Children all over the world like to celebrate their birthdays. American children are of no difference. They usually celebrate with a party. They invite their friends to their birthday parties. The party may not be held on the right date of their birthday if it comes on a school day. It may be held on the weekend instead.
Today two kinds of parties are the most popular. One is held at home. Parents decorate the house beautiful with balloons and coloured paper. They prepare a special birthday meal. The children play games. The other kind is held away from home. Some are at a special restaurant. The children eat pizza and ice cream. The waiters , who serve the food, also sing and tell jokes to the children. Other parties may be held at a park, or at a movie theatre, or in some other places.
Every birthday party has a cake with candles on it. There is one candle for each year of a birthday boy’s or girl’s age. When the candles are lighted(点燃), everyone sings the special birthday song: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.
As Americans grow older, their birthday parties change. In fact, many people stop having them. They say they would like to forget how old they are. Yet they do like to keep the happy birthday parties of their childhood in mind.Who would like to celebrate their birthdays?
__________________________________________________How do American children celebrate their birthdays?
__________________________________________________How many kinds of parties are the most popular today?
__________________________________________________What’s for every birthday party?
__________________________________________________Why do many of Americans stop having their birthday parties?
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请根据提示要点用英语写一篇80-100词的短文。提示要点：
1、假设你是李平，目前在九年级学习，和班上的其他同龄同学一样，感到有压力，但不知如何处理好压力问题。
2、每天的作业多，几乎没有时间做自己想做的事；经常要测试，总是担心没有好成绩。
3、家长很严格，不允许我花时间在爱好上，要我尽力提高学习。
4、向老师征求了意见，老师给了我许多好建议。我认为很值得采纳。
5、我应该自信去面对困难，仔细计划时间，经常与朋友交流来分担烦恼。
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A group of adults, highly succeeded in their jobs, went to visit their old professor. Soon they began to c__ the stress in work and life.
The professor went to the kitchen and returned with a pot of coffee and all kinds of cups—crystal(水晶的), glass, plastic; some nice looking, some plain looking, some expensive, some cheap. And he told them to help t _ to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “I’ve noticed that all the nice looking expensive cups were t___, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is n_
__ for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your p_
__ and stress.
You know that the cup itself a no quality to the coffee. What you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and positions in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold life, and the t of cup does not change the quality of our life. Sometimes, by c_
_ only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee that God has p_
__ us. God gave us the coffee, not the cups. Please enjoy your coffee!
The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.Live simply. Love feverously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. And leave the r to God.
动词填空用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。(本大题共5小题，每小题1分)Peter _______________(record) something when I walked in.
The big birthday cake ______________(divide) and eaten up! When I got there, the party was already over.
You will be looked down on by others if you _______________(not change).
The patient must ______________(treat) right now, or he will die.
Give him another chance, and he ________________(pack) all these bags in the right way successfully, I’m sure.
选词填空（每小题1分,共10分）
His mother couldn’t______to pay for her child’s education.
Last summer I had an ______to volunteer at the local hospital.
Then put the burned area under cold______ water.
The photo _____be Liu’s.Those are his parents.
I______classical music to pop music,
Do you know where John is? He was going to meet me earlier but he didn’t _____
Fred is afraid of flying. He feels _________before he gets on the plane.
I _________ some clothes to charity because they were too small for me.
Please _________ the classroom. It’s a real mess.
I can’t _________ which pair of jeans to buy. They both look good on me.
Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The building next door was only a few feet away from mine. There was a woman who lived there, whom I had never met, yet I could see her seated by her window each afternoon, sewing or reading.
After several months went by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I often said to myself, "I wonder why that woman doesn't wash her window. It really looks terrible."
One bright morning I decided to clean my flat, including washing the window on the inside.
Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly seen. Her window was clean!
Then it dawned on me. I was always criticizing(批评) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.
That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty window of my heart, through my own mistake?
Since then, whenever I wanted to judge(评判) someone, I asked myself first, "Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?"
Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world around me more clearly and correctly. The writer couldn't see everything clearly through the window because _________.
| A．the woman's window was dirty |
| B．the writer's window was dirty |
| C．the woman lived nearby |
| D．the writer was near-sighted |
The writer was surprised that _________.
| A．the woman was sitting by her window |
| B．the woman's window was clean |
| C．the woman did cleaning in the afternoon |
| D．the woman's window was still terrible |
"It dawned on me" probably means "_________".
| A．I began to understand it | B．it cheered me up |
| C．I knew it grew light | D．it began to get dark |
It's clear that _________.
| A．the writer never talked to the woman before |
| B．the writer often washed the window |
| C．they both worked as cleaners |
| D．they lived in a small town |
From the passage, we can learn _________.
| A．one shouldn't criticize others very often |
| B．one should often make his windows clean |
| C．one must judge himself before he judges others |
| D．one must look at others through his dirty windows |
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