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更多“On New Year’s Eve, New York City holds an outdoor ________ which attracts a crowd o”相关的问题
第1题
A.Mooncake
B.Zongzi
C.White wine
D.Dumplings
第2题
[ A] Bobby ' s birthday
[ B ] Christmas Eve
[ C] New Year' s Day
[ D] Mother' s Day
第3题
Part B
Directions :
Read the texts from a magazine article which describes the celebration, of the New Year in, five
places. For questions 61 to 65, match the name of each place (61 t0 65) to one of the statements(A toG)given, below. Mark your answers on ANSWERSHEET 1.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh is the home of Hogmanay , a grandly exciting four-day celebration that welcomes the New Year with fire, music, parades and then some more fire. The party starts on Dec.29 with a 15, OOO-strong song-filled candlelight procession and fire festival through Edinburgh and ends with the symbolic burning of a Viking ship. Days of parades, concerts, dog races and fireworks fol-low.
Reykjavik, Iceland
On New Year's Eve, Icelanders in Reykjavik gather around dozens of massive fires in the open to sing traditional folk songs accompanied, according to local legend by imaginary human-like creatures in folk tales. At midnight the city explodes in a massive fireworks display. The dancing and partying that follow last until the sun comes up, which in Iceland is at about lunchtime on Jan. 1.
Kahuitara Point, Chatham Islands
If you want to experience New Year with the early birds, the South Pole is the place to be. On any Jan. 1, the sun sits above the horizon the whole day across most of the South Pole. For a slight-ly more comfortable holiday vacation, head to the Chatham Islands. Kahuitara Point on Pitt Island in this Pacific Ocean chain is the first populated place on the planet to see the sun rise.
Bangkok, Thailand
In Thailand you have three chances to ring in the New Year. On Dec. 31, Western New Year's Eve is celebrated with parties, concerts and fireworks. A few weeks later, the country stages mas-
sive celebrations in honor of Chinese New Year. Finally, on April 13, Thailand celebrates the first
day of the traditional Thai calendar with Songkran, a three-day festival marked by parades, feasts
and water-throwing.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
New Year's Eve is one of Rio de Janeiro's most important holidays. Expensive beachfront cele-
brations unfold along Copacabana, attracting some 2 million participants. Liye music ranging from samba to rock explodes along 'the beach. New Year's Eve is also a day to honor the goddess of sea with conventional offerings packed in small wooden boats. Tradition holds that if the goddess is pleased with a boat's offering, she will carry the boat out to sea and give the bearer blessings. If not, it's a great party.
Now match the name of each place(61 to 65)to the appropriate statement.
Note : there are two extra statements.
Statements
[A] New Year's celebrations will go on four days on end
[B] People here are the first to greet the New Year's sun.
[C] Concerts are held on New Year's Eve for celebra-tion
[D] A midnight fireworks display is an important part of the celebration.
[E] People send New Year's greeting cards and gifts to each other.
[F] People spend New Year's Eve on the beach singing and dancing.
[G] New Year is celebrated three times according to different calendars.
61. Edinburgh, Scotland
第4题
Before Christmas Mr. Smith broke (折断) his right leg and had to stay in hospital. When he was there. he always asked his doctor when be could go home. it didn't like to spend (渡过) Christmas in hospital Though the doctor did his best. Mr. Smith didn't get better. So on Christmas Day he was still in hospital. He spent a gad day in the bed thinking that he missed a lot of hn (乐趣) on such a happy day.
The next day the doctor told him that he might be well enough to leave hospital in time for the New Year. Mr. Smith was very happy. He think that he would spend New Year's Day outside hospital. Stoon Mr. Smith left hospital and on New Year's Eve (除夕夜) he went Io a party. He enjoyed himself (玩的高兴) ) there. But he drank too much. On his way home that night. he had a fail and broke his left leg
Mr Smith spent Christmas Day in hospital because he broke his left leg.
A．True.
B．False.
第5题
In France, April 1st used to be the day of ______ .
A．April Fool's Day
B．New Year's Eve
C．New Year
D．All Saint's Eve
第6题
【B13】
A．Bobby's birthday
B．Christmas Eve
C．New Year's Day
D．Mother's Day
第7题
New Year Traditions
"Happy New Year!", that greeting will be said and heard for at least the first couple of weeks as a new year gets under way. But the day celebrated as New Year's Day in modem America was not always January 1.
Ancient New Years
The celebration of the New Year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago. In the years around 2000 BC, the Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon (actually the first visible crescent) after the Vernal Equinox (first day of spring) .
The beginning of spring is a logical time to start a new year. After all, it is the season of rebirth, of planting new crops, and of blossoming. January 1, on the other hand, has no astronomical or agricultural significance. It is purely arbitrary.
The Babylonian New Year celebration lasted for eleven days. Each day had its own particular mode of celebration, but it is safe to say that modern New Year's Eve festivities pale in comparison.
The Romans continued to observe the New Year in late March, but their calendar was continually tampered with by various, emperors so that the calendar soon became out of synchronization with the sun.
In order to set the calendar right, the Roman senate, in 153 BC, declared January 1 to be (the beginning of the New Year. But tampering continued until Julius Caesar, in 46 BC, established what has come to be known as The Julian Calendar. It again established January 1 as the New Year. But in order to synchronize the calendar with the sun, Caesar had to let the previous year drag on for 445 days.
The Church's View of New Year Celebration
Although in the first centuries A. D. the Romans continued celebrating the New Year, the early Catholic Church condemned the festivities as paganism. But as Christianity became more widespread, the early church began having its own religious observances concurrently with many of the pagan celebrations, and New Year's Day was no different. New Year is still observed as the Feast of Christ's Circumcision by some denominations.
During the Middle Ages, the Church remained opposed to celebrating New Years. January 1 has been celebrated as a holiday by Western nations for only about the past 400 years.
New Year Traditions
Other traditions of the season include the making of New Year's resolutions. That tradition also dates back to the early Babylonians. Popular modern resolutions might include the promise to lose weight or quit smoking. The early Babylonian's most popular resolution was to return borrowed farm equipment.
The Tournament of Roses Parade dates back to 1886. In that year, members of the Valley Hunt Club decorated their carriages with flowers. It celebrated the ripening of the orange crop in California.
Although the Rose Bowl football game was first played as a part of the Tournament of Roses in 1902, it was replaced by Roman chariot races the following year. In 1916, the football game returned as the sports centerpiece of the festival.
The tradition of using a baby to signify the New Year was begun in Greece around 600 t3. C. It was their tradition at that time to celebrate their god of wine, Dionysus, by parading a baby in a basket, representing the annual rebirth of that god as the spirit of fertility. Early Egyptians also used a baby as a symbol of rebirth.
Although the early Christians criticized the practice as pagan, the popularity of the baby as a symbol of rebirth forced the Church to reconsider its position. The Church finally allowed its members to celebrate the New Year with a baby, which was to symbolize the birth of the baby Jesus.
The use of an image of a baby with a New Year's banner as a symbolic representation of the New Year was brought to early America by the Germans. They had used the imag
A．It was first celebrated in Babylon.
B．It was first celebrated about 4,000 years ago.
C．It was the oldest of all holidays.
D．It has always been celebrated on January 1st.
第8题
听力原文： London—even its very name suggests history and might. Its opportunities for entertainment by day and night go on and on and on. It's a city that excites visitors from all over the world. There are many different types of people doing many different types of things such as workers, business people, tourists, students, beggars, and queens. The city is so large that visitors will need to make use of the tube or London underground. A ride on a red double-decker bus is also possible and helps a visitor to know the city. The area of London is 1,572 square kilometers with a population of about 7.2 million people. The main geographical feature of the city is the river Thames, which flows through central London, dividing it into northern and southern halves. The central area and the most important sights, theatres and restaurants are on the north bank of the river. South London includes a mess of poor, dirty suburbs, such as Brixton, which have people from many different cultures.
London is a year-round tourist centre; places are open during the winter. The best chance of good weather is, of course, at the height of summer in July and August, but there's certainly no guarantee of sun even in those months plus it's when you can expect the biggest crowds and highest prices.
There are countless festivals and events in London. The first one each year is the New Year's Eve fireworks and street party in Trafalgar Square, followed by the New Year's Day Parade. In early May serious racers take part in the London Marathon. The Queen's Birthday Parade is held in June; Wimbledon, the famous tennis match, also runs for two weeks in the same month. In short, interesting festivals happen all year for tourists to enjoy.
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A．London is not a popular place to visit.
B．London is the largest city in the world.
C．London is famous for its universities.
D．London has many different types of people.
第9题
The New York Sun, founded in 1833, was the first successful penny paper, and it was followed two years later by the New York Herald, published by James Gordon Bennett. Not long after, Ho race Greeley issued the New York Tribune, which was destined to become the most influential paper in America. Greeley gave space to the issues that deeply touched the American people before tile Civil Warabolitionism, temperance, free homesteads, Utopian cooperate settlements, and the problems of labor. The weekly edition of the Tribune, with I00,000 subscribers, had a remarkable influence in rural areas, especially in Western communities.
Americans were reputed to be the most avid (热心的) readers of periodicals in the world. An English observer enviously calculated that, in 1829, the number of newspapers circulated in Great Britain was enough to reach only one out of every thirtysix inhabitants weekly; Pennsylvania in that same year had a newspaper circulation which reached one out of every four inhabitants weekly. Statistics seemed to justify the common belief that Americans were devoted to periodicals. Newspapers in the United States increased from 1,200 in 1833 to 3,000 by the early 1860's, on the eve of the Civil War. This far exceeded the number and circulation of newspapers in Eng land and France.
What is the author's main point in the first paragraph？
A．The penny press was modeled on earlier papers.
B．The press in the nineteenth century reached only a small proportion of the population,
C．The penny press became an important way of disseminating information in the first half of the nineteenth century.
D．The penny press focused mainly on analysis of polities.
第10题
听力原文：Has team2' s new campaign been researched？
(A) Yes, sometimes cooperation means everything.
(B) No, research will begin next week.
(C) Their campaigns are quite different.
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A．
B．
C．
