假设你的一位在外国出生的亲戚要回中国过春节，他想了解我国过春节的情况。请你根据下面要点写一篇英语短文。
1. 春节是中国的重大节日。
2. 节前人们要大扫除。
3. 全家人在一起吃年夜饭。
4. 孩子们会得到压岁钱。
5. 年初一穿新衣服，走亲访友，互道吉利。
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生词:大扫除have a thorough cleaning
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Alice, my closest friend, devotes many energy to her lessons all day long. She is always one of the top student in our class. She loves the music so much that she made it a rule to enjoy some pop songs in her spare time. Alice is always willing to help other, and she often helps us with our lessons. As an enthusiastic volunteer she has successful organized varieties of voluntary activities. We paid visit to nursing home last month, so we picked up rubbish near our school. That we did was warmly welcomed by the staff in the home. Win honour for our school. Alice is admired by our classmates.
The Great Wall of China is more than 6,000 kilometres long. It winds 1. (it) way from west to cast, across deserts, over mountains, through valleys 2.at last it reaches the sea. The Great Wall has a history of over twenty centuries. The first part of it 3. (build) during the Spring and Autumn period. During the Qin Dynasty, 4. (keep) the enemy out of his empire, Emperor Qin Shi Huang had all the walls 5. (join) up. Thus, the Great Wall came into being. The Great Wall is wide enough at 6.top for five horses or ten men to walk side by side. Along the wall are watchtowers, 7.soldiers used to keep watch. Fires were lit on the towers as a 8. (warn) when the enemy came.
It was 9. (extreme)difficult to build such a wall in the ancient days without any modern machines. All the work was done 10.hand. Thousands of men died and were buried under the wall they built. The Great Wall was made not only of stone and earth, but of the flesh and blood of millions of men.
My husband, Tom, has always been good with animals, but I was still amazed when he befriended a female grouse (松鸡). It’s ______for a grouse to have any contact (接触)with people. In fact, they’re hard to spot, ______they usually fly off when they hear humans approaching
This grouse came into our lives in _______Tom was working out in the field when he ______her walking around at the edge of the field. She was ______unafraid and seemed to be ______about what he was doing,
Tom saw the ______bird several times, and site got more comfortable around him. We quickly grew ______of the bird and decided to call her Mildred.
One day, as Tom was working, Mildred came within a few feet of him to watch. Tom ______he didn’t see her and kept working to see what she would do next.
Apparently, she didn’t like to be ______. She’d run up and peck (啄) at Tom’s hands, then ______ off to see what he would do. This went on for about 20 minutes, until Mildred became tired of the ______and left.
As spring went and summer came, Mildred started to ______more and more often. ______Mildred felt comfortable enough to jump up on Tom’s leg and stay long enough for me to get a ______of the two of them together. This friendly grouse soon felt ______no just with our family, but with anybody who walked or drove by.
When hunting season opened, we put a ______at the end of our driveway asking ______not to shoot our pet grouse. My father, who lived down the road, ______warned people not to shoot her. ______, hunters would stop and take pictures, because they had never seen anything like her.
1.A. interesting B. reasonable C. impossible D. unusual
2.A. though B. because C. unless D. until
3.A. spring B. summer C. autumn D. winter
4.A. got B. kept C. noticed D. imagined
5.A. naturally B. certainly C. normally D. surprisingly
6.A. crazy B. curious C. concerned D. cautious
7.A. shy B. awkward C. friendly D. elegant
8.A. careful B. tired C. fond D. sick
9.A. supposed B. realized C. hoped D. pretended
10.A. ignored B. observed C. amazed D. disturbed
11.A. put B. back C. set D. take
12.A. game B. work C. place D. man
13.A. give up B. come out C. turn over D. fly by
14.A. Eventually B. Suddenly C. Constantly D. Presently
15.A. chance B. dream C. picture D. sense
16.A. comfortable B. guilty C. anxious D. familiar
17.A. lantern B. sign C. gun D. loudspeaker
18.A. drivers B. farmers C. hunters D. tourists
19.A. just B. yet C. thus D. also
20.A. In fact B. For long C. On the contrary D. By the way
Lots people find it hard to get up in the morning and put the blame on the alarm clock. In fact, the key to easy morning wake-up lies in resting your body clock 1.. Here is how to make one.
2.In order to make a change, you need to decide why it’s important. Do you want to get up in time to have breakfast with your family, get in some exercise, or just be better prepared for your day? Once you are clear about your reason, tell your family or roommates about the change you want to make.
Rethink mornings. Now that you know why you want to wake up, consider re-arranging your morning activities. If you want time to have breakfast with your family, save some time the night before by setting out clothes, shoes, and bags. 3.That’s a quarter-hour more you could be sleeping if you bought a coffee maker with a timer.
Keep your sleep/wake schedule on weekends. If you’re tired out by Friday night, sleeping in on Saturday could sound wonderful. But compensating(补偿)on the weekends actually feeds into your sleepiness the following week, a recent study found. 4.
Keep a record and evaluate it weekly. Keep track of your efforts and write down how you feel. After you’ve tried a new method for a week, take a look at your record. 5.If not, take another look at other methods you could try..
A. Get a sleep specialist.
B. Find the right motivation.
C. A better plan for sleep can help.
D. And consider setting a second alarm.
E. If the steps you take are working. keep it up.
F. Stick to your set bedtime and wake-up time, no matter the day.
G Reconsider the 15 minutes you sp. end in line at the cafe to get coffee.
Given that many people ‘s moods(情绪)are regulated by the chemical action of chocolate, it was probably only a matter of time before somebody made the chocolate shop similar to a drugstore of Chinese medicine. Looking like a setting from the film Charlie& the Chocolate Factory, Singapore’ s Chocolate Research Facility (CRF) has over 100 varieties of chocolates. Its founder is Chris Lee who grew up at his parents’ comer store with one hand almost always in the jar of sweets.
If the CRF seems to be a smart idea, that’s because Lee is not merely a seasoned salesperson but also head of a marketing department that has business relations with big names such as Levi’s and Sony. That idea surely results in the imagination at work when it comes to making different flavored (味道)chocolates.
The CRF’s produce is “green” made within the country and divided into10 lines, with the Alcohol Series being the most popular. The Exotic Series—with Sichuan pepper, red bean (豆), cheese and other flavors also—does well and is fun to taste. And for chocolate snobs, who think that they have a better knowledge of chocolate than others, the Connoisseur Series uses cocoa beans from Togo, Cuba, Venezuela , and Ghana, among others.
1.What is good about chocolate?
A. It serves as a suitable gift. On
B. It works as an effective medicine.
C. It helps improve the state of mind.
D. It strengthens business relations.
2.Why is Chris Lee able to develop his idea of the CRF?
A. He knows the importance of research.
B. He learns form shops of similar types.
C. He has the support of many big names.
D. He has a lot of marketing experience.
3.Which line of the CRF produce sells best?
A. The Connoisseur Series.
B. The Exotic Series.
C. The Alcohol Series.
D. The Sichuan Series.
4.The words “chocolate snobs” in Paragraph 3 probably refer to people who .
A. are particular about chocolate
B. know little about cocoa beans
C. look down upon others
D. like to try new flavors
