五、短文填空。(共 10 小题;每小题 1 分,满分 10 分)
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词或短语的正确形式。
People have different kinds of traditional foods to celebrate different festivals. Traditional food 1
for
the New Year shows good luck and health.
An English Christmas dinner has a dish of turkey. Germans celebrate Christmas with bread, cookies 2
and
cakes.
In the south of India, there is a three-day festival in mid-January 3
called
(call) Pongal. People have a dish of rice cooked with milk and sugar.
The Japanese usually celebrate the New Year with 4
a
seven-day festival. It usually 5
begins
(begin) from 29th December. They cook food before the festival so people don't need 6
to cook
(cook) during the festival. On New Year's Day, people can have different 7
dishes
(dish)—each dish 8
is
(be) a good wish for the New Year.
People in China get their food ready ahead of time. They 9
don't want
(not want) to use a knife during the Spring Festival because they think it might "cut luck". Food with a 10
lucky
(luck) name is popular, like fish. It sounds like "surplus(余)" in Chinese.
