根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。 Modern Chinese use the solar calendar（阳历）as English people do . But at the same ti...

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河北省临西县第四初级中学2016-2017学年八年级下学期英语期中考试试卷

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Modern Chinese use the solar calendar（阳历）as English people do . But at the same time, they use their own lunar calendar. Each lunar year is given the name of one of these animals : the rat , the ox , the tiger , the hare , the dragon , the snake , the horse , the goat , the monkey , the chicken , the dog and the pig . This list lasts for 12 years and then starts again.

Each Chinese month starts on the day of the new moon. And the full moon comes on the 15th day of the month. The New Year always starts between January 21 and February 20. On the last day of the lunar year, there is a big family dinner. All members of the family except married daughters try to be present at this meal, even of they have to travel many miles to reach the home of their parents. Old quarrels are forgotten, and everybody is happy. After the dinner, the children keep awake to welcome the New Year.

The New Year celebrations last for 15 days, from the new moon to the full moon. On the first day, children and unmarried people go to visit their elder

（1）、If next year is the year of the dragon, what was the name of last year?

A、It was the year of tiger. B、It was the year of the hare. C、It was the year of snake. D、It was the year of the ox.

（2）、Suppose that next Chinese New Year's Day is on 15th February, when will people have their big family dinner?

A、On February 15 B、On February 16 C、On February 14 D、On February 17

（3）、The family usually have their big family dinner at the home of _______.

A、the married son B、the married daughter C、the unmarried son D、the parents

（4）、People celebrate the New Year ________.

A、for 15 days B、from the new moon to the full moon in the first month of the lunar year C、from January 21 to February 20 D、both A and B

（5）、From this selection we know that each Chinese month is measured by __.

A、the sun's revolutions（旋转） B、the moon's revolutions C、the earth's revolutions D、both the earth's and moon's revolutions

举一反三

In western countries, especially in America, some social customs have lasted still today. For example, ladies first, that is to say, women in those countries are respected(尊重) in many ways. In the U.S. and Europe, you will see men usually open doors for women and women generally walk ahead of men into a room or a restaurant unless the man have to be ahead of the ladies to choose the table, to open the door of a car or to give other services. On the street, men almost walk or across the street on the side of the ladies which is closer to traffic, but if a man walks with two ladies, he should walk between them.

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Which is the biggest country in the world? Well, look at the map and you'll know it is Russia. It is followed by Canada, China, the U.S.A. and Brazil. Among them, China has the largest number of people, with a population(人口) of about 1.3 billion(十亿). Canada has the longest coastline(海岸线). The total length(长度) of the coastline is about 202,080 kilometers. It is long enough to go around the earth six times.
Do you know which is the largest island(岛) in the world? Is that Hawaii? No, it is much smaller than the largest island in the world—Greenland. Greenland is to the northeast(东北) of Canada. Ice covers 81% of its land. It is very cold there, so there are only about 56,000 people living on the island.

    America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while - then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending（延伸）sometimes deeply into both families.
    Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality（好客） easily.
    Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don't show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly cannot manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine（事务）. They will be likely to expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.
    For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!

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In America, the school life is not easy for us students. There are so many rules we have to follow. When we start school, we get a rule book. There are always teachers looking out for people who are breaking the rules and prefects (长官) are everywhere too.

The most rules are in the classroom and in the hallways. For example, you can't run or dance around in the hallways. We can't put our bags everywhere in the hallways.

You can't eat or drink in the classroom or the hallways. Prefects watch you, They can give out duty slips (cleaning the dining hall for about 2 hours).

If you make mistakes, you will get a detention. You may have to do some work for school. A detention is the most painful. You have to do a lot of tiring and boring things. There are rules for students out of school as well. Boys should not buy take away food in the street if they wear the school uniforms. The school also expects good behavior on public transport and in public places.

Read the passage and finish the exercises.

I'm Jason from China. Here is my neighborhood. There's a new library

near my house. I often borrow some books there. Across from the library is a school. It's my school. Next to the school, there is a supermarket. My parents like shopping there.

I am Diana from Australia. In my neighborhood there are so many small shops and restaurants. That's why my neighborhood is always busy and noisy.

On the street corner, you can find my house. A hospital is near it. And across from the hospital is a park. My best friend Jane and I always have fun there.

I am Daisy from America. In my neighborhood there's a big shopping mall.

Every day lots of people go shopping there. During the weekend I like to spend time there, too. There is a hotel across from the mall. A bank is next to the hotel. And some clothes stores are near the bank.

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