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　　新学期开始，学校开展了“争作好学生、好公民”的活动。请你以“Creat Changes”为题向《中学生英语报》投稿，记述自开展活动以来同学们所发生的巨大变化。

注意：

　　(1)报道须包括以下表格的主要内容，词数不少于60；

　　(2)报道的开头已给出。

　　The activity of being a good student and good citizen has been held since the beginning of this term in our school. Everybody has taken an active part in it.

　

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　Art is considered by many people to be little more than an ordinary means of giving pleasure. This is not always the case; however at times, art may be seen to have a medical side as well. Such could be said of the sandpaintings of the Navaho Indians of the American Southwest; they have a medical as well as an artistic purpose.

　　According to the Navaho traditions(传统), one who suffers from either a mental or a physical illness has in some way disturbed (干扰) or something to do with the supernatural perhaps a certain animal, a ghost (幽灵), or the dead. To get rid of this bad connection, the sick person or one of his relatives will ask a medicine man called a “singer ” to perform a treating ceremony(仪式) which will attract a powerful supernatural being. During the ceremony, which may last from 2 to 9 days, the “singer” will produce a sandpainting on the floor of the Navaho house. On the last day of the ceremony, the patient will sit on this sandpainting and the “singer” will rub (揉擦) the sick parts of the patient's body with sand from a certain figure in the sandpainting. In this way the patient absorbs (吸收) the power of that particular supernatural being and becomes strong like it. After the ceremony, the sandpainting is then destroyed so its power will not harm anyone.

　　The art of sandpainting is handed down from old “singers” to their students. The materials used are easily found in the areas of the Navaho area; brown, red, yellow, and white sandstone, which is made by being crushed (压碎) between two stones much as corn is ground (磨碎) into flour. The “singer” holds a small amount of this sand in his hand and lets it flow between his thumb and forefinger onto a clean, flat surface on the floor. With a steady hand and great patience, he is thus able to create (创造) designs of some people, snakes and other creatures that have power in the Navaho allow reproduction of sandpaintings, since he believes the supernatural powers that taught him the art have forbidden this ; however, such reproductions can in fact be bought today in tourist shops in Arizona and New Mexico. These are done by either the Navaho Indians or by other people who wish to keep this art.

1．The purpose of a treating ceremony is to ________ .

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2．The “singer” rubs sand on the patient because ________ .

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A．the patient receives strength from sand

B．it has medical value

C．it comforts the patient

D．none of the above

3．What is used to produce a sandpainting?

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4．The underlined word “This” in the second line of the passage refers to ________ .

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A．the use of art

B．giving pleasure

C．the feeling that art is more than an ordinary means of giving pleasure

D．the feeling that art is only an ordinary means of giving pleasure

The Creat Wall winds its way from west to east, ______ deserts, ______ mountains, ______ valleys, till at last it reaches the sea.

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