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【题目】 International Pillow（枕头）Fight Day is held every April around the world-from Amsterdam（阿姆斯特丹），Budapest （布达佩斯），to New York. It has been celebrated since 2008.

Hundreds of people go out with their pillows hitting each other's face, back and chest. People dress up as superheroes and animals, laughing and fighting.

The festival used to be a game to release （释放）energy and stress. Nowadays the festival has several advantages. Making people relaxed comes first, besides this, it has also become a way to quickly collect pillows for the poor in Bronx and Brooklyn.

If you want to take part in this festival, you should bring your own pillows and don't hit anyone without a pillow or with a camera. The latest record of the largest pillow fight was set on the tenth month in 2013 in Chicago, with 4,500 pillows and 3,813 people. In fact, the biggest advantages of International Pillow Fight Day nowadays is that you can make different friends from different areas!

【1】阅读短文,根据英文释义及首字母提示拼写单词。

c________ to show an event is important by doing something special

【2】阅读短文,根据英文释义及首字母提示拼写单词。

e________ the physical and mental strength that makes you be able to do things

【3】任务3:阅读短文,进行同义句转换，每空一词。

If you want to take part in this festival, you should bring your own pillows and don't hit anyone without a pillow or with a camera.

If you _______ ______taking part in this festival, you should bring your own pillows and don't hit anyone without a pillow or with a camera.

【4】根据短文,内容回答问题。

When is International Pillow Day held?

_________________________________________________________

【5】根据短文,内容回答问题。

What do people dress up as?

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【6】根据短文,内容回答问题。

How many advantages of International Pillow Fight Day nowadays are mentions in the passage?

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Answer 1

【答案】

【1】celebrate

【2】energy

【3】 feel like

【4】Every April.

【5】Superheroes and animals.

【6】Three.

【解析】

文章大意：短文主要介绍世界上最有趣的枕头节的发展，目的，规则及纪录等。

【1】根据英文释义to show an event is important by doing something special通过做特殊的事情来展示一个事件很重要和首字母的提示，单词应为“庆祝”，故答案为celebrate。

【2】根据英文释义the physical and mental strength that makes you be able to do things使你能做事情的体力和脑力和首字母的提示，单词应为“精力”，故答案为energy。

【3】句意：如果你想参加这个节日，你应当带自己的枕头，不打没有带枕头的人和拿照相机的人。

根据句意，空处的词表示“想要干某事”，并且其后还要跟doing形式，应为feel like；句子是if引导的条件状语从句，根据主句的时态可知，从句用一般现在时，故答案为feel like。

【4】细节理解题。根据文中International Pillow（枕头）Fight Day is held every April around the world-from Amsterdam（阿姆斯特丹），Budapest （布达佩斯），to New York.可知，国际枕头大战节在每年4月举行，故答案为Every April.

【5】细节理解题。根据文中People dress up as superheroes and animals, laughing and fighting.人们打扮成超级英雄和动物可知，故答案为Superheroes and animals.

【6】推理判断题。根据文中Making people relaxed comes first, besides this, it has also become a way to quickly collect pillows for the poor in Bronx and Brooklyn.和In fact, the biggest advantages of International Pillow Fight Day nowadays is that you can make different friends from different areas!可知，有三个优点：使人们放松；快速为穷人收集枕头；交不同的朋友，故答案为Three.