A boy named Reggie was well-known in his hometown because he couldn’t hear anything. He was born deaf. Although people liked him a lot, they also treated him much more differently than other people. The other children worried that they might hurt him while playing together. Adults acted like he was unable to understand them, as if he was a baby.

However, this year, people got to know about him better. On Reggie’s birthday, it was also the Day of Silence, in order to celebrate both of them, everyone in town would wear earplugs so that they couldn’t hear anything, either. People became to know how difficult life could be to be deaf. They also learned that Reggie had many skills (技能).

On that day, ________ They paid more attention to the things he said. They found that he was smart, and he can find a solution (解决办法) to almost any problem that he faced. He just needed to communicate (交流) with others in a different way. In the end, people found that he was really just like any other little boy.

On the Day of Silence. people came to know Reggie’s true nature. They learned that although most of us are different from each other—sometimes in big ways—we are still mostly the same in our hearts and minds.

1.Reggie was well—known because ________.

A.he could h near anything B.he couldn’t hear anything

C.he wasn’t born deaf D.he was born blind

2.The underlined word “earplugs” means ________ in Chinese.

A.帽子 B.大衣 C.耳塞 D.墨镜

3.During the Day of Silence people found that ________

A.Reggie’s life was as easy as theirs. B.Reggie couldn’t live without others’ help.

C.Reggie was just like any other little boy. D.Reggie didn’t want to communicate with others.

4.Which of the following sentence can be the missing part of paragraph3? ________

A.Reggie met many problems. B.People saw a whole new side of him.

C.Reggie was different from others. D.people met many problems because they couldn’t hear .

"Fall" and"Autumn"

What season is it in October? If you ask people from the UK, they will tell you it's "autumn". But if you go to the US, you will find that people use“autumn" or“fall".

According to Dictionary .com, both words have been around for a long time, but neither of them was the first to describe this season. During this season, crops (庄稼) would become ripe (成熟) and farmers would have a big harvest. So in Old English, this season was simply called "harvest" .

Then, in the 1600s, more people left their farms and moved to cities. With fewer people farming, the word "harvest" became less useful. English speakers needed a different name for the season. They knew leaves fell from trees during the season, so people started calling it“the fall of the leaf", or“fall" for short.

But at the end of the 1600s, autumn, from the French word "autompne" and the Latin "autumnus" came to England. "Fall" as the word for this season disappeared slowly.

At the same time, people in the UK were making their first trips to North America. They brought both the words“fall" and“autumn" with them. That's why today's Americans have two names for one season.

Title: “Fall” and “Autumn”

The names of the season in October

People in the UK call it “autumn”.

People in the US call it1. “autumn”2. “fall”.

3.of the names for this season

In the UK

In Old English

It got the name "harvest" because it was time for farmers to 4..

In the 1600s

"The fall of the leaf" or “fall”5."harvest".

At the end of the 1600s

"Autumn" appeared in England. It 6. _French and Latin.

In the US

At the end of the 1600s

People in the UK started to travel to North America and brought these two

words there.

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