《2026年天利38套中考试题分类英语》

(二)[2025·贵州(其他市、州)]
阅读下面短文,从框内 6 个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。

How do you celebrate your birthday? With a cake, a party for your friends and family? In some countries, birthday celebrations are really unusual.
In China, a birthday child usually eats very long noodles with eggs. People never cut up the noodles _1_ theyFare a symbol of long life, and eggs mean good luck.
In some parts of India, when a child has their first birthday, their parents cut off all their hair. The child wears colorful clothes _2_Bgives chocolate to their friends.
In Korea, they celebrate day number 100 _3_Athe child is born. Families make sure a birthday child gets many rice cakes with honey. When _4_Dchild gets 100 rice cakes, this means they will live a happy and long life.
When children in Denmark wake up _5_Ctheir birthday, they find gifts all around their beds. That's why some of the children are so excited that they cannot fall asleep the night before!

答案： 1.F 【解析】根据空格前的“People never cut up the noodles”和空格后的“they are a symbol of long life”可知，人们从来不把面条切断，因为它们是长寿的象征。由此可知，前后部分是因果关系，因此选because,意为“因为”。
2.B 【解析】分析句子结构可知，空格前的wears colorful clothes和空格后的gives chocolate to their friends属于并列关系，因此用and连接。
3.A 【解析】此处指他们会庆祝孩子出生后的第一百天。选词after,意为“在……之后”。
4.D 【解析】此处泛指“当一个孩子得到100块年糕时”,且child是读音以辅音音素开头的单词，应用不定冠词a。
5.C 【解析】根据空格后的their birthday以及语境可知，此处指在他们生日这一天，应用介词on。
词汇积累
celebrate v.庆祝 unusual adj.特别的，不寻常的
mean v.意味着 excited adj.兴奋的 cut up切断
cut off剪掉 make sure确保 live a... life过着……的生活
wake up醒来 fall asleep睡着
亮点句积累
That’s why some of the children are so excited that they cannot fall asleep the night before!(最后一段最后一句)
分析why引导表语状从句;so... that...引导结果状语从句
译文这就是为什么有些孩子在前一晚兴奋得都睡不着觉！