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阅读下列短文，从所给的四个选项中，选出最佳答案
Balzac（巴尔扎克）was good at buying things at its lowest price．One day he wanted to buy a vase （花瓶）in a shop window, the price of which, however, was much higher than he could offer．Not being able to make the shopkeeper cut down its price very much, he left without further talking．Collecting a half dozen of his friends, he explained his wish to them and they worked out a plan．The first would enter the shop and make an offer, lower than the marked price．Not getting the vase at his price, he would walk out．Shortly after another would enter and ask for a lower price than the first．In this way, each of the others would offer a price lower than the one before, and the last of his friends made a great effort to attempt to get it at the lowest price．Before long Balzac himself would return, offer more than the last two or three persons made and trust to luck．The plan worked --Balzac got the vase at his price!
(1)Which of the following is true according to the passage?
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A．A vase in a window was placed much higher than Balzac could reach．
B．At first the price of the vase was much higher than Balzac could offer．
C．Balzac always wanted to buy a vase that was much higher than he could pay．
D．Balzac was very poor, he couldn't buy the vase at a high price．
(2)How many friends did Balzac gather?
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A．Five． B．Twelve． C．Ten． D．Six．
(3)Who asked for the lowest price?
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A．Balzac． B．The second one．
C．The first one． D．The last of his friends
(4)What's the best translation for “trust to luck”?
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A．听天由命 B．相信运气 C．碰碰运气 D．信任运气
(5)What kind of person does the writer try to tell us about Balzac and his friends?
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A．Unkind． B．Dishonest． C．Selfish． D．Clever．
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写一篇短文，题目是“Do‘Lucky Numbers’ Really Bring Good Luck? ”，词数100左右，要求包含下面的内容：
1．有些人认为某些数字会带来好运．
2．我认为数字与运气无关．
注意：信的开头已经写好．
Do“Lucky Numbers”Really Bring Good Luck?My friend Mary was born on June 13, 1986. She is always dissatisfied with her birthday because 13 is a bad number.
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阅读下面短文, 然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
Luck or hard workIs it luck or hard work that brings success? The answer is “hard work”．One's efforts bring him success and not his luck．It is said, “Triumphs don't come without effort.”
Luck favors only those who help themselves．The harder you work, the luckier you get．A man works day and night giving up all his play and delight and moves ahead to earn success and when he earned it people called it luck．This excellence is in fact not luck, but result of a lot of hard work．Any idea cannot become a success unless we work hard on it．
Today we are leading a happy and comfortable life due to hard work of someone else．We have bulbs to remove the darkness in a room; this was possible by hard work of Edison．We chat over phone with our friends, enjoying which has resulted by the hard work put in by Alexander Graham Bell．
The world lifts its hats up to one who puts 50 percent of their efforts and on its head for those few soul who devote 100 percent thus．“Success accompanies only those who work hard and not the ones who hardly work.”
[写作内容]
(1)以约30个词概括短文的要点；
(2)然后以120个词就“成功是靠运气还是努力”这个主题发表你的看法，并包括如下要点：
1．人们对如何取得成功看法有哪些?
2．他们有何实例证明自己的观点?
3．你的观点如何?为什么?
[写作要求]
(1)可以使用实例或其它论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；
(2)标题自定。
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