August 2006   From: eu@hotmail.com
My name is Eu and I want to be your pen pal. I’m eleven years old. I’m a boy but that doesn’t mean(意味)I can’t have girl friends. I like dancing. Oh, I am in Mexico. All the people here like dancing. Please answer me. Thank you.
August 2006    From: blazin@aol.com
I’m Erica. I’m seventeen. I’m from Canada. Do you want me to be your pen pal? Who are you? What age? I like movies and books.
September 2006   From: snickers@yahoo.com
I’m Heather. I’m nineteen and I live in New York in the USA. I like art and music. I have three dogs. I want to write to anyone with the same(相同的) likes. Thanks!
December 2006    From: bmay@mb.sympatico.ca
Hi! I’m Steven. I’m a boy of thirteen years old. I am in Grade 7. I like drawing and playing computer games. I want to find a pen pal from Australia or China. I’m from Canada.

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    Last week Lu visited England. He stayed with my grandmother. He said it was a strange visit. “I don’t understand, but I  16  your grandmother a lot. When I arrived, I gave her a   17  from Suzhou. She looked in it and asked me to take it back. Then I saw a red spider(蜘蛛) on the table so I killed it for her and she seemed very   18  . Do English people like spiders?”

    “Later we went shopping. Someone was painting a shop   19  , so there was a ladder. Grandmother  20  me walking under it and said I must walk around it. I liked the shops and bought a smart   21  for my father and some new shoes for myself. When we got back, I put the shoes on the table and opened the umbrella to wonder   22  it was all right. Your grandmother came in and   23  !”

    “Then I broke a small   24  in the bathroom. Your grandmother’s face went white. I felt very sorry. When I left I gave   25  grandmother some flowers. She counted and there were 13. She   26  it. I think she was happy I was going.”

     I   27  to Lu, “My grandmother follows the old customs(习俗). You must not give someone an empty purse   28  they will have no money. You must not kill a “money spider”  or the same will happen. It is very unlucky to walk under a ladder and to put new shoes on the table. A(n)  29  umbrella in a house means someone will die. Breaking a mirror brings seven years’ bad luck, and 13 is   30  a very unlucky number. You were really making my grandmother very afraid. ”

1. A. affected      B. loved            C. frightened      D. encouraged

2. A. pen           B. purse            C. dress           D. handbag

3. A. honest        B. humorous         C. happy           D. unhappy

4. A. back          B. right            C. front           D. left

5. A. stopped       B. kept             C. insisted        D. suggested

6.A. wallet         B. umbrella         C. flower          D. shirt

7. A. why           B. that             C. if              D. where

8. A. laughed       B. screamed         C. clapped         D. cheered

9. A. bowl          B. bottle           C. plate           D. mirror

10.A. my            B. your             C. her             D. our

11.A. didn’t like  B. liked            C. enjoyed         D. smelt

12. A. shouted      B. talked           C. told            D. explained

13. A. but          B. for              C. or              D. so

14. A open          B. closed           C. new             D. old

15. A. hardly       B. never            C. seldom          D. also