1 . Many people have close relationships with their cousins and form bonds that last a lifetime. National Cousins Day can be a great opportunity to spend time with some of your favorite people in the family.     1    .

What is National Cousins Day?

National Cousins Day is an annual holiday that takes place on July 24. It encourages people to spend time with and appreciate their cousins.     2    , it's easy to lose touch as you grow older. On National Cousins Day, you might reconnect with cousins and look back on happy family memories together. National Cousins Day also serves as a good excuse to hang out and have fun with some of your closest family members.

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The origin of National Cousins Day is a bit of a mystery. It's unclear how and when the holiday officially started. Nevertheless, cousins have been an important part of the American family for generations. In the past, the bonds between cousins were explored in TV shows and movies in a lighthearted and funny way. And now, from family reunions to summer cookouts, cousins are given the chance to bond with one another.

How to Celebrate National Cousins Day

    4    . We've listed a few ways you can enjoy a happy Cousins Day. A good old-fashioned barbecue can bring back memories of the days when you and your cousins were little kids, running around and causing mischief together.     5    . Organize a game of soccer with your cousins to get some fresh air and exercise. This activity works especially well if you have a lot of cousins.

A．History of National Cousins Day

B．Even if we are close to our cousins

C．In this article, we'll do a deep dive into it

D．In this way, your bonds with cousins will be strengthened

E．If you're looking for some inspiration or ideas, don't worry

F．While you see cousins a lot at family events when you're young

G．Planning a game or organizing a competition is also a good choice

2 . Gestures-such as pointing or waving-go hand in hand with a child's first words, and twins lag (滞后)behind single children in producing and using those gestures,two studies from Georgia State University psychology researchers show.

The lag in gesture among twins may be mostly due to lower parental input, Ozcaliskan said. It's likely that parents caring for twins engage in shorter conversations with their children, including gesturing less, because their attention is divided and their labor is doubled.However, parents of single children used a greater amount and diversity of gestures than parents of twins. Ozcaliskan said she had grown curious about gesture because it had not yet been studied among twins. We have already known that twins are initially at a disadvantage where language is concerned. Most of the time, these lags are within the normal range of differences, and nothing to worry about. Almost all children will catch up to each other by around age three and a half.

“However,there was almost nothing in research on gesturing among twins," Ozcaliskan said. Babies start using pointing around 10 months, a few months before they produce their first words. Gesture helps them convey what they can't yet communicate in speech and prepares the way for children's early words.

Twins sometimes develop their own systems of communication, even their own “twin language," which has also been shown to delay language acquisition. “Perhaps it also delays the use of gestures. Gesture and speech together form a closely integrated system in a child's development, and a child's first gestures often precede their first attempts at speech," Ozcaliskan said.

＂Gesture is a very powerful tool," she said. “Pay attention to your child's gestures, and then provide verbal(言语的） descriptions to help their language development, such as naming objects when children point to them."

1. What mainly causes twins to produce and use fewer gestures?

A．Reduced parental input.

B．Undivided parental attention.

C．Too much “twin language".

D．Slow language development.

2. The underlined word “precede" in Paragraph 5 probably means _

A．count on

B．go with

C．come before

D．call up

3. Which of the following may best help children's language development?

A．When the child smiles, parents smile big smiles as well.

B．When the child makes a small mistake, parents ignore it.

C．When the child points to a doll, parents pass it to him or her quickly.

D．When the child points to a bottle, parents point to it, saying “bottle".

4. What can be learned from the study?

A．Twins fall behind single children in early gesturing.

B．Twins are at a disadvantage in language of a lifetime.

C．Enough research has been done on twins' gesturing.

D．Gestures prepare children for future development.

3 . 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

A 1973 job     1     (apply) filled out by Apple co—founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has sold for $222,400 at auction in London (via iMore). The rare employment form went up for auction on Feb 24 for a one—month bidding session.

As we all expect, most businessman are curious     2     the lives of those who have managed to create large companies and what are the contents in the form.     3     (date) back to 1973, the form was filled out with a handful of simple phrases containing spelling errors. Yet it gives a glimpse into the interests of     4     (ambition) young Jobs. In the form, he listed his special abilities     5     “electronics tech or design engineer,” and wrote “yes” next to computer skills. However, the     6     (invent) of the iPhone wrote “none” next to the column “Phone.”

Today, the company he was applying to     7     (remain) a mystery. However, in 1974 Jobs joined Atari as a technician,     8     he worked with Steve Wozniak and two years later they     9     (found) Apple. Jobs is believed to have completed the form after     10     (drop) out of Reed College in Portland, Oregon and it is listed as being in “very good condition,” with “light staining and old clear tape to the top edge.”