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A year ________ four seasons, they are spring, summer, fall and winter.


  1. A.
    makes up
  2. B.
    is made up of
  3. C.
    is made of
  4. D.
    is made from

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A year ________ four seasons, they are spring, summer, fall and winter.

[  ]

A.makes up

B.is made up of

C.is made of

D.is made from

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Mother said, "There are four seasons and twelve months a year."

Mother said that ________________.

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阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

  It was an autumn morning shortly after my husband and I moved into our first house.Our children were upstairs unpacking, and I was looking out the window at my father moving around mysteriously on the front lawn.My parents lived nearby, and Dad had visited us several times already.“What are you doing out there? ” I called to him.

  He looked up, smiling.“I'm making you a surprise.” Knowing my father, I thought it could be just about anything.A self-employed jobber, he was always building things out of odds and ends.When we were kids, he always created something surprising for us.

  Today, however, Dad would say no more, and caught ups in the busyness of our new life, I eventually forgot about his surprise.

  Until one gloomy day the following March when I glanced out the window.Any yet… I saw a dot of blue across the yard.I headed outside for a closer look.They were crocuses(番红花), throughout the front lawn.Lavender, blue, yellow and my favorite pink-little faces moved up and down in the cold wind.

  Dad! I smiled, remembering the things he had secretly planted last autumn.He knew how the darkness and dullness of winter always got me down.What could have been more perfectly timely to my needs?

  My father's crocuses bloomed each spring for the next four or five seasons, bringing the same assurance every time they arrived:Hard times almost over.Hold on, keep going, light is coming soon.

  Then a spring came with only half the usual blooms.The next spring there were none.I missed the crocuses.I would ask Dad to come over and plant new bulbs.But I never did.

  He died suddenly one October day.My family was in deep sorrow, leaning on our faith.I missed him terribly.

  Four years passed, and on a dismal spring afternoon I was driving back when I found myself feeling depressed.“You’ve got the winter depression again and you get them every year.” I told myself.

  It was Dad's birthday, and I found myself thinking about him.This was not unusual-my family often talked about him, remembering how he lived his faith.Once I saw him give his coat to a homeless man.

  Suddenly I slowed as I turned into our driveway.I stopped and stared at the lawn.And there on the muddy grass and small gray piles of melting snow, bravely waving in the wind, was one pink crocus.

  How could a flower bloom from a bulb more than 18 years old, one that had not blossomed in over a decade? But there was the crocus.Tears filled my eyes as I realized its significance.

  Hold on, keep going, light is coming soon.The pink crocus bloomed for only a day.But it built my faith for a lifetime.

(1)

According to the first three paragraphs, we learn that ________.

[  ]

A.

the writer was unpacking when her father was making the surprise

B.

the writer knew what the surprise was because she knew her father

C.

it was not the first time that the writer's father had made a surprise

D.

it kept bothering the writer not knowing what the surprise was

(2)

Which of the following would most probably be the worst time of the year as seen by the writer?

[  ]

A.

Spring.

B.

Summer.

C.

Autumn.

D.

Winter.

(3)

Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage?

[  ]

A.

The writer's father planted the crocus to lift her low spirit.

B.

The crocuses bloomed each spring before the writer's father died.

C.

The writer often thought about her father since her father died.

D.

The writer's father died 14 years after he planted the crocus.

(4)

The writer's father should be best described as ________.

[  ]

A.

a full-time gardener with skillful hands

B.

a part-time jobber who loved flowers

C.

a kind-hearted man who lived with faith

D.

an ordinary man with doubts in his life

(5)

Crocus was viewed as the symbol of ________ by the writer.

[  ]

A.

faith

B.

family

C.

love

D.

friendship

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Today, February twenty-ninth, is leap day. This date only appears on the calendar once every four years. But why?

Everyone knows the Earth takes three hundred sixty-five days to travel around the sun. Well, that is not exactly correct. The Earth really takes three hundred sixty-five days, five hours, forty-eight minutes and forty-six seconds to complete its orbit around the sun.

The problem for people developing calendars (日历) was what to do with the extra(额外的) five hours, forty-eight minutes and forty-six seconds.

People needed calendars to help them know when to plant crops and when to celebrate religious holidays. The ancient Greeks and Chinese had a solution(解决办法). They produced calendars that included extra months every nineteen years.

The ancient Romans had a different solution. In the year forty-six, the Roman ruler Julius Caesar made a new calendar. The Julian calendar included an extra day every four years. But there was a problem. The Julian year was just over eleven minutes longer than the cycle(循环) of the seasons. In fifteen eighty-two, Pope Gregory the Thirteenth established a new calendar to keep a better recorder of the days. Pole Gregory was the religious leader of most of Europe. He decided that years that could be divided by four would add a day. However, years that ended in two zeros and that could not be evenly(均匀地) divided by four hundred would not be leap years. For example, the years seventeen hundred, eighteen hundred and nineteen hundred were not leap years. But the years sixteen hundred and two thousand were leap years

So leap years are years with three hundred sixty-six days, instead of the usual three hundred sixty-five. This extra day is added to the calendar on February twenty-ninth, sometimes known as leap day. People born on leap day may be called “leaplings.” They usually celebrate their birthday on February twenty-eight or March first. 

Title:     71    

Reasons

The Earth really takes 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds to complete its orbit around the sun

     72     is needed to benefit people’s daily life and work

     73    

How to deal with the extra 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds

 

 

 

     74    

     75    

Ways

Ancient Greeks and Chinese

Producing   76    every 19 years

     77     

Producing an extra day      78    

The Pope Gregory

Producing a leap day if the year could be divided      79     . No leap day when the year ended in two zeros but could not be divided by 400

Result

Leap day was accepted and February twenty-ninth      80     to the calendar

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