学案与测评山东省、江西省2020高中英语能力测评必修3

课后能力测评(一)Ⅰ.完形填空阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。字数：359完成时间： 15分钟难度：★★St.Patrick's Day is

课后能力测评(一) Ⅰ.完形填空 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出可以填入空 白处的最佳选项。 完成时间： 15分 字数：359 难度：★★ 钟 St.Patrick's Day is Ireland's greatest national holiday as well as a holy(神圣的) day.Each year, millions of people world-wide celebrate this __1__on March 17, the date of St.Patrick's death.It is ahappy holiday for the Irish living in Ireland and __2__.The day is celebrated with parades(游行), speeches, festival dinners, and dances.__3__ is the colour of the day, with thousands of little cloth shamrocks(三叶草) on. St.Patrick was born in Britain to __4__ parents near the end of the fourth century.At the age of sixteen, Patrick was taken prisoner by a group of Irish raiders(入侵者) __5__ his family's wealth.So he had to __6__ ashepherd, outdoors and away from people.__7__lonely and afraid, he turned to his religion(宗教) and became aChristian. The first St.Patrick's Day parade __8__ not in Ireland, but in the United States.Irish soldiers in the British army __9__ through New York City on March 17, 1762 with Irish music.Since then, St.Patrick's Day parades have become away for Irish Americans to show their __10__every year.In 1948, President Truman __11__the New Year City's St.Patrick's Day parade, which was a__12__moment for many Irish people whose fathers and grandfathers had to fight against people who disliked them to find __13__ in America. It was in Boston where the Day was first celebrated in apublic way.