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If you are conducting businesses in foreign markets, it is necessary to know the customs and traditions of the locals when it comes to New Year's Day celebration..........audiences. Let's find out how some European countries celebrate New Year's Day!
Spain
People in Spain have a unique way to celebrate New Year's Day. It is a custom to eat 12 grapes at midnight on New Year’s Eve,..............in the coming year. If you are able to get all of them into your mouth, all of your wishes will come true!
Denmark
........................New Year's Day by smashing unused plates and glasses against the doors of family and friends. This action is performed with the aim of warding off evil spirits. Some people even stand on chairs and jump off them................... bringing good luck.
Greece
If you are offered a cake on New Year's Day in Greece, you may need tough teeth. As January 1st is also Saint Basil’s Day in Greece,.............you will have a full lucky year.
Ireland
.................................. They have the custom of throwing bread at the walls as the clock approaches midnight to scare away evil spirits and bring good luck in.
Germany
Every year, millions of people flock to Berlin for one of ..........................They throw parties,watch fireworks, and drink a German sparkling wine. Families melt lead at home by holding a flame beneath a tablespoon, .............................. a heart or ring shape indicates an upcoming wedding wile a pig is a sign o f plenty of food.
A. A grape
B. A ring
C. A coin
D.A tooth
A. Someone will many soon
B. Someone will strike the clock
C. Someone will have sufficient food
D. Someone will jump off the chair
A. Doing cleaning
B. Breaking things
C. Watching fireworks
D. Drinking wine
A. Greece
B.Ireland
C. Spain
D. Denmark
A. To get good luck.
B. To be successful in business.
C. To scare away bad spirits.
D. To wish for a good harvest.
B
Scientists ....... scientists keep track of animals that are hard to spot, including endangered animals.
A team of scientists in Denmark came up with........
At the very beginning, they didn't have high hopes for the new method.
Every living thing has DNA that can be used to identify it. .....scientist. can use this eDNA to tell what kinds of animals are in a certain place.
Testing for eDNA isn't a new idea, but most of the time, scientists look for it in water.
DNA ...... fans to collect extremely tiny bits of DNA onto very high quality filters.
In the laboratory, they got the DNA from the filters and made copies of it ......... from differcnt animals,........They identifed 49 different kinds of animals. They even identified DNA from animals thatin the area.As Dr. Elizabeth Clare, who led the team, said,
“There's no other way I would detect DNA from a tiger, except for the Zoo's tiger."
The researchers are excited about the ways this new ...... the wild. Scientists have been looking for better way......,live ,they can do a better job of protecting them.
A. To record animal types
B. To identify rare animal species
C. To count animal numbers
D. To trace the hard-to-spot animals
A. Neutral
B. Positive
C. Critical
D. Doubtful
A. Health
B. Environment
C. Science
D. Geography
A. from air
B. in laboratory
C. from waste
D. in water
A. Because animals at the zoo were easily tested
B. Because the zoo had samples not locally found
C. Because they could easily get help in the zoo
D. Because their laboratory was in tlie zoo
C
Today lots of poople love to wear Tshirts for the ..... of a traditiomal dress shirt and tie.
The T-shirt did not look like the T-shint we know today until after the First World War(1914-1918). During World War I, some soldiers were wearing old-fashioned woolen uniforms during the summer, ...... During the 1920s the word 'T-shirt?” was added to a dictionary by the Second World War, most soldiers wore cotton T-shirts as standard underwear.
T-shirts were considered solely as underwear until the 1950s. In those days, even the word “undenwear”was never mentioned in the upper social class. So in the 1950s, it was quite shocking to see movie stars such as Jean Are and James Ron wearing just a T-shint! But by 1955 it became socially acceptable for young men to wear just a T-shint without a regular shirt covering it James Rom, the famnous film star....
Today T-shirts become part of people's way of life ...prormote their favorite music band of sports team. People wear T-shirts advertising places that they have visited. T-shirts with images of cartoon characters are worn by children of all ages .In fact, you cam find every cartoom character that ever graced the screen on a T-shirt somewhere.
A.durable
B. acceptable
C. fashionable
D. comfortable
A. They wear it under a sports coat
B. They wear it under a shirt
C. They wear it under a dress
D. They wear it under a uniform
A.Female musicians
B. Male stars
C.Male teenagers
D.Sportswomen
A. Their preferences
B. Their families
C. Their ages
D. Their destinations
A. formal
B. normal
C. inappropriate
D. isolated
When people go to the movies today, they can settle in to watch and listen to a story. But what if when die lights dimmed and tlie movie began.................. sound effects, or music? __1__Those silent films are important to film history.
When movie theaters showed silent films, a musician was often tliere to play live music along with the movie. __2__ Occasionally, musicians or theater staff also produced sound effects,such as tires screeching or doors slamming. __3__Instead, the story was told through the performers’ motions and through words shown on the screen.
When movies first included sound, audiences weren't sure what to think. Not everyone was excited about the new type of film, which .…. known as the “ talkie. ” __4__ Clara Bow, who was a famous silent-movie actress in tlie early 1920s, was too nervous about her voice to become a star in the world oftalking pictures. She.........................and left show business altogether.
The first movie with sound, The Jazz Singer, was released in 1927. __5__ After that, talking pictures became a huge success.
A. That’s what the first movies were like.
B. It marked the beginning of a new era.
C. However, there was no sound in the movie itself.
D. Music was chosen to fit the mood o f the movie.
E. Many silent film performers had trouble with the new format.
During the last fifty years psychologists have made us believe that differences between men and women are mainly the __1__o f the way we are brought up. According to this theory women can be trained to do __2_that men traditionally do ,.............do more __3__ , This so-called “ new man’’ should be more __4__ and emotional.
But two books newly __5__ say that, according to a recent scientific study, gender differences __6__ because men’s and women’s brains work completely __7__ and their biological differences mean that they can never think or__8__ the same way.
Try this experiment: read a __9__ aloud from a book or magazine. At the same time tap ( 轻敲)on the table with one finger, and try to __10__ a constant speed. Do this first with your right hand and then with your left hand. If you are a __11__ , you will be able to maintain constant speed with __12__ hand. Men, however, when tapping with their left hand will __13__down. This is one o f the many __14__ that prove men’s brains are in compartments ( 功能区) , with verbal abilities on the left side and spatial abilities on the right,........verbal an spatial __15__ are dealt with on both the left and right sides of the brain.
A. part
B. fact
C.practice
D. result
A. cooking
B. cleaning
C. jobs
D. exercises
A. housework
B.experiments
C. assignments
D. research
A. communicative
B. boring
C. happy
D. aggressive
A. published
B. selected
C. borrowed
D. bought
A.stay
B. exist
C. disappear
D.matter
A. differently
B. happily
C. silently
D. positively
A.move
B. walk
C.reply
D. behave
A. phrase
B. word
C. picture
D. passage
A. keep
B. record
C. exceed
D. reduce
A. man
B. woman
C. scientist
D. writer
__12__( )
A. either
B. left
C. neither
D. right
A. bring
B. turn
C. slow
D. shut
A. magazines
B. books
C. experiments
D.works
__15__( )
A. problems
B.abilities
C. differences
D. features
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