英语综合能力训练定稿剖析

训练（一）

Unit 1 Book 3 Festivals around the world

Part I: Reading Comprehension

Passage One

词数：234 难度：★限时：5m Halloween is an autumn holiday that Americans celebrate every year. It means “holy evening”, and it comes every October 31, the evening before All Saints Day. However, it is not really a church holiday; it is a holiday for children mainly.

Every autumn, when the vegetables are ready to eat, children pick large orange pumpkins. Then they cut faces in the pumpkins and put a burning candle inside. It looks as if there were a person looking out of the pumpkin! These lights are called jack ’o’ lanterns, which means “Jack of the lantern”.

The children also put on strange masks and frightening costumes every Halloween. Some children paint their faces to look like monsters. Then they carry boxes or bags from house to house. Every time they come to a new house, they say, “Trick or treat! Money or eat!” The grown-ups put treat-money or candy in their bags.

Some children think of other people on Halloween. They carry boxes for UNICEF(The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund). They ask for money to help poor children all around the world. Of course, every time they help UNICEF, they usually receive a treat for themselves, too.

Not only children, but most grown-ups also love Halloween and Halloween parties because on this day, they can disguise themselves as personages or ghost as their imaginations will lead them. This brings them the satisfaction of being young.

【关键词概括】

Halloween: ________________________________________

【阅读理解】

1. The Americans celebrate All Saints Day on _________.

A. October 31

B. the evening of October 31

C. October 30

D. November 1

2. Which of the following can explain the word “pumpkin”?

A. It is a kind of round, orange vegetable.

B. It is a kind of round orange fruit.

C. It is an unusual frightening mask.

D. It is a kind of special cloth.

3. On Halloween children do the following things except that _________ .

A. they wear strange masks and frightening clothes

B. they paint their faces and carry boxes or bags from door to door

C. they begged from house to house

D. they put candles in the pumpkins

4. What will happen to the money which children have collected from the people?

A. Some of the money will go to UNICEF.

B. Children will keep the money for themselves.

C. The money will be handed to their parents.

D. The article doesn’t say anything about it.

5. The best title for the passage is __________.

A. An Autumn Holiday

B. A Church Holiday

C. A Holiday for Children

D. All Saints Day

【语言注释】

1. costume n. clothes 衣服

2. monster n. very big person or animal, with a strange shape 怪物；巨兽；妖怪

3. disguise vt. make someone or something look different so that people will not know who or what it is把……装扮起来；伪装

4. personage n.名人；（戏剧）角色

Passage Two

词数：391 难度：★★限时：6m In England, not only the rich but also factory workers and street cleaners can take their children to the seaside. In fact during August holidays most towns are empty.

Now what is it that children like so much about the seaside? I think it is the sand, sea and sun more than any other things. Of course, there are lots of new things to see, nice things to eat, and exciting things to do, but it is the feeling of sand unde r one’s feet, of salt water on one’s skin, and lots of warm sun on one’s back that makes the seaside what it is. In England, factory holidays come mostly in the period between mid-July and mid-August. State schools usually only have six weeks off, from about mid-July to the end of August.

The coast is the most popular place for the English people to spend their holidays, but there are few seaside hotels. Food in British hotels and restaurants is reasonably cheap, but rooms are not. Few English people rent houses for their holidays, but one of the traditional ways of spending a summer is in a boarding-house. Some boarding-house keepers provide all meals for their guests, others provide breakfast only. People are pouring in Blackpool, about thirty miles northwest Manchester on the Irish Sea, simply for the attractive lights. They drive their cars there from the north, and even from the south, from Scotland, Wales and from the Midlands.

People also go to work on farms, helping with the harvest and picking fruits. Many people in England, young or old, are studying the habits of animals, plants and insects, searching for them in the countryside.

The British may refuse to change the time at which they take their holidays, but they have shown themselves very ready to take to new places. Every year, many Englishmen, women and children go to some parts of Europe. Rich people fly to expensive hotels on the Mediterranean or in the West Indies. There are many very cheap cruises for children. People are going on a trip to the Middle East, Afghanistan, India and Nepal. During university holidays, many English students fly into the far corners of Africa and Asia. Many take their cars, crossing the channel by ship. When they get home again, they always talk about how they spent their holidays.

【关键词概括】

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