七、阅读理解。
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[2025 无锡市天一实验学校期中]① In Chinese celebrations, whether it is an important birthday or a traditional festival, one of the most typical(典型的) elements(元素) is the lucky and auspicious(吉祥的) symbols.
② To most Chinese people, when it comes to lucky symbols, the top three are surely fu, lu and shou.
③ During Chinese New Year, we would put up red squares with the character fu on them. Some people would put their fu character upside down.
④ Lu often has something to do with one's job and richness. Lu means good pay and ranks(等级) in ancient China. Hulu, or gourds(葫芦), sounds like hulu(护禄). So people use gourds to scare away bad spirits and illnesses and keep rich and successful.
⑤ Shou means longevity. When someone is having his birthday celebration, we would call this person shouxing. At birthday parties for elder people, we often see peaches. According to the legend, the Queen Mother of the West grows peaches in her own garden, and whoever eats these peaches will live forever.
⑥ Besides the three, lucky and auspicious symbols can also be easily found in food. For the Chinese New Year dinner, most families would have fish because it sounds like "surplus(有余)". In southern China, niangao, a kind of rice cake, is a lucky food because niangao sounds like "getting higher every year".
1. The writer mainly tells us about .
A. typical traditional Chinese festivals
B. the secrets of richness and success
C. traditional Chinese eating culture
D. Chinese lucky and auspicious symbols
2. When a Chinese person wants to get a better job, he or she may .
A. call shouxing for help
B. wear a gourd with him or her
C. grow peaches in his or her garden
D. have tangyuan with family often
3. (创新考法·篇章结构)The structure of the passage may be .

1. D 主旨大意题。根据“To most Chinese people, when it comes to lucky symbols, the top three are surely fu, lu and shou.”及全文可知，本文主要介绍了中国文化中幸运吉祥的象征。
2. B 推理判断题。根据第四段可知，葫芦，听起来像“护禄”，意思是“保护禄”，所以中国人想要一份更好的工作时，会随身带一个葫芦。
3. D 篇章结构题。第一段是讲在中国的庆祝活动中，最典型的元素之一是幸运和吉祥的寓意；第二段是介绍幸运和吉祥的象征——福禄寿；第三、四、五段分别介绍了福、禄、寿的含义及应用；最后一段介绍了除福禄寿这三个以外，有这种寓意的还有一些食物，所以D项为文章结构。