A. happiness   B. trouble   C. care    D. around    E. other   F. with   G. others    H. lucky   I. lessons    J. to    K. by    L. wrong

    

 
Happiness is for everyone. In fact, happiness is always around you if you care about it. When you are in   1  at school, your classmates will help you; when you study hard at your   2 , your parents are always taking good   3  of you; when you get succeed(成功), your friends will say congratulations   4  you; when you do something   5 , people around you will help you correct it; and when you do something good to   6 , you will feel happy, too. All these things are   7 . If you pay attention to them, you can see happiness is always   8  you. Happiness is not the same as money. When you are poor, you can say you are very happy, because people can’t buy happiness   9  money. When you meet problems, you can also say loudly you are very happy, because you have many friends to help you. So you can’t always say you are poor and you have bad luck. If you agree with me, you can be a happy and  10  person.

 

A. happiness   B. trouble   C. care    D. around    E. other   F. with   G. others    H. lucky   I. lessons    J. to    K. by    L. wrong

    

 

Happiness is for everyone. In fact, happiness is always around you if you care about it. When you are in   1  at school, your classmates will help you; when you study hard at your   2 , your parents are always taking good   3  of you; when you get succeed(成功), your friends will say congratulations   4  you; when you do something   5 , people around you will help you correct it; and when you do something good to   6 , you will feel happy, too. All these things are   7 . If you pay attention to them, you can see happiness is always   8  you. Happiness is not the same as money. When you are poor, you can say you are very happy, because people can’t buy happiness   9  money. When you meet problems, you can also say loudly you are very happy, because you have many friends to help you. So you can’t always say you are poor and you have bad luck. If you agree with me, you can be a happy and  10  person.

 

In the USA，every year，Thanksgiving Day is on the fourth Thursday of November．Because Canada (加拿大) is north of（在……北边） the USA，and is colder．The harvest （收获） comes earlier （更早）in the year．In Canada，people have Thanksgiving Day on the second Monday in October．
The harvest brings a lot of food to the people．On Thanksgiving Day people in Canada and America like to have a big meal with their friends and family just like Chinese people do at Mid—Autumn Festival．Many Canadians（加拿大人） and Americans put flowers．vegetables and fruits around their homes to say“Thank you”for the harvest．
At a Thanksgiving Day dinner，many Canadians and Americans will eat turkey，potatoes，and pumpkins pie．These are food like the food of many years ago．They are saying“Thank you”for the harvest that comes every year．
(    )3．Which country has the Thanksgiving Day like the USA?
A．Japan．    B．China．  C．Canada．  D．Korea．
(    )4．In the USA，Thanksgiving is on the fourth Thursday of    ．
A．January    B．May    C．November  D．December
(     )5．Canada has Thanksgiving earlier in the year because      ．
A．they like flowers     B．the harvest comes earlier
C．they have a big meal  D．they want to be different
(     )6．What do people usually say on Thanksgiving Day for the harvest?
A.Good morning． B．I’m hungry  C．Hello． D．Thank you．

In every little girl's toy box. there might be a Barbie Doll. Barbie is 50 years old this, year. It was designed(设计)in 1959 by an American businesswoman named Ruth Handler. She and her husband Elliott started the toy company Mattel. She named the new doll after their daughter Barbara. The first Barbie Doll appeared at the toy fair（交易会）New York on March 9th, 1959. This date is used as Barbie's birthday.
Mattel sold three hundred thousand Barbie Dolls in the first year at a price of three dollars. Today, a fifty-year-old Barbie in good condition might cost more than twenty-seven thousand dollars. Mattel says 90% of the girls in the United States aged from three to ten own at least one Barbie Doll. And girls aged three to six own an average（平均）of about twelve.
When Mattel created Barbie Dolls half a century ago, they never thought this doll would become a legend. Now Barbie Dolls are famous all over the world. They are sold in one hundred and fifty countries, and every second three Barbie Dolls are sold around the world.
【小题1】Who designed the first Barbie Doll in 1959?

A．Mattel.

B．Elliott.

C．Barbara.

D．Ruth Handler.

【小题2】A Barbie D011 cost _______dollars in the first year after it appeared.

A．3

B．50

C．90

D．27,000

【小题3】What does the underlined word “legend” mean in the passage?

A．传播

B．传奇

C．传承

D．传达

【小题4】The writer doesn't tell us _______.

A．Barbie Dolls are very popular with girls	B．Barbie Dolls sell well around the world
C．what the first Barbie Doll was based on	D．the doll Barbie was named after Barbara

【小题5】What's the best title of the passage? ______.

A．Barbie's birthday	B．Barbie Dolls
C．A lovely girl named Barbie	D．Why are Barbies popular