Take a look at teenagers around, dressed in baggy-pants (宽松裤), drinking soft drinks such as coke, reading Japanese cartoons. Whether you are in Beijing, Wuhan or Hong Kong, you will get the same impression. But should we copy others or should we maintain (保留) our differences?
It sounds convenient that people around the world speak the same language, dress in the same style, eat the same food and play the same games. If the world was like this, you won’t feel strange in any corner of world. But just imagine living in such a strange world. How dull and colorless it would be!
Different kinds of food that people can taste, the colorful and fashionable clothes that we dress in and different languages we speak are all part of the different cultures that our ancestors left us. These differences represent their creativity (创造力) and talent. And we all enjoy different cultures in our daily lives. When you travel to other places, you want to see different things. When you talk to foreigners you expect to listen to interesting stories. These differences in culture are what make life colorful.
But the whole world is shrinking into a small village as globalization (全球化) takes effect and many different cultures are disappearing. In most big cities around the world people wear the same clothes. Fast food stores are everywhere. Hollywood movies are kicking traditional performing arts out of our lives. The colors of our life are disappearing.
There is joke that even the panda and zebra want to live a colorful life. So let’s take action to protect our colorful culture before it becomes as simple as black and white.
It’s not difficult. Learning some folk songs, trying on a traditional clothing and even eating local food instead of going to KFC can help. And we’re sure you will enjoy it.
【小题1】The passage is written to _______.

综合填空（共8小题，计分8分）从下面方框中选择适当的词填入短文中，使短文通顺正确（注意有些词要用适当的形式）。

One day, Mr. White told the class to get ready for a hobby show. The students 1. the whole morning getting what they were going to show.

All the students came back on time but Bob, the laziest 2. in his classmates’ eyes. It seemed that it was very 3. for Bob to have a hobby. But to their surprise, Bob came back with many 4.stamps in his hand. Mr. White was very happy after watching them. However, Bob was going to 5. them back.

“Bob, you can’t take them back until the others watch them this afternoon,” said Mr. White.

“But I am sorry they are my brother’ s,” he answered. “He doesn’t want them to be out of our home for long. He’s afraid that they will be 6. .”

“Bob, you should show some of your own 7. here, not someone else’s. Mr. White became kind of angry.

But Bob’s words made him even 8. . “Mr. White, it’s true that I have a hobby. My hobby is watching my brother collecting stamps.”

This morning, I went to a charity show __(1)_____ in the town center. The charity show, called 'For Every Child', was to raise money for an orphanage(孤儿院). Many __(2)______ persons, including a few bosses, donated money at the show. What surprised us was that a little boy also donated 100 yuan. He had saved the money for more___(3) ____two years. He said that everyone should do something for others. Some famous pop singers gave wonderful__(4)____ on the stage. One of them even came ___(5)___ the stage and walked among the audience. She asked the audience to sing a song ___(6)____ her, and they did just __(7)___she wanted them to. The show lasted for about three hours. At the ___(8)___  of the show, some children from the orphanage __(9)___in front of the microphone. All of them were so thankful that they___(10)___ while they said thanks to those people who donated. Again, they felt the warmth of being helped by others.