题目内容
阅读下列短文,从所给的四个选项中,选出最佳答案。
Few people in China know the public holiday Hallowmas (November 1st), and even fewer know its eve——Halloween, a much more joyful one to children. Every year when Halloween is held throughout the United States. American children, dressed in costumes(服装)as witches(巫婆) and spirits, modern heroes or old-time bad eggs, go from door to door for trick or treat. If the adults refuse to give them a treatcandy, cookies, fruit, the children may play a trick. If there are no people in the house, this family may be punished by tricks. The typical Halloween tricks are soaping the windows writing, on the doors with crayon(蜡笔), overturning the garbage cans or sticking coins into doorbells to keep them ringing, sometimes putting an old car on theroof of the house.
1. Hallowmas is____________. [ ]
A. the name of an important person in the USA
B. American children's Day
C. an American public holiday
D. celebrated throughout the world
2. Halloween is held________________. [ ]
A. on the morning of November 1st
B. throughout October 31st
C. on the evening of October 31st
D. after Hallowmas 3. American children like Halloween very much because_____.[ ]
A. their parents let them go out to play
B. their neighbors come out to play with them
C. they have the chance to punish the family they hate
D. they can dress up in strange clothes and play tricks
4. Which of the following statements is correct?__________.[ ]
A. The writer thinks it right to play tricks on others.
B. The writer thinks it wrong to play tricks on others.
C. The writer likes to hold this holiday.
D. None of the above is correct.
5. According to the passage,the true statement should be_________.
[ ]
A. Hallowmas is a public Chinese festival.
B. All Americans go from door to door to play tricks on October
31st every year.
C. The children play tricks on every family they visit that day.
D. The writer doesn't tell us whether he likes or hates this
holiday.