Do you know the Chinese 24 Solar Terms(节气)? Can you say all of them?
The 24 Solar Terms are part of the traditional Chinese culture. Chinese people began to use it to predict(预测) the weather a long time ago. It was very useful because most people made their living by farming(耕作) at that time.
How did Chinese people create the 24 Solar Terms in ancient times? Clever Chinese people studied the sun’s movement and other natural changes. In the Shang Dynasty(朝代), people divided a year into four parts, so there were four solar terms. In the Zhou Dynasty, there were eight solar terms. In the Han Dynasty, people finally used 24 solar terms to divide a year. Each year started with the Beginning of Spring and ended with Greater Cold. There were four seasons every year and each season had six solar terms.
Even today, people still use the 24 Solar Terms. For example, during the Waking of Insects(惊蛰), the warm weather is coming and farmers should get busy working.
1. What do Chinese people use the 24 Solar Terms to do a long time ago?2. How did Chinese people create the 24 Solar Terms?
3. How many solar terms were there in Zhou Dynasty?
4. Did each year end with the Greater Cold in the Han Dynasty?
5. What does the Waking of Insects mean to farmers?
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Huntah and Duke are both l-year- old Labradors (拉布拉多犬). They are police K-9s, highly trained dogs who help police officers.
Huntah and Duke have a special job. They are working in schools in the state of Massachusetts to find COVID-19. They do it using their powerful sense of smell.
To learn how to sniff out (嗅出) COVID-19, Huntah and Duke got special training. When they smell COVID-19, the dogs sit down. This lets people know that the area should be cleaned.
Paul Douglas is one of the police officers working with Huntah and Duke. He says the dogs can work at a school even while class is going on. They will go into a classroom full of students, he said. “They just walk right through, they go over the backpacks, around the teachers.”
Tara Kohler is the head of a school system in Massachusetts. She is happy to have the dogs working at the schools. She wants to reduce the chances of kids and teachers catching COVID-19. And she wants them to feel safe at school.
Huntah and Duke’s training program was developed by scientists at Florida International University. They say that dogs are very ________ sniffing out COVID-19. The dogs find the virus 99 times out of 100.
Dogs’ noses contain 30 million scent receptors (气味感受器), says the journal Nature. Scent receptors sense smells. Compare that to humans, who have only 5 million to 6 million scent receptors. All those scent receptors let dogs smell things that people cannot.
1. When the dogs sit down, what should we do? (根据短文内容回答问题)2. How did Huntah and Duke work in the classroom? (根据内容回答问题)
3. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese. (将文中划线句子翻译成汉语)
4. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 6 with two proper words. (在第六段空白处填入两个恰当的词，使句意完整)
5. According to the passage, Dogs have much
【推荐2】February 29th comes up on the calendar only every four years. A year with a February 29th might be good news if you are paid by the day or the week. But it might be bad news if you were born on a February 29th. You have to wait three years in between birthdays!
American English has an expression for the unusual situation. February 29th is called a leap day. And the year with a February 29th in it is called a leap year. Last year, 2020, is such a year.
As a verb, the word “leap” means to jump, or to move quickly. “Leap” can also be a noun, meaning a jump, or a sudden move. Leap is also an important word for two other common – but opposing – American expressions. One of them is a kind of warning. If you want someone to investigate a situation completely before taking action, you might say, “Look before you leap.”
In a leap year, the dates jump over one day of the week. Let me explain. In 2017, the last day of the year, December 31st, fell on a Sunday. In 2018, it fell on a Monday. In 2019, it fell on a Tuesday. But in 2020, December 31st fell on a Thursday. It jumps right over Wednesday.
The reason for a leap day or a leap year is because our calendar does not follow the Earth’s orbit(轨道) around the sun exactly. Each year, we have a little time left over. So every four years, we put all that time together into one more day.
Some people choose to marry on February 29th because it is an unusual date. But some old people will tell couples not to do it. Leap years were believed to be difficult, and leap days were unlucky. To be honest, these have no scientific basis（依据）.
1. How many birthdays does a 28-year-old person have if he or she was born on February 29th?He or she has
2. What does “Look before you leap” mean in Chinese?
It means
3. How often does the leap year or leap day come?
It comes
4. Which day of the week will the last day of 2024 fall on according to this article?
It will fall on
5. Why do some old people tell couples not to marry on February 29th?
That’s because they think leap days
1.People are interested in animal communication and scientists have done lots of researches on this subject.
Most animals always use body language to communicate. If cats look and blink (眯眼) at you slowly, which shows their love to you. You can also do this to show your love. When they sit with tails around themselves, they’re happy. If they feel scared, their tails may look like the end of toilet brushes. When they put ears back, they are a bit mad. Birds can also show feelings through eyes and feathers (羽毛). If birds make their pupils (瞳孔) large and small from time to time, this can be a sign that they are excited or scared or angry. Birds will ruffle (弄乱)their feathers when they clean themselves. However, if their feathers remain ruffled, it may mean they are ill. You’d better take them to see a veterinarian (兽医)in an animal hospital.
Some animals communicate by smell. Dogs are famous for this. They can learn about something by smelling. They can find missing people by using their fantastic sense of smell. They have helped the police for a long time. Mice have an excellent sense of smell, too. Scientists even train them to find landmines (地雷). It is found that even ants use smell, they use smell to tell other ants where the food is.
Frogs and insects communicate by sounds. Usually the “gentlemen” make sounds to invite the “ladies”. Whales and elephants also use sounds to communicate, 2.these sounds can travel very far through water or ground, but it is impossible for humans to hear some of the sounds.
Learn more about the ways of animal communication at http://www.animal.com.cn.
A. 根据短文内容简要回答问题。
1. In what case, the bird’s feathers are ruffled according to Paragraph 2?
2. How many ways of animal communication are mentioned in this passage? Please list them.
B. 将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。
3.
4.
C. 请给短文拟一个适当的英文标题。
5.
【推荐1】Did you notice that on the back of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games medals there are 24 dots surrounding the Olympic logo in the middle? These dots are not only there to be pleasing to the eyes, but also represent that Beijing 2022 is the 24th Winter Olympics.
The 24 dots sit on two of five concentric circles (同心圆) around the medal. The pattern’s design was inspired by a diagram (图表) used in early astrological charts in China to explore the annual activities of the Sun.
The diagram was first recorded in the book Zhoubi Suanjing (《周髀算经》), or the Zhou Dynasty (1,046 BC—256 BC) Classic of the Gnomon. Written thousands of years ago, the book is one of the oldest Chinese mathematical texts. The 24 dots have a polished gloss finish (抛光面) to help them stand out from the matte (哑光) background just like shining stars stand out from the night sky, which symbolizes the bright unlimited potential of the athletes.
The 24 dots also refer to the 24 Solar Terms used as part of the traditional Chinese calendar, such as the recent Lichun, or the Beginning of Spring, which falls around February 4 every year. These Solar Terms played an important role in helping farmers with their agricultural activities.
Besides the “24 dots”, the design ingenuity of the Olympic medal can also be seen in details such as the ribbons. They are made from traditional Chinese silk and red in colour, which is in line with the cultural characteristics of the Chinese Spring Festival and expresses festive hopes for the athletes as the Beijing Games happened to fall during the Chinese Spring Festival in 2022.
(每题答案不超过10个单词)
1. What do these 24 dots represent?
2. Is the book Zhoubi Suanjing one of the oldest Chinese mathematical texts?
3. What helps 24 dots stand out from the matte (哑光) background?
4. What do the 24 dots refer to?
5. What are the ribbons made from?
Pace Melody from France has lived in China for 13 years. As the daughter-in-law of a family from Hunan, Melody often visits her husband’s hometown in Yiyang, Hunan. It was there that she fell in love with the Chinese countryside for its friendly villagers, local foods, and beautiful scenery.
With sweet air and fresh vegetables, the rural life in Hunan brought Melody a deep sense of comfort and happiness. She is thankful to be welcomed by her Hunan family members, who are very close to her. “My mother-in-law often tells me that I am like her daughter,” she said.
This love and acceptance touched her, as it was quite different from the customs in France. In her home country, it was common to address one’s mother-in-law by name, but in Hunan, she was encouraged to call her mother-in-law “mom”.
Working in the fields with her mother-in-law became one of Melody’s favorite activities. Her mother-in-law took her to dig wild vegetables and taught her how to make tofu. Melody also learned Chinese square dancing from her mother-in-law and they celebrated Spring Festival together.
Melody is amazed by how quickly the villages in China are developing. Before, there were no highways near their village, but now there are good roads and buses that come regularly. The southern part of Dongping town has changed a lot. It used to be a remote (偏远的) and mountainous area, but now it’s a busy place with lots of people. Life in Hunan has given Melody rich experiences. “I have many surprises and learn a lot every day. I am very happy and grateful (感恩的).” she said.
1. How long has she lived in China?2. Why did Melody enjoy the life in the Chinese countryside?
3. Is it common to call one’s mother-in-law by name in China?
4. What did her mother-in-law teach her?
5. How do you like Melody’s life in China?
In China, a host usually serves a visiting guest a cup of tea first when the guest enters the host’s house. It is a traditional custom in China. But do you know how to serve a cup of tea to a visiting guest? Well, in different places, the ways of serving tea are different.
In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, a clay（陶瓷）cup is usually used to brew（冲泡）Longjing, Biluochun, Maojian or just green tea. Chrysanthemum tea is sometimes used in the hot summer season to reduce（减少）the heat from outside.
Serving a cup of tea is a very popular custom in the North China cities. In the colder north-eastern provinces, the hosts would provide warm black tea with sugar for their guests.
In some coastal provinces such as Guangdong Province and Fujian Province, a pot of Oolong tea or Pu’er tea is the common treat.
Serving tea to guests is a common practice in China. However, different tea is used in different places. In Inner Mongolia（内蒙古）, a guest is usually treated with milky tea. In a Jingpo family, you would be given baked tea(tea in water and baked in an oven to be made hot).
1. What kind of tea sets should be used to brew Longjing?2. Which kind of tea can make people feel cool in hot summer?
3. Where might you be offered warm black tea with sugar?
4. What does the underlined word “coastal” in Paragraph 4 mean in Chinese?
5. What is the passage mainly about?
【推荐1】Chinese Fancy Knot
Chinese fancy knots, also called Chinese knots, refer to the traditional decorative knots in Chinese culture. They began as a form of traditional art in the Tang and Song Dynasties in China and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. Long ago, they found their way to Japan and other Southeast Asian countries, and were well received.Chinese Fancy Knots there. Now they are taken as one of the most classic symbols of Chinese culture. As for the name itself, it is surely meaningful. The Chinese word for “knot”, jie, means “connection”. It is related to lots of cultural ideas—marriage, brotherhood, reunion, etc. Meanwhile, the pronunciation of the Chinese word jie is very close to that of ji, “good luck”. As a result, Chinese knots perfectly serve as a way to express people’s strong wishes for good things like joy, love and good luck.
Besides, the knots, widely existing in the everyday life of the Chinese culture, come in different sizes. Small ones are connected to jewelry (珠宝), clothes, gift—packages and furniture in order to attract people’s attention, while large ones are used to decorate a living room or study. Whether large or small, there are over a dozen basic knot patterns (图案) named according to their shapes, usages or origins. For example, Double Coin Knots are called shuangqian Jie because they are in the shape of two ancient Chinese coins, meaning “good things come in pairs”. However, almost all the main styles of Chinese fancy knots are made up of two exactly similar parts, and the patterns on the front and the back sides are also similar in every detail.
In addition, Chinese knots are famous for their bright colours. Each of the Chinese knots is made of a single string of cotton, silk, gold or silver. But the colours of the strings are rich and have different traditional cultural meanings. Among the most commonly used base colours, red means good luck and happiness, green means health, and yellow, which was once known as a emperor’s colour, may means wealth and honour.
In brief, the famous Chinese fancy knots fully reflect (反映) the depth of Chinese culture. These brightly coloured knots of different patterns, with their endless chains of knots, mean that life on earth will continue forever.
1. When did Chinese fancy knots become popular?
2. What does the Chinese character for “knot” mean?
3. Why do people express strong wishes with Chinese knots?
4. What are the main points about Chinese knots in Paragraph 3?
5. What do Chinese fancy knots fully reflect?
【推荐2】Great Sale at Jenny’ s
Come to Jenny’ s great sale on clothes, things for your room and things for school. We have jackets for boys for thirty- five dollars, sweaters for girls for fifteen dollars and bags for five dollars!
See our great dressers, beds and chairs. Get a new bookcase for all your books. At Jenny’ s sale, they are only twenty dollars! Come to Jenny’ s store today! One day only! Everything is at the lowest（最低的）price.
根据材料内容，完成下列任务。
任务一:回答问题
1. How much are the jackets for boys?
2. Can I take a sweater at $ 14?
任务二:根据短文内容填空，每空一词
3. There are（有）also dressers, beds and
4. At Jenny’ s sale, the bookcases are
任务三:把文中的画线部分翻译成汉语
5.
Have you ever visited the Forbidden City? It is about 600 years old so far. It is the world’s largest palace and has over 17 million visitors every year. If we traveled back to the past, we possibly couldn’t go inside. In the past, all buildings in Beijing were low, but the Forbidden City had high walls. From outside, common people could only imagine it looked like inside.
The Forbidden City takes up 720, 000 square meters in the heart of Beijing. It was built from 1406 to 1420 by the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Yongle Emperor. After that, it was the living and working place of 14 emperors of the Ming Dynasty and 10 emperors of the Qing Dynasty. During those times, the Forbidden City was where the country’s supreme power(最高权力）could be found. Emperors were born, lived, fought and died there. It saw the highs and lows of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it plays a very important part in Chinese history.
The cultural relics(遗物）and documents(文件）in the palace show how the royal families lived. They are still used today for historical research, as well as inspiration for literature(文学）and entertainment(娱乐).
In 1987, the Forbidden City was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. For world leaders who visit China, it has become a must-see. In 2017, when US President Donald Trump visited China, President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan welcomed Trump and his wife there.
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