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Dear Trudy,

     Thank you for remembering my big day! I tried to forget it, but when your gift arrived I was really

happy. I love the cookbook. I saw it in stores and thought it looked interesting.  And it is! Today's

dinner comes straight from it.

     Thanks again.

                                                                                                                               Mary

Dear Heather,

     The pants you gave me are gorgeous! I can't believe you made them yourself. They look like

something from a boutique (精品店). With a gift like this, I'm not worried about being another year

older.

     Best wishes.

                                                                                                                              Nancy

Dear Friends,

     Thank you for turning my birthday into a concert. I'm so happy now! I'll never forget that special

day.  I'm very lucky to have you as friends and neighbors!

                                                                                                                              Yours.

                                                                                                                              Harry

1. The three letters are all ______.

A. reports    

B. thank-you notes    

C. invitations    

D. birthday cards

2. Mary got ______ on her birthday.

A. pants    

B. a dinner    

C. a cookbook    

D. a concert ticket

3. The underlined word "gorgeous" means "______".

A. beautiful    

B. different    

C. important    

D. necessary

4. Harry spent his birthday ______.

A. in a store    

B. cooking dinner    

C. in a boutique    

D. listening to music

5. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Mary learned a lot from the cookbook.

B. Heather bought the pants from a boutique.

C. Trudy gave Mary a gift for her birthday.

D. Harry's friends are also his neighbors.

答案

1-5 BCADB

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Passage One

Chinese Buddhist Music Catches Audience in HK
中华佛教音乐吸引香港听众
The Hong Kong Cultural Center in Victoria Bay was packed on Thursday night, and loud applause periodically echoed through the neon lit sky. It was not rock music nor was it pop—it was traditional Chinese Buddhist music that made an instant hit in the modern metropolis.
Hong Kong is the fourth leg of the Buddhist music performance tour by a troupe consisting of more than 130 monks from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. And this is also the first time monks from across the Taiwan Strait had jointly set up a troupe to perform, on global stages.
Crowds of Hong King residents were lining up at the local port waiting to welcome members of the troupe who were sailing in from Macao, where they had just ended another successful performance on Wednesday night.
The monks returned the enthusiasm of the residents with a powerful performance. Almost without sleep, the monks drove to the concert hall preparing the stage and doing the rehearsals.
Buddhist music, which originated from ancient India, found its way into China some 2,000 years ago, and after absorbing elements of traditional Chinese folk music, court music and other religious music, a unique form which is now called Chinese Buddhist music came into being.
The monks of the troupe come from prestigious Buddhist temples including Fo Guang Shah Temple in Taiwan, Shaolin Temple in central Henan Province, Labrang Temple in northwestern Gansu Province, and General Temple in southwestern Yunnan Province, representing the three branches of Buddhism in China, namely Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism and Pali Buddhism.
The wind sweeping across the Victoria Bay was cool, but the atmosphere in the concert hall was hot. The audience was mesmerized by the great variety of genres of Chinese Buddhist music.
"It’s great to see so many genres of Chinese Buddhist music performed on the same stage," said a female bank employee surnamed Chang, "It’s so fascinating," she said.
Calling it a happy event in Hong Kong, the Venerable Kwok Kuang, president of the Hong Kong Buddhist Association, said that the concert served as a prelude to the display, in Hong Kong on May 26, of a relic from Famen Temple preserved in Xi’an, capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province.
He said that Buddhism and Buddhist music in the Chinese mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong had the same roots, and through the performance by monks from across the Taiwan Strait, the traditional religious art would be further developed and bring more happiness to the Chinese.
Co-sponsored by the Chinese Buddhism Association of China and Fo Guang Shan Temple in Taiwan, the troupe was formed in February this year and has since staged four successful performances in Taiwan and Macao, and will move on to Los Angeles and San Francisco in the US and Vancouver of Canada from Friday.
Hailing the joint performance as a major event in the history of Buddhism, Hsin Ting, deputy chief of the troupe and abbot of Fo Guang Shan, said that both the monks and the support staff had been working together very harmoniously ever since the formation of the troupe, indicating their inherited p ties.
"I hope the troupe’s tour to North America will help the world community better understand Chinese traditional culture, especially the harmonious relationships among the people across the Taiwan Strait," he said.

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage

A.The troupe will offer three more performances after the Hong Kong event.

B.There will be another religious activity in Hong Kong after the music performance.

C.The troupe will continue its tour to North America.

D.The troupe is about four months old.

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