（吉林专版）2020中考英语复习方案 回答问题（08）人物故事+事物介绍试题

1 回答问题回答问题 八八 人物故事人物故事 事物介绍事物介绍 a 2020 原创 one day a ragged beggar 乞丐 was creeping along from house to house he carried an old wallet in one hand and at every house he asked for a little money to buy something to eat as he was complaining at his misfortune 不幸 he kept wondering why people who had so much money were never satisfied and always wanted more he thought that if he only had enough money to buy food and clothes he would be very happy and wouldn t want anything more at that moment fortune came down the street she saw the beggar and stopped she said to him i want to help you hold out your wallet and i will pour this gold into it but only on this condition all that falls into your wallet will be pure gold but all that hits the ground will turn into dust do you understand oh yes i understand said the beggar your wallet is old don t put too much in it said fortune the beggar opened his wallet and a stream of pure gold flowed into it his wallet grew heavy you are the richest man in the world now said fortune i think you should stop your wallet is going to break however the beggar said he wanted one more handful fortune added one more handful and the wallet split all the gold fell to the ground and turned into dust the beggar had nothing but his empty wallet he was as poor as he had been before 1 what did the beggar want money for 2 why did fortune stop when she saw the beggar 3 was the beggar satisfied with how much gold he had got before his wallet split 4 how was the gold that fell to the ground 5 what can you learn from the story 2 b superstition about sneezing it s a western custom to say bless you after someone sneezes achoo bless you this is a common exchange in english speaking countries when you hear someone else sneeze it is polite to say bless you to which they should reply with thank you but where does this odd custom come from in fact it dated back to medieval 中世纪的 europe specifically the time of the bubonic plague 黑死病 the plague killed nearly one third of europe s population within three years 1347 1350 the first symptom of the bubonic plague was sneezing at that time people believed that if you sneezed your soul might leave your body people didn t know how to cure the bubonic plague they were simply encouraged to say god bless you and do other superstitious 迷信的 things hoping the soul would go back into the body and over time god bless you was shortened to bless you of course in modern times we know that sneezing has nothing to do with the soul or any other superstitious thing but just like so many other customs from the past saying bless you has stayed with us for hundreds of years but you may be wondering what if someone sneezes more than once well you don t have to keep saying bless you in fact if someone sneezes more than twice or sneezes especially loudly you may want to ask them if they re ok or if they would like a tissue 纸巾 then again you don t really need to say anything at all people won t think you re rude if you forget to say bless you but they will also appreciate it if you do 1 where does the odd custom bless you come from 2 what was the first symptom of the bubonic plague 3 did people know how to cure the bubonic plague in the past 4 how long has bless you stayed with us 3 5 what should you do if someone sneezes more than twice 4 参考答案参考答案 a 1 to buy some food and clothes 2 to help him because she wanted to help him 3 no he wasn t 4 all the gold turned into dust 5 we shouldn t want too mu