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Gap years ( 間 隔 年 ) between school and university are becoming more and more common. Today’s teenagers want to travel to different countries and experience different cultures. They regard this as an important part of their character development.

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For most teenagers, family and friends are the most important side of life. According to the survey, 60 percent of British young people said their relationship with their family was of the highest importance to (B) them.

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75 percent of teenagers in Western Europe expect to have enough money to live when they are adults. They are a happy generation. Eight out of ten believe they will have a good profession with a job they enjoy. They also expect that they will be happy and healthy.

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Young people now are hungry for all kinds of information on mass media. 57 percent of teenagers in the UK read at least one magazine every week, which is one of the highest totals in the world.

任務(wù)一 根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容，把相關(guān)的信息匹配。將答案的字母代號(hào)填入對(duì)應(yīng)的橫線上。（每小題

1分，共4分）

A. Hope in the future B. Crazy for information

C. Discovering the world D. Family and friends1.

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3.

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任務(wù)二 根據(jù)上下文，猜測(cè)文中(A)處劃線單詞 similarities 的中文意思。 （1分） 任務(wù)三 找出(B)處劃線單詞 them 所指代的內(nèi)容。 （1分）

任務(wù)四 請(qǐng)從文中找出與They have strong interest in learning about all kinds of information from radio, television, Internet and so on. 意思相近的句子。（1分）

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them to go and look at a pear tree far away in turns.

The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall.

When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen. The first son said that the tree was ugly. The second son said no; it was covered with green leaves, and full of hope. The third so n disagreed. He said there were many flowers that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most wonderful thing he had ever seen. The last son disagreed with all of them, he said there was lots of fruit in the tree, full of life and harvest（收獲）.

The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, but they had each seen only one season in the tree's life. He told them"You cannot judge a tree, or a person by only one season and its true nature —the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life can only be judged at the end, when all the seasons are up."

If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, harvest of your fall. Don't let the pain of one season kill the joy of all the rest.

【1】Why did the man ask his sons to go and look at a pear tree in turns? (no more than 15 words)

【2】Did the four sons have the same answer? (no more than 5 words)

【3】What did the man think about his sons' answers? (no more than 20 words)

【4】請(qǐng)將文中畫(huà)線的句子翻譯成漢語(yǔ)。

【5】請(qǐng)給短文擬一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)挠⑽念}目。

As an old Chinese saying goes, Spring Festival comes right after the Laba Festival, so get ready for a bowl of porridge while looking forward to the long-awaited family get-together.

Today, people across China are celebrating the Laba Festival. It is a traditional Chinese festival. It’s on the eighth day of the 12th lunar month. What does this festival mean to Chinese people? OK, It just tells people to prepare for celebrating the coming New Year’s Day and for wanderers to return home to get together with their family.

Long long ago, Laba Festival was a day of thanks for a good harvest. On this day, people usually eat Laba porridge, a porridge with eight kinds of mixed grains（谷物）. Many temples today have the tradition of giving out Laba porridge to the public. The sweet, red porridge is believed to bring luck and joy.

The festival is also the day for people to put garlic in vinegar（醋）. The garlic turns green, and this Laba garlic will be eaten with dumplings on Chinese New Year’s Day. While in the past, It was used to let people remember to pay back the money they had borrowed, as Laba is near the end of the year and ‘garlic’ (suàn, 蒜 in Chinese) sounds the same as ‘calculate’(suàn, 算).

Customs are quite different across the country. People in Qianxian, east China’s Anhui Province, will eat the Laba tofu a few days before. In Xining City, northwest China’s Qinghai Province, people will eat porridge with beef and mutton.

【1】The Laba Festival is on _________.

A. The eighth day of December

B. The eighth day of January

C. The eighth day of the twelfth month

D. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month

【2】The underlined word “wanderers” probably means _________.

A. 奇跡 B. 懷疑者 C. 流浪者 D. 離家者

【3】The writer does NOT tell us that _________ about Laba Festival.

A. Laba Festival is the start for people to prepare for the coming New Year

B. Laba Festival means it’s time to think about returning home

C. the festival was a day of thanks for a good harvest in the old days

D. customs about Laba Festival are almost the same across the country

【4】What can we learn from Paragraph 4 according to this passage?

A. The garlic will turn green and be eaten with noodles.

B. Laba garlic will be eaten before Laba Festival.

C. People usually put garlic in vinegar on New Year’s Day.

D. ‘garlic’ sounds the same as ‘calculate’ in Chinese.

【5】What’s the best title for the passage?

A. The Laba Festival.

B. The beginning of Laba Festival.

C. The customs of Laba Festival.

D. Laba Festival is different in different parts of China.

參考詞匯：burglar n. 竊賊 steal (stole, stolen) v. 偷

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A．to clean

B．clean

C．cleaning

D．are cleaning

—She is our English teacher，________ we all like her very much．

A．a；and

B．the；but

C．a；but

D．the；and

A. climbed B climbing C to climb D. Climb

They started to play the piano________ ________ ________two ago．

提示詞 ：放鞭炮 set off firecrackers 霧霾 smog 裝扮 decorate

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