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广东省茂名市九校联考2018-2019学年九年级下学期英语3月月考试卷
Oldest festivals!
Festivals and celebrations of all kinds are held everywhere. The oldest festivals would celebrate the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest (丰收)in autumn. Other celebrations were held when they had food. They thought these festivals would bring a year of plenty.
Festivals of the dead
Some festivals are held to honor or satisfy and please the dead. In Japan the festival is called Obon. They have lamps on and play music because they think this will help the dead back to Earth. In Mexcio they have the day of the dead in early November. On this important day, people might eat food in different shapes and offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead.
Festivals can be held as an honour to famous people. One of these is the Dragon Boat Festival in China, which honours the famous poet, Qu Yuan. Another is Columbus Day in the USA, in memory of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in America.
Harvest festivals
Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals can be very happy events. People are grateful because their food is gathered for the winter. In European countries people usually decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruit, and get together to have meals. In China and Japan there are mid-autumn festivals, when people admire the moon and give gifts of mooncakes.
Spring festivals
The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring. In some Western countries, Easter is an important festival in February which celebrates the return of Jesus and celebrates the coming of spring. In Japan, the Cherry Blossom Festival happens a little later. In China, families get together to eat, drink and have fun at the Spring Festival.
Information Card
Find another word in the first paragraph which has the similar meaning to the underlined word "harvest" |
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What are festivals of the dead for? |
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What is the topic of the third paragraph? |
Festivals to . |
Spring Festivals are held to celebrate |
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What's your favourite festival? |
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When did you last say “I love you” to your father? If you can't remember, then you can get the chance this Father's Day on June 19.
Generally compared to(与—相比) a mother's gentle love, a father represents qualities such as independence(独立), confidence, courage and adventure(冒险).
Also, caring fathers help their children get along with others. Fathers can lead their children into their social circle(社交圈). They can al so teach them how to behave and control their feelings.
For example, Microsoft founder Bill Gates was quiet and didn't like to talk with others when he was a little kid. So his father often held family parties and let Bill play games with family members. “my ability of leading and cooperating(合作) became better through games.” Gates once said in an interview with US Fortune magazine.
US actor Will Smith said that his father taught him important lessons through small things. His father once planned to tear(拆) down a wall of their shop and rebuild it. But little Will thought it was impossible. After a year and a half, they did it. “You didn't try to build a wall. You are going to lay a brick every day. And soon you have a wall,” he said on TV show.
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters”, British poet George Herbert once said. Do you agree?
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Advantages of a caring father | ﹡A caring father can help the kids get {#blank#}4{#/blank#} with others. ﹡They can not only lead their children into their social circle{#blank#}5{#/blank#} teach them how to behave and control their feelings. | |
Celebrities(名人们) and their{#blank#}6{#/blank#} | Bill Gates | ﹡He was {#blank#}7{#/blank#}when he was a little kid. ﹡His father held family {#blank#}8{#/blank#} for him and let him play games with family members. ﹡His ability of leading and cooperating(合作) was {#blank#}9{#/blank#}through games. |
Will Smith | ﹡He was {#blank#}10{#/blank#} important lessons through small things by his father. ﹡He thought it was impossible to build a wall. But he soon learned from his father that he could lay a brick every day to build a whole wall. |
It was time for the final exam at a university. The exam was two hours long.
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You're not going to have time to finish this. the professor(教授)said as he handed the student.
"Yes, I will," the student replied. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}
At the end of the exam, the professor asked all of the students to hand in their exam papers. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} .The professor put the papers in order and did not say anything to the student
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"I'm not going to accept your paper. It's late." the professor said.
"Do you know who l am?" the student asked.
"No, I don't, "the professor replied.
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"No, "the professor replied.
"Good," the student replied, He then lifted all the sorted(整理好的) exam papers, put his in the middle, and walked out of the room.
A. An hour later, the student came up to the professor. B. He then took a seat and began writing. C. "Do you know who I am?" the student asked again in s louder voice D. Half an hour after the exam started, a student rushed (冲) into the classroom and asked the professor (教授) for an exam. E. Everyone handed them in except (除了) the late student, who continued writing. |
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