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Most people buy a lot of gifts just before Christmas. But some people think they buy too much. They have started a special day called Buy Nothing Day. They don’’t want anyone to go shopping on that day. Buy Nothing Day is November 29. It’’s 25 days before Christmas. The idea for Buy Nothing Day started in Vancouver, British Columbia. Now people all over the United States celebrate Buy Nothing Day. In California, parents and children get together to read stories, sing songs and paint pictures. The children talk about why they don’’t need a lot of toys. This year in Albuquerque, New Mexico, high school students wanted to tell other students about Buy Nothing Day. They organized a simple dinner to give people information about Buy Nothing Day. They asked restaurants in the neighborhood to donate(赠送) the food. They made posters(海报) and talked to other students about it. The dinner was a big success, and many students agreed not to buy anything on November 29. The students at the high school liked the idea of this new tradition. Next year, they want to have another dinner to inform more people about Buy Nothing Day! Some people start Buy Nothing Day because they think_______.

A. people need more time to do other things
B. people buy too many gifts for Christmas
C. people can hardly afford to buy a lot of gifts
D. people waste too much time going shopping

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Directions: In this part of the test, there are 5 passages for you to read. Read each passage carefully, and then do the questions that follow. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D, and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET.Passage One So far as I know, Miss Hannah Arendt was the first person to define the essential difference between work and labor. To be happy, a man must feel, firstly, free and, secondly, important. He cannot be really happy if he is compelled by society to do what he does not enjoy doing, or if what he enjoys doing is ignored by society as of no value or importance. In a society where slavery in the strict sense has been abolished, the sign that what a man does is of social value is that he is paid money to do it, but a laborer today can rightly be called a wage slave. A man is a laborer if the job society offers him is of no interest to himself but he is compelled to take it by the necessity of earning a living and supporting his family. The antithesis to labor is play. When we play a game, we enjoy what we are doing, otherwise we should not play it, but it is a purely private activity; society could not care less whether we play it or not. Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; what from the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his own point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk, a laborer. Which a man is can be seen from his attitude toward leisure. To a worker, leisure means simply the hours he needs to relax and rest in order to work efficiently. He is therefore more likely to take too little leisure than too much; workers die of coronaries and forget their wives’ birthdays. To the laborer, on the other hand, leisure means freedom from compulsion, so that it is natural for him to imagine the fewer hours he has to spend laboring, and the more hours he is free to play, the better. If a person wishes to be happy, ______.

A. he must have something to do
B. he must realize the essential difference between work and labor
C. he must feel free first of all
D. he must do something valuable to society

The word "sport" first meant something that people did in their ( 11 )_________. Later it often meant hunting wild animals and birds. About a hundred years ago, the word was first used for organized games. This is the ( 12 ) _________ meaning of the word today. People spend a lot of their time playing basketball, football, tennis and many other sports. Such people play sports because they ( 13 ) _________. A few people are paid for the sports they play. These people are called professional sportsmen. They may be sportsmen for only a few years, but during that time the best ones can ( 14 ) _________ a large sum of money. For example, a professional footballer in England earns more than 30,000 dollars a year. The sports stars earn a lot more. ( 15 ) _________ golf and tennis champions can make more than 500,000 dollars a year. Of course, only a few sportsmen can earn as much money as that.

These pills should (keep) _______out of the reach of children.

(general) _________speaking, he is a person that you can trust.

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