January 1 st is New Year's Day. People all over the world celebrate it. On New Year' s Day there is a
 one-day holiday in most countries. The real celebrations for New Year always happen on the night
 before-on New Year's Eve. There are a lot of interesting customs in the West,and there are a lot of
 differences from country to country.
    In China,the Spring Festival is a family get-together. And so is Christmas in many-western countries. But
  New Year for some families is a time to get together with their friends,too. Many people have parties to
  welcome New Year. At these parties,there are all kinds of food and drink,and people often sing and
 dance for the coming of New Year.
    On New Year's Eve when midnight comes,people often say"Happy New Year"to each other.
 Champagne (香槟酒) is a favourite drink for New Year. In many western countries fireworks are let off
  (燃放) at midnight to celebrate the New Year. 

(     ) 1. People usually celebrate New Year on January 1 st.
(     ) 2. People like to drink Champagne on New Year's day.
(     ) 3. In most countries there is a long holiday for people.
(     ) 4. Many people celebrate New Year with their friends.
(     ) 5. All the country celebrate New Year in the same way.

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起来完成笔记。
The Mid-Autumn Festival
Family members get t __1__ and eat m __2__ .  
The Dragon Boat Festival
There are b__3__ races (比赛) in many places of China. The boats are 1__4__ and have colourful
 d __5__ heads and tails (尾巴).
The Qing Ming Festival
This is a very important __6__ for more traditional C__7__ people. People visit the graves (墓) of their
 dead relatives and put food and f __8__ on the graves.
The Chong Yang Festival
    It's a day for the elderly. Some people visit homes for the elderly(老人). It's a __9__ at __10__ for
 mountain climbing (登山).

     Halloween is a s __1__ festival in our country. We celebrate it on O __2__ 31 st. On that day, we
 usually play an interesting game-trick or t __3__ . We knock on many doors and s __4__  the three
 words. Usually we g __5__ some candy. If people don't give us a treat,we can play a t __6__ on them.
 It's fun.
     The second part is costumes and masks. We often d  __7__ up. Some children paint their faces,too.
 People can't tell who is who. Isn't it w __8__ ? This year I will w __9__ a Pikachu costume.
     And I can't forget the big party. We have the party at home. Sometimes we have many friends together. We have h __10__ drinks and chocolates. But we have no mooncakes. We all have great fun at the party.
     It's a pity (遗憾) that children in China don't celebrate Halloween. Would you like to celebrate it with
  us next year?

     At midnight on New Year's Eve .people in Rome and Italy throw ( 扔 ) all the things they no longer
 want .The streets are filled with old chairs ,beds ,clothes and dishes …. In Madrid ( 马德里 ) Spain, new
  year comes in more quietly . People go to the main square ,each holding a bag of grapes .As the clock
 strikes ( 敲 ) twelve ,the people eat grapes .
     In Tokyo people eat noodles on New Year's Eve. This food is said to bring long life. Early the next
 morning , some Japanese families climb Mount Fuji ( 富士山 ) . There they watch the first sunrise of the
  new year.
     In China , New Year's food include a whole fish and a chicken . The chicken must be presented ( 呈
 现) with a head ,a tail and two feet to symbolize ( 象征 ) completeness ( 完美) .

1. This story is about New Year's Eve in _____.

    A. Italy and Spain      
    B. England  
    C. Japan and China    
    D. Both A and C

2. From the story we know that people in some countries bring in New Year By _____.

    A. throwing everything      
    B. playing games  
    C. eating some special food  
    D. drinking coke

3. People climb Mount Fuji to _____.

    A. see the sun come up          
    B. look at the stars
    C. search for New Year's flowers  
    D. watch the sun go down

4. The people who hope to have long life from their New Year's food _____.

    A. are Spanish    
    B. are Japanese    
    C. are Chinese  
    D. are Italians

5. People in China eat _____at New Year's Eve because they symbolize completeness.

    A. grapes      
    B. noodles      
    C. fish and chicken    
    D. a whole fish and a chicken

     These days, most people in Britain and the US do not wear formal (正式的) clothes. But sometimes it
  is important to wear the right thing. Many British people don't think about clothes very much. When they
  go out to enjoy themselves, they can wear almost(几乎) anything. At theatres, cinemas and concerts (音
 乐会) you can put on anything you like: from beautiful suits and dresses to jeans and sweaters. Anything
  goes, as long as you look clean and tidy. But in Britain, as well as in the US, men in offices usually wear
 suits and ties and women wear dresses or skirts (not trousers). Doctors and business people always wear
  quite formal clothes. And in some hotels and restaurants men have to wear ties and women have to wear
  tidy dresses.
      In many ways, Americans are less formal than British people, but they are more careful with their
 clothes. At home, or on holiday, most Americans wear informal (非正式的) or sports clothes. But when
  they go out in the evening, they like to look nice. In good hotels and restaurants, men have to wear
 jackets and ties, and women have to wear pretty clothes.
     It is difficult to say exactly (确切地) what people wear in Britain and the US, because everyone is
 different. If you are not sure what to wear, watch what other people do and then do the same. You'll feel
 good if you don't look too different from everyone else.

1. The best title (题目) for this passage (文章) would be ______.

    A. what British and American people wear nowadays (现在)
    B. office manners (习俗) in Britain and the US
    C. differences between British and American business men
    D. no trousers for office ladies

2. People in Britain and the US wear informal clothes when they _______.

    A. go out to enjoy themselves  
    B. are in offices  
    C. are in big restaurants    
    D. go out to work

3. At concerts British business people wear ________.

    A. sweaters          
    B. anything they like    
    C. suits and ties  
    D. clothes like players

4. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

    A. Women are usually not allowed (允许) to wear trousers in offices.
    B. Lawyers (律师) always wear formal clothes even though (即使) they are at home.
    C. British people are more careful with their clothes than American people.
    D. Though everyone is different, they wear the same clothes in offices.

5. Women in Britain and the US have to wear tidy dresses EXCEPT _________.

    A. when they are having dinner in some top restaurants
    B. when they are in offices
    C. when they are attending (参加) a party in a nice hotel.
    D. when they are meeting friends at home.

     The Chinese New Year is called the Spring Festival which is the biggest festival in China.
     It usually comes in January or February. Where there are Chinese, there is the Spring Festival. Each
Chinese year has a name. We may call it the year tiger, the year of pig or the year of snake. And the year
of 2003 is called the year of sheep. The year after it is the monkey year.
     People always spend a month before the festival in preparing (准备) for it. People are busy shopping
and cleaning their houses. On the Eve(除夕夜) there is a big family dinner. All the family stay up late to
welcome the New Year, watching the CCTV programs or playing majiang. On the first day of the
Chinese New Year, people put on their new clothes and go to visit their relatives(亲戚) and friends,
saying "Happy New Year", "Good luck" and some other greetings to each other. It often lasts to the
Lantern Festival, which is also an important Chinese festival and people usually have sweet dumplings
(yuanxiao). People always have a very good time, especially children. Children can usually get some
money for the new year from their parents and the elder relatives.
1. We call the Chinese New Year_____.
A. the biggest festival                  
B. the Lantern Festival
C. the Spring Festival                  
D. the year of snake
2. The year of 2004 is the year of _____.
A. tiger      
B. pig    
C. sheep      
D. monkey
3. The sentence "Where there are Chinese, there is the Spring Festival"means that _____.
A. the Spring Festival is celebrated only by Chinese people in China
B. the Chinese people celebrate the Spring Festival, even when they are in foreign countries.
C. People celebrate the Spring Festival all over the world
D. People who can speak Chinese celebrate the Spring Festival in the world
4. What do people say when they meet on the Chinese New Year's Day?
A. They say "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year".
B. They say "Good luck" and Good night" to each other.
C. They say "Happy New Year" and "Good luck" only to their friends and relatives.
D. They say many greetings, such as "Good luck" to each other.

     People usually hate mice, but people almost all over the world like one mouse-the famous Mickey
Mouse.
     Fifty years ago, most films had no sounds. A man called Walt Disney made a cartoom mouse. The
cartoon mouse could talk in these films. He named his mouse Mickey Mouse. Soon Mickey Mouse
became a good friend of both young and old people. Children liked to see their lovely friend, because he
brought happiness to them.
     Mickey is a clean mouse right from the beginning. Maybe this is why people love Mickey Mouse
very much. In his early life, Mickey did some wrong things. People were very angry. They wrote to
Disney and said they did not want Mickey to do wrong things. Because there were some things that
Mickey could not do, Disney made a new animal called Donald Duck. He also made a dog, Pluto. This
dog does some foolish and wrong things whenever he goes. Now our Mickey Mouse is more interesting
as well. He is known as a star of beauty and wisdom (智慧). He has his friends in almost every country.
1. Mickey Mouse first came out     _    .
A. on TV          
B. in the film    
C. in the play    
D. in a picture-book
2. Children love Mickey Mouse because _____.
A. it can speak      
B. it is clean    
C. it makes them happy  
D. it is a mouse
3. The dog, Pluto, is       _  .
A. a fool that often does something wrong
B. a clever dog that can do everything well
C. a beautiful dog that people like very much
D. a famous dog as a star of beauty and wisdom

     Basketball is still a young sport. It's about 100 years old. In the year of 1891, a certain college
was having some trouble with its boy students. The weather was very cold. They had to stay indoors.
Because they could not have their usual sports, they were unhappy, and some of them even got into
fights from time to time.
     At last, some of the teachers at the college asked Dr. Naismith to invent a sport so that the
students might have something to play with. It was not easy to invent such a sport because it had to
be played indoors.
     At first, Dr. Naismith planned to throw the ball into a box. But he couldn't find boxes of the right
size, he had to use fruit basket instead. That is how the sport got its name-basketball.

1. The short passage tells us  ______.

A. what a basketball was
B. what a basketball looks like
C. how the basketball sport was invented
D. why people like the basketball sport

2. Basketball is  ______.

A. an old sport of hundreds of years
B. already over a hundred years old
C. less than a hundred years old
D. a sport of few years

3. The underlined word "indoors" means "______".

A. in the door
B. in many doors
C. in every house
D. inside the room

4. Basketball was invented  ______.

A. in the winter of 1891
B. in the summer of 1891
C. in the fall of 1891
D. in the spring of 1891

5. The sport got its name from  ______.

A. the ball itself
B. the basket itself
C. the ball and the basket
D. Dr. Naismith

     Our world is getting smaller and smaller. We can fly around the world in less than 50 hours. The
newest plane can fly at 600 miles an hour. You can have breakfast in Tokyo and supper in Paris.
     But hundreds of years ago, it took people a long time to go around the world. Magellan's (麦哲伦)
men were the first to make that trip. They went by ship and it took them more than two years. On
September 20th, 1510, he left Spain (西班牙) with five ships and 240 men. He was killed in the
Philippines (菲律宾). More than two years later, on December 21st, 1512, only one of the five ships
with just 31 men returned to Spain. Magellan's trip taught us that the world was round and that people
could go around the world.

1. People can fly around the world in _____.

A. just 50 hours
B. less than 50 hours
C. more than 50 hours
D. more than 40 hours

2. "You can have breakfast in Tokyo and supper in Paris." means that _____.

A. people can have breakfast and supper in Tokyo
B. people can have breakfast and supper in Paris
C. people can have breakfast and supper both in Tokyo and in Paris
D. the world is becoming smaller

3. Magellan's men were the first to make the trip around the world, which took them_____.

A. more than two years
B. two years
C. less than two years
D. three years

4. Magellan was killed in _____.

 A. Japan
B. China
C. the Philippines
D. Spain

5. The trip taught people that the world was _____.

A. poor
B. rich
C. strong
D. round