The Sahara Festival is a celebration of the very recent past. The three-day event is not fixed to the same dates each year, but generally takes place in November or December. It is well attended by tourists, but even better attended by locals.

    During the opening ceremonies, after the official greetings from the government leaders, people who attend the festival begin to march smartly before the viewing stands, and white camels transport their riders across the sands. Horsemen from different nations display their beautiful clothes and their fine horsemanship. One following another, groups of musicians and dancers from all over the Sahara take their turn to show off their wonderful traditional culture. Groups of men in blue and yellow play horns and beat drums as they dance in different designs. On their knees in the sand, a group of women in long dark dresses dance with their hair: their long, dark, shiny hair is thrown back and forth in the wind to the rhythm of their dance.

    The local and visiting Italian dogs are anxious to run after hares. The crowd is on its feet for the camel races. Camels and riders run far into the distance, and then return to the finish Line in front of the cheering people.

    Towards the evening, there comes the grand finale of the opening day, an extremely exciting horserace. All the riders run very fast on horseback. Some riders hang off the side of their saddles. Some even ride upside down -- their legs and feet straight up in the air -- all at full speed. Others rush down the course together, men arm in arm, on different horses. On and on they went. SO fast and so wonderful!

The Sahara Festival is a festival which________.

A. has a very long history in North Africa

B. is held in the same place on the same day

C. is attended mainly by the people in the Sahara

D. is celebrated mostly by travelers from different countries

Before the races begin, ________ take part in the activities during the opening ceremonies.

A. musicians, dancers, horses and hares

B. camel riders, musicians, dogs and hares

C. horsemen, dancers, camels and dogs

D. musicians, officials, camels and horses

The underlined word "finale" in the fourth paragraph most probably means the _______of the opening day.

A. first part         B. middle          C. last part          D. whole

This passage mainly tells readers_______.

A. what happens on the opening day of the Sahara Festival

B. how people celebrate during the three-day Sahara Festival

C. what takes place at the closing ceremonies of the Sahara Festival

D. how animals race on the first and the last days of the Sahara Festival

When I was a boy, every holiday I had seemed wonderful. My   36  took me by train or by car to a hotel by the   37  . All day I   38   on the sands(沙滩) with strange   39   children. We made houses and gardens, and   40   the tide(潮汐) destroy them. When the tide went out, we   41  over the rocks and looked down at the fish in the rock-pools.

In those days the   42   seemed to shine always brightly   43  the water was always warm. Sometimes we left beach and walked in the country, 44   ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There were   45 in one’s pockets or good places where we could   46   ice creams. Each day was very happy.

Although I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good   47   is much the same as it was. I   48   like the sun and warm sand and the sound of   49   beating the rocks. I no longer wish to   50   any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets.   51  , I love the sea and often feel sand running through my fingers.

Sometimes I   52   what my ideal (理想的) holiday will be like when I am   53  . All I want to do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about   54   who make houses and gardens with sands, 55  watch the incoming tide…

1.

A. teacher         B. parents   C. nurse           D. younger sister

2.

A. sea            B. lake     C. mountain        D. river

3.

  A. played         B. slept     C. sat             D. stood

4.

  A. moving        B. excited    C. angry         D. nervous

5.

A. made         B. brought    C. watched      D. heard

6.

 A. rolled         B. looked   C. turned       D. climbed

7.

  A. light          B. sun      C. moon       D. lamp

8.

A. and           B. yet      C. but        D. or

9.

A. exploring     B. examining   C. repairing     D. measuring

10.

A. sweets       B. sand       C. ice-creams   D. money

11.

 A. make        B. sell       C. buy          D. offer

12.

 A. house        B. holiday   C. garden          D. tide

13.

A. hardly        B. almost    C. still           D. perhaps

14.

 A. waves         B. wind   C. hands        D. feet

15.

 A. destroy        B. fix     C. use             D. build

16.

A. But          B. However   C. Otherwise       D. Besides

17.

 A. wonder        B. feel    C. understand    D. believe

18.

A. strong          B. weak   C. young         D. old

19.

A. children       B. boys   C. girls           D. grown-ups

20.

 A. that        B. which      C. whom           D. who

 

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