Museums have changed. They are no longer places that one “should” go to but to enjoy.

At a science museum in Canada, you can feel your hair stand on end as harmless electricity passes through your body. At the Children’s Museum in New York, you can play an African drum. There are no “Do Not Touch” sign in some other museums in the USA.

More and more museum directors have realized that people learn best when they can become part of what they are seeing. In many science museums, the visitors are encouraged to touch, listen, operate and experiment so as to discover scientific rules for themselves.

The purpose is not only to provide fun, but also help people feel at home in the world of science. If people don’t understand science, they will be afraid of it; and if they are afraid of science, they will not make the best use of it.

One cause of all these changes is the increase in wealth and spare time. Another cause is that the number of young people grow in the population. Many of them are college students or college graduates. They see things in a new and different way. They want art that they can take part in. The same is true of science and history.

The old museums have been changing and the government is encouraging the building of new, modern museums. In the States and Canada, there are more than 6000 museums, twice as many as there were 25 years ago.

Title: 1. __________________________

There are many customs and traditions connected to yearly celebrations which are part of Britain’s folklore (民俗). Lughnasadh is a celebration at the beginning of August. A custom connected with it is to make corn dolls with corn from the last of the harvest. The doll is saved until the following spring when it is put back into the earth with new seeds. People believe that the doll contains the spirit of the corn and will bring a good harvest. Christmas too is full of ancient customs. The traditions of lighting a fire and decorating the home with an evergreen have their roots in times long before Christianity. The fire is to keep away evil spirits and fill the home with light and the evergreen is valued because it is a sign that life continued during those cold, dark days.

Not all the origins of ancient traditions are remembered, however. The roots of Morris dancing, for example, are not known. This is a dance in which men (and sometimes women ) dressed in white dance together. Some people think the dance may be from pre-Christmas times, and others say it was introduced into Britain in the late 15^th century and that it comes from Moorish dancing. In any case, it is interesting to see that Morris dancing is not a dying tradition. There are Morris dancing groups in places as far away as New Zealand and San Francisco!

Although these customs have been passed down to us from forgotten generations, they themselves have not been forgotten and continue to play a part in our modern lives. Every week groups of individuals regularly meet to sing, play instruments or practice ancient dances and this month people all over Britain shall be preparing their homes for the ancient celebration we now call Christmas, lighting fires and putting up Christian trees, just as their great-great–grandfathers once did.

1.Why are corn dolls used to celebrate Lughnasadh? （no more than 14 words）(2分)

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2.How do people celebrate Christmas according to the passage?（no more than 10 words）(2分)

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3.What idea does the underlined sentence try to support ? （no more than 11words）(3分)

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4.What’s the main idea of the passage? ( no more than 9 words)  (3分)

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你校外籍教师Ernesto和Stasi暑假期间准备在本市开一家西餐店,要找若干名高中生无酬打工。下面是招聘告示:

假如你叫李华,愿意应聘。请写一封英文电子邮件,进行自我介绍并说明你愿意应聘的理由。

注意:1. 词数不得少于120词。开头和结尾已写好,不计入总词数;

2. 可适当增加细节,使行文连贯。

Dear Ernesto and Stasi,

I happen to have ready our advertisement and have decided to apply for the job.

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 There is no perfect person, some people have made _____success of themselves in spite of what would appear to be ______ weakness in their professions.

A. /, a        B. a, /          C. a, a           D. /, /

—Do remember to take this medicine three times a day with warm boiled water.

  --- ________

A. Heard it       B. Made it       C. Got it        D. Taken it

To save class time, our teacher has ______ students  do half of the exercises in class and complete the other half for our homework

A. us             B. we           C. our          D. ours

______in the heart of Toronto is the Canadian National Tower, ______ is often called the CN Tower for short.

A. Located, where             B. locating, which

C. locating, where             D. located, which

_______, his idea was accepted by all the people at the meeting.

A. Strange as might it sound.

B. As it might sound strange.

C. As strange it might sound.

D. Strange as it might sound 

The house belongs to my aunt but she ______here any more.

 A. hasn’t lived                 B. didn’t live

 C. hadn’t lived                 D doesn’t live

 Choosing a college major can be a difficult task, but it is nothing to take         .

     A. slightly    B. lightly     C. seriously   D. hardly