【正文】 . The month of January was named after the Roman god, Janus(雅努斯 ). He is pictured with two heads. 0ne head looks forward and the other back. They represent a break between the old and new. That new calendar was in time with the sun and it has been used until the present day. Around the world, different cultures have their own traditions for weling the New Year. The Japanese hang straw rope across the front of their houses to keep out evil spirits and bring happiness and good luck. They also have a good laugh as the year begins to get things started on a lucky note. In India people like to wear pink, red, purple and white flowers. Women favor yellow, the color of spring. Hindus also leave shrines next to their beds so they see beautiful objects when they wake up. Canadians enjoy the traditional polar bear swim. People of all ages put on their swimsuits and jump into frozen lakes. 9. Which ancient country has a great effect on the New Year we are celebrating now? A. Egypt. B. Rome. C. Babylon. D. India. 10. What’s the main idea of the last three paragraphs? A. People in different countries celebrate the New Year in different times of the year. B. In different countries people celebrate the New Year in different ways. C. Which country has the best tradition for weling the New Year? D. In different countries people play different games to celebrate the New Year. can we infer from this passage? A. Everyone will greet each other with “Happy New Year” for several months. B. Women favor yellow flowers in Japan when they celebrate the New Year. C. Canadians like swimming in the lake to celebrate the New Year though it is very cold. D. Human beings have been celebrating the New Year for no more than years. D The American newspaper has been around for about three hundred years. In 1721, the printer James Franklin. Benjamin’s older brother, started the New England Courant, and that was what we might recognize today as a real newspaper. He filled his paper with stories of adventure, articles on art, on famous people, and on all sorts of political subjects. Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin’s Courant, few believe that newspapers in their present printed form will remain alive for long. Newspaper panies are losing advertisers, readers, market value. and. in some cases, their sense of purpose at a speed that would not have been imaginable just several years ago. The chief editor of the times said recently,” At places where they gather, editors ask one another, 39。請你代表 全班同學(xué)給 Smith 老師發(fā)一封電子郵件，邀請他參加。 When I was growing up, I had an old neighbour named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like other doctors I had ever known. He never __21__ at us for playing in his yard. I remember him as someone nice and __22__. When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving __23__, he was planting trees. His house sat on ten acres, and his life’s __24__ was to make it a forest. But he _25__watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants would _26__ them, and that __27__ you water them, each successive(后繼的 ) __28_ of trees will grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things _29__ for them. He’d planted an oak, and instead of watering it every morning, he’d __30__ it with a rolledup newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to cause the tree’s __31__. Dr. Gibbs passed away a couple of years ago. _32_, I walk by his house and look at the trees that I watched him plant some 25 years ago. They are big and __33_ now. Sufferings seemed to __34__ them in ways ease and __35__ never could. Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies, the rising and falling of life within. I often pray for them. Mostly I pray that their lives will be__36__. But lat