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You want to know more about China? Tomorrow is going to 　1　 the Mid-autumn Festival. It's 　2　 our Thanksgiving. Families get together. It usually comes in September 　3　 October. This year it's going to be 　4　 September 15th. On that day families eat a big dinner like we do. They 　5　 eat mooncakes. These are small round cakes. They taste a little like our pies. Many families eat their dinner outside in the open air. The moon looks 　6　 on this day. In America, we 　7　 this moon the Harvest Moon. Chinese people often talk 　8　 their families and 　9　 the story of Chang'e. I'm going to a friend's home 　10　 Mid-autumn Festival.

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　　The story of the British Museum goes back three hundred years to one unusual man, Sir Hans Sloane, doctor to King George II. The doctor collected books, drawings, clothes, money, animals, flowers, things from all over the world. The doctor wanted everything to stay together when he died, so that people could come and have a look. The British Museum began. King George II gave his library, and the museum started to grow.

　　The British Museum opened in 1759, six years after Sir Hans Sloane died. At first the museum was only open three days a week and only ten people could enter in an hour. There wasn’t much time to see things. Visitors had to run through the rooms.

　　By about 1800, things began to get better. Wonderful statues, three thousand years old, arrived from Egypt.

　　George IV sold all his books to the museum secretly. A hundred years ago not only old books but also new ones arrived at the museum, and more people came to read them. Since then many famous men have written and studied there. And the library is growing faster and faster. There are four kilometers of new shelves every year and there are about two million visitors every year.

　　1.Sir Hans Sloane was interested in ________.

　　A. collecting all kinds of books　　　 B. collecting all kinds of drawings

　　C collecting all kinds of money　　　 D. collecting all kinds of things

　　2.When you go inside the British Museum, you feel smaller than usual because ________.

　　A. the museum is empty　　　　　　B. the museum is very big

　　C. there are too many things in it　　 D. you are too small

　　3.Sir Hans Sloane died ________.

　　A. in 1753　　　 B. in 1759　　　C. in 1765　　　 D. in 1800

　　4.At first, the visitors had to run through the museum because ________.

　　A. there are only several things to see

　　B. the museum was the biggest one in the world

　　C. they were not interested in the things in it

　　D. they had only one hour to see all the things in it

　　5.The passage is mainly about ________.

　　A. Sir Hans Sloane　　　　　　　　B. George II

　　C. the history of British Museum　　 D. the books of the museum

A famous study was done in a school by a professor （教授） from a university. At the start of the school year, the teachers were given the names of five children. They were told that these five were the most excellent students in the class. But the fact was that these students were only average(中等)，and they were not the best students at all. Well, guess what? At the end of the year, all the five average students scored among the highest in the class.
　　What made these average students change so much to become top students？The only difference was the change in their teachers’ attitude(态度). Because the teachers believed that these five kids were the top students，they expected(期望) more from them. And so these five average students began to believe and expect more from themselves. So they worked harder to do as well as they could.
　　Do you know why? If you expect the best from people, they’ll usually want to give you their best. A great leader said, “Treat(对待) a person just how he appears to be on the outside, and you’ll make him even worse. But treat a person like he’s already a success，and you’ll help make him the best he can be.”
　　Like the true story of 7-year-old Johnny, his teacher got so angry with him that one day she said，“Johnny，you’re the naughtiest(最顽皮的) boy in this class. I’m sure you’ll never change.” The next year Johnny had a new teacher. And on the first day of class，she met with Johnny after school and said，“Johnny, I’ve heard a lot about you! But do you know that I don’t believe a word of it.” And every day after that, this new teacher treated Johnny as if he was one of the smartest students even when Johnny did naughty things. Later on, Johnny became a school leader. Because that’s the power of our belief(信任) and attitude(态度) toward children.
【小题1】The professor started his research(研究)by _______.

Is music enjoyed simply for being a nice little tune? No, there are things      1      important to learn about than whether you really like the song, for example, the story of the singer himself. Many singers had had hard      2     before they became famous. Xiao Huangqi, a pop singer and songwriter from Taiwan, is one of them.
Up till now, he has made five albums (唱片) and      3     several music awards. Among his hit songs, the most popular one is “You Are My Eyes”, a song that     4    his own true story, a blind man who loves music and the world so much.
　　Xiao was born blind. At the age of four, he got some eyesight through an operation. He couldn’t be   5    because he could see the world with his own eyes. He began to practice Judo (柔道) and learned to play the saxophone (萨克斯管) and the guitar.
　　But fate(命运)     6   him. He became blind again ten years later because he had used his eyes too much. It was a great blow. But Xiao is so     7    and optimistic(乐观) that he soon got out of his sadness. He began writing songs and found a colorful world within. He hears and feels the world and    8    his thoughts and feelings into music.
　　“When one door closes, another door opens.”    9  opened the door for Xiao and has      10   him into a wonderful and colorful world.