2025届高考英语考前冲刺语篇填空考点押题之中国酒文化专篇

2025届高考英语考前冲刺语篇填空考点押题之中国酒文化专篇

A

Wine has been considered 1.        a special culture in China. Poor people and rich people both drink wine. To describe the excessive extravagance of the nobles, it was said: “wine fills a pool; meat forms a forest”; and “wine and meat decay inside the vermilion door.” Sending off 2.        army on expedition or celebrating triumph, wedding, anniversary or alliance treaties signing ceremonies, wine is always present.

On occasions of tomb sweeping, wine is sprinkled at the front and on the top of tombs in honor of the 3.        (die). In ancient times, when people practiced divination, prayed for rainfall, 4.        worshipped deities and ghosts, wine was often used 5.        (show) reverence. Even when a prisoner 6.        (take) off to be executed, he was offered a bowl of wine. On all solemn occasions, wine is not replaceable by tea. In the eyes of the Chinese people, wine has a special place.

7.        (general) speaking, the development of brewing technology in China falls into two stages. The first stage 8.        is of natural fermentation lasted thousands of years. The second stage began only with the Qing Dynasty (1616-1911)  when the 9.        (tradition) fermentation underwent great changes due to the use of the Western technology, 10.        (include) microbiology and biochemistry.

B

Jiu plays an amazing role in the 1.        (day) life of Chinese people. Chinese started to brew jiu 6,000 years ago, according to archaeological findings.

People have worked hard 2.        (improve) the process of making jiu for thousands of years. Chinese mainly drink white spirits and rice wine. White spirits are distilled from sorghum or maize. The equipment 3.        (use) for drinking has changed a lot over the course of history. The jiu culture developed with the containers changing from wine goblets 4.        handless cups. As a magical beverage and custom, it has accompanied important occasions, such as weddings and birthdays for more than 6,000 years.  

Many famous Chinese wines of the present day developed from ancient times — 

5.        (main) from the Ming and the Qing dynasties. On the 3rd National Wine Appraisal Conference of 1979, another eighteen brands of wine 6.        (award) a prize: Maotai, Fenjiu, Wuliangye, Gujinggong, Yanghe Twice Fully-fermented Liquor, Jiannanchun, Chinese Red Wine, Yantai Weimeisi, Longyan Dry White Wine, Special Fine Brandy, Dongjiu, Minquan White Wine, Luzhou Laojiao, Shaoxing Jiafan, Zhuyeqing, Qingdao Beer, Yantai Red Wine, 7.        Chengang Liquor.

Yellow wine (made of rice or millet) is a good representative example of Chinese wine culture.Yellow wine experts have suggested 8.        (make) yellow wine China's “national wine.” This is because yellow wine has over 5,000 years of history, and 9.        (it) alcoholic content is not high, conforming to the modern trend toward drinking low-alcohol beverages. Less grain is used in producing yellow wine than white liquor, and yet the former has a higher nutritive value. If beer is called "liquid bread," then yellow wine can 10.        (call) "liquid cake."

 

C

During the period of drinking, people often played a drinkers' wager game. When 1.        (play) the game, one person was in charge, and the others obeyed him and would 2.        (punish) if they violated the rules.

It 3.        (be) very popular since the Tang Dynasty. The drinkers must first drink up their cups of wine 4.        (complete) before they were qualified 5.       

(play) the game. There are 6.        (describe) of this wager game in many Chinese literary classics, such as A Dream of Red Mansions (The Story of the Stone) and Stories of the Ghosts. The drinkers' wager game not only brought fun to the drinkers at the banquet 7.       promoted the popularization of Chinese wine culture. Nowadays, wine culture is still 8.         important part of Chinese people's daily life.

A Chinese custom of preparing a banquet to greet visitors, usually from afar. A welcome or reception banquet is held to express hospitality to friends 9.           

have traveled from afar 10.        the hope of relieving their fatigue after their long journey and wishing them success in the future.

D

The drinking customs such as “welcome banquet” and “farewell banquet” 1.        

(observe) since ancient times.

A Chinese custom of holding a special banquet 2.        (see) friends and relatives off before they began a journey. People nowadays often hold welcome banquet, while in ancient times, 3.        (travel) on journeys was difficult and often dangerous. When embarking on journeys, relatives and friends would not know when they would meet again. Therefore, farewell banquets were often sad occasions, and they 4.        (hold) in a solemn and serene atmosphere to express good wishes for a smooth journey and blessings from Heaven.

A Chinese custom in which one drinker at a banquet or dinner is selected to determine the entertainment 5.        (active) and games of all the drinkers. The custom originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1100-771 BC) for the purpose of maintaining order at a banquet. Games people enjoyed at the dinner table range from riddles to recitations of poetry or couplets. 6.        (normal), the losers of such games will have to drink wine.

Two players simultaneously stick out 7.        certain number of fingers on one hand, and each 8.        (say) aloud his guess of the total number of fingers of both players. 9.        one guesses right, the other player must drink alcohol. If both players say the correct 10.        wrong numbers, they will continue guessing.

E

A game played at banquets in ancient times, 1.        (date) back to the Warring States Period (475-221BC). Archery was considered 2.        essential skill in ancient times 3.        explains why archery was so often seen during ancient rituals and games.

 Because it was inconvenient and sometimes dangerous for guests 4.              

(shoot) arrows at targets during a banquet，they would throw arrows into a jug instead