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【題目】 Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is a special day celebrated in many countries around the world. 【1】 In France, the USA and other countries, it is called ‘Mardi Gras’ or ‘Fat Tuesday’. In others like Spain, Italy or Brazil, Shrove Tuesday is at the end of Carnival（嘉年華）. On this day many people eat pancakes: thin, flat cakes made in a pan.

【2】 It is the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. Lent is a period of 40 days before Easter when people often give up or stop eating things that are bad for them like chocolate or fast food. At the end of Lent is Easter. 【3】 Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring. Traditionally, during Lent, people didn’t eat rich foods like butter and eggs, so to use them up they made pancakes from these ingredients on Shrove Tuesday.

【4】 People run in a race with a pancake in a pan. As they run, they have to toss the pancake (throw the pancake in the air and catch it in the pan) several times. 【5】The most famous pancake race takes place in a town called Olney, in the middle of England. People say that Olney has been celebrating pancake races since 1445!

A.Easter takes place on a different date each year because it depends on the moon.

B.It is celebrated in English-speaking countries like the UK, Ireland, Australia and Canada.

C.Another tradition on Pancake Day in the UK is pancake racing.

D.Pancake Day is always on a Tuesday in February or March.

E.In some pancake races people dress up in fancy dress costumes.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】A

【4】C

【5】E

【解析】

世界上許多國(guó)家慶祝煎餅日。在法國(guó)、美國(guó)和其他國(guó)家，它被稱(chēng)為“狂歡節(jié)”或“懺悔星期二”。煎餅節(jié)在二月或三月的星期二，在這一天，人們吃薄煎餅，英國(guó)煎餅節(jié)的另一個(gè)傳統(tǒng)是煎餅賽跑，在一些薄餅比賽中，人們穿著奇裝異服。

【1】根據(jù)上文“Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is a special day celebrated in many countries around the world.”推斷下文舉例說(shuō)明哪些國(guó)家慶祝這個(gè)節(jié)日；故選B。

【2】根據(jù)下文“It is the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent.”推斷上文指煎餅節(jié)的時(shí)間；故選D。

【3】上文“At the end of Lent is Easter” 四旬齋結(jié)束時(shí)是復(fù)活節(jié)，空格下文“Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring”，空格上下文都是關(guān)于復(fù)活節(jié)的時(shí)間，推斷空格是承上啟下、且內(nèi)容是關(guān)于復(fù)活節(jié)的句子，故選A。

【4】根據(jù)下文“People run in a race with a pancake in a pan. As they run, they have to toss the pancake (throw the pancake in the air and catch it in the pan) several times”描述帶著煎餅賽跑的場(chǎng)景，推斷空格指煎餅節(jié)的活動(dòng)——煎餅賽跑，故選C。

【5】根據(jù)上文“People run in a race with a pancake in a pan. As they run, they have to toss the pancake (throw the pancake in the air and catch it in the pan) several times”描述帶著煎餅賽跑的場(chǎng)景，推斷下文是繼續(xù)介紹煎餅節(jié)的活動(dòng)；故選E。

補(bǔ)全短文，解答前先閱讀備選句，理解備選句的句意；再跳空閱讀全文，了解大意；然后，根據(jù)上下文聯(lián)系、查看空格句與段落和主體文章之間的邏輯關(guān)系，推斷空格所缺的信息，所選的句子要能使文章前后內(nèi)容銜接，意思連貫�？崭�1根據(jù)上文的關(guān)鍵詞celebrated in many countries推斷空格是舉例說(shuō)明哪些國(guó)家，空格3上下文都是關(guān)于Easter的信息，推斷空格是承上啟下的句子，內(nèi)容與Easter相關(guān)。