When you are about to do something brave, a cheerful wish of “Good luck!” from a friend can be helpful. But if you think you need lots of luck, what else might you do?

In the UK and US there are some strange traditions for bringing yourself a little more good luck. Some are hundreds of years old and some are much newer.

Have you heard the saying “When you wish upon a star”? If you are looking up at the sky on a clear night and you see a sudden flash of light, it is probably a shooting star! Seeing one doesn’t happen very often. The saying goes that if you see one you have been very lucky, and so if you make a wish, it will come true.

Maybe you have heard of the lucky rabbit’s foot. Some people believe that rabbits are lucky animals, so they carry a part of the rabbit, its foot, for good luck. There are all kinds of strange, unclear rules about which of the rabbit’s feet is the luckiest. It is said that this good luck tradition is the oldest one of all. However, as the funny saying goes, “Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit!”

People in Britain love trees. If it is autumn and leaves are falling from the trees, some people try to catch the leaves as they fall because they think each leaf they catch will bring them a lucky month in the following year—they will need to catch 12 falling leaves to have a whole of good luck!

60. From Paragraph 3, we know that ______.

A. shooting stars can often be seen

B. people can see a shooting star on a rainy night

C. your wish may come true if you see a shooting star

D. people believe that it’s unlucky to see a shooting star

61. British people try to catch 12 falling leaves because ______.

A. the leaves fall in autumn

B. there are so many leaves to catch

C. the leaves can bring them a lucky month

D. they want to have a whole year of good luck

62. In Paragraph 5, the underlined word “them” refers to（指）______.

A. trees　　　　 B. people　　　　　　　 C. leaves　　　　　　　 D. years

Jenny，David，Wang Lan，Helen和the students in No.2 Middle School 对不同的事情感兴趣。请仔细阅读56—60小题有关五个人的需求和A、B、C、D、E、F六段文字介绍，然后分别找出符合各人要求的最佳选项，其中有一选项为多余。

56.______  57.______   58.______   59.______  60._______

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　　Four years ago, when Mr Ted was sixty, he retired. He left the restaurant in which he had worked for forty-three years and returned to his home village. There he bought a small piece of farm and planted a lot of apple trees in it. He took good care of them and this year there were plenty of apples in the trees. The old man was very happy.

　　But these days the old mall had been worried. Nearly every night this garden is broken into and plenty of apples had been lost. So he decided to do his best to catch the thief himself. Last night he sat in a tree and carefully watched who would come and pick the apples. At midnight, Mr Ted was so tired that he went to sleep. Suddenly some noise woke him up. The noise came from a big tree. He went there gently and saw a boy standing under the tree with a hag full of apples. At once he recognized he was Tom who lived just next to him.

　　“How can you do that, Tom?”the old man became angry and shouted. “I’ll tell your father about it!”But the boy wasn’t afraid about it. He looked up and called out, “Have you heard yet, Dad? Mr Ted has something to talk to you. ”

1．When Mr Ted was ________,he began to work in the restaurant.

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2．Mr Ted planted lots of apple trees in the farm because ________.

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A．he had been a gardener before

B．he likes the fruit very much

C．he’s strong enough to do something useful

D．he had already retired

3．Mr Ted was happy several days ago because ________.

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A．he came back to his home village

B．he had bought a farm in his village

C．the apple trees grew very well

D．he would pick many apples in autumn

4．Mr Ted sat in the tree ________.

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A．to catch the thief

B．to pick some apples

C．to watch it carefully

D．to have a good sleep

5．As ________, Mr Ted shouted to the boy.

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A．he wanted to send Tom to the police

B．he wanted to tell Tom’s father about it

C．he wanted to frighten Tom

D．he wanted Tom to pay for the apples

6．Tom wasn’t afraid because ________.

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A．his father had brought him to the farm

B．the old man was kind to him

C．the old man would let him go

D．he would return the apples to Mr Ted

Jenny works hard every day. After work, she spends much time  1  housework for her family. She always has   2  things to do. Her husband(丈夫) works in a radio station.He is never late   3  work.  4   the radio station , he takes the number 109 bus . He is busy every day.There  5 a son and three daughters in Jenny’s family. They are not  6  in the same school. They go to school   7  bike on school days.They study very   8 . On weekends, Jenny takes them to some nice   9   to eat different kinds of delicious food. She also takes them to the zoo . They love most animals because they think they’re interesting. But her son doesn’t like tigers .He thinks they’re   10  scary.  Jenny has a happy family.

1.                A．do            B．to do           C．doing D．on doing

2.                A．many          B．much          C．a lot D．a lots of

3.                A．to             B．it              C．for  D．with

4.                A．Get            B．To get          C．To get to  D．Getting to

5.                A．is             B．are            C．have D．has

6.                A．study          B．going           C．studying  D．go

7.                A．with           B．on             C．in   D．by

8.                A．good           B．well            C．bad  D．nice

9.                A．parks          B．restaurants      C．banks    D．offices

10.               A．kinds of        B．a kind of        C．all kinds of D．kind of