Reading and writing are more important for senior school students. First we must choose the books we’re interested in. A lot of reading will improve your language sense. This is the most important.
Keep writing English diaries. We can also write English articles. You may even post them to English magazines. Don’t be afraid of failure. Failure is the mother of success.
Easier said than done. Well, let’s do more practice from now on. I’m sure you’ll learn English well in this way.
( )6. You can learn to swim by_______.
A. reading books about it B. having lessons on it
C. going into the river and learning
( )7. We should learn English by _______.
A. listening and speaking B. reading and writing C. A and B
( )8. What will you do with mistakes when you speak?
A. Don’t make mistakes. B. Study hard C. Don’t be afraid.
( )9. What’s more important for senior school students?
A. Listening B. Reading and writing C. Speaking
( )10. We can listen to English ______, according to the passage.
A. on the radio B. every minute C. now and then
C
The Spring Festival is celebrated not only in China but also in other parts of the world. The traditional holiday is the most important to Chinese both home and abroad.
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United Kingdom Celebrations for Spring Festival in the UK started in 1980, with the first evening party held in 2002. Every New Year, people get together and have a lot of activities. They sing songs, dance to music, share photos with friends or enjoy films in a cinema. |
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United States Spring Festival has become a key time for Chinese living or working in the US. They join in a large evening party to welcome the traditional New Year. It is a good chance for people to build a circle of friends and feel that they are not alone because they share the same culture and values. |
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Australia The Chinese New Year will be welcomed with three weeks of celebrations across Australia. Many people come to Sydney’s Chinatown or Little Bourke in Melbourne. They enjoy fireworks, lion dances, dragon boat races and many other traditional activities. The celebrations are also a bridge towards better understanding between Chinese and non-Chinese. |
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Singapore The family dinner on New Year’s Eve is an important tradition for Chinese whether they were born in Singapore or moved there from China. They place traditional food on a table as an act of remembering their past. Then the whole family enjoy their dinner together. They usually hold it at home because having it in a restaurant takes away the meaning of the tradition. |
( )11. Celebrations for Spring Festival in the UK started in .
A. 1890 B. 1980 C. 2002
( )12. At Spring Festival, American Chinese join in a large evening party to .
A.welcome the traditional New Year B. refuse a good chance
C. tell others they are alone
( )13. Chinese in Australia enjoy the following activities except .
A.
( )14. In Singapore, Chinese families don’t hold the new year dinner in a restaurant but at home because .
A. they were born in Singapore B. they moved there from other places
C. they want to keep Chinese tradition
( )15.. After reading the passage above, we might say .
A. all parts of the world celebrate Spring Festival
B. the Chinese New Year is celebrated only in China
C. Chinese across the world have a strong feeling towards Spring Festival
D
Bill Gates was head of the software company Microsoft and one of the world's richest men. He was born on October 28, 1955 and grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. He was a very bright boy. Science and math were his two favorite subjects at school. And he dreamed of being a scientist.
Bill first started to play on computers at the age of 13. At that time, a computer was a very large machine.Once he was interested in a very old computer. He and some of his friends spent as much time as possible on computers. In the end, they worked out a software program. Bill sold it for 4,200 dollars when he was only 17.
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