Birthdays are celebrated all over the world. Some ways to celebrate birthdays are rather similar from county to country---candles, cakes and birthday wishes. But there are also different ways to celebrate birthdays. Here are a few:
Denmark A flag is flown outside a window to show that someone who lives in the house is having a birthday. Presents are placed around the child’s bed while he is sleeping so he will see them at once when he wakes up. |
 IndiaUsually Indian children wear white to school. However, on their birthdays, children wear colored clothes to school and give out chocolate to everyone in the class. Their best friends help them to do this. |
Japan The birthday child wears new clothes to mark the special time. Certain birthdays are more important than others. These are the third and seventh for girls and fifth for boys. |
Holland The birthday child receives an especially large present. The family also puts flowers on the birthday child’s chair to make it beautiful. |
When someone is having a birthday in Denmark, what can you see outside the window?
| A．flowers | B．presents | C．a flag | D．a chair |
Flowers are put on the chair of the birthday child in .
| A．Japan | B．Denmark | C．India | D．Holland |
In India, birthday children .
| A．give out chocolate to their classmates |
| B．share chocolate with their best friends |
| C．go to school in white clothes |
| D．wear new clothes to mark the special time |
| Mountain Sports Center (Open Daily—9 A.M. to 9 P. M. Opening SATURDAY, MAY 14 All activities and equipment（设备）in Mountains Sports Center are free to the public. Come and enjoy: 2 Baseball Fields Walking/ Jogging Track 6 Soccer Fields Skateboard Park 4 Tennis Courts Gymnasium（健身房） 8 Basketball Courts Opening Activities Healthy fun for the whole family! Free live music and healthful snacks and drinks! First door prize: A bike. Second door prize: A skateboard. Free soccer classes for players ages 5 to 10 by Thunder coach Todd Barnett. Participants(参与者) will receive a free Thunder T-shirt. Join the Mountain Summer Sports Leagues. Teams are forming for beginners (age 8—10); teens and adults. Ask Mr Jackson in the gymnasium for information on exercise and fitness classes in order to make this your healthiest summer ever. |
When is the opening of Mountain Sports Center?
A. Saturday
B. Saturday, May 14.
C. From 9:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.
What’s the first door prize?
A. A skateboard. B. A baseball C. A bike.
How old are the players for free soccer classes?
A. 5 to 10 B. 8 to 12. C. 5 to 15.
Where can we get information on exercise and fitness classes?
A. In the skateboard park
B. In the gymnasium.
C. In the sports field.
How many opening activities are there in Mountain Sports Center?
A. 7 B. 4 C. 5
If there is one person who has left a deep impression on me, it's my my teacher, Mrs. Pathak, who was my class teacher for three years. In my childhood, how I wished I had a mother or a sister like her. One moment she could be hard-working and strict, another moment kind and patient.
She always encouraged us to tell the truth. For example, if one had not done the homework, he need not lie. She allowed us to make mistakes, saying we couldn’t be perfect all the time, but we should try.
Another thing she taught me was punctually. She set a good example with her own actions. She was always on time, so we students tried our best to be on time.
She surprised us with her sense of humor. Her classroom teaching was always humorous. After class, she talked to us and told us jokes.
We really felt free to ask questions and Mrs Pathak would give the answers. If she did not know—there had some occasions—she would say so. We all then tried to find out the answers. Whoever came up with the answers was praised and given the prize. Now I sometimes wonder whether Mrs. Pathak just wanted to encourage us to explore and find answers by ourselves.
According to the passage, which of the following words is NOT for describing Mrs. Pathak?
A. Hard-working. B. Humorous C.careless.
The underlined word “punctually “ in the third paragraph probably means _______
A. being on time B. being honest C.being patient
According to the passage, which of the following sentences is TRUE?
A. Mrs. Pathak often asked us to tell jokes in class.
B. Mrs. Pathak thought telling the truth was good.
C. Mrs. Pathak was always angry in the classroom.
In the writer’s opinion, why didn’t Mrs. Pathak give the answers to the questions sometimes?
A. Because she wanted the students to find out the answers by themselves.
B. Because she didn’t like answering the questions.
C. Because she didn’t know the answers to all the questions.
How did the students feel when they asked Mrs. Pathak questions?
A. Shy. B. Frss. C. Nervous.
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The Dragon Boat Festival also called the Duan Wu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by eating Zong Zi and racing dragon boats. To hold the dragon boat races is in memory of Qu Yuan, one of the greatest poets (诗人) in China.
Qu Yuan was born in Zigui of Hubei Province over 2,200 years ago. Qu Yuan was an honest minister(大臣) of the State of Chu, during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) (战国时期). He was upright(正直的)and wise. He wanted to bring his country peace and make the State stronger, but the country was in the hands of bad officials, he failed. At last, he was very discouraged. I ended his life by throwing himself into the Miluo River. It was said that people were trying to save him. But it was too late. Also, they were very sad and they threw rice into the water to feed Qu Yuan's spirit.
Now we read his poem Li Sao which was filled with deep love for his country. We can see the dragon boat races and have a kind of Chinese food named Zong Zi to eat during the Dragon Boat Festival.When is the Dragon Boat Festival?
Where was Qu Yuan born?
What was Qu Yuan like?
Did the people try to save him?
What do we eat during the Dragon Boat Festival?
Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012.Mo,who was born in 1955 into a farmer’s family in Gaomi County in Shandong Province, is the first Chinese national to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In his early years, life was not easy and he experienced hunger. These things have influenced Mo Yan’s later writings.
60yearold Park Geunhye(朴槿惠)was elected the new President of South Korean in December, 2012. She becomes the country’s first female head of state and her term will last five years from 2013. “I will become a president who puts people’s living before anything else.” She told the cheering people in central Seoul as the accepted her win. “I will keep my promises.”
Barack Obama (bom in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1961), who was elected the 44th President of the United States in 2008, has been elected again to a second term, fighting against Republican Challenger Mitt Romney. Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard I aw school. His father was from Kenya. And his mother was born in Wichita, Kansas.
What prize did Mo Yan win in 2012?
| A．The first prize or Oscar |
| B．The Nobel Prize in Literature |
| C．The record in Guinness |
| D．The gold medal in Olympics |
Park Geun-hye is years old in 2015?
| A．60. | B．61. | C．62. | D．63. |
When was Barack Obama elected the 44thPresident of the United States?
| A．In 1961. | B．In 2015. | C．In 2008. | D．In 2012. |
Which of the following is NOT true about the passage?
| A．Mo Yan is the first Chinese national to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| B．Park Geun-hyc will lead South Korea till the year 2016. |
| C．Obama fought against his challenger Mitt Romney in the election. |
| D．Among the three persons, Park Geun-hye is the oldest. |
The three passages may be from .
A. news B. a letter C. an e-mail C. an ad
An important question about eating out is who pays for the meal. If a friend of yours asks you to have lunch with him, you may say something like this,“I'm afraid it'll have to be someplace cheap, because I have little money.” The other person may say, “OK, I'll meet you at McDonald's.”
This means that the two agree to go Dutch, that is, each person pays for himself. He may also say, “Oh，no， I want to take you to lunch at Smith's,” or“I want you to try the Chinese dumplings there. They are great.” This means the person wants to pay for both of you. If you feel friendly towards the person, you can go with him and you needn't pay for the meal. You may just say, “Thank you. That would he very nice.”
American custom(习惯) about who pays for dates (约会) are much the same as in other parts of the world. In the old days, American women wanted men to pay for all the meals. But, today, a university girl or a woman in business world will usually pay their way during the day. If a man asks her for a dance outside the working hours, it means “Come, as my guest.” So as you can see, it is a polite thing to make the question clear at the very beginning.
If you have little money,
| A．you will not cat dinner |
| B．you'll borrow some from others |
| C．you'll ask your friend to pay for your meal |
| D．you'll have a cheap meal |
“Go Dutch” in this passage means .
| A．各自付款 | B．就餐 | C．订餐 | D．去饭馆 |
Sometimes your friend takes you to lunch. It means .
| A．he's going to lend you money to you |
| B．he's going to pay for your meal |
| C．he'll be angry with you |
| D．he can't understand you |
In America, some girls and women now.
| A．ask men to pay for their meals |
| B．try to pay for the men's meals |
| C．try to pay for their own meals |
| D．never have anything outside |
The passage tells us .
A. how to eat out B. where to cat out
C. what to cat out D who pays for the meal
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