Sam, a foreign student at Communication University of China, often shares his experiences of Chinese culture on his vlog.
In one video, for example, Sam shared how he had learned the Chinese word “dongxi”, he translated each part separately into “east west”. And he introduced one theory about how “dongxi” came to mean “things”. He told people that all marketplaces in ancient Chinese cities were set up along a single road that ran from east to west. So when you would say “qu mai dongxi”, you’d be saying, “Tm going to buy things.”
Some other videos show his reading Chinese poems and performing kung fu in Chinese traditional custom, which are quite welcome among his 40, 000 followers.
“Many of my followers are learning Chinese,” Sam said. “But sadly, they know little about Chinese culture and the country.”
Like many foreigners, Sam once believed that all Chinese could perform kung fu, flying onto roofs and walking over walls. He thought the country was not that developed. But after he got a scholarship (奖学金) to study in China in 2019, his view changed. “China has entered a new period, but many people’s impressions of China are still stuck in the 1970s,” Sam said. “That’s why I started to shoot vlogs to share Chinese culture in 2019.”
Until now, Sam has posted more than 40 Chinese culture vlogs online. But making these vlogs is not easy. Take reading the poem Second Farewell to Cambridge by Xu Zhimo as an example.
“I can understand and read every word in the poem,” Sam said. “But to touch readers, I need to use proper feelings while reading.” So he needed to look for much background information and make his feelings suit each part of the poem.
Though shooting these vlogs takes lots of time, the young man feels proud that his vlogs have inspired many people. Sam said that he wanted to continue bridging the differences between two cultures. “This goal may not be achieved easily, but I will spare no efforts to do my part.”
1. What made Sam shoot vlogs?| A．His dream to be a big vlogger. |
| B．His interest in Chinese culture. |
| C．His hunger for new technology. |
| D．His wish to show the real China. |
| A．remained | B．returned | C．suggested | D．succeeded |
| A．meet the followers’ needs | B．express Sam’s love for poems |
| C．show Sam’s efforts at vlog-making | D．give an example of Chinese culture |
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【推荐1】When your parents are busy with work and have no time to cook, you can pick up the phone and order some food for yourself. Lots of people order takeaway these days. But did people eat takeaway in ancient China?
The answer is yes! There was takeaway from the Song Dynasty. People at that time didn’t have phones. But they could still order food. Families with much money had servants. They went out to pick up dishes for their hosts. Some restaurants had delivery workers(外卖员). They walked around the city or waited outside theaters. People paid them to deliver food. People also liked to order takeaway for big days, such as birthdays, festivals and some days when friends visited. People would order their food before the big day came. The delivery workers would bring dishes to their houses.
Now delivery workers use electric bikes(电瓶车) to deliver food. But in the past, delivery workers delivered food on foot. It took a long time and the food would get cold easily. Some restaurants used a special plate to keep their food warm. It had two layers of porcelain(两层陶瓷). People put hot water between the two layers to keep the dishes warm.
1. When did people have takeaway in ancient China?| A．Qin Dynasty | B．Tang Dynasty | C．Song Dynasty | D．Ming Dynasty |
| A．朋友 | B．亲戚 | C．仆人 | D．主人 |
| A．birthdays | B．festivals | C．days with friends | D．sad days |
| A．By walking. | B．By using the phone. |
| C．By using electric bikes. | D．By riding a horse. |
| A．only rich family could ask for takeaway |
| B．both servants and delivery workers delivered takeaway |
| C．people ordered takeaway on or after their big days |
| D．people had no idea about keeping the food warm |
【推荐2】What do you think will happen when the traditional culture meets modern technology? Yes, the “dead” words become lively characters (人物) at once. How happy it is to enjoy these Chinese cartoons!
| Ma Liang is a poor boy who loves painting. He always uses his magic brush to fight against bad people in the village. The cartoon The Magic Brush came out in 1955. |
| A group of tadpoles（蝌蚪）are born. They try to find their mother that they have never seen. The story is very simple, but it needs complex technology to show the artistic style of ink（水墨）painting. Little Tadpole Looking for Mom was watched in 1961 first. |
| The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven（1961﹣1964）is China’s first color cartoon. It is from the Chinese novel Journey to the West. It’s successful. Not only we but also many westerners like the great monkey Sun Wukong. |
| To beat two bad persons, an old man grows 7 calabashes（葫芦）, and they change into 7 boys. They try their best to beat the bad. Calabash Brothers (1986) is a masterpiece（杰作）of Chinese paper-cutting art. |
1. From the passage, we can learn something about ________.
| A．famous people | B．Chinese inventions |
| C．traditional food | D．Chinese cartoons |
| A．重复的 | B．复杂的 | C．杂乱的 | D．冗长的 |
| A．the first film in China |
| B．only loved by Chinese |
| C．the first color cartoon in China |
| D．loved by all the westerners |
| A．Ma Liang punished the villagers with his brush. |
| B．Little Tadpole Looking for Mom came out in 1964. |
| C．The Monkey King is from a Chinese novel. |
| D．Calabash Brothers is from Chinese clay art. |
| A．The Magic Brush |
| B．Little Tadpole Looking for Mom |
| C．The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven |
| D．Calabash Brothers |
【推荐3】As a traditional and meaningful board game, Weiqi was invented in China in the BC480 and it is still played until today.
The playing pieces are called stones. One player uses the white stones and the other, black. The players take turns to play the stones on the game board. As we know, the board surface(板面) has 361 cross points. The stones are placed on them.
Weiqi is also called Go in the world. Learning it can not only improve people’s logical thinking ability, but it can also develop their calm character. That’s why it is more and more popular with modern people.
In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Weiqi traveled to Japan, and then to Europe in the 19th century. Now it has grown into an international competition event. So far, people from over 40 countries have played it. Among them, players from China, Japan and South Korea have the highest level of Weiqi.
On February 19, Chinese-English Dictionary of Weiqi Term (术语) came out in Beijing. It’s the first professional(专业的) dictionary about Weiqi in China. As a symbol of Chinese culture, Weiqi has its special language. The dictionary will serve as a necessary tool and bridge for spreading Weiqi culture.
1. When was Weiqi invented in China?| A．In the BC800. | B．In the BC480. | C．In the AD480. | D．In the AD 500. |
| A．碎片 | B．棋子 | C．零件 | D．条/块 |
| A．logical thinking ability | B．language ability | C．physical ability | D．writing ability |
| A．Weiqi’s board surface has 360 cross points |
| B．Weiqi traveled to Japan and Europe in Qing Dynasty |
| C．Chinese-English Dictionary of Weiqi is the only professional dictionary |
| D．Weiqi is a symbol of Chinese culture |
| A．The advantages of Weiqi. | B．The language of Weiqi. |
| C．An introduction(介绍) of Weiqi. | D．The ways of playing Weiqi. |
| Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White reviewed by Tristan, age 7, California | Charlotte’s Web is a great book. Fern goes to visit Wilbur every day, and one morning Wilbur discovers there’s a spider in the corner of his pigpen(猪舍). It’s so exciting to read! Anyway, that’s my favourite book! | The Grace Stories by Sofie Laguna reviewed by Imogen, age 9, Australia | It is a story about a girl in London. She was sent to Sydney Cove in Australia in convict(囚犯) times. A couple called Beth and Tom Clay chose her to come and work on their homestead(农庄) at Wattle Park. At the very end, she becomes part of their family, and the two little children Polly and Alice become her sisters. |
| The Invisible Island by Ron Roy reviewed by Ayla, age 6, New York | I think it’s really cool because the friends (Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose) went to Sqaw Island to have a picnic and found a $100 bill on it. I also think it’s really cool because they went back and found a secret underground passage to somewhere. | Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George, reviewed by Rosalie, age 10, Maryland | Celie is a wonderful princess. The castle she lives in is magic and it grows new rooms on Tuesdays! This is a very exciting book, and you never know what will happen next! You should read it! |
| A．6. | B．7. | C．9. | D．10. |
| A．Jessica Day George. | B．Ron Roy. | C．Sofie Laguna. | D．E.B. White. |
| A．She went to Squaw Island to have a picnic. |
| B．She was sent to Sydney Cove in Australia in convict times. |
| C．She goes to visit Wilbur every day. |
| D．She is a wonderful princess. |
| A．In the book Charlotte’s Web, Wilbur discovers there is a spider in the corner of his pigpen. |
| B．In the book Tuesdays at the Castle, Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose found a secret underground passage to somewhere. |
| C．In the book The Grace Stories, a castle grows new rooms on Tuesdays. |
| D．In the book The Invisible Island, there is a girl named Grace. |
| A．Kids’ opinions on some storybooks. |
| B．Kids’ favourite writers of some storybooks. |
| C．Some popular storybooks among kids. |
| D．A review class of storybooks. |
【推荐2】When I was very young, people in our village lived by planting fruit trees. My grandmother always took me to the orchard (果园) on the hill. At that time, they had to carry water from the river at the foot of the hill to halfway up the hill. Even though we worked so hard, the production level of fruit was still low because it was short of water there.
One day, two young men led a group of workers to our village. They learned about the difficulties we faced, and later, canals and other projects began to be built in my village, “Who are they?” I asked. “They are good men from our government,” my grandma replied.
Shortly afterwards, I moved to another city for my junior high school. The only reason I ever came back to my hometown was my grandmother.
One day, my family and I made time to return. We were surprised because everything had changed. The canal ran past every orchard so villagers didn’t have to go up and down the hill anymore. The river was now so clean that fish swam happily in it. When we arrived home, my grandma took out some fresh pears and apples. She told us that after the water conservation project (水利工程) was completed, a policy (政策) was made to encourage more people to increase the fruit production with clean water in the river.
Thank those good men who have devoted themselves to the development of our countryside.
Nowadays, people work hard to live in a big city. However, we should not forget our hometowns where we are from.
1. What troubled the villagers most?| A．They had too much work. | B．It was not convenient to go up the hill. |
| C．They could only grow fruit trees. | D．There wasn’t enough water in the orchard. |
| A．the villagers’ suggestions | B．the government’s support |
| C．a school’s practical activity | D．a company’s engineering plan |
| A．The grandmother doesn’t like to live in the city. |
| B．The village is a place of interest for tourists now. |
| C．There will be more fruit production in the village. |
| D．More people like to work in the countryside nowadays. |
| A．How is a village improved? | B．Who are the good men? |
| C．Why do people come back? | D．What does a hometown mean? |
【推荐3】Alice is a 9-year-old girl from Washington. She grew food for the homeless four years ago. Now she is working on building 11 small homes for the homeless.
She got the idea after she met a homeless man named Edward on the street while going out shopping with her mother. They gave the man a sandwich, but Alice started thinking about how she could do more and continue providing food for the people in need. So she set up Alice’s Harvest, a garden with its own Facebook page, to grow vegetables.
“I said ‘sure’, thinking it would last a week. However, it lasts four years and she still offers vegetables to the homeless every week,” her mom, Miranda, said.
“It just doesn’t seem right that there are homeless people,” Alice said to her mother. “I think everyone should have a place to live in.” So she keeps putting in weeks of work on the shelters. Alice can use tools by herself to build a small house. The house is safe and dry.
Alice received money for the homes. She is going to put the money in the town’s permanent Tent City (帐篷) and hopes it can be open to the homeless later this year. “One window got put in today,” she wrote in one post. “I didn’t get as much as I wanted today, but one wall was in.”
Together Rising, which helped fund (资助) her project, said, “We can’t think of a better example than our Alice. She shows that no person or act of kindness is too small to change the world.”
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. What can we know from Paragraph 1?
| A．Alice has helped homeless people for four years. | B．Alice is busy raising money for the homeless. |
| C．Alice is good at growing fruit. | D．Alice is interested in building houses. |
| A．Because her mom asked her to do so. |
| B．Because she wanted to take up gardening as her hobby. |
| C．Because she enjoyed planting vegetables. |
| D．Because she wanted to help more people like Edward. |
| A．舒适区 | B．防空洞 | C．庇护所 | D．公寓楼 |
| A．Smart and hard-working. | B．Brave and good-natured. |
| C．Kind and strong-willed. | D．Humorous and warm-hearted. |
| A．Things we can do to help the homeless |
| B．A girl has always been trying to help the homeless |
| C．A small kindness could hardly change the world |
| D．Everyone can play a part in changing the world |
