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Thanksgiving Day is a very special day for people in the United States. In that country they celebrate Thanksgiving Day on the fourth Thursday in November. Canadians also celebrate Thanksgiving Day, but they do it on the second Monday of October. In Britain, where the festival is called “ Harvest Festival”, people celebrate earlier in the year, in September.
A harvest is the fruit you take from the trees and the crops you take from the ground. In North America, Europe, and England, harvest time for most fruit and crops is in the special day of the year. They thank God for the good things that have happened during the year and for the good harvest they have had. People usually take small boxes of fruit, flowers, and vegetables to their churches to show their thanks.
The first thanksgiving service in North America took place on 4 December 1610 when 38 English people arrived in America to make their home in the new country. They held this service not to thank God for the harvest, but to thank God for their safe journey. The next year, many more English people arrived. They had a bad winter, but fortunately the harvest was good. They decided to celebrate with a big meal. They shot and killed small animals to eat and cooked everything outside on large fires. About 90 Indians also came to the meal. Everyone ate at tables outside their houses and played games together. The festival lasted three days.
A Thanksgiving Day celebration was held every year for a long time, but not always on the same day of the year. Then, in 1789, President George Washington named 26 November as the Day of Thanksgiving. Almost a hundred years later, President Abraham Lincoln changed the date, and said that the last Thursday in November should be Thanksgiving Day.
Nowadays, North Americans around the world get together with their families on this day to eat good food and have a happy time.
39. The story is about ____.
A. festivals                   B. an American festival  
C. English people in America    D. giving thanks for everything
40. The last Thursday in November in November is ____.
A. a festival in every country in the world
B. Thanksgiving Day in the United States
C. the day farmers pick fruit from the trees
D. the day the first English People came to America
41. On thanksgiving Day people ____.
A. plant their crops.                 B. celebrate a safe journey
C. thank God for a good harvest        D. harvest their fruit and crops.
42. At the first thanksgiving service in North America, the people ____.
A. shot a lot of small animals
B. thanked God for a safe journey
C. thanked God for a good harvest
D. had a big dinner outside their houses.

LONDON: The Edinburgh Festival, the biggest arts festival of its kind in the world, got under way in the Scotland capital on Sunday with a concert that included Hector Berlionz's To Deum, under the direction of Christoph von Dohnanyi.
The festival, which runs until August 31 this year, includes as its high points Peter Stein’s staging of Wagner’s Parsifal, with Claudio Abbado directing the Gustav Mahler youth orchestra. The concert programme includes American pianist Richard Goode, bass baritone Thomas Quasthoff and violinist Christian Tetzlaff. New to the programmes this year will be 25 late evening classical music concerts.
Earlier this month, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the largest show-case in the world for performance art, officially got under way with theatre, dance, poetry and music presentations.
Many of the fringe artists, who can enter the fringe festival upon payment of a small fee, were inspired this year by the event of September 11.
Thousands of people flock to Edinburgh from around the world during the festival, which is over 50 years old. It aims to promote and encourage arts and to reflect international culture. It consists of various dance, music, opera, and theatre presentation taking place across the city during the three-week run.
【小题1】Who will perform in the concert on Sunday?

选择正确的词组,并用其适当形式填空(10分，每空1分)

1. I have eaten the same food for a month, now I ____________it and I will never try it

any more.

2. After graduation, she’s going to __________ by working on her father’s farm.

3. We can believe him, he always__________.

4. At the Festival of Halloween, children usually dress up _________ ghosts.

5. The holiday that everyone______________ has come.

6. Mr. Greens will _________ for Beijing tomorrow.

7. The child in African had no enough food, _____________, she staved to death.

8. If you _____________Australian cities, just read the book written by Dr. Johnson.

9. The best way to________ is keeping on doing exercise.

10. We have never discovered what __________ between the couple that day.

There are many festivals in Argentina during the year. Therefore, you can enjoy the different interesting festivals when traveling there. First of all, we should talk about the Tango(探戈舞) Festival in Argentina, which is held in the capital of this country — Buenos Aires, from February to March. You ought to know that Argentina is the home of tango, so Argentineans admire this dance very much. Even if you cannot dance perfectly, you should join the people and try to perform this dance.

The next festival in Argentina is Open Polo(马球) Tournament. You should go to Palermo to see this festival in Argentina. This festival is held every year and is the most important polo tournament in Argentina. This kind of sport is considered the most important in Argentina. Attending this festival in Argentina, you will be able to communicate with different people, admire the fascinating competition between the teams of different countries, such as Argentina, England, Australia, as well as the US. This festival in Argentina is usually held between November and December every year. So don’t miss the opportunity if you travel to Argentina at this time.

The other festival in Argentina is the Semana Musical Llao Llao. This is a festival of classical music. The festival was created in 1993 and is held at the Llao Llao Hotel, near Bariloche. The festival is held yearly in October. So if you admire this kind of music, you should travel to Argentina in October. There are also many carnivals in October. There are also many carnivals in Argentina in summer. Of course, it’s impossible to put everything about festivals in Argentina into just one article. We hope that you have found this article interesting and eye-catching.

1..

What would be the best title for the passage?

    A. Travel to Argentina              B. Entertainments in Argentina

    C. Festivals in Argentina               D. A brief introduction to Argentina

2..

 From the passage, we know that the Tango Festival    .

    A. is organized by the government       B. is held in summer

    C. welcomes everyone to take part in    D. holds parties for different dances

3..

 Which of the following is a sport festival?

    A. The Semana Musical Llao Llao.    B. Open Polo Tournament.

    C. The Tango Festival.              D. Argentina Carnivals.

4..

If Tom wants to enjoy a classical music event in Argentina, he should visit    .

    A. Buenos Aires in spring               B. Palermo in April

    C. Bariloche in October             D. Palermo in winter

III 阅读（共两节，满分40分）

第一节阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Valentine’s Day has its origins in the ancient Roman feast of Lupercalia, a yearly festival held on Feb. 15 to help keep dangerous wolves away from townspeople and their crops. On the eve of the festival, Feb. 14, the young women of the town would write their names on small pieces of paper, put them in a jar, and every young man would pick out a name at random. The pair would then be partners for the rest of the festival.

It was 270 B.C. when St. Valentine stood up for love, after Roman Emperor Claudius II forbade Roman soldiers to get engaged or married, believing that married men would rather stay at home than go to war. The priest named Valentine, in defiance(对抗) of Claudius’ orders, secretly married young couples, and on Feb. 14, was punished for his “crime”, thereby becoming the patron saint（守护神） of lovers.

Besides this story, there are some old beliefs about this day:

During the Middle Ages, Europeans believed that birds chose their mates each year on Feb. 14.

Some people used to believe that if a woman saw a robin fly overhead on Valentine’s Day, it meant she would marry a sailor; if she saw a sparrow, she’d marry a millionaire.

If you cut an apple in half and count how many seeds are inside, you will know how many children you will have.

And some charming Valentine’s Day Customs.

In Wales, wooden love spoons were carved and given as gifts on Feb. 14.

Heart, keys and keyholes were favorite decorations, which meant “you unlock my heart!”

In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They’d wear these names on their sleeves for one week—hence the term “to wear your heart on your sleeve”.

41.According to the story, Valentine was originally the name of a ________.

A. lover     B. priest     C. ruler     D. feast

42.   The Roman emperor forbade soldiers to get married because he thought        .

A. married soldiers are not loyal to the country

B. married soldiers are less willing to fight

C. there was no time for soldiers to get married

D. marriage is a crime

43. Why was the priest punished?

He didn’t join the army.

He helped people escape from being sent to the battle field.

He married couples despite the prohibition from the ruler.

He openly defied the ruler’s order to end his marriage.

44. Which of the following statement is NOT true according to the passage?

Feb. 14 and 15 were originally a time for keeping wolves.

People used to believe that birds chose mates on Valentine’s Day.

People believed that the birds they saw on Valentine’s Day predicted what         kind of person they would marry.

D. The Welsh used to give out wooden spoons on Feb.14.

45. If you wear your heart on your sleeve, you _________________.

A. openly express your feelings or emotions to others.

B. hardly take your feelings or emotions very seriously.

C. officially announce that you have been married

D. proudly show your choice of sleeve pattern