As we know, birthdays mean only cakes, presents, and a sweet song--Happy Birthday to You when we think of it.1. , there are different birthday celebrations.

In the west, many birthday traditions come from an old belief 2. bad spirits showed up on a person's birthday. Today, people still get together for birthday parties. But around the world, birthdays 3. (celebrate) in many different ways.

In North America, children get their noses 4. (cover) with butter on their birthdays. Because butter is supposed to make children too slippery (滑的) for bad 5. （lucky）to stick to them. Irish people lift birthday children upside down and hit them 6. (light) on the floor for every year of 7. age. Mexico also has 8. unique birthday tradition. A paper-made animal is filled 9. candy and toys and hung from the ceiling (天花板). The birthday child with his eyes covered then tries to hit the animal with a stick____10.___ it bursts open.

1.However

2.that/which

3.are celebrated

4.covered

5.luck

6.Lightly

7.their

8.a

9.with

10.until

【解析】

試題分析：在各國(guó)慶祝生日的方式大不相同。

1.However.

2.在西方，許多生日傳統(tǒng)都與古人相信邪靈會(huì)在人們生日當(dāng)天出現(xiàn)有關(guān)。分析句式可知，“bad spirits showed up on a person's birthday”為同位語(yǔ)從句，說(shuō)明名詞belief的具體內(nèi)容，又因?yàn)樵搹木渚湟�、結(jié)構(gòu)均完整，故選用連接詞that.

3.birthdays與動(dòng)詞celebrate之間為被動(dòng)關(guān)系，故填一般現(xiàn)在時(shí)的被動(dòng)語(yǔ)態(tài)are celebrated.

4.their noses為被動(dòng)關(guān)系，故該空應(yīng)填cover的過(guò)去分詞covered.

5.luck.

6.ightly.

7.他們過(guò)幾歲生日，就把他們往地上輕撞幾下。故該空填their.

8.墨西哥也有一個(gè)獨(dú)特的生日傳統(tǒng)。tradition為可數(shù)名詞，該處為泛指，故填冠詞a.

9. filled with/ be full of, 故該空填介詞with.

10.蒙住眼睛的小壽星拿著棒子使勁地敲那只紙制動(dòng)物，“直到”這個(gè)紙質(zhì)的動(dòng)物被敲破。故該空填連詞until.

考點(diǎn)：考查學(xué)生的閱讀能力和基本詞匯應(yīng)用的能力

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