Passage 5
Here in Siberia (西伯利亚), the winter is always very long and it’s very, very cold! It starts to snow in November and the snow won’t leave until May. The temperature is usually about -25℃, but it’s sometimes much colder. When it’s -35℃, children can’t go to school, but grown-ups still go to work! We wear a lot of warm clothes: socks and boots, sweaters and fur coats. All the houses have heating, so it’s never cold inside. In winter, we close the windows to stop the wind from getting in, and we don’t open them again until spring.
In spring and summer it rains a lot, and we don’t often see the sun. In summer it’s often about 25℃, but the weather is very changeable. One day it’s 25℃, and the next day it’s 10℃. People say that the weather was even colder in the past.
【小题1】How long is Siberia’s snowy time?
【小题2】What are used in Siberia to keep the people and houses warm?
【小题3】Do children go to school when it’s -35℃ in winter?
【小题4】What’s the weather like in spring?
【小题5】How does the weather in Siberia often change in summer?

词语填空(共10小题,计10分)

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空,使短文通顺、正确、连贯(每个单词限用一次).

For 25 years Terry Cemm was a policeman, but for the last seventeen years he has been walking up and down five____1____ of beach every day, looking for things that might be ____2____to someone. Terry is a beachcomber.

Nearly everything in his cottage has ___3___from the sea - chairs, tables, even tins of food. What's the most ___4__thing he has ever found? “A barrel of beer just before Christmas. That was nice”, he remembers. He finds lots of bottles with messages in__5__, mainly from children. They all get a reply if there's an address in the bottle. “Shoes? If you find one, you'll find the other the next week”, he says.

But does he really make a ___6___? “Half a living,” he___7___. “I barter (物物交换)with a lot of things I find, and I have my police pension(退休金). But I don't actually need money. My life is ___8___ in variety. ”

Terry seems to be a very happy man. “You have to find a way to live a simple, honest life. People spend all their lives ____9____ things they don't really need. There's so much waste.”

“Some people say I'm mad,” says Terry, “But there are a lot___10____ who'd like to do what I do. Look at me. I've got everything that I could possibly want.”

In America and Canada, people also have___16__festival. It is____17___ Thanksgiving Day. It is ____18____the fourth Thursday of November.On that day,families get together and eat a big____19____.They have a lot of___ 20____for dinner.They usually eat turkeys. A turkey ____21____a chicken, ___22____ it is much bigger____23____a chicken.In America and Canada, many people say ____24___for the ____25____.    .