The Mid-Autumn Festival is a special day in China in autumn. It’s①________ August 15th in the Chinese lunar calendar. That day is always in September or near the start of October. Some people use three ways to describe the Mid-Autumn Festival,family, moon and mooncakes.
1. Happy family time
The Mid-Autumn Festival is an important festival in China. It’s for people to enjoy a happy family time. Many people who live far away from homes want to go back to have a family②reunion. It’s like Thanksgiving and Christmas. Mothers cook nice food and people in China enjoy a happy family dinner.
2. A bright full moon
The Mid-Autumn Festival is the best time to enjoy the full moon. This is because in autumn it’s least cloudy in China. For Chinese people, the full moon means family time. A saying goes,③“The moon in your hometown is almost always the brightest and roundest”.
3. Nice mooncakes
Mooncakes are a kind of important food at the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mooncakes are in the shape of round and look like a full moon. Some people call the festival the Mooncake Festival. How happy it is to enjoy the mooncakes while watching the full moon with your family members! Mooncakes are as important as turkeys(火鸡) at Thanksgiving.
1. 在文中①处填入一个恰当的词。2. 请从A、B选项中选出文中②处划线单词的恰当汉语意思________。
| A．团聚 | B．单元 |
4. Why is the Mid-Autumn Festival the best time to enjoy the full moon?
5. What do American people usually eat on Thanksgiving Day?
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World Sleep Day, organized by the World Sleep Day Committee of the World Association of Sleep Medicine since 2008, is held on March 21 every year.
The aim of World Sleep Day is to celebrate the benefits of good and healthy sleep. Events involving discussions, presentations of educational materials and exhibitions take place around the world and online.
Sleep quality plays a key role in people’s health. Researchers say that there are a lot of advantages if we always get enough sleep. We can be smarter, thinner, healthier and more cheerful. Also we’re to have better skin, better memories and longer lives. When you lose even one hour of sleep for any reason, it will influence your performance the next day.
In general, adults are thought to need at least eight hours of sleep a night, but a recent survey found that, on weekdays, only 21% of them really get a full eight hours of sleep, and another 21% get less than six. For teenagers, a healthy amount is about eight to nine hours per night. However, about 80% of high school students don’t get enough sleep because of their schoolwork or some bad habits.
27% of people throughout the world have sleep problems. Now there are over 80 kinds of sleep disorders, and most people know little about their danger. So, for our good life and work, it’s necessary for us to realize the importance of sleep and try to have a good sleep.
根据短文内容回答问题。(不超过10个词)
1. When is World Sleep Day ？
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2. What is the purpose of World Sleep Day？
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3. What will happen if we sleep one hour less than we should？
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4. Why don’t most high school students have enough sleep？
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5. How many kinds of sleep disorders are there in the world?
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The Spring Festival is the biggest festival in China. It is a good time for family members to get together. However, during this year’s Spring Festival, the Shenzhou XIII astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu were still in China’ s space station core module(核心舱), about 400 km above the Earth. They became the first Chinese to spend the Spring Festival in space.
On New Year’s Eve, the three astronauts ①________ their Spring Festival greetings in a video. They wished the motherland prosperity (繁荣).
Zhai showed a pair of couplets (对联) and said, “I wish all of you good health and good luck in everything you do.”Dressed in festive costurmes,Wang, with a red balloon in her hand, wished children across the country “healthy growth”. Ye held a sticker with the Chinese character “fu”, and wished the Chinese people “a happy Lunar New Year and a happy family” .
Though far from home, the three still followed the traditions they usually share ②________ their families on Earth—hanging red lanterns, pasting (贴) spring couplets, eating dumplings and wearing new clothes.
China expects to complete the building of its space station this year. And in the future, more Chinese people will have New Year celebrations and enjoy the Spring Festival in space.
1. 请根据短文内容，分别写出①、②处所缺单词。（每空限填一词）2. 阅读短文，从短文中找出与下面句子意思相近的句子。3. 请把上文中划线的句子翻译成汉语。4、5请根据短文内容回答下列问题。
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2. The building of China’s space station is excepted to be completed this year.
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4. What did Ye Guangfu do in the video?
5. How did the three astronauts celebrate the Spring Festival in the space station?
It's time to enjoy the special warm porridge (粥)of winter!
In China, the 12th month of the lunar calendar (农历)is called La Yue. Chinese people celebrate a festival on the eighth day of the month. It falls on January 2 in 2020.
From this day on, people begin to get ready for the Spring Festival.
On this day, people eat the hot laba porridge. It has rice, red beans, peas, dried lotus seeds (莲子) and different kinds of nuts. To make the porridge nice, people cook it with eight different things. Everywhere you eat the porridge, and it tastes differently.
At midnight, people begin to cook it, but the special smell won't come until the next morning.
The porridge is also called Eight Treasure(八宝)porridge. The porridge is not just good for health, but a blessing (祝福)for the coming of the Spring Festival.
Is your family ready for making the porridge this year?
1. When do Chinese people have laba porridge this year?______________________________________________________________________
2. What do Chinese people do after the festival?
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3. How many things do Chinese use to make the porridge nice?
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4. When do people begin to cook the porridge?
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5. What do Chinese people have the porridge for?
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Hanfu, the traditional Chinese clothes, has become more and more popular, especially among young people. You can see them wearing Hanfu walking in the streets. Some people wear Hanfu because it is beautiful, while some may be interested in the rich culture behind it.
Zhang Zening, a girl from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, has made more than 50 sets of Hanfu from different dynasties. She started to make her own Hanfu ten years ago because she couldn’t buy her favorite style (风格) in the market.
In order to make Hanfu, she has visited many places of interest, such as Yongle Palace in Shanxi Province, Fahai Temple in Beijing, and Dunhuang in Gansu Province. She studied from the murals (壁画) there. She also studied from paintings by Tang Bohu from the Song Dynasty. She taught herself painting and costume designs (服装设计).
Making Hanfu is not easy. It takes about a month to make each Hanfu set. Zhang now runs the He Lu Hanfu Studio (工作室) in Nanjing. She said, “For me, making Hanfu is not just about creating a piece of clothing; it’s about tasting a culture that I find amazing.”
1. Why do some people choose to wear Hanfu?2. When did Zhang Zening begin to make Hanfu?
3. How long does Zhang Zening spend making each set Hanfu?
4. Do you like Hanfu? Why or why not? (Write 30 words or more)
Tofu Culture in China
Tofu is a kind of Chinese food which is known around the world. It is made from soybean, water and a coagulant(凝结剂). People coagulate soybean milk, and then press the resulting mixture into pieces.
Tofu is said to originate in the Western Han dynasty. At the time, Liu An, a grandson of Emperor Liu Bang, was thirsty for learning the magical art of living forever, so he went deep into a mountain to make magic pills. He failed in his efforts to produce the pills. Instead, he created a white and soft material with a pleasant smell. The brave local people tried the product, and found it delicious. And it was named “tofu”. Liu An became an unexpected inventor of tofu, and his hometown, Shou County of Anhui Province, has been known as the “hometown of tofu”.
Simple in production and cheap in cost, tofu soon became people’s favorite food. After the Song dynasty, the culture of tofu spread even further. Many famous people also took part in spreading the culture. Su Dongpo, a great poet of the Northern Song dynasty, had a special liking for tofu and invented a tofu dish called Dongpo tofu. Poet Lu You of the Southern Song dynasty also recorded the preparation of tofu dishes in his work. More interesting is a record about tofu and Emperor Kangxi from the Qing dynasty. When in Suzhou on his tour to South China, Emperor Kangxi didn’t give gold to his high officials, but tofu dishes.
As tofu culture has spread far and wide, people in different areas have continuously developed the recipes of tofu dishes according to their own tastes, such as Mapo tofu, stinky tofu. Simple though tofu is, it can be made into a table of Chinese dishes complete with beautiful colors, sweet smells, and delicious tastes.
Today, tofu and its related products have become common foods for Chinese people. It is a necessary dish on the dinner table during the Chinese lunar New Year, because it sounds like “福”, the word for “good luck” in Chinese. Just as the saying goes, “Tofu, tofu, a mouthful of ‘Fu’”.
| *Su Dongpo invented a tofu dish called Dongpo tofu. *Lu You recorded the preparation of tofu dishes in his work. *Kangxi gave his high officials tofu 3 gold when in Suzhou on his tour to South China. *People in different areas have continuously developed the recipes of tofu dishes that are 4 their own tastes. *People can make a table of tofu dishes complete with beautiful colors, sweet smells, and delicious tastes. *Tofu is a necessary dish on the New Year’s dinner table because it has 5 as the word “fu” in Chinese. |
【推荐3】How do you feel about your Chinese？Is it good or bad？If you think you are good at Chinese，you can take par in the competition named the “Chinese Characters Dictation Competition (中国汉字听写大会)”. The competition became popular among teenagers. Let’s know something about it.
More and more computers and smart phones are used by teenagers. They are used to sending messages by computer and smart phone. As a result，some teenagers forget how to write the Chinese characters by hand.
The teachers and parents are very worried about it. What can they do？
Not long ago，they found an interesting game called the Chinese Characters Dictation Competition. In this program，middle school students competed among themselves and wrote down the Chinese characters by dictation. Over two hundred competitors were from forty-six middle schools. The audiences loved this new kind of competition，too. They tried to write down the Chinese characters while the competitors were writing them. But they found it was also difficult for hem to write down all the Chinese characters.
Is it an interesting competition？Can you be the winner？
1. 任务一：判断正误T or F.It was easy for audiences to write down all the Chinese characters.
2. 任务二：第三段划线单词“they”指代的是
3. 任务三：回答问题Who can compete in “Chinese Characters Dictation Competition？
4. 任务四：翻译划线句子
5. 任务五：找出文中“What do you think of your Chinese？”的同义句。
【推荐1】Can you imagine your life with no mobile phones or TV? With no cars or supermarkets? Can you imagine life in a tree house?
In her book, A Life in the Trees, writer Rebecca Moore travels 15,000 km from London to Papua New Guinea. In Papua New Guinea, Rebecca meets the Kombai people. She tells the story of their traditional lifestyle.
Rebecca lived with the Kombai women and children for three months. Kombai life is very different. They have no watches and no cars. The Kombai get up every morning at sunrise.
Kombai men hunt (狩猎) in the jungle. They can hunt in the jungle for 12 hours. They bring meat to the village. The Kombai also eat cucumbers, mushrooms and green bananas. The women cook. There is no school for the children. Parents teach their children the traditional lifestyle of their people.
The most important part of Kombai life is building their amazing tree houses. The men, women and children all help to build a tree house. Each house is 20 metres high. The stories of the Kombai people are amazing.
1. Rebecca tells the story of Kombai people in her2. Rebecca lived with the Kombai people for
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4. Kombai children learn the traditional lifestyle from
5. The most important thing in Kombai life is
【推荐2】Here are some tips on listening. We hope it can help you in one way or others.
① Before you start to listen to something, you need to relax. Don’t get nervous or excited. This will help you with your listening.
② The first sentence tells you a lot about the whole passage. For example, if at the very beginning, you hear “Many shops in many parts of China have decided to take away all kinds of Japanese goods off their shelves, but some people say it’s not a good idea. Our reporter says...”. You know you will hear a piece of news, not a children’s story or a science report.
③ When you are listening, try to do some thinking. For example, you can think of the following questions: What happened? When, where and how? What is the result and what does the speaker want to tell us? In this way, you may understand the passage better.
④ It’s important for you to remember some important facts. For example, if the passage is a science report, you should try to remember its findings and how the scientists got their results.
⑤ You may hear some words that you don’t know, but don’t spend too much time on them. Very often, you’ll find out what they mean later when you go on with the listening. But you can remember some words or sentences that you think are important, and you can use them when you are answering the questions.
(1) 根据短文内容, 从方框中选出每段的主旨大意。
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| A.Listening carefully to the first sentence. B.Listen for important facts. C.Think when you are listening. D.Don’t think about one or two words for too long. E.Relax yourself. |
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Koala bears (考拉熊) and kangaroos (袋鼠) are two kinds of animals in Australia. They are both national treasures (国宝) of Australia. They are also very famous around the world.
The koala bear is a kind of little, short and fat animal. It has two big ears on its head. It is very cute and looks like a toy bear. A baby koala is very small when it is born. It has no hair and it cannot see anything either. It lives in its mother’s pouch (育儿袋) around a year. The koala sleeps during the day and eats at night. It feeds on a kind of leaves. It gets water from those leaves, so it doesn’t need water. The koala seldom swims, although it can swim well. Koalas once were in danger because some people killed them. Now they are protected better than before. Their number now is about 40,000.
However, the kangaroo is another kind of animal in Australia. It has short front legs, long and strong back legs, so it can jump very high. It looks like a big mouse. The kangaroo’s favorite food is grass. Most of them like to eat outside. It likes to live in groups. It is the national symbol of Australia. There are more kangaroos than people in Australia.
National Treasures of Australia | ||
Items (项目) |
Koala Bear |
Kangaroo |
Appereance (外貌) | little, short and fat | short front legs, long and back legs |
Food | grass | |
Habit | live in | |
about 40,000 | more than people in Australia | |
