Birthday Food Around the World
What would people like to eat on their birthday? The answer would be different in different countries.
In many countries, people have birthday cakes with candles. The number of the candles is the person’s age. The birthday person must make a wish and blow out the candles. 59. If he or she blows out all the candles in one go, the wish will come true. In the UK, people sometimes put a candy in a birthday cake. The child with the candy is lucky. In China, it is getting popular to have a cake on your birthday. But many people still eat very long noodles for their birthday. They never cut up the noodles because the long noodles are a symbol of long life. In some places, Chinese people also eat eggs on their birthday. They are a symbol of life and good luck. All of these birthday foods may be different, but the ideas are the same. 60. 他们会给过生日的人带来好运。
1.How can a person make his or her birthday wish come true?
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2.What do people in the UK sometimes put in a birthday cake?
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3.Why do people never cut up birthday noodles in China?
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4.将文中划线部分译作汉语。
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5.将文中划线部分译作英语。
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On New Year’s Eve, people in Italy throw out all the 1. things. So there are chairs, beds, clothes and plates 2. the streets. In Spain, the New Year 3. more quietly. In the evening people go together to the streets. 4. holds a bag 5. grapes. When the clock strikes 6., people start 7. the grapes.
In Japan, people eat noodles on New Year’s Eve. This8. is said to bring long life. Early in the 9. morning, some families climb Mount Fuji（富士山）. There they 10. the first sunrise of the New Year.
1.We usually eat cakes with c_____________.
2.He usually o___________ food and drink in this restaurant.
3.We have many great s______________ in the restaurant.
4.People can’t c____________up the birthday cakes in China.
5.Liu Yifei is very p____________ with the young men now.
Doctor Carl was a very busy man. He always worked hard. He often forgot his families’ birthdays. Yesterday afternoon he remembered(记得) it was his wife’s (妻子的) birthday. He loved his wife. He wanted to give her a present. On his way home from hospital, he bought some beautiful flowers in a shop. When doctor Carl got home, he gave his wife the flowers and said, “Happy birthday to you, dear!” “It’s April 20th today. I remembered your birthday this year.” Mrs. Carl laughed and said, “My birthday was the day before yesterday, but thank you all the same. Better late than never!”
1.Where did Carl work?
A. In a hospital. B. In a store.
C. In a shop. D. In a family.
2.What did Carl buy for his wife’s birthday?
A. Some fruits. B. Some food.
C. Nothing. D. Some flowers.
3.What date is Carl’s wife’s birthday?
A. Today. B. The day before yesterday.
C. April 20th. D. April 18th.
4.Why did Carl forget his families’ birthday? Because _____ .
A. he is too old B. he works very hard
C. he is a doctor D. he is not busy
5.Where did he buy some flowers?
A. On his way home from work. B. On his wife’s birthday.
C. On his way to the shop. D. On his birthday.
认真阅读，根据文章内容，从A、B、C、D选项中，选择最佳答案。
Mrs. Brown lives in a small village. Her husband is dead. She has a son but no daughters. His name is John and he is twenty-five. After John finishes college (大学), he gets work in a big city, New York, and he lives there. It’s quite a long way from his mother’s home, and she is not happy about it. But John says, “There is no good work for me in this small village, Mother, and I can get a lot of money in New York. Then I can give much to you.”
One day Mrs. Brown is very angry. She takes a train to her son’s house in New York. Then she says to him. “John, why do you never call me?”
“But mother,” John laughs (笑) and says, “You don’t have a telephone with you.”
“No,” she says, “I haven’t, but you have one.”
1.Where does Mrs. Brown live?
A. In a small village B. In a big city
C. In New York D. In a town
2.What is Mrs. Brown’s son’s age?
A. 20 B. 21 C. 25 D. 13
3.How does Mrs. Brown go to New York one day?
A. On foot B. By bus C. By bike D. By train
4.Why does John never call his mother?
A. John doesn’t want to do that B. John has no telephone
C. His mother has no telephone D. His mother doesn’t want to answer
5.Which is right?
A. The village is near New York
B. John works in a big city and his mother likes it
C. In the village there is no good work for John
D. John never gives money to his mother.
There are a lot of different cakes-- fruit cakes, chocolate cakes, etc. Sometimes we buy them in a shop. Sometimes we make them ourselves.
We like cakes. We like Christmas cakes a lot. My mother often makes cakes for us at Christmas. And I often help her to make them. To make a Christmas cake, we need these things. Half a kilo of flour, 3 cups of milk, 4 eggs and some fruit, etc.
Now we can make a cake with those things.
根据短文内容选择最佳答案。
1.How does the writer like Christmas cake?
A. She likes it very much. B. She likes it a little.
C. She doesn’t like it. D. She doesn’t like it at all.
2.When does the writer’s mother make cakes for her?
A. At Christmas. B. On the writer’s birthday.
C. On weekdays. D. On Sundays.
3.What do we need to make a cake?
A. Some flour. B. Some milk. C. Some eggs. D. All of the above.
4.How much flour do we need to make a cake?
A. A kilo of flour. B. Two kilos of flour.
C. Half a kilo of flour. D. A bag of flour.
5.How many eggs and fruit do we need to make a cake?
A. Three eggs; some fruit. B. Three fruit; four eggs.
C. Four fruit; some eggs. D. Four eggs; some fruit.
