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贵州省黔东南州从江县东朗中学2024-2025学年九年级上学期9月测试英语试卷
Do you love seeing beautiful lanterns outside?The best time to do this is during the Lantern Festival,which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month.
Watching lanterns is a great event. You can see lanterns in different sizes and shapes,from animals to plants. To make this activity more fun,people stick riddles(谜语) on the lanterns.
In some places,people like flying sky lanterns,which are called Kongming lanterns. When the bright lights fly high in the sky,people bless(祝福) family members and make wishes. Releasing river lights is also a way to bless others.
In old times,the Lantern Festival was also romantic. At that time,young girls were not allowed to go out very often except during certain festivals. Therefore,watching lanterns gave young people a chance to meet each other. A line from Xin Qiji,a poet during the Song Dynasty shows this, "I searched for her in thousands,hundreds of ways. Suddenly I turned,and there she was in the receding light. "
A.Here's one man's story about test stress. B.Then he rode on a horse through Chang'an City,writing a poem C.Meng Jiao loves writing poems but he is poor D.You worry that you won't know the right answer. E.Meng Jiao's poem tells about his feelings. F.During his ride, Meng Jiao wrote a poem. |
Tests can be stressful.You worry that you haven't studied enough. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}You worry that you do know the answer but will still get it wrong on the test.Tests have been stressing people out for thousands of years.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}
During the Tang Dynasty there lived a talented poet named Meng Jiao.who was born to a poor family. Writing poetry was not a good paying job at that time. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} He realized this had to change and decided to take the Ke Ju exams,which were open for anyone.Meng Jiao studied hard for the tests and took them several times.Each time,he failed,but he never gave up.Finally,when he was 46 years old, Meng Jiao passed the test! He was so happy that he put on new clothes and tied on red flowers to celebrate. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}In English,it is"Horseback riding fast through the spring breeze( 微 风 ) ,while seeing all the flowers of Chang'an in one day."
{#blank#}5{#/blank#} It tells of the excited feelings of seeing all of Chang'an City in a day.On that day,he was able to let go of the disappointments of the past.The poem became famous and was passed down through the years.
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