Weddings in America
Weddings in the United States vary as much as the people do. But many weddings, no matter where or how they are performed, include certain traditional customs. For instance, the bride and groom often exchange rings. The rings are usually worn on the fourth finger of the left hand. Today, the rings symbolize the couple's commitment to one another.
After the ceremony, the couple is often showered with handfuls of uncooked rice by friends and family. After the ceremony, there is often a party, where people may enjoy plentiful food.
And a wedding cake sits in a corner waiting to be cut. Soon thereafter, the bride stands in the center of the room, often on a chair, and throws her bouquet of flowers to the assembled unmarried women at the reception. It is said that whoever catches the flowers will be the next bride. Some women eagerly attempt to catch the bouquet, others shy away.
And then it is time for the bride and groom to set off. The tradition of a honeymoon, a trip after the wedding. The trip nowadays varies considerably dictated by wealth, time and preference. Sometimes the couple will spend a single night at a nearby hotel, sometimes they will spend two weeks at a remote vacation-spot.
(1)The bride and groom often exchange ________ at the wedding in the United States.
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A ．flowers |
B ．rings |
C ．jewels |
D ．necklaces |
(2)Today, the rings symbolize ________.
[
]A
．their love to one anotherB
．their healthC
．the happinessD
．their commitment to one another(3)After the ceremony, there is often a _________.
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]|
A ．dinner |
B ．party |
C ．perforce |
D ．concert |
(4)The bride throws her bouquet of flowers to the assembled unmarried women at the reception. It is said that whoever catches the flowers will be ________.
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]|
A ．a luck woman |
B ．the next groom |
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C ．the next bride |
D ．dignity（尊贵的）guest |
(5)The trip nowadays varies considerably dictated by _______.
[
]|
A ．wealth |
B ．time |
C ．preference |
D ．all above |
|
(1) 从短文第一段中“... the bride and groom often exchange rings.”可知选B。(2) 从短文原句“Today, the rings symbolize the couple's commitment to one another.”中可以找到答案。(3) 从短文原句“After the ceremony, there is often a party, where people may enjoy plentiful food.”中可以找到答案。(4) 从短文原句“It is said that whoever catches the flowers will be the next bride.”可以找到答案。(5) 从“The trip nowadays varies considerable dictated by wealth, time and preference.”可知A、B、C三个选项都正确。故选D。 |
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Feeding a crowd of hundreds doesn’t make Kenny Seals-Nutt nervous.
In fact, he thrives in the kitchen. He’s in his perfect place when dicing tomatoes, making salads and baking cakes.
By the time Kenny, 16, reached his third year of high school at Hickory Grove, North Carolina, US, he had become vice president of his school’s cooking club. He also opened his own food company, called Modern Fusion.
Kenny said he developed his love of cooking by watching his mother, and his grandmother, who owned a catering (饮食业) business herself. Kenny helped them both in order to remember their tips: how long to cook chicken so it stays wet, and the right amount of tomatoes to add to a spaghetti dish.
At the age of 5, he cooked his first dish of shrimp and broccoli. Taking it for his school lunch, he warmed it up in the school’s microwave, while the other kids ate their sandwiches.
“I love to eat, and it started to become more fun to cook than to use a microwave,” he said.
Cooking came easy to Kenny, and he enjoyed adding new ingredients into common dishes. “It started with a passion (热情) and I wanted to know more,” he said. He began to watch the Food Network and read chef blogs.
Last summer, Kenny put his skills to the test by working with his grandmother to cater his uncle’s wedding. While she cooked traditional dishes, Kenny wanted to add new to the expected flavors (风味).
Now Kenny spends his weekends catering his own events: weddings, birthday parties, baby showers. Kenny’s dishes are always a hit.
Chef Frederick Mookie Hicks, owner of a catering business, said Kenny’s success comes from his ability to multitask in the kitchen. Hicks said he has asked Kenny to cook with him on jobs three times now, and he presents Kenny as a positive example of a passionate chef to the students in his cooking classes.
“He’s so vigorous (精神饱满的) about cooking that he doesn’t let anything stop him,” Hicks said. “I knew in the first five minutes of working with the kid that he is something special.”
【小题1】How is Kenny different from other students?
| A．He opened a cooking club in his high school. |
| B．He is famous on the Food Network. |
| C．He owned a food company at 16. |
| D．He loves to multi-task. |
| A．works energetic | B．grows fast |
| C．learns quickly | D．makes progress |
| A．Traditional. | B．Creative. |
| C．Simple. | D．Strange. |
| A．Kenny proved himself by catering his uncle’s wedding alone |
| B．Kenny likes to follow his mother’s recipe when cooking |
| C．Kenny was able to cook his first dish in primary school |
| D．Kenny’s success in cooking has a lot to do with his family |
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You may know May Day, but do you know Lei Day? Like May Day, Lei Day is also celebrated (庆祝) on May 1st. People wear leis (花环) on this day. A lei is a big circle usually made of flowers . On Lei Day, people give leis to each other. Where do you know this holiday is celebrated? Hawaii, of course! People give leis on birthdays, weddings (婚礼) and as a way to say "I love you". In 1928, a writer, Don Blanding, wrote an article saying that this tradition should become a holiday. Another writer, Grace Tower Warren, thought of the idea of celebrating this day on May 1st and said, "May Day is Lei Day."On this day in 1928, people wore leis and celebrated with music, dancing and a lei-making competition. The next year, Lei Day became a public (公共的) holiday. Today, people still celebrate Lei Day in Hawaii. We hope they all have a happy May Day and a happy Lei Day!
1.The underli ned word "circle" can be replaced (替代) by "_________".
A. ring B. card C. garden D. watch
2.What do people give each other on Lei Day?
A. Clothes. B. Books. C. Leis. D. Cakes.
3.Lei Day became a public holiday in _____.
A. 1928 B. 1929 C. 1930 D. 1931
4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Lei Day is on the day after May Day.
B. Lei Day was first celebrated in 1928.
C. Don Blanding said "May Day is Lei Day".
D. People all over the world celebrate Lei Day.
5.What is the passage about?
A. Lei Day in Hawaii. B. May Day in Hawaii.
C. How to make a lei. D. How to celebrate May Day.
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Feeding a crowd of hundreds doesn’t make Kenny Seals-Nutt nervous.
In fact, he thrives in the kitchen. He’s in his perfect place when dicing tomatoes, making salads and baking cakes.
By the time Kenny, 16, reached his third year of high school at Hickory Grove, North Carolina, US, he had become vice president of his school’s cooking club. He also opened his own food company, called Modern Fusion.
Kenny said he developed his love of cooking by watching his mother, and his grandmother, who owned a catering (饮食业) business herself. Kenny helped them both in order to remember their tips: how long to cook chicken so it stays wet, and the right amount of tomatoes to add to a spaghetti dish.
At the age of 5, he cooked his first dish of shrimp and broccoli. Taking it for his school lunch, he warmed it up in the school’s microwave, while the other kids ate their sandwiches.
“I love to eat, and it started to become more fun to cook than to use a microwave,” he said.
Cooking came easy to Kenny, and he enjoyed adding new ingredients into common dishes. “It started with a passion (热情) and I wanted to know more,” he said. He began to watch the Food Network and read chef blogs.
Last summer, Kenny put his skills to the test by working with his grandmother to cater his uncle’s wedding. While she cooked traditional dishes, Kenny wanted to add new to the expected flavors (风味).
Now Kenny spends his weekends catering his own events: weddings, birthday parties, baby showers. Kenny’s dishes are always a hit.
Chef Frederick Mookie Hicks, owner of a catering business, said Kenny’s success comes from his ability to multitask in the kitchen. Hicks said he has asked Kenny to cook with him on jobs three times now, and he presents Kenny as a positive example of a passionate chef to the students in his cooking classes.
“He’s so vigorous (精神饱满的) about cooking that he doesn’t let anything stop him,” Hicks said. “I knew in the first five minutes of working with the kid that he is something special.”
1.How is Kenny different from other students?
A．He opened a cooking club in his high school.
B．He is famous on the Food Network.
C．He owned a food company at 16.
D．He loves to multi-task.
2.What does the underlined word “thrives” probably mean?
A．works energetic B．grows fast
C．learns quickly D．makes progress
3.Which of the following best describes Kenny’s cooking?
A．Traditional. B．Creative.
C．Simple. D．Strange.
4.We can conclude from the article that ______.
A．Kenny proved himself by catering his uncle’s wedding alone
B．Kenny likes to follow his mother’s recipe when cooking
C．Kenny was able to cook his first dish in primary school
D．Kenny’s success in cooking has a lot to do with his family
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Robots aren’t only in the movies or on TV. One “real” robot recent
ly married a couple at a wedding ceremony in Tokyo, Japan.
Fifty guests stood as the music played and the bride(新娘)walked down towards the groom
(新郎). Only one guest stayed seated - the minister(牧师), who happened to be a robot. For this special ceremony, the four-foot tall robot named I-Fairy wore flowers around her head. I-Fairy’s eyes flashed colored lights as she pronounced the couple man-and-wife and asked the groom to kiss the bride. The wedding was the first time a marriage had been led by a robot, according to the company that built I-Fairy.
A robot might seem like an unusual choice(选择)to lead a wedding, but if you knew the couple you would think I-Fairy was the perfect choice. That’s because the groom teaches robotics at a university and the bride works for the company that built I-Fairy. The newly married couple hopes their wedding will encourage more uses for robots. They hope their wedding will give people ideas about ways in which they might use robots to do “everyday things” in their lives in the near future.
1The “real” robot is the ________ at the wedding ceremony.
A. bride B. groom C. reporter D. minister
2 Which is TRUE about the robot?
A. It wore flowers around the neck for the ceremony
B. Its eyes flashed colored lights while it was speaking.
C. It was built by the I-fairy company.
D. It kissed the newly married couple.
3 In paragraph(段落)3, “robotics” must be the ________ on how robots are made and used.
A. science B. book C. magazine D. cartoon
4We can learn from the last paragraph that________·
A. it is very usu
al for robots to lead weddings
B. a robot 
is the perfect choice for everybody’s wedding
C. the wedding is expected to encourage people to use robots more
D. people get ideas on how to do everything with robots in the near future
5 This passage is a(n) ________.
A. novel B. news report C. folk story D. advertisement
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