单元限时训练(三) A卷 Unit 3 Festivals and Customs（Word练习）-【优化指导】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语必修第二册（译林版2020）

单元限时训练(三)　A卷 [对应学生用书P192] (限时40分钟) Ⅰ.阅读理解 A In the land of the Sagas, it isn't Christmas if there isn't a flood of books under the tree—literally. The Jolabokaflod, or Christmas Book Flood, is a much­loved tradition that has been celebrated in Iceland since 1945.It's a bit like Britain's Super Thursday, when hundreds of hardbacks hit the shelves on the first Thursday of October, but much bigger: Two­thirds of books in Iceland are published in November and December.Hundreds of new titles go on sale in bookshops and supermarkets at reduced prices, a Yuletided(圣诞季) custom that has also become vital for the publishing industry's survival. On Christmas Eve, Icelanders traditionally exchange books and spend the evening reading books—perhaps curling up by the fireside with the latest crime novel by Arnaldur Indridason.Almost seven out of 10 Icelanders buy at least one book as a Christmas gift, according to the Icelandic Publishers Association. “Literature is very important in Iceland and it is, I guess, the art form that is something the whole public can relate to，” said Sigrun Hrolfsdottir, an artist and mother of two children.Her daughter and son have already picked the books they want out of the Bokatidindi, an 80­page catalog of novels, poetry and children's books distributed free to all households. Iceland's literary tradition was born about 900 years ago with the Icelandic Sagas, widely seen as a gem in world literature and still studied in school by Icelandic children today.The Jolabokaflod started during World War Ⅱ， when paper was one of the few things not rationed in Iceland.Because of this, Icelanders gave books as gifts while other commodities in short supply, turning them into a country of bookaholics to this day, according to jolabokafiod.org.In fact, a 2013 study conducted at Bifrost University found that 50 percent of Icelanders read more than eight books a year and 93 percent read at least one. [语篇解读]　本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了冰岛人通过赠送书籍和阅读来庆祝每年的圣诞节。冰岛三分之二的书都是在11月和