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Scottish customs and traditions cover a very wide range of topics. Everything from kilts to golf, bagpipes to whisky, Celtic cro
Scottish customs and traditions cover a very wide range of topics. Everything from kilts to golf, bagpipes to whisky, Celtic cro
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2014-01-07
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Scottish customs and traditions cover a very wide range of topics. Everything from kilts to golf, bagpipes to whisky, Celtic crosses to Protestant missionary work, the "second sight" to Nessie.
The history of the bagpipes takes us a long way back from today and far away from Scotland. Everyone thinks about Scotland when they hear the word "bagpipe", but this instrument is so old that true age and origin are unknown. In some historical documents it is written that the pipes were first played somewhere around Asia Minor in 1000 BC. Also, it is said, by some, that "Emperor Nero played the ’Pipes’ not the fiddle, while Rome burned." Some "form" of bagpipes are used in many European countries but in Scotland they have become an integral part of the country’s culture. Scotland is the ancestral home of the "Great Highland Bagpipes" known to all as the "Great Pipes".
A Pipe band is one thing that every visitor of Scotland wants to see. These are groups of men(in modern times it can be both men and women); each group has matching skirts, fancy jackets and strange little hats. They march around squeezing the air out of big tartan bags(known as bagpipes)and blowing it in again through a pipe attached to the bag. This results in a racket known as "the skirl o’ the pipes" which is almost indistinguishable from the noise made by the haggis during the mating season. These pipe bands often turn out to be Australians, not Scots at all!
The tartan kilt has long been the most recognizable cultural tradition of the Highland Scots, but just like the other symbols, kilts have also an unknown origin. One sure fact is that the wearing of the kilt has been developed in the 19th century during the reign of Queen Victoria. It had been created for some rational reasons: men who wore it could make very quick moves, wade through rivers and shelter in huts, woods and rocks, etc.
There is a question which will always linger next to the word "kilt" and that is: Do people who wear kilts have underwear or not? Even though there are lots of people who consider this
immoral
, the tradition says that underwear should not be present if one is dressed in a kilt, the only exception being the participation to some sportive games and the presence of women. In the 50’s, soldiers were verified if they wore underwear by their sergeants who used a long stick that had in the top a mirror.
Other two’ reasons for which Scotland is famous are its traditional food and of course, whisky. No one could argue that traditional Scottish cooking has produced one of the great cuisines of the world. The quality of the ingredients has always been excellent: the world’s finest seafood including shellfish, lobster and crabs, and varieties of fish too numerous to mention; succulent lamb and beef; soft fruit including raspberries, strawberries and blackberries and a host of locally produced types of cheese, including cheddar from Ayrshire and Galloway. The national dish is the haggis, a type of food that combines mutton with other ingredients and which is served with turnip and potatoes.
Whisky has been produced in Scotland for hundreds of years. It is well known that the Irish created this alcoholic drink, but the Scots were the ones who brought it to the form that we drink today. Whisky refers to a broad category of alcoholic beverages that are distilled from grains and aged in oak casks. The name means water of life.
A lot of people consider it "immoral" to
选项
A、ask whether people who wear kilts have underwear.
B、wear a kilt without having underwear.
C、have underwear when wearing a kilt.
D、set up such a privacy-violating rule of kilt-wearing.
答案
B
解析
根据题干中的immoral定位到第5段第2句。本题实际上考查原文该句中代词this的所指。this通常指后面将要提到的内容,据此我们可以知道this是与后面穿格子裙的传统有关的,结合该段第1句的问题可以推断很多人认为穿格子裙不穿内裤是不道德的,因此本题应选B。
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