35. christmas is celebrated as the most magnificent festival of the year in western (west) countries.
四、阅读理解：从a b c d 四个选项中，选出最佳答案。
if you ask someone why he or she wears clothes, the answer will probably be to keep warm and to cover my body. these are the basic reasons that clothes are worn, but people also want to look attractive and appear successful to others.
if people only wore clothes for warmth and to cover their bodies, most clothing would be simple and cheap. in many countries, however, clothing is sometimes very expensive. the main reason for this is not the cost of the fabric or the cost of making the clothes. the clothes are expensive because of fashion.
successful businessmen, for example, often wear very expensive suits, shirts and ties. sometimes they pay
thousands of dollars for a suit and hundreds of dollars for a tie. its still jus a suit and tie but they pay so much because of the famous name of the designer. a suit costing much less would be just as warm and would cover the wearers body just as well. fashion is constantly changing, which means that people who want to be fashionable have to buy new clothes every few
months, even if last months clothes have only been worn once or twice. some people have closets full of clothes that have hardly been worn but are no longer in fashion.
being fashionable, therefore, can be a very expensive pastime! 21. the basic reason for people to wear clothes is to-----.d a. keep warm and appear successful
b. cover their bodies and look attractive c. look attractive and keep warm
d. keep warm and cover their bodies
22. some clothes are expensive just because of----.d a. the cost of the fabric
b. the successful businessmen c. the cost of making the clothes d. fashion
23. how much does and expensive suit cost? it costs-----.d a. a few dollars b. a few hundred dollars
c. a hundred dollars d. thousands of dollars
24. it is often very expensive to be fashionable because-----.c a. fashionable clothes are made of expensive fabrics
b. fashionable people only wear their clothes once c. you have to keep buying new clothes d. you have to know what is fashionable
25. the main idea of this passage is that----.b
a. some clothes are very expensive and some are cheap b. many people choose their clothes according to whats in fashion
c. people wear clothes to keep warm and to cover their bodies d. in many countries, clothes can sometimes be very expensive to buy 五. 判断正误
mrs. green gave her husband the letters to post when he was going to work. but sometimes mr. green forgot to do so and kept them in his pocket for days.
one fine morning in march, mrs. green asked him to post a letter. please post this letter and dont forget, she said. mr. green put the letter in his pocket and said, i am sure to post this one. mrs. green smiled and said, yes, i believe that you will this time. mrs. green looked at his back, and was still smiling when she closed the door.
mr. green walked slowly along the street. soon a man came up from behind him. when he walked by, the man looked back and smiled, dont forget to post the letter!
then a girl walked by, and she turned and smiled, too. dont forget to post that letter! she said. mr. green said to himself, why are these people smiling at me? and how do they know i have a letter to post?
at last he came to a post office, posted the letter‘and walked on. but after a while, a boy came up from behind him and asked him, did you post your letter? yes, i did, said mr. green.
then i can take off this paper, said the boy.
he took a large piece of paper from the back of mr. greens coat and showed it to him. on the paper were these words一ask him to post the letter.
(√) 27. mr. green sometimes forgot to post the letters immediately.
(√)30.the paper on his back was a good hint to help mr. green remember to post the letter.
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