閱讀表達(dá) 閱讀短文，按要求完成短文后的各項(xiàng)任務(wù)。

Dragon –Boat Festival is also called the DuanWu Festival. (1)It is celebrated on the _____day of _____ according to the Chinese calendar．Here is something about Dragon-Boat Festival.

For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by eating Zong Zi and racing dragon boats .People hold the dragon-boat races in order to remember Qu Yuan , one of the greatest poets(詩(shī)人)in China．

Qu Yuan was born in Zigui of Hubei Province over 2,200 years ago．Qu Yuan was an honest minister(大臣)of the State of Chu，during the Warring States Period(475-22 l BC)(戰(zhàn)國(guó)時(shí)期)．He was upright and wise. He wanted to bring his country peace and make the country stronger, but the country was in the hands of bad officials，he failed．At last，he was very discouraged. He ended his life by throwing himself into the Miluo River. It was said that people jumped from boats into the river and tried to save him. But it was too late. They were very sad. They threw rice into the water to feed Qu Yuan’s spirit.

(2)Now we read his poem Li Sao which was full of deep love for his country．We can see the dragon-boat races and have a kind of Chinese food named Zong Zi to eat during the Dragon-boat Festival．

1.在（1）句的空白處填入合適的詞，使上下文完整。_____  _____

2.Why do we hold the dragon-boat races? _________________________________.

3.把(2) 處劃線部分譯成漢語(yǔ)。

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4.在文中找出與下列句子意思相近的句子：He jumped into the Miluo River and died.  ________________________________________

5.找出或?qū)懗鑫恼轮凶钅鼙磉_(dá)該文中心的句子。

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An English traveler found himself in a northern European country with a little money to buy the ticket for the travel back home. As he knew that it would take him only two days to get to England, he thought that he would be all right without food. So he bought a ticket and went on board. He closed his ears to the lunch bell. When dinner time came, he refused to go to the dining hall, saying that he was not feeling well. The next morning, he didn’t go to breakfast and at lunch time he again stayed in his room. At dinner time he was so hungry that he could not stand it any longer. “I’m going to eat, ” he said, “even if they throw me into the sea. ” At dinner he ate everything in front of him at the table, then he worried about the coming trouble. “Bring me the bill,” he said. “there isn’t any bill. ” Was the answer. “On the ship the money for the ticket includes meals. ” The traveler regretted when he heard this.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容選擇正確答案。

1.The English traveler knew he would ________ in two days.

A. be back home?????????????????? B. buy some food to eat???

C. travel everywhere in Europe????? D. enjoy himself in the ship

2.The first day he _________ to have lunch and dinner.

A. stole????? B. sold???? C. refused??????? D. missed

3.He didn’t go to the dining hall because __________.

A. he was ill??????????? B. he was not feeling well???

C. he was not hungry??? D. he had no money

4.The next day he decided to ________ at last.

A. stay in his room????? B. be thrown into the sea

C. have dinner????????? D. run away

5.The English traveler _________ that he had no meal on the first day.

A. was excited??? B. was sad????? C. was glad??? D. was told

1.Who is in China now?

2.Why doesn’t Henry’s father go to China?

3.What doesn’t Henry do in China?

4.How many children have Henry’s parents got?

5.Which of the following is TRUE？

Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (仆人). He and the servant loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home; the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught his servant doing that.

　　One morning, when he left home, he said to the servant, “Here are two bottles of poison (毒藥) and some nice food in the house. You must take care of them.” With these words, he went out.

　　But the servant knew that what the rich man had said was untrue. After the rich man was away from his home, he enjoyed a nice meal. Because he drank too much, he was drunk and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn’t find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had eaten up everything. He was afraid to be punished(懲罰), so he drank the poison to kill himself.

1.In the story, _______ liked wine and good food very much.

    A. the rich man 　　B. the servant 　　C. both A and B 　　D. neither A and B

2.The rich man knew that it was _______ that drank the wine and ate up all the nice food.

A. the cat 　　 　　B. himself 　　　    C. nobody 　　　　D. the servant

3.The rich told the servant that there was poison in the two bottles, because_______.

A. there was in face poison in the bottles

B. he did not want the servant to drink his wine

C. he wanted to kill the cat

D. he wanted to kill the servant

4.In fact, _______ate all the nice food and drank the wine.

A. the servant   B. cat   C. the rich man   D. nobody

5.From the story, we know that the servant is very _______.

A. lazy   B. bad   C. clever   D. kind