— How do you western people celebrate ________?
— They usually make special pumpkin lanterns.
A．Christmas
B．Thanksgiving Day
C．Halloween
D．New Year’s Day
— You’d better not eat too much salt. It’s bad for your health.
— ________.
A．Not at all
B．You’re welcome
C．It doesn’t matter
D．Thanks for your advice
亲爱的同学，初中生活很快就要结束了。回顾三年的生活，你一定有很多收获吧。假如你叫李明，你的美国笔友Mike对中国学生的生活非常感兴趣。请你根据以下提示，写一封信谈一谈你自己在初中三年里的美好回忆与收获。
1.学校生活（喜欢的老师，喜欢的学科，取得的进步等）
2.课外生活（兴趣，爱好，交友等）
3.……
注意：1.字数80—100；2.请结合实际增加细节，适当发挥；3.不能出现真实的校名、姓名或透露与个人身份相关的其他信息；4.信的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Mike，
Thanks for your last letter.I'm very happy to tell you something about my middle school life.
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What about you？Can you write to tell me something about your school life?
Best wishes!
Yours,
Li Ming
根据首字母及汉语提示，完成下列单词的拼写，使句意明确，语言通畅。
1.Thanks very much for i___________(邀请)me to your birthday party.
2.One who isn’t p_________(耐心的)can do nothing.
3.Light music often makes people feel r_________（放松的）
4.Being blind and deaf,the poor boy can’t i____________（想象）what his future will be like.
5.There is something wrong with my ipad.I have to have it r_______（修理）at once.
On Thanksgiving Day, a teacher asked her class of firstgraders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought that these children from poor families actually had little to be thankful for. And she found most of them drawing pictures of flowers or tables with food. The teacher was very surprised to see the picture Douglas handed in. It's a hand,a simple hand.
But whose hand? The class were very interested in the strange picture. "I think it must be the hand of God that brings us food," said one child, "A farmer’s," said another, "Because he grows beautiful flowers. " Finally when the others were at work ，the teacher went over to Douglas' desk and asked whose hand it was. "It's your hand, Teacher," he said quietly and shyly.
She remembered that she had often taken Douglas, a dirty lonely child, by the hand while having a class break. She often did that with the children. But it meant so much to Douglas. Perhaps this is everyone's thanksgiving，not for the material things we get，but for the chance，in whatever small way, to give to others.
1.When did the story happen?
A．On Christmas Day. B．On Teachers' Day. C．On Mother's Day. D．On Thanksgiving Day.
2.why did Douglas draw a simple hand?
A．He was good at drawing it.
B．His teacher asked him to draw it.
C．He wanted to show his thanks to his teacher
D．He hoped to get his teacher’s praise.
3.What do you learn about Douglas from the passage?
A．He liked drawing hands
B．He was very active in class.
C．He always kept his hand clean
D．His family was not rich.
4.According to the passage, which of the following is an opinion,but not a fact?
A．The teacher went over to Douglas' desk and talked to him.
B．Different people show their thanksgiving in different ways.
C．The teacher often took Douglas by the hand after class while having a class break.
D．Most of the students were drawing the pictures of flowers or tables with food.
5.We can infer from the passage that Douglas is a ____boy.
A．shy B．foolish C．clever D．kind-hearted
How many things can you see in the night sky? A lot! On a clear night you can see the moon, some planets, and thousands of sparking stars.
You can see even more with a telescope. You might see that many stars look larger than others. You might see that some stars that look white are really red or blue. With bigger and bigger telescopes you can see more and more objects in the sky. And you can see those objects in more and more detail.
But scientists believe there are some things in the sky that we will never see. We won’t see them with the biggest telescope in the world, on the clearest night of the year.That’s because they’re invisible. They’re the mysterious dead stars called black holes.
You might find it hard to imagine that stars die. After all, our sun is a star. Year after year we see it up in the sky, burning brightly and giving us heat and light. The Sun certainly doesn’t seem to be getting old or weak. But stars do burn out and die after billions of years.
As a star’s gases burn, they give off light and heat. But when the gases run out, the star stops burning and begins to die.
So next time you look up at the night sky, remember: there’s more in the sky than we can see!
1.On a clear night we might see things except______.
A．the moon B．some planets C．sparkling stars D．the sun
2.How can we see even more in the sky?
A．By using a telescope
B．By using a microscope
C．By climbing up to the top of a mountain
D．By going outside on a clear night.
3.What does the underlined word”invisible”mean in Chinese?
A．看不见的 B．听不见的 C．摸不着的 D．无形的
4.When a star’s gases_______,the star begins to die.
A．burn B．run out C．give off heat D．get weak
5.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A．We might see that many stars look larger than others with a telescope
B．We might see that some stars that look white are really red and blue with a telescope.
C．We can see some objects in more and more detail with bigger and bigger telescopes.
D．The sun certainly seems to be getting old and weak.
