There are some special traditions in Hawaii . People there are very friendly and always welcome visitors . They give visitors a lei , a long necklace of beautiful fresh flowers . Men wear bright flowered shirts , and women often wear long flowered dresses .
In Hawaii you may find some traditional Chinese , Japanese and Philippine holidays . Of course , many holidays are from the United States . People call Hawaii the Aloha State . Aloha means both “hello” and “good--bye”. It also means “I love you ” .
Usually when people from different countries , races or traditions lives together , there are serious problems . But in Hawaii there are few problems , people have learned to live together in peace .
Hawaiians earn most of their money from tourists , most of whom come from the mainland and from Japan . The families of the first people who came from the U.S. mainland own the important banks and companies . Japanese are  also starting business and buying more and more land .
【小题1】The underlined word “lei” in Paragraph One means ____________.
A.a necklace of flowerB.a plant in Hawaii.
C.a group of flower D.a flowered dress
【小题2】Which of the following is TRUE about the people in Hawaii according to the passage?
A.They live together in peace.
B.There are no problems at all in Hawaii .
C.It is difficult for them to live together .
D.There are serious problems among them .
【小题3】Most of the rich men in Hawaii are _____________ .
A.JapaneseB.Americans and Chinese
C.Japanese and Americans D.Chinese and Japanese
【小题4】The holiday in Hawwaii come from ______________ .
A.AmericaB.Philippines C.China and JapanD.All the above
【小题5】From the passage we know that Hawaiians are mostly __________.
A.rude to others
B.friendly to others
C.visitors from the mainland
D.tourists from Japan

任务型阅读。 (10分)

As young students, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize; they can also be small, such as becoming one of the best students in your class.

Once you find a dream, what do you do with it? Do you ever try to make your dream real?

Andrew Matthews, an Australian writer, tells us that making your dreams real is life’s biggest challenge (挑战). You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects, or that (1) to become a writer is difficult for you. Those kinds of ideas stop you from realizing (实现) your dream.

In fact, everyone can realize his dream. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is. Don’t let it leave your heart. (2)Keep telling yourself what you want every day and then your dream will come true faster. You should know that a big dream is, in fact, made up of (由…组成) many small dreams.

You must also never give up your dream. There will be difficulties on the road to your dreams. But the biggest difficulty comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important. (3)You shouldn’t watch TV. You’d better study instead. It will help you to get better exam results.

1.回答问题:What does Andrew Matthews do?

He _______________________________________________________.

2. 在文中找出realize的同义词组:________ ________

3.根据(1)处完成下面的句子。(每空一词)

It’s ________ for you to ________ a writer.

4. 将(2)处翻译成汉语。

________________________________________________________________

5. 根据(3)处完成下面的句子。(每空一词)

You’d better study instead of ________ ________, so you will get good exam results.

 

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