1、10-11 学年高一下人教课标必修 3 Unit1：同步练习题 FestivalsLegal holidays in China are New Year (January 1st), a national one-day holiday; Spring Festival (the lunar New Year), a national three-day holiday; International Working Womens Day (March 8th); Arbor Day (March 12th); International Labor Day (May 1st), a nati
2、onal one-day holiday; Chinese Youth Day (May 4th); International Childrens Day (June 1st); Army Day (August 1st); Teachers? Day (September 10th); and National Day (October 1st), a national two-day holiday.Chinas biggest and most popular traditional festivals include:Chinese New Year/Spring FestivalE
3、ach year, between the end of winter and the beginning of spring, people throughout China enthusiastically celebrate the first traditional festival of the year, the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year. During the Spring Festival, every household will display Spring Festival couplets and pictures, and d
4、ecorate the home. Spring Festival Eve is an important time for family reunions. Usually, in the evening of the last day of the twelfth month by the lunar calendar each year, the entire family gets together for a New Years Eve dinner. After dinner, all family members sit together to chat or play game
5、s, staying up till early the next morning. In the morning people pay New Year calls on relatives to extend congratulations. During the festival, many people also attend traditional recreational activities, such as the lion dance, dragon-lantern dance and stilt-walking.Chinese New Years is by far the
6、 most well-known Chinese holiday, and also the most significant to Chinese culture. Also known as The Spring Festival, observation of the holiday actually begins the day before the beginning of the Lunar Year. The mode of celebration varies from province to province, different areas having their own
7、 specific traditions. Listed below are some of the customs associated with New Years.The day before the Spring Festival, there is a lot of cleaning and preparation done. Offerings to the Kitchen God are commonly made in hopes that he will give a good report to the Emperor of Heaven. That night is a
8、special gathering when the whole family get together and eat a particularly large dinner.The following three or four days are public holidays. Most businesses close and time is spent paying formal visits to friends. Visitors bring a gift (generally a box of chocolate, nuts, or a tin of cookies) and
9、are given a gift of greater value by the hosts. Married couples give little red packet envelopes to children and unmarried friends when greeted with a phrase wishing them prosperity in the New Year. While the majority of the holiday is observed in the first 3 or 4 days of the New Year, the first 10
10、days of the year are all part of the festival, however in practice this is just additional time to get in visits to friends. During this time, many Chinese people take trips to the city or province where they were born.Certain foods take on special names to celebrate the New Year (for example, chick
11、en is called phoenix), visitors are often treated to fruits and seeds, and people buy new clothes.During prosperous times, entirely new furnishings may be bought. In the holiday, negative words, such as death, should be avoided. In fact, gifts of four and the word four arelso often not used because
12、it sounds like the word for death.Lantern FestivalThe 15th day of the first lunar month, the first full moon after the Spring Festival, is the occasion for the Lantern Festival. It is customary to eat special sweet dumplings called yuanxiao and enjoy displayed lanterns during this festival. Yuanxiao
13、, round balls made of glutinous rice flour stuffed with sugar fillings, symbolize reunion. The custom of enjoying lanterns at this time of the year dates back to the first century, and has continued to be popular throughout China up to the present day. On this festive night many cities hold lantern
14、fairs to display many exotic and sometimes weirdly shaped multi-colored lanterns. In rural areas the local people gather together and enjoy themselves as spectators and participants setting off fireworks, walking on stilts, performing with dragon lanterns, dancing the yangge and other folk dances an
15、d playing on swings.Pure Brightness Day(清明节)Pure Brightness Day comes around April 5 every year. This was originally a day set aside for people to offer sacrifices to their ancestors, but nowadays it is more customary to visit the tombs of the martyrs of the revolution to pay respects. By the time o
16、f the festival, the weather has turned warmer and the earth is covered in green. Friends like to go together to the outskirts of the city to walk in the green grass, fly kites and appreciate the beauty of spring. That is why Pure Brightness Day is also called the “Stepping on Greenery Festival“?Drag
17、on Boat Festival(端午节)The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is generally believed that the festival originated to celebrate the memory of the ancient patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan, a native of the State of Chu during the Warring States Period, repeatedly offer
18、ed his king proposals aimed at forestalling political corruption. Subsequently, slandered by treacherous court officials, he was sent into exile by the same king he had tried to help. In 278 B.C., the capital of the State of Chu was lost to its enemy the State of Qin and Qu Yuan drowned himself in d
19、espair on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Aware of the tragedy, the local people living beside the river went out in their boats to try to find his corpse. Every year thereafter on this day people continued to row dragon boats on their local rivers in memory of Qu Yuans life and death, throw
20、ing sections of bamboo filled with rice into the river as an offering. Legend has it that someone once met Qu Yuans spirit on the bank of the river and was told: “The food you have given me has all been taken away by the dragon. Hereafter, you should wrap the rice in bamboo leaves tied with five-col
21、ored thread. These are the two things that the dragon is most afraid of“? Thus, people began to make zongzi (glutinous rice wrapped in a pyramid shape using bamboo or reed leaves) in memory of Qu Yuan. Naturally, zongzi is the traditional food for the Dragon Boat Festival.Mid-Autumn FestivalThe Mid-
22、Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, the exact middle of autumn, hence the festivals name. In ancient times, people used to offer elaborately made cakes to the moon spirit on this day. After making this symbolic offering, a family would enjoy eating the cakes together. Th
23、e festival eventually came to carry the idea of a happy family reunion and the custom has been passed down to this day. On this mid-autumn night, the full moon is especially bright. The whole family may sit together beneath the clear moonlight eating tasty moon cakes and appreciating the beauty of t
24、he fully rounded moon. Those who are far away from their homes that night are only too easily reminded of their families when they look up at the luminous moon. The words of the great Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai are often recited on such evenings, even today: “I raise my head to gaze at the bright moon
25、, and I drop my head to think of my old home“? Ethnic minorities have also retained their own traditional festivals, including the Water Splashing Festival of the Dai people, the Nadam Fair of the Mongolian people, the Torch Festival of the Yi people, the Danu (Never Forget the Past) Festival of the
26、 Yao people, the Third Month Fair of the Bai people, the Antiphonal Singing Day of the Zhuang people, and the Tibetan New Year and Onghor (Expecting Good Harvest) Festival of the Tibetan people.Double 9 - Chung Yang FestivalsCalled Double 9 because it occurs on the 9th day of the 9th month, this is
27、an important religious day. During this time many people go to the mountain shrines to worship their ancestors. This traditionally is in remembrance of a man who saved his family from disaster by taking them into 总结段In a word, varied festivals show great national culture. And with the development of
28、 festivals, the world will become more and more splendid. We all Chinese will appreciate the great joy from our national festivals. I believe the festivals of our country will be well on the way to the fantastic future.Some Western FestivalsValentines Day , February 14 (情人节)Candy, flowers and other
29、tokens of affection of affection are exchanged on this day, in honor of two martyrs, both named St. Valentine. April Fools Day, April 1 (愚人节)Franksters feel that it is permissible to play all sorts of tricks on this day.Mothers Day (母亲节)The second Sunday in May, set aside to honor mothers.Fathers Da
30、y （父亲节）The third Sunday in June, set aside to honor fathers. Halloween , October 31 (万圣节)A special day for making merry, wearing costumes and playing old-fashioned games. A favorite with children.Easter Sunday (复活节)The first Sunday after the first Monday in November for the election of public offici
31、als. This holiday is observed in most states. Thanksgiving Day( 感恩节)Generally the fourth Thursday in November, set aside for national thanksgiving, especially for our democratic form of government. It is a legal holiday in all states. Labors Day (劳动节)he first Monday in September . Set aside to honor
32、 labor, it is a legal holiday in all states. Christmas Day, December 25 (圣诞节)This is both a legal and religious holiday, it observes the anniversary of the birth of Jesus. All states and all those of the Christian faith celebrate this holiday.EasterEaster is a time of spring-time festivals. In Chris
33、tian countries Easter is celebrated as the religious holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God. But the celebrations of Easter have many customs and legends that are pagan in origin and have nothing to do with Christianity.Scholars, accepting the derivation proposed by t
34、he 8th-century English scholar St. Bede, believe the name Easter is thought to come from the Scandinavian “Ostra“ and the Teutonic “Ostern“ or “Eastre,“ both Goddesses of mythology signifying spring and fertility whose festival was celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox.Traditions associated wi
35、th the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol of fertility, and in colored easter eggs, originally painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of spring, and used in Easter-egg rolling contests or given as gifts.The Christian celebration of Easter embodies a number of converging tr
36、aditions with emphasis on the relation of Easter to the Jewish festival of Passover, or Pesach, from which is derived Pasch, another name used by Europeans for Easter. Passover is an important feast in the Jewish calendar which is celebrated for 8 days and commemorates the flight and freedom of the
37、Israelites from slavery in Egypt.The early Christians, many of whom were of Jewish origin, were brought up in the Hebrew tradition and regarded Easter as a new feature of the Passover festival, a commemoration of the advent of the Messiah as foretold by the prophets.Easter is observed by the churche
38、s of the West on the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or following the spring equinox (March 2I). So Easter became a “movable“ feast which can occur as early as March 22 or as late as April 25.Christian churches in the East which were closer to the birthplace of the new religion a
39、nd in which old traditions were strong, observe Easter according to the date of the Passover festival.Easter is at the end of the Lenten season, which covers a forty-six-day period that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends with Easter. The Lenten season itself comprises forty days, as the six Sundays in
40、 Lent are not actually a part of Lent. Sundays are considered a commemoration of Easter Sunday and have always been excluded from the Lenten fast. The Lenten season is a period of penitence in preparation for the highest festival of the church year, Easter.Holy Week, the last week of Lent, begins it
41、s with the observance of Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday takes its name from Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem where the crowds laid palms at his feet. Holy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper, which was held the evening before the Crucifixion. Friday in Holy Week is the anniversary of the Crufixion,
42、the day that Christ was crucified and died on the cross.一. 单项选择1. The government tried its best to _ the peoples needs, but the people were still not_. In fact, what the government did was not_.A. satisfy; satisfied; satisfying B. satisfy; satisfying; satisfiedC. satisfied; satisfied; satisfying D.
43、satisfying; satisfied; satisfied2. This memorial was built_ those heroes who laid down their lives for the liberation of the poor people.A. in memory of B. to remember C. for the memory of D. to the memory of 3. -I need some fresh air, so Im going out for a walk. -_.A. Have fun B. With pleasure C. Y
44、oud better not D. Its none of my business4. The storm left, _ a lot of damage to this area.A. caused B. to have caused C. to cause D. having caused5. -Do you know where David is ? I couldnt find him anywhere.-Well. He _have gone far-his coats still here.A. shouldnt B. mustnt C. cant D. wouldnt6. -Il
45、l tell Mary about her new job tomorrow. - You_ her last week.A. ought to tell B. would have told C. must tell D. should have told7. How _ you say that you really understand the whole story if you have covered only part of the article? A. can B. must C. need D. may8. The room is so dirty. _ we clean
46、it? Of course.A. Will B. Shall C. Would D. Do9. My English-Chinese dictionary has disappeared. Who _ have taken it?A. should B. must C. could D. would10. He is looking forward _his father.A. of receiving B. of hearing from C. to hearing from D. to hear from11.Missing the flight means _ for another t
47、hree hours.A.waiting B.to wait C.wait D.to be waiting12.Were going to _ with some friends for a picnic. Would you like to join us ?A.get in B.get over C.get along D.get together13. - Its a pity that Mr. Smith died last night.- Really? The police may never discover what _ that night, for he was the o
48、nly eyewitness (目击者).A. happened B. took place C. was happened D. was taken place14. - Do you know Tom, _ father is an engineer?Yes, quite well. He _ always be the first to offer me help when I meet with prolems.A. the; would B. which; used to C. that; used to D. whose; would15. We arranged to meet at 8:00, but she never _.A. turn down B. turn off C. turn over D. turn up二.请从下面方框中选择适当的单词或短语并用其正确形式填空。agriculture, decorate, energy, religion, society, play tricks on, in memory oflook forwar
