Although the New Year is already here, the great moments of the past year are still in the memory. Let’s look back at some of them.
United States
One of the world’s largest New Year’s Eve parties was held in Times Square, New York. The festival attracted hundreds of thousands of people to watch a brightly-lit ball drop on a landmark building at the stroke (擊、打) of midnight.
A great amount of confetti (五彩紙屑) was released from the sky at zero o’clock.
Britain
Painted in shinning colors, blowing whistles, 50，000 party-goers arrived in London’s Millennium Dome to dance in the New Year. The Millennium Dome came to life at midnight as 50 DJs started up, competing on five separate dance floors to warm the crowd into the party mood.
Russia
New Year is the biggest holiday in Russia. It is traditional to put up a tree for celebrations with family and friends.
On the very last day of last year, Russians with a taste for a very cold swim braved freezing temperatures to plant traditional, festival trees on the bed of the Northern Ocean and at the bottom of Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest lake.
Malaysia
Brave skydivers threw themselves off the world’s tallest building near midnight and floated towards the New Year.
The jump from the 452-metre Petronas Twin Tower was called a real leap from one year to the next since the group took off in the last second of the old year and landed a minute later in the New Year. “That was really cool,” said Roland Simpson, “over crowds of onlookers to the landing spot.”
小題1:In New York the brightly-lit ball dropped ____________.
A．form the sky onto the Times Square
B．into the hundreds of thousands of watchers
C．to welcome the arrival of Christmas
D．a(chǎn)t the point between the old and the New Year
小題2:Which of the following is NOT traditional to welcome a new year?
A．Sharing the happiness and excitement together.
B．Setting up a tree for celebrations.
C．Planting trees on the bed of a lake.
D．50 DJs’ competing on five separate floors.
小題3:People jumping from the tallest buildings _________.
A．spent two different years in the air.
B．stayed in the sky for two minutes.
C．landed over people’s heads.
D．floated away to the new land
小題4:The passage mainly shows that ________.
A．New Year has been the starting point for people to have dreams.
B．people in different countries welcomed New Year in different ways.
C．people’s ways of celebrations are exciting.
D．the New Year is better than the old year.

小題1:D
小題2:D
小題3:A
小題4:B

試題分析：這篇文章講的是不同的國(guó)家的人慶祝新年的方式不同。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第二段的句子:The festival attracted hundreds of thousands of people to watch a brightly-lit ball drop on a landmark building at the stroke (擊、打) of midnight.可知?dú)馇蚴窃?2點(diǎn)辭舊迎新的時(shí)候落下的。選D。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第四段的句子：The Millennium Dome came to life at midnight as 50 DJs started up, competing on five separate dance floors to warm the crowd into the party mood.可知50個(gè)Dj的比賽只是千禧巨蛋一活動(dòng)，不是新年的傳統(tǒng)節(jié)目。選D
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：從倒數(shù)第二段的句子：Brave skydivers threw themselves off the world’s tallest building near midnight and floated towards the New Year.可知人們?cè)诟邩巧咸略诳罩卸冗^(guò)兩年。選A
小題4:主旨題：從第一段的句子：Although the New Year is already here, the great moments of the past year are still in the memory. Let’s look back at some of them.可知這篇文章講的是不同的國(guó)家的人慶祝新年的方式不同。選B。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：這篇文章講的是不同的國(guó)家的人慶祝新年的方式不同。細(xì)節(jié)題要求學(xué)生仔細(xì)閱讀短文；推斷題測(cè)試考生在閱讀基礎(chǔ)上的邏輯推理能力，要求考生根據(jù)文章所述事件的邏輯關(guān)系，對(duì)未說(shuō)明的趨勢(shì)或結(jié)局作出合理的推斷；或根據(jù)作者所闡述的觀點(diǎn)理論，對(duì)文章未涉及的現(xiàn)象、事例給以解釋。考生首先要仔細(xì)閱讀短文，完整了解信息，準(zhǔn)確把握作者觀點(diǎn)。
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