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Black Friday
Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. The day after it has been known as Black Friday. It is the start of the holiday shopping season, and it has been the busiest shopping day of the year in the US since 2005.
Most stores offer big sales on Black Friday. They open their doors quite early in the morning. They try to attract shoppers with big discounts (打折). Some items (商品)like TVs and cloths are much cheaper than usual. Stores may even lose money on these items. They hope that shoppers will buy gifts for other people while they are in the store.
Black Friday is a great time to go shopping. However, there are problem. The biggest one is that there are not enough low-priced items. Each store may only have a few. These items are in great need, so people stand in long lines to get them. They may wait three to four hours before a store opens. They may be hoping to get a low price on a TV or computer, but not everybody can get one. Some people leave, disappointed.
The situation makes people worried. Some Black Friday events have been crazy. There have been fights over toys among shoppers. Some workers have even been hurt by large crowds. But most Black Friday events are safe and fun. Still, if you plan to go, you will expect large crowds and a bit of pushing.
So where does the name “Black Friday” come from? It was first used in Philadelphia in the 1950s. The police called this day Black Friday because of the heavy traffic it caused. In the 1960s, stores tried to rename the day “Big Friday”. It did not stick. The name “Black Friday” continued to spread across the country. It seems that it is here to stay.
Now people all over the country take part in Black Friday events. It is even spreading to other parts of the world. Stores have held Black Friday events in the UK, Australia, and Brazil since 2012. In Mexico, stores offer a weekend of discounts every year. They call it “El Buen Fin”, which means “the good weekend” in Spanish. I guess people everywhere like to buy things on sale.
1.Is Black Friday the start of the holiday shopping season?
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2.What is the biggest problem with Black Friday?
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3.How long may people have to wait before a store opens?
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4.Where was the name “Black Friday” first used in the 1950s?
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5.Why do people like going shopping on Black Friday? __________________________________________________________________________
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It’s a common school day at Southern Cross School near the famous Kruger National Park in South Africa. Teachers and pupils don’t sit in a classroom. I1., they go through the forest or sit under the trees.
The school teaches students all the same s2.as the rest of the country’s schools, but the teaching methods are c3. different. Southern Cross uses nature as a teaching tool. The teachers and their pupils go out into nature and work with animals and plants. These can be used to study a4. from maths and social sciences to languages. The school is in an area where animals live wild and can be h5.. To get to class, students travel a road through the forest that wild animals use as well.
The classroom for small preschoolers is a little different from the rest of the school. For example, the first lesson of the day is maths, but the teaching method is very s 6. . In this school you won’t hear a teacher saying “Count how many apples Jane has in her basket.” Actually, the children visit a n7. river to count the number of marks left by animals. This way they can see how many different animals come to d8.during the night.
The students are encouraged to take care of the injured and small animals. If they find a dead animal in the area, they study where the animal fits in the foot chain and how and why it d9..
The headmaster says, “We must make people understand what we are doing to the e 10.. We need to care for our planet.”
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1.Tony has to keep quiet while watching the game. (改为否定句)
Tony__________ _________ to keep quiet while watching the game.
2.He has great difficulty solving the problem . (改为感叹句)
_________ great difficulty he has _________ the problem !
3.The horror film made all of us feel scared. (改为被动语态)
All of us were________ ________ feel scared by the horror film.
4.The stone is so heavy that I can’t lift it up. (写出同义句)
It is ________a heavy stone ________ I can’t lift it up.
5.Tan Dun made over 50 sounds by controlling the speed of water flow. (对画线部分提问)
________did Tan Dun ________ over 50 sounds?
请根据句意从方框中选择合适的动词，并用其适当时态填空，使句子通顺。
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1.—Did you see Jack at the meeting room?
—No, Lily told me that he ____________ his I-phone 6 plus at Apple Store then.
2.When I was young, I often wondered if the earth _____________ (move) around the sun.
3.She __________ two years to this research. She is still working hard to find out more.
4.—Do you have any problems if you ______(offer) this job?
—Well, I’m thinking about the working hours.
5.The rest of the class ________ (have) a picnic next week, aren’t they?
请根据句意从方框中选择合适的单词，并用其适当形式填空，使句子通顺。
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1.These __________ came here three years ago.
2. Nancy became famous as a writer in her ________.
3.Zhang Yimou is one of the most famous _________in China.
4.The boy worked out the difficult problem_________. He was proud.
5.She likes music. She wants to be a__________ when she grows up.
请根据中文提示、英文释义或句意，写出句中所缺的单词，使句子通顺。
1. All of us would like to read some _________ (latest, newest) news from the newspaper.
2.We send short text _________to each other by using mobile phones.
3.When I feel sad, my friends always e__________ me to cheer up.
4.Learning their correct_________ (发音) will help you remember them.
5.To make his classes even_________, he often tells some jokes.(lively)
