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People have different traditional (传统的) foods to celebrate different festivals. Traditional foods for the new year show good luck and good health.
An English Christmas dinner has a meal of turkey. Germans celebrate Christmas with bread, cookies and cakes. It is made like a Christmas tree.
In the south of India, there is a three-day festival in mid-January called Pongal. It has rice and a dish o f rice cooked with sugar.
Japan celebrates the New Year with a seven-day festival. It begins from January 1st. They cook food before the festival so people don't need to cook during the festival, On New Year's Day, people can have different dishes ——each dish is a wish for the New Year.
People in China get their food ready ahead of time(提前). They don't want to use a knife during New Year's time because they think it might "cut luck". Foods with lucky names are popular, such as fish. It sounds like "surplus（余）"．
What can traditional foods show? ____________________________________
What is Germans Christmas food like? ____________________________________
How long is Pongal? ______________________________________
When do Japanese celebrate the festival? ______________________________________
Why don’t Chinese use a knife during the New Year’s time? _____________________
My good friend, Bruce, comes from England. He is twelve years old. His father is a teacher, he is in China now. His mother is a teacher, too. His mother and his sister don’t come to（来到）China. His sister is ten years old. She is a student, too.
He has some friends here. They often help him with his Chinese. He can speak a little Chinese now.
阅读短文，判断正(T)误(F)。Bruce is an English boy.
There are (有)four people in his family.
His mother is in China now.
His sister is twelve years old.
He has no friends here.
Kangkang is a Chinese boy. He is a student. He is 14. Kangkang likes to make friends(交朋友). Now he receives(收到) a letter from Sam, his pen pal in England. The letter is in English. Sam is a student, too. He likes China. He wants to visit the Great Wall.Kangkang is a _________.
A. teacher B. student C. doctorThe letter is in _________.
A. Chinese B. Japanese C. EnglishSam lives in _________.
A. China B. the U.S.A. C. England_________ wants to visit the Great Wall.
A. Sam
B. Kangkang
C. Kangkang’s brotherSam is Kangkang’s _________.
A. classmate B. pen pal C. teacher
What would turkeys do if they could think like us? Maybe the first thing is to run away from our dinner!
That’s the idea of Reggie and Jake. They are two turkeys in the new movie Free Birds (《时光鸡大作战》).
On Thanksgiving Day, people in the United States eat turkeys. But why? Reggie and Jake want a change.
In a time machine, they go back to the first Thanksgiving in 1621.
Reggie liked to be alone (单独的). But this time, he learns to become part of a team to make a big change. Reggie and Jake are .
| A．two people |
| B．two turkeys in the movie Free Birds |
| C．two chicken |
| D．two students |
The first thing for Reggie and Jake to do is to .
| A．run away from people’s dinner |
| B．have a big dinner |
| C．think like us |
| D．act in the movies |
When do the US people usually eat turkey?
| A．On Thanksgiving Day. | B．At Halloween |
| C．Any time | D．At Easter |
How do Reggie and Jake go back to the first Thanksgiving?
| A．On foot | B．By ship |
| C．In a train | D．In a time machine. |
What does Reggie learn on their adventure(冒险)?
| A．Keep as the dinner | B．Be alone |
| C．Work together | D．We don’t know |
A bus stops at a small bus stop（车站）. A man is hungry and he wants to buy some cakes. It’s raining(下雨) hard.He doesn’t want to go out in the rain. He sees a boy. 'Come here, boy!' he cries. 'Do you know how much the cakes are?' The boy says yes. The man gives the boy four dollars and asks him to buy two cakes. 'One is for you and one is for me.' Three minutes later, the boy comes back. He’s eating a cake. He gives the man two dollars and says, 'Sorry, there is only one cake left（剩余的）.'Where is the man?
| A．He’s near the bus. | B．He is in the car |
| C．He’s on the bus. | D．He’s at home. |
The man doesn’t want to go out because__________.
| A．he is tired | B．he doesn’t like rain |
| C．he is hungry | D．it’s raining hard |
How many cakes does the boy get?
| A．One | B．Two | C．Three | D．Four |
How much are they if we buy five cakes?
| A． Five dollars | B．Four dollars |
| C．Ten dollars | D．Fifteen dollars |
What’s the result (结果)?
| A．The man eats the cake. |
| B．The boy eats the cake. |
| C．The boy doesn’t eat the cake. |
| D．The boy and the man both eat the cakes. |
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____ is the best for you if you have time from 3:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon.
| A．Club One | B．Club Two |
| C．Club Three | D．Club Four |
You can call _______ if you like Chinese music very much.
| A．88830401 | B．88930501 | C．88730401 | D．88940302 |
Jane can learn to _______ if she is 17 years old.
| A．make cards | B．play the lute |
| C．make cakes | D．draw pictures |
_______ is open for the longest (最长) time in a day.
| A．Club One | B．Club Two |
| C．Club Three | D．Club Four |
Where can you read the passage?
| A．In the school library. | B．In a storybook. |
| C．On clubs’ walls. | D．In an English book. |