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Fill in the blanks with information from the story:
DRAGON Head-Raising Day is a traditional Chinese 1. It falls on the second day of the second 2 month. On this day people eat noodles,
dumplings and deep fried pancakes. All the day鈥檚 foods are named after
3. In some 4 Chinese stories, dragons have power 5 the wind and rain.
It was hoped that with the help of the dragon, ploughing would be 6 and the autumn bring a good 7. It is said that after that day there will be
8 rain. This is why the day is often call
ed 鈥淪pring Dragon Day鈥?
Many people get their hair 9 on that Day, because it was said that a haircut during the first lunar month brought 10 to the uncles in a family.
Choose the best answer:
1) DRAGON Head-Raising (
榫欐姮澶?/p>
) Day is on the _______ day of the second lunar month.
A. first
B. second
C. third
D. fourth
2) People laid paths of ____ into kitchens and around water vats.
A. ashes
B. rice
C. noodles
D. dumplings
3) Which kind of food has the name 鈥渄ragon teeth鈥?
A. pa
ncakes
B. noodles
C. dumplings
D. sugar
4) According to the story, dragons in China have power over the ______.
A. vats and ashes
B. wind and rain
C. food and water
D. uncles in a family
5) It can be inferred that _____.
A. DRAGON Head-
Raising Day brings many customers to the hairdresser鈥檚.
B. The delicious food people can enjoy are served only on that day.
C. Laying ashes into kitchens and around water vats means driving the dragon out of the house.
D. Dragons are said to bring snow to the world on the second day of the second lunar month.
6) The best title for this passage is _____.
A. Dragon Whisker noodles
B. Dragon Teeth
C. Traditional Chinese Festivals
D. Spring Dragon Day
Fill in the blanks with information from the story:
Ashley Young is a _________ for Aston Villa. He has been in great form for his club this _________, already scoring seven goals. His
manager will hope that his good form can help Aston Villa win some _________ The club has already shown a lot of _________ in him.
Two years ago they paid almost 10 million _________ to sign him from Watford. He has not let his _________ down.
His good form has taken him into the England _________ team. He might be a star _________ the next World Cup in South Africa.
1. Choose the best answer:
1) The manager of Aston Villa is _____.
A. Cristiano Ronaldo
B. Lionel Messi
C. Martin O鈥橬eill
D. Ashley Young
2) Young is a _____ for Aston Villa.
A. winger
B. forward
C. fullback
D. manager
3) Young has already scored _________ goals for his club this season.
A. five
B. six
C. seven
D. eight
4) The club paid almost _______ million pounds to sign Young from Watford.
A. 10
B. 11
C.12
D. 13
5) Young is known for his_________ on the football pitch.
A. appearance
B. speed
C. skill
D. age
Match the expressions with their meanings:
1. compare
A. a number of people, animals, objects with each other
2. praise
B. a prize for winning a competition
3. local
C. a point
4. goal
D. an area of ground for sports
5. trophy
E. around the area where you live
6. national
F. show the likeness between sb/sth and sb/sth else
7. pitch
G
. belonging to a whole nation
8. together
H. to express your admiration for sb or sth
You might have heard of collisions between cars, trains and ships, but satellites? It sounds like something from a movie! But sometimes life
can
be
1 than the
movies.On
February
11,
a
Russian
military
satellite,
Kosmos 2251,
smashed
into
a
US
communications satellite
about
780km above Siberia in Russia. The 2 made more than 500 pieces of debris.
The
debris
could
be
very
3
for
nearby
spacecraft,
even
a
tiny
piece
could
do
great
harm.The
accident
occurred
in
an
orbit
which
many
satellites and other spacecraft 4. It means that some countries may have to 5 their spacecraft into different orbits.It is the first satellite crash
that has been made 6. People are worried, since they understand how 7
Earth鈥檚 orbit has become in
recent years. Before the accident, there
were already over 300,000 objects 8 the Earth. There are satellites (old and new), spacecraft, and 9 objects.The US and Russia have put the
10
number
of
objects
in
space.
Both
countries
are
11
cutting
space
junk.
They
are
asking
for
international
cooperation
to
help
solve
the