is another. And the important business of making pins is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some factories are all performed by different people, though in others the same man will sometimes perform. two or three of them,"

Ten men, Smith said, in this way, turned out twelve pounds of pins a day or about 4 800 pins a person. But if all of them had worked separately and independently without division of labor, they certainly could not turn out any pin, each of them would have made twenty pins in a day and perhaps not even one

There can be no doubt that division of labor is an efficient way of organizing work. Fewer people can make more pins. Adam Smith saw this but he also took it for granted that division of labor is in itself responsible for economic growth and development and that it accounts for the difference between expanding economies and those that stand still. But division of labor adds nothing new: it only enables people to produce more of what they already have.

According to the passage, Adam Smith was the first person to ______.

A．take advantage of the division of labor

B．understand the effects of the division of labor

C．explain the causes of the division of labor

D．introduce the division of labor into England

Jerry is smart. He should be able to handle eighteen credits this semester.（compound

sentence)

He said he ______ (go to college)the next year.