More have heard of the American Prom.This

is the senior students' school leaving party.The

British name for the event is a Leaver's Ball or

Leaver's Dinner,although some UK schools call

them Proms,too.In Canada, Ireland and Australia

the terms Grad or Formal are most common and in

South Africa it is called a Matric Dance.

  Some Matric Dances in South Africa still follows the old British traditions. Before the dance,pupils are given lessons in dancing.School leavers invite a partner to the dance.The girls have dresses especially made for the event. To save costs the dance is often held din the school hall.

  American Proms have become elaborate(精心的)and expensive, complete with luxury hotel ballrooms(豪華的酒店舞廳),live bands and expensive prom dressed. They now include after-Prom activities that often extend into the early morning of the next day.

The Leaver's Ball in the UK is not so formal(正式).The girls also wear ball gowns and the boys suits. A dinner and disco will be held at a a local hotel. Each pupil buys a ticket and can go with a partner or just arrive with friends.

 

61.We learn from this passage that the Prom is a _______.

A. test          B.game       C.party

62. In Australia,people call "Prom"_______.

A. Leavers' Ball      B.Grad or Formal   C. Matric Dance

63. The most important activity in the Prom is______.

A. dancing        B.eating       C.meeting

64.The Matric Dance is often held in the_____.

A. school hall      B.hotel ballroom    C.local restaurant

65. According to this passage,the event in _____costs the most.

A. the United States    B.the UK       C.South Africa


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  Ways to Fall Asleep

  為了盡快進(jìn)入甜蜜的夢鄉(xiāng),歷史上許多名人絞盡了腦汁,有的人終于找到了自己獨特的人眠方法,可有的人還是好夢難圓。你想探個究竟嗎?

  How much sleep do we need? The answers are different. Some people need only three hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Amexicans sleep for an average of seven to eight hours a night. After age fifty, the average sleep hours go down to 6.5 hours a night.

  Most people will have a bad night when they can't fall asleep. About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people cannot fall asleep. The name of this problem is called insomnia(失眠癥).

  This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia .Some of these people had their own ways to sleep well. Benjamin Franklin(本杰明·富蘭克林), the famous inventor, had four beds.He moved from one to another to fall asleep. King Louis XIV (國王路易十四) of France had 413 beds and hoped to fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous writer, had a different way: he hy on his side(側(cè)臥) across the end of the bed!

(1)

Most Americans usually sleep for about _________ hours a night.

  A. 3  B. 5~6  C. 10  D. 7~8

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(2)

As people grow older,they need __________ at night.

  A. less sleeping time

  B. more sleeping time

  C. the same amount of sleeping time

D. a fixed time to sleep

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(3)

If there are 100 million people in the US hav-ing a problem with sleep,what's the popula-tion of it? About _______.

  A. 200 million  B. 300 million  C. 600 million  D. 900 million

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(4)

Franklin tried to go to sleep by __________.

  A. moving from one to another of his 413 beds  B. moving from one to another of his 4 beds

  C. inventing a bed for himself   D. lying on his side across the end of the bed

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(5)

It's not mentioned in the passage,but we know that Mark Twain was ___________.

  A. a Frenchman  B. an Englishman

  C. an American   D. a German

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