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on B. off C. away D. about六、閱讀理解:20%A Most businesses are open five days a week. American school children go to school five days a week as well. American families usually have a twoday weekend. The weekend is Saturday and Sunday. Over the weekend, people spend their time in many different ways. Many families enjoy weekends together. They may go shopping, go for a drive or visit friends. They may also invite friends over and have a party at home. Many American families take are popular in summer. Skiing and skating are favourite winter sport. Weekends are also a time for American families to work on something in their houses. Many families plant flowers and have vegetable gardens. Some families use the weekends to paint or repair houses. For most American, weekends are very busy.( )1. American students go to school ________A. four days a week. B. five days every month.C. five days a week. D. six days a week.( )2. Saturday and Sunday are the ________A. weekend for Chinese only. B. weekend for Americans.C. workdays for Americans. D. days for children to study.( )3. Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage? Most American families ____A. plant flowers during the weekend. B. weekend for Americans. C. may go shopping during the weekend. D. watch TV during the weekend.( )4. During the weekend, the Americans are ________A. very free. B. very lazy. C. quite poor D. busy( )5. What are favourite sport in summer for Americans?A. Skating and football. B. Running and biking. C. Skiing and volleyball. D. Swimming and skating.B Most of the world’s diamonds e from Africa, but there is one place in the USA where they are found. It is near Murfreesboro, Arkansas.(阿肯色州) Diamonds are first found near Murfreesboro in 1906. About fifty thousand diamonds have e from this field. One fortycarat (克拉) diamond was the largest ever found in North America. But most of the stones were too small to make mining worthwhile. Soon all mining stopped there. Today a visitor to Murfreesboro hurt for diamonds himself. A few diamonds have been found in sand gravel (碎石) along the Great Lakes too. This is not where they were originally formed. They may have been formed far to the north and carried south by the last great glaciers. (冰川)( ) diamonds have been found in ___