阅读理解。
        Country Festival Date & Traditional Customs Japan Adults Day is on the second Monday in
January. If anyone you know has turned 20 over the past year, celebrate with them. According to
Japanese tradition,they are now old enough to take their place in society as an adult. Germany
Oktoberfest. It is a sixteen-day festival held each year in Munich,during late September to early
October.It is a beer drinking festival and people can also eat traditional food, such as chicken, roast
pork, sausages,cheese noodles,potato pancakes,red cabbage, India Diwali.It is a 5-day Hindu festival,
which takes place on the fifteenth day of Kartika (印度历的8月)every year, Lamps,lights and
candles are lit as a greeting to Goddess (女神) Laksmi. Presents are exchanged and candy,meals are
prepared during Diwali. Thailand Songkran Festival.
        Songkran Festival Day is a Thai traditional New Year which starts on April 13th every year and
lasts (持续) for 3  days. Songkran Festival on April  13th is Maha Songkran Day or the day to mark
the end of the old year. April 14th is Wan Nao which is the day after and April 15th is Wan Thaloeng
Sok which the New Year begins. At this time,people from the countries who are working in the city
usually return home to celebrate the festival.
根据表格内容,选择正确答案 。
1. Which of the following festivals lasts the longest?   
A. Adults Day.    
B. Oktoberfest.    
C. Diwali.    
D. Songkran Festival Day.
2. In Japan, Adults Day is celebrated for people aged         .  
A.16      
B.18    
C.20    
D.21 
3. Where is Songkran Festival Day celebrated?    
A. In Japan.                
B. In Cermany.      
C. In India.                
D. In Thailand.
4. Why do people light lamps,lights and candles during Diwali?      
A. To greet Coddess Laksmi.      
B. To welcome the coming year.      
C. To celebrate the harvest.      
D. To mark the end of the old year.
       The World Clown  (小丑) Festival opened at People Square in Liuzhou on May 1st. Over 60 clown artists from 10 countries got together there. Clowns with bright hair, red noses, big shoes,big smiles and all kinds of funny movements crowded into Liuzhou. Local people enjoyed clown art from western and the festival had brought huge happiness to the city at the very first day.      
        Clown artists performed in the morning from 9 a. m. So many clowns lighted up the stage (活动场所) as an excellent world funny event,and the stage was full of people who laughed as clown performed like being in their childhood again.      
       There was not only European feature (特色) but also Liuzhou's local flavor (风情) in the festival. Songs from Zhuang people.dances from Yao people.events from Miao ,and" big songs" from Dong were performed to create a happy festival with international and national features. The festival finished at May 7th.
1. Where was the festival opened?          
A. In a cinema.        
B. In a park.      
C. At a square.          
D. In a shopping center. 
2. How long did the World Clown Festival last? 
A. Four days.          
B. Five days,    
C. Six days.            
D. Seven days.  
3. What does the underlined word" movement" mean? 
A. An excellent world funny event.    
B. An act of moving the body or parts of the body.    
C. A group of people who share the same ideas.    
D. A change in what people do or think.  .
4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?  
A. More than 60 clown artists from 10 countries came to Liuzhou.    
B. People could enjoy not only clown performance but also Peking Opera.    
C. Dong people performed " big songs" at the festival.    
D. The festival brought much happiness to the local people
阅读理解。
        The celebration of Thanksgiving will be not perfect without turkey. It gets its name from the turk
turk sounds it makes when frightened. Turkey was at one time being considered as the national symbol
(象征) of America. Benjamin Franklin felt that turkey was the, right choice because it was a good runner
and had good eye. 
       It is said that pilgrims (清教徒) had a large meal with cooked turkey after their first harvest in the
year 1621.It continued for three days and included ninety Indians.    
      Queen Elizabeth of 16th century England ate roast goose (烤鹅) during a harvest festival. From
then on, goose became a favorite bird at harvest time in England. However,when the pilgrims arrived in
America, they replaced(用......替换) the roast goose with roast turkey as it was easier to find.
      Today,every house cooks turkey as the main dish during the celebration. The festival completes
with the ' Turkey Song' .
1. Why did Benjamin Franklin feel that turkey could be considered as the national symbol of America?
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2. How many Indians were there during the large meal served by the pilgrims in 1621? 
                                                                    
3. What does the underlined word "it" refer to in the third paragraph?
                                                                   
4. What's the best title of this passage?
                                                                   
阅读理解
     For thousands of years,people used different ways to measure things. Some people measured things by using the
size of their king's foot or hand. After the king died,they used the new king's foot, and so on.That wasn't a very good
way to measure things,because it wasn't always clear how big or small a thing really was.
     People all over the world used the sun and the moon to measure time. However, they all had different numbers of
days in a week and different numbers of hours in a day.
     In 1584,a scientist called Simon Stevenius started to think about a set of measures that used the number ten, but no
one was interested in his ideas. About two hundred years later,a group of scientists in France decided to use his ideas.
They thought of ways to measure everything using ten.Some of their ideas weren't popular.One was a new clock which had ten hours a day. Another was  a new calendar(日历) which had ten days a week.
     The scientists agreed to use meters to measure length and they worked out how long a meter should be. Then they
decided to call one hundredth of a meter a centimeter and a thousand meters a kilometer.
根据短文内容,回答下面的问题
1. What was one of the ways that people used to measure things thousands of years ago according to the passage?                                                                               
2. How did people measure time in ancient times?
                                                                              
3. Who started to think about a set of measures that used the number ten?
                                                                               
4. When did the French people start to use meters probably?
                                                                               
5. What do people call a thousand meters?
                                                                              
阅读理解。
     Although we may not realize it, when we talk with others we make ourselves understood not just by
words. We send messages to the people around us also by body movements. A smile and handshake (握手)
show welcome. Waving one's hand is to say "Goodbye." Nodding (点头) the head means agreement, while
shaking it means disagreement. In China and some English-speaking countries, these body movements have
the same meanings.   
     But not all body languages mean the same things in different countries. For example, nodding the head in
some Asian countries means not "Yes.", but "No."   
     When we speak a foreign language, it's important to know the meanings of the body movements in the
foreign countries. In Russia, France and some of South American countries men kiss (吻) each other when
they meet. Men don't kiss each other in China or English-speaking countries. In England, older people usually
shake hands when they meet someone for the first time, however, young people don't shake hands. In France,
people shake hands in the office every morning. French people kiss each other more often than English people
when they meet or leave.
根据短文内容,判断正(T)误(F)。
(     )1. We talk with other people just by words.   
(     )2. Nodding the head doesn't mean "Yes." in some Asian countries.   
(     )3. From this passage, we can know that men in Brazil usually kiss each other when they meet.   
(     )4. In France, men just kiss each other when they meet.   
(     )5. In China and some English-speaking countries, all the body movements have the same meanings.
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