《2025年英语同步练习与测评高中英语必修第二册外研版》

6 从课文 The Real Father Christmas 中选出合适的单词,用其正确形式补全短文。已给出每个单词的首字母。
I wake up early and look outside. Everything is white. There is snow all over the ground and on the $^{1}$r______ of the houses. Today is Winter Solstice, my favourite festival! As I get dressed, my mum gives me a $^{2}$w______: it’s very cold outside, about -5 degrees. I $^{3}$w______ myself up warm by putting on extra clothes.
My parents and I walk to my grandparents’ house. It’s a long walk but I don’t $^{4}$c______ because I’m happy. We greet my grandparents and eat tangyuan, balls of glutinous ( 很黏的 ) rice flour with different fillings inside. My grandma brought the recipe from the south. Tangyuan shows the $^{5}$s______ of Winter Solstice: it’s about spending time with family.
Inspired by eating tangyuan with my grandparents, I try to $^{6}$e______ how I feel to my family: full of hope. In the Northern Hemisphere, the days will get longer after Winter Solstice. There will be more light and people will have more energy. The power of nature is just like $^{7}$m______!
In the evening, still at my grandparents’ house, the whole family sits down to eat a large meal. My favourite dish is served: mutton dumplings. We eat this dish to remember a famous doctor from long ago called Zhang Zhongjing. It is said, one winter, he saw some poor people in the street. They were cold and $^{8}$s______ because they had no food. And their ears were frozen badly with cold in the snow. Zhang asked his student to cook mutton and some herbal medicine, mince them and wrap them with flour. The resulting dumplings looked like ears. After boiling them, he gave the dumplings to the people, and their ears were all cured.
Zhang’s actions are a good $^{9}$i______ in a cold day: it’s a time to think about other people. Many people $^{10}$r______ Winter Solstice as less important than the Spring Festival, but I disagree. Winter is long up here in the north, and the festival brings warmth to our hearts.
1. roofs
2. warning
3. wrap
4. complain
5. spirit
6. express
7. magic
8. starving
9. illustration
10. regard

答案： 1. roofs 2. warning 3. wrap 4. complain 5. spirit 6. express 7. magic 8. starving 9. illustration 10. regard

A
The Spring Festival is the most important festival for us Chinese. It's a festival of reunion. All family members get together on the Spring Festival Eve to have a big meal.
People can't agree on the origin of the Spring Festival now. But it is widely believed that the word “nian” (in Chinese means “year”), was first the name of a beast that started to prey (捕食) on human beings at the night before the beginning of a new year. It had a very big mouth that would eat many people with one bite. People were very scared. One day, an old man came to help, offering to defeat and control nian. He said to nian, “I hear that you are quite capable, but are you brave enough to eat other beasts on Earth instead of people?” So, nian did eat many of the beasts that also attacked people and their cattle from time to time. After that, the old man disappeared riding the beast nian. Now that nian had gone and other frightening beasts were scared off into the forests, people began to enjoy their life in peace and happiness. Before the old man left, he had told people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at the end of each year to scare away nian in case it came back again, because red was the colour that the beast feared most.
From then on, the tradition of observing the conquest of nian is carried on from generation to generation. The term guonian, which may mean “to survive the nian”, becomes today’s “to celebrate the New Year”, as the word “guo” in Chinese has both the meaning of “to pass” and “to observe”. The custom of putting up red paper and firing firecrackers to scare away nian has been well preserved since then.
1. How did the old man protect people from nian?
A. By using his super power.
B. By asking other people for help.
C. By using his wisdom.
D. By riding the beast.
(C)
2. The underlined word “conquest” in paragraph 3 has a similar meaning to ______.
A. make fun of
B. pay respect to
C. make peace with
D. take control of
(D)
3. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Origin of the Spring Festival
B. The Old Man and the Beast
C. Some Tips on Guonian
D. The Customs of Nian
(A)

答案： 1. C 细节理解题。根据文章第二段可以看出，这位老人在降伏“年”的过程中使用了策略,显示出老者的智慧，故选 C。2. D 词义猜测题。根据文章第二段降伏“年”的故事，可以推测出 conquest 的含义是 take control of，故选 D。3. A 主旨大意题。通读全文可知，文章主要讲的是过年的由来，故选 A。