I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not________Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d got?” Just when I started to accept that there would not be a Christmas gift that year, three women turned up at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. What a________I felt! I would no longer have to be satisfied when I returned to school. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody had thought ________of me to bring me a gift.

Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my first Christmas there special and memorable, I________the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of importance for as many children as I could possibly__________.

So I came up with a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans ( 孤 儿 ) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages ________with toys, clothes, and school things with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were__________. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I reminded them that they couldn’t open their presents until every child had come forward. Finally, the _______they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles lit up the room. I know for sure the_________wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling-the feeling I had from that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. ________ thought of me. I matter.

1.A. send B. receive C. make D. exchange

2.A. relief B. loss C. pity D. regret

3.A. highly B. little C. poorly D. enough

4.A. believed B. recalled C. memorized D. impressed

5.A. touch B. collect C. reach D. spread

6.A. mixed B. decorated C. covered D. filled

7.A. fine B. special C. helpful D. normal

8.A. chance B. plan C. moment D. luck

9.A. shock B. joy C. interest D. trouble

10.A. Nobody B. Anybody C. Somebody D. Everybody

Raisins(葡萄干) in ice cream, in chocolate, and in cookies…Your favourite snacks cannot be without raisins!

But do you know how people get raisins from full and juicy grapes? Dry(晒干) them in the sun? Well, that may be one way. But people from Xinjiang have another way.

People there build many “blockhouses(碉堡)” near a grape garden.

People build many “blockhouses” on the hillside. The blockhouses are usually three metres tall and are as big as the size of a classroom.

They are quite different from the houses we live in. They have lots of holes in the wall. Inside there are many wooden shelves.

After picking the grapes, people put them on the shelves. Because of the hot weather, hot dry wind gets through the holes in the wall and dries the grapes up. 30 to 45 days later, the fruit will turn into soft, sweet raisins!

In around the year 535, people in Xinjiang started to send raisins as presents to the emperor(皇帝). This means that 1,500 years ago people began to know how to make raisins!

1.This passage is mainly about _____________.

A. how to grow grapes B. how to make raisins

C. how to build blockhouses D. how to pick grapes

2.Where do people build “blockhouses” in Xinjiang?

A. In the classroom. B. In the grape garden.

C. On the hillside. D. On wooden shelves.

3.What does the underlined word hole mean in Chinese according to the passage?

A. 树桩 B. 枝条 C. 架子 D. 洞孔

4.Why are the “blockhouses” different from the houses we live in?

A. Because they have lots of holes in the wall.

B. Because they aren’t as big as the houses we live in.

C. Because there aren’t any windows in them.

D. Because there’re lots of grapes growing in them.

5.Which of the followings is Not true?

A. People can find raisins in some ice cream, chocolate and cookies.

B. People only dry the full and juicy grapes in the sun to get the raisins.

C. The grapes need 30-45 days to turn into raisins in the blockhouses.

D. People in Xinjiang began to know how to make raisins 1,500 years ago.

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