Lesson 29 – Reading – Unit 8 Celebrations – Sách bài tập tiếng anh 11

Unit 8 Sách bài tập tiếng anh 11

READING

Part 1. Read the passage and choose the best option A, B, C or D to answer or complete each of the following questions.

From earliest times people have celebrated the end of winter and the new life that spring brings. One of the most important Christian festivals is Easter, when Christians remember the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Easter, however, is not the only spring festival. In Sweden, people celebrate the end of winter by making huge bonfires. Fire also plays an important part in Hindu Festival of Holi. In some villages children are carried round bonfires by their mothers to protect them from danger in the coming year. Buddhists in Thailand soak each other in water when celebrating their New Year, which falls in the middle of April. In Antigua in Guatemala they carpet the streets with flowers. Chinese spring parades are equally colourful, but instead of flowers they have large dragon puppets which dance in the street. Eggs are traditionally linked with festivals celebrating the end of winter. As long as 3,000 years ago people in ancient China and Greece ate coloured hard-boiled eggs; 160 years ago chocolate eggs became popular in many countries. In Britain, hot crossed buns, a kind of sweet bread, are traditionally eaten on Good Friday, the day Christ died on the cross. However, crossed buns have been eaten for thousands of years. People thought that marking cakes with a cross kept away evil spirits.

1. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A. Religious Festivals

B. Spring Festivals

C. Festivals Around the World

D. Festivals to Celebrate New Life

2. From earliest times people have believed that_________.

A. winter brings a new life

B. spring brings a new life

C. he celebration of the end of winter will bring in a new life

D. the celebration of spring will bring in a new life

3. Why do mothers cany their children round bonfires?

A. to let them play with the fire

B. to bring the coming year to them

C. to protect them from danger

D. to show them that fire plays an important part in their lives

4. In which of the following countries are the streets covered with flowers in the spring festival?

A. China

B. Guatemala        

C.  Thailand              

D. Greece

5. The passage mentions all of the following as festival activities, EXCEPT ______

A. making round bonfires

B. soaking each other in water

C. boiling eggs

D. eating crossed buns

Part 2. Read the passage and choose the best option B, C or D indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

17th January is St. Anthony’s Day in Mexico. It’s a day when people ask for protection for their animals. They bring their animals to church. But before the animals go into the church, the people usually dress them up in flowers and ribbons.., th

On 15 August of the lunar calendar, Koreans celebrate Chuseok to give thanks for the harvest. It’s a day when people honour their ancestors by going to their graves to take them food and wine and clean the gravesites. Also on Chuseok, a big meal with moon-shaped rice cake is eaten.

One of the biggest celebrations in Argentina is New Year’s Eve. On the evening of 31′ December, families get together and have a big meal. At midnight, fireworks explode everywhere and continue throughout the night. Friends and families meet for parties, which last until the next morning.

Long ago in India, a princess who needed help sent her silk bracelet to an emperor. After he helped the princess, the emperor kept the bracelet as a sign of loyalty between them. Today in India, during the festival of Rakhi, men promise to be loyal to their women in exchange for a bracelet of silk, cotton or gold thread.

On the evening of 3^rd February, people in Japanese families take one dried bean for each year of their age and throw the beans around their homes and shrines, shouting “Good luck in! Evil spirits out!” This is known as “Setsubun”, a time to celebrate the end of winter and the beginning of spring.

1. Why do people bring their animals to church on St, Anthony’s Day?

A. to put flowers ort them

B. to make them look beautiful

C. to celebrate a festival    

D. to ask for protection for them

2. Which of the following festivals is celebrated according to the lunar calendar?

A. Setsubun

B. Chuseok

C.  Rakhi                

D. New Year’s Eve

3. Which of the following celebrations is for friends and families to meet?

A. Setsubun

B. Chuseok

C. Rakhi                

D. New Year’s Eve

4. Which of the following festivals celebrates the loyalty between a man and a woman?

A. Setsubun

B. Chuseok

C. Rakhi              

D. New Year’s Eve

5. Why do people throw the beans around their homes and shines?

A. to make them dry

B. to show the years of their age

C. to invite good luck in    

D. to celebrate the end of winter

Đáp án

Part 1:

1. B

2. B

3. C

4. B

5. C

Part 2.

1. D

2. B

3. D

4. C

5. C