题文

完形填空。

New Year's Day is the first day of the year. In modern times, it is   1   1st. It is a time for looking forward and wishing for a   2   year ahead. People welcome in the New Year on the   3   before. This is called New Year's Eve. All over Britain there are parties, fireworks (烟火), singing and dancing, to ring (鸣钟) out the Old Year and ring   4   the New Year.     In the   5   days, the New Year   6   with a special custom (习俗) called "first footing". It was supposed to   7  good luck to people for the coming year. When January 1st started, people usually waited behind their doors   8   a person with dark hair to   9  . The  10  carried a piece of coal (煤炭), some bread, some  11   and some green plants. These were all for good luck-the coal to make sure that the house would always be   12 , the bread to make sure everyone in the house would have enough food to  13 , money to make sure they would have enough money, and the green plants to make sure that they had a  14  life. The visitor would then take some dust (尘土) out of the house with him-that was saying  15  to the old year.

(     )1. A. January        (     )2. A. short          (     )3. A. morning        (     )4. A. in             (     )5. A. modern         (     )6. A. stopped        (     )7. A. bring          (     )8. A. to             (     )9. A. leave          (     )10. A. family         (     )11. A. books          (     )12. A. warm           (     )13. A. pay            (     )14. A. hard           (     )15. A. goodbye        B. February      B. long          B. afternoon     B. out           B. old           B. finished      B. buy           B. in            B. arrive        B. children      B. water         B. cool          B. sell          B. poor          B. thank you          C. March       C. busy        C. night       C. on          C. new         C. started           C. give        C. with        C. wake        C. father      C. money       C. cold        C. eat         C. short       C. sorry        D. December   D. good       D. week       D. at         D. right      D. waited   D. play       D. for        D. play                            D. visitor    D. flowers    D. hot        D. drop       D. long       D. hello

题型：完形填空  难度：偏难

答案

1-5 A D C A B   6-10 C A D B D   11-15 C A C D A

据专家权威分析，试题“完形填空。 New Year's Day is the first day of the year. In..”主要考查你对  历史文化类阅读  等考点的理解。关于这些考点的“档案”如下：

历史文化类阅读

考点名称：历史文化类阅读

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  阅读这类文章，先弄清其引入的话题，再弄清里面人物对其不同的看法，然后理解作者本身对话题的观点看法或思考。

• 初中英语阅读理解的解题技巧：
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  因此，遇到困难一定要从容不迫，心无旁骛。这样才能对所读的文章印象清晰，理解深刻。