The Yellow Mountain is one of the most famous m__1__ in China. Every year l__2__ of Chinese people and foreigners visit it. It is not f__3__ from here. You can s__4__ about two hours getting there by bus. You can also go there by train o__5__ by plane. When you are c__6__ the mountains, you can e__7__ the sea of clouds, wonderful trees and rocks (岩石) a__8__ you. In the e__9__ morning when the sun rises (升起)，the sun looks b__10__. It is really a good place to go.

 

It’s a goal for millions and millions of families every year to keep the Christmas spending within a certain amount of money, but you can still afford the gifts because your loved ones will enjoy them. This concern (忧虑) is becoming greater and greater theses days. Even so, there are several things that you can do to help.

Hit the sales. No one wants to get up at four o’clock in the morning and fight to get a good deal (交易) on Black Friday ( the first Friday at Christmas time). It’s surely very difficult to pick up the courage and get out there in the cold for a good deal. But sometimes it can be well worth. Many retailers (零售商) offer specials all through the day. Some even offer online Black Friday specials, so we may still be able to get a great deal on Black Friday.
Read advertisements regularly. Once the Christmas shopping season is coming, retailers will be hungry for business. They will try their best to get us into the store. Please read the weekly advertisements of sales among the major retailers from time to time. We may be lucky enough to find different prices for the same thing in different shops.
Shop online. Some of us don’t like running from store to store to get the best price on the perfect gift. Some of us don’t like to go out in the cold at all, and then, we can do online shopping.
The world of online shopping makes it possible for us to visit all the major retailers and some
specialty stores on the Internet. We can find exactly what we are looking for at the best possible price without even having to leave the house. With traditional Christmas shopping, it will always take us a long time to wait if we want to get the perfect gift.
【小题1】 The underlined word “specials” in Paragraph 2 means______.

A．赠品

B．奢侈品

C．特价商品

D．圣诞礼品

【小题2】We can have more choices to get a good deal ______.

A．on the Internet

B．in specialty stores

C．from salesmen

D．from retailers

【小题3】In this passage the writer wants to ______.

A．tell us to shop online

B．tell us the best way to do shopping

C．show us how hard it is to do Christmas shopping

D．give us advice on how to get a good deal at Christmas time

【小题4】 From the passage we can infer (推断) that ______.

A．people are surely able to get a good deal on Friday

B．it is possible for people to buy the perfect Christmas gifts with less money

C．retailers will be hungry because they are busy selling Christmas gifts

D．with traditional Christmas shopping, people can’t buy the perfect gifts

根据对话意思和所给首字母，写出完整正确的单词。

Cindy: Do you know Zhalong?

Beibei: Yes,  it's a very 1. i_________wetland in the world.

Cindy: Where is it?

Beibei: It's in Heilongjiang Province in north-east China.

Cindy: Why do lots of2.) t_________go there every year?

Beibei: Because it' s a nature reserve. They go there3.f_________birdwatching.

Cindy: What kind of birds live there?

Beibei; There're many different kinds of birds,  including some endangered 4.o_________.

Cindy: What does the reserve provide for the birds? Is it a great place for them?

Beibei: Yes,  it 5. p_________food and shelter for them.

Cindy: Oh,  it's interesting. Thanks. Beibei: It's my pleasure.

 

It’s a goal for millions and millions of families every year to keep the Christmas spending within a certain amount of money, but you can still afford the gifts because your loved ones will enjoy them. This concern (忧虑) is becoming greater and greater theses days. Even so, there are several things that you can do to help.

Hit the sales. No one wants to get up at four o’clock in the morning and fight to get a good deal (交易) on Black Friday ( the first Friday at Christmas time). It’s surely very difficult to pick up the courage and get out there in the cold for a good deal. But sometimes it can be well worth. Many retailers (零售商) offer specials all through the day. Some even offer online Black Friday specials, so we may still be able to get a great deal on Black Friday.

Read advertisements regularly. Once the Christmas shopping season is coming, retailers will be hungry for business. They will try their best to get us into the store. Please read the weekly advertisements of sales among the major retailers from time to time. We may be lucky enough to find different prices for the same thing in different shops.

Shop online. Some of us don’t like running from store to store to get the best price on the perfect gift. Some of us don’t like to go out in the cold at all, and then, we can do online shopping.

The world of online shopping makes it possible for us to visit all the major retailers and some

specialty stores on the Internet. We can find exactly what we are looking for at the best possible price without even having to leave the house. With traditional Christmas shopping, it will always take us a long time to wait if we want to get the perfect gift.

1. The underlined word “specials” in Paragraph 2 means______.

A. 赠品            B. 奢侈品            C. 特价商品          D. 圣诞礼品

2.We can have more choices to get a good deal ______.

A. on the Internet    B. in specialty stores   C. from salesmen        D. from retailers

3.In this passage the writer wants to ______.

A. tell us to shop online                      

B. tell us the best way to do shopping

C. show us how hard it is to do Christmas shopping

D. give us advice on how to get a good deal at Christmas time

4. From the passage we can infer (推断) that ______.

A. people are surely able to get a good deal on Friday

B. it is possible for people to buy the perfect Christmas gifts with less money

C. retailers will be hungry because they are busy selling Christmas gifts

D. with traditional Christmas shopping, people can’t buy the perfect gifts

 

请认真阅读下面短文，并根据各题所给首字母的提示，写出一个合适的英语单词完整、正确的形式，使短文通顺。

Project Hope helps people in the poor area build schools. It also helps poor1.c______ go to school. China’s Project Hope has raised lots of 2.m       every year. It has helped more than 2.5 million poor students3.s_____it was set up over 20 years ago. So far, the project has collected more than 2.2 billion yuan from China and 4.o_____ countries in the world. The money has been used in the building of many Project Hope primary schools.

About 80 percent of the Project Hope schools are in China’s middle and5.w____ areas, because they are still developing.

Project Hope has helped to6.b     faraway learning centers, libraries and video centers. It also helped train school teachers from poor areas.

Of all the non-government welfare（福利）projects, Project Hope has become the 7.l______ one so far in China. People say that still about 40 million primary school students 8.n____ help around the country, including 34 million primary, junior, and high school students. Mr Gao, one of the 9.w_____ in Project Hope said the organization would10.t______ to raise more money and help more students in the future.