Three students are talking about the New Year tradition of their own country.

A.Christina from Spain

On the last day of the year, the 31st of December, people wait till 12 p.m. Everybody must have 12 grapes to eat at midnight. At each sound of the clock, we must eat a grape. But we can't ever finish eating the grapes on time! Usually when people still have some grapes in their mouths, they look at each other and start to laugh. This tradition started in Spain long ago. One year, when there were a lot of grapes, the king of Spain decided to give grapes to everybody to eat on New Year's Eve.

B.Cordon from Britain

On New Year's Day in Britain, people have parties. At 12 o'clock, the music stops, and we listen to the radio. On the radio we hear Big Ben, the famous clock in London. Then everybody sings a song about friendship and kisses their friends. We say “Happy New Year” to each other. It's lucky if a tall man with dark hair is the first person to come to the house in the New Year. So I go and visit as many friends as I can. They all give me a drink.

C.Angela from Brazil

In all cities in Brazil, we have a big party on New Year's Eve, especially in Rio de Janeiro. People in this city go to the beaches to watch fireworks (焰火).We put flowers in the sea and think about things we want for ourselves or others. We usually wear white clothes for good luck during the New Year.

1.Which is NOT mentioned (被提到) in the passage?

A. Have 12 grapes to eat. B. Have parties.

C. Give flowers to others. D. Watch fireworks.

2.Who have parties during the New Year?

A. People in Spain. B. People in Britain.

C. People in Brazil D. Both B and C.

3.From the paragraph of “Cordon from Britain”, we know that ________.

A. Cordon can't drink much

B. people hear Big Ben on the radio

C. people sing a song about good luck

D. everybody in Britain goes to watch fireworks

4.On New Year's Day, Brazilians usually wear white clothes because ________.

A. they hope that can bring them good luck

B. that reminds them of their happy life

C. they think that they look beautiful in white

D. that's what they have to do during the New Year

5.This article mainly tells us________.

A. what people in Britain do on New Year's Day

B. when and where people have New Year parties

C. what people in different countries do on New Year's Day

D. why people around the world like the New Year

Dear Linda,

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As I told you yesterday, I am in Rome today. Tomorrow we are getting the train down

to the south of the country and then a ship across to Greece.

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We started in England and we spent two days in London and another day in Canterbury.We visited a lot of places and enjoyed its history.And the only bad thing was the weather-it rained the whole time we were there. Can you believe it?

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Well, I have to say I prefer the American Disneyland. But we we met some nice people from Canada and spent two great days with them.One of them,Clive,is going to your university next year.What a coincidence!

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After that. We went south into Switzerland. It was very expensive and we couldn’t stay as long as we wanted ,so that’s why we’re in Italy now!

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See you soon.

Mike

根据材料内容,从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选择,使文章意思通畅、内存完整。

A. OK. That’s enough from me for now. I want to post this letter now so you can get it by the

weekend.

B. I cant wait to arrive in Athens to see all that history. Let me tell you something about

where we have visited so far. I know you want to come here on vacation too one day!

C.Clive and his wife left us once we got to Germany by train. They went up into Denmark

but we continued to Munich. Wow what a great city! I bought you a surprise gift there. I hope you like it.

D. At least when we got to Paris, the sun was shining! We only stayed for one afternoon in

the French capital because my friends really wanted to visit Euro Disney which is to the east of Paris.

E. How are things with you? It was great talking to you yesterday by phone.

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2.________

3.________

4.________

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