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Unique Tradition from UK
Boxing Day
This holiday, which is observed on December 26, is a unique part of the Christmas season in Great Britain, as well as other Commonwealth nations. Boxing Day comes from a tradition that began in the Middle Ages more than 800 years ago. On this day, English churches would open their ‘alms box’ and distribute its contents to needy members of the community. It was also a day for servants to celebrate the holidays with their families, having usually worked the day before. Today, Boxing Day is one of the twenty-two paid holidays received by most working Brits. Most people now spend Christmas Day with their family and reserve Boxing Day for exchanging gifts with friends. Although the government shuts down for the day, cinemas and theatres are open.
Queen’s Telegram
In the United States, if you make it to the ripe old age of 101 or 102, Willard Scott will wish you happy birthday on national television. In England, the queen herself will send her congratulations. This fairly new custom is known as "the Queen’s Telegram" and assures centenarians (people at least 100 years old) that they will receive a birthday telegram from the queen on their one-hundredth birthday. The telegram is so longed for by some Brits that one 98-year-old woman was recently proven to have faked her age by two years just to receive the telegram.
High Tea
High tea was first enjoyed by the English working class during the 1700s. This ritual (仪式) began as a practical attempt to hold off hunger pains between breakfast and supper, as eating just two daily meals was common at the time. It was called “high” tea because it was usually taken sitting on top stools in a tea shop or standing at a counter or buffet table. Today, high tea has become a more elegant and popular tradition that is practiced in fine hotels and restaurants around the world.
Public Houses
Visiting a pub is one of Britain’s oldest forms of entertainment. The idea for the first public houses was brought to Britain thousands of years ago by conquering Roman army. The first pubs served only wine, but after the discovery of hops(啤酒花) in the fourteenth century, pubs began to serve mainly beer and ale(麦芽酒), as they do today.
British pubs operate between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. every day except Sunday, when they must close at 10:30 p.m. The drinking age in Britain is eighteen, but fourteen-year-olds may enter a pub unaccompanied if they order a meal.
Unique Tradition from UK
Traditions | Time | Main Activities |
Boxing Day | Observed on Dc.26 during the (71)______ season. | In the past, churches would open their “alms box”, with its contents (72)_______ to needy people. Today it is reserved to (73)_____gifts with friends. |
Queen’s Telegram | (74)______by the Queen when one has his or her 100th birthday. | People over 100 years will receive a birthday telegram from the queen herself on her birthday, enjoying the Queen’s (75)_____ to them. |
High Tea | Enjoyed and practiced between breakfast and supper. | It (76)______to be taken sitting in a tea shop, or standing at a corner. Today it’s becoming a tradition (77)_____ in the hotels and restaurants worldwide. |
Public Houses | Visited between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. every day (78)______Sunday. | At the (79)______, only wine was served, but today they mainly serve beer and ale, but people (80)_____than eighteen are not allowed to drink. |
答案
71. Christmas 76. used
72. distributed / delivered 77. practiced / practised
73. exchange 78. except
74. Sent 79. beginning
75. congratulations 80. younger
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Anna pushed herself up from the bench and walked steadily with her walking sticks toward the office.As soon as she entered the room, she saw it._____16______ blue umbrella was there, unopened, ____17______ a floor-to-ceiling window._____18____(see) it so near, nearly within reach, Anna forgot herself and pointed to her possession.
“That is mine,” she said.“My son brought it to me from Paris and I want it back.”
The man had risen when she entered and he ___19_______(remain) standing.He turned to look at the umbrella ____20______ she pointed.“Yes.I know the umbrella is from Paris, ” he said, showing a mix of innocence and curiosity.“Actually, it ____21______(make) in Italy, but it’s sold in Paris.It’s not the one your son gave you.I bought it myself.”
Anna stared at him.Was he claiming that it was his own umbrella? She had run all the way to this office building from the shop _____22______ her umbrella was stolen.
“My son gave _____23_____ to me,” Anna countered.“ It means everything to me, because my son is ____24______(die).”
As soon as she said them, Anna knew she had made a mistake.She had opened herself up to a stranger.He had no business knowing the most important fact of her life, a grief she kept private.___25_____could anyone understand what her son’s death meant to her?
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1.After (毕业)I went to the front to serve in the army.
2. (陪同)by his friends, he went to the teacher’s office to admit what he has done wrong.
3.As usual, The company will have its’ a celebration this year.
4.You can get a doctor here to (做手术)on her.
5.a red sky at night often (表明,暗示)to find out all about it.
6.Don’t lie to her, she’s (注定会)to find out all about it.
7.He looked through the dictionary and took out his mobile to d Mr Stevernson’s telephone number
8.The curtains have (褪色)in the sun.
9.We must stop him from seeing her (以某种方式).
10.What the new teacher said i me deeply.
11.Industrial emissions can p the air.
12.Some students find I t difficult to remember the (不规则)verbs.
13.Most of the relief work was done by (志愿者).
14.He made a few mistakes in (语法).
15.They was (相信)that the roof should be repaired within two days.
16.Tom was lucky that she was just (轻微地)hurt in the accident.
17.Most shops are open every day, Sunday (包括).
18.Are you well (准备)for the entrance examination?
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