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    It was wonderful in Taiwan. I still remember my last trip to Taiwan.

First, I visited the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. It began to be built in 1962. It was completed in 1965. In this museum, you can find lots of exhibitions(展品). The museum keeps about 600, 000 artworks. The clerks of the museum say they change exhibitions every three months.

    Yinke was the second place I visited. It is a great town. There are some beautiful buildings in the town. The buildings look like European houses. These buildings make Yinke look like old England.

    It was a great experience to visit Keelung. The Keelung coasts are very famous for their wonderful scenes. There is also a seafood market. You can buy fresh product there.

    Then I arrived at Danshui. The most interesting place of Danshui is the Lover's Bridge. The bridge connects one side of the river with the other side. It is about 40 meters long. However, only one person can cross it at a time.

    I like Taiwan and I want to visit Taiwan again if I have free time.

W I'm listening to music, my brother is playing the violin.

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Reading books on the bus is h to your eyes.

— Of the three girls, which one is your new friend?

— The one ________ short hair and big eyes. She is outgoing and always dresses up ________ a boy.

听对话，回答问题。

How old is Kate?

I'll invite you to have dinner with my family _________ next week.

—Why are you late for school?

—      the terrible traffic.

He is friendly and(总是面带微笑).

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    The map below helps you become familiar with the library's resources:

    Fiction and nonfiction titles for all subjects

    Current newspapers and magazines

    Computers accessible with your student ID number

    Helpful library staff

    Welcome, new students, to Maple Knoll High School Library! Here is an introduction of our school library. Theon the left of the map helps you best understand it.

    The computer lab is just on theof the main entrance. You can enter computers by putting into theof your student ID card. There arecopy machines in the library. The circulation desk on the left of the main entrance is a place to borrow and return books from general stacks. The reading area is in the middle of the library. A water fountain is between theand the cellphone area. They're all on the right.

    If you want to ask for more help, you can go to the librarian's office.

Shanghai is much           than           cities in China.

What bad weather it is! You'd better               .

My son is much(tall)now. The jeans he wore last year are already too short.

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Almost all cultures celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of another year in some ways. Different cultures celebrate the beginning of a new year in different ways, and at different times on the calendar.

In western countries, people usually celebrate New Year at the midnight on December 31^st -- January 1^st. People may go to the party, sometimes dressed in formal (正式的) clothes, and they may drink champagne (香槟) at midnight. During the first minute of the new year, people cheer and wish each other happiness for the year ahead. But some cultures like to celebrate the New Year by walking up early to watch the sunshine better. They welcome the new year with the first light of the sunrise.

Many cultures also do special things to say goodbye to bad luck at the beginning of the new year. For example, in Ecuador, families make a big doll and burn it to show the bad things from the past year are gone and the new year can start. Other common traditions to keep away bad luck in a new year include throwing things into rivers or seas, or saying special things on the first day of the new year. Other new year traditions are followed to bring good luck in the new year. One widespread Spanish tradition for good luck is to eat grapes on New Year's Day. The more grapes a person eats, the more good luck the person will have in the year. In France, people eat pancakes for good luck at New Year. In the United States, some people eat black-eyed peas for good luck -- but to get good luck for a whole year you have to eat 365 of them.

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—He usually watches morning news.

听对话，回答小题。

Where is the boy from?

My bag is newer than _____.