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1、雅思基础阅读资料仅供参考Reading Passage 1Birthday traditions in different countriesBirthdaysare celebrated all overtheworld.Some traditions are fairly similar from countryto country: candles, cakes and birthday wishes,birthdaygames andpinches forgoodluck.Other customs are quite different.Hereare afew.ArgentinaI
2、n Argentina,as inmanyLatinAmericancountries, one of the most importantbirthday parties is a girl s fifteenth. When girlsturn 15, they have a huge party and dance thewaltz first with their father, and then the boys atthe party.China The birthdaychildpays respect to theparents and receives a giftof mo
3、ney. Friendsand relatives are invited to lunch,and noodlesare served to wish the birthday child a long life. Denmark A flag is flown outside a window to show that someone who lives in that house is having a birthday. Presents are placed around the child beds while they are sleeping so they资料仅供参考will
4、 see them immediately when they wake up. The Netherlands Special year birthdays suchas 5, 10, 15, 20, 21 are called“ crown ” years andthe birthdaychildreceives an especially largegift.The familyalso decorates thebirthdaychildchairs with flowers or paper streamers,paper flowers and balloons.India Usu
5、ally Indian children wear white toschool. However,on theirbirthdaychildrenwear coloured clothes to school and give outchocolates toeveryone in the class. Theirbestfriend helps them to do this.Japan The birthday child wears new clothes tomarkthe occasion. Certainbirthdaysare moreimportant than others
6、 and these are celebratedwitha visitto the local shrine. These arethethirdand seventh birthdaysfor girlsandthefifth for boys.Questions 1-5Match the countries in the box with their descriptions.资料仅供参考1A country where longevity is celebrated by aspecial dish_2Acountrywherecandies aredistributedamong p
7、eers_3A country where the birthday is made knownto the community_4Acountrywhere the householdis fullofbirthday ornaments_5Acountrywherereligious worshipissometimes involved_Reading Passage 2The American Revolution was not a revolution in the sense of a radical or total change. It was not a sudden an
8、d violent资料仅供参考overturning of the political and social framework, such as later occurred in France and Russia, when both were already independent nations. Significant changes were ushered in, but they were not breathtaking. What happened was accelerate evolution rather than outright revolution. Duri
9、ng the conflict itself people went on working and praying, marrying and playing. Most of them were not seriously disturbed by the actual fighting, and many of the more isolated communities scarcely knew that a war was on.America Wars of Independence heralded the birth of three modern nations. One wa
10、s Canada, which received its first large influx of English-speaking population from the thousands of loyalists who fled there from the United States. Another was Australia, which became a penal colony now that America was no longer available for prisoners and debtors. The third newcomer the United States based itself squarely on republican principles.