八、阅读下面短文,在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。(共10小题,每小题1分,满分10分)
Is there anyone around you wearing a horse-face skirt? It is a kind of hanfu, the 1. (tradition) style(风格) of clothing of the Han people. It is now 2. (get) so popular that some people wear it daily.
3. March 6, 2024, a report showed that the order for horse-face skirts went up by 841 percent compared to the past year.
As hanfu becomes popular, traditional 4. modern (现代的) fashions are coming together. This has influenced not only clothing styles but also 5. (people) cultural ideas.
Some hanfu lovers think that each design of hanfu has its own cultural 6. (mean). They believe that it should be 7. (strict) followed.
“I’ve noticed that there 8. (be) so many people wearing horse-face skirts on the streets now, from young women 9. children. It’s unbelievable,” said Wang Zicheng, 10. hanfu lover.

1. traditional 2. getting 3. On 4. and
5. people's 6. meaning 7. strictly 8. are 9. to
10. a

【分析】
做语法填空时，需结合句子结构、词性要求、时态、固定搭配等知识点分析每个空：1. 空后是名词style，需用形容词修饰；2. 句中now提示现在进行时，需用be+doing结构；3. 具体日期前用特定介词；4. 并列成分需用连词连接；5. 修饰名词需用所有格形式；6. 形容词后需接名词；7. 修饰动词需用副词；8. there be句型遵循就近原则，根据主语确定be动词；9. 固定搭配需准确记忆；10. 泛指单数可数名词需用不定冠词。
【解析】
1. 修饰名词style，用形容词traditional，故填traditional；
2. 现在进行时结构为be+doing，故填getting；
3. 具体日期前用介词On，故填On；
4. 并列形容词traditional和modern用and连接，故填and；
5. 修饰名词ideas，表“人们的”，用people的所有格people's，故填people's；
6. 形容词cultural后接名词meaning，故填meaning；
7. 修饰动词followed，用副词strictly，故填strictly；
8. there be句型中，主语many people是复数，一般现在时，故be动词用are，填are；
9. 固定搭配from...to...，故填to；
10. 泛指“一个汉服爱好者”，hanfu以辅音音素开头，用不定冠词a，故填a。
【答案】
1. traditional 2. getting 3. On 4. and 5. people's 6. meaning 7. strictly 8. are 9. to 10. a
【知识点】
形容词的运用、现在进行时、介词搭配
【点评】
本题围绕热点话题汉服（马面裙）设置语法填空，考查初中英语核心语法点，题型常规，结合传统文化背景，既巩固语法知识又拓展文化认知，难度适中。
【难度系数】
0.7

九、完形填空。(共16小题,第1~15小题每小题1.5分,第16小题2.5分,满分25分)
My good friend Frank is a boy from Germany. He 1 the Spring Festival with my family in China this year. He is very 2 to know more about the festival.
Today is New Year's Eve. My parents are preparing 3 the Spring Festival. Frank and I go to my grandpa's 4. There, grandpa tells us the old story of “Nian”—a wild monster(怪兽). It came to villages every year on this day. To scare it away, people used big sounds, strong lights and 5 things. So now, people 6 fireworks and wear red clothes for good luck.
7 finishing the story, Grandpa smiles and says, “Now, children, it's time to write the Spring Festival couplets(对联)!”
Grandpa takes out some beautiful red ______ 8 ______ and begins to write with a brush(毛笔).
“Why do you write a couplet on 9 pieces of paper, Grandpa?” Frank asks. “Every couplet has the first line, the second line and the streamer(上联、下联和横批),” Grandpa says.
“That is so fun. Can I have a 10?” Frank asks. “Of course!” Grandpa smiles.
Frank and I begin to practise.
“Great! All of you do it well,” Grandpa says.
“Next, let's 11 this couplet together,” Grandpa says.
“We put the first line on the right of the door, the second line on the left and the streamer on the 12 of the door,” Grandpa says.
“Grandpa, how to 13 them, from right or left?” Frank asks.
“A good question. We 14 read a couplet from right to left,” Grandpa says.
Then we all read it together. It is really a 15 day for us all.
()1. A. plays B. visits C. spends D. lives
()2. A. sad B. happy C. sorry D. great
()3. A. about B. for C. at D. on
()4. A. study B. school C. club D. factory
()5. A. yellow B. black C. white D. red
()6. A. take B. light C. open D. bring
()7. A. Before B. So C. After D. But
()8. A. idea B. paper C. drink D. fire
()9. A. three B. two C. four D. five
()10. A. show B. meal C. hand D. try
()11. A. put up B. keep out C. look after D. join in
()12. A. right B. left C. end D. top
()13. A. guess B. draw C. read D. write
()14. A. never B. always C. seldom D. sometimes
()15. A. wonderful B. hard C. helpful D. warm
16. If you have a foreign friend, what is another traditional thing you want to show him/her? Why?
(请自拟一句话作答)

1~5. CBBAD 6~10. BCBAD 11~15. ADCBA
16. I want to show Chinese paper-cutting, because it is beautiful./I want to show hanfu, because it is a kind of special and old Chinese clothes.(言之有理即可)

【分析】
这是一篇围绕中国春节展开的完形填空，解题时需先通读全文把握主旨（外国朋友Frank与作者一家过春节的经历），再结合语境、固定搭配、中国传统文化常识逐一分析选项；第16题是开放性问题，需结合中国传统文化作答，言之有理即可。
【解析】
1. 考查固定搭配，spend the Spring Festival意为“度过春节”，故选C；
2. 语境理解，了解春节更多内容是开心的，happy符合语境，选B；
3. 考查固定搭配prepare for，意为“为……做准备”，选B；
4. 逻辑推理，Frank和作者去爷爷的书房（study），选A；
5. 文化常识，春节相关的标志性颜色是红色，red符合，选D；
6. 考查固定搭配light fireworks，意为“放烟花”，选B；
7. 语境逻辑，此处指讲完故事之后，用After，选C；
8. 常识，写对联需用红纸，paper符合，选B；
9. 常识，对联包含上联、下联、横批共三张纸，three符合，选A；
10. 考查固定搭配have a try，意为“尝试一下”，选D；
11. 短语辨析，put up意为“张贴”，符合贴对联的动作，选A；
12. 常识，横批贴在门的顶部，top符合，选D；
13. 语境呼应，后文提到读对联，此处选read，选C；
14. 常识，读对联总是从右到左，always符合，选B；
15. 语境理解，过春节是美好的一天，wonderful符合，选A；
16. 开放性问题，结合中国传统文化作答，示例：I want to show Chinese paper-cutting, because it is beautiful.
【答案】
1~5. CBBAD 6~10. BCBAD 11~15. ADCBA；16. I want to show Chinese paper-cutting, because it is beautiful.（答案不唯一，言之有理即可）
【知识点】
完形填空、固定搭配、文化常识
【点评】
本题以外国友人体验中国春节为线索，既考查英语词汇、短语的运用，又渗透中国传统文化知识，难度适中，兼具语言考查与文化传播的意义。
【难度系数】
0.6