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根据短文内容，选择正确答案。

(1)When did Tom write a letter to his aunt?

(2)Why was Tom's mother surprised? Because ________.

(3)Why wasn't Tom inviting his aunt to his birthday party?

(4)Why did Tom thank his aunt? Because ________.

(5)When did Tom's aunt send him a birthday present?

The president and the election of president in USA

　　Now in USA only the two major parties--Democratic Party and Republican Party, have the chance of winning the elections. In fact American president stands for the bourgeois behalf.

(1)How long does the president serve for each term?

(2)What people can't take part in the election?

(3)In the history of America, which president served the longest?

(4)Whose behalf does American president stand for?

(5)Which party is not America's?

　　Many smokers are like Ali: they want to stop smoking. The smokers know that smoking is bad for their health. They know it can cause cancer and heart disease. But it is difficult for them to give up smoking because cigarettes have a drug in them. The drug is nicotine. People who smoke a lot need nicotine.

　　When a person first begins to smoke, he usually feels terrible. The nicotine makes him sick. In a few days, the smoker's body is used to the nicotine, and he feels fine. Later, the smoker needs nicotine to keep feeling fine. Without nicotine, he feels bad.

(1)Ali has smoked for ________ years.

(2)The smokers know that smoking is ________.

(3)Cigarettes have ________ in them.

(4)It is very ________ to quit smoking, and many people who quit will soon smoke again.

(5)By writing this text, the writer hopes that people will ________.

　　The American people enjoy beautiful forests, rivers, lakes and mountains. To keep them beautiful, the government has chosen certain places which are unusual in their beauty. They decided to make them national parks. This means no one can build cities in these areas. They will always be parks. So children and grandchildren can enjoy them as their parents and grandparents did in the past. There are also strict rules to prevent people from polluting these areas.

　　The Yellowstone National Park is in the state of Wyoming. It has natural hot water which sometimes shoots into the air. The park is in the Rocky Mountains. There are bears, monkeys and wolves which visitors hope to see. Also, many kinds of birds are there. Perhaps the most famous is the large Canadian goose.

　　Niagara Falls is on the border between New York State and Canada. It has the largest waterfalls in the United States. Many people go to see the falls when they take a holiday especially during the summer when the weather is very hot.

(1)What do you think is the best title of the passage?

(2)Who helps build the national parks?

(3)Which of the following is true according to the passage?

(4)Where is the Yellowstone National Park?

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　　Years went by, people learned other ways to make a fire. Sometimes they used the heat from the sun. They held a piece of glass in the right way and made a piece of paper on fire.

　　About two centuries ago, people began to make matches. Matches brought people a quick and easy way to make fires. Today matches are still being used, but people have more new ways to make fires. One of them is to use an electric fire starter. Of course an electric fire starter is much more expensive than a box of matches. But it is very useful.

(1)From the text we know that a spark can _______.

(2)We can also get a fire by _______.

(3)Matches have been used _______.

(4)From the text, we know that ________.

(5)Which of the following is the right order of the ways to make fires that people got to know?

a. with a match

b. from the sun

c. from lightening

d. by rubbing

e. with an electric fire starter

Handshaking

　　Handshaking, though a European practice, is now often seen in big cities of China. Nobody knows exactly when the practice started in Europe. It is said that long long ago in Europe when people met, they showed their unarmed open hands to each other as a sign of amity. As time went on and trade in cities grew prosperously, this practice was later somehow revised and gradually finalized into shaking hands.

　　Do the Europeans shake hands wherever they go and with whomever they meet? No, sometimes the Chinese scholars abroad reach out their hands too often to be polite, especially when she is a woman. In fact some people in western countries stand even more on ceremony and are more reserved than some Chinese today.

　　Handshaking was first introduced into China after the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty at the beginning of last century. Thanks to Dr. Sun Yat-sun, many unknown and unforeseen practices were imported from Europe, for example, to work on weekdays and to have a day off on Sundays, the brushing of teeth, and handshaking. In old China, when people met or parted, they bowed to each other and cupped their own hands one in the other, moving them up and down several times in front of the chest to pay obeisance. After almost a century the westernized way of greetings has not yet become very popular among the masses, while the age-old national practices have almost been forgotten.

(l)Who knows exactly when the practice started in Europe?

(2)Which is right about the following statements?

(3)When was handshaking first introduced into China?

(4)Thanks to Dr. Sun Yat-sun, what practices were imported from Europe?

(5)In old China, when people met or parted, what did they do?

　　Grown-ups can hardly find children's games exciting, and they often feel puzzled at why their kids play such simple games again and again. However, it is found that a child plays games for very important reasons. He can be a good player without having to think whether he is a popular person, and he can find himself being a useful partner to someone of whom he is ordinarily afraid. He becomes a leader when it comes to his turn. He can be confident, too, in particular games, that it is his place to give orders, to pretend to be dead, to throw a ball actually at someone, or to kiss someone he has caught.

　　It appears to us that when children play a game they imagine a situation under their control. Everyone knows the rules, and more importantly, everyone plays according to the rules. Those rules may be childish, but they make sure that every child has a chance to win.

(1)What is true about children when they play games?

(2)To become a leader in a game the child has to ________.

(3)What do we know about grown-ups?

(4)Why does a child like playing games?

(5)The writer believes that ________.

　　Basketball is still a young game. It is just over a hundred years. In the winter of 1891, a certain college was having some trouble with its boy Students. The weather was bad and the students had to stay indoors. As they could not take part in their usual outdoor sports, they are unhappy, and some of them even get into fights from time to time. Finally, some of the teachers at the college asked Dr. J. E. Naismith to invent a game so that the students might have something to play at. It was not easy to invent such a game because it had to be played indoors, and the court was not very large. Dr. Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast, exciting game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was played between two teams. In order to make a score,the ball had to be thrown into a basket ten feet above the floor on the wall. At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first,Dr. Naismith had planned to have the ball thrown into a box. As he couldn't find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets instead. That is how'the game got its name--basketball.

(1)The passage tells us _________.

(2)Basketball is _________.

(3)The word "indoors" means ________.

(4)Basketball was invented ________.

(5)The game got its name from _________.

　　Every year between the end of November and the end of December, Jewish people around the world celebrate the holiday of Chanukah, the Festival of Lights. Chanukah begins on the 25th day of the month of Kislev, lasted for eight days, but the starting date on the western calendar varies from year to year. Jews celebrate Chanukah to mark the victory which Jews reclaimed the Jerusalem Temple 2300 years ago.

　　Long ago in the land of Judea there was a Syrian king, Antiochus. The king ordered the Jewish people to reject their God, their religion, their customs and their beliefs and to worship the Greek gods. There were some who did as they were told, but many refused. One who refused was Judah Maccabee. Judah and his four brothers formed an army. After three years of fighting, the Maccabees were finally successful in driving the Syrians out of Israel and reclaimed the Temple in Jerusalem. The Maccabees cleaned the building and removed the Greek Statues. On the 25th day of the month of Kislev, the job was finished and the temple was rededicated.

　　When Judah and his followers finished cleaning the temple, they wanted to light the eternal light, known as the Ner Tamid, which is present in every Jewish house of worship. Once lit, the oil lamp should never be extinguished.

　　Only a tiny jug of oil was found with only enough for a single day. The oil lamp was filled and lit. Then a miracle occurred as the tiny amount of oil stayed lit not for one day, but for eight days. The people had a torchlight parade in the Temple, which may also have contributed to the tradition of lighting candles on Chanukah.

　　In America, families celebrate Chanukah at home. They give and receive gifts, decorate the house, entertain friends and family, eat special foods, and light the holiday candles.

阅读上面短文，选择正确答案。

(1)How long did Chanukah last?

(3)Who were the Maccabees finally successful in driving out of Israel?

(4)How long did a tiny jug of oil stay lit for?

(5)In America, how do the families celebrate Chanukah?

(1)Today women wear ________ skirts.

(2)Boots are thought ________ now.

(3)When today's women attend the party, they wear ________.

(4)Men's fashions ________.

(5)The passage mainly tries to tell us________.