Birthdays are celebrated 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. |
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, what can you see outside the window? A. flowers B. presents C. a flag D. a chair
2.Flowers are put on the chair of the birthday child in .
A. JapanB. DenmarkC. IndiaD. Holland
3. In India, birthday children .
A. give out chocolate to their classmates
B. share chocolate with their best friends
C. go to school in white clothes
D. wear new clothes to mark the special time
Street art is a very popular form of art. It is quickly all over the world. You can find it on buildings and street signs from Beijing to Paris.
Art experts(专家) say that the movement began in New York in the 1960s. Young adults would use paint in specialcans to put their words and other images on walls and cars the city. One well-known street artist is Swoon. She paper images of people and puts them on walls. Swoon didn’t start her career as a street artist. She studied art, but time went on, she got bored with the works she saw in museums or galleries(美术馆). The people in New York enjoy Swoon’s strong and interesting .
Street artists do their work for a reason. Some of them choose street art because it is to the people. Some artists try to express their opinions in their works. Advertising companies also use street art in their advertisements because it gives the deep impression(印象)and energy. The New York store Saks Fifth Avenue used a street artist’s design for their shop windows and shopping bags.
In today’s world the Internet has a big on street art. Artists can show their pictures to the audience all over the world on the Internet. Many people, , say that seeing a picture on the Internet is never as good as seeing it live. Street art lives with the energy and life of a big . There it will continue to change and grow.
1.A．watchingB．makingC．spreading D．searching
2.A．behind B．byC．overD．around
3.A．cuts downB．cuts outC．turns downD．runs out
4.A．as B．afterC．beforeD．while
5.A．styleB．story C．problemD．program
6.A．saferB．lower C．closerD．stranger
7.A．hardly B．recentlyC．seldomD．never
8.A．success B．discountC．presentD．influence
9.A．anyway B．however C．otherwise D.therefore
10.A．museumB．country C．city D．street
---Mike, do you enjoy your present job?
--- . I just do it for a living.
A. Of course B. Not really
C. Not likely D. Not a little
Because of the terrible earthquake, some people became homeless and they had to ________the tents for the night.
A. put away B. put up C. put off D. put down
The Smiths are considering ______ to England because they ______ the cold weather there.
A. not moving; aren’t used to B. not moving; didn’t use to
C. not to move; didn’t use to D. not to move; aren’t used to
---Why do you look so worried?
---I’m expecting a call from my son. He London for three days.
A. has been to B. has been in
C. has gone to D. has come in
