If someone says to you “give me five”, don’t give five yuan to him! It will make others laugh! The person is not ask for your money, but your fingers.
In the USA, “give me five” or “give me the high five” is a good gesture. You can often see it in films or on TV. It means the slapping(拍打) of each other’s right hands together. People do it when something happy happens. For example, if a student get an “A” in the exam or gets No.1 in the school sports meeting, he will give the high five to his friends to celebrate.
Who did this gesture first? Why did he do that? It may come from the old Roman gesture of putting up the right arm for the emperor(皇帝). This showed that the person putting up his arm had nothing in his hand and he couldn’t hurt the emperor.
Why not try to give the high five to your friends?
1.When one of your friends asks you to give him five, you can .
A. give him five yuan
B. give him your hands
C. slap his right hand
2.What’s the Chinese meaning of the underl ined word “gesture” in the second paragraph?
A. 节奏 B. 场所 C. 手势
3.Now you can do “give me five” to your friends because you will .
A celebrate your friends’ success
B. have the same idea with your friends
C. laugh at your friend’s bad manners
4.The gesture started in .
A. Rome B. China C. America
5.The Romans p ut up the right arms for the emperor to show that they .
A. liked him very much
B. were happy to see him
C. were safe for him
Teresa, Madrid, Spain My twenty-first birthday was in April. I was really happy to go out with some friends. They pulled my ears 21 times, once for each year. It’s an old custom(习俗).
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Francisco，Paris, France I’m going to be 30 next Friday. In France, when you celebrate a birthday, you often invite people out. I know that in some countries it’s the opposite – people take you out. |
Lin Xiaohan, Taipei, China Yesterday was my 16th birthday. It was a special birthday, so we had a family dinner together. I was happy to get some money from my parents. My mother cooked noodles for me, because noodles are for a long life. |
1.What’s the o ld custom on people’s birthday in Spain?、、、
A. Pulling one’s ears.
B. Giving a birthday party.
C. Having a big dinner.
2.When you have a birthday in , you often invite people out.
A. Spain B. France C. Taipei
3.Lin Xiaohan had noodles on his 16th birthday because .
A. noodles are easy to cook
B. noodles are delicious
C. noodles are for a long life.
阅读下列图表， 从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中， 选出最佳选项回答问题或完成句子。
For most people, the blue robot cat Doraemon(哆啦A梦) will always get together with Nobita（大雄） and never leave. But now, in the new 3-D movie Stand By Me (《伴我同行》), Doraemon finally has to go back to where he is from – the future. The movie is now showing in Japan. Nobita and Doraemon’s separation (分离) really made lots of fans sad.
1.What is Stand By Me?
A. A blue robot cat.
B. A new 3-D movie.
C. A popular song.
2.What happened in the end?
A. Doraemon died.
B. Nobita died.
C. Doraemon went back to where he was from.
完型填空（共10小题，计10分）
通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳答案
Once there was a piano player in a bar (酒吧). People came just to hear him . But one night, a lady asked him 2 a song. “I don’t sing.” said the man. The lady became very and she told the boss, “I’m tired of listening to the . I want the player to sing.”Then the shouted at the piano player, “Hey, friend! If you want to get your money, just sing a song!”So he did. He was singing for the time! Everybody was surprised, because he could sing so well.
He had in singing! He may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name in a no-name bar. But luckily he found that he could sing well. And he went on working hard and became one of the singers in the US. His name was Nat King Cole. You, too, have skills and abilities. You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be ___ than you think. Just work hard, you can find more skills
1.A. play B. sing C. dance
2.A. to sing B. to play C. to write
3.A. happy B. angry C. excited
4.A. music B. piano C. songs
5.A. lady B.singer C.boss
6.A. last B. first C. second
7.A. mind B. talent C. grade
8.A. worker B. singer C. piano player
9.A. popular B. famous C. best
10.A. bigger B. better C. higher
Her father is a businessman, and she also wants to .
A. success, successful
B. succeed, success
C. successful, succeed
He is very humorous, and he likes to jokes.
A. say B. tell C. speak
