【故事复现】日本的特殊节日
• Step 1: Listen and answer the question.
第一步：听Freya慢速朗读的故事，回答下列问题。
Question: What happens to the lanterns at the end of the festival?
问题：在节日的最后，灯笼都怎么处理？
• 词汇准备
• festival 节日
• lantern 灯笼
• spectacle 景象，壮观，场面
• Step 2: Intensive reading.
第二步：故事精读。
A Festival for the Dead is held once a year in Japan.
日本每年过一次“亡灵节”。
This festival is a cheerful occasion, for on this day, the dead are said to return to their
homes and they are welcomed by the living.
这个节日是个欢乐的日子，因为在这一天，据说死去的人要回到他们的家里
来，活着的人则对他们表示欢迎。
As they are expected to be hungry after their long journey, food is laid out for them.
因为预料到他们在经过长途旅行之后会感到饥饿，所以为他们摆放好了食品。
Specially-made lanterns are hung outside each house to help the dead to find their
way.
特制的灯笼挂在各家的门外，为的是帮助亡灵看清道 路。
All night long, people dance and sing.
整个夜晚人们载歌载舞。
In the early morning, the food that had been laid out for the dead is thrown into a river
or into the sea as it is considered unlucky for anyone living to eat it.
一大早，人们便把为死者摆放的食品扔进河中或海里，因为人们认为活着的人
吃了这些东西是不吉利的。
In towns that are near the sea, the tiny lanterns which had been hung in the streets the
night before, are placed into the water when the festival is over.
在靠海的城镇中，头天夜里挂在大街小巷的小灯笼在节后就放在了水里。
Thousands of lanterns slowly drift out to sea guiding the dead on their return journey
to the other world.
成千上万只灯笼慢慢漂向大海，指引着亡灵返回另一个世界。
This is a moving spectacle, for crowds of people stand on the shore watching the
lanterns drifting away until they can be seen no more.
这是一个感人的场面，人们成群地伫立在海岸上，注视着灯笼远去，直到再也
看不见为止。
• Step 3: Summary writing.
第三步：摘要写作。
CONNECTIONS POINTS
1 Japanese annual festival-cheerful
occasion.
As 2 Dead return home.
and 3 Food laid out.
4 Lanterns lit--guide them.
and 5 People dance, sing all night.
6 Uneaten food-sea, river, next
morning.
and 7 Some places: lanterns: sea.
until 8 People watch--shore.
9 Drift out of sight.
The Japanese annual Festival for the Dead is a cheerful occasion. As the dead
are said to return home, food is laid out for them and lanterns are lit to guide
them on their way. People dance and sing all night and the uneaten food is
thrown into the sea or into a river the next morning. In some places, the
lanterns are placed on the sea and people watch from the shore until the
lanterns drift out of sight.
• Exercise: Sentence structure and vocabulary.
课外练习：句型及词汇训练。
1 The festival is a cheerful occasion because __________.
(a)of the lanterns
(b) food is laid out for the dead
(c)people stay up all night
(d) the dead are welcomed home by the living
2 What is the purpose of the lanterns?
(a)They are nice decorations.
(b)They can be thrown into the sea.
(c)They are supposed to help the dead to find their way.
(d) They help the living to find their way
3 __________ a year is the festival held? Only once a year.
(a)How much
(b)How many
(c)How many times
(d) Which times
4 The dead are said to return. _________ they return to their homes.
(a)It is saying
(b) People say
(c)People are said
(d) It said
5 All night long people dance and sing. They do this __________.
(a)during the whole night
(b) in all the night
(c)the night long
(d) in the night
6 If anyone _________ the food he will be unlucky.
(a)would eat
(b) will eat
(c)had eaten
(d) eats
7 Lanterns which had been hung in the streets ________ are placed into the water.
(a)since the night
(b) night ago
(c)the previous night
(d) before the night
8 It's a cheerful occasion. It's a cheerful __________.
(a)situation
(b)condition
(c)place
(d) event
9 The food is thrown into the river. It is thrown _________.
(a)away
(b)off
(c)out
(d)down
10 The lanterns are placed into the water when the festival is over. This happens
________ the festival.
(a)during
(b)after
(c)before
(d) at the same time as
11 The lanterns guide the dead to the other world. They _______.
(a)drive them
(b)steer them
(c)show them the way
(d)instruct them
12 It's a moving spectacle. It's wonderful _________.
(a)view
(b)sight
(c)vision
(d)viewpoint
Key: 1d 2c 3c 4b 5a 6d 7c 8d 9a 10b 11c 12b
第六十六单元【语法点拨】
语法综合测试七
1. It is politely requested by the hotel management that radios ______ after 11 o'clock
at night.
A. were not played
B. not be played
C. not to play
D. did not play
1.B.
2. The suggestion that the mayor ________ the prizes was accepted by everyone.
A. would present
B. present
C. ought to present
D. presents
2.B.
3. He suggested _______ to tomorrow's exhibition together.
A. us to go
B. we shall go.
C. we went
D. we go
3.D.
4. ________ right now, she would get there on Sunday.
A. Would she leave
B. Were she to leave
C. If she leaves
D. If she had left
4.B.
5. No one had told Smith about _______ lecture the following day.
A. there being.
B. there be.
C. there would be.
D. there was
5.A.
6. Ann never dreams of ________ for her to be sent abroad very soon.
A. there being a chance
B. there to be a chance
C. there be chance
D. being chance
6.A.
7. My sister's professor had her _______ paper many times before allowing her to
present it to the committee.
A. rewritten
B. to rewrite
C. rewrite
D. rewriting
7.C.
8. I'll accept my job ________ I don't have to get up early.
A. lest
B. as long as
C. in case
D. though
8.B.
9. Turn on the television or open a magazine and you _______ advertisements
showing happy, balanced families.
A. are often seeing
B. often see
C. will often see
D. have often seen
9.C.
10. A thief who broke into a church was caught because traces of wax, found on his
clothes, ______ from the sort of candles used only in churches.
A. had come
B. coming
C. come
D. that came
10.A.
以下内容放进讲义：
11. Until then, his family _______ from him for six months
A. didn't hear
B. hasn't been hearing
C. hasn't heard
D. hadn't heard
11.D.then表示过去,在那时之前为过去的过去,所以用过去完成时。
12. _______is known to the world, Mark Twain is a great American writer.
A. That
B. Which
C.As
D. It
12.C.as作为关系代词引导定语从句,as代替后面整句的意思。事实上,也可以把这
一结构看作是一固定用法。
13. I've never been to Beijing, but it's the place ________.
A. where I'd like to visit
B. I most want to visit
C. in which I'd' like to visit
D. that want to visit it most
13.B.这是一个先行词为 the place的定语从句,关系代词代替 the place引导定语从
句,并在从句中作宾语,通常省去。
14. Although many people view conflict as bad, conflict is sometimes useful ______
it forces people to test the relative merits of their attitudes and behaviors.
A. by which
B. to which
C. in that
D.so that
14.C.复合连接词 in that引导原因状语从句
15. _______ receiving financial support from family, community or the government is
allowed, it is never admired.
A. As
B. Once
C. Although
D. Lest
15.C. although引导让步状语从句。
16. There' s man at the reception desk who seems very angry and think he means
_______ trouble.
A. making
B. to make
C. to have made
D. having made
16.B. mean to do表示“想要,打算”; mean doing表示“意味着”。
17.In the course of a day students do far more than just _______ classes.
A. attend
B. attended
C. to attend
D. attending
17.A.than作为一个表示比较意义的关系代词引导定语从句,并在从句中作主语。
18. We agreed to accept _______ they thought was the best tourist guide.
A. whatever
B. whomever
C. whichever
D. whoever
18.D.whoever引导宾语从句,并在从句中作主语。
19. There was such a long line at the exhibition _______ we had to wait for about half
an hour.
A.as
B. that.
C.so
D. hence
19. B. such…that...结构引导的结果状语从句。
20. Having no money but _______ to know, he simply said he would go without
dinner.)
A. not to want anyone
B. not wanting anyone
C. wanted no one
D. to want no one
20.B.分词短语作原因状语。but连接的必须是两个结构相同的成分。
答案：1-5BBDBA,6-10ACBCA,11-15DCBCC,16-20BADBB
第六十七单元