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The celebration of the New Year is the oldest one of all holidays. It was first (1) in (2) Babylon about 4,000 years ago. New Year’s Day is an (3) national holiday, and banks and offices will be closed. Many families have New year’s Day (4) .
Traditionally, it was thought that it could (5) the luck they would have (6) the coming year by (7) they did or ate on the first day of the year. For that reason, it has become common for (8) to celebrate the first few minutes of a (9) new year in the (10) with the family and friends. Parties often last into the middle of the night after the ringing of a new year. It was once believed that the first visitor on New Year’s Day would bring (11) good luck or bad luck to the rest of the year. It was particularly lucky if that visitor (12) to be a tall dark-haired man.
Traditional New Year’s (13) are also thought to bring luck. People in many parts of the US celebrate the New Year by (14) black-eyed peas and cabbage. Black-eyed peas have been considered good luck in many cultures. Cabbage leaves are considered a (15) of prosperity, being (16) of paper currency. Other traditions of the season include the making of New Year’s resolutions. That tradition also (17) back to the early Babylonians. Popular modern resolutions might include the (18) to lose weight or quit smoking.
The song, "Auld Lang Syne", is sung at the (19) of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the New Year. "Auld Lang Syne" literally (20) "yearning for the old days.

8（）

A:folks B:adults C:ghosts D:farmers

I’m sure ghosts do not exist. ______ I have never seen one.

A:First of all B:Now and then C:Day and night D:At least

I'm sure ghosts do not exist. ______ I have never seen one.

A:First of all B:Now and then C:Day and night D:At least

Feast on Turkey and Good Wishes at Thanksgiving
Four weeks ago US children dressed as monsters and asked for sweets. That was Halloween。 In a few weeks American houses will be red and green and filled with presents, for Christmas.
As if all this isn’t enough, on Thursday this week, America will enjoy another festival - Thanksgiving.
Children will have two days off school, shops will close and houses will be filled with families enjoying mountains of food.
Every year, in Gainesville, Florida, an entire class celebrate Thanksgiving together. The class dresses up and puts on plays for their families. After the plays the families share a feast of traditional Thanksgiving foods like turkey and pumpkin pie.
Dean Foster, an Il-year-old boy will take part in this celebration. He said: "I love Thanksgiving because it means time off school, lots of nice food and a happy family."
His brother Ben, nine, said: "The best thing about Thanksgiving, is that when it is finished, it is time to start Christmas."
But behind the food and the large amount of money spent there is another message. On Thursday evening, Dean and Ben’s family will make a basket and put it on the table as they eat their evening meal.
Each of them will write a list of things that they are thankful for and place the paper in the basket. The family will read the pieces of paper and take time to thank God and each other for providing them with comfortable and happy lives.
Thanksgiving is a traditional festival that started in 1621, when the first pilgrims arrived in America to start a new life. After a hard year, they had a big autumn harvest. They held a feast and invited the native American Indians along to thank God for giving them enough food.
Many countries celebrate Thanksgiving. They often fall after the fields have been harvested and the crops collected for winter.
On Halloween, children in the United States often dress up as

A:ghosts. B:players. C:pilgrims. D:visitors.

Feast On Turkey and Good Wishes at Thanksgiving
Four weeks ago US children dressed as monsters and asked for sweets. That was Halloween. In a few weeks American houses will be red and green and filled with presents for Christmas.
As if all this isn’t enough, on Thursday this week, America will enjoy another festival— Thanksgiving.
Children will have two days off school, shops will close and houses will be filled with families enjoying mountains of food.
Every year, in Gainesville, Florida, all entire class celebrate Thanksgiving together. The class dresses up and puts on plays for their families. After the plays the families share a feast of traditional Thanksgiving foods like turkey and pumpkin pie. Dean Foster, an 11-year-old boy will take part in this celebration. He said, "I love Thanksgiving because it means time off school, lots of nice food and a happy family."
His brother Ben, nine, said, "the best thing about Thanksgiving, is that when it is finished, it is time to start Christmas."
But behind the food and the large amount of money spent there is another message. On Thursday evening, Dean and Ben’s family will make a basket and put it on the table as they eat their evening meal.
Each of them will write a list of things that they are thankful for and place the paper in the basket. The family will read the pieces of paper and take time to thank God and each other for providing them with comfortable and happy lives.
Thanksgiving is a traditional festival that started in 1621, when the first pilgrims arrived in the US to start a new life. After a hard year, they had a big autumn harvest. They held a feast and invited the native American Indians along to thank God for giving them enough food.
Many countries celebrate Thanksgiving. They often fall after the fields have been harvested and the crops collected for winter.
turkey n. ,y,火鸡
pumpkin n. 南瓜
pilgrim n. 朝圣者
Thanksgiving ,感恩节(11月的第四个星期四)
Halloweenl0月31日.之夜(据传此时可见到鬼)
Christmas 圣诞节(12月25日)
On Halloween, children in the United States often dress up as______.

A:ghosts B:players C:pilgrims D:visitors


下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每道题后面有4个选项。
{{B}}第一篇{{/B}}

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? {{B}}Feast on Turkey and Good Wishes at Thanksgiving{{/B}}
? ?Four weeks ago US children dressed as monsters and asked for sweets. That was Halloween。 In a few weeks American houses will be red and green and filled with presents, for Christmas.
? ?As if all this isn’t enough, on Thursday this week, America will enjoy another festival - Thanksgiving.
? ?Children will have two days off school, shops will close and houses will be filled with families enjoying mountains of food.
? ?Every year, in Gainesville, Florida, an entire class celebrate Thanksgiving together. The class dresses up and puts on plays for their families. After the plays the families share a feast of traditional Thanksgiving foods like turkey and pumpkin pie.
? ?Dean Foster, an Il-year-old boy will take part in this celebration. He said: "I love Thanksgiving because it means time off school, lots of nice food and a happy family."
? ?His brother Ben, nine, said: "The best thing about Thanksgiving, is that when it is finished, it is time to start Christmas."
? ?But behind the food and the large amount of money spent there is another message. On Thursday evening, Dean and Ben’s family will make a basket and put it on the table as they eat their evening meal.
? ?Each of them will write a list of things that they are thankful for and place the paper in the basket. The family will read the pieces of paper and take time to thank God and each other for providing them with comfortable and happy lives.
? ?Thanksgiving is a traditional festival that started in 1621, when the first pilgrims arrived in America to start a new life. After a hard year, they had a big autumn harvest. They held a feast and invited the native American Indians along to thank God for giving them enough food.
? ?Many countries celebrate Thanksgiving. They often fall after the fields have been harvested and the crops collected for winter.
On Halloween, children in the United States often dress up as

A:ghosts. B:players. C:pilgrims. D:visitors.


{{B}}第一篇{{/B}}

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? {{B}}Effects of Environmental Pollution{{/B}}
? ?If pollution continues to increase at the present rate, formation of aerosols (浮质) in the atmosphere will cause the onset (开始) of an ice age in about fifty year’s time. This conclusion reached by Dr S. I. Rasoo1 and Dr S. H. Scheider of the United States Goddard Space Flight Center, answer the apparently conflicting questions of whether an increase in the carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) content of the atmosphere will cause the Earth warm up or increasing the aerosol question is dominant.
? ?Two specters haunting conservationists have been the prospect that environmental pollution might lead to the planet’s becoming unbearably hot or cold. One of these ghosts has now been laid, because it seems that even an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to eight times its present value will produce an increase in temperature of only 2℃, which would take place over several thousand years. But the other problem now looms larger than ever.
? ?Aerosols are collection of small liquid or solid particles dispersed in air or some other medium. The particles are all so tiny that each is composed of only a few hundred atoms. Because of this they can float in the air for a very long time. Perhaps the most commonly experienced aerosol is industrial smog (烟雾) of the kind that plagued London in the 1950s and is an even greater problem in Los Angeles today. These collections of aerosols reflect the Sun’s heat and thereby cause the Earth to cool.
? ?Dr Rasoo1 and Dr Schneider have calculated the exact effect of a dust aerosol layer just above the Earth’s surface in the temperature of the planet. As the layer builds up, the present delicate balance between the amount of heat absorbed from the Sun and the amount radiated from the Earth is disturbed. The aerosol layer not only reflects much of the Sun’s light but also transmits the infrared (红外线) radiation from below. So, while the heat input to surface drops, the loss of heat remains high until the planet cools to a new balanced state.
? ?Within fifty years, if no steps are taken to stop the spread of aerosols in the atmosphere, a cooling of the Earth by as much as 3.5~C seems inevitable. If that lasts for only a few years it would start another ice age, and because the growing ice caps at each pole would themselves reflect much of the Sun’s radiation it would probably continue to develop even if the aerosol layer were destroyed.
? ?The only bright spot in this gloomy forecast lies in the hope expressed by Dr Rasoo1 and Dr Schneider that nuclear powder may replace fossil fuels in time to prevent the aerosol content of atmosphere from becoming critical.
The word "specters" in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ______.

A:"pollution" B:"carbon dioxide" C:"aerosols" D:"ghosts"

{{B}}第二篇{{/B}}

Feast on Turkey and Good Wishes at Thanksgiving

? ?Four weeks ago US children dressed as monsters and asked for sweets. That was Halloween. In a few weeks, American houses will be red and green and filled with presents for Christmas.
? ?As if all this isn’t enough, on Thursday this week, America will enjoy another festival — Thanksgiving.
? ?Children will have two days off school, shops will close and houses will be filled with families enjoying mountains of food.
? ?Every year, in Gainesville, Florida, all entire class celebrate Thanksgiving together. The class dresses up and puts on plays for their families. ?After the plays the families share a feast of traditional Thanksgiving foods like turkey and pumpkin pie (南瓜派).
? ?Dean Foster, an 11-year-old boy will take part in this celebration. He said: "I love Thanksgiving because it means time off school, lots of nice food and a happy family."
? ?His brother Ben, nine, said :"the best thing about Thanksgiving, is that when it is finished, it is time to start Christmas."
? ?But behind the food and the large amount of money spent there is another message. On Thursday evening, Dean and Ben’s family will make a basket and put it on the table as they eat their evening meal.
? ?Each of them will write a list of things that they are thankful for and place the paper in the basket. The family will read the pieces of paper and take time to thank God and each other for providing them with comfortable and happy lives.
? ?Thanksgiving is a traditional festival that started in 1621 ,when the first pilgrims (朝圣的人) arrived in the US to start a new life. After a hard year, they had a big autumn harvest (收获). They held a feast and invited the native American Indians along to thank God for giving them enough food.
? ?Many countries celebrate Thanksgiving. They often fall after the fields have been harvested and the crops collected for winter.
On Halloween, children in the United States often dress up as

A:ghosts. B:players. C:pilgrims. D:visitors.


? ?下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每道题后面有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文并根据短文回答其后面的问题，从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案填入题前的括号内。
{{B}}第一篇{{/B}}

? ? ? ? ? ? ? {{B}}Feast On Turkey and Good Wishes at Thanksgiving{{/B}}
? ?Four weeks ago US children dressed as monsters and asked for sweets. That was Halloween. In a few weeks American houses will be red and green and filled with presents for Christmas.
? ?As if all this isn’t enough, on Thursday this week, America will enjoy another festival— Thanksgiving.
? ?Children will have two days off school, shops will close and houses will be filled with families enjoying mountains of food.
? ?Every year, in Gainesville, Florida, all entire class celebrate Thanksgiving together. The class dresses up and puts on plays for their families. After the plays the families share a feast of traditional Thanksgiving foods like turkey and pumpkin pie. ? ? Dean Foster, an 11-year-old boy will take part in this celebration. He said, "I love Thanksgiving because it means time off school, lots of nice food and a happy family."
? ?His brother Ben, nine, said, "the best thing about Thanksgiving, is that when it is finished, it is time to start Christmas."
? ?But behind the food and the large amount of money spent there is another message. On Thursday evening, Dean and Ben’s family will make a basket and put it on the table as they eat their evening meal.
? ? Each of them will write a list of things that they are thankful for and place the paper in the basket. The family will read the pieces of paper and take time to thank God and each other for providing them with comfortable and happy lives.
? ?Thanksgiving is a traditional festival that started in 1621, when the first pilgrims arrived in the US to start a new life. After a hard year, they had a big autumn harvest. They held a feast and invited the native American Indians along to thank God for giving them enough food.
? ?Many countries celebrate Thanksgiving. They often fall after the fields have been harvested and the crops collected for winter.
? ?turkey n. ,y,火鸡
? ?pumpkin n. 南瓜
? ?pilgrim n. 朝圣者
? ?Thanksgiving ,感恩节(11月的第四个星期四)
? ?Halloweenl0月31日.之夜(据传此时可见到鬼)
? ?Christmas 圣诞节(12月25日)
On Halloween, children in the United States often dress up as______.

A:ghosts B:players C:pilgrims D:visitors

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