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¡¡¡¡Why is 2004 a special year? Because it is a Leap Year
£¨ÈòÄ꣩! What's so special about that? Well, Leap Year happens only once every four years. And it has 366 days instead of the usual 365. In a Leap Year, we have 29 days in February, while in a usual year we have only 28 days.¡¡¡¡Why do we have a Leap Year? We have a Leap Year so we can keep the calendar
£¨ÈÕÀú£©in step with the seasons. The calendar is a kind of clock for the whole year. But how long is a year? A calendar year is 365 days. However, a true year is actually 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds long. That's the time it takes the earth to travel around the sun. So every four years we have one more day, and we put it at the end of February, the shortest month of a year. Then we have a Leap Year.(1) How often call we have a Leap Year?
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B £®Every February. |
C £®Every four years. |
D £®Every other year. |
(2) What is a calendar? It is a kind of clock ________.
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D £®for the unusual year |
(3) How long does it take the earth to travel around the sun? It takes the earth ________ to travel. around the sun.
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B £®a month |
C £®a year |
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(4) Mrs Green was born on February 29, 1972. Now she is 32. How many birthdays has she had?
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B £®16. |
C £®8. |
D £®4. |
(5) Which of the following statements is NOT true?
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£®Usually we have 365 days ill a year.C
£®People who were born on February 29th are very lucky because they can have more birthdays than others.D
£®The next Leap Year will be the year 2008.ÍêÐÎÌî¿Õ
Emily
and Peter have lived next door to each other as long as they can remember. When
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friends, though they sometimes fought over toys. ___(3)___ they grew older, they
seldom(ºÜÉÙ) played with each other. Emily preferred to be with girls and
Peter preferred to play with boys. When they were about fifteen years old, they
almost stopped ___(4)___ to each other, not because they disagreed with each
other, ___(5)___ because they belonged to different groups. Emily began to study
French and also enjoyed watching football games. Peter was only interested in
sports.
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was football that brought Emily and Peter back together. One day, after Peter
went home, he looked into the window of Emily¡¯s living room and saw ___(7)___
she was watching a football game on TV. He walked up and knocked at the door.
Emily was ___(8)___ to see him, but asked him to come in and they watched the
___(9)___ of the game together. They are good friends again. They ___(10)___
have different ideas about things
sometimes, but they agree with each other that football is the world¡¯s best
game.
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