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Every year people celebrate the Spring Festival in China. It is usually in January or February. It’s the most important festival in China. So before it comes, everyone buys many things. And they often make a special kind of food called dumplings. It means(意思是) ‘come together’. Parents always buy new clothes for their children and children also buy presents for their parents.
On the Spring Festival Eve (除夕), all the family members come back home to have a big dinner. When they enjoy the meal, they give the best wishes to each other for the coming year. After dinner, all the family stay up until midnight to welcome the New Year. They sing, dance and play cards.
On the first day of the new year, people put on new clothes and visit their friends. They say ‘Happy New Year!’ to each other. They all have a good time during the festival.
1. When is the Spring Festival in China every year?
                                              
2. What do people do before the Spring Festival comes?
                                              
3. What do ‘dumplings’ mean?
                                              
4. What do children get from their parents ?
                                              
5. Do people have fun at the Spring Festival?
                                             

Parents are the closest people to you in the world. They love you just because you’re you. And they would do anything for you.
Like a lot of middle school students, Zhang Li has a problem. She and her parents don’t get on well.. “ I really want to be my daddy’s good girl. But it seems he just doesn’t understand. He talks to me but doesn’t listen to me,” said Zhang Li, a student from Grade Three.
Do you and your parents also have problems?
A study last year showed that 1500 Beijing families had the same problem as Zhang’s family. The children, 12 to 15 years old, didn’t like talking with their parents much. They weren’t happy at home. Of course, lots of other children feel that way. But you and your parents will be much happier if you can be friends. Here are some ways to have a good talk with your parents: find a good time to talk, like when you’re eating dinner, going out for a walk or watching TV. Tell them something you’re interested in, or ask them about their lives when they were young. They love to talk about that! Listen to them carefully, and look at them in the eyes.
If you try these ways, you will probably get on better with your parents.
根据以上内容，完成小题，每空一词。
【小题1】From the passage, the closest people to you in the world are your _________.
【小题2】Zhang Li’s problem is that she and her father don’t_________each other.
【小题3】You and your parents will be much _________ if you can be friends.
【小题4】You should tell your parents something that you show great_________ in.
【小题5】The passage shows the ways about how to get on _________with your parents.

短文填词
Dear Ralph,
I’m a middle school student. I’m writing to tell you my problem _______ has troubled me for a long time. It is the_______ (关系) between my mother and me. My mother is a university professor, _______ works very hard. She is strict with me, but she is so _______ with her work that she finds little to t_______ to me. I love her and I do well in my studies, but I still feel a little a_______ of her because she loses her temper _______(容易地). I don’t know how to communicate with her. Maybe we should _______(交换) our feelings and t_______ in a right way. I wish we knew more about each other and _______ each other better. What can I do?
Best wishes!
Yours,
Tom

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。
A.　Goods for auction (拍卖) sales
　　B.　Definition of bidding
　　C.　Way to sell more goods by auction
　　D.　Auction sales in history
　　E.　Brief introduction to auctions
　　F.　Making a larger profit as an auctioneer
【小题1】______
Auctions are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asks the crowd assembled in the auction-room to make offers, or “bids”, for the various items on sale. He encourages buyers to bid higher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called “knocking down” the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer strikes a small hammer on a table at which he stands.
【小题2】 ______
The ancient Roman probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes from the Latin auction, meaning “increasing”. The Romans usually sold in this way the goods taken in war. In England in the eighteenth centuries, goods were often sold “by the candle”: a short candle was lit by the auctioneer, and bids could be made while it stayed alight.
【小题3】 ______
Practically all goods whose qualities vary are sold by auction. Among these are coffee, skins, wool, tea, furs, silk and wines. Auction sales are also usual for land and property, furniture, pictures, rare books, old china and similar works of art.
【小题4】 ______
An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by potential buyers. If the advertisement cannot give full details, catalogues are printed, and each group of goods to be sold together, called a “lot”, is usually given a number. The auctioneer need not begin with Lot 1 and continue in the order of numbers: he may wait until he notices the fact that certain buyers are in the room and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in.
【小题5】 ______
The auctioneer’s services are paid for in the form of a percentage of the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding as high as possible. He will not waste time by starting the bidding too low. He will also play on the opponents among his buyers and succeed in getting a high price by encouraging two business competitors to bid against each other.

阅读下面一则新闻，然后按要求写一篇１５０词左右的英语短文。
The headmaster of a middle school in southern England, David Hayes, has suspended（停课）students at his school 478 times over the past year—one in twenty of all the student suspensions in England.
Although some people believe that his actions go too far, he seems to be getting results. The number of students receiving “A” grades in the national senior school exam has increased from 48% in 2004 to 74% this year.
Mr Hayes says that many schools could achieves similar improvements if they improve their school students’ behavior. He also says the British government is wrong for pressuring schools not to suspend troublesome students and points out the harmful effects such students have on the quality of teaching and student learning. Suspensions often get many naughty students to improve their behavior, he says.
The school was below average in 2003. Mr Hayes joined the following year and now suspends two of the school’s 1880 students on average each school day. The total of 478 suspensions over the year means that almost one in four students have been punished this way. This year the school’s academic performance was judged as excellent.
【写作内容】
你在某英文报刊看到这则新闻后，准备就学生违纪的处理方式写一篇简评给该报编辑部，题目是“Should Schools Suspend Troublesome Students?”。内容要点包括：
1. 以约30词简要概括新闻内容：
2. 然后以约120词谈谈你的观点，内容包括：
（1）你是否支持该校长的做法，并陈述理由；
(2 ) 假设你是学校校长，谈谈你将如何处理违纪学生，并陈述理由。
【写作要求】
1. 可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的论点，也可参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文的句子；
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
【评分标准】
概括准确，语言规范，内容合适，篇章连贯。