In every country there are times to celebrate, weddings, birthdays, religious festivals. Although the U.S.A is a multi-cultural society, where different groups celebrate their own traditional 21 , Christmas is the most popular holiday in the U.S.A. Some of the 22 of Christmas time are old and others are newer.
Already in the late 18th and the 19th centuries, people felt sentimental (眷恋的) about Christmases of the past. The American 23 , Washington Irving, wrote in 1819 about the old-fashioned Christmas he experienced in England. He was taken in a stagecoach (驿站马车) full of happy people, food and presents, to an old house in the 24 . There, he found a crowd of happy farmers, lots of food and drinks, snow, games and ghosts.
The first Christmas card, which was printed in England, showed people eating and drinking 25 . It was sent in 1846, but Christmas cards did not become really 26 until the 1860s, when color printing became possible.
By this time, stagecoaches had 27 running, replaced by the railroad. More and more families 28 the country and were living in towns and cities, but the dream of the 29 Christmas remained. The loaded stagecoach driving along the country road through the snow still 30 on many Christmas cards today.
1.A. festivals B. weddings C. parties D. birthdays
2.A. foods B. traditions C. cards D. decorations
3.A. writer B. singer C. designer D. farmer
4.A. city B. country C. town D. hill
5.A. dangerously B. happily C. equally D. generously
6.A. usual B. famous C. popular D. regular
7.A. started B. kept C. stopped D. continued
8.A. left B. preferred C. admired D. reached
9.A. amazing B. new C. merry D. old-fashioned
10.A. turns B. appears C. puts D. gets
随着广告业的发展，广告已与我们的生活息息相关。但是人们对于广告给我们生活带来的利与弊一直存在争议。请根据下面两组讨论的结果，按要求用英语表达出来。
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虚假广告太多，欺骗消费者； 报刊上广告太多，浪费纸张； 占用电视，广播太多的时间； 4. 应该取缔。 |
1. 广告能指导消费，使消费者了解商品； 2. 广告也能使人愉快，增加商机。 |
【写作要求】
1. 必须用5个句子表达全部所给的内容。
2. 将5个句子组成连贯的短文，并使结构准确、连贯，信息内容完整。
3. 短文开头已给出，不计入5个句子之内。
With the development of the advertisement, the ads have been connected with people’s life. But is it good or bad?
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根据中文意思填入适当的词，使英语句子意思完整。
1.我不太相信他的诚实。 I don’t have much ___________ _______his honesty.
2.对男护士有大量的需求. There will be a great __________ _______male nurses.
3.她把婚姻的失败归咎于她的丈夫。
She _________ the failure of their marriage _______ her husband.
4. 并不是所有的学生都知道答案。
_______ of the students _________ know the answer.
5. 从你说的话中得出任何结论都是不明智的。
It’s not wise to __________ any ____________ from what you said.
6.他的突然到来扰乱了我们所有的计划。
_______ sudden __________ disturbed all our plans.
7.跟他争吵是没用的。他总是不管你。
It’s no ___________ ____________ with him. He always turns his back on you.
8. 你能对这两个想法加以区别吗？
Can you ________ a ____________ between two ideas?
9.我的成功应该归功于我的老师。 I__________ my success _________ my teachers.
10.他对我们的计划没有发表任何意见。He ____________ no comments ________ our plan.
根据句意填入适当形式的词，首字母或中文已给出，请在答案卷上写出完整的单词。
1.As a student, what you said on such an occasion was not s_____________ .
2. It is i___________ to buy or sell drugs.
3.I used to a__________ early in the morning.
4.These pancakes made by my mother are really t__________ .
5.According to the evidence, the judge c___________ that he hadn’t killed the man.
6. In his life he gave an example of______________ (勇敢) and wisdom.
7.The clever boy has _____________ (吸收) all the knowledge his teacher could give him.
8.His brother works in a ______________ (出版) house.
9.For a___________ (某种) political reason, he had to leave his motherland 20 years ago.
10. After a long____________(争论), we decided where to go for our holiday.
请仔细阅读下面的短文，短文中有10个空格。请按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中的词语的正确形式填空。
Deciding what present you should give someone is never easy. Many things must be considered such as 1. the person is interested in and how old he is. We must also consider the reaction of the person 2. (receive) the gift. One of the 3. (bad) gift choices I ever made was for my high school English teacher, Ms Chen. Ms Chen 4. (teach) me English since Junior 1, and to show my 5. (appreciate) I decided to get her a present. I asked my classmates about her interests 6. I made my final decision. Then I went to the department store 7. I worked part-time and bought her 8. expensive gift box of Sichuan beef. I was certain she would like it because I 9. (tell) by my classmates that she loved hot food. I left the box with a card on her desk and I was sure she would like them. 10. was only after I heard she became sick that I learned she couldn’t eat MSG (味精)!
请阅读相关信息（选自Teens 1-3期的文章片段），并找出与之匹配的标题。如选E请涂AB，如选F请涂CD。
1.The question is, how faithful is it to the novel? “Any adaptation of such a classic will meet with criticism. Li’s brave attempt offers a new view of the novel and so encourages us to return to it to experience it again.” Hu Xiaowen, 16, of Shanghai No 3 High School.
2. In the words of the Chinese saying, it is of greater benefit to travel ten thousand miles than read ten thousand books. The Arctic taught me about the real world and the importance of protecting our environment.” Zhang said.
3.What do dreams mean? Dreams are not always filled with meaning. Sometimes dreams are just your mind playing with thoughts and images from your life, or things you may have read or seen on TV. But at other times, dreams show things that you want to achieve in real life, or things that cause you trouble or stress.
4. Being pure can be simple, not having complicated thoughts and being inexperienced. However, it doesn’t mean an ignorant or naive person. So, a person is pure in his or her nature if he or she is always enthusiastic and able to deal with difficult matters independently. This purity doesn’t pass with time.” 16-year-old Tan Mengxi of Nanjing said.
5. Because just thinking a word and not saying it produces the same brain waves, Greger and his team believe that soon they will be able to have a translation machine and voice box that repeats the word a person is thinking.
A. What Makes a Pure Girl?
B. A Chance in a Lifetime.
C. How do Dreams Work.
D. An Intern’s Dream.
E. A Dream We can Love?
F. Speech for the Speechless.
