文档介绍：英语听力模拟试题(6)
节假日活动
(festivals, holidays and celebration)
Afford a holiday or not?
1. What are the speakers discussing?
Whether to go on a holiday.
How to pay for the house.
C. Whether to find a better job.
2011年9月真题
Chinese Festivals
元旦 New Year’s Day
春节 the Spring Festival
元宵节 the Lantern Festival
清明节 Tomb-sweeping Festival
国际劳动节 International Labour Day
端午节 the Dragon Boat Festival
七夕节 Chinese Valentine's Day
国际儿童节 International Children's Day
中秋节 Mid-autumn Festival
教师节(9月10日)Teachers' Day
重阳节 Double-ninth Day
国庆节 National Day
除夕 New Year's Eve
Chinese Festivals
Famous foreign festivals
圣瓦伦丁节(情人节)St. Valentine’s Day
复活节 Easter Day
愚人节 April Fool’s Day
母亲节 Mother’s Day
万圣节 Halloween
感恩节 Thanksgiving Day
圣诞节 Christmas Day
What are mon activities people may have during festivals?
Valentine’s Day(情人节) is named for Saint Valentine, an early Christian churchman who reportedly helped young was killed for his Christian beliefs on February 14 more than 1,700 years ago. From then on, lovers would send each other Valentine’s Day cards that tell of
their love on that day.
Sometimes they also
send gifts, like flowers
or chocolate candy.
Easter, anniversary of the Resurrection(复活) of Christ, observed on the first Sunday after a full moon on or after 21 March,which is a major holiday after Christmas. The word "Easter" is named after Eastre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring.
On Easter Sunday children wake up to find that the Easter Bunny has left them baskets of candy. He has also hidden the eggs that they decorated earlier that week. Children hunt for the eggs all around the house. Neighborhoods anizations hold Easter egg hunts, and the child who finds the most eggs wins a prize.
The Easter Bunny is a rabbit-spirit. Rabbits have frequent multiple births so they became a symbol of fertility(繁殖力). The custom of an Easter egg hunt began because children believed that rabbits laid eggs in the grass. The Romans believed that "All es from