Birthdaysarecelebratedallovert-优题课

Birthdays are celebrated all over the world. Some ways to celebrate birthdays are rather similar from county to country---candles, cakes and birthday wishes. But there are also different ways to celebrate birthdays. Here are a few:

Denmark A flag is flown outside a window to show that someone who lives in the house is having a birthday. Presents are placed around the child’s bed while he is sleeping so he will see them at once when he wakes up.	India Usually Indian children wear white to school. However, on their birthdays, children wear colored clothes to school and give out chocolate to everyone in the class. Their best friends help them to do this.
Japan The birthday child wears new clothes to mark the special time. Certain birthdays are more important than others. These are the third and seventh for girls and fifth for boys.	Holland The birthday child receives an especially large present. The family also puts flowers on the birthday child’s chair to make it beautiful.

When someone is having a birthday in Denmark, what can you see outside the window?

A．flowers	B．presents
C．a flag	D．a chair

Flowers are put on the chair of the birthday child in .

A．Japan	B．Denmark
C．India	D．Holland

In India, birthday children .

A．give out chocolate to their classmates

B．share chocolate with their best friends

C．go to school in white clothes

D．wear new clothes to mark the special time

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Chinese basketball player Wang Zhizhi returned home from the United States on the morning of April 10th after he had been expelled (除名) from the national team for four years.
“It has been a long time. I am so glad to be coming back home,” Wang told a CCTV reporter.
Wang is the first Chinese to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He joined the Dallas in 2001. He was welcomed by the Chinese basketball officials at the Beijing International Airport that morning.
“I realized I had made a big mistake (for refusing to return when he was needed). I want to say sorry to my fans and to the Bayi team which trained me and gave me the chance to play in this time. I want to make up my fault and win back my place in the national team.” Wang went on.
“Wang Zhizhi won’t play in the final competition of the CBA (Chinese Basketball Association) because he didn’t register (注册),” said Zhang Bing, who works with the Bayi team.
Wang Zhizhi hasn’t been a member of the national team .

Wang Zhizhi says sorry to his fans and the Bayi team because _________ .

A．he refused to return when he was needed

B．he left the Bayi team for America

C．he didn’t play well when he was in China

D．Dallas didn’t want to keep him

In this passage, “make up my fault” means ___________ in Chinese.

From the passage we know that _________.

A．Wang Zhizhi was not welcomed in Beijing

B．Wang Zhizhi was a reporter on sports before

C．every player must register before he plays in the competition of the CBA

D．the Chinese basketball officials didn’t want Wang Zhizhi to come back home

Which is the test title for this passage?

A．Wang Zhizhi Feels Sorry

B．Wang Zhizhi in the Bayi Team

C．Wang Zhizhi Returns Home

D．Wang Zhizhi in the United States

Mr. King is a tall and strong man. He teaches P.E. in a middle school. He wears a long beard(胡子) and takes good care of it.
It was Sunday yesterday. There was a big football match of the year on the playground in the centre of the city. Mr. King likes the game very much and of course he was going to watch it. With his friends’ help he got a ticket a few days ago. After breakfast he hurried to the bus stop, but a lot of people were waiting there. A bus came and he got on. There were many people in it and it was difficult for them to put their feet. He had to grip（抓住）the back of a chair. At the next stop(停车站) a boy got on the bus. He was short and couldn’t grip(抓) anything. Suddenly the bus stopped and the boy nearly fell to the floor. He looked around and saw Mr. King’s beard and gripped it. The man found it at once and called out, “Let go off（松开）my beard, boy!” “Are you going to get off, sir?” asked the boy.
Mr. King is a .

Mr. King was going to watch the match because .

A．he teaches P.E. in a middle school

B．he likes football very much

C．he had already got a ticket

D．he didn’t go to work yesterday

It was difficult for Mr. King to stand because .

A．he had drunk too much

B．the bus was too small

C．he got on the bus too late

D．it was very crowded in the bus

Mr. King went to watch the match _________.

Mr. King was afraid, so he shouted at him.

A．the boy would pull the chair down

B．the boy would hurt his beard

C．the boy could be hurt again

D．the boy would borrow his ticket

Red is used in many American expressions. It can be used to show happiness, as in the expression “a red-letter day”. This is a day when something special happens. The expression is probably based on church customs. For almost 600 years, church calendars have been marked with red to show special holy(神圣的)days. Today’s calendars are still marked that way with the dates of holidays and special days printed in red.
The expression “a red-letter day”is often heard in daily life. “A red-letter day” is a day that people are especially happy. It may be a day that you have waited for a long time, a wedding day, for example. Or it may be a day with a happy surprise. You might tell a friend that yesterday was a red-letter day, because you won some money in the lottery.
“Rolling out the red carpet” is another commonly heard expression. It describes an especially warm welcome of any kind. A city may “roll out the carpet ”for its baseball team, when the team arrives home after winning a championship. A group of supporters go to the air port to the greet the team. The red-carpet welcome includes a lot of cheering by thousands of fans, a parade, music and speech of praise by local statesmen.
Red is also used in some expressions that are not happy. “Red-handed ” is an example. To be caught “red-handed” is to be found in an act of wrong doing. The evidence is clear. You are guilty. Today we use the expression “ to be caught red-handed ”in situation(情况)that are not serious. For example, a mother might say she caught her son red-handed, taking cookies out of the cookie jar.
Some American Expressions with _____

Be used for___ happiness	a red -letter day	a day that people are happy a day with a _____
rolling out the red carpet	describes an especially warm________
Be used in_expressions	to be caught red-hanged	to be found doing a wrong action can’t be used in a serious situation

My friend’s grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe. After being processed (移民入境检查) at Ellis Island, he went into a cafeteria (自助餐厅) in Lower Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at a table and waited for someone to take his order. But nobody came to him. Later a woman with a plate full of food sat down opposite him and told him how a cafeteria worked.
“Start out at the end,” she said. “Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end he’ll tell you how much you have to pay.”
“I soon learned that’s how everything works in America,” the grandfather told my friend. “Life is like a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want only if you are willing to pay the money. You can even get success, but you’ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it yourself.”
Where do you think the old man came from?

From the passage, we know if you want to get success in America, you should _________.

A．get help form your friends	B．try to get it by yourself
C．know how a cafeteria works	D．get up again if you fail

Which of the following is TRUE?

A．The old man sat down opposite the woman so that she could take his order.

B．The old woman sat down opposite the old man so that she could serve him.

C．Although the woman didn’t know the old man, she told him how to get something to eat in the cafeteria.

D．Although the woman didn’t know the old man, she decided to pay the bill for him.

What does the word “it” in the third paragraph (段落) refer to?

A．The food served in the cafeteria.

B．The success one wants to get.

C．The bill one has to pay in the cafeteria.

D．The plate used in the cafeteria.

Which is the best title for the passage?

A．From Eastern Europe to America

B．Eating in an American Cafeteria

C．How to Eat in a Cafeteria

D．Life Is Like a Cafeteria in America

A driver stopped his car on a street side to have a rest. As he lay down in the seat and closed his eyes, a man came up and knocked at the window to ask the time. The driver opened his eyes and looked at his watch. “It’s 8 a.m.,” he said. Then he went to sleep again.
But soon he woke up because a second person was knocking at the window. “Sir, do you have the time?” he asked. The driver looked at his watch again, and told the man it was 8:30 a.m..
At this rate (照此下去), he could not have a good rest, so he wrote a short note and put it up on the window for all to see. It said, “I don’t have the time.”
Again the man lay down in the seat for his sleep. A few minutes later, a third person came along and began knocking at the window. “Hey, sir,” he said, “it’s a quarter to nine.”
The driver stopped his car because he ___________.

A．didn’t know the time

B．lost his watch

C．saw his friend

D．was very tired

He was woken up again by the second person ___________.