Having put down your pens at the end of the college entrance exam, you have ended 12 years of hard study. Forget your studies for a while. It's time to enjoy yourselves!
There are many ways to celebrate this special month of graduation. You can have photos taken with your classmates and teachers, or dine out together and exchange gifts.
High school students in Western countries such as the United States and Canada usually have a prom to mark their graduation. It's to mark the time kids turn into young men and women. After the prom, teenagers either go to college or find a job. It means they are no longer as dependent on their parents as they were before.
At the prom, boys usually dress in dinner jackets and bow ties, though many different types of formal clothes are worn. Traditionally, girls give boys matching boutonnieres ( 佩带在扣眼上的花). Girls traditionally wear formal dresses, or dress to shock or be noticed, in shiny or brightly colored materials.
Common prom activities include dining, dancing, the crowning (加冠) of a prom king and queen, and just talking to friends. In some cases, high school students collect funds for their class prom through the four years of their high school.
High schools in or near large cities may rent ballrooms at expensive hotels or, to be unusual, in a pleasure cruise boat.
But often costs are cut by simply using the school gym. Students make a lot of effort to decorate the gym to make the event special. The music played at the prom will be the most popular kinds, like rock and hip-hop.
The students elect the Prom Queen. She is partnered with a Prom King who is elected similarly. These are great honors that the pair take very seriously. The two dance with each other to celebrate their election.
1.The word "prom" is probably closest in meaning with________.
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A．a party to celebrate graduation |
B．a dancing competition |
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C．a fashion show |
D．an election ceremony |
2.Which of the following is an economical way to hold the prom?
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A．Renting a ballroom. |
B．Taking a cruise boat. |
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C．Holding it in the school gym. |
D．Wearing informal dresses. |
3. What clearly indicates that prom is very important to students?
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A．Music is played at the prom. |
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B．They take pictures at the prom. |
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C．The King and Queen dance with each other. |
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D．They wear formal clothes or special clothes. |
4.For what do the students just talk to friends at a prom?
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A．They don't want to get help from their parents. |
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B．They will part with their friends in a short time. |
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C．They don't like to be accompanied by their parents. |
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D．They want to be elected by their friends as the Prom King or Queen. |
5.How is the prom significant to the students?
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A．They can be relieved from the study pressure. |
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B．They are going to say goodbye to their friends. |
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C．They have chances to be elected as the Prom King or Queen. |
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D．The prom marks the graduation and after it they will be independent. |
Even after many years, she still has not forgotten the last day her whole class got together to say goodbye to their dearest schooldays. Those 36 memories always become vivid every time nostalgia (怀旧) drives her feet towards the old 37 , only to find a big old tree with all of their names carved deep into the 38 and the new school houses.
Time has changed each fate beyond any 39 .The jolly "dwarf"(快乐的矮子) of the class has now turned into a 40 businessman. The shy, skinny "bookworm" is now a talented Ph. D. That naughty girl has 41 the well-known athlete and the class beauty a movie star. But she, a 42 addict, was driven by an inner force to put her pen aside and becomes a 43 instead.
Now, she is a teacher, yet she has to 44 learning numerous difficult lessons of life. The more she 45 , the better she understands the value of her teacher's 46 lesson. She has given her students the whole-hearted 47 and tenderness that she once received from her teacher who passed 48 years ago.
Now and then, she catches 49 of a warm look in the eyes of her students, which encourages her to 50 . She hopes to find herself again in her students: always listening carefully and appreciating each 51 . To her, that will be the noblest award she could 52 receive in her teaching years.
She tells herself to try her best to understand and take life at its deepest. 53 she hasn't enough teaching experience she will give her students the 54 that are not written in the lesson plans, as her teacher used to do. Her teacher's 55 "The giving of love is an education in itself" will be always in her mind.
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It is said that the famous football star is not willing to play for ____would pay him three million dollars a year.
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A．anyone |
B．whomever |
C．no matter who |
D．whoever |
---.Don’t you think it necessary that he ____to Miami but to New York?
----I agree , but the problem is _____he has refused to.
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A．will not be sent ; that |
B．not be sent ;that |
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C．should not be sent; what |
D．should not send; what |
The car ran into a crowd of middle school students, ______to hospital immediately.
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A．two of whom sent |
B．two of them sending |
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C．two of whom are sent |
D．two of them sent |
The room with the window _____north wants______.
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A．facing; cleaned |
B．faces; cleaning |
C．faced; to be cleaned |
D．facing; cleaning |
