2024-2025学年度寒假高中英语语法填空拔高专练之回家过年（5篇，含答案）

2024-2025学年度寒假高中英语语法填空拔高专练之回家过年 A Every year at around the same time, it looks as if everyone in China is on the move. In all the big cities, the train stations, roads, and airports are packed with people 1. (go) back to their hometowns for the Spring Festival. For example, in 2019, the Spring Festival saw 410 million trips by railway, 2.46 billion by road, and 73 million by air. The Spring Festival, known in many other countries around the world as Chinese New Year, 2. (celebrate) over a few days between January 21 and February 20. The reason why the date changes is 3. it is the new year according to the lunar calendar, 4. is based on the cycles of the moon rather than the time it takes the earth to go around the sun. In modern China, many people live far away 5. their hometowns, so they long to go home and see their loved ones. In addition, as the 6. (long) holiday in China, for many people it is the one time of the year when everyone in the family is able to travel home to be together. Of course, as it is the New Year, it is also a good time 7. (say) goodbye to the old, and welcome the new. After they get home, many people join in preparing for the Spring Festival. For example, they put red paper cuttings on the windows. These may be of lucky fish or it may be the Chinese word for spring, the zodiac animal for that year, or the character fu, which 8. (mean) good fortune. You see the color red everywhere, because to the Chinese people it means 9. (happy) and good fortune. On both sides of their front door, they put a New Year's couplet 10. (write) in gold or black on long pieces of red paper, giving good wishes for the year. On the door itself, they often put a large piece of red paper with the character fu on it. B The day before the New Year, the family will join together 1. (prepare) that night's meal, the family dinner, 2. for many people is the most important family meal of the year. The kinds of food will be different from family 3. family, but some dishes are more popular in some areas. Many 4. (family)have fish, as the Chinese word for fish is yu, which is a play on words for abundant, and so eating fish means that they wish to have 5. abundant year. Another popular dish is niangao. This is a sweet cake, which 6. (eat) because its name is a play on the Chinese word for a better year. In northern China, the 7. (popular) New Year's food is jiaozi, dumplings which are often filled with meat and vegetables. Of course, jiaozi is famous as a food that people in northern China eat all year round. 8. , having them at New Year is special because often the whole family will spend some time 9. (sit) at a table making that night's jiaozi together. This custom 10. (come) from the Chinese characters for jiaozi. Part of the character for jiao means to cross over, while the character for zi can mean the time between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. So, the word jiaozi is said to mean the crossing over from one year to the next, or saying goodby ... ...