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Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each word can only be used once（将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次）：
A．describe
B．move to
C．named
D．difficult
E．art
F．housework
G．ill
H．laugh
I．period
Charles Chaplin was born in London on April 16,1889. His parents were music hall actors. The Chaplin family were very poor, and life was 1 in London. Charlie, as he was called, used to do his mother's job in the theater when she was 2 .
When he was only 17 years old, Chaplin got his first real job as an actor. What he did was to do silly things to make people 3 in the theatre. Seven years later he went to the USA. And over the next four years, he formed his own way of 4 . He developed the character（角 ）of a homeless gentleman which became very popular.
From the 1920s to the 1950s, Chaplin made his most famous films. The film Modern Times (1936) shows his care about the modern industry workers. Many of his films 5 the poor life and hard time of the working people during that 6 .
Although Charlie Chaplin was British, he lived in the USA until 1953. But he never got US nationality（国籍 ）. Then Chaplin, his wife and his five children had to 7 Switzerland where he lived until he died. When he was 83 years old, he won his only Oscar for the music he wrote for the film Limelight. He was 8 Sir Charles Chaplin at the age of 85. Charlie Chaplin died in Switzerland on December 25th, 1975.
B
In the 1700s in Turkey, it was quite popular for people in love to secretly send each other baskets full of strange things. Usually, an old woman who sold flowers or fruit on the street left the basket beside the door of the person receiving it.
There are lots of different things in these baskets, such as flowers, stones, and even feathers. Each thing in the basket had a special meaning and by working out the secret message in each thing, the person who received the basket could determine the true feelings of the giver.
This idea of sending gifts of love with secret meanings quickly spread to Germany, France, and England. However, over time, only sending flowers remained popular.
A bunch（束 ）of flowers told young ladies about the feeling in the hearts of young men. Each different flower had a different meaning. For example, the flowers from an orange tree meant" You are beautiful and pure." Pink carnations（康乃馨 ）meant" My love for y
ou is strong and great." Yellow roses, on the other hand, meant" I saw you with someone else. "
Many flower dictionaries were made to help young people in love understand the meaning of the flowers they received. Not all of the dictionaries agreed, however, on the meaning of each flower, so a person had to watch out what flowers they chose to send. For example, depending on which dictionary you used, and which color you gave, a young man's roses could mean," I love you"," love is dangerous" or even" my love has decreased（减少 ）".
By the 1880s, using flowers to send messages had fallen out of fashion, and the more direct way of sending love letters began. Today, flowers are still considered a lovely gift, but the meaning for each kind of flower has been lost.
1．What custom is described in the first and second paragraph?
A．Sending gift baskets.
B．Selling gift baskets.
miss a feiC．Sending flowers.
D．Selling flowers.
2．What did the things in a gift basket explain to the receiver?
A．The receiver's looks.
B．The receiver's personality.
C．The sender's feelings.
D．The sender's name.
3．To where did the idea of sending gifts of love spread?
A．Asia.
B．Europe.
C．Turkey.
D．North America.
4．How did people know the meaning of each kind of flower?
A．They found out from books.
B．The sender told them.
C．Old women explained it.
D．They read secret letters.
5．In which century did the custom of reading messages through flowers become out of date?
A．The seventeenth century.
B．The eighteenth century.
C．The nineteenth century.
D．The twentieth century.
6．Nowadays, it is still popular for people ________ as lovely gift.
A．to send letters
B．to send flowers
C．to send gifts
D．to send messages
C
Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文）：
It was my first week in Kansas City, the USA. My friend, Sharon, asked me whether I'd like to try McDonald's for a quick lunch. So, we went. American fast food is quite popular in China, so I could 1 pick something that I used to have in Beijing—a super burger, a coke and French fries, though the names of the food were in English. 2 , the burger was much bigger than what I had back home. I thought to myself, after all, most Americans are bigger than Chinese. They must need more for lunch.
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