The Korean lunar(阴历) New Year falls on a day in late January or February. ____66_____

Before the New Year people have an overall(全部地) cleaning. When the New Year comes, nobody should sleep. They think that if someone slept on that night, the eyebrows would turn white. ____67_____

Have you ever heard of “bokjori”? It is actually a sieve(筛子). It is a tool to clean the rice from small stones. In the morning of New Year’s Day, the hang it up on the wall. ____68____

Offering to ancestor(拜祭祖先) is a common thing in Korean holidays. Women get busy making the food from the day before. They make “ttokuk”, a kind of soup, and dumplings and fried meats. Very early in the morning of the New Year’s Day, Korean people take a bath and put new clothes on. ___69____ Family members drink a glass of a liquor(烧酒). The drink can help people hear clearly all year long.

“Say hay boke-mahn he pah du say oh!” _____70____ But more and more Koreans, especially the young people, have started to say it in English, “Make a lot of blessings(祝福) this year.”

E. It is the New Year’s greeting in Korea.

Basketball is still a young game. It's over a hundred years old. In the winter of 1891, a certain college was having some trouble with its boy students. The weather was bad and the students had to stay indoors. As they couldn't play outdoors, they were unhappy, and some even got into fights from time to time.
　　Some of the teachers, at the college asked Dr. Naismith to invent a game so that the students might have something to play with. It was not easy to invent such a game because it had to be played indoors , and the court (球场) was not very large.
　　Dr. Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast, wonderful game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was played between two teams. To make a score , the ball had to be thrown into the basket ten feet(英尺) above the floor on the wall . At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first, Dr. Naismith wanted to throw the ball into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets instead. That is how the game got its name.
【小题1】 How long is it since basketball was invented?

补全对话 根据对话内容，从下边选出适当的选项补全对话（共4小题，每小题1分；计4分）

A．You’ve been to more places than I have.

B．I’ve never been such a place in China.

C．Where’s that?

D．What places have you been to in China.

A: Hi, Kate!       1         .

B: Oh, I’ve been to many places, such as Hangzhou, Shanghai,Guilin and Chongqing.

A:       2        ­­­­

B: Really? What places have you been to？

A: Very few. I’ve only been to Pingyao.

B:     3     

A: It’s in Shanxi. It’s a small place, but it has a long history. It’s one of the oldest towns in China. There you can see a well-kept city wall.

B:       4     . I’ve just seen a lot of natural beauties, but not much old Chinese culture yet.

A: Well, you’ll have a lot of changes if you like.

Do you sometimes argue about what seems to you to be a simple fact? Do you argue whether it’s cold outdoors or whether the car in front of you is going faster than the speed limit (限速)?

If you get into such arguments, try to think about the story about the six blind men and the elephant. The first blind man who felt the elephant’s trunk (象鼻) said it was like a snake. The second who felt the elephant’s side said it was like a wall, while the third said it was like a spear( 矛 ) as he touched the animal’s tusk. The fourth, who took hold of the elephant’s tail, insisted that it was like a rope. The fifth man said it looked like a tree as he put his arms around one of the elephant’s legs. The last, who was tall and got hold of the elephant’s ears, said it was like a huge fan.

Each man’s idea of the animal came from his own experience. So if someone disagrees with you about a “simple fact”, it’s often because his experience in the matter is different from yours.

To see how hard it is for even one person to make up his mind about a “simple fact”, try this simple experiment. Get three large bowls. Put ice water in one. Put hot water in the second. Put lukewarm water (温水)in the third. Now put your left hand in the hot water. Put your right hand in the lukewarm water. Your right hand will tell you the water is cold. Your left hand will tell you it is hot.

1.There were _______ blind man who were trying to tell what an elephant was like in the story.

2.The man who touched the elephant’s ears must be very_______.

3.The underlined word “it” in the last line of the paragraph refers to ___.

4.What makes people think about simple facts differently?

5.It can be inferred from the passage that we should__________.

阅读短文内容，用放框内所给词的适当形式填空。（5分）

Every year we get a new start. On New Year’s Day we always write down our ___1.__ and put them up on the wall of our bedrooms.

This year my dream is to learn an instrument. And I still want to take more exercise to keep__2.__, too. You know, last year I spent much time _3.__ swimming. So this year I want to do something exciting and unusual. I’m __4.___ to learn the violin. So I’m thinking about taking violin lessons. And I’m going to practice much ___5.__ than usual. It says that practice makes perfect! What is your plan?