高中英语Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations同步训练题

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In Africa, Christmas Day begins with grups f carlers (欢唱颂歌的人) walking t and frm thrugh the village, alng the radway, by the huses f the missinaries (传教士), singing the lvely carls knwn t the wrld arund. Often peple may be awakened by a grup f carlers beginning t gather at the huse f wrship(敬神活动). They return hme t make final preparatins as t the clthes ne must wear and als as t their ffering fr the Christmas service.
The mst imprtant part f their Christmas wrship service is the lve ffering. This is the gift in hnr f Jesus. At abut 8 r 9 ’clck everyne ges t the celebratin f the birthday f Jesus. Everyne wh attends the service ges frward t lay dwn their gift upn the raised platfrm near the Cmmunin table. N ne will attend the service withut giving a gift.
Christmas in Suth Africa is a summer hliday. There is n snw, but it has many flwers, many beautiful varieties f wild flwers being in their full pride.
In Ghana, mst churches shw the cming f Christmas by decrating the church and hmes beginning with the first week in Advent, fur weeks befre Christmas. This seasn happens t be the time f cca harvest, s it is a time f wealth. Everyne returns hme frm wherever they might be such as farms r mines.
In Africa, it is the traditinal dinner f turkey, rast beef, mince pies, r suckling pig, yellw rice with raisins, vegetables, and plum pudding, crackers. In the afternn, families g ut int the cuntry and usually there are games r bathing in the warm sunshine, and then hme in the cl f the evening. Bxing Day is als a prclaimed (正式宣布的) public hliday usually spent in the pen air. It falls n December 26 and is a day f real relaxatin.
【语篇概述】这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了在圣诞节这一天, 非洲的人们有很多的活动, 其中最重要的活动是呈献礼物。
1. The purpse f this text is t ______.
A. persuade us t have a hliday in Africa
B. describe sme imprtant hlidays in Africa
C. tell us hw peple celebrate Christmas in Africa
D. intrduce t us when Christmas came int being
【解析】选C。写作意图题。根据文章第一段中“在非洲, 圣诞节开始, 一群欢唱颂歌的人在村里走来走去, 沿着巷道, 又或在牧师的房子旁边, 唱着世界闻名的优美的圣诞颂歌。”和最后一段中“在非洲, 这是传统的火鸡晚餐, 烤牛肉、百果馅饼、乳猪、黄米饭和葡萄干、蔬菜、李子布丁, 薄脆饼干”可知, 这篇文章主要告诉我们, 在非洲人们怎样庆祝圣诞节, 故选C。
2. What is the mst imprtant part f Christmas wrship service?
A. One must sing a carl n the platfrm.
B. One must appear in fantastic clthes.
C. Fd is shared amng carlers.
D. Everyne carries a gift t the scene.
【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据第二段The mst imprtant part f their Christmas wrship service is the lve ffering. This is the gift in hnr f Jesus. 可知圣诞膜拜中最重要的部分是呈献礼物, 故选D。
3. If yu visit Suth Africa n Christmas Day, yu’ll find ______.
A. the church and hmes are being decrated
B. there are flwers all ver the cuntry
C. everyne returns hme t harvest cca
D. it is snwing heavily everywhere
【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据第三段Christmas in Suth Africa is a summer hliday. There is n snw, but it has many flwers. (南非的圣诞节是一个夏日。没有雪, 但它有许多花)可知, 如果你在圣诞节访问南非, 你会发现全国到处都是鲜花, 故选B。
4. The crrect time rder f the fllwing festivals shuld be ______.
A. Christmas→ Bxing Day→Advent
B. Bxing Day→ Christmas→Advent
C. Christmas→ Advent→Bxing Day
D. Advent→Christmas→Bxing Day
【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据第四段In Ghana, mst churches shw the cming f Christmas by decrating the church and hmes beginning with the first week in Advent, fur weeks befre Christmas. (在加纳, 大多数教堂通过装饰教堂和家展现圣诞节的到来, 这在降临节的第一周进行, 即圣诞节前的四个星期) 以及最后一段最后两句Bxing Day is als a prclaimed public hliday usually spent in the pen air. It falls n December 26 and is a day f real relaxatin. (节礼日也是一个真正放松的公共假日, 通常在露天举行, 时间是十二月二十六日)可知, 以上节日的正确的时间顺序应为Advent→Christmas→Bxing Day, 故选D。
B
(2017·全国卷Ⅰ)
Sme f the wrld’s mst famus musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans t celebrate the first annual Internatinal Jazz Day. UNESCO (United Natins Educatinal, Scientific and Cultural Organizatin) recently set April 30 as a day t raise awareness f jazz music, its significance, and its ptential as a unifying(联合)vice acrss cultures.
Despite the celebratins, thugh, in the U. S. the jazz audience cntinues t shrink and grw lder, and the music has failed t cnnect with yunger generatins.
It’s Jasn Mran’s jb t help change that. As the Kennedy Center’s artistic adviser fr jazz, Mran hpes t widen the audience fr jazz, make the music mre accessible, and preserve its histry and culture.
“Jazz seems like it’s nt really a part f the American appetite, ” Mran tells Natinal Public Radi’s reprter Neal Cnan. “What I’m hping t accmplish is that my generatin and yunger start t recnsider and understand that jazz is nt black and white anymre. It’s actually clr, and it’s actually digital. ”
Mran says ne f the prblems with jazz tday is that the entertainment aspect f the music has been lst. “The music can’t be presented tday the way it was in 1908 r 1958. It has t cntinue t mve, because the way the wrld wrks is nt the same, ” says Mran.
Last year, Mran wrked n a prject that arranged Fats Waller’s music fr a dance party, “Just t kind f put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much as it is cncert music, ” says Mran. “Fr me, it’s the recntextualizatin. In music, where des the emtin(情感)lie? Are we, as humans, gaining any insight(感悟)n hw t talk abut urselves and hw smething as abstract as a Charlie Parker recrd gets us int a dialgue abut ur emtins and ur thughts? Smetimes we lse sight that the music has a wider cntext, ” says Mran, “s I want t cntinue thse dialgues. Thse are the things I want t fster. ”
【语篇概述】UNESCO把4月30日定为国际爵士音乐节, 旨在让人们认识到爵士乐的价值。Mran, 一位爵士乐顾问, 提到虽然现在爵士乐不如以前受欢迎, 但他想进一步探索, 让它继续发扬光大, 与时俱进。
5. Why did UNESCO set April 30 as Internatinal Jazz Day?
A. T remember the birth f jazz.
B. T prtect cultural diversity.
C. T encurage peple t study music.
D. T recgnize the value f jazz.
【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据第一段的 “t raise awareness f jazz music, its significance, and its ptential as a unifying vice acrss cultures” 可知, UNESCO把4月30日定为国际爵士音乐节的目的是提高人们对爵士乐以及它的重要性和潜力的认识, 故选D。
6. What des the underlined wrd “that” in Paragraph 3 refer t?
A. Jazz becming mre accessible.
B. The prductin f jazz grwing faster.
C. Jazz being less ppular with the yung.
D. The jazz audience becming larger.
【解析】选C。词义猜测题。that指代第二段中提到的爵士乐观众减少, 不能得到年轻一代的青睐, 故选C。
7. What can we infer abut Mran’s pinin n jazz?
A. It will disappear gradually.
B. It remains black and white.
C. It shuld keep up with the times.
D. It changes every 50 years.
【解析】选C。推理判断题。根据第四段Mran说的“. . . jazz is nt black and white anymre. It’s actually clr, and it’s actually digital. ”及第五段“The music can’t be presented tday the way it was in 1908 r 1958. It has t cntinue t mve, because the way the wrld wrks is nt the same”可知, 他认为世界在变, 爵士乐应该与时俱进, 故选C。
8. Which f the fllwing can be the best title fr the text?
A. Explring the Future f Jazz
B. The Rise and Fall f Jazz
C. The Stry f a Jazz Musician
D. Celebrating the Jazz Day
【解析】选A。主旨大意题。第一段提到了国际爵士音乐节的目的是让人们认识到爵士乐的价值。然后, 根据Mran, 一位爵士乐顾问说的话可知, 他想探索爵士乐的未来, 让它与时俱进, 继续发扬光大, 故选A。
Ⅱ. 完形填空
I was a single (单身的) mther f fur small children, wrking at a lw-paid jb. Mney was always tight, but I 1 t make ends meet (收支平衡), and if nt a lt, 2 we had enugh. Nt knwing we were pr, my kids just thught I was strict. I’ve always been glad abut that.
It was Christmas time, and althugh there wasn’t 3 fr a lt f gifts, we planned t celebrate with a family party. But the big pleasure fr the kids was the fun f Christmas 4 . They planned weeks ahead f time, asking each ther what they wanted fr Christmas. 5 , I had saved $120 fr gifts t be shared by all five f us.
The big day 6 . I gave each kid a twenty-dllar bill and 7 them t lk fr presents f abut fur dllars each. Then everyne went away excitedly. We had tw hurs t shp and 8 back at the “Santa’s Wrkshp”.
Driving hme, everyne was in high Christmas spirits, 9 my yungest daughter, Ginger, wh was unusually quiet. She had nly ne small, flat bag with a few candies —fifty-cent candies! I was very 10 but I didn’t say anything until we gt hme. I called her int my bedrm and clsed the dr. This is what she tld me:
“I was 11 thinking f what t buy when I 12 t read the little cards n the “Giving Trees”. One was fr a little girl, fur years ld, and all she 13 fr Christmas was a dll. S I tk the card ff the tree and 14 the dll fr her. We have s much and she desn’t have anything. ”
I never felt s 15 as I did that day.
【语篇概述】本文主要讲了“我”一个人独自抚养四个孩子, 在圣诞节那天用省下来的钱让孩子们去买礼物, 最后除了小女儿所有的孩子都买到了自己想要的。后来“我”知道最小的女儿用她的钱给一位贫困的小女孩买了娃娃, 自己只买了一点糖果, “我”为自己有这么善良的孩子感到高兴。
1. A. failed B. managed C. meant D. wished
【解析】选B。逻辑推理题。fail失败; manage设法做到; mean意味着, 打算; wish希望, 但愿。我是一个单亲母亲, 收入不高, 钱总是很紧张。但我设法使收支平衡。因此根据语境可知B项符合题意, 故选B。
2. A. at leastB. at mst C. at first D. at last
【解析】选A。短语辨析题。at least至少; at mst 至多; at first开始; at last最后。根据语境可知, 我们的钱不多, 但至少够用了, 故选A。
3. A. reasnB. rmC. timeD. mney
【解析】选D。词语辨析题。reasn理由, 原因; rm 房间; time时间; mney钱。从第一段可知作者的经济很紧张, 所以没有钱买许多礼物, 故选D。
4. A. shppingB. travelling
C. partiesD. greetings
【解析】选A。逻辑推理题。shpping购物; travelling旅行; party聚会; greeting问候。根据下文, 他们去购物了, 可以推测出, 去购物让孩子们很兴奋, 故选A。
5. A. StrangelyB. LuckilyC. Hardly D. Sadly
【解析】选B。词语辨析题。strangely奇怪地; luckily幸运地; hardly几乎不; sadly悲伤地。由上文可知作者的经济很紧张, 所以能节省120美元来买礼物已是很幸运了, 故选B。
6. A. wentB. leftC. reached D. arrived
【解析】选D。动词辨析题。went去; left离开; reached到达; arrived到达。本句是说圣诞节这个伟大的日子终于到了。reach和arrive都有“到达”的意思, 但reach为及物动词, 后面跟名词作宾语, 而arrived为不及物动词。本句的主语是the big day, 要用不及物动词, 所以用arrived, 故选D。
7. A. persuaded B. cmmanded C. advised D. frced
【解析】选C。背景常识题。persuade说服; cmmand命令; advise建议; frce强迫。句意: 圣诞节到了。我给了每个孩子一张二十美元的钞票, 建议他们每人找一份约四美元的礼物。故选C。
8. A. returned B. met C. Sat D. mved
【解析】选B。动词辨析题。return返回, 回来; meet 遇见, 碰面; sit坐下; mve移动, 搬家。句意: 然后每个人都兴奋地离开了。我们花了两个小时购物, 买完后在“圣诞老人工作室”集合(碰面)。故选B。
9. A. exceptB. besides
C. includingD. cncerning
【解析】选A。逻辑推理题。 except除……之外(不包括); besides除……之外, 还; including包括; cncerning有关的。根据下文可知, 小女儿用自己买礼物的钱给一个陌生的小女孩买了娃娃, 所以说除了她之外, 其他的人都沉浸在圣诞节的欢乐气氛中, 故选A。
10. A. ashamed B. curius C. dubtful D. angry
【解析】选C。形容词辨析题。根据上文作者的相关描述及下文可知, 应该是这件事情让作者有所疑虑。故选C。
11. A. lking utB. lking ver
C. lking frwardD. lking arund
【解析】选D。固定搭配题。lk ut“注意, 小心”; lk ver“检查, 从上面看”; lk frward“期待, 期盼”; lk arund“四处看, 四处转”, 根据语境可知, 小女儿说“我正在四处转, 思考买什么”, 故选D。
12. A. frgtB. remembered
C. happenedD. ffered
【解析】选C。固定搭配题。frget忘记; remember记得; happen发生; ffer提供。根据语境可知, 这里是指小女儿正在四处转, 思考买什么, 这个时候碰巧看见了Giving Trees, 就停下来去读上边的卡片。happen t d. . . 为固定搭配, 意为“碰巧做某事”, 故选C。
13. A. wanted B. did C. gt D. gave
【解析】选A。逻辑推理题。由下文女儿把娃娃买给那个四岁的小女孩可推测本句的意思: 那个4岁的小女孩圣诞节想要的就是一个娃娃, 故选A。
14. A. searched B. fund C. brught D. bught
【解析】选D。动词辨析题。根据上下文可知, 作者的小女儿把卡片从树上拿下来, 并把娃娃买给那个四岁的小女孩。D项符合题意, 故选D。
15. A. calm B. rich C. well D. angry
【解析】选B。逻辑推理题。calm冷静的; rich富有的; well健康的; angry生气的。与第一段的Mney was always tight 相呼应。作者认为虽然经济拮据, 但从没有像那天那样感觉自己很富有(因为有这么一个善良的小女儿), 故选B。
【技法导练】
完形填空解题技巧: 思前想后——觅逻辑
逻辑关系是作者的行文方式, 主要包括并列、转折、条件、因果、递进、让步等。它们之间有的通过连接词来表达, 关系非常明显; 有的隐含在句与句之间, 关系比较隐晦。考生应该根据前后信息进行思考, 拨开迷雾, 准确理解上下文之间的逻辑关系。
题号
选项
答案
判断依据
T1
A. failed
B. managed
C. meant
D. wished
B
逻辑关系。前文说: 我是一个单亲母亲, 收入不高, 钱总是很紧张。但我设法使收支平衡。