高中英语必修3unit1 Reading 1.pptVIP

Intensive reading True or False 1. The ancient people needn’t worry about their food. 2. Halloween used to be a festival intended to honor the dead. Read the whole text carefully please ! (6 min) Answer the following questions according to the text.（3 min) 1. Do todays festivals have origins? what are they? 2. What are festivals of the dead for? 3. Why does India have a national festival on October 2? 4. Why are autumn festivals happy events? 5. Name three things people do at spring festivals. 6. What is one important reason to have festivals and celebrations? Comprehending Yes, they have many origins ,some religious, some seasonal, and some for special people or event. They are held to honor the dead, or satisfy and please the ancestors who might return either to help or to do harm. Because they want to have a festival to honor Mahatma Gandhi, the leader who helped to gain India’s independence from Britain. People are grateful because their food is gathered for the winter, and because a season of agricultural work is over. 5. Name three things people do at spring festivals. 6. What is one important reason to have festivals and celebrations? Festivals to Honour People Now foreign festivals seem to become more and more popular among young people, while some chinese traditional festivals seem less important than before. 1.Should we celebrate foreign festivals as well? 2.Should we keep our traditional festivals alive? Nowadays,Western festivals such as Christmas and Valentines Day are gaining increasing popularity in China,especially among college students.But whether we should celebrate these festivals has become a subject of heated discussion.请写出一段短文，需包含以下内容： 1.一些人认为： 庆祝西方节日是全球化的标志 中国需要引入（take in)多种外国文化 是个让中国人了解其他文化的机会 2.一些人认为： 西方节日是文化侵略（aggression) 应保护中国传统文化 3.你的观点： Some believe celebrating Western festivals is a sign of globalization.They argue that China needs to take in various foreign cultures so as to blend into (融入