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Have a Date with Us!
Have you ever flown a sky lantern at night with lots of people? We plan to set an interesting world record - the most sky lanterns flying in the night sky! Are you interested in our activity? If you are, please join us!
Date: Friday, June 1st, 2018
Time: 9: 00 p. m.
Place: Youth Square on Jungbin Road
Price： ¥ 20 per person
¥ 16 per person with a student card
¥ 12 per pc non for groups of over 25 people
Notice: •You do not need to bring anything. We will prepare sky lanterns for you all. And what's better, we will give away a T-shirt with a picture of sky lanterns on it to the first 50 people who arrive. What are you waiting for?
•For more information，please visit www.2O18 skylanterns.com.cn.
Judy and her three classmates want to join ''Have a Date with Us! Here is their chat history about this activity on QQ.
1.“Have a Date with Us!" will be held .
A. at night B. in a park C. on the Internet D. for students only
2.The T-shirt mentioned in the material looks like .
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
3.“Have a Date with Us!” is destined to ______.
A. set an interesting world record
B. raise money by selling sky lanterns
C. encourage students Io give away their T-shirts
D. invite young couples to have a date at the same time
4.From the chat history, we know______.
A. Judy asks her friends to take student cards.
B. Cindy will bring her own sky lanterns.
C. Debby has got a free t-shirt
D. Nick is sure to be late
5.If Cindy forgets her student card, the four students will have to pay ______ for the activity
A. ¥80 B. ¥68 C. ¥64 D. ¥4S
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Twenty-two-year-old Timothy Doner from New York City has been able to speak 23 different languages, including some rare African ones.
Timothy began his foreign language education at the age of 13. Attracted by in Israeli(以色列) musical band. Timothy listened to their album every morning. A month Later, he kept about 20 of their songs in his mind, though he didn't know what the Hebrew(希伯来语) words mean. But once he learned the translation. it was like he had a dictionary in his head.
Then Timothy moved on to Arabic (阿拉伯语) which he studied every morning by reading newspapers with a dictionary and by talking to street vendors (小贩). After that he learned Persian, then Russian, then Mandarin... and about twenty others and developed a crazy low for languages.
Now, Timothy is still teaching himself new languages. With the help of language books and word-learning Apps on his iPhone. He can master a language in a few weeks or months.
What has Timothy got from learning so many languages? "By learning languages, you are learning a lot more. You are learning about culture, everything from cooking to TV，poetry and whatever it may be. That helps you better understand the language,” he said.
1.How old is Timothy Doner?
A. 13 B. 20 C. 22 D. 23
2.The first foreign language Timothy Doner learned was
A. Hebrew B. Arabic C. Russian D. Mandarin
3.The underlined word “others” refers to .
A. other newspaper B. other street vendors
C. other dictionaries D. other foreign languages
4.According to the passage. Timothy Doner learns so many languages by _____
①reading news papers ② joining in language clubs ③listening to foreign music
④using apps and dictionaries ⑤ travelling around the world ⑥keeping diaries in different languages
A. ①②⑥ B. ①③④ C. ②③⑤ D. ④⑤⑥
5.From the passage, we can know Timothy Doner ________.
A. is good at singing B. has a dictionary in his head
C. comes from Africa D. learns a lot beyond languages
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Unlike most restaurants, the Enoteca Maria Restaurant in New York offers only home-cooked food by grand mas coming from across the world.
Joe Scaravella, a 61-year-old Italian-American born and raised in New York, opened a restaurant in 2007. Having lost almost all his family members, he tried to recreate the feeling of home-cooked meal in his restaurant.
He employed (雇佣) grandmas from different parts of Italy at first, and later, he begin hiring grandmas from other countries like Brazil, France and Greece. He built two kitchens in the restaurant: one for Italian grandmas to cook during lunchtime and the other for grandmas from other countries to cook every evening. The menus in the restaurant are constantly (不断地) changing because what is being served depends on the grandmas who are on duty.
The restaurant opens five a week from Wednesday to Sunday. At present, there are more than 40 grandmas working in it. Most of them came to the U. S. with their children, helping take care of their grandchildren Scaravella give them the chance to express themselves in a culinary (烹饪的）way.
The Enoteca Maria Restaurant has received positive reviews since its opening. Customers are ingested by its delicious food, comfortable environment and most importantly, the grandma who may remind them of their own.
1.Why did Mr. Scaravella open the Enoteca Maria Restaurant?
A. To express himself in a culinary M-ay.
B. To help the grandma cooks raise their families.
C. To meet grandmas coming from across the world.
D. To recreate the feeling of a home-cooked meal in his restaurant.
2.Why are the menus in the restaurant constantly changing?
A. Because the cooks on duty change
B. Because Joe Scaravella likes different foods
C. Because the ingredients change with the seasons.
D. Because customers don't like the menu.
3.Karl wants to try French cuisine (法国菜) ,he had better come to the restaurant
A. on Monday evening B. at lunchtime on Wednesday
C. on Friday evening D. at lunchtime on Sunday
4.Which of the following cook may probably get a job in the restaurant?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
5.The best title for this passage may be .
A. Italian Grandmas B. home-cooked Food
C. American Cooks D. Grandmas' Restaurant
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"It looks so good on you," said my friend. I was trying on a bathing suit. Then the topic of conversation turned to going on a diet(节食).
I wanted to become pretty and thin. So I decided to stick to the diet. I didn't eat my lunch. Some people asked me where my lunch was. I lied to them and made up excuses.
I did the same with breakfast. I tricked(欺骗) my dad into thinking that I ate my bread, but I fed it to the cat. My weight dropped fast, but when I looked at myself in the mirror, I still thought I was not thin enough.
Finally, dark circles formed under my eyes. I wore thick clothing in hot weather, but I was still cold. That didn't matter. I still needed to be thinner.
About a month after I bought the bathing suit, I tried it on again, and it fell right off me. My mother told me to look in the mirror. I could see my eye sockets(眼窝). That was the day I realized how skinny I was.
I went to see a doctor. My total weight loss was about twenty-five pounds in one month. It took one year for my body to start working normally again.
Sometimes I want to go back to being thin, but I will never do what I did again. It's not worth it. Please don't go on a diet when you're young. You will regret it. Don't judge and compare yourself with others. Try to love yourself for who you are, not for what you look like.
1.After trying on , the writer decided to go on a diet.
A. a sweater B. a bathing suit C. a jacket D. a dress
2.The writer's diet lasted .
A. four months B. three months C. two months D. one month
3.The underlined word "skinny" in the passage means " " in Chinese.
A. 瘦的 B. 胖的 C. 高的 D. 矮的
4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The writer's weight dropped slowly during the diet.
B. The writer ate lunch during the diet.
C. The writer didn't eat lunch during the diet.
D. It took the writer six months to recover.
5.The writer mainly wants to tell us to .
A. try to become pretty and thin
B. have three healthy meals a day
C. learn from other excellent people
D. love ourselves for who we are
