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Americans think much about time.   1.  As children，they are taught to be on time to go to school, to work and to do everything.   2.   When a person is dying, they say he is living on a borrowed time.

Time is money. Time is knowledge. 3.  A working American has to work hard for eight hours a day or forty hours a week. This is the working time. In his free time, he also works hard for more money. 4.   In the street you can hardly see a man walking slowly. They walk very fast. In fact, they are running.

　 5.  But sometimes they also hate time, because they become servant (佣人) of the clock.

A. Time is important to everyone.

B. Time is everything in America.

C. When they are having a good time, they say that time goes easily.

D. From childhood they learn to value (珍视) time.

E. To be worse, They have no time for their families on weekdays.

F. Even on Saturday and Sunday he also works hard as usual.

G. They love time because time can bring them money and lots of things.

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　　Thanksgiving Day is a very special day for people in the United States. They celebrate it on the last Thursday in November. Canadians also celebrate Thanksgiving Day, but they do it on the second Monday of October. In Britain, where this festival is called ‘Harvest Festival’, people celebrate it earlier in the year, in September.

　　A harvest is the fruit you take from the trees and the crops you take from the ground. In North America and Britain, harvest time for most fruit and crops is in the autumn. In these countries and other Christian places, people give thanks to God(上帝) on a special day of the year. They thank Cod for the good things that have happened during the year and for the good harvest they have had. People usually take small boxes of fruit, flowers, and vegetables to their churches to show their thanks.

　　The first thanksgiving service(仪式) in North America took place on December 4th, 1619 when 38 English people arrived in America to make their home in the new country. They held this service not to thank God for the harvest, but to thank God for their safe journey. The next. year; many more English people arrived. They had a bad winter, but fortunately the harvest was good. They decided to celebrate it with a big meal, They shot and killed small animals to eat and cooked everything outside on large fires. About 90 Indians; also came to the meal. Everyone ate at tables outside their houses and played games together. The festival lasted three days.

　　A Thanksgiving Day celebration was held every year for a long time, but not always on the same day of the year. Then, in 1789, President George Washington named November 26th as the Day of Thanksgiving. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln changed the date, and said that the last Thursday in November should be Thanksgiving Day.

　　Nowadays, North Americans around the world get together with their families on this, day to eat good food and have a happy time.

1．Is Thanksgiving Day celebrated on the same day in North American countries?

2．When did the first thanksgiving service take place in North America?

3．Who made the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day in the USA?

4．What does the word “fortunately” mean in Chinese?

5．Translate the sentence “They thank God for the good things that have happened during the year and for the good harvest they have had” into Chinese.

Reading comprehension(阅读理解)

　　In 1908, six cars began a race from New York to Paris. The men in them really had a hard time. They drove through deserts and mountain, storms and cold weather. Many times they had to stop and fix their cars. The roads were very poor. Most roads were only mud(泥).

　　The German Team pushed their car, the huge Protos, up the hill. “It has not been easy, but it will be better now, men. We will soon come to the top and we can roll it down,” said their captain. But the car was so heavy and the mud so thick that they had to push the car down the hill, too.

　　The Americans, in the Thomas, hurried to cross the river. “Oh, good! The boat hasn't gone yet!” they said. They drove the Thomas onto the boat. The boat quickly went down in the water. The Thomas also went down. It took all day to get the car out.

　　Hans Hanson was on the French Team. “We have chosen you because you know the north country,” said Sanshefe, the leader. Later they discovered that Hanson knew the north country, but he didn't know how to drive.

　　Scotfolio, leader of the Italian Team, woke up. “Wake up, men!” he shouted, “We've been here three hours.” The driver opened his eyes and saw the wheels. “I think we will be here longer, my friend. Somebody had stolen our tires.”

　　Only three of the cars reached Paris to finish the race. The race took them across the United States, by boat to Japan, across Japan to Russia, through Asia to Europe and Paris. The Thomas was the winner. It reached Paris after the Protos. But the German Team sometimes used trains and then discovered this was against the rules. All three teams were really winners. They won a long and hard race against weather, robbers, bad roads, animals, and floods. They were brave men who believed in themselves and their cars.

Questions(根据短文内容回答下列问题，不超过五个单词)

1．Can you write down the names of the four teams which entered the car race in 1908?

________ Team, ________Team, ________ Team, and ________ Team.

2．Which team broke the rule?

________ ________ ________.

3．Whose tires were stolen?

________ ________ ________.

4．Whose car sank into the river?

________ ________ ________.

5．Who was the winner?

________ ________ ________.

6．What was forbidden during the race?

It was forbidden ________ ________ ________ during the race.