More have heard of the American Prom.This

is the senior students' school leaving party.The

British name for the event is a Leaver's Ball or

Leaver's Dinner,although some UK schools call

them Proms,too.In Canada, Ireland and Australia

the terms Grad or Formal are most common and in

South Africa it is called a Matric Dance.

　 Some Matric Dances in South Africa still follows the old British traditions. Before the dance,pupils are given lessons in dancing.School leavers invite a partner to the dance.The girls have dresses especially made for the event. To save costs the dance is often held din the school hall.

　 American Proms have become elaborate(精心的）and expensive, complete with luxury hotel ballrooms(豪华的酒店舞厅），live bands and expensive prom dressed. They now include after-Prom activities that often extend into the early morning of the next day.

The Leaver's Ball in the UK is not so formal(正式）.The girls also wear ball gowns and the boys suits. A dinner and disco will be held at a a local hotel. Each pupil buys a ticket and can go with a partner or just arrive with friends.

61.We learn from this passage that the Prom is a _______.

A. test　　　　　　　　　 B.game　　　　　　 C.party

62. In Australia,people call "Prom"_______.

A. Leavers' Ball　　　　　 B.Grad or Formal　　 C. Matric Dance

63. The most important activity in the Prom is______.

A. dancing　　　　　　　 B.eating　　　　　　 C.meeting

64.The Matric Dance is often held in the_____.

A. school hall　　　　　 B.hotel ballroom　　　 C.local restaurant

65. According to this passage,the event in _____costs the most.

A. the United States　　　 B.the UK　　　　　　 C.South Africa

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It’s a r       .

2.

It’s a k       .

3.

It’s j       .

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It’s an o       .

5.What’s this in E______?

6.Can you s______ it, please?

7.And w______ this?

8.Sit down , p______.

One night , a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, _____ his violin . Some passers-by（行人） slowed down their paces and put some money into the hat of the young man.
The next day the young artist came to the same place. Different from the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and _____ it on the ground and put some stones on it . Then he began playing. Before long , many people were attracted by the words on that paper which said, “ Last night a gentleman ______George Sang put an important thing into my hat by mistake. Please come to claim（认领）it soon.”
A middle-aged man ran there _____ and rushed through the crowd to the violinist and grabbed （抓住）his shoulders and said, “ Yes, it is you. You did come here. I knew that you are an( a ) _____ man and would certainly come here.”
The story turned out to be this: George Sang bought a lottery ticket a few days ago. The award opened yesterday and he won a prize of 5000,000 dollars. _______ his way home, he took _____ 50 dollars and put it in the violinist’s hat. However, the lottery ticket was also thrown in . The violinist was a student at an Arts College . He had booked the ticket to flight and came back to ____ he was given the lottery ticket.
Later someone asked the violinist _____ he didn’t take the lottery ticket for himself. The violinist said, “ Although I don’t have much money, I live happily. _____ if I  lose honesty, I won’t feel happy forever.”

London has a new magazine. But it is not printed(印刷) on paper. Everyone who has a television can receive it because it is on TV.
In order to read this magazine you have to have a decoder (解码器). Each page of it is numbered, so you only have to dial the number to choose which subject you want to read about. There are all kinds of information ---everything is included from cooking to the latest sports news.
If you want to read the news, the first thing you have to do is to turn to the back page, which has an easy-to-remember page number, 100 for example. Then you start choosing what you want to read. The news is on page 101 to 109, so you put in the numbers and the news appears written across your screen. Perhaps you want to go out in the afternoon, so you press 181, and a brightly colored weather map appears on the screen. But the weather is terrible, so you decide to go shopping and dial 162 for a list of the week’s best bargains. But should you drive or take the train? To answer that question you only have to press 189 for the traffic report. It is very simple to use. But probably the best thing about the service is that it is being updated all the time. Journalists type new material directly onto the screen and the whole pages of the magazine can be replaced in minutes.
London already has three services. One, sent out by TV, is called ORACLE while the other two, on BBC, are called CEEFAX because they let you see facts. Although CEEFAX and ORACLE have been operating for some time, they have not been well publicized(宣传). BBC engineers do not think that their idea will ever replace books and newspapers because they can be taken with you everywhere. But many people would agree that is a breakthrough(突破) as great as the invention of printing, which could not just change our reading habits but our whole way of life.
【小题1】 We can know from the passage that in London        .

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Come and buy clothes at Mr Cool's Store!  For g__(1),we have sweaters in red, green and w__(2) at a very good price--only $20!  The black s       (3) are only $22!For boys, we have T__(4) in black, blue and red for only $13! You can also b     (5) socks for only $3!  Do you n      (6) bags for sports? We also have great bags for 0__(7) $5! Do you like s       (8)? They are on great sale, too, only $12.

Come and s       (9) for yourself at Mr Cool's C       (10) Store.