Every year between February and April,when the southwest monsoon (季风)blows ,a fever seizes the Thais (泰国人).It is the kite flying in Thailand 1 a strong feeling of interest that is nothing 2 of feverish.
During the summer, in the moths of March and April ,the skies 3 cities ,towns and villages throughout the Kingdom are 4 with kites of all descriptions --long-tailed dragons,twisting snakes ,beautiful butter-flies,or familiar cartoon characters wheeling and weaving in the waim air.
One afternoon ,a friend and long-time kite flier invited me to 5 him at the Pramane Ground .What's the attraction?I asked as he flew a huge kite.Well ,you can feel a bit of a 6 at first .he replied,a grown man standing there holding the end of a string and 7 up into the sky .But once you forget yourself ,you get caught up in the 8 of controlling something inthe air where you cannot follow.You're on the ground :the kite's in the air but it's you that are making it al 9 .Come on ,go fly a kite.
I took his advice in the 10 it was meant and ,holding the hand of my young daughter si that others woukd think I was only satisfying a child's 11 ,I bought a rainbow-colored snake .After a few failed runs we got the kite into the air 12 greater ease than I expected.It was only at my daughter 's crying ,My go,my go that I realized I'd been holding the string ,pletely 13 what I was discovering was a very pleasing pastime.
Like many other 14 of popular culture ,the sport of kite flying in Thailand has been 15 down from generation to generation.Its origins(起源)are 16 probably in ancient China,although it seems likey that Thai kites are as old as the 17 itself.It was a craze 18 by everyone from the king down.
It's a great tradition (传统),that has the 19 of bringing generations togeter,says my friend ,What you see today at the King's Cup is the 20 as the people of the past would have seen more than two hundred years ago.
1.A.fires B.fights C.turns D.keeps
2.A.long B.short C. fond D.proud
3.A.on B.over C.around D. in
4.A.alive B.ready C.open D.equal
5.A.see B.care C.accept D. join
6.A.hero B.fool C.master D.fireman
7.A.flying B.missing C.staring D. jumping
8.A.match B.fort C.excitement D.movement
9.A.happen B.begin C. attend D.break
10.A.way B.while C.language D. need
11.A.game B.sport C. request D. best
12.A.for B.with C.beyond D.under
13.A.tired of B.fit for C. helped with D. devoted to
14.A.laws B.rules C.forms D. researches
15.A.put B.handed C.sat D.looked
16.A.rooted B.left C.dated D.hoped
17.A.history B.Kingdom C.time D.earth
18.A.imagined B.used C.enjoyed D.told
19.A.effect B.right C. name D.science
20.A.same B.kite C. invention D. relation1-5 ABBAD 6-10 BCCAA 11-15 CBDDB 16-20 ABDAA
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(答案→)1-5 ABBAD 6-10 BCCAA 11-15 CBDDB 16-20 ABDAA
解析：
1.A 易错选C和D，A项意为“激发，使---充满---”，例如：The story fired his imagination.
2.B 易错选C和D，nothing short of 意为“不比---差，简直可以说---”。整句意为“正是飞翔在泰国上空的风筝激发了人们那种简直可称为狂热的兴趣感”。
3.B“在城市上空”用介词over。
4.A alive“活生生的，有生气的”
5.D join sb “加入到---（人）中”
6.B 易错选A和C，注意此空后解释的原因“一个大人攥着绳的末端（傻乎乎地）盯着空中（让人觉着不可思议）”。
7.C 易错选A和D ，注意此空的动作发出者是前面的a grown man.
8.C 易错选D，注意此空后解释的放风筝的感觉“你不能飞到空中去，但你却控制着高空中的东西（给人一种成就感）”另外文中“fever, interest ,e on ,craze等词也是信息提示。
9.A“但正是你让那所有的事情发生的。”
10.A in the way 用那种方式”，其后省略了that /in which。
11.C 易错选A，此为固定短语satisfy one's request/needs 满足---的需求要求”。
12.B 易错选C，此为固定短语with great ease “轻松地，毫不费力地”。
13.D易错选B，此为固定短语be devoted to ...(专心致志的，沉迷于…的热衷于…的),13空为过去分词短语做状语,表伴随前面的hold一个状态。
14.D“流行的文化形式”
15.B hand down/pass down (on)“流传传递”
16.A 易错选C，此空后有in 构成固定短语be rooted in “（根）源于”
17.B此空后有itself 提示答案，“与泰国本身一样历史悠久”
18.D此空为过去分词短语做后置定语，表“被喜爱的”。
19.A固定短语have an (the ) effect of ....
20.A固定短语the same as...