ABC means American-born-Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So, when a person is a banana, he or she is white inside---hinting like a Westerner(西方人) and yellow outside --- looking like a Chinese.
Do you know why? Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them don’t speak Chinese. Also, they are not interested in Chinese politics(政治),But if ABCs can’t speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are Chinese. They are overseas(海外的) Chinese. These people may be citizens(公民) of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese
1. “ABC” in this passage stands for “_______”.
| A．a kind of banana | B．three English letters | C．Chinese born in American |
| A．their bodies are white inside but yellow outside. |
| B．they think like Westerners but look like Chinese |
| C．they were born in China but go to study in America |
| A．血统 | B．洪水 | C．身份 |
A. American Chinese are great
B. Chinese people can win Nobel Prize.
C. American Chinese are not Chinese citizen.
5. This passage mainly talks about________
A. overseas Chinese B. the Nobel Prize C. the life story of C.N. Yang
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The first people who drank tea were the Chinese, because the bush grew wild all over the south of China. The liked the taste, and found the drink could refresh (使精力恢复) them.
People living in Europe first learned about tea growing and drinking from a book printed（印刷） in Italy in 1599. The writer said that tea was a wonderful medicine. Although people in Europe knew about tea in 1599, It was another fifty years before the first tea from China reached Holland(荷兰).
A few years later, tea was brought overland from China to Russia. The long difficult journey was made over mountains and across deserts（沙漠）.
The new drink reached England in 1657. It was sold at one of the coffee houses. Only the very rich people could afford to drink.
1. Who found the tea could refresh people first?
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2. Was tea a kind of medicine according to a book printed in Italy?
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3. When did the people in Europe first know about tea?
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4. Could everyone afford to drink tea when it was sold in England in 1657?
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5. Do you like drinking tea?
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【推荐2】The Four Treasures of Study
In China, writing brushes, ink sticks, paper and ink stones are called the Four Treasures of Study. Among the high-quality treasures he writing brush produced in Huzhou, the ink stick produced in Huizhou, the xuan paper made in Xuancheng and the ink stone made in Duanxi are the best-known.
The writing brushes can be used to draw the pictures on painted potteries(陶器). They are mainly made of the hair of animals. Their artistic effects(效果)in writing and painting cannot be copied by any other pens.
The ink stick is the pigment(颜料)used for writing and painting. The ink stick produced in Huizhou is of high quality. A story goes like this: Two famous skilled men Xi Chao and his son produced high quality ink stick. As a result, the Emperor Li Yu in the Southern Tang Dynasty agreed to give them the family name “Li”. From then on, the fame of the Li Ink Stick was widespread. In the Song Dynasty, its producing area was changed into Huizhou, and it was then called the Hui Ink Stick.
Paper is among the four great inventions in ancient China. The famous xuan paper appeared in the Sui and Tang dynasties. It’s said that Cai Lun’s pupil Kong Dan took the job of producing paper but failed to make perfect white paper. Later he happened to see the ebony(檀木) in the rivers. It was wet with the water and turned white. Then he used the bark(树皮) to produce the world-famous xuan paper.
The ink stone was already very popular in the Han Dynasty. The Ming and Qing dynasties saw the appearance of the Four Famous Ink Stones—Duan Ink Stone, She Ink Stone, Tao Ink Stone and Chengni Ink Stone. They can not only be used in writing and painting but also for admiration.
回答下列问题，每题不超过5个词。1. Where is the best-known ink stone made?
2. What are the writing brushes mainly made of?
3. Who got the family name “Li” from the Emperor Li Yu?
4. How did Kong Dan produce the world-famous xuan paper?
5. When was the ink stone very popular?
【推荐3】Experts believe that there are more than 8 million restaurants in the world today. So it might surprise you to learn that restaurants, as we know them, have only been around for a few centuries. Before 1765, there were no restaurants. That it is to say, there were no places that provided the restaurant experience. There was nowhere in which a waiter brought you food and drinks that you picked from a menu. In fact, there were no menus anywhere.
A man called Boulanger changed that. In 1765, he opened a place in Paris that sold soup. On his sign, he used the word “restaurant” to describe what he was selling. At that time, it was believed that soup could help restore(恢复) your health—in French the word “restore” is “restaurer”—so he called the soup “restaurant”. Soon, people started buying his soup even when they were not ill. And later, people begin to use the word “restaurant” to mean a place selling soup rather than(而不是) the soup itself. People could see more “restaurant” in France, and they began to buy soup more often.
Later, restaurant in Paris began to serve other food besides soup. In the 1790s, menus started to appear. By the mid-1800s. there were many kinds of restaurants around the world. The United States offered coffee shops. Tea houses become popular in China. Paris created beautiful restaurants for the rich. The British began to copy the French, and the restaurant idea spread in Britain.
Today, cities are filled with all kinds of restaurants. Diners have millions of choices for what to eat. They like going to eat at those restaurants and always have a good time.
The | |
| Before 1765 | People never had the |
In 1765 | French man Boulanger He put up a sign with the word “restaurant” in front of his shop. Then, soup Over time, the word “restaurant” was more often used to mean a place selling soup. At last, more “restaurant” selling soup appeared. |
| By the mid-1800s | Restaurants in Paris served both soup and other food after 1765. Menus in restaurants first appeared in the 1790s. The idea of opening restaurants was spread to foreign countries. |
| Now | Over 8 million restaurants are in the world. All kinds of restaurants got great |
