Question

On October 31, Americans celebrate Halloween.

Halloween means “holy” (hallow) “evening” (een). This is the evening before the Christian holy day of All Saints Day. On All Saints Day, Christians remember the Saints but Halloween is even older than Christianity.

Before Christianity, people 1. Europe believed that on October 31, ghosts of dead people came back. To scare the ghosts, people 2. (dress) like devils and were very noisy. They also made big fires 3. keep the ghosts away. Later, people did not believe in ghosts, 4. they kept the day of Halloween for fun.

Immigrants came from Europe to America and 5. （bring） with them the custom of Halloween. Halloween has some strange symbols. One symbol is the jack-o’-lantern in the window. 6. jack-o’-lantern is to scare the ghosts. People cut the pumpkin, throw away all of the inside, and cut a face in 7. . Then they put a candle inside of it.

Jack-o’-lantern usually looks 8. （fright）, too!

Today, in the United States, Halloween is very popular 9. the children. They wear masks and special costumes. They want to look like skeletons and ghosts.

Then they go from house to house and say “ Trick or treat!”. People give them 10. （candy）, cookies or fruit. When people give nothing, the children sometimes play tricks on them.

Answer 1

1.in

2.dressed

3.to

4.but

5.brought

6.The

7.it

8.frightened

9.With/among

10.candies

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述了美国十月31日万圣节的来源与人们庆祝的方式。最早的万圣节人们是用来祛除鬼魂，后来人们不相信鬼魂的存在，于是万圣节变成了娱乐的节日。在移民时期。欧洲人把万圣节习俗带到了美国。美国的万圣节有很多奇怪的象征，南瓜灯就是其中一个。

1.考察地点与介词的搭配。此处缺少一个介词，表示在欧洲的人们相信十月31号，鬼魂会回来。故填in。At表示在（某时间或某时刻）而in才表示位置在…里面。

2.考察了语态时态的判断。由前一句came back确定这一段时态为过去式。所以括号里面dress 应该填过去式“dressed”。

3.考察了介词的实意。人们生了很大的火，目的是为了将鬼魂赶走。此处缺少一个目的介词。To“朝着，向”可做目的介词。故填TO。。

4.考察介词的实意。后来，人们不相信鬼神了，却仍然保留了万圣节。这里有一个转折的意思。所以填but“但是”用来表示转折关系。

5.考擦并列式谓语时态保持一致。移民者从西方移民到美国也把万圣节的习俗带到了美国。And前面用的谓语动词是Came，所以and后面并列的bring应该与came保持同一个时态。故填brought。

6.考察定冠词“the”的用法。万圣节有很多奇怪的象征，其中一个就是在窗户上挂南瓜灯。南瓜灯是一个独一无二的象征，所以要加上冠词the。并且空白处上一句话也谈到了the jack-o’-lantern。所以此处缺少一个冠词the。The一般用在制定双方都明白的人或物前，或者表示一类人和物，以及上文提到过的人或物。

7.考察代词的用法。人们切开南瓜，把里面的瓜肉掏空，并且在上面画一个脸的形状。可知这里说的是在南瓜的表明刻脸。故用it代替pumpkin

8.考察ing形容词和 ed形容词的差别。frighting“令人恐惧的，吓人的”一般形容物，frighted一般形容人。此处说南瓜灯看起来很恐怖。所以用frighting。

9.考察范围介词的用法。如今，在美国，南瓜灯在小孩子中间很受欢迎。With，among都能表示在……中间。故With，among都可以填。

10.10】考察单复数用法。在万圣节，小朋友们把自己打扮的很吓人，就是想去别人家中讨得糖果或者恶作剧。有些人会给他们糖果或者水果。Them可知是复数，所以用candy的复数candies。

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