Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations Reading and Thinking 课后练习-2024-2025学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第三册

Unit 1 Why do we celebrate festivals? 一 语法填空 Festivals and celebrations of all kinds 1.____ (hold) everywhere since ancient times. Most ancient festivals would celebrate the end of cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn. Sometimes celebrations would be held after hunters had caught animals. At that time people would starve if food was difficult 2.____ (find), especially during the cold winter months. Today's festivals have many origins: some are religious, some seasonal, and some for special people or events. Some festivals are held 3.____ (honor) the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm. For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors. They also light lamps and play music because they think that this will lead the ancestors back to earth. In Mexico, people celebrate the Day of the Dead in early November. 4.____ this important feast day, people eat food in the shape of skulls and cakes with “bones” on them. They offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead. The Western holiday Halloween also had 5.____ origin in old beliefs about the return of the spirits of dead people. It is now a children's festival, when they can dress up and go to their neighbors' homes to ask for sweets. If the neighbors do not give any sweets, the children might play 6.____ trick on them. Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals can be very happy events. People are grateful 7.____ their food is gathered for the winter and the agricultural work is over. In European countries, people will usually decorate churches and town halls 8.____ flowers and fruit. And the chief 9.____ (agriculture) festival in China is the Mid - Autumn Festival. People meet in the evening to watch the full moon and enjoy mooncakes. The most energetic and important festivals are the ones 10.____ look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring. At the Spring Festival in China, people eat dumplings, fish and meat and may give children lucky money in red paper. There are dragon dances and carnivals, and families celebrate the Lunar New Year together. Some Western countries have very exciting carnivals, like Easter, which celebrated the return of Jesus from the dead and the coming of spring and new life. 二 重点短语和词块 1.  _________________ 各种各样的 2._________________ 自古以来 3. _________________ 饿死 4._________________ 很难找到 5. _________________ 有很多起源 6._________________ 纪念死者 7. _________________ 使祖先得到满足 8. _________________ 扫墓 9. _________________ 焚香 10. _________________ 为了纪念 11. _________________ 带领……回到 12._________________ 庆祝亡灵节 13. o_________________ 在这个重要的节日 14. _________________ 以……的形状 15._________________ 捉弄 16. _________________ ___________丰收节和感恩节 17. _________________ 感激 18. _________________ 用……装饰…… 19._________________ 主要的农业节日 20._________________ 期待 21._________________ 春天的到来 22. _________________ 春节 23_________________ 给孩子们压岁钱 24. _________________ 舞龙 25. _________________ 耶稣的复活 三 翻译句子 1. 自古以来，各地都举行各种各样的节日和庆祝活动。 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. 有些节日是为了纪念死者或让祖先得到满足，他们可能回来帮忙，也可能带来危害。 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. 在日本的盂兰盆节，人们要去扫墓、焚香，以缅怀祖先。 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. 人们心怀感激，因为他们为冬天储备好了食物，农活也结束了。 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. 最具活力和最重要的节日是那些期待冬天结束、春天来临的节日。 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. 一些西方国家有非常激动人心的狂欢节，比如复活节，它庆祝耶稣的复活以及春天和新生命的到来。 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 答案： 一 1. have been held 2. to find 3. to honor 4. On 5. its 6. a 7. because 8. with 9. agricultural 10 That 二 重点短语和词块 2.  all kinds of 各种各样的 2. since ancient times 自古以来 3. starve to death 饿死 4. be difficult to find 很难找到 5. have many origins 有很多起源 6. honor the dead 纪念死者 7. satisfy the ancestors 使祖先得到满足 8. clean graves 扫墓 9. light incense 焚香 10. in memory of 为了纪念 11. lead... back to 带领……回到 12. celebrate the Day of the Dead 庆祝亡灵节 13. on this important feast day 在这个重要的节日 14. in the shape of 以……的形状 15. play a trick on 捉弄 16. harvest and Thanksgiving festivals 丰收节和感恩节 17. be grateful 感激 18. decorate... with... 用……装饰…… 19. the chief agricultural festival 主要的农业节日 20. look forward to 期待 21. the coming of spring 春天的到来 22. the Spring Festival 春节 23. give children lucky money 给孩子们压岁钱 24. dragon dances 舞龙 25. the return of Jesus 耶稣的复活 三 翻译句子 1. Festivals and celebrations of all kinds have been held everywhere since ancient times. 自古以来，各地都举行各种各样的节日和庆祝活动。 2. Some festivals are held to honor the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm. 有些节日是为了纪念死者或让祖先得到满足，他们可能回来帮忙，也可能带来危害。 3. For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors. 在日本的盂兰盆节，人们要去扫墓、焚香，以缅怀祖先。 4. People are grateful because their food is gathered for the winter and the agricultural work is over. 人们心怀感激，因为他们为冬天储备好了食物，农活也结束了。 5. The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring. 最具活力和最重要的节日是那些期待冬天结束、春天来临的节日。 6. Some Western countries have very exciting carnivals, like Easter, which celebrated the return of Jesus from the dead and the coming of spring and new life. 一些西方国家有非常激动人心的狂欢节，比如复活节，它庆祝耶稣的复活以及春天和新生命的到来。 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$