Chinese people call the Spring Festival “Nian”. But do you know that Nian is once the name of a monster(妖怪)?

The monster Nian lives in the mountains. It eats animals. But in winter, it can not find food. So it comes to villages and eats a lot of people.

People are so afraid of Nian that they close their doors before evening comes during the winter. One day, an old man comes to a village. He tells people there that Nian is afraid of three things — the color red, fire and noise. He tells people to play drums(鼓) and gongs(锣), make big fires and set off fireworks to make Nian go away.

On a moonless, cold night, Nian goes to the village again. As soon as it opens its big mouth, people make loud noise and make fire. Nian is really afraid and runs away. There is noise and fire everywhere.

When Nian is tired and can not run any more, people kill(杀死) the monster. After that, on the coldest day of winter, people play drums and gongs, and set off fireworks to celebrate the death of the monster of Nian. They put up red lanterns and have a big dinner without sleeping during the night. In the morning, people say Happy New Year to each other happily. So now we have the Spring Festival.

1.From the story, we know that Nian is a(an) __________.

A.ghost B.animal C.monster D.tortoise

2.Nian eat people in winter because it __________.

A.has no food to eat B.likes to live in a village

C.wants to make people afraid D.celebrates the Spring Festival

3.People kill Nian after __________.

A.it eats all the animals B.the old man comes to a village

C.people know what it is afraid of D.it is so tired that it can’t run away

4.What is the best title(题目) for the passage?

A.How the Spring Festival Comes B.What the Spring Festival Is

C.What People Do During Nian D.Why People Celebrate Nian

One morning, Ann’s neighbor Tracy found a lost dog walking around the local elementary school. (A) She asked Ann if she could keep an eye on the dog. Ann said that she could watch it only for the day.

Tracy took photos of the dog and printed off 400 FOUND fliers (传单), and put (B) them in mailboxes. Meanwhile, Ann went to the dollar (C) store and bought something for the pet dog, warning her two sons not to fall in love with the dog. At the time, Ann’s son Thomas was 10 years old, and Jack, who was recovering from a heart operation, was 21 years old.

Four days later Ann was still looking after the dog. By that time they had started to call it Riley. When she (D) arrived home from work, the dog threw itself against the screen door and barked madly at her. As soon as she opened the door, Riley rushed into the boys’ room. There Ann found Jack suffering from a heart attack. Riley ran over to Jack, but as soon as Ann bent (弯腰) over to help (E) him the dog went silent.

“If (F) ________ hadn’t come to get me, the doctor said Jack would have died, “Ann reported to a local newspaper. At this point, no one had called to ask for the dog, so Ann decided to keep it.

The next morning Tracy got a (G) ________. A man named Peter recognized (认出) his lost dog and phoned the number on the flier. Tracy started crying, and told him. “That dog saved my friend’s son.”

(H) 彼得开车前往安的家去取回他的小狗, and saw Thomas and Jack crying in the window. After a few moments Peter said, “Maybe Odie was supposed to find you, maybe you should keep it.”

1.将画线部分(A)改写为:She asked Ann if she could ________ ________ the dog.

2.画线部分(B)和(E)分别指代的是:________;________

3.写出画线部分(C)和(D)的同义词或近义词:________;________

4.在(F)和(G)的空白处分别填入一个适当的单词:________;________

5.将画线部分(H)译成英语:________________________

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