According to the traditional Chinese calendar, there are 24 solar terms in a year. The 24 solar terms were created thousands of years ago to guide agriculture production (农业生产). But solar term culture is still useful today to guide people’s lives through cultural activities and special foods that go with each term.
There are six solar terms in winter. They are beginning of winter, light snow, heavy snow, winter solstice (冬至), lesser cold (小寒) and greater cold.
Beginning of winter usually falls on November 7th or 8th. After beginning of winter, most parts of the country can start to expect cold weather. On this day, after a year of hard work, people are happy to have a rest and spend time with family. The northern China celebrates beginning of winter as the “Small Spring Festival”. People usually have dumplings on the day.
Light snow usually falls on November 22nd or 23rd and heavy snow is on December 7th or 8th. When winter solstice comes, it brings the shortest days of the year and the longest nights. Many places around the country can expect the coldest weather. People often start counting “nine cold periods” starting from winter solstice. Every cold period has nine days. People believe that after 81 cold days, spring will come.
Greater cold comes after lesser cold. The field is covered with snow. All Chinese are ready to welcome the Spring Festival after it. Of course, a new round of solar terms will start.
1. How many solar terms are there in winter?There are
2. How do people celebrate beginning of winter?
They celebrate it by
3. When is light snow?
It’s usually
4. What does the underlined “it” in the fourth paragraph refer to?
It refers to
5. According to the passage, which solar term is the last one in a year?
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Chinese chopsticks are a pair of sticks to be used when eating. They were first used in China and then introduced to other areas in the world. Chopsticks are considered one of the symbols of Chinese food culture.
When were chopsticks invented? In fact, before the invention of chopsticks, Chinese ancestors actually used hands to eat. Chinese people started to use chopsticks about 3,000 years ago during the Shang Dynasty. During the pre-Qin period, chopsticks were called “Jia”, and in the Qin and Han Dynasties, they were called “Zhu”. Because “Zhu” shares the same pronunciation with “stop” in Chinese, which is an unlucky word, by the Ming Dynasty people began to call them “Kuai”, meaning “fast” in Chinese. This is the origin of today’s name of Chinese chopsticks.
Who invented chopsticks? There is no exact historical record about the question, but there are many folk stories about it. One story is that Jiang Ziya was inspired to create chopsticks by a mythical (神话中的) bird. Another one is that Daji, the favorite wife of the King Zhou of Shang, invented chopsticks in order to please the king. It is also said that Yu the Great, who founded the Xia Dynasty used sticks to pick up hot food in order to save time to control flood.
What should we pay attention to when using chopsticks? When eating with the elders, Chinese people usually let the elders take up chopsticks before anyone else. Besides, playing with chopsticks is thought to be a bad manner. It’s also impolite to tap chopsticks on one’s bowl, because in ancient China beggars (乞丐) often did it to draw attention.
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【推荐2】Every Saturday evening, many people come to an open square in a small town in Xi’an. They want to watch Chen Kun and his friends put on a shadow puppet play（皮影戏）.
Shadow puppets are made of hard leather（皮革）. The leather is cut out in the shape (A) ________ a person.
During a shadow puppet play, Chen stands behind a white screen with lights behind (B) it. The audience sit in front of the screen. Chen and his friends hold the puppets very close (C) ________ the screen so the audience can see the puppets’ shadows clearly. Then they move the puppets around and do the voices of the different characters.
Shadow puppet plays are a traditional Chinese art. (D) Nowadays, shadow puppet plays are not as popular as before. To let more young people learn the skills of shadow puppet plays, Chen provides students with training courses. (E) Shadow puppet plays are quite a hard job, but he still wants to pass this traditional art down.
阅读短文, 根据题目要求完成下列任务。
1. 在文中（A）和（C）的空白处分别填入适当的介词：
2. 文中划线（B）的 “it” 指代的是什么?
3. 请在文中找出一个意为 “表演” 的短语。
4. Translate the underlined sentence（D）into Chinese.
5. 请将（E）改为同义句, 一空一词。
【推荐3】Like many other foreigners, Rosalind Oliver’s first touch of Chinese Tai Chi came from popular kung fu movies. However, she has become a Tai Chi master herself, teaching it to both Chinese and foreigners.
Oliver’s journey with Tai Chi began in her early 20s, when her backache was always troubling her and she was turning to an exercise. Then she discovered advertisement classes about Tai Chi by accident and decided to try the “mysterious” eastern sport. Right away Oliver fell in love with the beautiful movement of Tai Chi. To her joy, she found that her back pains disappeared after years of practice.
Oliver later met her late husband, who was also her Tai Chi teacher. In the early 1990s, the couple opened their own Tai Chi school in the UK. To further understand Tai Chi, they decided to start a journey to China. However, three years after moving to Shanghai in 2000, her husband died, leaving her alone to work on Tai Chi.
The 58-year-old British woman recalled that it was a hard time for her. However, she was thankful to Chinese friends in Shanghai who supported her through the painful process. “They didn’t treat me like a foreigner, but rather like a friend.” Oliver said.
In 2005, Oliver set up the Double Dragon Alliance Cultural Center, which acts as a bridge for foreign people to get a better understanding of Chinese culture such as traditional Chinese medicine and Peking Opera.
Besides her Tai Chi classes, Oliver now teaches English at Shanghai University. Oliver expressed her deep love for cultural exchange and hoped to spread her work in this area.
1. When did Oliver’s journey with Tai Chi begin?2. What happened to Oliver’s back after years of practising Tai Chi?
3. Where did Oliver’s couple open their own Tai Chi school?
4. Why did Oliver set up the Double Dragon Alliance Cultural Center?
One evening, Zhang Luyang was working on her math homework. The 12-year-old girl from Sichuan Province opened Tik Tok, known as Douyin, to watch some short videos. She just wanted to take a short break, but half an hour later, she was still watching short videos.
Zhang Luyang is one of many teenagers who enjoy watching short videos on apps like Douyin. The videos usually last from 15 seconds to 5 minutes. According to a survey by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, 20 percent of the teenagers watch short videos during their free time. About 10 percent check short video apps several times a day.
Sun Zhenyao, a 14-year-old boy from Anhui, says he likes short videos because they are interesting. It’s the perfect thing to do when I want to kill time”, he said. However, the more time he spends on the short videos, the worse his eyes are.
Zhang Luyang says she can learn a lot by watching short videos. She follows a Chinese vlogger living in the US on Douyin. The vlogger enjoys doing funny things, like selling pancakes on the street, inviting foreigners to watch The Wandering Earth. “His videos teach me about cultural differences.”
These days many apps like Douyin offer a “teenager mode (模式)”. In this mode, teenagers are allowed to play for no more than 40 minutes each time and if they want to play more or watch the videos between 10 p. m. and 6 a. m., they should ask their parents for password (密码).
1. How many percent of the teenagers watch short videos when they are free? (不超过5个词)2. Can Zhang Luyang learn a lot by watching short videos? (不超过3个词)
3. Why do the apps like Douyin offer a “teenager mode”? (不超过15个词)
【推荐2】The year 2022 is a big year for sports in China. That’s because China held the 24th Winter Olympics from Feb 4th to Feb 20th in Beijing. What’s more, the 19th Asian Games will begin on Sept 10th and end on Sept 25th in Hangzhou.
On Aug 6th, 2018, the official emblem（会徽）for the Hangzhou Asian Games was released（发布）. The city won the hosting right for the 2022 Asian Games in 2015. （A） It will be the third Chinese city to host the Asian Games after Beijing and Guangzhou in 1990 and 2010.
First held in 1951, the Asian Games is the largest multi-sport event in Asia. It is also quite meaningful to China. The Beijing Asian Games was the first large international sports event to be hosted by China.
To make the first Asian Games in China a great success, Chinese people worked hard to prepare for it. Beijing built a great number of roads and gyms, including the famous Beijing Olympic Sports Center and Asian Games Village. The Games helped the world see China and its achievements. Since then, China has improved its（B）global image.
For the 2022 Asian Games, Hangzhou started building 33 sports gyms. The themes of the Hangzhou Asian Games are “green, smart, economical（节俭）and civilized（文明）”.（C） All the Games’ buildings will be environmentally friendly.
1. 请找出文中（A）处划线部分It指代的内容：2. 文中（B）处划线单词意为 ________
| A．风土人情 | B．全球形象 | C．科技水平 | D．建筑风格 |
China has already
4. 在文中找出与下列句子意思相近的句子。
Beijing hosted the first large international sports event in China.
5. 将文中（C）处划线句子译成汉语。
All the Games’ buildings will be environmentally friendly.
How Our Living Space Influences Our Mental (精神的) Health
Home sweet home—this expression makes us think of all kinds of pictures and feelings. But did you know that the condition of our living place can have an influence on our feelings and even on our mental health? By controlling some of these conditions, we can help to achieve a more peaceful life.
| 56.____________ It goes without saying that the lighting in our house can influence our feelings. If the lighting is too dark, it can have a bad influence on our feelings. Artificial(人工的) light may not work, however. It is better to let natural sunlight make our whole day brighter. |
| 57.____________ We have to do more than just remove something harmful from our home. To get good mental health, make ourselves stay with nature. A lot of studies have shown that the presence of plants in our home can improve our feelings. |
| 58.____________ We have trouble keeping our space clean. It doesn’t just look terrible; it makes you feel terrible. A room which is in a mess shows stress and causes stress. Disorder can show that we’re too busy to put things away, but then looking at a mess can lead to more stress. Putting away the things doesn’t have to take all day—just take 10 or 15 minutes. We’ll be surprised how much better we’ll feel. |
| Just remember: The things around us can make our “home sweet home” even sweeter. |
A. Tidy up B. Go green C. Add light properly D. Choose colors wisely
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第二节:请结合第一节内容,回答下面一个问题。(约20词)
4. What other good ways do you know to keep good mental health at home? Why?
