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       At midnight on New Year's Eve .people in Rome and Italy throw (扔) all the things they no longer

want .The streets are filled with old chairs ,beds ,clothes and dishes …. In Madrid (马德里) Spain, new year comes in more quietly . People go to the main square ,each holding a bag of grapes .As the clock

strikes ( 敲 ) twelve ,the people eat grapes .

       In Tokyo people eat noodles on New Year's Eve. This food is said to bring long life. Early the next

morning , some Japanese families climb Mount Fuji (富士山) . There they watch the first sunrise of the

new year.

       In China , New Year's food include a whole fish and a chicken . The chicken must be presented

(呈现) with a head ,a tail and two feet to symbolize (象征) completeness (完美) .

1. This story is about New Year's Eve in ________.

A. Italy and Spain      

B. England  

C. Japan and China    

D. Both A and C

2. From the story we know that people in some countries bring in New Year By ___________.

A. throwing everything      

B. playing games  

C. eating some special food  

D. drinking coke

3. People climb Mount Fuji to ______________.

A. see the sun come up          

B. look at the stars

C. search for New Year's flowers  

D. watch the sun go down

4. The people who hope to have long life from their New Year's food_________.

A. are Spanish    

B. are Japanese    

C. are Chinese  

D. are Italians

5. People in China eat __________ at New Year's Eve because they symbolize completeness.

A. grapes      

B. noodles      

C. fish and chicken    

D. a whole fish and a chicken

答案

1-5 D C A B D

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Section D

Directions: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.

  Many parents who welcome the idea of turning off the TV and spending more time with the family are still worried that without TV they would constantly be on call as entertainers for their children. They remember thinking up all sorts of things to do when they were kids. But their own kids seem different, less creative, somehow. When there’s nothing to do, these parents observe regretfully, their kids seem unable to come up with anything to do besides turning on the TV.

  One father, for example, says, “When I was a kid, we were always thinking up things to do, projects and games. We certainly never complained in an annoying way to our parents, ‘I have nothing to do!’” He compares this with his own children today: “They’re simply lazy. If someone doesn’t entertain them, they’ll happily sit there watching TV all day.”

  There is one word for this father’s disappointment: unfair. It is as if he were disappointed in them for not reading Greek though they have never studied the language. He deplores(哀叹) his children’s lack of inventiveness, as if the ability to play were something innate(天生的) that his children are missing. In fact, while the tendency to play is built into the human species, the actual ability to play — to imagine, to invent, to elaborate (描述) on reality in a playful way — and the ability to gain fulfillment from it, these are skills that have to be learned and developed.

  Such disappointment, however, is not only unjust, it is also destructive. Sensing their parents’ disappointment, children come to believe that they are, indeed, lacking something, and that this makes them less worthy of admiration and respect. Giving children the opportunity to develop new resources, to enlarge their horizons and discover the pleasures of doing things on their own is, on the other hand, a way to help children develop a confident feeling about themselves as capable and interesting people.

81. According to many parents, without TV, their children would ask them to ___________.

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82. Why is it unfair for the father to blame his children for not being able to entertain themselves?

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83. When parents show constant disappointment in their children, the destructive effect is that the children will___________.

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84. According to the author, in what way can children’s self-confidence be developed?

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