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The tradition of birthday parties started a long time ago. There are some traditions ______you can find almost anywhere, anytime, such______sending birthday cards, ______out the candles on a birthday cake and singing the ‘Happy Birthday’ song. Others are only______for certain ages and in certain countries.
In China, ______ a child’s second birthday, family members put many things on the floor around the child. According to Chinese tradition, the first thing that the child picks up______ you what profession the child will choose later in ______.
For Japanese children, ______ third, fifth and seventh birthdays are ______important. At this age, there is a special celebration Shichi-Go-San (seven, five, three in Japanese) when children go to the temple wearing a new kimono (和服). The priest (僧侣) gives them special sweets, and the parents usually organize a party for their friends in their home.
In Argentina, Mexico and several______ Latin American countries, girls have a special birthday celebration ______they reach the age of fifteen. After a special ceremony (仪式), the girls dance a waltz with their father and other boys.
Eighteen is the traditional ‘coming of age’—the age when (in many countries) you have the right to vote (选举), join the army and (in Britain) drink alcohol ______buy a house.
In many English-speaking countries, a______birthday cake often has a key on top, or the cake itself is sometimes in the shape of a key. The key means that the young person ______ now ______to leave and enter the family home at any time they want to!
1.A. where B. What C. that D. when
2.A. for B. like C. so D. as
3.A. blow B. blowing C. to blow D.blown
4.A. find B. finds C. found D. finding
5.A. on B. in C. at D. to
6.A. telling B. told C. will tell D. tells
7.A. life B. lives C.living D.live
8.A. a B. an C. the D. /
9.A. especial B.especially C. more especial D. most especial
10.A. the other B. another C. others D. other
11.A. when B.before C. since D. because
12.A. and B. but C. or D. so
13.A. twenty-one B. twenty-first C. twentieth-one D. twentieth-first
14.A. has B. was C. have D. is
15.A. old enough B. young enough C. enough old D. enough young
九年级英语完形填空中等难度题
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Scotland has been 1. (celebrate) “Hogmanay” for centuries. Hogmanay is the other 2. for New Year’s Eve in Scotland.
Know as the Scotland’s 3. (big) event, Hogmanay is celebrated with fun and warmth in Edinburgh. It starts just after Boxing Day 4. December 26th. Hogmany or the New Year in Scotland was introduced 5. the invading Vikings( 入侵海盗) in the 8th and 9th centuries. Cleaning the house, taking out the ashes from the fire and clearing all debts 6. (be) some traditions that counted as part of the New year in Scotland. One of the most wonderful 7. (custom) is shaking of giant fireballs on long metal poles. This can 8.__ (see) during the New Year in Scotland.
9. popular tradition that is being practiced by many people in Scotland during the New Year is the ceremony of “first footing”.
It’s believed that the 10. person over the thresh (门槛) on New Year’s Day will dictate(支配) the luck brought to the particular house during the New year. You can find and enjoy all of these during the New Year in Scotland.
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Last Friday was my birthday. About a week 1. my birthday, my father said he 2. (give) me a special gift. So I was looking 3. to receiving my father’s gift.
On the early morning of last Friday, my father woke me up and after breakfast we got to the bus station. About an hour later, we 4. (reach) father’s home village. Soon we came to a house. It 5. (make) of tiles (瓦片). In front of it, there was a small playground. I suddenly realized it was a village school. The school had just one small house 6. one classroom. Allowed by the teacher, I followed father into the classroom. There were 21 pupils. They had little stationery (文具) and 7. study materials, but all the students were listening to the teacher 8. (careful). The teacher told us the people there were still poor and many families couldn’t even 9. their children’s education. Although their study conditions were very poor, all the students still studied hard.
At the end of my birthday, I finally realized what the special gift was. I decided to study harder than I 10. to.
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Summer was coming and it was getting hotter. Mrs. King got 1. early one morning and went to the market after she 2. （have）breakfast. She knew that everything was cheap there before eight o'clock. She wanted to buy many 3. （vegetable）for her family. Suddenly she saw there were a 4. of people around a farmer. She hurried there and found that he was selling some beef.
“How 5. does it cost?”a woman asked.
“Two dollars a kilo.”
“Oh，how cheap it is！”Mrs. King said to herself.“John 6. （like）beef very much. I'd better buy some here．”
When she got 7. with five kilos of beef，her son was happy but her husband got angry.
“What a silly woman！”said Mr. King.“How shall we keep it fresh in such hot weather?”
“Your aunt is very rich，”said Mrs. King.“Why not go and borrow some money 8. her? Then we'll be able to buy a fridge．”Mr. King agreed and they began to teach their five-year-old son what 9. （say）when they were at his aunt's house.
“John，”Mr. King said，“how can we keep the beef fresh?”
“That's easy，”the boy said 10. （happy）.“By eating it！”
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Mrs. Jones is over 80, but she still drives her old car 1. a young woman. She loves driving very fast, and she says that she has never broken the traffic rules.
One day,2., she nearly broke her record. A police car followed her, and the policeman in it saw her pass a red light without 3.(stop).
When Mrs. Jones came before the policeman, he looked at her seriously and said that she was too old 4. (drive) a car, and that her eyes had probably become weak with old age,5.she had not stopped at the red light.
After the policeman finished his words, Mrs. Jones quietly opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing (针线活) kit. She 6.(choose) a needle (针) with a very small eye, and threaded (穿线) it at her first try.
When she had successfully done this, she took the thread 7. of the needle again and handed both the needle 8. the thread to the policeman, saying, “Now it is your turn. You drive a car and you must see clearly.”
The policeman took the needle and tried to thread it. After trying six 9.(time), he still didn’t succeed. So Mrs. Jones 10. (not punish) and her record remained unbroken.
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Taking public transportation in the United States, you can often see people reading books on 1. way to school or work. But in China, I hardly see people reading 2. their free time.
Are people’s attitudes toward reading 3. (difference) here? Not really. Data (数据) released by Amazon China show that Chinese people still read a lot. They 4. (simple) prefer e-books over regular books.
However, other data show that reading is still 5. (popular) in the US than in China. Is there a reason for this difference? I’m not sure. What I do know is that China has a rich history of literature (文学). From classic novels like Romance of the Three Kingdoms to the modern science-fiction epic The Three-Body Problem, Chinese authors 6. (create) many fantastic works so far.
Perhaps the difference starts from childhood. Reading textbooks and doing homework can make you feel quite tired. By the time you finish it, you might not feel like reading for 7.. Chinese students surely have to read more and do more homework 8. American students. So it’s no wonder that they might not want to read much in their spare time.
9. learning to love reading can be great. Reading can open doors to places, people and ideas that you cannot imagine. Even just a single book has the power to change your own 10. (person) beliefs and attitudes. Where will your next book take you?
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Parents, especially those of teenagers, care about their children's education more than anything 1..They usually do everything for their children. Many of them spend most of their free time helping their children 2. studies. If they have no time or cannot do it 3.(they), they would hire family teachers or send their children to after-class schools. It seems as if a better education is all that parents expect for their children.
How can we explain the present situation? First, many parents have 4.(realize) that future success 5.(depend) more and more on skills and education. 6., in such a competitive society there are both losers and 7.. Those who have better skills and more knowledge will have 8.(chance).
In my 9., it is important to learn to succeed, but the 10.(one) thing to learn is how to survive, how to be a qualified citizen. If these are included in a good education, the children will surely have a bright future and be healthy in body and mind.
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Practicing yoga(瑜伽) is a helpful, popular way to keep fit. It has many followers around the world. There are many kinds of yoga. You may have 1. of “hot yoga” before. Now, in India, a new kind of yoga, water yoga, 2.(become) more and more popular among the local people.
In the city of Agra, people practice yoga in water. It is _ 3.(hard) to practice yoga in water than on land. But 4.(practice) yoga in water can be good for your flexibility (灵活性).
Harish Chaturvedi, a lawyer, 5. people water yoga for free—even the poor people can learn from him. “Water yoga can become more popular than other kind of yoga, because the body does not get tired so 6. ( quick),” he said. “Everybody can learn to swim, but if they learn yoga at the same time, they will never 7. tired.”
“The level of Oxygen(氧气) is very high in water, and you will not have any trouble breathing,” he added.
Harish believes that water yoga really helps people to keep away from 8.(ill). He mainly trains children. He has classes at the swimming pool of a local sports room regularly. Many children are 9. in it and come to learn from him.
“Harish is very 10. at performing yoga in water,” said Sudhir Narayan, a water yoga student. “He is teaching children free of cost and that is a very good thing.”
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Try reading the following sentences as fast as you can. “She sells seashells（贝壳） by the seashore（海边）. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she _1. shells on the seashore, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.”
Not very easy, was it? What you’ve just read is 2.(call) a tongue twister (绕口令). It is an exercise made up of sounds that are hard to pronounce in order to help people pronounce words faster and _3. correctly. Try the next example.
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper _4. (pick) a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled _5. , where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?”
Tongue twisters usually do not have much 6.(mean). They are just used to improve people’s ability to pronounce words. Although they may be very 7. , these exercises are very important to people who are trying to speak English _8. (correct). This is because tongue twisters help people to tell the differences between similar sounds.
So if you wish 9. words more smoothly（流畅地）, you’d better try picking out some tongue twisters and _10. (practise) them.
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Traditional Chinese culture places much emphasis（重视）on food. Considered to be an important part of each day, 1. (eat) is far beyond simply meeting a need. However, people are living in fast-paced society now, so they hardly have time to enjoy their food. They need fast food. That is 2. China’s fast-food market expands.
A foreign fast-food restaurant 3.（call）KFC arrived in China first, quickly followed by 4. such as Pizza Hut and McDonald’s. 5. the development of China, foreign fast-food chains are realizing high-speed 6. (grow) in China. However, these “junk foods” have long been criticized by health experts because 7. can’t provide balanced nutrition(营养). The experts also show that some foreign fast food contains a food colouring, Sudan I , 8. can cause cancer.
In fact, China has many of its own traditional fast-food dishes. Among them, dumplings, soybean milk and noodles are 9. most popular. Compared with foreign fast food, those traditional ones are healthier. 10. many Chinese still enjoy the special taste and the good environment in the foreign fast-food chains even though there exist some potential（潜在的）risks.
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Christmas is one of the most important festivals in Western countries. But what does Christmas mean? Does it just mean having parties, decorating Christmas trees 1. giving presents to each other ? No, not exactly. The true 2. (mean) of Christmas lies behind all these things. Maybe Charles Dickens’ novel, a Christmas Carol,can make you think more of Christmas.
Charles Dickens told us a story about a mean (吝啬的）old man 3. is called Scrooge. Scrooge cares about nothing but his business and money. He treats others badly. Then one Christmas Eve, Scrooge has a dream, in his dream, he meets the ghost (鬼) of Jacob Marley, one of his partners. Marley was as mean as Scrooge when he was alive. But after he 4. (dead), he was punished 5. his unkindness. He tells Scrooge that three spirits(幽灵) will visit him soon.
And then 6. day they have mentioned comes at last. One of them is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The spirit takes Scrooge to see what will happen to him when he is dead. Scrooge is sad and frightened 7. (find) that nobody cares about his death. He is so afraid that he wakes up and finds out it is just a nightmare(恶梦).
The dream warns Scrooge to change 8. (him) and be kind to others. He changes quickly and he celebrates Christmas happily with his relatives by giving gifts. From then 9. , he treats everyone with kindness and warmth. So what does the story tell us? Yes, it tells us that we should show kindness to others by 10. (spread)love and joy.
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