Children all over the world like to celebrate their birthdays. American children

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Children all over the world like to celebrate their birthdays. American children are of no difference. They usually celebrate with a party. They invite their friends to their birthday parties. The party may not be held on the right date of their birthday if it comes on a school day. It may be held on the weekend instead.
Today two kinds of parties are the most popular. One is held at home. Parents decorate the house beautiful with balloons and coloured paper. They prepare a special birthday meal. The children play games. The other kind is held away from home. Some are at a special restaurant. The children eat pizza and ice cream. The waiters , who serve the food, also sing and tell jokes to the children. Other parties may be held at a park, or at a movie theatre, or in some other places.
Every birthday party has a cake with candles on it. There is one candle for each year of a birthday boy’s or girl’s age. When the candles are lighted(点燃), everyone sings the special birthday song: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.
As Americans grow older, their birthday parties change. In fact, many people stop having them. They say they would like to forget how old they are. Yet they do like to keep the happy birthday parties of their childhood in mind.
小题1:Who would like to celebrate their birthdays?
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小题2:How do American children celebrate their birthdays?
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小题3:How many kinds of parties are the most popular today?
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小题4:What’s for every birthday party?
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小题5:Why do many of Americans stop having their birthday parties?
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小题1:Children all over the world.
小题2:They celebrate their birthday with a party.
小题3:Two.
小题4:A cake with candles on it.
小题5:Because they would like to forget how old they are.

解析

试题分析：本文叙述了美国人过生日的方式。美国的孩子经常用聚会的形式来庆祝他们的生日。今天最受欢迎的生日聚会有两种，一种是在装饰漂亮的家里，另一种是在餐馆里。每种生日聚会会有一个上面插有蜡烛的蛋糕。但是许多美国人不想举行生日聚会，因为他们想忘记自己的年龄。
小题1:根据Children all over the world like to celebrate their birthdays.可知世界各地的孩子喜欢庆祝他们的生日。故此处为Children all over the world.
小题2:根据 American children are of no difference. They usually celebrate with a party. 可知美国的孩子经常用聚会的形式来庆祝他们的生日。故此处为They celebrate their birthday with a party.
小题3:根据Today two kinds of parties are the most popular.可知今天最受欢迎的聚会有两种，故此处为Two.
小题4:根据 Every birthday party has a cake with candles on it. 可知每种生日聚会会有一个上面插有蜡烛的蛋糕。故此处为A cake with candles on it.
小题5:根据They say they would like to forget how old they are. 可知许多美国人停止举行生日聚会，是因为他们项忘记自己多大了。故此处为Because they would like to forget how old they are.

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Once there was a boy in New York. His name is Sam. He started painting at the age of four, and when he was five, he was already very good at it. He painted many beautiful pictures, and a lot of people bought his pictures .Sam’s pictures were different from other people’s because he never painted on all of paper. He painted on half of it, and the other half was always empty.
“ That’s very clever,” everybody said, “ No other painters have ever done that !” One day somebody asked him ,” Please tell me this, Sam .Why do you paint on the bottom（底部） half of your pictures , but not on the top half ?”
“ Because I’m short,” Sam said, “ and my brushes can’t reach very high.”
小题1:Which country did Sam live in ?_____________
小题2:Was Sam good at painting when he was five?_________
小题3:What did Sam do with his pictures?_________________
小题4:Were Sam’s pictures the same as others’?______________
小题5:Why didn’t Sam paint on all of the paper?_____________

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有个中文网站提出“走路去上学”的倡议，请你就这一话题写一篇约90个单词的英文短文。
内容提示：有60%的同学认为1.走路有利于健康且安全。 2.不需要父母接送，学会遵守交通规则。3.道路上车辆减少，城市不再拥堵。有40%的同学认为走路浪费许多时间，路途远的同学可能会造成上课迟到。对此，你怎么看？

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Making a public speech is the thing that most people don’t want to do. The reason is that we are all afraid of making mistakes in front of others. The more important the speech is, the more frightened we will be. But forget it now. Public speaking is easy. It’s just a simple talking, Although I’m a shy man, I’ve been making speeches and talking on radio and television for more than 30 years. Anybody who can talk can speak in public. Here are some of the lessons I have learned:
Keep your speech simple. Your audience can’t take all of your main ideas, and they can only remember one or two of them, not ten or twenty. So you should prepare one or two of your main ideas very well. But if you can’t express what you want to say, then your speech will not be paid attention to. And if you don’t have a clear idea of what you want to say, your audience won’t, either.
Organize your speech well. No matter how long or short your speech is, you have to organize your speech—how you are going to open or begin, what main points you want to make and how you’re going to close or end. A strong close is usually very important and critical(关键的): the last thing you say is what your audience will most likely remember. If not, they will be confused.
Keep your speech not long. The standard (标准的) length of a speech is usually 12 minutes. Most people can’t put their minds in one thing for too long time, which will make them tired and lose their interest. If you pay no attention to your audience’s reaction(反应)，the audience will get bored. Of course, your speech will fail.
Following these suggestions above, you can make a good speech in public, and you will be an excellent speaker, I think.

Title: How to make a 小题1: speech
Technique	Reasons	Requirements
Keep it simple	You should think about your idea well enough	小题2: one or two of your main ideas well.
	If you have a 小题3: idea of what you want to say, your audience will have, too.
Organize it well.	You should get your speech well 小题4:	Know very well about the 小题5: ,main points and ending of the speech
	If you don’t, the 小题6: will be confused.
Keep it 小题7:	Your speech should be short enough to attract your audience’s attention and 小题8: .	Make your speech as short as 小题9: .
	If you don’t, the audience will feel 小题10: .

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March 5^th is “Lei Feng Day”. It started fifty years ago. Now half a c  小题1:  has passed. Is the spirit of Lei Feng outdated(过时的)?
Some people have shown us that it’s not. But people have a  小题2:changed the ways to help others.
Zhao Juan has been a volunteer for 15 years. She still remembers her e  小题3:   at a nursing home several years ago. An old man held her hand and said: “You don’t need to do anything for us. Seeing young people here is all we need.”
Those words made Zhao Juan think: in what w  小题4:   can we help people better? “Every person does something to give out positive energy(正能量). And before we give a helping hand, we should find out what they r  小题5:   want,” Zhao Juan said to the Qilu Evening News.
As well as Zhao Juan, other people have shown their understanding of the spirit of Lei Feng.
This past January, a story called “noodle fever” shocked Zhengzhou, Henan. One kind man, Li Gang, 42, said in his story that he had a s  小题6:   illness and needed a lot of money for an operation. H  小题7:  ,what he asked for wasn’t charity, but for more people to come to eat noodles at his restaurant.
Li Gang’s story spread q  小题8:  . Soon his restaurant was filled with customers every day and he was a  小题9:   to have his operation on Feb. 2^ndthis year.I  小题10:   this way, people could help Li Gang without hurting his dignity(自尊).

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About 150 years ago, the person who sent the letter did not have to pay. The person who got the letter had to pay the postage (邮资) which cost a lot.
　　In a small village in England, “Here’s a letter for Miss Alice Brown,” said a mailman. “I’m Alice Brown,” a girl of about eighteen said in a low voice. The mailman gave her the letter.
　　Alice looked at the envelope(信封) for a minute, and then handed it back to the mailman.
　　“I’m sorry I can’t take it,” she said. “I don’t have enough money to pay the postage.”
　　The people standing around were very sorry for the girl. Then a gentleman came up to the mailman and paid the postage for Alice’s letter.
　　When the gentleman gave her the letter, she said with a smile, “Oh, thank you very much, sir. This letter is from my brother who went to London to look for jobs. I’ve waited a long time for this letter, but now I don’t need it. I don’t have to open the envelope because there is nothing inside.”
　　“Really?” the gentleman said in surprise. “How do you know that?” “He told me that he would put some signs on the envelope. Look, sir, this cross in the corner means that he is well, and this circle means he has found a job. That’s very good news.”
　　The gentleman was Sir Rowland Hill. He did not forget Alice and her letter.
　　He thought and thought for many years. “The postage has to be much lower,” he said at last. “What about a penny (便士) for a letter? And the person who sends the letter pays the postage. He has to buy a stamp and put it on the envelope.”
　　The government decided to adopt (采纳) the plan. The first stamp was put out in 1840. It was called the “Penny Black”. It had a picture of the Queen on it.
根据短文内容填空，每空填一词。
小题1: About 150 years ago, the person who sent the letter didn’t have to pay for the postage_________ the person who _________ the letter had to.
小题2:The gentleman felt very __________ when the girl said there wasn’t _________ inside the envelope.
小题3: Alice’s brother was such a _________ young man that he just put some ________ on the envelope to tell her sister he was well.
小题4:In 1840, the first stamp _________ the “Penny Black” was put out ________ a picture of the Queen on it.
小题5:After that, people needed to ________ a penny buying a _______ to send a letter.

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