The Korean lunar(阴历) New Year falls on a day in late January or February. ____66_____

Before the New Year people have an overall(全部地) cleaning. When the New Year comes, nobody should sleep. They think that if someone slept on that night, the eyebrows would turn white. ____67_____

Have you ever heard of “bokjori”? It is actually a sieve(筛子). It is a tool to clean the rice from small stones. In the morning of New Year’s Day, the hang it up on the wall. ____68____

Offering to ancestor(拜祭祖先) is a common thing in Korean holidays. Women get busy making the food from the day before. They make “ttokuk”, a kind of soup, and dumplings and fried meats. Very early in the morning of the New Year’s Day, Korean people take a bath and put new clothes on. ___69____ Family members drink a glass of a liquor(烧酒). The drink can help people hear clearly all year long.

“Say hay boke-mahn he pah du say oh!” _____70____ But more and more Koreans, especially the young people, have started to say it in English, “Make a lot of blessings(祝福) this year.”

E. It is the New Year’s greeting in Korea.

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Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You will probably   1__  they go to learn languages, geography, history, science and all the other subjects. That is quite    2  ,but why do they learn these things?

We send our children to school to    3   them for their future work and life. Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use in their life, but is that the  __4  reason they go to school?

There is    5  in education than just learning facts. We go to school above all to learn how to learn, so when we    6   school we can go on learning. If a man really knows how to learn, he will    7   be successful, because whenever he has to do something new he will quickly teach himself how to do it in the best way. The uneducated person, on the other hand, is ___8   unable to do it or does it badly, so the    9   of school is not just to teach languages, geography, science, etc, but to teach pupils the    10   to learn.

1Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage (选择最恰当的单词或词语，完成短文)

1．We have always been warned of the dangers of the forest fires. They cause     1    to a forest. They kill many plants and animals in an eco-system, which is a group of living things and their environment. But have you ever heard of a forest fire that can be     2     for a forest?

2．People start some of the fires with special reasons to actually do well to the eco-system.

3．In fact, fires are a natural part of any eco-system. Without fires, the oldest and largest trees would stop sunlight from reaching the forest floor. Fires can       3       some of these old trees. When the trees die, they provide something good for the earth. New trees can grow strong and healthy in their place.

4．Some trees even need fires to grow. These trees hold their seeds(种子) inside. Heats from a fire allow the coat of the seeds to open up. Then the seeds fall to the ground and have the 4 to grow.

5．Scientists, who know about nature’s needs, start some of these fires, called controlled burns. A fire is started and kept under control. This way, the fire does not spread out of the area or 5    a large space of the forest. Fires can be dangerous for animals. Even when animals continue to live after forest fires, they can go hungry   6     their food has been damaged in the fire. Small, controlled fires mean that animals will not have to move far to find food. After some time, small plants begin to grow. Animals return soon after the plants return. This   7  makes an eco-system.

6．So the next time you hear about a forest fire, think about the good as well as the bad. It may take a new eco-system a while to return, but it will likely come back stronger and healthier than ever.

1.A. illness            B. difficulty       C. damage      D. flood

2.A. helpful            B. powerful         C. harmful     D. awful

3.A. take the place of  B. get ready for    C. be bad for  D. get rid of

4.A. time               B. water            C. chance      D. skill

5.A. discover           B. cover            C. but         D. waste

6.A. because            B. although         C. but         D. so

7.A. almost             B. again            C. never       D. even

A Christina from Spain

  On the last day of the year, the 31^st of December, people wait till 12 pm. Everybody must have 12 grapes(葡萄) to eat at midnight. At each sound of the clock, we must eat a group. But we can’t ever finish eating the grapes on time! Usually when people still have some grapes in their mouths, they look at each other and start to laugh. This tradition started in Spain long ago. One year, when there were a lot of grapes, the king of Spain decided to give grapes to everybody to eat on New Year’s Eve.

B Cordon from Britain

On New Year’s Day in Britain, people have parties. At 12 o’clock, the music stops, and we listen to the radio. On the radio we hear Big Ben, the famous clock in London. Then everybody sings a song about friendship and kisses their friends. We say “Happy New Year” to each other. It’s lucky if a tall man with dark hair is the first person to come to the house in the new year. So I go and visit as many friends as I can. They all give me a drink.

C Angela from Brazil

In all cities in Brazil, we have a big party on New Year’s Eve, especially in Rio de Janeiro. People in this city go to the beaches to watch fireworks(焰火)。We put flowers in the sea and think about things we want for ourselves or others. We usually wear white clothes for good luck during the New Year.

1.Picture___________ is about paragraph 1.

2.Who have parties on New Year’s Day?

A. People in Spain.   B. People in Britain.

C. People in Brazil.  D. Both B and C.

3.From the 2nd paragraph, we can infer (推断)that___________.

A. People listen to the radio at home.

B. Cordon can’t drink much. 

C. Cordon is a tall man with dark hair.

D. there are no people near Big Ben.

4. On New Year’s Day, Brazilians usually wear white clothes because_________.

      A. that reminds them of their happy life

B. they hope that can bring them good luck

C. they think that they look beautiful in white

D. that’s what they have to do during the New Year

5.This article mainly tells us ________________.

     A. what people in Britain do on New Year’s Day

     B. when and where people have New Year parties

     C. why people in different countries like the New Year

     D. what people around the world do on New Year’s Day