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（一）Hi, Louis! I’m writing to tell you something about the customs and festivals. Everyone loves holidays since one doesn’t need to go to school or work. Although all holidays mean no school and work, but not all of them are the same. On some of them you go out with friends; on others you stay home to eat, talk, and have fun with your family. For example in the U.S., everyone thinks New Year’s Eve and New Year are both for partying with friends. Christmas is the time to stay home and exchange gifts with family members. The opposite is true in Japan though. For example, in Japan, New Year is for spending time with the family to eat, talk, have fun, and go to the temples. But Christmas is for boy and girl friends to go out and exchange gifts. Originally Christmas should be to celebrate the birth of Christ. I have been interested in foreign customs since I was little. If you learn these different holiday customs, you will learn about different histories and cultures. This is much more interesting than learning them at the library from morning to evening.Love,Sue 根据短文内容，判断正误。正确的用“T”表示，错误的用“F”表示。 1. Usually, nobody goes to school or works during holidays. 2. Christmas is the time to stay home to eat, talk and have fun with the family. 3. All the countries have the same way to celebrate the holidays. 4. Being interested in foreign customs means being interested in different histories and cultures. 5. This passage is about the customs and holidays in Japan.（二） Can dolphins talk? Maybe they can’t talk with words, but they talk with sounds. They show their feelings with sounds. Dolphins travel in a group. We call a group of fish a “school”. They don’t study, but they travel together. Dolphins talk to the other dolphins in the school. They give information. They tell when they are happy or sad or afraid. They say “welcome”when a dolphin comes back to the school. They talk when they play. They make a few sounds above water. They make many more sounds under water. People cannot hear these sounds because they are very, very high. Scientists make tapes of the sounds and study them. Sometimes people catch a dolphin for a large aquarium（水族馆）. People can watch the dolphins in a show. Dolphins don’t like to be away from their school in an aquarium. They are sad and lonely（孤独的）. There are many stories about dolphins. They help people. Sometimes they save somebody’s life. Dolphin meat is good, but people don’t like to kill them. They say that dolphins bring good luck. Many people believe this. 1. Dolphins show their feelings with ___________ . A. pictures B. words C. water D. sounds 2. People can’t hear the dolphin’s sounds because ________ . A. they are above the water B. they are under the water C. they are very high D. they are very low 3. Which one is true according to the passage? A. Dolphins swim together in a school because they want to study B. They don’t study, but they travel in a group C. Dolphins like to be away from their school on an island. D. Dolphins like to kill people（三）1. You are 26 years old and want to be a teacher. You should apply to ________ . A. Capes Taxi, 17 Palace Road, Roston B. Recruitment Office, Southern Airlines, Heathrow Airport West, HR 37KK C. the Director of Studies, Instant Languages Ltd., 279 Canal Street. Roston. D. a private language school. 2. What stops Jack, an experienced taxi driver, working for Capes Taxis. A. Fond of beer and wine. B. Punished（处罚）for driving too fast and wrong parking. C. Unable to speak a foreign language. D. Not having college education. 3. Ben, aged 22, fond of swimming and driving, has just finished college. Which job might be given to him? A. Driving for Capes Taxi B. Working for Southern Airlines C. Teaching at Instant Languages Ltd. D. Working for Northern Airlines. 4. What prevents（阻止）Mary, aged 25, from becoming an air hostess A. She once broke a traffic law and was fined B. She can’t speak Japanese very well. C. She has never worked as an air hostess before D. She doesn’t feel like working long hours flying abroad. 5. Which of the following is NOT talked about in the three advertisements? A. Whether he or she is married B. Whether they are men or women C. Their education D. The ages（四） All my friends at school smoked. My dad smoked; he didn’t want me to smoke but my friends kept saying I was stupid. They asked when I was going to grow up. So I started when I was sixteen and after a month I couldn’t stop. But two years later I could feel what smoking was doing to me. I couldn’t run far, and I coughed every morning. I got very ill and decided to stop. It wasn’t easy, but now I’ve done it, and I feel better. Now I have money for other things. If you smoke, you are twice as likely to die from a heart attack. And the more you smoke, the earlier the heart attack is likely to be. For example, a 50-year-old who smokes more than 20 cigarettes a day, is four times more likely to have heart disease than a non-smoker of the same age. What does smoking do to the heart? First of all, it makes the heart beat faster and increases the blood pressure. The cigarette smoke also reduces the amount of oxygen in the blood. Consequently, the heart has to work harder, with less oxygen. Finally, your arteries will narrow faster if you smoke. So if you want to reduce your chances of getting heart disease, the answer is easy –– not to smoke. Don’t copy your friends and other people who smoke. If you smoke, find out how to stop. Stopping isn’t easy, but you’ll be healthier, and .... 1. Who is more likely to have heart disease? A. A smoker B. A non-smoker C. A 50-year-old person 2. What does the writer think of smoking? A. It is good for his health B. Smoking is bad for him C. Is it neither good nor bad for his heath 3. What happens after the writer stopped smoking? A. He becomes rich B. He has more friends C. He becomes healthier and has money to do other things.（五） New York is one of the most exciting cities in the world. You might want to do some shopping in New York. Fifth Avenue is probably New York’s most famous shopping street, but if you go, be prepared to “window shop”only. This is shopping for the rich. There are other, less expensive shopping areas nearby, and you’ll soon come across famous stores such as Bloomingdales, Macy’s and FAO Schwartz. And if you’ve brought your rollerblades, then a visit to Central Park is a must. This is a large, open park right in the middle of Manhattan, but if you thought that people came here to relax, sit down for a few minutes and get away from the rush of New York life, then you’d be wrong. Nobody sits in Central Park: they run, jog（慢跑）, and most of all they rollerblade. When you leave New York, you might be tired, even poor and overweight, but the one thing you won’t be is bored! 根据短文内容，回答问题。 1. Why would you probably only “window shop”in Fifth Avenue? _____________________________________________________________ 2. What do some waiters and waitresses in New York wear on their feet? _____________________________________________________________ 3. What don’t people do in Central Park? _____________________________________________________________

【1】In almost every big university in the U.S.A, football is a favorite sport. American football is not like soccer. Players sometimes kick (踢)the ball, but they also throw(丢,投) the ball and run with it. They try to take it to the other end of the field. They have four chances to move the ball ten yeards(码). They can carry it or throw it. If they move it to the other end of the field, They have got six points. This is called a touch-down.(底线得分)It is difficult to move the ball. Eleven men on the team try to stop the man who has the ball. If the man does not move the ball ten yards, his team kicks the ball to the other team.Every university wants its team to win. A lot of people come to watch. They all yell(喊加油) for their favorite team. Young men and women called cheerleaders(拉拉队长) to come to help the people to yell more.Every team plays ten or eleven games each season which begins in September and ends in November. If a team is very good, it may play another game after the season ends. The best teams play again on January 1, the first day of the new year. Many people go to see these games and many others watch them on TV.( )1.In American football players can ______A.only kick the ball B.only throw the ball C.only carry the ball D.kick,throw and carry the ball( )2.If a team wants to get points, it has to move the ball ______ A. 10 yards B. 40 yards C. away from its own end D.to the other end( )3.Most teams play games in _______. A. spring B.summer C.autumn D.winter( )4.When do the best team play again? _______A At Christmas B.Before the season ends C.On New Year’s Day D.On the last day of the season( )5.Which is the best title for the passage? ______A.American Football B.Most People Like FootballC. Many People Enjoy Watching Football Games D.American Football Is Not Like Soccer【2】Korean culture is really exciting right now. The Korean Wave is sweeping Asian countries including China. Young people are going crazy about Korean TV dramas, Korean pop songs, taekwondo and the Korean language.The Korean Wave started a few years ago with the TV series “Winter Sonata”. This love story is still popular. People, especially girls, like the beautiful story and handsome actors like Bae Yong Jun (裴勇俊).In the music world, Korean girls are making themselves heard in China. You can often find big Korean names like Baby Vox, S. E. S and Finkle at the top of the Chinese music charts (排行榜).The Korean Wave has also made young people want to try the clothes and hairstyles of pop stars, too. Not only that. Now some girls in China are having plastic surgery (整容) to change the way they look. People say some beautiful Korean stars have had plastic surgery. These stars don’t make plastic surgery look shameful (丢面子的).Are all the faces of beautiful Korean girls not real? Find out for yourself when you next visit South Korea.（ ）1What does the Korea Wave refer to? It refers to ____.A. Korean TV dramas B. Korean culture C. Korean language D. Korean actors（ ）2When did the Korean Wave start? It started with ____.A. the Korean pop songs B. Taekwondo C. the TV series “Winter Sonata” D. the Korean food( )3.Who is the famous actor in Korean dramas?A. Bae Yong Jun B. Baby Vox C. S. E. S D. Finkle( )4.Korean stars often change their looks by ____.A. singing pop songs B.acting in TV dramas C.trying different food D. having plastic surgery( )5.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A. Winter Sonata tells a very famous love story. B. Young people like Korean pop stars’ clothes and hairstyles.C. Chinese girls also want to try plastic surgery.D. Korean pop stars think plastic surgery is shameful.【3】Do you remember when your grandma told you the story of Snow White? Ah, the happy days of childhood!But did you know that Snow White comes from Germany? It’s just one story from the 209 in Grimm’s Fairy Tales (《格林童话》). The Grimm brothers started to collect fairy tales in 1806. Their first book came out in 1812.Why are German fairy tales so interesting? Maybe it’s because they come from a great place famous for its stories – the Black Forest.The Black Forest is in southwest Germany. It’s the largest forest in the country – and one of the most beautiful. It’s famous for its trees and lovely views. There are valleys and waterfalls (瀑布) there. It’s a good place to start a story.Don’t forget to bring something back if you visit. People there are good at making clocks, musical instruments and watches.根据短文，选择最佳答案：( )1.From the story, we know that ____ is the hometown of Snow White.A. England B. Japan C. America D. Germany( )2.How long had the Grimm brothers been collecting stories?A. Four years B. Five years C. Six years D. Seven years( )3.From the story, we cannot guess that the Black Forest is very ____.A. large B. beautiful C. boring D. famous ( )4.The story mainly tells us ____.A. who wrote the story of Snow White B. some things about Black ForestC. people should visit Germany D. Snow White is a very famous fairy tale.【4】There are four people in my family. My grandpa,father,mother and I. My father and mother have a clothing shop. There are many beautiful clothes for women and children. Are there anything for men? Yes,there are hats,shoes,socks,pants and sweaters for them. People like our shop. They can get clothing at a very good price.根据短文,判断正(T)误(F).( )1.This is a family of four.( )2.My grandpa has a clothing shop.( )3.The clothing in the shop is for all kinds of people.( )4.There are soccers on sale in their shop.( )5.People like to buy clothes in their shop. （译文：我家有4个人，我的爷爷，爸爸，妈妈还有我。我的爸爸妈妈开了一家服装店。店里有很多适合女性和儿童的漂亮服装。那么店里有没有适合男士的衣服呢？答案是：有的。有许多适合男士的帽子，鞋子，袜子，裤子和毛衣。人们都喜欢我家的店。他们可以用非常合适的价格买到衣服。 答案：对 错 对 错 对）【5】George lives in a small city in England.He always spends his holiday in England,but he changes his mind this year. All his friends go to Spain for their holidays and they like it very much.So this year George is going there,too.First he goes to Mardrid and lives in a hotel for a few days.In the moring he goes out for a walk.In England people drive on the left,but here they drive on the right.George forgets about this,and while he is crossing a busy street,a bike knocks him down.George lies on the ground for a few seconds and then he sits up and say,“Where am I?” Just then a man selling maps goes past him.When he hears what George says,he says to him at once,“Map of this city,sir?” 根据短文，判断正（T）误(F)。 ( )1. George has many friends in Spain. ( )2. George wants to visit Spain because his friends say Spain is a good place. ( )3. The traffic rules in England are different from those in Spain. ( )4. A man riding a bike knocks down George when he is crossing a busy steert. ( )5. George wants to buy a map of Mardrid when he say,“Where an I?” （译文：乔治住在英国的一个小城里。他总是在英国度过他的假期，但是今年他改变了主意。他所有的朋友都去西班牙度假了，并且他们很喜欢那里。所以今年乔治也要去那。首先，他去了马德里，住在一个酒店里几天。一个早晨，他去户外散步，在英国，人们开车靠左侧行驶，但在这他们靠右侧。乔治忘了这一点，当他要横穿川流不息的马路时，一个自行车把他撞倒了。乔治躺在地上几秒钟，然后站起来说：“我在哪”就在这时，一个卖地图的男人遇见了他，当他听到乔治说的话时，他立刻跟他说，“这个城市的地图，先生” 答案：错错对对错）