A lot of teenagers are good at art at school, but how would you feel if people called you “the new Picasso(毕加索)” or if presidents and other famous people collected your paintings?
Alexandra Nechita was ten when her paintings became famous all over the world. She visited Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and her family’s native place (祖籍) Romania where 5,000 fans came to see her at the airport. Alexandra said, “When it all started, I was moved. It was very exciting and I loved the traveling, but I got very tired. And I missed home.”
Alexandra is a good student. Her studies always come first. She only starts painting after she’s done her homework. She works on two or three paintings at a time. The paintings sell for thousands and Alexandra’s parents have given up their jobs to work for their daughter. Life for the Nechita family is very different from what it was like a few years ago.
Alexandra’s father Niki left Romania for political reasons in 1985. At first he tried his best to learn English and had different kinds of low-paid jobs. In 1987, he brought his wife and Alexandra, who was then 18 months old, to America. The family was very poor. Alexandra began to draw at the age of three.
She was drawing for four or five hours a day. Soon people offered to buy her paintings and she had her first art show at the age of eight. Stories about this child appeared in the newspapers and television. They now live in a large house with a swimming pool. Her mother said, “We started without anything, but thanks to Alexandra, we have everything we ever dreamed of.”
【小题1】Alexandra became well-known all over the world for her paintings at the age of _______.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar（农历）, which is Wednesday this year, all Chinese celebrate one of their traditional festivals, the Dagon Boat Festival, or Dragon Boat Festival. Their celebrations include eating zongzi, rice wrapped in bamboo leaves in the shape of a pyramid, racing dragon boats and sticking mugwort leaves on their doors.  
In 2007, the central government decided to add the Dragon Boat Festival, together with two other traditional festivals - Tomb Sweeping Day (清明节) and Mid Autumn Festival - to the list of public holidays
According to tradition, our ancestors（长辈） believed the hot weather in midsummer might cause different kinds of diseases (疾病). So, to keep off diseases and drive out evil were the main purposes of the Dragon Boat Festival. Parents used colorful threads to make necklaces and bracelets （手镯） for children, gave them beautiful embroidered bags（荷包）, painted the Chinese character for "king" (wang) on their foreheads to drive away bad luck. The Dragon Boat Festival was also called "kids festival" in some places. Spending such happy hours with parents, young children began to understand the festival as well as the traditions and culture behind it. Repeating the customs year by year makes it possible for kids to learn the traditions, accept it and pass it on when they become adults.
【小题1】How do people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?

B) 根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。
One cold midnight after the birthday party of Tom’s, my husband Jack and I were driving home w  【小题1】   suddenly our car stopped. “We’ve covered half the way.” I said. “There must be something wrong with the car. I can’t start it again,” said Jack.
What a car! We got out to look around f  【小题2】   help, but could there be any person at s【小题3】   an hour? It was dark and nothing could be done to make it go. We h  【小题4】  to walk home. We knew it would take us 2 hours to get home on foot, and we were so tired. But what else could take us home? It was so c  【小题5】   in the car. At once we began to walk home.
We were at the door at about 2:30 when I r  【小题6】   that I had left the key in the car! How  s   【小题7】   it is! “Break the window and climb in.” said Jack. He picked up a stone, broke the window and was ready to climb when someone from behind caught Jack by the a  【小题8】  . It was a policeman!
“What are you going to do, man?” he asked. “Come with me to the police s 【小题9】  , you two!”
I told him the whole story. At last he understood what I had said and I was a  【小题10】  to get in.
It was three o’clock in the morning!