港澳生澳门大学入学考试.doc

Part A LANGUAGE USE (20%) Time: 20 minutes Instructions: Read through each passage once to understand its meaning and the context in which the underlined items are used. If the underlined items are accurate and appropriate, select “NO CHANGE.” If the underlined items are not accurate and/or inappropriate, select the best option in the choices listed. Mark the letter on the Answer Sheet by. completely blackening the correct bubble. Please note that these questions below are worth 1 point each Passage 1: The Origin of Halloween Have you ever questioned why we celebrate Halloween and where the idea came from? If you (1) like most of us, you simply enjoy the fun and games and treats and have not really given the roots of the holiday much thought. Very far back in the day, about 2000 years ago, there lived a people known as Celts. They (2) inhabit the area we call Ireland and there were also some in France and in England. In any case, the Celtic people had a different New Year’s Day than we (3) did in the U.S. today. Their new year began on November 1st; this is probably because November marked the end of the bountiful, glorious, harvest season and the start of the cold, dark winter. Hence, it seems like a perfect time (4) in branding a new year. The Celtic people had a theory that their New Year’s Eve, October 31, was the night when there was the perfect chance for the spooks of dead people to return to earth and so the worlds of the living and the dead joined for a night. On this night, the Celtic people turned to their Druid priests for insight into what was to come in the New Year. And (5) any theories of the history of Halloween include the priests’ power to recognize the future by determining it from the dead who came back to earth. So, the early interpretation of Halloween, called SamHain, was born. The Celts usually built vast bonfires and dressed up in the skins of animals. They gathered around the bonfires in these costumes and sacrificed a small amount o