Question

Everyone has his own birthday. People in different countries celebrate （庆祝）their birthdays in different ways. Here are four people from different countries. They will tell us how they celebrate their birthdays in their countries.

Sandy Morrison comes from Madrid(马德里). He says happily, "My twenty-first birthday is on a Saturday, and I'm going to go out with some friends. To wish me a happy birthday, they are going to pull（拉，扯）on my ear, once for each year. It is an old custom（风俗）. Some people pull on the ear just once, but my friends are very traditional(传统的)."

Mr. and Mrs. Sato are from Tokyo. Mr. Sato is going to be sixty tomorrow. In Japan, the sixtieth birthday is called Kanreki---it's the beginning of a new life. The colour red is for a new life, so they always give something red for a sixtieth birthday. Mrs Sato says, "What am I going to give my husband? I can't say. It's a surprise（惊喜）."

Li Xiaomei from Beijing feels very excited and tells us. "Tomorrow is my sixteenth birthday. It's a special birthday. So we're going to have a family party. I'm probably going to get some money in 'lucky' envelopes（信封） from my relatives. My mother is going to cook noodles --- noodles are for a long life."

Phillip Evans, from Paris, smiles to us, "I'm going to be thirty next week, so I'm going to invite three very good friends out to dinner. In France, when you have birthday, you often invite people out. In some countries, I know it's the opposite---- people take you out."

1.How many times do Sandy’s friends pull on his ear this year?

A. Just once.      B. twenty-one times.

C. Ten times.      D. It’s a secret.

2.Japanese people think the sixtieth birthday is _________.

A. very old.         B. something red.

C. a surprise         D. the beginning of a new life.

3.Which of the following is not true?

A. Li Xiaomei gets some money on her birthday.

B. Mrs. Sato will give something red to her husband tomorrow.

C. People in Madrid celebrate their birthdays by pulling on the ear.

D. In France, when someone has birthday, his friends often ask him to have dinner.

Answer

1.B

2.D

3.D

【解析】

试题分析：短文大意：每个人都有他自己的生日。不同国家的人用不同的方式庆祝生日。该文中有四个来自不同的国家的人讲述了他们是怎样庆祝他们的生日的。

1.B细节理解题。根据第二段中"My twenty-first birthday is on a Saturday, and I'm going to go out with some friends. To wish me a happy birthday, they are going to pull（拉，扯）on my ear, once for each year. It is an old custom（风俗）. Some people pull on the ear just once, but my friends are very traditional(传统的)."的描述可知桑迪的朋友要拉他的耳朵二十一次，所以该选B。

2.D细节理解题。根据第三段中In Japan, the sixtieth birthday is called Kanreki---it's the beginning of a new life.可知在日本，六十岁生日被称为是一个新生命的开始。所以该选D。

3.细节理解题。根据最后一段中In France, when you have birthday, you often invite people out可知在法国，当你过生日的时候，你经常邀请别人出去。所以该选D。

考点：社会风俗类阅读。