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根据中文和英文提示，写一封意思连贯、符合逻辑、不少于50词的回信。信的开头和结尾已给出，其词数不计入所完成的回信内。
假如你叫李涛，最近和美国朋友Peter通过电子邮件谈论各自国家的传统节日。请根据他的问题回复邮件。
提示词语：Spring Festival, new clothes, lucky money, clean, get together, fireworks
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容回答问题。
Mike was a good and well-trained boy. His parents loved him very much. He did everything well, but Mike had one bad habit. He ate a lot of sweets and chocolates. Those were his favorite. He just couldn't refuse. His mother always told him, "Mike doesn’t eat so many sweets. You will get toothaches. "
His mother used to keep all the sweets in a glass jar(罐子). It had a narrow mouth and a tight lid on it
One day when his mother went to the market, Mike saw that his father was asleep. So he walked carefully and slowly to the kitchen and got the sweet jar. With great effort, he opened the tight lid and put his hand in narrow mouth. Mike picked a fist(拳头) full of sweets. But when he tried to pull his hand out, it got stuck(卡) in the jar.
Mike's father was awake and watching. He said to Mike, "You have picked up too many sweets in your fist. it's more than your little hand can keep. Your fist cannot come out of the jar. Let go of the sweets and pick only one sweet in your two fingers and you can pull your hand out easily. Always take as much as you can control."
Mike pulled out his hand from the jar easily and he learned a lesson for his life, too.
1.Was Mike a well-trained boy?
2.What was Mike's bad habit ?
3.Where did his mother use to keep the sweets ?
4.What happened when Mike wanted to pull his hand out of the jar?
5.What lesson did Mike learn?
阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。每个选项只能用一次。
Once, two birds named Cici and Nick lived in a nest. 1. They always found excuse for not doing any work.
On a cold winter day, a strong wind was blowing. There was some snowfall too. By chance, a hole was made in their nest(巢).The cold wind blew in through the hole and got away the warmth from the nest. 2. Nick thought, "I wonder why Cici is so lazy? Why is she not repairing the hole?"
On the other hand, Cici thought that Nick would fill the hole. Both of them were depending on each other. 3. .
Soon snow started to fall and the wind nearly blew off the last warm air from the inside of their nest. The snowflakes entered the nest through the hole. The lazy birds started shivering (颤) with cold. 4. .
In the morning both the birds were dead in their nest. They had shivered to death but because of laziness they had not got up to repair the hole.
Life is the same. Some people never get success. 5. .Do you think so?
A. Because their laziness blows out the chances.
B. But no one was active enough to work.
C. Both of them were very lazy.
D. Both the birds started feeling cold.
E. So no one repaired the hole.
Happiness is a feeling that lights up your eyes, makes your steps light and makes you want to sing for no reason. Everyone wants to be happy. But sometimes, a guest comes in without invitation. It's unhappiness. Don't let it get you down. Send it away!
When you feel happy, the world feels like a better place. As the saying goes: When you smile, the world smiles with you; when you cry, you cry alone. Wearing a smile will make you more charming (迷人的) and help you to win lots of friends. A good mood always gives you hope, which makes trouble and problems easier to handle.
No matter how happy you are, it's normal to feel angry, sad or gloomy once in a while. Life is full of ups and downs. We can't change the way life is, but we can do our best to change a bad situation into a good one. To help us do this, it's good to know some of the factors (因素) that influence happiness.
One of the biggest factors is social relationships. People who are close to family and friend are happier than people who don't have those relationships. Talking and sharing is a good way to relax and build confidence (信心). Knowing someone is there for you will make you braver and more outgoing.
Another factor is work or school. If you enjoy school, even if you have lots of homework or extra classes, you will still feel that your school life is meaningful and happy. But if you hate school, your negative attitude may cause you to feel bored and upset that you have to do so much work.
A third factor is your attitude towards life. How do you feel if you fail in an exam? Maybe you think it's unfair because you always study hard and should get a good mark. You can't stop blaming yourself. Or, maybe you accept it. You go through the paper carefully, find out why you made stupid mistakes, and tell yourself, "Take it easy! I'll do better next time!" Your attitude makes a big difference.
1.The writer tells us ______ factors that influence happiness.
A. two B. three C. four D. five
2.If you fail in an exam you should ______ .
A. blame yourself
B. complain about others
C. work harder than before
D. go through the paper again
3.Which of the following is probably the best title for the passage?
A. Make Trouble Easy To Handle
B. Your School Life Is Happy
C. The World Smiles With You
D. You Make Your Own Happiness
Street Ping Pong— Ping!
Do you like table tennis? If you had traveled to cities in the UK like London or Birmingham last summer, you might have seen one of the dozens of free tables that were there as part of a project （项目） called Ping!.
What is Ping!?
Ping！is a three-year table tennis project. It has been running since 2010 and this year, 2012, is the final year. The idea is to put free table tennis tables in eight different towns in the UK for four weeks during the summer. Each table comes with its own bats and balls and is free to play. You can find the tables outdoors.
What does Ping! hope to achieve?
It would be great if Ping！helped find a new Olympic table tennis star but what Ping! really hopes to achieve is just to get people playing and having fun together. "Putting a ping pong table on the street gives people a chance to connect with other people," said Meera Sodha , Ping! Project Manager.
One of the towns that took part in the project was Hull, a city in England. Forty-five tables were put into the city. Jakob Adamski, an ESOL student learning. English, said, "I really enjoyed playing table tennis in the park. It was also a good way for me to practice my English and meet people."
1.When did the Ping! project start?
A. Last summer. B. Last winter.
C. In 2010. D. In 2012.
2.What's the Ping! project?
A. Choosing table tennis stars.
B. Holding table tennis matches.
C. Teaching people how to play table tennis.
D. Putting free table tennis tables in some towns.
3.The purpose of the Ping! project is
A. to help people practice English
B. to invite people to visit the UK cities
C. to get people to play and have fun together.
D. to encourage people to take part in the 2012 Olympics
One day, my mother and I went shopping at a Chinese supermarket. We found that the crucian carps(鲫鱼)in the seafood counter were very fresh, as a result we chose four crucian carps and handed them over to the seller. As it would take some time to clean the fish and dispose of their internal organs(处理内脏）, we decided to look around the other places first. When we came back to the seafood counter, I asked the seller for my fish. He raised one, which was being cleaned, to let me have a look and tell me he was still working on the fish. I hurriedly said, "Go ahead. Go ahead." I meant for him to go on.
To my surprise, the seller stopped his work, looking at me with puzzled (困惑的) expression, and asked me," Go ahead?”“Yes," I said, "go ahead". He pointed at the fish in all seriousness, and repeated very seriously, "Head?" Paying no more attention to him, I turned back to chat with my mother. Suddenly," Bang, bang, bang," was heard from the counter. Quickly, the seller passed the four fish without heads to me.
I asked loudly, "Why did you cut all the heads off?" The seller was also very angry and said, "Didn't you tell me to go ahead again and again?"On hearing what he said I felt funny as well as angry. It turned out that he considered "go ahead" as "cut the head off". No wonder he asked me several times about it!
1. The writer went to ____ with her mother that day.
A. a restaurant B. a beach
C. a supermarket D. a park
2.What does "Go ahead" mean in this passage?
A.Go on cleaning the fish.
B. Continue walking.
C.Cut off the heads of the fish.
D. Go around.
3.The seller cut all the heads off because ____.
A. the writer asked him to do so
B. he was angry with the writer
C. he wanted to cut off the heads
D. he didn't understand what the writer said
