If you are travelling in Hong Kong, I think you can eat in a Chinese restaurant or go to McDonald’s or Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) to have fast food. When you come into a Chinese restaurant, you first sit down at the table. The waiters will bring you a menu soon. They usually ask, “What would you like to have?” You give your order. Then they begin to cook. It often takes some time to cook the dishes. After you have all your food, you will find your meal is always dear.
But to eat in a fast food restaurant, things are quite different. You just stand in a line in front of a counter (柜台). On the counter you will see pictures of a lot of food and drinks such as rice, hamburger, potato, cabbage, meat, hot dog, cake. You can choose any of them right away. After you give your order, people behind the counter get your food for you quickly, usually in less than three minutes. They give you your food on a plate, or in a paper bag or a box. You pay for it before you eat. And you can eat just there or take it away.
Now people like to go to fast food restaurant because to eat there is cheap and can save time. This is why fast food is becoming more and more popular in Hong Kong.
1. Can you eat in a Chinese restaurant if you travel in Hongkong?2. What will the waiter bring you when you at a Chinese restaurant?
3. When do we pay for our food in a fast food restaurant?
4. Why do people like to eat in fast food restaurant in Hong Kong?
5. Which do you like to eat, in a fast food restaurant or in a Chinese restaurant? Why?
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【推荐1】Eating Together, Separately
Separate dining is common in the western culture, while in China's dining culture, whether dining at home or eating out, a grouped dining system is used in most situations.
However, the coronavirus pandemic has challenged the deep-rooted Chinese dining tradition of sharing dishes together, which inspires the government, restaurants and citizens to rethink about eating customs.
Standards on individual (供一人用的)dining, serving chopsticks (公筷)and two pairs of chopsticks came out on March 18. Here are the main points.
Individual diners' food should he served to customers in separate tableware.
Each shared dish should be served with a separate pair of serving chopsticks.
Each diner should have two pairs of differently colored chopsticks. One is to get food from shared dishes to place into individual howls, and the other is for eating from individual bowls.
The above new standards aim to protect the public health in a scientific and practical way. Over 200 companies have followed the guidelines. In order to encourage customers to follow the standards, some restaurants offer parking coupons (优惠券)to those who use serving chopsticks.
According to a survey about separate dining by think tank Thinker, nearly 89% of 100,000 interviewees believe it's more hygienic (卫生的)because it reduces the risk of infection via saliva (唾液传染）.
For Chinese, it is not easy to change their dining behavior, because they think the grouped dining system is a tradition. When they share the food, they are building up a close relationship among diners. Besides, it is difficult to divide Chinese dishes into separate parts.
Eating separately is a break from tradition, but it is helpful to prevent diseases and improve health. People can still sit at the same table, sharing the same food and the same culture in a new way. It also encourages advanced cooking skills, which means a chance of creating something new in Chinese food.
1. When did the standards on individual dining come out?2. What is the aim of the new standards?
3. How do some restaurants encourage customers to use serving chopsticks?
4. Why is it not easy to change Chinese dining behavior?
5. According to the passage, what do you think of eating separately?
All around the world, people drink tea. But in different countries, people have very different ideas about drinking tea.
In China, for example, people always serve (提供) the tea when people get together. The Chinese drink it at any time of the day at home or in teahouses. They like to drink plain tea (素茶) best.
Tea is very important in Japan. The Japanese have a special way of serving tea called the “tea ceremony (仪式)”. It is very old and full of meaning. People do everything in a special way in the ceremony. There is even a special room for it in Japanese homes.
Another tea drinking country is England, and the late afternoon is people’s “teatime”. Almost everyone has a cup of tea then. The British usually make tea in a teapot and drink it with milk and sugar. They also eat cakes, chocolate and a few candies at teatime.
In the United States people drink tea mostly for breakfast or after meals. Americans usually use tea bags to make their tea. It is fast and easy to use tea bags to make tea. In summer, many Americans drink “iced tea”.
1. When do people serve the tea in China?2. Is there a special room for serving tea in Japanese homes?
3. Who drink tea with milk and sugar, the British or the Japanese?
4. How do Americans usually make their tea?
5. What does the writer mainly tell us in the passage?
【推荐3】Do you like to eat out? Many people like to eat out in a western restaurant（西餐厅）. We should remember the rules in a western restaurant.
Western restaurants usually give you nice napkin（餐巾）to use during the meal. When you sit down, put this napkin on your legs for the first dish. An appetizer（开胃菜）is a small dish of food. After the appetizer, you may get soup and then salad（沙拉）.
After the salad comes the main（主要的）food. A main food will have some kinds of meat or fish with noodles, rice or potatoes and vegetables. The last food is usually dessert（甜点）, like coffee or tea.
5. For some people, eating out in a western restaurant is really expensive. Some may think the food is very delicious, but some don’t think so.
1题判断正误（“T”表示正确, “F”表示错误）；2题完成句子；3、4题简略回答问题；5翻译
1. When people sit down, they usually put the napkin on the table.
2. The main food comes after the
3. What is an appetizer？
4. What is the last food？
5.
【推荐1】De Hogeweyk is a special town in Holland. The town is just like a large hospital for the old people with Alzheimer’s disease（阿尔茨海默症）— they are the people who have lost their memories.
The town is as large as ten football fields and there are supermarkets, cinemas, squares and gardens in it. Doctors and nurses play different roles such as neighbors and sellers in the shops. Their main task is to serve these old people every minute.
There aren’t any hospitals in the town. Instead, there are 23 departments of different kinds. They can make the old feel much easier and more comfortable to live in the new environment. Besides, people with similar living habits live together and two share a room. For the old, living with each other is fun. It also makes them no longer feel lonely. Every day, the old clean their rooms and cook for themselves. When they are free, they often go shopping or have drinks with their “family members”.
Since the town opened, about 280 doctors and nurses have worked there to provide 152 old people with 24-hour care and service. It is really a great place for people with Alzheimer’s disease to live in.
1. Whom is De Hogeweyk for?It is for
2. What’s the main task of doctors and nurses in the town?
Their main task is
3. What does “It” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
It refers to
4. What do the old in the town often do when they are free?
They often
5. What does the writer think of the town?
He or she thinks it’s
Hongcun (宏村), with a history of about 900 years, is an extremely beautiful village in Anhui Province. Located under Mount Huang, the village has kept the major Chinese styles from ancient times. It’s also one of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (世界文化遗产).
Walk along the old stone streets and lanes, and you will feel like travelling back in time. All the houses with grey roofs and white walls were built during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. On the front gate of each household is dotted with (点缀着) red Chinese knots and lanterns. All of them are outlined (映出轮廓) against the blue sky and reflected into the clear rivers, lakes and ponds, surrounded (环绕着) by dark green mountains. It’s a living water-ink picture.
Step into a tea house to take a rest. A piece of classical music, played by guqin, fills up the house and floats into your hearts, as if you hear birds singing, pines (松) whistling and rivers flowing. You will be lost in a world, full of peace and pleasure. Holding the tea cup, you will find some lines of poems on its out layer (层) coming into your sight:
No dust is rising on the road, wet with morning rain.
The willows by the hotel look so fresh and green.
Walk out of the tea house, and go to the open-air theatre. The actors with coloured make-ups (脸绘) are performing on the stage in special clothes. It’s a local opera called Huangmei Opera and different from others such as Kun Opera, Beijing Opera and Yue Opera. Also, you can enjoy various (多样的) quyi: crosstalk, kouji and pingshu.
If you want to feel more about the charm of Hongcun, plan a visit to it right now.
根据短文内容回答问题，每小题答案不超过六个单词。
1. Where is the beautiful village, Hongcun?
2. How long has Hongcun existed (存在)?
3. Were all the houses with grey roofs and white walls built during the Ming or Qing Dynasties?
4. How will you feel after listening to the classical music played by guqin?
5. What can you enjoy in the open-air theatre?
You asked about places to go and things to do in my town. Let me tell you now.
The Downtown Plaza is always fun. It’s a shopping area in the oldest part of town. There are some good stores and restaurants there. For example, Andrea’s Boutique is in Downtown Plaza. It’s a fun place to shop, and it has the best quality clothes.
My favorite restaurant in town is Nick’s Cafe. It is near my house. It’s cheap and its hamburgers are great. I like Dragon City Restaurant, too. You can eat wonderful noodles there and the beef noodles are the most delicious! You must try the dumplings, too! But the dumplings are more expensive than Nick’s.
The Suburb Cinema is the best movie theater. It has the biggest screens and the most comfortable seats. The Del Ray Complex is a good place to go to the movies, too. It doesn’t have the newest movies, but the tickets are cheaper than any other theater in town.
Anyway, there are lots of things to do and see here. Come for a visit soon!
Kate
1. What did Nancy want to know from Kate?She wanted to know
2. What is Downtown Plaza?
It is a
3. What kind of food can Nancy eat in town?
She can eat
4. What does the underlined word “It” refer to in the fourth paragraph?
It refers to
5. What is the Del Ray Complex like?
It
In the world, China is the second-largest cotton producer(生产地). Most of the cotton grows in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region(新疆维吾尔自治区).
Cotton needs lots of heat and sunshine to grow. Xinjiang is a good place to grow it. It has lots of sunshine-about 3,000 hours every year.
Xinjiang produces over 80 percent of China’s cotton. The most famous cotton in Xinjiang is long-stapled cotton(长绒棉). Its fibers(纤维)are longer, softer, and whiter than those of other cotton. It’s warm and comfortable. It’s good for making cloth and quilts(被子). It’s one of the best kinds of cotton in the world.
Every year from August to October, Xinjiang harvests about 5 million tons of cotton. That’s a lot! But now harvesting the cotton is not a hard job for cotton farmers. Technology is here to help.
Farmers first fly a drone(无人机) to spray(喷洒) a kind of special water. It makes the cotton leaves fall. Now it’s time to drive the machine. This big machine has a huge “mouth” and sharp “teeth”. It “eats” while walking. Wow, it “eats up” all the cotton in the field! The big guy “lays eggs” next. Look, it has left some round and tall cotton “eggs”! Then, farmers can pick up the cotton.
Every year, after the harvest season, the fresh cotton is sent to the factories nearby. There, the cotton is made into cloth and quilts.
1. Why is Xinjiang a good place to grow cotton?（超过10个词）2. What is the most famous cotton in Xinjiang good for making?（不超过5个词）
3. Where is the fresh-cotton sent after the harvest season?（不超过10个词）
【推荐2】Huge squares, great buildings and countless treasures-the Forbidden City never fails to take its visitors' breath away. It's the world's largest palace made of wood. It lived through fires and wars. But it still stands at the heart of Beijing today.
The Forbidden City is 600 years old. The third emperor (皇帝) of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yongle, built it from 1406 to 1420. Fourteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty and ten emperors of the Qing Dynasty lived and worked in it.
It took a lot of work to build the palace. About 1 million workers, including 100,000 artisans (工匠), took 14 years to build it. The materials came from all over the country. More than 100,000 pieces of nanmu, a very valuable kind of wood, were sent from Sichuan in China's far southwest. Fine gold leaf (金箔) came from Suzhou in Jiangsu province. Clay bricks were made in Shandong in the east.
There is also a 250-on stone in the palace. It's the heaviest stone there. People found it in the countryside about 80 km west of Beijing. It was so heavy that people could only transport it during the winter. They poured water onto the road to make ice. Then a team of thousands moved the stone on the ice to bring it to the palace.
The project even changed the local landscape. While building a moat (护城河) around the palace, workers dug up soil and piled it on a hill north of the Forbidden City. That's where Jingshan came from.
1. Is the Forbidden City the world's largest building?2. After Yongle, how many emperors lived in the Forbidden City?
3. Do you think it was necessary to move the 250-ton stone into the palace at that time?
People in Denmark have happier lives than those in many other countries in the world. Why? Because they know the secret (秘诀) to happiness — “hygge” . But what does “hygge” mean?
“Hygge” is a special way of life. Danish people often use the word to describe the way they spend long and cold winter days. With about 17 hours of darkness every day in winter, they spend more time indoors. At that time, Danish people often get together for a meal or hot drinks. After winter, when it’s not so cold, “hygge” means picnics in the park, parties in the garden and outdoor movie nights. Therefore, some people say “hygge” means “a comfortable feeling” in English.
However, playing on your phone at home all day is the least “hygge” thing out there. TV is okay, but you’d better ask some friends over to watch movies with you, as staying together is another key part of being “hygge”.
For Danish people, lighting candles is the most important part of creating an environment of “hygge” at home. They light more candles each year than any other European country.
In a word, “hygge” is about creating a warm environment and enjoying the little simple things in life. By making some small changes to your life, you can practice this way wherever you are.
Danish people live happily because they know how to live a happy life. They often use the word “hygge” to describe the way they spend long and cold winter days. In winter, they have about Playing on your phone alone at home all day is not a way of “hygge”. Staying together is an important To create an environment of “hygge”, Danish people like to light a lot of candles. They think it’s |
