The First of May is a Bank Holiday—the first public holiday of the year in England. Most people consider it a special day, the beginning of summer, a day when the light lasts long into the evening, and when we can look for warm weather. We don't always get it. We feel disappointed, but not surprised if there are cold winds and frosts at night in May. Winter should be over. Most people know that in the past, when farming occupied almost everyone, the changing seasons were of great importance. In that older time there was every reason to celebrate May Day. Customs of those celebrations remain.
Of these customs, the best known is the choosing of a May Queen and the dancing round Maypole. Even these customs are little more than memories now—but in the last century it was quite common in villages and small towns, and even in schools and colleges, for a pretty and popular girl to be chosen Queen of the May. It was a great honour to be chosen. For a day she wore a light and flowery dress, carried garlands(花环), and was ceremonially crowned with flowers. She presided over a procession, as a rule with a number of attendants, and over the Maypole dancing and all kinds of entertainment. The Maypole was slender(苗条的) tree trunk, cut off its branches, with beautiful ribbons fastened to the top. The dancing was designed in such a way that the dancer's movements move the ribbons into a pattern. This, as you can imagine, required skill from the dancer, and was not achieved without practice.
It's the Celtic people who celebrated the First of May as a spring festival. Their celebration seems to have had little to do with taking pleasure in early, beautiful flowers and in warmer weather! They called it Beltane—the fire of the god Bel. They lit fires, in the expectation that their blaze would help the sun in its struggle to regain its strength. They drove their cattle between banks of flame in the expectation that the terrified beasts would be purified and protected from disease. A tree, which must have been blackened with smoke, stood in the middle of the fires, and is thought to have been the origin of the Maypole. Their priests(牧师) made sacrifices to the goods in the hope of good harvests and sufficient store of food for the winter. There was dancing certainly, but it was noisy and cheerful, since its purpose was not to weave a pattern of colored ribbons, but to drive out evil spirits from the earth and to arouse those kind spirits.
57. The main purpose of the passage is to show ________.
A. the reason why they celebrate May Day
B. the start and customs of May Day
C. the way they celebrate May Day
D. the choosing of a May Queen during May Day
58. According to the passage, which sentence is NOT true?
A. In the old days they celebrated May Day for the changing of the seasons.
B. In England summer begins at the first of May.
C. The custom of the choosing of a May Queen still exists in the present May Day celebration.D. The Celtic people celebrated the first of May as a spring festival.
59. From the surrounding words and sentences we know that the word “presided” means ____.
A. 管理 B. 越过 C. 指挥 D. 主持
60. The best title for this passage is ________.
A. The First of May B. The Beginning of Summer
C. May Queen D. The Holiday of the Year
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The First of May is a Bank Holiday—the first public holiday of the year in England. Most people consider it a special day, the beginning of summer, a day when the light lasts long into the evening, and when we can look for warm weather. We don't always get it. We feel disappointed, but not surprised if there are cold winds and frosts at night in May. Winter should be over. Most people know that in the past, when farming occupied almost everyone, the changing seasons were of great importance. In that older time there was every reason to celebrate May Day. Customs of those celebrations remain.
Of these customs, the best known is the choosing of a May Queen and the dancing round Maypole. Even these customs are little more than memories now—but in the last century it was quite common in villages and small towns, and even in schools and colleges, for a pretty and popular girl to be chosen Queen of the May. It was a great honour to be chosen. For a day she wore a light and flowery dress, carried garlands(花环), and was ceremonially crowned with flowers. She presided over a procession, as a rule with a number of attendants, and over the Maypole dancing and all kinds of entertainment. The Maypole was slender(苗条的) tree trunk, cut off its branches, with beautiful ribbons fastened to the top. The dancing was designed in such a way that the dancer's movements move the ribbons into a pattern. This, as you can imagine, required skill from the dancer, and was not achieved without practice.
It's the Celtic people who celebrated the First of May as a spring festival. Their celebration seems to have had little to do with taking pleasure in early, beautiful flowers and in warmer weather! They called it Beltane—the fire of the god Bel. They lit fires, in the expectation that their blaze would help the sun in its struggle to regain its strength. They drove their cattle between banks of flame in the expectation that the terrified beasts would be purified and protected from disease. A tree, which must have been blackened with smoke, stood in the middle of the fires, and is thought to have been the origin of the Maypole. Their priests(牧师) made sacrifices to the goods in the hope of good harvests and sufficient store of food for the winter. There was dancing certainly, but it was noisy and cheerful, since its purpose was not to weave a pattern of colored ribbons, but to drive out evil spirits from the earth and to arouse those kind spirits.
57. The main purpose of the passage is to show ________.
A. the reason why they celebrate May Day
B. the start and customs of May Day
C. the way they celebrate May Day
D. the choosing of a May Queen during May Day
58. According to the passage, which sentence is NOT true?
A. In the old days they celebrated May Day for the changing of the seasons.
B. In England summer begins at the first of May.
C. The custom of the choosing of a May Queen still exists in the present May Day celebration.D. The Celtic people celebrated the first of May as a spring festival.
59. From the surrounding words and sentences we know that the word “presided” means ____.
A. 管理 B. 越过 C. 指挥 D. 主持
60. The best title for this passage is ________.
A. The First of May B. The Beginning of Summer
C. May Queen D. The Holiday of the Year
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Bank holidays! We all love them!
A bank holiday is an English term for a public holiday. During the day banks and offices are closed and a lot of people have a day off work. In the UK, people only get eight bank holidays in one year. 1.
People in Colombia are much luckier. There are twenty bank holidays for the whole country in one year! And there can be even more, depending on which region(地区) you live in. 2. As in the UK, most of the bank holidays in Colombia exist for religious reasons.
3. One such example is Independence Day on 20 July every year. This is just like Bastille Day in France on 14 July. 4. It is in memory of the day that Christopher Columbus, first reached America in the year 1492.
Bank holidays are very important for western people. 5. They may also choose to stay at home to relax and forget about work.
A. Bank holidays are different in Colombia.
B. During the holidays, they often travel with their families.
C. This is because different regions have their own holidays.
D. And at least five of those are around Christmas time and Easter.
E. Every country on the continent of America celebrates Columbus Day.
F. Another historical bank holiday in Colombia is Columbus Day on 12 October.
G. However, some bank holidays in Colombia came into being for historical reasons.
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Women have jumped ahead of men for the first time in using the Internet to do their holiday shopping,according to a study published last week in the US.
For years men have been more likely to shop on the Internet than women,but during the 2011 holiday season 58 percent of those making online purchases(购买)were women.
“It shows how mainstream the Internet is becoming”,said Lee Rainie,director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project group,which carried out the study.
Rainie said it was only a matter of time before women shoppers caught up with men.This is because women traditionally make decisions about spending.
Users were more likely to shop online to save time.Internet users between the ages of 18 and 29 were responsible for some of the most dramatic increases in the online gift-buying population this time around.
However,three-quarters of the US Internet users did not buy holiday gifts online in 2011.They worried about credit card security(安全),or just compared online prices with off-line prices,then dashed off to t he shops to get the best deals.
“But even if shoppers don’t buy online,websites are becoming promotion tools for stores,”said Dan Hess,vice president of Comscore Networks Inc.Hess said that actually most stores’ websites can make customers fully believe the security of their credit card numbers.And most are able to ensure that gifts arrive on time.“It’s all about making the shopping experience more efficient,more reliable and more comfortable.”Hess said.
1.Which of the following statements is true?
A. More women shopped online than men during 2011 holiday season.
B. There were fewer women online shoppers than men during 2 011 holiday season.
C. Most of the Internet users between the ages of 18 and 29 are women.
D. People in the US were more likely to buy gifts online.
2.From the passage we can infer that________.
A. men usually decide how to spend money in the family
B. women usually decide what to buy in the family
C. the Internet is used in all the shops.
D. more and more shops will sell their goods online.
3.According to Dan Hess,shopping online is ________.
A. unsafe B. convenient
C. a waste of time D. cheaper
4.What can we know from the passage?
A. American people only buy gifts in holidays.
B. Shopping online is fun for women.
C. Shopping off-line provides better service.
D. Young people like to do gift-shopping online.
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Going home for Christmas is a tradition of the holiday season. No matter where you may be the rest of the years, being at “home” with your family and friends for Christmas is a “must”. The Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are the busiest times of the year at airports, train stations and bus stations. It seems that all America is on the move and Americans are on their way to spend the holidays with their loved ones.
This means that the house will be full of cousins, aunts and uncles that might not see each other during the year. Everyone joins in to help in the preparation of the festival. Some family members get to choose a Christmas tree to buy and bring home. Others decorate the house or wrap presents. And of course, each household needs to make lots of food!
At Christmas Eve gatherings adults have eggnog, which is made of cream, milk, sugar, eggs and brandy. Plenty of eggnogor hot cocoa is on hand in colder climates for carolers, or people who go from house to house sing Christmas carols to their neighbors.
Long ago, each child hung a stocking, or sock, over the fireplace. Santa entered down the chimney and left candy and presents inside the socks for the children. Today the tradition is carried on, but the socks are now large red sock-shaped fabric bags still called stockings. Each child can’t wait to open his or her eyes to see what Santa has left in the stocking.
Giving gifts is a Christmas tradition. However, in recent years, more and more people have complained that Christmas is too commercialized(商业化) especially in large cities. Store owners begin advertising and decorating very early in hopes of selling more goods. Some people believe that the origin of Christmas has been lost.
1.It is a traditional custom for Americans ____________.
A.to buy Christmas trees and bring them to churches for Christmas
B.to drink beer on Christmas Eve
C.to go home for Christmas with their family and relatives
D.to hung stockings on the chimney
2.The underlined word “eggnog” in the third paragraph is a kind ____________.
A.drink B.food C.egg D.present
3.Each child hung a stocking over the fireplace in order to____________.
A.get some eggnog B.have a look at Santa
C.get some candy and presents D.get some money from his/ her parents
4.The last paragraph wants to tell us that ____________.
A.giving gifts is a Christmas tradition B.giving gifts is getting more and more commercialized
C.store owners hope to get more presents D.people think there will be no Christmas in the future
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Going home for Christmas is a tradition of the holiday season. No matter where you may be the rest of the years, being at “home” with your family and friends for Christmas is a “must”. The Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are the busiest times of the year at airports, train stations and bus stations. It seems that all America is on the move and Americans are on their way to spend the holidays with their loved ones.
This means that the house will be full of cousins, aunts and uncles that might not see each other during the year. Everyone joins in to help in the preparation of the festival. Some family members get to choose a Christmas tree to buy and bring home. Others decorate the house or wrap presents. And of course, each household needs to make lots of food!
At Christmas Eve gatherings adults have eggnog, which is made of cream, milk, sugar, eggs and brandy. Plenty of eggnog or hot cocoa is on hand in colder climates for carolers, or people who go from house to house sing Christmas carols to their neighbors.
Long ago, each child hung a stocking, or sock, over the fireplace. Santa entered down the chimney and left candy and presents inside the socks for the children. Today the tradition is carried on, but the socks are now large red sock-shaped fabric bags still called stockings. Each child can’t wait to open his or her eyes to see what Santa has left in the stocking.
Giving gifts is a Christmas tradition. However, in recent years, more and more people have complained that Christmas is too commercialized(商业化) especially in large cities. Store owners begin advertising and decorating very early in hopes of selling more goods. Some people believe that the origin of Christmas has been lost.
46.It is a traditional custom for Americans ____________.
A.to buy Christmas trees and bring them to churches for Christmas
B.to drink beer on Christmas Eve
C.to go home for Christmas with their family and relatives
D.to hung stockings on the chimney
47.The underlined word “eggnog” in the third paragraph is a kind ____________.
A.drink B.food C.egg D.present
48.Each child hung a stocking over the fireplace in order to____________.
A.get some eggnog B.have a look at Santa
C.get some candy and presents D.get some money from his/ her parents
49.The last paragraph wants to tell us that ____________.
A.giving gifts is a Christmas tradition B.giving gifts is getting more and more commercialized
C.store owners hope to get more presents D.people think there will be no Christmas in the future
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The first day of the month of May is known as May Day. It is the time of year when warmer weather begins. People celebrate the coming of summer with customs that are expressions of joy and hope after a long winter. Today, May Day activities have been moved to the May Day holiday on the first Monday of the month. It is a public holiday when families take advantage of the time off to visit some of the UK’s many attractions, including parks, zoos, historic buildings, ancient towns and villages and beautiful countryside.
May Day celebrations have their origins in the Roman festival of Flora, the goddess of fruit and flowers, which marked the beginning of summer. People would decorate their houses and villages with leaves and flowers they picked at daybreak in the belief that the vegetation spirits would bring good luck. In the very early morning, young girls went into the fields and washed their faces with dew (露水). They believed this made them very beautiful for the following year.
May Day was an important day in the Middle Ages and was a favorite holiday of many English villages. People of the time used to cut down young trees and stick them in the ground in the village to mark the arrival of summer. This is the origin of the maypole (五月柱). People danced around them in celebration of the end of winter. Maypoles were once common all over England and were kept from one year to the next. The tallest maypole is said to have been put up in London on the Strand in 1661. It stood more than 143 feet high and was cut down in 1717, when it was used by Newton to support a new reflecting telescope (反射式望远镜) invented by Dutch scientist Huygens.
1.How do British people celebrate May Day?
A. They visit friends and family members.
B. They celebrate it on the first Monday of May.
C. They spend a lot of time shopping around.
D. They show great love for the long winter.
2.The underlined word “this” in Paragraph 2 refers to _____.
A. washing the face with dew
B. going into the fields
C. picking flowers at daybreak
D. getting up early in the morning
3.What can we learn about the maypole?
A. People climb it on May Day.
B. It was usually found in the cities.
C. It dates from the Middle Ages.
D. People used old, tall trees to make it.
4.The purpose of the text is to _____.
A. describe Roman customs
B. suggest spring family activities
C. explain the origins of maypoles
D. introduce a British festival
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If maths is the language of the universe, bees may have just uttered their first words. New research suggests these busybodies of the insect world are capable of addition and subtraction (减法) — using colors in the place of plus and minus symbols.
In the animal kingdom, the ability to count — or at least distinguish between differing quantities — isn’t unusual: It has been seen in frogs, spiders, and even fish. But solving equations (方程式) using symbols is rare, so far only achieved by famously brainy animals such as chimpanzees and African grey parrots.
Building on previous research that says the social insects can count to four and understand the concept of zero, researchers wanted to test the limits of what their tiny brains can do.
Scientists trained 14 bees to link the colors blue and yellow to addition and subtraction, respectively. They placed the bees at the entrance of a Y-shaped maze (迷宫), where they were shown several shapes in either yellow or blue. If the shapes were blue, bees got a reward if they went to the end of the maze with one more blue shape (the other end had one less blue shape); if the shapes were yellow, they got a reward if they went to the end of the maze with one less yellow shape.
The testing worked the same way: Bees that “subtracted” one shape when they saw yellow, or “added” one shape when they saw blue were considered to have aced the test. The bees got the right answer 63% to 72% of the time, depending on the type of equation and the direction of the right answer — much better than random guesses would allow—the researchers report today in Science Advances.
Though the results came from just 14 bees, researchers say the advance is exciting. If a brain about 20,000 times smaller than ours can perform maths using symbols, it could pave the way to novel approaches in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Just don’t ask the bees to do your homework anytime soon.
1.Why do the scientists conduct the research?
A.To teach them maths. B.To test the power of tiny brains.
C.To explain the meaning of colors. D.To get access to machine learning.
2.What does the underlined word “aced” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
A.Given up. B.Entered for.
C.Got through. D.Checked over.
3.What might the research make contributions to?
A.Language acquisition. B.Arithmetic learning.
C.Protection of animals. D.Development of AI.
4.What can be the best title for the text?
A.Bees “Like” Counting
B.Bees “Tell” Colors Apart
C.Bees “Perform” Maths Using Shapes
D.Bees “Get” Addition and Subtraction
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Recently, I went to a small town for a short holiday with my husband and daughter. On the first evening, we decided to visit the nearest ______ to check out the local foods and do s0me shopping as well. After spending some time ______ this and that, we decided to get a bite to eat. We had to ______ our turn at the restaurant. I stood on the ______ outside, looking at the crowd of ______ makers.
____, I noticed a small boy of about seven carrying several hand-made gift ______. They were small but very ______. The boy asked me to buy one, ______ widely. He said he had ______ the bags himself as he wanted to help ______ the family. I smiled back and asked the ______ of the bags. He named a(n) ______. I told him it was too ______ for such small bag.
The boy ______ that he had to buy paper and string(线)which ______ him a lot. At that time, I was still hesitating(犹豫), ______ he smiled another sweet smile saying, “Miss, please ______ one, I really worked hard to make it day and night.” His smile stole my ______ and bought a red bag. The boy left ______ the cash carefully in his pocket, but with another of his smile. That day I knew I had met God.
1.A. restaurants B. hospitals C. factories D. schools
2.A. saying B. performing C. buying D. protecting
3.A. break up B. stand for C. pick up D. wait for
4.A. table B. street C. roof D. window
5.A. paper B. voyage C. holiday D. loss
6.A. Hopelessly B. Confidently C. Independently D. Suddenly
7.A. bags B. signals C. books D. toys
8.A. dirty B. Colorful C. ugly D. thin
9.A. smiling B. thinking C. agreeing D. looking
10.A. borrowed B. invented C. made D. inspected
11.A. admire B. move C. feed D. visit
12.A. color B. size C. quality D. price
13.A. number B. invitation C. secret D. plan
14.A. little B. young C. much D. short
15.A. guessed B. hoped C. explained D. decided
16.A. cost B. paid C. appreciated D. saved
17.A. or B. so C. if D. because
18.A. stop B. remember C. take D. sell
19.A. pain B. heart C. bag D. car
20.A. removing B. spending C. wasting D. storing
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My holiday was about two months long and the first thing I wanted to do was to get my driving license, so I called the driving school to make sure of my ________ time, after that, I booked a room to make sure my friend and I have a place to stay when we ________ there.
So everything went on well ________the test-day finally arrive! I’m both excited and ________. I took the school bus and when I got there I went to the ________ first. Something happened when I came out of the restroom. I ________ over and broke my right foot.
OMG! I didn’t know what to do so I called my mom and she ________ me up and we wet to the hospital at once. ________ the doctor said, “It is fine. You didn’t hurt the ________, but it will take almost two months to recover.” That was disappointing, and I was totally ________.
Through those painful days I had nothing to do but ________ the Internet and read books about some disabled persons who are not ________ by their physical problems These books would help me ________ sooner. It was so amazing! After reading the books my ________ seemed to become better and better, day after day! And I began to feel better ________ myself and about my foot I started to use the ________ “thank you” more often than before and most importantly, I started to think ________.
Things do change when your ________ changes. I soon recovered and could walk again. After coming back from my trip, I went to ________ my driving test, and it went very well. I ________ it without any difficulties. I’m a driver now!
1.A. training B. graduation C. beginning D. test
2.A. play B. arrive C. live D. work
3.A. because B. unless C. until D. since
4.A. disappointed B. puzzled C. worried D. inspired
5.A. restroom B. office C. field D. car
6.A. enjoyed B. devoted C. slipped D. knocked
7.A. looked B. picked C. turned D. pulled
8.A. Luckily B. Honestly C. Seriously D. Kindly
9.A. skin B. bone C. muscle D. head
10.A. frightened B. embarrassed C. frustrated D. confused
11.A. attacking B. connecting C. building D. surfing
12.A. limited B. harmed C. endangered D. shocked
13.A. succeed B. recover C. drive D. learn
14.A. grade B. hand C. foot D. ski
15.A. about B. for C. with D. off
16.A. awards B. words C. praises D. gestures
17.A. quickly B. carefully C. fairly D. positively
18.A. body B. image C. attitude D. health
19.A. give B. take C. study D. analyze
20.A. passed B. accepted C. prepared D. organized
高一英语七选五困难题查看答案及解析
In the U.S. Mother’s Day is a holiday celebrated on second Sunday in May. It is a day when children honor their mothers with cards, gifts and flowers. First observance in Philadelphia in 1907,it is based on suggestions by Julia Ward Howe in 1872 and by Anna Jarvis in 1907.
Although it wasn’t celebrated in the U.S. until 1907,there were days honoring mothers even in the days of ancient Greece. In those days, however, it was Rhea, the Mother of the gods that was given honor. Later,in the 1600’s,in England there was an annual celebration called “Mothering Sunday.” It was celebrated during June, on the fourth Sunday ,the servants, who generally lived with their employers, were encouraged to return home and honor their mothers. It was traditional for them to bring a special cake along to celebrate the occasion.
In the U.S., in 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. Jarvis persuaded her mother’s church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother’s Day on the second anniversary of her mother’s death, the 2ed Sunday of May. The next day Mother’s Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia, Jarvis and others began a letter-writing campaign to ministers, businessmen, and politicians asking to establish a national Mother’s Day. They were successful. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914,made the official announcement recognizing Mother’s Day as a national celebration that was to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May.
Many other countries of the world celebrate their own Mother’s Day at different times throughout the year. Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium celebrate Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in May, as in the U.S.
1..Mother’s Day in the U.S. was first celebrated .
A. in 1872 B. in 1907 C. in the 1600’s D. in 1914
2.The underlined word “observance” in the first paragraph probably means “ ”.
A. celebration B. principle C. holiday D. campaign
3.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A. All the mothers were given honor in the days of ancient Greece.
B. Only the servants’ mothers were given honor on Mothering Sunday in England.
C. President Woodrow Wilson announced Mother’s Day as a national celebration.
D. Ana Javis’s mother probably died on the 2nd Sunday of May in 1907.
4.What could be the best title for this passage?
A. Mother’s Day of the U.S B. Mother’s Day of the world
C. Ana Jarvis and Mother’s Day D. Styles of Mother’s Day
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