（一）Hi, Louis!I’m writing to tell you something about the customs and festivals.Everyone loves holidays since one doesn’t need to go to school or work. Although all holidays mean no school and work, but not all of them are the same. On some of them you go out with friends; on others you stay home to eat, talk, and have fun with your family. For example in the U.S., everyone thinks New Year’s Eve and New Year are both for partying with friends. Christmas is the time to stay home and exchange gifts with family members. The opposite is true in Japan though. For example, in Japan, New Year is for spending time with the family to eat, talk, have fun, and go to the temples. But Christmas is for boy and girl friends to go out and exchange gifts. Originally Christmas should be to celebrate the birth of Christ.I have been interested in foreign customs since I was little. If you learn these different holiday customs, you will learn about different histories and cultures. This is much more interesting than learning them at the library from morning to evening.Love,Sue 根据短文内容，判断正误。

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1. Usually, nobody goes to school or works during holidays.2. Christmas is the time to stay home to eat, talk and have fun with the family.3. All the countries have the same way to celebrate the holidays.4. Being interested in foreign customs means being interested in different histories and cultures.5. This passage is about the customs and holidays in Japan.（二）On the evening of June 21, 1992, a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle . The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager , for they had never seen a bicycle in hotel hall before though they lived in ‘ the kingdom of bicycles.’Robert Friedlander, an American , arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi , India.When he was 11, he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road . Now , after 44 years , he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dreams were coming true .Robert Friedlander’s next destinations (目的地) were Lanzhou , Dunhuang, Urumqi, etc . He will complete his trip in Pakistan.1.The best headline (标题)for this newspaper article would be ____ .(A)The Kingdom of Bicycles (B)A Beautiful Hotel in Xi’an(C)Marco Polo and the Silk Road (D)An American Achieving His Aims2.The hotel workers told the manager about Friedlander coming to the hotel because ____.(A)he asked to see the manager (B)he entered the hall with a bike(C)the manager had to know about all foreign guests(D)the manager knew about his trip and was expecting him3.Friedlander is visiting the three countries in the following order ：____(A)China, India, and Pakistan (B)India, China , and Pakistan(C)Pakistan, China, and India (D)China, Pakistan, and India4.What made Friedlander want to come to China?(A)The stories about Marco Polo. (B)The famous sights in Xi’an .(C)His interest in Chinese silk . (D)His childhood in Chinese silk.5.Friedlander can be said to be ____ .(A)clever (B)friendly (C)hardworking (D)strong-minded三Can dolphins talk? Maybe they can’t talk with words, bu t they talk with sounds. They show their feelings with sounds.Dolphins travel in a group. We call a group of fish a “school”. They don’t study, but they travel together.Dolphins talk to the other dolphins in the school. They give information. They tell when they are happy or sad or afraid. They say “welcome”when a dolphin comes back to the school. They talk when they play.They make a few sounds above water. They make many more sounds under water. People cannot hear these sounds because they are very, very high. Scientists make tapes of the sounds and study them.Sometimes people catch a dolphin for a large aquarium（水族馆）. People can watch the dolphins in a show. Dolphins don’t like to be away from their school in an aquarium. They are sad a nd lonely（孤独的）.There are many stories about dolphins. They help people. Sometimes they save somebody’s life. Dolphin meat is good, but people don’t like to kill them. They say that dolphins bring good luck. Many people believe this.1. Dolphins show their feelings with ___________ .A. picturesB. wordsC. waterD. sounds2. People can’t hear the dolphin’s sounds because ________ .A. they are above the waterB. they are under the waterC. they are very highD. they are very low3. Which one is true according to the passage?A. Dolphins swim together in a school because they want to studyB. They don’t study, but they travel in a groupC. Dolphins like to be away from their school on an island.D. Dolphins like to kill people四Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821 , and moved to New York City when she was ten years old . One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor . That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century . After writing many letters to medical schools , she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia .So much did she want to study medicine , that she taught school and gave music lessons to make money for her school .In 1849 , after graduation from medical school , she decided to further her education in Pairs .Upon returning to the United States , she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman . By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister , also a doctor , opened a new hospital , the first for woman and children . Besides being the first woman doctor and setting up her own hospital , she also set up the first medical school for woman .1. The Blackwells moved to the United States in ____ .(A)1821 (B)1831 (C)1849 (D)18572. Where did Elizabeth begin to put what she had learned into practice ?(A)In England. (B)In France.(C)In Paris. (D)In USA.3. How did Elizabeth get the money for her education in medicine ?(A)From a doctor in Philadelphia who supported her to be a doctor .(B)From her sister who was already a doctor .(C)By working as a part-time teacher .(D)Supported by a medical school from which she graduated .4. From the passage we know that in the early 1800’s ____ .(A)hospitals were not for woman but for men only(B)there were no women doctors in American hospitals(C)women patients were looked down upon in American hospitals(D)there were more men than women doctors in American hospitals5. Which of the following is NOT true to the passage ?(A)The Blackwell sisters set up the first hospital for woman and children .(B)The two sisters trained a number of women doctors .(C)The Blackwell sisters were not able to treat men patients .(D)Philadelphia is of course a city in America .。