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山东省惠民致远实验学校2016届九年级上学期期中考试英语试卷
Each year, we celebrate many holidays here in America.
On January 1, we welcome the coming of a new year like many people in other countries. And we have another, four holidays on the first day of a month: April Fool's Day, May Day, Friendship Day ( Aug.1 ) and Grandparents Day ( Sept.1).
The most important holiday for the young people comes in February. It is Valentine's Day. Lots of boys give red roses to girls as a present.
People celebrate some holidays for their family members. We say thanks to our mothers in May and celebrate Father's Day in the following month. In November many people return home for Thanksgiving Day, so the whole family can stay together.
There are also some interesting holidays for children. For example, Halloween comes at the end of October. Children often play with pumpkin lanterns (南瓜灯) and put on all kinds of masks (面具).
Of course, the most important festival is Christmas. After a year of work and study, people can enjoy a long holiday, eat big meals, and visit family and friends.
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The Aborigines (澳洲土著) have lived in Australia for about 60,000 years. They painted pictures inside caves, and these are the rock paintings that have given us so much information about Aboriginal life. For example, some of the paintings that are about 10,000 years old show men with boomerangs. From this we know that the Aborigines started using boomerangs for hunting at that time. Other pictures show kangaroos, so we know that there were kangaroos at that time.
The Aborigines believed that spirits made people, animals and plants, and that these spirits still live in the earth. For Aborigines, no one can own the earth—the earth belongs to the spirits.
In 1700, there were many Aboriginal groups with a population of 750,000 all over Australia, and there were probably more than 240 different Aboriginal languages. The groups did not have a leader. Instead, things were decided by the older men in a group. People from different groups often travelled hundreds of miles to meet each other.
Aboriginal life changed when an English boat arrived in Australia in 1770. Many Aborigines were killed in the wars that they had with the English. More Europeans came, and they started taking land from the Aborigines. The Europeans also brought new illnesses that killed the Aborigines. The result is that today there are only about 300,000 Aborigines in Australia.
Joel Griffin is a famous expert of dinosaurs (恐龙). An interviewer from The world is getting some information from Mr. Griffin.
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They lived millions of years ago and their bones (骨头) have turned to stone. They tell us what the world was like millions of years ago. Scientists slowly put together what they discovered. The first dinosaur bones were discovered in 1818.
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When dinosaurs were alive,the earth was a very different place. The weather was much warmer and the land was covered with forests. There were no animals,such as cows or horses,like the ones we know today.
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There were thousands of different kinds of dinosaurs. Of course there were some huge dinosaurs. They were the biggest animals that have ever lived. But some were very small. Some dinosaurs had heavy bodies and walked on all four legs. Others walked on two strong back legs and had two short front ones.
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Some dinosaurs only fed on plants. They were often heavy,slow﹣moving. Many of them spent a lot of time in water. It prevented their enemies from attacking them. Other dinosaurs were meat﹣eaters. They hunted for their food. These dinosaurs were fighters with sharp teeth.
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Many of the plants that the dinosaurs needed to eat disappeared. Some scientists believe that the weather changed from warm to cold. Some scientists believe that dinosaurs were not able to get used to the changes in the environment. They did not like the cold weather and they could not find enough to eat.
A. What did dinosaurs eat? B. When did dinosaurs live? C. What were dinosaurs like? D. Why did the dinosaurs die out? C. Where were the dinosaurs bones found? F. What was the earth like at that time? |
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