October 31st is Halloween．During this holiday, people wear special costumes with masks．You can see pumpkin lanterns everywhere．It is not very easy to carve(雕刻)a lantern out of a pumpkin．
First you have to wash a pumpkin because there is dirt on it．Then open the top and scoop out(舀出)the inside．It is not an easy job．It may take you two hours to take out all the inside with a big knife．What you do next is to cut three triangles(三角形)in the side．Two triangles will be eyes, and the other for a nose．And at the bottom cut out a mouth．At last you can put a candle or a lamp inside and take the lantern outside．
These days a lot of houses don't carve lanterns．They just buy fake(假的)ones．They are cheap and a fake lantern doesn't go bad．However I never buy one, because I think it fun to make the real thing．
(1)
People can often see pumpkin lanterns ________．
[ ]
A．
at Christmas
B．
during Halloween
C．
in China
D．
in the park
(2)
Before you open the top of the pumpkin, you ________．
[ ]
A．
scoop out the inside
B．
wash the pumpkin
C．
cut three triangles
D．
cut out a mouth
(3)
The three triangles are for ________．
[ ]
A．
two eyes and a nose
B．
two eyes and a mouth
C．
two noses and an eye
D．
two noses and a mouth
(4)
People buy fake lanterns because ________．
[ ]
A．
they look more beautiful
B．
they are not dear and do not go bad
C．
they are more interesting
D．
they don't like the real ones
(5)
When you carve a pumpkin lantern, you don't ________．
Lijiang, Yunnan, Dec．17(Xinhuanet)－A film directed by the famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou, made its domestic debut(国内首映式)in Lijiang, where the film was shot, in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, on Friday night．
The film, titled Riding Along for Thousands of Miles, was played by the Japanese actor TakakuraKen．It tells a story that Takada, a Japanese fisherman, fulfills(完成)the last wish of his dying son by traveling thousands of miles to China’s Yunnan Province to search for the secret behind a local opera play, called Riding Along for Thousands of Miles．
Zhang Yimou, who has been Takakura’s admirer for almost 30 years, made the film just for
fulfilling his own wish of working with Takakura Ken．
The film made its global(全球的)bedut at the opening session of the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival on Oct．22．
Takakura, one of the best-known actors in Japan, has played roles in 204 films－including
Zhang’s－and won world recognition(认可)after starting in the 1975 Sydney Pollack hit The Yakuza(71)and in Ridley Scott’s 1989 work Black Rain．
Invested by the Beijing New Picture Edko Films, Riding Along for Thousands of Miles was
made at a cost of 60 million yuan(about 7.3 million US dollars), much less than Zhang’s two previous films, Hero and House of Flying Daggers, both had been nominates(提名)for best foreign film Oscars．
The film will be formally released in China on Dec．22．
(1)
One of the famous actors in Riding Along for Thousands of Miles is ________．
[ ]
A．
Zhang Yimou
B．
Takakura Ken
C．
Takada
D．
Jiang Wen
(2)
Riding Along For Thousands of Miles made its domestic debut in ________ and made its global debut in ________．
[ ]
A．
Beijing, Tokyo
B．
Lijiang, Tokyo
C．
Beijing, Tokyo
D．
Lijiang, London
(3)
________ is not directed by Zhang Yimou．
[ ]
A．
Riding Along For Thousands of Miles
B．
Hero
C．
Black rain
D．
House of Flying Daggers
(4)
6 million yuan is about ________ million US dollars．
[ ]
A．
7
B．
7.3
C．
0.73
D．
3.7
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(1)
Post 1 is aimed at people who want to _________．
[ ]
A．
make their moms happy
B．
enjoy eating hamburgers
C．
have cheap meals outside
D．
eat chicken sea food
(2)
The underlined word“REWARD”in Post 2 most probably means _________．
[ ]
A．
招聘
B．
海报
C．
悬赏
D．
求职
(3)
According to Post 3, a 12th-grade student takes _________．
[ ]
A．
OCT Test
B．
SST Test
C．
ISS Exams
D．
HSC Exams
(4)
Oak Street Coaching School helps students to _________．
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