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The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the only Chinese festival1.（connect）
with love in the lunar calendar. Valentine’s Day in China usually2.（fall） in August.
3. the evening of the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, Niulang and Zhinü meet on a bridge of magpies （喜鹊）across the Milky Way. If it rains that night, the rain will be the tears of Niulang and Zhinü.
Compared with love stories in western legends（传说），4.story of Niulang and Zhinü seems not so romantic. They just wait patiently on the riverbank,5.（believe） that their love can be worth their not staying together. Unlike St. Valentine’s Day in other6.（country ），there is not so much importance on giving chocolates，7. （ beauty ） flowers and kisses. Instead, Chinese girls prepare fruits, melons and so on as offerings to Zhinü. They ask Zhinü to give them wisdom and high skills in making hand-made arts with needles in the hope of finding their satisfactory husbands. On that day, people in love like to go to the local temple and hope 8.（ get） their love and possible marriage.
At night, people sit outdoors to observe the stars 9.（happy ）.Some old people say that if you stand under a grapevine （葡萄藤） ， you can probably overhear10.Niulang and Zhinü are talking about.
At a certain point in our lives we realize we may be making life harder than it has to be. Perhaps we feel there is not enough time,________，love, or creativity available to change our situation. We seem to have lost our________ to turn our dreams into reality. The following ___________may give us some hints（暗示） about future.
A boy wants a drum，but his mother can’t ________ one，and sadly, she gives him a stick. Though he doesn’t know what to do with it, he begins to play with the stick. He then comes across an old woman ________ to light her stove. The boy gives her the stick and she ________ her stove, makes some bread, and ________ she gives him half a loaf.
Walking on, the boy comes upon a potter’s（制陶工人） wife whose child is crying because of ________. The boy gives her the bread. In gratitude，she gives him a pot. Though he doesn’t know what to do with it, he ________ it along the river, where he sees a man and his wife ________ because the wife broke one pot. The boy gives them the pot. In return, they present him ________ a coat.
Since the boy isn’t cold，he carries the coat ________ he comes to a bridge, where a man is shivering. The man was attacked and robbed of everything ________ his horse. The boy gives him the coat. And the man gives him his horse.
Not knowing how to ride, the boy ________ the horse into town, where he sees a wedding party with musicians. The bridegroom and his family are all sitting under a tree with long ________. According to custom, the bridegroom is ________ to enter the wedding procession on a horse, which hasn’t shown, so the boy gives him the ________.
_____, the bridegroom asks what he can do for the boy. Seeing the drummer ________by all his drums, the boy asks for the smallest drum, which the musician ________ gives him.
1.A. money B. work C. energy D. experience
2.A. nature B. desire C. standard D. ability
3.A. topic B. story C. idea D. activity
4.A. cost B. expect C. afford D. provide
5.A. trying B. managing C. performing D. preferring
6.A. makes B. uses C. burns D. lights
7.A. in person B. in return C. in future D. in addition
8.A. hunger B. cold C. disease D. thirst
9.A. makes B. wears C. carries D. creates
10.A. dancing B. laughing C. working D. quarrelling
11.A. for B. with C. to D. over
12.A. until B. unless C. because D. whether
13.A. with B. but C. and D. besides
14.A. sends B. controls C. frightens D. walks
15.A. necks B. arms C. faces D. legs
16.A. supposed B. reported C. meant D. allowed
17.A. pot B. coat C. stick D. horse
18.A. Annoyed B. Relieved C. Ashamed D. Encouraged
19.A. introduced B. attracted C. surrounded D. impressed
20.A. worriedly B. silently C. gladly D. luckily
How to Survive High School
High school can be a terrible period if you get it all wrong. Find out how to survive high school with a few easy tips.
Be Yourself.
High school is a fun time to make new friends and meet new people. Make friends with a variety of people and not just a group which you are comfortable with. Most peer pressure cases are because of the weak image created by freshmen. Just be yourself and create a strong self-image. 1.
2.
Choose your friends carefully and make sure you won’t get influenced by anyone. By judging who you can connect with, you will find friends. Stay away from the ones who don’t want to be your friends as bad company（同伴） is tempting, but good company can be your true friends.
Be Optimistic.
There is nothing better than having a smile on your face whenever you can.3.Don’t be afraid to make friends，don’t get aggressive or personal and treat others the way you want to be treated. Respect your teachers and classmates and try to be helpful if you want the same in return.
Be Confident.
When you believe in yourself, others believe in you. Talk and walk confidently, and this will create a strong image about you.4.Be creative and unique and learn to set trends. Confidence is one quality you grow with, and people respect you for that.
Love High School.
5.Make the most of it，as you will never get those moments back. Come up with prank（恶作剧）ideas， get a detention（放学后留校），top your class, make the best friends, go to the party, but just make as many memories as you can!
With these tips to survive high school, you will surely be proud of graduating as an all-round approaching adult carrying the best roots. So, when you throw those hats in the air, feel the freedom and remember every moment you have spent in ” High School” .
A. Always Wear Your Smiles.
B. Keep Good Company.
C. Don’t give in to anyone’s wants.
D. Practice positive thinking.
E. Do your things, and don’t imitate（模仿）others.
F. Fall in love with it.
G. Study as hard as you can.
Could your next pet be a goat? New research suggests that these farm animals try to communicate with people in the same way that dogs and horses do. In a series of experiments, researchers found that when the animals had a problem that they couldn’t solve alone，the goats would gaze at a person for help. The research also shows that goats will change their actions according to a person’s behavior.
Goats were the first domesticated（驯化为）livestock species, about 10,000 years ago, according to Alan McElligott. “From our earlier research, we already know that goats are smarter than people think, but these results show how they can communicate and interact with people even though they were not domesticated as pets or working animals，” McElligott said in a statement.
To test the goats’ communication skills, the researchers trained the animals to remove the lid from a box to receive a reward. The reward was then made inaccessible（得不到的，不能接近的）, and the goats’ reactions toward the experimenters—who were either facing the goats or had turned away—were recorded. The researchers found that the goats would gaze at the forward-facing person more often, and for longer periods of time. Sometimes, the goats would also approach the forward-facing person before returning to the box.
“Goats gaze at humans in the same way as dogs when asking for a treat that is out of reach，” study researcher Christian Nawroth said in the same statement. “Our results provide strong evidence for communication directed at humans in a species that was domesticated mainly for agricultural product, and goats show similarities with animals bred to become pets or working animals，such as dogs and horses.”
The authors said that they hope the study will help people to better understand domesticated animals like goats, dogs and horses, and how they interact with humans.
1.The underlined word “they” in the first paragraph refers to .
A. the researchers B. the horses
C. the goats D. the dogs
2.What did the goats do after they couldn’t receive the reward?
A. They refused to remove the lid.
B. They stared at the experimenters.
C. They turned away.
D. They returned to the box quickly.
3.What is the aim of the research?
A. To study the habits of animals in order to understand their feelings.
B. To raise more domesticated animals like goats, dogs and horses.
C. To show the similarity between goats and dogs.
D. To make people better understand domesticated animals.
On a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of a New York subway station, playing his violin. Many of passers-by slowed down their paces and put some money into the hat of the young man.
The next day, at the same place, he put his hat on the ground gracefully. Different from the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it on the ground and put some stones on it. Then he adjusted the violin and began playing. It seemed more pleasant to listen to.
The words read，“Last night，a gentleman named George Sang put an important thing into my hat mistakenly. Please come to claim it soon. ”
Seeing this, people wondered what it could be. After about half an hour , a middle-aged man ran there hurriedly and rushed through the crowd to the violinist and grabbed his shoulders and said，“Yes，it’s you. You do come here. I knew that you were an honest man and would certainly come here. ”
“Are you Mr. George Sang? ” asked the young violinist.
The man nodded. “Did you lose something?” “Lottery. It's lottery.” “Is it?” The violinist took out a lottery ticket and asked.
George nodded immediately and seized the lottery ticket and kissed it, and then he danced with the violinist.
The story turned out to be this： George Sang bought a lottery ticket, winning a prize of $ 500,000. After work, he passed the station and felt the music was so wonderful that he took out 50 dollars and put it in the hat. However, the lottery ticket was also thrown in. The violinist was a student at an Arts College and had planned to attend further study in Vienna. He had booked the ticket and would fly that morning. However, when he was cleaning up he found the lottery ticket. Thinking that the owner would return to look for it，he cancelled the flight and came back to where he was given the lottery ticket.
When asked why he didn’t take the lottery ticket for himself，the violinist said，“Although I don’t have much money，I live happily; but if I lose honesty, I won’t be happy forever.’’
1.What is the order of the story?
a. The violinist tried to look for the ticket owner.
b. George Sang won a lottery.
c. George Sang threw $ 50 and his lottery ticket in the hat of a violinist.
d. The violinist found the owner of the lottery ticket.
e. A young student played the violin near a subway station.
A. c，d，e，a，b B. b，c，e，d，a
C. b，e，c，a，d D. c，a，d，b，e
2.George Sang was so that he kissed the lost ticket and danced with the violinist.
A. moved B. disappointed
C. mad D. pleased
3.By telling the story, the writer intends to tell us that .
A. getting rich overnight is important
B. showing sympathy for others is important
C. being honest is of great importance
D. school fees are high at present
4.We can learn from the passage that .
A. the college the young violinist was going to attend is not in New York
B. many people usually put their money in their hat in the distant past
C. George Sang may give some money to the young violinist as a reward
D. all the people who win lotteries are generous and easy-going
The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and the environment. These findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.
David Tillman, a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, America, examined information from 100 countries to identify what people ate and how diet affected health. He noted a movement beginning in the 1960s. He found that as nations industrialized, population increased and earnings rose, more people began to adopt what has been called the Western diet.
The Western diet is high in sugar, fat, oil and meat. By eating these foods, people began to get fatter and sicker. David Tillman says overweight people are at greater risk of non-infectious diseases like diabetes （糖尿病）and heart disease.
Unfortunately, when people become industrialized, if they adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these health problems, especially in developing countries in Asia. China is an example where the number of diabetes cases has been jumping from less than one percent to 10 percent of the population as it began to industrialize over a 20-year period. And that is happening all across the world, in Nigeria and so on.
And，a diet bad for human beings is also bad for the environment. As the world’s population grows，more forests and tropical areas will become farmland for crops or grasslands for cattle. We are likely to have more greenhouse gas in the future from agriculture than that coming out of all forms of transportation right now.
Mr. Tillman calls the link between diet, the environment and human health, “a dilemma”，a problem offering a difficult choice. He says one possible solution is leaving the Western diet behind.
1.David Tillman believes that .
A. diet, the environment and human health are closely connected
B. the Western diet is the only choice as nations industrialized
C. people in tropical areas are more likely to have heart disease
D. traditional diet is more balanced than the Western diet
2.According to the passage, more greenhouse gas might be given off in the future from .
A. transportation B. developing countries
C. agriculture D. developed countries
3.What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Nigeria has the largest number of diabetes cases.
B. Overweight people are at higher risk of infectious diseases.
C. The examined information comes from developing countries.
D. Industrialization contributes to the spread of the Western diet.
4.What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A. Call on us to protect the environment.
B. Warn us of the danger of the Western diet.
C. Remind us of the importance of health.
D. Advise us to have a balanced diet.
