In American schools there is something called Home-coming Day. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a homecoming game. This can be the most important event of the year except graduation(毕业) or commencement(授奖典礼) day. Students plan homecoming day for many weeks in advance(预先).

Several days before Homecoming, students start to decorate(装饰) the school. There are signs to wish luck to the team, and many other signs to welcome all the graduates. Many people still come to Homecoming twenty or thirty years after their graduation.

The members of school clubs build booths(摊位) and sell lemonade, apples and sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome visitors.

During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school.

Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over, the band comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the Home-corning Queen or King appears. All the students vote a most popular student Homecoming Queen or King. It is a great honor to be chosen.

Homecoming is a happy day, but it is not perfect unless the football team wins the game. Even if the team loses, the students still enjoy Homecoming. Some stay at the school to dance, and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day worth remembering.

The most important event of the year in high schools and colleges is ________.

    A. homecoming   B. the football game        C. graduation   D. winning the game

When do students begin to arrange everything for Homecoming?

    A. The day before Homecoming.   B. Many weeks before the day.

    C.  when the guests arrive. D. In the days before Homecoming.

Which of the following is NOT done on Homecoming?

    A. To see old friends.      B. To call on teachers they remember.

    C. To watch the football game.  D. To go home to see their family.

The underline words “vote” in the fifth paragraph means ________.

    A. attend a meeting         B. elect or choose     

    C. hold a celebration(庆祝) D. have a football match

Who can probably become Homecoming Queen or King?

    A. The students who is liked most by the others.   

B. The guest who is most popular with the students.

    C. The students who is most liked by the guests.   

D. The player who plays best in the football game. 

Since the beginning of time, man has been interested in the moon. The Romans designed a special day to show admiration and respect to the moon. They called it “Moonday”, or “Monday”, as we know it today. Later, the great mind of Leonardo da Vinci studied the moon and designed a machine to carry a human to the moon. Leonardo said that one day a great machine bird would take a person to the moon and bring great honor to the home where it was born. Four and a half centuries later, Leonardo’s idea was realized. Apollo II took three Americans, Collins, Aldrin, and Armstrong to the moon. The mission (任务) did fill the whole world with great surprise, as Leonardo had said it would. Numerous essays, articles, and books were written about man’s first moon mission. But perhaps the most interesting story was one written before the event over 100 years before. In 1865, French author Jules Verne wrote a story about the first journey to the moon. His story was very similar to the 1969 Apollo II mission. Verne’s spacecraft also contained three men—two Americans and a Frenchman. The spacecraft was described as being almost the same size as Apollo II. The launch (发射) site in Verne’s story was also in Florida. The spacecraft in Verne’s story was named the “Columbiad”. The Apollo II command ship was called “Columbia”. His account of sending the spacecraft into the space could easily have been written about how Apollo II was sent into the space.

1.Leonardo da Vinci said that a great machine bird would ________.

A.bring great honor to the moon

B.fly toward the sun

C.explore the heavens

D.take people to the moon

2.Jules Verne wrote his story of a man’s visit to the moon about ________.

A.100 years before the Apollo II mission

B.10 years before the Apollo II mission

C.four and one a half centuries ago

D.100 years ago

3.Verne’s story is very similar to _____.

A.the first U.S. space mission

B.the Apollo II mission

C.Leonardo da Vinci’s story

D.numerous other books on the same subject

4.The underlined word “spacecraft” probably means ________.

A.a kind of rocket                         B.a kind of plane

C.a kind of train                          D.a kind of bus

 

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