2025届高三下学期英语一轮复习专项：本周热点话题综合练习（含答案）

本周热点话题原创卷（February 8-14） 一．阅读理解 A Thousands in Taiwan and China have celebrated the Lantern Festival, a holiday that marks the end of the lunar new year period and is celebrated annually on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Thousands in Taiwan and China celebrated the Lantern Festival on Wednesday by releasing paper lanterns into the night sky, visiting light installations and snacking on glutinous rice dumplings. At the Pingxi sky lantern festival in northern Taiwan, thousands lined up in the rain to light up and observe wish lanterns. Among them were Mae Alego Nero and Shine Ceralvo, friends from the Philippines who work in central Taiwan. They decided to join the event after seeing images of the floating lanterns trending on TikTok. " You experience this once in a lifetime," Alego Nero said, as she sheltered under an umbrella with her friend and waited for the festivities to begin. Some visitors came from as far as Europe and Latin America to witness in person the iconic images of paper lanterns filling the night sky. For Charlotte Cadinot, an exchange student from France, the fascination with wish lanterns started when she watched the Disney movie “Tangled,” which features a scene where Princess Rapunzel and her beau wish upon lanterns floating above a lake. Cadinot and her boyfriend, Remi Delmas, recreated that scene to an extent when they wrote their own common wish on a lantern before releasing it into the sky. A total of nine waves of lantern releases were interspersed with music and dance performances as part of the festival. The stars of the show were a pair of 12-foot (3.6 meters) pink and golden snake - shaped lanterns, in a nod to the year of the snake. People in China also celebrated the Lantern Festival, although no officially-organized event there sees the release of large amounts of paper lanterns. Instead, people lined up for glutinous rice dumplings – the festival ’s most sought-after snack – and visited light shows across the city. The largest among them, at the Beijing Garden Expo Park, in the city ’s suburbs, displayed more than 10,000 installations of various sizes and designs. What does the Lantern Festival mark according to the passage A. The beginning of the lunar new year. B. The middle of the lunar new year period. C. The end of the lunar new year period. D. The anniversary of a historical event. Why did Mae Alego Nero and Shine Ceralvo decide to join the Pingxi sky lantern festival A. Their friends in Taiwan invited them to participate. B. They heard it was a very traditional and interesting festival. C. They saw images of the floating lanterns trending on TikTok. D. They wanted to experience a once-in-a-lifetime event in Taiwan. What inspired Charlotte Cadinot's fascination with wish lanterns A. Her visit to Taiwan and seeing the real wish lanterns. B. Her boyfriend Remi Delmas who likes wish lanterns. C. The cultural significance of wish lanterns in China. D. A Disney movi ... ...