高考英语十选九

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Do you want a special language so no one will understand you and your friends? Forget Pig Latin. And don ’t ___1__ making up words --- you ’ll never remember what “frimfram ” or “spillunkle ” are supposed to mean.

__2___, try learning a bit of sign language. “It can be a ___3___ language between you and your friends,” says Rachel Coleman. She is the host of the American TV show “ Signing Time!” The show teaches families how to sign.

Coleman learned sign language when her daughter Leah was born _4____. Now 9, Leah signs on the show with her cousin Alex, 7, and her younger sister Lucy, only 6.

___5___ being a cool second language to learn, Coleman says sign language can help kids with their spelling test at school. “Use finger spelling to __6__ your spelling words,” Coleman says.

Finger-spelling words has helped Leah ace her tests. “She is an incredible speller. She always gets __7__ A ’s on her spelling tests,” Coleman says. Leah is fluent in sign language, but kids don ’t have to be __8__ to have fun signing. Coleman says some schools have sign language clubs where kids play__9__ like silent bingo.

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Car rentals are becoming more and more popular in Shanghai as a new way of taking to the roads. Business people, foreigners and families alike are making good use of the growing __1__.

The first car rental firm __2__ in Shanghai in 1992 and now 12 car rental players are in the game, with more than 11,500 cars in their books.

The largest __3__ - Shanghai Bashi Tourism Car Rental Center offers a wide variety of __4_ - de luxe sedans, minivans, station wagons,

coaches. Santana sedans are the big favorite.

Firms can attract enough __5___ for 70 percent of their cars every month. This figure __6__ during holiday seasons like National Day, Labor Day and New Year ’s Day,

with some _7__ 100 percent rental.

“The __8__ market force rests in the growing population of white-collar employees, who can __9__ the new service,” said Zhuang Y u, marketing manager of Shanghai Car Rental Company.

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October 31 is Halloween, one of the most popular festivals in the US, Canada and Britain. The festival began __1___ a day to remember the dead. But nowadays it’s all about the carnival atmosphere when people can __2__ dressing up and scaring each other.

Halloween is one of children’s favorite nights of the year. They dress up as monsters and go to their __3__ houses. Knocking on the door they shout: “Trick or treat!” Of course, usually people give them “treats” like sweets and chocolates.

Halloween is also a time for masquerade parties（化装舞会）. You can __4__ like a witch flying on broomsticks, or a ghost chatting with a skeleton on the dance floor. The motto is: “The scarier, the __5__ .”

A well-known Halloween tradition is to make lanterns __6__ pumpkins, called “Jack-o-lantern”. First, the inside of the pumpkin is __7__. Then, a face is cut into the pumpkin, ___8__ a smiling, devil face. Finally a candle is __9__ inside, and the lantern is put at the front of the house to keep evil spirits away.

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Throughout the country, more and more private schools are being established. These schools, __1___ a certain degree, have made up for the __2__ of schools in our country. As soon as private schools came into existence, some people showed