Birthdays are celebrated(庆祝)all over the world. Some ways to celebrate birthdays are rather similar from county to country:candles,cakes,and birthday wishes. But there are also different ways to celebrate birthdays. Here are a few:
Denmark A flag is flown outside a window to show that someone who lives in the house is having a birthday. Presents are placed around the child’s bed while he is sleeping so he will see them at once when he wakes up. |
India Usually Indian children wear white to school. However, on their birthdays, children wear colored clothes to school and give out chocolate to everyone in the class. Their best friends help them to do this. |
Japan The birthday child wears new clothes to mark the special time. Certain birthdays are more important than others. These are the third and seventh for girls and fifth for boys. |
Holland The birthday child receives an especially large present. The family also puts flowers on the birthday child’s chair to make it beautiful. |
1.When someone is having a birthday in Denmark,you can see _____ outside the window.
A.flowers B.presents C.a flag D.a chair
2.In _________ flowers are put on the chair of the birthday child.
A.Japan B.Denmark C.India D.Holland
3.In India, birthday children wear _______ clothes to school.
A.colored B.long C.big D.tight
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Eleven-year-old Angela had something wrong with her nervous system(神经系统).She was unable to __1__. In fact, she could hardly make any __2_. Although she believed that she had a good chance of recovering, the doctors said that __3__ , if any, could come back to normal after getting this disease. Having heard this, the little girl was not discouraged. There, lying in her hospital bed, she insisted that no matter what the doctors said, her going back to school was __4__.
She was moved to a specialized health center, and whatever method could be tried was used. Still she would not __5__. It seemed that she was undefeatable(打不败的). The doctors were all fond of her and taught her about __6_ that she could make it . Every day Angela would lie there, faithfully doing her mental exercise.
One day, __7__ she was imagining her legs moving again, it seemed as though a miracle(奇迹)happened: The bed began to move! “Look what I’m doing! Look! I can do it! I moved! I moved! ”she shouted___8___!
Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was __9__. More importantly, they were running __10__ safety.
People were crying, and equipment was falling .You see, it was an___11___. But don’t tell that to Angela. She has believed that she did it, just as she had never doubted that she would recover. And now only a few years later, She’s back in school. You see, to such a person who can __12__ the earth, such a disease is a small problem, isn’t it?
1. A.see B.hear C.talk D.walk
2. A.progress B.difference C.movement D.achievement
3. A.few B.all C.some D.most
4. A.true B.doubtful C.certain D.impossible
5. A.get up B.give up C.turn up D.stand up
6. A.thinking B.expecting C.pretending D.imagining
7. A.as B.since C.after D.before
8. A.quietly B.happily C.quickly D.carefully
9. A.frightened B.pleased C.touched D.encouraged
10. A.in B.by C.for D.with
11. A.appointment B.earthquake C.achievement D.instruction
12. A.push B.shock C.save D.shake
--- Did you know __________?
--- He was ill in hospital.
A.why he doesn’t come to school
B.why he didn’t come to school
C.why does he come to school
D.why did he come to school
--- Your classroom is very clean.
--- Sure. It ________ after school every day.
A.is cleaned B.cleans C.cleaned D.is cleaning
They _______ here for more than ten years.
A.live B.lives C.are living D.have lived
---Oh, your computer is so nice. ____ did you buy it?
---Thanks. I bought it in Wangfujing Dajie.
A.When B.Where C.Which D.Whose