Question

【題目】People celebrate New Year with happiness and joy by exchanging gifts and spending time with their families and friends, but some superstitions(迷信)are followed by many people around the world. Here are some New Year s superstitions.

【1】 One of the most popular New Year’ s superstitions is that you should kiss your beloved and dear ones at the stroke(報時的鐘聲)of midnight．It is said that those who fail to do so will have cold relationships with their loved ones for a whole year.

【2】The New Year should not begin with unpaid debts. It is always said that all the bills should be paid off before the old year closes.

【3】We can’t take anything out of the house on the first day of the year. Actually, some people think it’s okay to remove things from the house so that something else has the chance to be brought in.

【4】The first person to enter your home after stroke of midnight will influence your luck in the year. It is believed that this person should ideally be dark – haired, tall, and good – looking. Nobody knows whether it is true or not.

【5】 According to Chinese traditional custom, we usually don’ t sleep until one or two o’clock in midnight on New Year’ s Eve. There are two meanings. The first, .the old should treasure every second they have in their rest life; the second, the young hope for longer life for there parents.

A. First footing. B. Nothing goes out C. Paying off bills. D. Kissing t midnight. E. Lights on for the whole night. F. Stay up late of all night.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】B

【4】A

【5】F

【解析】

試題分析：短文大意：人們通過交換禮物和與家人和朋友團聚慶祝新年，但是世界各地的許多人有些迷信活動。該文就是介紹了一些新年的迷信。

【1】D根據(jù)本題描述可知最受歡迎新年的迷信是在午夜報鐘聲響時你應該吻你親愛的。這樣的話一年中與親愛的關系就不會冷淡，所以選D，午夜親吻。

【2】C根據(jù)本題描述可知新年前必須還清舊的一年中所有的帳單，所以選C，付清帳單。

【3】B根據(jù)本題描述可知在新年的第一天我們不能把家里的東西拿出去。事實上，有些人認為把東西拿出去，新東西才有機會進來，所以選B，不出去。

【4】A根據(jù)本題描述可知午夜后第一個進入你家的人會影響你家的運氣，所以選A，第一步。

【5】F根據(jù)本題描述可知按照中國的傳統(tǒng)，除夕之夜我們通常到午夜一二點才能睡覺，所以選F，熬夜通宵。