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Music can spread across everywhere and narrow the distance (缩短距离 ) between people of different countries.  1 . NBA star Kobe Bryant worked with music super-star Jay Chou to create a song 2 .The Heaven and Earth Challenge{(天地之斗)}. The song is used in the recent advertisement  3  the soft drinks company Sprite, and the two superstars shot ( 拍摄 ) the advertisement  4  on TV.
The song was written by Jay, whose favorite 5 is basketball. It expresses the love for basketball and  6  encourages young people to be more confident（信心 ) about them selves. Jay  7  that he learned a lot from Kobe’s sports spirit 8  creating the song. He does most of the singing part while Kobe  9 the role as a rapper ( 说唱歌手 ). The basketball star is very confident with his play.  "I love  10  … My part is talk, it's very relaxing and I did a  11  job, it must be A﹡.''Kobe was very happy to 12  with Jay. "1 fell in love with Jay's music since first  13 his songs," Kobe added.
People can download the ring tone (下载铃声) of the song from the Internet. All  14  from the downloads will go to Project Hope, a charity (慈善 ) that helps improve educational facilities (设备) in 15 areas in China.

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Rosa likes making up(编造) stories. At first she thought it was   41 . But now she didn’t think so.
Rosa’s parents were divorced(离婚). Nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in an apartment on Anderson Street. But when summer    42 , she went to her father’s farm in Arizona.
The farm was great!  rode horses and    43  with some farm work. Her father, however, was so busy that he couldn’t find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would meet her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went  44 the city, he would always buy her a present.
   45  summer came to a close, Rosa returned to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a family trip to talk   46  .
Not long after school began, Rosa was looking through travel magazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting   47 , like England and Germany. When Rosa’s friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was   48 . Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to   49  .
When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to  50  them all the things she could remember about her trip to England!

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Passage 1
Steven Jobs, the designer of Apple Computer, was not clever when he was in school. At that time, he was not a good student and he always made troubles with his schoolmates. When he went into college, he didn’t change a lot. Then he dropped out（退学）. But he was full of new ideas.
　　After he left college, Steven Jobs worked as a video game designer. He worked there for only several months and then he went to India. He hoped that the trip would give him some new ideas and give him a change in his life.
　　Steven Jobs lived on a farm in California for a year after he returned from India.
　　In 1975, he began to make a new type of computer. He designed the Apple Computer with his friend in his garage. He chose the name “Apple” just because it could help him to remember a happy summer he once spent in an apple tree garden.
His Apple Computer was so successful that Steven Jobs soon became famous all over the world .
He often said, “I live in order to change the world, there aren’t any other reasons. The only way to have a great achievement is to love your own career. If you can’t find your  favorite career ,go on looking for it and never give up.”
This is Steven Jobs, though he is dead, his spirit and achievements still influence our lives.
【小题1】Steven Jobs was not a good student in school because he ________.

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Children like to copy what they hear. They copy their parents, their friends and even the TV. This teaches them how to _1_ the language. Copying is also a good way for students to learn a second language. When you _2_ foreigners speak English, repeat what they say as well as you can.
Children don't practice grammar,, but use the language to 3_ things that they are interested in. They don't _4 their vocabulary or poor grammar. They find ways to express themselves, and they do  it successfully.
Students of English schools also pay attention to communication (交流). Look for _5_ to talk with people in English. If you can't find a _6 to talk to, talk with other students in English _7.  Start an English discussion group and talk about music, movies or anything that 8 you.
Don't worry about _9, what you want is to learn how to communicate easily. Remember that you can communicate successfully even with _10_small vocabulary.

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People all over the world celebrate（庆祝） the new year. However, not all countries celebrate in the same way, and in some countries, the new year doesn’t begin on the      date every year.

In many countries, the new year begins on 1st January, but people start celebrating on 31st December, New Year’s Eve. In New York many people go to celebrate in Times Square.      they’re waiting for the New Year, they listen to music, sing traditional songs and have fun. Just before 12 o’clock, everyone       down from 10: 10, 9, 8… As soon as it’s 12 o’clock, everyone shouts very       , “Happy New Year!”

New Year’s Day is often a family day. Some families get together for a special meal. When the weather is fine, many families go out for a       .

On New Year’s Day, many people make resolutions（决心） for the new year. They        a list of things, such as “I will help out more with housework. I will work       at school than others.” or “I won’t spend so much time playing video games.” When they have made       list, they read it to their family or friends and promise （承诺）to        their resolutions.

So it doesn’t matter how they celebrate,        people in countries all over the world, it’s a time to say goodbye to the old year, and to welcome the new.

1.A. familiar       B. same             C. important         D. normal

2.A. If            B. Even though       C. While            D. Before

3.A. comes        B. turn              C. looks            D. counts

4.A. loudly        B. quietly            C. sadly            D. safely

5.A. walk          B. secret              C. job             D. treatment

6.A. put on         B. write down         C. take away        D. look after

7.A. quickly       B. hard               C. harder           D. hardly

8.A. its            B. his                 C. her             D. their

9.A. achieve       B. make               C. do              D. give

10.A. by          B. for                 C. with             D. from