五、词汇运用
A. 根据句意、中英文释义、首字母和音标提示,写出句中所缺单词。
1. That was one of the happiest ______ (瞬间) of my life.
2. In different cultures, the colour white has different ______ (意义).
3. There are ______ (生气勃勃的) New Year celebrations all over town.
4. He is looking at the car ______ (in front).
5. Ladies and g______, can I have your attention, please?
6. They hope to watch a dragon boat r______ in China this year.
7. People have rice dumplings on this day to r______ the great poet, Qu Yuan.
8. Mary loves music and is good at playing the ______ (/ˌvælɪn/).
B. 根据句意,用括号中所给单词的正确形式填空
9. All ______ (travel) find this hotel a home from home.
10. You can enjoy the ______ (colour) lantern show on the Lantern Festival.
11. Lily likes to visit different places of ______ (nature) beauty in her free time.
12. What do people usually do ______ (celebrate) the Laba Festival in China?
13. My grandparents are ______ (put) up the Spring Festival couplets.
14. My father is ______ (hang) lanterns and decorations in the garden.
15. Irish people open every door and window when the clock ______ (strike) 12 on New Year's Eve.

1. moments
2. meanings
3. lively
4. ahead
5. gentlemen
6. race
7. remember
8. violin
9. travellers/travelers
10. colourful
11. natural
12. to celebrate
13. putting
14. hanging
15. strikes

六、短文填空
阅读短文,在空格处填入一个适当的单词或括号中单词的正确形式。
Right now, it is the winter holiday. It is too expensive for Nam and Ariya to fly back to (1) ______ (they) countries. Nam usually doesn't celebrate Christmas. Ariya misses her family in Thailand. Her grandmother (2) ______ (cook) delicious food for the whole family. Tina and Victor usually celebrate Christmas by (3) ______ (give) each other presents.
This year, the four friends want to do something different for the holiday. It is now around 10 o'clock (4) ______ Christmas Day. They are making some traditional (5) ______ (dish) at Tina's house. Victor is bringing mashed potatoes with gravy and carrots. Tina is (6) ______ (prepare) a turkey (火鸡). Nam is making spring rolls. They are a kind of (7) ______ (luck) food for the new year. Ariya is making mango sticky rice. It's (8) ______ most famous dessert (甜点) in Thailand.
Everyone is so happy to be together. They are excited (9) ______ (try) the new food and learn about new traditions. It is hard to come to a new country and start a new life, (10) ______ friends make it much easier.

(1) their
(2) cooked
(3) giving
(4) on
(5) dishes
(6) preparing
(7) lucky
(8) the
(9) to try
(10) but

(1) 根据句意“对Nam和Ariya来说，飞回他们的国家太贵了”，此处应用形容词性物主代词their修饰名词countries，故填their。
(2) 描述过去经常做的事情，用一般过去时，cook的过去式是cooked，故填cooked。
(3) by是介词，后接动词-ing形式，give的-ing形式是giving，故填giving。
(4) 表示在具体某一天用介词on，此处指在圣诞节那天，故填on。
(5) dish是可数名词，some后接可数名词复数，dish的复数是dishes，故填dishes。
(6) 根据语境可知此处表示正在准备火鸡，用现在进行时，prepare的现在分词是preparing，故填preparing。
(7) 修饰名词food用形容词，luck的形容词是lucky，故填lucky。
(8) 最高级前用定冠词the，此处指最著名的甜点，故填the。
(9) be excited to do sth.是固定搭配，意为“做某事很兴奋”，故填to try。
(10) 前后句是转折关系，用连词but连接，故填but。