话题七：节假日活动
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一、(2019广安中考改编)完形填空。(10分)
Every April, there is a special day in China. It is the Qingming Festival, also called TombSweeping Day. On that day, people __1__ and honor(纪念) their ancestors(祖先). Qingming is a(n)__2__ Chine festival. It has a long history. It began over 2，000 years ago. A famous poem by the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu describes the day：“Rain falls __3__ as Qingming comes, and pasrsby(行人) with lowered spirits go.”
TombSweeping Day has been a public __4__ on the Chine mainland(中国大陆) since 2008. On this day，__5__ bring flowers，food and wine to their ancestors' tombs(墓). They put food like cakes and fruit in front of the tombs. After that, they __6__ the dirt off the tombs and remember their dead family members.
Why do Chine people do this? That's becau people think that visiting tombs is to __7__
respect(尊重) to their dead family members.
However, TombSweeping Day is not only __8__ this. During that time, the weather is becoming __9__. People are able to garden(从事园艺) and enjoy outdoor activities. Families often __10__ for outings(远足) or to fly kites at this time. It's also a good time for people to enjoy the spring.
(A)1.A.remember B．remind
C．choo D．imagine
(C)2.A.popular B．famous
C．traditional D．unhappy
(A)3.A.heavily B．luckily
C．clearly D．quietly
(D)4.A.weekend B．weekday
C．journey D．holiday
(B)5.A.class B．families
C．friends D．groups
(C)6.A.turn B．keep
C．sweep D．go
(B)7.A.bring B．show
C．make D．take
(C)8.A.with B．by
C．about D．in
(A)9.A.warmer B．colder
C．cooler D．shorter
(D)10.A.have fun B．work hard
C．pull together D．get together
二、(2019泰州中考改编)阅读理解。(8分)
Each year on Feb.21st, UNESCO(联合国教科文组织) holds an International Mother Language Day(IMLD). The event is to help people to pay attention to the disappearance of the world's languages: many of them are disappearing each year. UNESCO es this as a terrible fact.
What happens when a language dies out? Something great is lost—not just sounds and marks but the way that people understand the world and communicate with each other. We keep different cultures and traditions through languages. Kill a language and all the are killed，too.
Through IMLD, more and more people come to realize the terrible situation and try to stop it.Google's 2018 Endangered(濒临灭绝的) Languages Project is a good example. Many speakers and protectors of endangered languages upload(上传) texts, audios and videos to the project website. They want to introduce the way that people communicate and express themlves around the world.
The Myaamia Project is the same kind of effort to revive(复活) the language spoken by the Miami tribes (部落) of the United States. Project members work to encourage people to study and communicate with this language, which died out in the 1960s.
The activities give life to tho endangered languages. People who work to keep languages alive are not limited to the past. Many young people design apps and u social media to support their activities. They “spread the word” to save the word.
So, while the problem of disappearing languages remains a very rious one, there is hope. We all have a special feeling of our mother language. This is why we should remember the wi words of late president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela：“If you talk t
o a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own language, that goes to his heart.”
(D)1.UNESCO holds IMLD every year in order to help people to________.
A．learn and u endangered languages
B．show their talents in learning languages
C．practice reading skills of mother languages
D．realize the situation of endangered languages
(C)2.What do people do in Google's 2018 Endangered Languages Project?
A．Discuss how to make good u of Google.
B．Offer online cours on endangered languages.
C．Share materials about endangered languages online.
D．Translate endangered languages into mother languages.
(D)3.What can we infer(推断) from Paragraph 5?
A．It is more difficult to protect endangered languages.
B．The disappearance of languages has already stopped.
C．Young people don't care about endangered languages.
D．Young people have creative ways to protect languages.
(A)4.The writer mentions Nelson Mandela's words in order to ________.
A．tell the importance of one's mother language
B．show his contributions to language protection
C．tell the trouble in learning endangered languages
D．show the possibility of protecting mother languages
