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09 传统节日

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阅读短文(A)，使用所给提示词或根据首字母提示，完成短文，使得语义和语法均正确。

Chinese people have     1     (be) celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival and enjoying mooncakes for c    2    . Mooncakes have the shape of a full moon on mid-autumn night. They carry people’s wishes to the families they love and miss.

There are many     3     (tradition) folk stories about this festival. However, most people think that the story of Chang’e is the most t    4    . Chang’e was Hou Yi’s beautiful wife. After Hou Yi shot     5     the nine suns, a goddess gave him a magic medicine to thank him. Whoever drank this could live forever, and Hou Yi planned to drink it with Chang’e. However, a bad man, Pang Meng, tried to steal the medicine when Hou Yi was not home. Chang’e refused to give it to     6     (he) and drank it all. She became very light and flew up to the moon. Hou Yi was so sad that he called out her name to the moon every night. One night, he found that the moon was so bright and round that he could see his wife there. He quickly l    7     out her favorite fruits and desserts in the garden. How he wished that Chang’e     8     (can) come back!

After this, people started the tradition of admiring the moon and sharing mooncakes with their families.

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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。

The Lantern Festival is a Chinese traditional festival. When thousands of lanterns (灯笼) light up the city a night, the Chinese Lantern Festival has arrived. It is celebrated on     9     fifteenth day of the Chinese New Year.

Several days     10     the Lantern Festival, people begin to make lanterns. All     11     (kind) of lanterns shine brightly against the dark night sky. Some of the lanterns are small, and others are really big. Some look     12     beautiful flowers and lively animals.

The lanterns     13     (make) of different materials. There are plastic lanterns, silk lanterns, and paper lanterns. While making lanterns, people usually write riddles (谜语) on them. On the Lantern Festival, people go outside to have a look at the lanterns and guess the riddles on the lanterns. Usually, people can get a prize by     14     (give) the right answer. People together with the family walk     15     (happy) in the crowded street, looking at many kinds of amazing lanterns. While some people are enjoying the colorful lanterns, others are watching     16     (tradition) Chinese lion dance performances.

People prepare tasty sweet dumplings in the morning for their family and friends     17     (enjoy) in the evening. The sweet smell makes everyone hungry. Everything     18     (be) very interesting and everyone feels very happy.

03

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

There are many stories about the start of Nian. It is said that Nian was a fierce monster (凶猛的怪兽) . Usually it stayed deep in the mountains.    19    in winter, it couldn’t find enough food. So it entered villages to eat whatever it could catch. Villagers became scared and moved away. Later the people found that Nian was afraid    20    three things — the red color, the bright fire and the loud noise. After learning this, they    21    (think) of how to stop Nian from   22   (enter) their villages. So a tradition was formed. People had couplets (对联) , lanterns and fireworks for    23    Spring Festival.

Now most people in the countryside still keep these    24    (tradition) celebrations. However, the people in cities have used new ways  (celebrate) the Spring Festival. For example, they don’t send out so many greeting cards as before. Instead they usually send short text messages to greet friends on mobile phones. And for safety, fireworks    25    (not allow) in some large cities a few years ago, making the cities much    26    (quiet) than before. It seems that some Chinese traditions    27    (face) new challenges now. Maybe when the children of the next generation (代) grow up, they can only learn about some Chinese traditions from books.

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阅读下面的短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The Dragon Boat Festival has a history of more than two thousand years. It is also     28     (call) Duanwu Festival. There are many     29     (activity) on the day.

Dragon boat race

The dragon boat race is     30     important competition during the festival. People     31     (hold) dragon boat races in the river to remember the poet, Qu Yuan. Now, the dragon boat race is a     32     (tradition) activity for Chinese people.

Wearing sweet-smelling bags

During the Dragon Boat Festival, children usually wear sweet-smelling bags     33     (avoid) bad things. Sweet-smelling bags are a kind of hand-made bags. In some areas of China, a sweet-smelling bag is also used     34     a symbol of love between lovers.

Eating zongzi

Eating zongzi     35     (be) also a custom for Chinese people. Zongzi is a     36     of food with different designs and styles. For thousands of years, the custom of eating zongzi has been popular in China and has spread to Korea, Japan and countries in Southeast Asia. People usually have a great     37    .

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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。

Dads have Father’s Day. Moms have Mother’s Day. Kids have Children’s Day. But, do our grandparents have a special holiday? Yes, they do!

The Double Ninth Festival is a special day for elderly people in China. The festival is     38     the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. As the Chinese word for nine has the same sound as the word for long, people take the Double Ninth Festival to show     39     (they) wishes of long life for elderly people.

There are many traditions for this festival. On that day,     40     (family) get together and climb mountains for luck and in the hope that elderly people will live much longer. They also drink chrysanthemum wine (菊花酒) and wear a plant called zhuyu     41     (celebrate) it. Both chrysanthemum     42     zhuyu are regarded as clean plants that can clean houses and cure diseases.

Respecting elderly people is shown not only on this special day but also in daily life. For example, when an older person enters     43     room, everyone stands up. When there are several guests at the table, the host usually introduces them from the     44     (old) to the youngest. When a younger person is presenting something to an older person, two hands     45     (use) . On a crowded subway or bus, younger people always offer their seats to elderly people.

It is a     46     (tradition) virtue (美德) in China to respect elderly people. That’s because the Chinese know that elderly people have knowledge and experience that young people can learn from. So Chinese people are proud of     47     (be) old. Besides, to respect the elderly people is to respect yourself tomorrow.

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阅读下面短文，根据语境或所给单词的提示，在每个空格内填入一个恰当的词，要求所填的词意义准确、形式正确，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。

Little New Year is an important festival in Chinese culture. It usually falls around one week before the Spring Festival. It is also known as the Festival of the Kitchen God. It is believed that people in   48   (north) China celebrate it on the twenty-third day of the   49   (twelve) lunar month, while people in southern China celebrate it on the twenty-fourth. Chinese   50   (family) believe that the Kitchen God will go back to Heaven before the Spring Festival, to tell Yu Huang about different activities of every family. So they gather   51   the kitchen, where the kitchen God’s picture is   52   (put) up, and offer him food and drinks. Then the picture is removed and burned,   53   (mark) the Kitchen God’s journey to heaven to report on the family’s behavior. (Yu Huang will reward (奖励) or punish the family according to the Kitchen God’s report.)

Little New Year is   54   a time for family to get together. People travel long distances to be with their loved ones   55   enjoy a special meal together. This meal often includes   56   (tradition) dishes like niangao and sweet rice balls, which are the symbol of wealth, unity (团结), and   57   (happy).

Little New Year expresses Chinese working people’s longing (渴望) for a better life.

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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。

The Zigong Lantern Festival shows the wisdom and culture of people in Zigong. In 2008, the festival     58     (become) a national-level intangible cultural heritage (国家级非物质文化遗产). So far the Zigong lantern festival     59     (reach) many places in China and more than eighty     60     (country) around the world.

Wan Songtao is     61     important leader of a lantern-making company in Zigong. He spent his every vacation     62     (learn) lantern-making from his father when he was a teenager.     63     (get) better at designing (设计), Wan studied fine art in college.

One of the most important parts of making a large lantern is designing. “We used to design the lanterns all by ourselves,” said Wan. “    64     (lucky), we can use AI for good ideas now.” Besides AI, other technologies are also very     65     (help). “The great success of Zigong lanterns comes     66     team effort,” said Wan. His favorite work The sundial in 2024 is the work of over 80 Zigong lantern makers as well as a group of engineers. It took them over 4,000 hours to make it     67     bring it to the park.

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In China, December of the lunar calendar (农历) is called the La month, so the date of December 8th is the Laba Festival. It is a traditional festival of China, the start of the Spring Festival.

On this day, people eat a special hot rice porridge—Laba Zhou. On the night before the festival, people will begin to cook the porridge and make a lot of preparations. However, they won’t taste the delicious porridge until the next morning. The taste of the porridge changes from place to place. In the North, it is a dessert (甜品) with sugar. In the South, it is a kind of salty porridge with vegetables and meat.

There is an interesting story about Laba Zhou. A man threw away a lot of food. People around him felt it was such a waste, so they collected the food that he threw away, such as beans and rice. At the end of the year, the wasteful man had nothing to cook. Those people put the saved food together to make porridge for him. After that, the man learned a meaningful lesson.

And there is one more traditional food on the Laba Festival—Laba Garlic (大蒜) . People will peel garlic and put it in the vinegar (醋) . Day after day, it will have a special taste and color. By the time of the Spring Festival, people can taste the garlic while eating dumplings!

68．Laba Festival is the _______.

A．ending of the spring                             B．beginning of the spring

C．ending of the Spring Festival                D．beginning of the Spring Festival.

69．Whal does the underline word “it” in paragraph 2 refer (指代) to?

A．The rice.          B．The vegetable.        C．The porridge.          D．The dumpling.

70．What would the man probably do after learning the lesson?

A．Save fond.       B．Peel garlic.             C．Eat Laba Zhou.       D．Learn to cook.

71．According to the text, what makes garlic taste special?

A．Vinegar.           B．Salt.                      C．Sugar.                    D．Water.

72．In which part of a magazine can we read this text?

A．Science.           B．Culture.                 C．Art.                       D．Sports.

09

There are many traditional Chinese festivals. Among them, the Spring Festival, the Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Dragon Boat festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival are the main ones. The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar (农历的) month every year, people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In ancient China, festival time was mostly related to the moon’s movement. The moon symbolizes (象征) softness and brightness, and brings joy to people.

The moon is the most beautiful of the year on Mid-Autumn Festival. Autumn is a harvest season. There are good harvests across China. The crops (庄稼) that the farmers get makes them very happy.

On the Mid-Autumn night, families will get together, admire the moon, taste the mooncakes and enjoy the happy family reunion (团聚). The Mid-Autumn Festival has lasted for over thousands of years and formed a tradition of life. ________ It goes more than a festival and is given rich cultural connotations (内涵). Reunion is the theme of the Mid-Autumn Festival and gives endless inspiration to the ancient and modern poets. There are a lot of popular poems left and read through the ages.

“As the bright moon rises above the sea, everyone far away enjoy the same moment.” “When will the moon be clear and bright? Holding a cup of wine, and I ask the blue sky.” The two poems express people’s expectations of perfection (对完美的期望). “Looking up, I find the moon bright. Bowing, in homesickness, I’m drowned.” The full moon on the Mid-Autumn night makes people miss their family and loved ones.

73．How did the writer begin the text?

A．By giving examples.

B．By asking a question.

C．By telling a story.

D．By showing some poems.

74．What does the word “harvest” mean in the third paragraph?

A．The way of bringing the crops together.

B．The time to plant something in the field.

C．The time of year when the crops are brought together.

D．The time to catch a number of animals or fish.

75．Which of the following sentences can be put in ________?

A．What a wonderful time!

B．It’s not just a sign of time.

C．You can have a great time.

D．Enjoy yourself with your family.

76．What’s the best title for the text?

A．How to Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival

B．Enjoy Your Day on the Mid-Autumn Festival

C．Popular Poems about the Mid-Autumn Festival

D．A Traditional Chinese Festival—the Mid-Autumn Festival

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Every April, there is a special day in China. It is called Qingming Festival, also called Tomb-Sweeping Day. On that day, people     77     and honor (纪念) their ancestors (祖先).

Qingming is a (n)     78     Chinese festival. It has a long history. It began over 2,000 years ago. A famous poem     79     the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu describes the day: “Rains fall heavily as Qingming comes, and passers-by (行人) with lowered spirits go.”

Tomb-Sweeping Day has been a public     80     on the Chinese mainland (中国大陆) since 2008. On this day,     81     bring flowers, food and wine to their ancestors’ tombs (坟墓). They put food like cakes and fruits in front of the tombs. After that, they     82     the dirt off the tombs and remember their dead family members.     83     do Chinese people do this? That’s because people think that visiting tombs to     84     respect (尊重) to their dead family members.

However, Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only about this. During that time, the weather is becoming     85    . People are also able to garden (从事园艺) and enjoy outdoor activities. Families often     86     for outings (远足) or fly kites at this time.

77．A．remember        B．meet                      C．see                         D．find

78．A．popular           B．famous                   C．traditional               D．unhappy

79．A．for                  B．by                         C．with                       D．as

80．A．weekend          B．weekday                 C．journey                  D．holiday

81．A．classes             B．families                  C．friends                   D．groups

82．A．turn                B．keep                      C．sweep                     D．go

83．A．Why               B．When                     C．Where                    D．Who

84．A．bring              B．show                      C．make                      D．take

85．A．warmer           B．colder                    C．cooler                    D．shorter

86．A．wake up          B．work hard              C．fall away                D．get together

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参考答案

1．been    2．(c)enturies    3．traditional    4．(t)ouching    5．down    6．him   7．(l)aid    8．could

【导语】本文介绍了中国的中秋节和嫦娥奔月的故事，以及人们在中秋节期间的传统习俗。

1．句意：几个世纪以来，中国人一直在庆祝中秋节和享用月饼。根据“have…celebrating”可知，celebrating前需要填入过去分词been，构成现在完成进行时(have been doing)。故填been。

2．句意：几个世纪以来，中国人一直在庆祝中秋节和享用月饼。根据“for”后接一段时间，以及首字母c及文化常识可知，此处应用名词centuries，表示“几个世纪”。故填(c)enturies。

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