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【导语】小学生对母语的正规学习也是处于起步阶段，母语具有的保护性心理尚未完全建立起来，语言自我灵活性高，接受和学习性的语言能力强，此时学习新的语言即英语，语言信息就容易摄入。从更加有利于孩子语言形成的角度来看，小学生正处于学习语言的黄金时期。以下是整理的相关资料，希望对您有所帮助。 【一】

The Skyscrapers in New York City New York is the most exciting city in the United States. It is not only the center of commerce and business for the United States, but also one of the three “world cities”. Together with London and Tokyo, it controls the world’s finance. There are many high-rise business buildings in this city. People call them skyscrapers. The tallest skyscraper was the World Trade Center. It had 110 floors. Sadly, this building was destroyed（被摧毁）by the terrorist attack on Sep. 11, 2001, and yet, the glory and image of it still remain vividly（生动地）in the memory of the world people. The Empire State Building is not as tall as the World Trade Center, but it is the tallest building in New York City now. It has 102 floors. The skyscrapers in New York City are world-famous for their grandeur and their beautiful architecture（建筑）. Every year millions of people come to visit them. ( )1.What kind of city is New York? It is___________. A. the biggest city B. the most beautiful city C. the most exciting city D. the hottest city ( )2. Why is New York very important? Because __________. A. it’s in the middle B. it controls the world’s finance C. it controls the world’s banks D. it has many people ( )3. How do people call those high-rise buildings? They call them __________. A. skycrapers B. skyscrapers C. skys D. scrapers ( )4. How many floors did the World Trade Center have? It had _________. A. 112 B. 92 C. 102 D. 110 5. What is the Empire State Building famous for? It is _________. A. the tallest B. beautiful and majestic C. the greatest D. the oldest

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Many people don"t think that the number 13 is a lucky number. Many hotels do not have a 13th floor. The floors go from 12 to 14, and there is no number13. Some people will never sit at a table with 12 other people. They will tell someone to go or ask another person to sit with them. No one really knows why people do not like the number 13. Perhaps one reason is that when people began to count(数) they used ten fingers and two hands. This made 12. They could not count more. 　　Some Christians (*徒) say that 13 is not lucky because there were 13 people at a meal the day before Jesus (耶稣) was killed (被杀). In a story about the old Greek (希腊的) gods(神), 12 gods were asked to a meal but one more came. This made 13. It is why the god Balder, who was at the meal, was killed. 　　( ) 1. There is often no floor number 13 in ___. 　　 A. restaurants B. countries C. hotels D. Greece ( ) 2. One way people can count is by using their __. A. fingers B. hotels C. tables D. gods 　　( ) 3. Some people will never sit at a table with twelve other people. Or______. 　　 A.all of them will leave B.they will wait for two other people to come 　　 C.they will never come for dinner togetherD.they will ask one of them to leave 　　( ) 4. The Christian story and the Greek story both talk about_______. 　　 A. Jesus B. the number13 C. Balder D. Hotels 　　( ) 5. The story is about _________. 　　 A. the death of Jesus B.the person who killed Balder C.the way people count with their fingers D.why 13 is not a lucky number

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