The most important holiday in spring, especially for Christians, is Easter. This Christian holiday is not on the same date every year，but it’s always on a Sunday. It can be any Sunday between March 22 and April 25. Many people celebrate Easter by buying new clothes. Children celebrate by hunting for colored eggs that their parents have hidden around the house. People also give Easter baskets filled with candy and other goodies to one another to celebrate the day.
But the holiday is more than new clothes and good things to eat. On Easter, many people go to church to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection（复活）from the dead. Most people color Ester eggs. Some people hide them. Others just eat them. But no matter what one does with Easter eggs，they are an important Easter tradition across the Western world. People from many different cultures celebrate Easter. In both America and Belgium, children look for Easter eggs hidden on grass and in bushes(灌木丛). In America, children believe the eggs are hidden by the Easter rabbit.But in Belgium, the hidden eggs are supposed to have fallen from church bells. In Bulgaria (保加利亚), red Easter eggs are lucky in churches. Bulgarian families also hit these Easter eggs together to see whose is the strongest. The winner looks forward to good fortune(运气) that year. Still dozens of other Easter traditions exist. In parts of Austria，for example，children sing from door to door and are rewarded with colorful eggs.
【小题1】To celebrate Easter, people ___________.

Traditional Chinese festivals are now getting their own logos(标识).Here’re logos for China’s seven important traditional festivals.

1.Mid-Autumn Festival is ________ in the Chinese calendar.

  A. on 15th of August                    B. on 7th of July

  C. on 15th of January                   D. on 5th of May

2.What do Chinese people eat at Dragon Boat Festival?

  A. Dumplings.                         B. Moon cakes.

  C. Rice dumplings.                     D. Sweet dumplings.

3.Chinese version of Valentine’s Day is ________.

  A. Lantern Festival                     B. the Night of Sevens

  C. Spring Festival                      D. Tomb-Sweeping Festival

4.At Tomb-Sweeping Festival, people go to the graves in memory of ________.

  A. Qu Yuan          B. the elderly      C. Chang’e          D. the dead

5.At Double Ninth Festival, what do people usually do?

  A. They watch lanterns.                 B. They pay respect to old people.

  C. They visit their relatives.              D. They get together to tell stories.

Jimmy spent most of his time in the bedroom when he was in university. With his aunt’s help, the young man found a job in a park after his graduation. There’re all kinds of flowers in the gardens and he has to look after them. He thinks it’s easy and often stays in bed.

One morning the head of the park found some of the flowers were dead. He called Jimmy there and asked him the reason. The young man studied for a long time but couldn’t answer. Just at that moment an old gardener passed by and the head asked him for help. The old man studied it for a while and said,” A mole(鼹鼠)is eating their roots(根).”

“I don’t think it has something to do with the dead flowers,” said the young man, “People appreciate(欣赏)not the roots, but the flowers!”

1. What did Jimmy like doing when he was in university?

________________________________________________.

2. Where did he work?

__________________________________.

3. Did he work hard there?

____________________________________.

4. What made some of the flowers dead?

______________________________.

5. Who knew the answer?

______________________________.

We have no idea about  1 men first began to use salt. But we do know that it had been used in many different ways    2  the history.

For example, in many history books it is  3   that people who lived three thousand years ago 4 salted fish. Thousands of years ago in Egypt（埃及）, salt 5  keep the dead. It can keep the dead bodies  6 decay.（腐烂）

In the eighteenth century, a person who stole salt was   7  to have broken the   8 . if a person was caught stealing salt, he would be thrown into   9  . Books also record that in England about ten thousand people were put into prison during that century   10  stealing salt! In the year 1553, if a man took   11  than his share of salt, he would be thought to have broken the law and would be   12  punished(惩罚).

Salt was very  13  on the dinner table of a king. It was always put   14 the king when he sat down to eat. Then important visitors sat near the salt   15 less important visitors were given seats farther away from it.

1.                A．when          B．where          C．what D．which

2.                A．throughout      B．thought         C．though   D．although

3.                A．say            B．reported        C．recorded D．reading

4.                A．eat            B．ate            C．eating    D．have eaten

5.                A．used to         B．was used to      C．was used  D．used

6.                A．off            B．from           C．on   D．out

7.                A．think           B．consider        C．thoughtful D．thought

8.                A．law            B．glass           C．computer D．time

9.                A．pool           B．hill            C．prison    D．river

10.               A．because        B．because of      C．by   D．as

11.               A．more          B．less            C．fewer D．most

12.A. serious    B. bad       C. terrible         D seriously

13.               A．important       B．necessary       C．clever D．cheerful

14.A. in the front of B behind  C. in front of     D. before

15.               A．when          B．as             C．however  D．while