阅读短文，下列问题（B） Spring Clean－up Day 2014，Rockland What better way to welcome spring than by helping to clean up the town we all live in! Here in Rockland we have it Spring Clean－up Day every year in...

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Spring Clean-up Day 2014, Rockland

What better way to welcome spring thanby helping to clean up the town we all live in! Here in Rockland we have it Spring Clean-up Day everyyear in April. The Clean-up Day 2014 will be on April 20th.

It will start with a town clean-up at 8 o'clock in the morning, and a tree planting activity at the Rockland Park is to follow in the afternoon. One thousand young trees are sure to make the park greener and prettier.

We will divide the people coming to help into eight team for eight different areas. As usual, we will provide gloves, rubbish bags and other cleaning tools. You will also get free lunches and T-shirts whenthe clean-up ends atnoon. We are going to have a friendly competition to see which team can pick up the most rubbish.

Bring your kids with you. It is agreat chance to teach them to care for the environment around us. We have free drinks and chocolate candies for the children at the park.

Meeting: At the gate ofRockland Park，the town hallat 330 Jones Street, or the cornerof Palace Street and North Street.

Sign-up（报名）: Call 5862397 on weekdays, of visit our website below any timeyou like.

www.springcleanup.com

（1）、The Spring Clean-up Day in Rockland is held________.

A、once a month B、twice a month C、once a year D、twice a year

（2）、People in Rockland can help to________on the afternoon of April 20th.

A、clean up the town B、take care of the kids C、plant trees in the park D、paint the park greener

（3）、People joining in the Clean-up Day will NOT________.

A、get lunches and T-shirts for free B、be provided with cleaning tools C、work in teams to do the cleaning D、take young trees home to plant

（4）、According to the poster, the activities are a great chance to teach the kids to________.

A、protect the environment B、get free drinks and candies C、pick up the most rubbish D、do cleaning and plant trees

（5）、Which of the following is TRUE?

A、You can call 5862397 to sign up any time you like. B、People can visit www.springcleanup.com to sign up. C、The town hall is at the corner of Palace Street and North Street. D、People can meet for the activities only at the gate of Rockland Park.

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    “How are you?”is a nice question. It's a friendly way that people in the U.S.A greet each other. But “How are you?”is also a very unusual question. It's a question that often doesn't need an answer. The person who asks“ How are you?”hopes to hear the answer “Fine”, even if the person's friend isn't fine. The reason is that “How are you?” isn't really a question and “Fine” isn't really an answer. They are simply other ways of saying “Hello” or “Hi”.
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   Life in the twenty-first century will be very different from life today. Between then and now many changes will take place, but what will the changes be?
   The population is growing fast. There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.
Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools then.
   People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travelling. Travelling will be much easier and cheaper. And many more people will go to other countries for holidays.
   There will be changes in our food, too. Maybe no one will eat meat every day, instead they eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier.
   Work in the future will be different, too. Dangerous and hard work can be done by robots. Because of this, many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.

America is growing older. Fifty years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United States were 65 or older. Today,10 out of every 100 Americans are over 65. The aging of the population will affect American society (社会) in many ways —education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the growing of America has made us a very different society —one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior is suitable at various ages.
A person's age no longer tells you anything about his/her social position (职位、地位), marriage or health. There's no longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that kept us on time and told us when to go to school, get a job, or stop working isn't as strong as it used to be. It doesn't surprise us to hear of a 29-year-old university president or a 70-year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing.
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Everywhere in the world there are different ways of behaving．When we meet someone，everything we say and do expresses our cultural background．So if you want to get on with someone from another culture，it helps to understand something about these differences．

Even how we stand depends on our culture．English people talk to each other at an average （平均的） distance of 130 cm，while Italians chat at an average distance of 80 cm．So Italians can think that English people are unfriendly because they stand too far away!And English people can think that Italians are too close．

Touching is also cultural．The French touch much more than Americans．A French couple may touch 100times in half an hour while an American couple may only touch twice!And French teenagers touch each other much more than American teens．

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Most schools in England require children to wear a school uniform .

There are at least four advantages. Firstly, when they go on a school trip they all look the same and so they can't get lost. Secondly, it stops kids worrying about what to wear each day. Everyone is equal. Thirdly, parents don't have to shop for expensive and different clothes for their children to show off. Fourthly, wearing a uniform gives a sense of being proud and discipline in them.

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If you were in Xi'an in Shanxi Province on April 18, you might feel like you were back in ancient China. There were catwalk shows and traditional music concerts held by people wearing traditional Chinese clothing, or huafu. Huafu fans from across the country got together there to take pictures and post them online for a huafu photo competition, which will last for a month. People were doing these to celebrate a new national holiday — the first China Huafu Day. It wants to encourage young Chinese to be proud of traditional clothing, as well as classic Chinese culture.

The government chose the third day of the third month of the Chinese lunar calendar(农历) as China Huafu Day. This day is said to be the birthday of the. Yellow Emperor. This year, the China Huafu Day fell on April 18.

Huafu includes the traditional clothing of all ethnic (民族的) groups in China. Among them, hanfu, the traditional clothing of the Han ethnic group, has the most fans in recent years. Hanfu is the traditional clothing of the Han people who lived in China before the Qing Dynasty. It has been around for about 3,000 years and changed greatly across different dynasties. It is hard to count the number of people who wear hanfu today. But hanfu clubs may be found almost in every university and city. Many young people wear hanfu to look like characters from comics and games. This really brings us back to the ancient fashion.

"China is becoming a leading power in the world, and the Chinese feel more confident about its traditional culture," Chen Chuyu, leader of a Beijing-based hanfu institution (学院), told People's Daily Online. "Wearing traditional clothing might be an interesting way of showing how they feel about this."

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