阅读下面短文,理解其大意,然后从每小题所给的A、B、C三个选项中,选出一个能填入空白处的最佳选项。

The main activities in the Qingming Festival are tomb sweeping(扫墓), taking a spring outing and flying kites.

Tomb sweeping is the most important ______ in the Qingming Festival. Cleaning the tomb and paying respect to the ______ person with offerings are the two important parts of remembering the past relatives. People often ______ weeds(野草) around the tomb and add fresh soil to show care of the dead. They also take the dead person's favorite food and wine to sacrifice(供奉) to them as well as paper money. They take the food and burn the paper money to hope the dead won't lack(缺少) ______. Kowtowing(叩头) is also necessary.

This tradition of spring outing began in the Tang Dynasty and lasts till today. It is a day ______ remembering the dead and having a good time. During March, trees turn green, flowers blossom(开花), and the sun shines brightly. It is a fine time to go out and ______ the beautiful scenes of nature. So visitors can be seen everywhere during the month of the festival. Spring outings ______ add joy to life but also develop a healthy body and mind.

Flying kites is an activity loved by many people during the Qingming Festival. ______ are flown day and night. Little lanterns are tied to the kite. When the kite is flying in the sky, the lanterns look like twinkling(闪烁的) stars. That adds special scenery to the sky during the night. It is said that this ______ good luck and diseases can be taken away.

______, the Qingming Festival is special because it connects the tears to the dead with the laughter from the spring outing.

1.A. tradition B. culture C. trick

2.A. important B. dead C. useful

3.A. clear away B. wash away C. give away

4.A. clothes and money B. food and drinks C. food and money

5.A. for B. in C. to

6.A. discover B. admire C. treat

7.A. not only B. either C. not

8.A. Clouds B. Birds C. Kites

9.A. brings B. lays C. spreads

10.A. As a result B. In a word C. In my opinion

Last summer my family went to a National Park for a holiday and had an unusual experience. When we got there, we put up our tent and then went out to travel around. As we returned, I heard my sister Susan cry out and then we saw a bear enter our tent. I wanted my father to drive it away. My father said, “No, it's dangerous to drive the bear away. And don't let it follow you.” Susan said, “What shall we do?Maybe we should climb a tree.” I said, “No, we've got to get it out of there. It might go to sleep in our tent.” “Maybe we could make it leave if we put some honey outside for it to eat.” Susan said. Then my mother said, “How are you going to get the honey?It's in the tent.” We watched the bear enter the tent and heard a lot of noise — it turned over everything inside. “It's foolish for us to try to catch it,” said my father, “Leave it alone and wait for it to come out.” We waited and waited but the bear stayed inside. So we had to sleep in the car.

1.Where did the family go for a holiday last summer?

A. A park. B. A zoo. C. A beach. D. A garden.

2.Who saw the bear first?

A. The father. B. The speaker. C. Susan. D. The mother.

3.What was the bear probably doing in the tent?It was ________.

A. sleeping in bed B. playing

C. eating honey D. walking

4.Why didn't they drive the bear away?

A. Because the bear was big.

B. Because it was dangerous to drive a bear away.

C. Because the bear wanted to eat the honey.

D. Because they wanted to play with the bear.

5.What did they have to do?

A. To drive the bear out of their tent.

B. To stop the bear from making noise.

C. To stay in their car for the night.

D. To catch the bear.

The yearly Academy Awards ceremony was once a private affair. Now, because of television, it is very much a public affair. Hundreds of people gather in Hollywood to see the Oscars presented to outstanding actors, and others involved in the motion picture industry. Millions more watch on television.

It all began on May 16, 1929, when 270 men and women sat down to dinner at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. There was no secret about the winners. The names of the winners had been known for months.Janet Gaynor, for example, had won as Best Actress.Douglas Fairbanks presented her with the famous gold statue. The little statue was not then called Oscar. Like a new actor, Oscar was unknown. About six years later, it somehow got that renowned name. A number of explanations have been offered for its origin, but nobody knows the true story for certain.

Nowadays the results of the Oscar voting are kept secret. Only two people know the winners before the names are announced at the ceremony. The counting of votes is not done by one group of people but by different groups. Nobody except two members of an accounting company sees the final results.

The information is not kept in open files. Winners' names are placed in closed envelopes.The accountants each carry a complete set of envelopes to the ceremony.One set is simply a spare to be used in case something happens to the other one.

1.As used in Paragraph 2, “renowned” means________.

A. strange B. wonderful C. much-disliked D. famous

2.May 16, 1929 marks ________.

A. Douglas Fairbanks' first winning of an Academy Award

B. The first time Oscar got its name

C. The first time the Awards were kept secret

D. Janet Gaynor's recognition as Best Actress

3.Two sets of envelopes are prepared for the ceremony ________.

A. one for New York, one for Hollywood B. in order to be perfectly safe

C. one for the ceremony, one for the newspapers D. just because that is the custom

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