Question

【題目】Everyone has his own birthday. People in different countries celebrate （慶祝）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(馬德里). 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（風(fēng)俗）. Some people pull on the ear just once, but my friends are very traditional(傳統(tǒng)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（驚喜）."

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

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】D

【解析】

試題分析：短文大意：每個(gè)人都有他自己的生日。不同國家的人用不同的方式慶祝生日。該文中有四個(gè)來自不同的國家的人講述了他們是怎樣慶祝他們的生日的。

【1】B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)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（風(fēng)俗）. Some people pull on the ear just once, but my friends are very traditional(傳統(tǒng)的)."的描述可知桑迪的朋友要拉他的耳朵二十一次，所以該選B。

【2】D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)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，六十歲生日被稱為是一個(gè)新生命的開始。所以該選D。

【3】D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后一段中In France, when you have birthday, you often invite people out可知在法國，當(dāng)你過生日的時(shí)候，你經(jīng)常邀請別人出去。所以該選D。