People give gifts on many occasions. At weddings(婚礼),people give gifts such as tea sets and tableware (餐具). When someone has a baby, people express their wishes by giving gifts of baby clothes and food.

In western countries, food and drinks are the most traditional gifts for friends. For example, a bottle of champagne is perfect for Christmas. In some Asian countries like China and Japan, tea and wine are common gifts. Greeting cards are excellent gifts for friends and family around the world.

Here are some popular gifts for Christmas and New Year. Let’s have a look.

A message in a bottle—If you want to send a birthday message or a thank- you note, why not write on a piece of paper and put it inside a glass bottle? The person who receives this special gift will remember the words forever.

A Christmas stocking—People will look forward to seeing it each Christmas. It is a very traditional and useful Christmas gift. Many people hang the stocking up in their rooms as a decoration.

A necklace (项链) with a name—This is a special and popular gift among mothers and young people. For example, a mother can put her child’s name on the necklace. It seems that the necklace can bring her child close to her heart.

1.If your friend Lisa has a new baby, you may sent____.

A. school things

B. tea sets and table ware

C. baby clothes and food

D. birthday cards

2.From the passage we learn champagne is a kind of____.

A. drink B. food

C. card D. furniture

3.____are common gifts in some Asian countries.

A. Excellent books B. Tea and wine

C. Greeting cards D. Thank-you notes

4.Mrs. Green likes the necklace with her child’s name because____.

A. it can bring good luck to her

B. it is a traditional and useful gift

C. it is a fashionable gift for parents

D. it may make her child close to her heart

5.Please choose the best title for this passage____.

A. Choose a perfect present

B. How to celebrate New Year

C. How to celebrate Christmas

D. The festivals in China

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Chinese people________ Mid-Autumn Festival and enjoying mooncakes for centuries. Mooncakes are in the shape of _______ full moon on the Mid-Autumn night. They carry

_________ wishes to the families they love and miss.

There are many________ folk stories about this festival. However, most people think that the story of Chang’e is the most touching. Chang’e was Hou Yi’s beautiful wife. After Hou Yi ________ the nine suns, a goddess gave him magic medicine to thank him. Whoever drank this could live forever, and Hou Yi planned to drink it with Chang’e. However, a bad man, Peng Meng, tried to steal the medicine when Hou Yi was not ______. Chang’e refused to give it to him and drank it all. She became very light and flew up to the moon. Hou Yi was _________ sad that he called out her name to the moon every night. One night, he found that the moon was so bright and round that he could see his wife there. He quickly_______ her favorite fruits and desserts in the garden. _______ he wished that Chang’e could come back!

After this, people started the tradition of admiring _______ and sharing mooncakes with their families.

1.A. has been celebrated B. has been celebratingC. have been celebratedD. have been celebrating

2.A. a B. an C. the D. /

3.A. the people B. the people’s C. people’s D. people

4.A. tradition B. traditional C. west D. western

5.A. shoot down B. shoot at C. shot down D. shot at

6.A. at home B. homeless C. homework D. away

7.A. very B. so C. too D. quite

8.A.laid out B. lay out C. lain out D. call out

9.A. How B. What C. What a D. How a

10.A. moon B. the moon C. moons D. the moons

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根据短文内容,从各题的四个选项中选择一个最佳答案

What do you think of your Chinese? Is it good or bad? If you think you are good at Chinese, you can_____the competition named the Chinese Characters Dictation Competition(汉字听写大赛). The competition became popular_____the teenagers. Let’s know something about it.

More and more computers and smart phones ____by teenagers. They spend_ _time on the Internet in playing or chatting. They are used to____messages by computers and smart phones. Some of them forget how to write Chinese Characters_____.The teachers and parents are very_ __it.What can they do?

Not long ago, they found an interesting game called the Chinese Characters Dictation. The program modeled(成形于)__________after the American show National Spelling Bee, where middle school students stand on the stage to write down Chinese via(通过) dictation. Over two hundred competitors are from forty-six schools. The audience(观众) are interested in this new kind of competition ,too. They would like to write down the characters________the competitors were writing them. But they found it was also difficult for them to write down all the characters.Is it an interesting competition? Can you be the____?

1.A.take part in B. join up C. take part D. join

2.A.between B. in C. on D. among

3.A.use B. are use C. are used D. used

4.A. too many B. too much C. much too D. many too

5.A.sendingB. send C. sent D. sends

6.A.at hand B. by hand C. in hand D. with hand

7.A.crazy about B. worried aboutC. serious about D. care about

8.A.it B. itself C. its D. this

9.A.as forB. while C. as though D. what

10.A.worker B. teacher C. winner D. writer

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