Country Festival Date & Traditional Customs Japan Adults Day is on the second Monday in
January. If anyone you know has turned 20 over the past year, celebrate with them. According to
Japanese tradition,they are now old enough to take their place in society as an adult. Germany
Oktoberfest. It is a sixteen-day festival held each year in Munich,during late September to early
October.It is a beer drinking festival and people can also eat traditional food, such as chicken, roast
pork, sausages,cheese noodles,potato pancakes,red cabbage, India Diwali.It is a 5-day Hindu festival,
which takes place on the fifteenth day of Kartika (印度歷的8月)every year, Lamps,lights and
candles are lit as a greeting to Goddess (女神) Laksmi. Presents are exchanged and candy,meals are
prepared during Diwali. Thailand Songkran Festival.
        Songkran Festival Day is a Thai traditional New Year which starts on April 13th every year and
lasts (持續(xù)) for 3  days. Songkran Festival on April  13th is Maha Songkran Day or the day to mark
the end of the old year. April 14th is Wan Nao which is the day after and April 15th is Wan Thaloeng
Sok which the New Year begins. At this time,people from the countries who are working in the city
usually return home to celebrate the festival.

根據(jù)表格內(nèi)容，選擇正確答案 。

1. Which of the following festivals lasts the longest?   

A. Adults Day.    
B. Oktoberfest.    
C. Diwali.    
D. Songkran Festival Day.

2. In Japan, Adults Day is celebrated for people aged         .  

A.16      
B.18    
C.20    
D.21 

3. Where is Songkran Festival Day celebrated?    

A. In Japan.                
B. In Cermany.      
C. In India.                
D. In Thailand.

4. Why do people light lamps,lights and candles during Diwali?      

A. To greet Coddess Laksmi.      
B. To welcome the coming year.      
C. To celebrate the harvest.      
D. To mark the end of the old year.

1. Where was the festival opened?          

A. In a cinema.        
B. In a park.      
C. At a square.          
D. In a shopping center. 

2. How long did the World Clown Festival last? 

A. Four days.          
B. Five days,    
C. Six days.            
D. Seven days.  

3. What does the underlined word" movement" mean? 

A. An excellent world funny event.    
B. An act of moving the body or parts of the body.    
C. A group of people who share the same ideas.    
D. A change in what people do or think.  .

4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?  

A. More than 60 clown artists from 10 countries came to Liuzhou.    
B. People could enjoy not only clown performance but also Peking Opera.    
C. Dong people performed " big songs" at the festival.    
D. The festival brought much happiness to the local people

        The celebration of Thanksgiving will be not perfect without turkey. It gets its name from the turk
turk sounds it makes when frightened. Turkey was at one time being considered as the national symbol
(象征) of America. Benjamin Franklin felt that turkey was the, right choice because it was a good runner
and had good eye. 
       It is said that pilgrims (清教徒) had a large meal with cooked turkey after their first harvest in the
year 1621.It continued for three days and included ninety Indians.    
      Queen Elizabeth of 16th century England ate roast goose (烤鵝) during a harvest festival. From
then on, goose became a favorite bird at harvest time in England. However,when the pilgrims arrived in
America, they replaced(用......替換) the roast goose with roast turkey as it was easier to find.
      Today,every house cooks turkey as the main dish during the celebration. The festival completes
with the ' Turkey Song' .

1. Why did Benjamin Franklin feel that turkey could be considered as the national symbol of America?

__________________________________

2. How many Indians were there during the large meal served by the pilgrims in 1621? 

3. What does the underlined word "it" refer to in the third paragraph?

4. What's the best title of this passage?

     For thousands of years,people used different ways to measure things. Some people measured things by using the
size of their king's foot or hand. After the king died,they used the new king's foot, and so on.That wasn't a very good
way to measure things,because it wasn't always clear how big or small a thing really was.
     People all over the world used the sun and the moon to measure time. However, they all had different numbers of
days in a week and different numbers of hours in a day.
     In 1584,a scientist called Simon Stevenius started to think about a set of measures that used the number ten, but no
one was interested in his ideas. About two hundred years later,a group of scientists in France decided to use his ideas.
They thought of ways to measure everything using ten.Some of their ideas weren't popular.One was a new clock which had ten hours a day. Another was  a new calendar(日歷) which had ten days a week.
     The scientists agreed to use meters to measure length and they worked out how long a meter should be. Then they
decided to call one hundredth of a meter a centimeter and a thousand meters a kilometer.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，回答下面的問題

1. What was one of the ways that people used to measure things thousands of years ago according to the passage?                                                                               
2. How did people measure time in ancient times?
                                                                              
3. Who started to think about a set of measures that used the number ten?
                                                                               
4. When did the French people start to use meters probably?
                                                                               
5. What do people call a thousand meters?
                                                                              

     The food in Britain is very different from our Chinese food. For instance (例如), they eat a lot of
potatoes. They like to eat them every day. They eat bread for breakfast and usually for one other meal.
They eat their bread with butter (黃油), maybe cheese (乳酪) or jam (果醬), things we don't eat much
in China. Cheese and butter are made from milk. They drink a lot of milk, too. They drink the milk cold
or hot, and they put it in their tea. They put sugar in their tea, as well. They are the world's biggest tea
drinkers. They like Chinese tea, but they drink mostly strong black tea from India and Sri Lanka
(斯里蘭卡). They don't eat much rice. For their main meal they like meat or fish with potatoes and one
or two vegetables. They serve all these together. After the main meal they always have something sweet.
They call this dessert (甜點(diǎn)心). They don't have Jiaozi in Britain.

1. People eat many _____ in Britain.

A. potatoes
B. beef
C. butter
D. milk

2. They eat _____ butter.

A. breakfast with
B. Cheese for
C. bread with
D. jam for

3. They drink strong black tea _____.

A. to India
B. from India
C. for China
D. in China

4. After the main meal they always _____.

A. eat sweet something
B. eat sweet bread
C. have sweet something
D. have something sweet

5. People don't eat Jiaozi _____.

A. in China
B. in England
C. from India
D. from Sri Lanka

     Cars are an i    1     part of life in the United States. Most of people feel that they are poor w    2    
cars. A   3     he is poor, he doesn't feel really poor when he has a car.
     Henry Ford was the man who first b    4     making cars. Maybe, he didn't know how much the car
was going to affect (影響) the United States. That made the USA a country on w__5    . And they have
helped to make the United States rich and modern.
     The car has been popular in the USA. The country is a large one. Americans like to m    6     around
in it. It is easier and cheaper to travel by car. With a car; people can go to any place without spending
too much money.

     Although we may not realize it, when we talk with others we make ourselves understood not just by
words. We send messages to the people around us also by body movements. A smile and handshake (握手)
show welcome. Waving one's hand is to say "Goodbye." Nodding (點(diǎn)頭) the head means agreement, while
shaking it means disagreement. In China and some English-speaking countries, these body movements have
the same meanings. 　　
     But not all body languages mean the same things in different countries. For example, nodding the head in
some Asian countries means not "Yes.", but "No." 　　
     When we speak a foreign language, it's important to know the meanings of the body movements in the
foreign countries. In Russia, France and some of South American countries men kiss (吻) each other when
they meet. Men don't kiss each other in China or English-speaking countries. In England, older people usually
shake hands when they meet someone for the first time, however, young people don't shake hands. In France,
people shake hands in the office every morning. French people kiss each other more often than English people
when they meet or leave.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，判斷正(T)誤(F)。
(     )1. We talk with other people just by words. 　　
(     )2. Nodding the head doesn't mean "Yes." in some Asian countries. 　　
(     )3. From this passage, we can know that men in Brazil usually kiss each other when they meet. 　　
(     )4. In France, men just kiss each other when they meet. 　　
(     )5. In China and some English-speaking countries, all the body movements have the same meanings.

     Football is one of the most popular, interesting and exciting games. Football is popular among tens of
millions of people all over the world.
     I am a football fan. I began to watch football games when the league football match first took place in
China. Then, I became interested in football. In the match, I enjoy the wonderful goal shootings and the
players' courage and endurance (勇氣和耐力). The most interesting thing is the result which anyone
can hardly tell.
     The world cup is held every four years. It draws a lot of interest of people all over the world when
teams from different countries begin to fight for the world cup. In the match, many football fans make
friends with one another and know different things of other countries. So football match isn't a simple
match. It's an exchange of culture.
     It is good to support your favourite football team on the sport. To support our national team to fight
for the world cup is the hope of all the Chinese football fans.