Cross-bridge noodles, or crossing-the-bridge noodles, are a special dish that originated (起源) in Yunnan Province. It has become such a popular part of Yunnan’s culture that in 2008, it was listed as an item of the intangible cultural heritage (非物质文化遗产) of Kunming City.
There is a story behind the first creation of cross-bridge noodles. It is said that there was a learner during the Qing Dynasty. He studied every day on an island of Mengzi City in Yunnan. His favorite food was rice noodles, and his wife brought him the noodles every day. But she was disappointed because the noodles would get cold on the way to the island. One day, she discovered that boiling the rice noodles separately could make them taste better. The chicken soup could also stay warm during the trip. It was the oil layer (层) on top of the soup that kept the cold outside and the heat inside. Realizing this, the wife then came up with an idea. She brought the chicken soup, rice noodles, and other ingredients (原料) separately and then mixed them after she arrived on the island. That way, the dish stayed hot and the noodles were fresh when they were added just before eating.
The word spread of the delicious dish and the wife’s smart way of keeping the food hot. The dish became known as “crossing-the-bridge noodles” or simply “cross-bridge noodles” in memory of the wife.
1. When were cross-bridge noodles listed as an item of intangible cultural heritage?| A．2000 | B．2008 | C．2010 | D．2015 |
| A．In Kunming City. | B．In Dali City. | C．In Mengzi City. | D．In Pu’er City. |
| A．make the noodles more delicious | B．keep the dish hot |
| C．find a quicker way to cook the noodles | D．keep the noodles for longer |
| A．clever | B．lazy | C．patient | D．kind |
| A．The Secret of Yunnan Noodles | B．The Wife’s Clever Cooking Skills |
| C．The History of Chinese Noodles | D．A Dish with a Story: Cross-Bridge Noodles |
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How much do you know about Chinese food? There are many different kinds (种类) of food in China. Some of them are very popular (受欢迎).
There are also some different kinds of jiaozi.
Usually people make jiaozi at home. If you have no time to make it, you can eat it at the jiaozi house.
Which kind of Chinese food do you like best? Can you tell me about it?
| A．Chinese people think that can bring them good luck (运气). |
| B．You can also buy it from supermarkets. |
| C．It’s interesting to make jiaozi. |
| D．The real (真正的) Chinese food is jiaozi. |
| E．Some have meat and vegetables in them. |
| F．Chinese people love the Spring Festival (春节) very much. |
【推荐2】Many people travel to different places in the world by air. Usually it takes passengers a long time, perhaps half a day to stay on the plane. So airlines provide passengers with food. But they sometimes feel bad about food taste.
However, according to the scientific research (研究), part of the reason why plane food tastes bad is that at high altitude (海拔) passengers cannot taste things as well as they do on the ground. Also scientists found that their noses become very dry even before the plane takes off. As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure (气压) reduces (减少) one third of their sense of taste. So their taste buds (味蕾) become senseless. The sad fact, however, is that their noses don’t know it. All of these help explain why food on the plane doesn’t taste delicious.
To solve this problem, airlines try hard to improve their food. Because they want to make more money. At last, they choose to provide passengers with salty and spicy food.
Now there are many researches on this. According to one of them, some volunteers (志愿者) have to lie with their feet higher than their heads for weeks. And scientists write down their feelings about food taste. Though scientists try their best, it is not as easy as they thought. Because they can’t deal with the special environment successfully, such as the change in air pressure. Making food on the plane taste good is still hard.
1. As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure reduces ________ of passengers’ sense of taste.| A．half | B．one third | C．one fourth | D．one fifth |
| A．food on the plane is expensive | B．food on the plane tastes bad |
| C．passengers have no food to eat | D．passengers stay long on the plane |
| A．Write down their feelings about food taste. |
| B．Raise their feet higher than their head. |
| C．Change the air pressure in the laboratory. |
| D．Think about what they want to have for dinner. |
| A．The volunteers don’t know about food taste. |
| B．The volunteers don’t understand them. |
| C．They can’t find enough volunteers. |
| D．They can’t control the change in air pressure. |
| A．Taste of Airplane Food | B．Airplane Travel |
| C．Scientific Research on Noses | D．The Change in Air Pressure |
【推荐3】Food Festivals around the world
Stilton Cheese Rolling May Day is a traditional day for celebrations, but the 2,000 English villagers of Stilton must be the only people in the world who include cheese rolling in their annual plans. Teams of four, dressed in strange and funny clothes, roll a complete cheese along a 50-metre course. On the way, they must not kick or throw their cheese, or go into their competitors’ lane（跑道）. The first prize is a complete Stilton cheese weighing about four kilos（disappointingly, but understandably the cheeses used in the race are wooden ones）. |
Fiery Fonds Festival-The Hottest Festival on Earth Every year more than 10,000 people head for the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. They come from as far away as Australia, the Caribbean and China, but they all share a common addiction-food that is not just spicy, but hot enough to make your mouth bum, your head spin and your eyes water. The Fiery Food and BBQ Festival is held over a period of three days every March. You might like to try a chocolate-covered habanero pepper-the hottest pepper in the world-or any one of the thousands of products that are on show. But one thing’s for sure-if you don’t like the feeling of a burning tongue, this festival isn’t for you! |
La Tomatina-The World’s Biggest Food Fight On the last Wednesday of every August, the Spanish town of Bunol hosts La Tomatina-the world’s largest food fight. A week-long celebration leads up to an exciting tomato battle as the highlight of the week’s events. The early morning sees the arrival of large trucks with tomatoes-official fight-starters get things going by casting tomatoes at the crowd. The battle lasts little more than half an hour, in which time around 50,000 kilograms of tomatoes have been thrown at anyone or anything that moves, runs, or fights back. |
1. In the Stilton cheese rolling competition, competitors on each team must________.
| A．kick or throw their cheese |
| B．roll a wooden cheese in their own lane |
| C．wear different kinds of formal clothes |
| D．use a real cheese weighing about four kilos |
| A．Seven days. | B．Three days. | C．Two weeks. | D．More than half an hour. |
| A．La Tomatina takes place at the beginning of August every year. |
| B．More than 10,000 Chinese take part in the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival. |
| C．Thousands of spicy foods are on show in the Fiery Food and BBQ Festival. |
| D．The first prize for the Stilton cheese rolling competition is a 2-kilo Stilton cheese. |
【推荐1】
Huabobo refers to a flower-shaped steamed bun (馒头). With a history dating back more than 300 years, it’s deeply loved by people in Shandong Province. Making huabobo is a festival tradition there. From the 20th day of the 12th month in the lunar calendar, people will steam a large number of huabobo to prepare for the Spring Festival. It is seen as a symbol of good luck and people’s wishes for a better life.
This kind of steamed bun is made into different shapes and embellished (装饰) with bright colors. Huabobo not only has a pretty shape, but also is easy to keep. In 2009, huabobo was listed as the Shandong provincial intangible cultural heritage.
Every year before Spring Festival, Zang Chaiyuan is super busy. The 26-year-old pastry chef (面点师) from Shandong works from morning to night as people from across the country order her steamed buns.
This year, Zang’s steamed bun, in the shape of a dragon, is one of the most popular products. Besides dragons, Zang’s adept (熟练的) hands can create buns in the shape of treasure bowls and lucky bags. “They are made of milk, eggs, sugar and flour,” she said, “All the colors are extracts (提取物) from vegetables and fruit juice.”
She loved huabobo in her childhood. “My grandmother used to make huabobo for me in all kinds of shapes, which were very beautiful,” Zang recalled. Zang first learned the basic skills from an experienced huabobo master and then practiced over and over again on her own. Through trials and mistakes, she figured out a series of skills. She brings out new products from time to time. Her products have made their way to customers from cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou. The buns have also earned her about 100 million views online. To let more people learn about huabobo, she hosts online and on-site pastry courses. The students vary from youngsters to people in their 50s.
1. What is Paragraph 1 mainly about?| A．The use of huabobo. | B．The history of huabobo. |
| C．How to make huabobo. | D．The introduction of huabobo. |
| A．She has to look after her children. |
| B．She has to help her parents do housework. |
| C．She has too many orders of huabobo to complete. |
| D．She has to clean the rooms for the coming festival. |
| A．Tigers. | B．Dragons. | C．Lucky bags. | D．Treasure bowls. |
| A．brave and popular | B．active and polite |
| C．hardworking and creative | D．unusual and friendly |
【推荐2】The Real Chinese Food
In China, there’re many different kinds of food. Some of them are very popular. Dumplings are the real Chinese food. Now let’s talk about them, OK?
Everyone in China likes dumplings very much, and there are many different kinds of dumplings. Some have meat and vegetables in them, others have sugar (糖), eggs and so on. I like dumplings with vegetables and pork best.
Usually people make dumplings at home. If you have no time to make them, you can buy them in any supermarkets. Then you take them home and eat them with vinegar.
The Spring Festival is very important in China. When it comes, we make dumplings, usually we put a coin (硬币) in a dumpling. If one eats the dumpling with the coin in it, he will be lucky in the year.
Now tell me, do you like dumplings?
Welcome to China, we’ll ask you to eat the real Chinese food: dumplings.
1. In China, _______ are the real Chinese food.| A．noodles | B．dumplings |
| C．moon cakes | D．only vegetables |
| A．meat | B．seafood |
| C．vegetables and pork | D．vegetables |
| A．you have time | B．you are happy |
| C．you are busy | D．you are hungry |
| A．糖 | B．酱油 | C．辣椒 | D．醋 |
| A．They’ll feel unhappy. | B．They’ll be angry. |
| C．They’ll feel lucky. | D．They’ll be sad. |
【推荐3】How do you spend your free time? Playing sports or seeing movies? Do you want to live a different after-school life? Here are three traditional Chinese students’ free time activities.
| Li Chenxi is at the No. 2 Primary School in Yunnan. Her school brings traditional Chinese culture into the after-school care services. She is interested in tie-dye (扎染). She can make dolls and dresses after learning for more than a year. “In the past, I had too much homework to do. But now I can do what I want to do in my free time,” she said. |
| When Mike, an international student from Australia, first watched the dragon dance, he was surprised and can’t wait to join in it. Although the training was not easy, he worked hard. He built a dragon dance team in his school. Now his team has about 100 students from different countries. |
| It is on Saturday afternoon. A group of children of all ages are following Zhu Wei, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, to learn tai chi. These children like tai chi. In their opinions, tai chi helps them keep healthy and focus on studies. It’s mind-body exercise. |
根据语篇内容，选择最佳选项。
1. How many traditional Chinese students’ free time activities are mentioned in the passage?| A．Two. | B．Three. | C．Four. |
| A．Surprised. | B．Angry. | C．Pleased. |
| A．These students are all foreign students who like traditional Chinese culture. |
| B．These activities are traditional Chinese cultures. |
| C．Maybe Li Chenxi can use tie-dye to make clothes for herself. |
| A．Tie-dye. | B．Tai chi. | C．Dragon dance. |
| A．In a newspaper. | B．On a fashion poster. | C．In an educational magazine. |
【推荐1】Searching for parking spaces has long been a headache for many office workers in many big cities of China. Parking near their companies for five days a week could cost them a lot of money. At the same time, prising, most of parking lots(停车场) in residential areas(居民区) remain idle during workdays. Now a new form of sharing has appeared in China—the shared parking space. It has become a huge market in some big cities.
In Qingdao, a coastal(海岸的) city in Shangdong, up to 10,000 personal parking spaces have been turned into shared ones with the help of “Airparking”, an online shared parking platform developed by a network company from Guangzhou.
Through a special app, users can either share or order a parking place. Owners who have idle parking spaces can share some information, including the parking position, license number and time limit(限制) on the platform. With the information, users can easily find the nearest place to park. The average(平均的) parking cost for shared parking is 4 yuan each hour, almost the same as the service cost in traditional parking spaces.
Qingdao is one of the Chinese cities that encourage shared parking. Some other big cites, including Beijing, Shanghai and Hefei, have also begun to try this idea. The Shanghai government, for example, has set up more than 6,500 shared parking spaces to encourage the public to use. Shared parking will be more and more helpful to the drivers.
1. In the first paragraph, the writer points out that ________.| A．we should set up more parking spaces in big cities |
| B．prices of parking spaces are rising quickly in China |
| C．it’s difficult to find parking space in big cities. |
| D．many people want to find parking spaces in residential areas during workdays |
| A．无所事事的 | B．停顿的 | C．闲置的 | D．懒惰的 |
| A．love the city | B．use a special app |
| C．pay more | D．share your personal information |
| A．15 yuan. | B．20 yuan. | C．25 yuan. | D．30 yuan. |
| A．it’s hard to find parking spaces in residential areas during workdays |
| B．Qingdao has fewer shared parking spaces than Shanghai |
| C．shared parking will probably become more and more popular |
| D．shared parking is more expensive than traditional parking service |
【推荐2】Three new lifestyles you need to know about in 2019
● Nap rooms
Nap rooms give “sleeping on the job” a whole new meaning. Research has shown that even 20-minute naps in the middle of the day help people deal with stress better as well as improve their performances, learning and memories. Companies are catching up and some are offering nap rooms. Nap York will open several new nap stations all over New York in 2019. Of course the nap rooms are only for the day, not the night, and also you can't stay there for more than 2 hours.
● special product(产品)
Before, companies use lots of different things to make skin(皮肤) products, but these years, some companies have noticed that people care more and more about their looks. So they work with some doctors to make a special product, which mainly uses plants. It's 100% healthy for our face, arms, hands, legs and feet. People like it a lot and lots of people like to spend money buying it for themselves and also send them to their friends. The personal care business has grown from a small market to a growing industry that will be worth more than $25 billion by 2025, according to a report by China Daily.
● Robots as pet sitters
Speaking of smart technology, robots can now take care not only of what people need, but of what their pets need as well. Robotic pet sitters have been in development since 2017. Several companies have invented some apps that play with your cat or dog in order to keep it active and happy when you're not home, but not yet to mass-produce(批量生产) it at least two companies have made pet-sitter products, and the price is from $79 to $189. They also tell people on TV that they can go to their websites and order the one they like.
1. The three new lifestyles are about .| A．Health, high technology and pets |
| B．nap rooms, personal care and robots |
| C．working places, look and health care |
| D．companies, skin care and animals |
| A．People don't need to go home and can sleep in nap rooms at night. |
| B．People usually sleep in nap rooms for more than two hours. |
| C．Companies don't want to offer nap rooms because they cost a lot. |
| D．Even a 20-minute nap in the nap room helps a lot. |
| A．Companies mainly use plants to make them. |
| B．People can eat them. |
| C．They can help people lose weight. |
| D．They are 100% healthy for people's hair. |
| A．robotic pet sitters will be fewer and fewer in the future |
| B．lots of companies have been ready to make robotic pet sitters |
| C．smart technology will play a more important role in our life |
| D．people won't be able to order robotic pet sitters in two years |
If you want to improve your relations with others, there are several ways to do it. You could invite them out to get to know them better, though this might lead to a bad ending if you don't already get on. You could force yourself to like them, even though all your feelings are telling you that you don't. Or you could try the Benjamin Franklin Effect.
Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of American independence and he's also famous for many scientific achievements. A year after his death in 1793, one book about his life was published and it is there that we find an explanation to what has become known as "the Benjamin Franklin Effect".
In this book, Franklin tells a story about an assemblyman（州众议院议员） who had snubbed（冷 落）him on several occasions. Franklin asked if he might borrow a certain unusual book from the assemblyman's library. The assemblyman helped Franklin find the book. Franklin thanked him and from then on, they became best friends. Franklin learned the lesson that when you asked someone for help and they helped, they are more willing to give you a hand in future than if you had been the one helping them.
The effect has been proven in a 1969 study by Jon Jecker and David Landy who found that a speechmaker who asked students to lend him some money was more liked by these students better than by those who hadn't been asked. When we ask a person to give us a hand, we are expressing that we consider them to have something we don't, whether more intelligence, more knowledge, more skills, or whatever. This is another way of showing respect and immediately raises their opinion of us and makes them more willing to help us again both because they enjoy the admiration and have honestly started to like us.
Now work out a chance to ask for help from a person that you don't get on with and that would cost them nothing. It could be advice, practical help, or a bit of their time, whatever. Treat this person with your request in a positive and honest spirit.
1. According to the Effect, if you want to get others to like you, you should________.| A．ask for help from them | B．invite them to your home |
| C．give a hand to them first | D．force yourself to like them |
| A．He's a practical assemblyman. | B．He discovered a lot in science. |
| C．The Effect was named by himself | D．He got money through the Effect. |
| A．To use Benjamin Franklin Effect. | B．To prove Benjamin Franklin Effect. |
| C．To realize Benjamin Franklin Effect. | D．To introduce Benjamin Franklin Effect. |
