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Celebrating New Year’s Day is one of the oldest and most exciting traditions around the world. Since this festival marks the beginning of the year, New Year’s Day is thought of as a perfect time for a “clean start”. People in the world decide to act better in the year just beginning than the year just ended.

No day has ever been celebrated in so many different ways. All over the world, countries have their own special beliefs about what the New Year means to them.

In Scotland, the New Year is called Hogmanay. In the villages of Scotland, barrels of tar (沥青) are set on fire. It represents that the old year is burned up and the new one is allowed to enter.

New Year’s Day is also the Festival of Saint Basil in Canada. Children leave their shoes by the fireside on New Year’s Day with the hope that Saint Basil, who is famous for his kindness, will come and fill their shoes with gifts.

The Jewish New Year is called Rosh Hashanah. It is an important time when Jews promise to do better in the future. Special services are held in the church, children are given new clothes and New Year bread is cooked to remind people of harvest time.

On New Year’s Day in Japan, everyone gets dressed in their new clothes and homes are decorated (装饰) with bamboos—symbols of long life.

In European countries such as Germany, France and Belgium, families start the New Year by first attending church services. Afterwards, they visit friends and relatives. In France, boys and girls receive gifts of money on New Year’s Day.

New Year celebrations around the 1.

Country/people	Celebration activities	Special beliefs
Scotland	People 2. barrels of tar.	The old year is burned up and the new one is allowed to enter.
Canada	Children leave their 3. by the fireside.	Their shoes will be 4. with gifts by Saint Basil.
Jews	It is a time for people to 5. to do better in the future. People 6. New Year Bread to remind of harvest time.
Japan	People 7. their new clothes. Homes are decorated with bamboos.	Symbols of 8. life
European 9.	People attend church services 10. visiting friends and relatives.

Answer 1

1.world

2.burn

3.shoes

4.gifts/presents

5.promise

6.cook

7.wear

8.long

9.countries

10.before

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文告诉我们庆祝新年是全世界最古老最兴奋的传统的之一。文中介绍了几个国家不同的传统的庆祝方式。

1.考查名词和语境的理解。句意：全世界的新年庆祝。根据语意和语境，世界world。

2.考查动词和语境的理解。句意：人们燃烧柏油。根据语意和语境，燃烧burn。

3.考查名词和语境的理解。句意：孩子们把他们的鞋放在火旁边。根据语意和语境，鞋shoes

4.考查名词和语境的理解。句意：他们的鞋子里将会有Saint Basil给的礼物。根据语意和语境，礼物gifts/presents。

5.考查动词和语境的理解。句意：到人们答应未来会做得更好的时候啦。根据语意和语境，答应promise。

6.考查动词和语境的理解。句意：人们做新年面包，来提醒大家收获的季节到啦。根据语意和语境，cook做饭。

7.考查动词和语境的理解。句意：人们穿着新衣服。根据语意和语境，穿着wear。

8.考查形容词和语境的理解。语意：长寿的象征。根据语意和语境，长long。

9.考查名词和语境的理解。语意：欧洲的国家。根据语意和语境，国家countries。

10.连词和语境的理解。句意：拜访朋友和亲戚前，他们去教堂服务。根据语意和语境，在……前before。

考点：历史文化类阅读。

考点分析： 考点1：政治经济文化类

政治经济文化类阅读理解：

    阅读能力是中学生学习英语应具备的一种基本能力。学习英语的一个重要目的在于获取信息。通过阅读这一重要手段，我们可以大量地获取知识，拓展知识面，还可以增强语感，培养敏捷的思维能力。

阅读理解也是各地中考试题的必考题型之一，在中考试题中占有较大比例，主要考查学生通过文字获取信息的能力。在中考中，阅读的篇数一般是三到四篇，选材范围越来越广，除故事、幽默、人物轶事外，科普性文章也多了起来。体裁也趋于多样化，有记叙文、说明文、应用文等。还要求学生能理解及解释图表多提供的简单信息等。三四篇短文中有的难度跨度较大，以便拉开档次，体现选拔功能。并且扩大了选材范围，主要考查考生阅读所给材料，理解其中词语、句子或片段含义的能力。有时涉及对全文意思和篇章结构的理解，对一些问题作出推理和判断。阅读理解的考核中包括了对词汇、语法等语言知识的考查，要求学生具备一定的背景知识、各种常识、科普知识和一定的分析及逻辑推理能力；要求学生具有归纳段落大意、中心思想的能力。测试的方向由时间、地点、身份、人物等一些细节问题，改为测试对全文整体意义的理解程度；由考查短文的表层现象改为考对文章深层含义的理解和逻辑推断能力。另外，任务型阅读形式灵活多样，内容丰富多彩，联系实际，易考查学生的灵活运用能力和对语言的综合运用能力。在中考中占30-40分。

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