Britons are well known for the amount (量) of tea that they drink. Each person in the UK drinks around 1.9 kg of tea every year. That’s around 876 cups of tea. Tea is drunk by all sections of society. But tea is not native to Britain. Most tea is grown in India and China. So, how did it become an important part of British culture?
Tea arrived in London in the 1600s. At this time, Britons were exploring the world and came across the drink in China. It was not long before green tea was available in Britain to buy.
At the beginning of the 1700s, the amount of tea arriving in Britain increased gradually. Black tea arrived at this time. At first, people drank this tea exactly as it was drunk in China. They soon discovered that it mixed really well with a little milk and sugar, giving the drink a special British characteristic (特色).
In the 1800s, tea was still a product enjoyed only by rich people. At this time, they began to have afternoon tea. People drink tea with a snack around 4 p. m. to avoid feeling hungry between lunch and dinner. In the late 1800s, the price of tea decreased heavily as more tea began to arrive on ships. It was no longer a drink just for rich people. Tearooms and shops where you could buy and drink tea started to appear across the country. People enjoyed drinking tea and socializing (社交) in these places. At the start of the 20th century, Britons began to make tea in their homes whenever they felt like it.
1. From the numbers in Paragraph 1, we know tea is2. The tea mixed with a little
3. Tea
4. The text mainly tells us the
5. Do you like drinking the special British characteristic? Why or why not?
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Many Chinese people like hot pot and Li Yang is one of them.
Three days ago, Li Yang arrived in England. There he had three days of hamburgers, sandwiches, and potatoes. Yesterday he was very excited when he heard that there was going to be a meal of hot pot to welcome the new students.
He went into the room and sat next to an American girl. To his surprise, he saw potatoes and bread in front of him. Where was the hot pot?
When she saw Li Yang was very surprised, the American girl told him that hotpot is NOT hot pot. China has hot pot in two words but English hotpot is written in one word.
Hotpot is made from meat, potatoes and onions. People put it in the oven (烤箱) all day in a heavy pot and on a low heat. It is easy to cook.
Hotpot tastes nice. But Li Yang still misses hot pot, two words!
1. Do many Chinese people like hot pot? (no more than 3 words)_____________________________________________________
2. When did Li Yang arrive in England? (no more than 3 words)
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3. Who told Li Yang that hotpot is not hot pot? (no more than 3 words)
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4. Which country has hot pot in two words? (no more than 1 word)
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5. What is English hotpot made from? (no more than 4 words)
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In 1608, an Englishman named Thomas Coryate travelled in Italy. He liked the country and wrote down everything interesting. But he found one thing more interesting than others. In his diary, Thomas wrote, “When the Italians eat meat, they use small forks. They do not eat with their hands like us because, as they say, people do not always have clean hands.”
Before he went back to England, Thomas bought a few forks.
At home Thomas had a dinner party to show the forks to his friends. When he wanted to eat the steak (牛排), he took out a fork as the Italians did in Italy. His friends were bored when they saw this. He told them what the fork was. They all said that Italians were very strange people because the fork was not easy to use at all. Thomas tried to prove (证明) that his friends were wrong, so he began to show that it was easy to use the fork. But the first piece of steak he took with the fork fell to the floor. His friends began to laugh at him and he had to take the fork away.
However, only fifty years later, people in England began to use forks.
| How English People Began to Use Forks | |
| In the | People in England used hands to eat. But people in Italy ate with small forks because they thought hands were sometimes |
| In 1608 | An Englishman named Thomas Coryate travelled in Italy. He bought a few forks and took them back to England. |
| After the Englishman | He |
| Fifty years later | People in England began to use forks. |
【推荐3】People in different parts of the world eat different things. In South China people eat rice everyday. They eat it for breakfast, lunch or supper. And people usually eat rice with fish, meat and vegetables.
The Japanese eat rice, too. They also eat a lot of fish because they live near the sea. It’s easy for them to get fish. Sometimes, they eat raw (生的) fish.
In western countries such as Britain, Australia and the U.S., the most important food is bread and potatoes. People there can cook potatoes in many different ways. In Britain, the most popular food is fish and chips. Sometimes people cook this kind of food at home, but they usually buy it from the shop. They eat it at home, in the workplace, in the park or even on the road. People call it “take-away” food.
1~2题完成句子；3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下全文的主旨句；5题将文中划线句子译为汉语。
1. People in western countries can cook
2. People in China usually eat rice with
3. What’s the most popular food in Britain?
4.
5.
【推荐1】What do you know about the sea? Some people know about it, but others don’t. The sea looks beautiful on a fine sunny day, but when there’s a strong wind, it’s very rough. What else do you know about it? Of course, the sea is very big. In the world, there is more sea than land.
When you swim in the sea, you feel that the water is salty. Rivers carry salt from the land to the sea. Some places of sea are more salty than other places. Do you know the Dead Sea? Fish can’t live in it.
根据短文内容回答下列问题。
1. When does the sea look beautiful?
2. What is the sea like when there’s strong wind?
3. Which is more, the sea or land?
4. Why is the sea water salty?
5. Fish can’t live in the dead sea, can they?
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【推荐3】Over the years, the way we carry food has changed. In the past, some food products like salt, sugar or flour were usually sold “loose (散的)” and taken home in bags. Thanks to modern technology, today a large number of packaged (包装好的) food products are seen in the market.
Food is packaged for different reasons. For example, canned products can be kept well, and the packaging can also help to improve the food safety. Other packaging is used so that some food can be easily carried, transported and sold. For fragile (易碎的) foods—such as fruit, tomatoes and cakes—they need to be packaged for the perfect condition when they reach the consumers (消费者).
Packaging may also cause several problems. First, packaging uses a lot of world’s resources (资源). Hundreds of thousands of trees are cut down to provide paper and cardboard. And every year, millions of dollars are spent on packaging by food companies to catch the eye of consumers. As a result, people are likely to buy more food than they actually need. What can we do? Maybe we can ask companies to use recyclable materials for packaging. We hope to find better ways in the future.
1、2题完成句子；3~5题简略回答问题。1. Today many packaged
2. The canned products can
3. What do the fragile foods need to be done when they reach the consumers?
4. How much is spent on packaging by food companies every year?
5. Do you like good packaging products? Why or why not?
Young people like to make little drawing in the paper when they write something. These boys were the same. They drew little pictures all around the writing. After a time the pictures become more important than the writing. These were the first Christmas cards.
1. Did people use Christmas cards 150 years ago?
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2. What can we usually see on the Christmas cards?
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3. At Christmas time， who did the boys at boarding school write something special to?
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4. What did the boys draw around the writing?
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5. What became more important later on the Christmas cards?
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【推荐2】Eating habits are different in different countries. The Chinese have a saying（谚语） “Eat good things for breakfast, eat a big meal for lunch, but eat less at dinner.” Many Americans agree that one should start the day with a good breakfast, but their ideas about lunch and dinner are not the same.
Most Americans only give themselves a short time for lunch. So they eat a small lunch. After work they will have more time to eat a big dinner. Also a quiet dinner at home with all the family members talking about their day is a way to take a good rest after a long hard day of work.
Eating at restaurants is also different. In China, people like to talk and laugh while eating. Very often you can hear people talking and laughing aloud, and they are just having a good time. In America it is not like this. They want a quiet place. There they can eat a good meal far away from the noises of the outside world. If someone is talking loudly, the manager（经理）of the restaurant will look at him or her angrily. When some people are talking too loudly, the manager of the restaurant may come and ask them to be quiet.
根据短文内容，完成表格。每空一词。
| Americans | |
| Eat good things for breakfast. | Start the day with a good breakfast. |
| Eat a big meal for lunch. | Eat a small lunch. |
| Eat | Prefer a big dinner at home or restaurant. |
| Like to talk and laugh while eating at the restaurant. | Like to eat |
| According to the passage, we know that lunch and dinner are | |
【推荐3】Most American people like fast food. But if you think they don’t like cooking, you’re not right. Although most Americans take fast food as their breakfast and lunch, they also think cooking is interesting. Americans have their own ways of cooking. For example, baking (烤) is the most popular way of cooking in America. We can see ovens in most American families. In planning a big meal, they cook meat, a few vegetables, some bread and some sweet food. They also like to make the meal look nice. There are many kinds of food in different colors on the plates. So the meal is healthy and looks nice, too.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
1. What kind of food do most Americans like?
2. Do most Americans like cooking?
3. What do most Americans think of cooking?
4. What’s the most popular way of cooking in America?
5. Do American meals look nice?
Chinese New Year
On December 22nd, 2023, Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, has been officially listed as a UN floating holiday (联合国假日) in its calendar of conferences and meetings as from 2024. Chinese New Year not only bears the ideas of the Chinese civilization (文明) of peace and harmony (和谐) but also carries the common values of humans.
Many countries list the Spring Festival as a national holiday. Every year, about 1.5 billion people celebrate (庆祝) this festival in the world, mainly in east Asian countries like China, Japan and Singapore.
How do people around the world celebrate Chinese New Year? People celebrate it differently in different countries. For example, people usually have a 2-day holiday in Singapore. They visit friends with 2 oranges as a gift. That is to show “good things come in pairs”. People in Japan buy each other a “lucky bag”. They believe the bag will bring good luck in the coming year. In China, people usually do many fun things before the festival, such as going shopping, cleaning houses and so on. People usually put spring couplets (春联) and on both sides of the front door.
On New Year’s eve, families get together to have a big dinner with traditional food, like dumplings, fish, rice cakes and so on. Dumplings are the most traditional food for Spring Festival. They carries people’s best wishes to their families they love. On Chinese New Year’s Day, people always play firecrackers (鞭炮) to keep off evil spirits (年兽). And parents take their children to visit their relatives (亲人) to say “Happy Chinese New Year!”. Grandparents and parents always give children lucky money to wish them health and happiness.
How do people decide the date of Chinese New Year? In China, it usually starts between January and February, lasts for 15 days, and ends on the day of the Lantern Festivals (元宵节).
Chinese New Year is the most important festival for Chinese people. It means reunion. How will you spend it this year? Will you make dumplings?
1. How many people celebrate Chinese New Year?2. What do people in Singapore do to celebrate the Chinese New Year?
3. What’s the most traditional food on Spring Festival in China?
4. How long does Spring Festival last in China?
5. What do Chinese people usually do on Chinese New Year’s Day? Please list at least 2 points.
【推荐2】A scientist named Charles had a strange idea. He wanted to invent a new kind of car which could go without a driver. It could also be used as a living room. That means you can go anywhere on your sofa in the car. You might say that it’s impossible. But Charles succeeded in making it in a factory and named it Tridika.
Tridika has no wheels and it starts working when it reaches the magnetic levitation tracks(磁悬浮轨道). It takes its energy from its tracks. And it works in the same ways as a magnetic train. It moves very fast. As everyone knows, cities are developing rapidly. There are more and more cars running on the road. So parking space is limited. Sometimes it’s hard to find a place to park. Tridika can solve this problem easily because it needn’t park on the ground. Actually, it can park on the outside wall of the building with the help of an elevator system(电梯系统). In this way, much parking space can be saved. When Tridika parks itself in front of your apartment, you can get into your room directly. Of course, there must be a side door in the outside wall. Then Tridica becomes another living room. It’s really amazing, isn’t it?
Tridika can hold six passengers. So you can go on vacation in it with your family in your free time. Of course it can also be used as an office while you are traveling on the road. That is to say, you can travel and work at the same time.
阅读短文，回答下列问题。1. Who invented the new kind of car?
2. When does Tridika start working?
3. Does Tridika have wheels?
4. Why can Tridika save the parking space?
5. How many passengers can Tridika hold?
Parents always want the best for their kids. But everyone has their own way of parenting（养育）. Here are some popular parenting styles. Which one do you like best?
Tiger parents（虎爸虎妈）.They are strict with their children. They want them to get the best grades in their class. They love their kids in their hearts.
Dolphin parents（海豚式父母）. They just want their kids to be happy and healthy. They make sure their kids get enough sleep and exercise.
Helicopter parents（直升机式父母）. They worry too much about their children and “fly” over them like helicopters. Many people think these parents should give their children more freedom（自由） .
Lawnmower parents（割草机式父母）. Like a lawnmower that cuts glass, they get rid of （去除）all difficulties for their children.Their kids never learn to work out problems on their own.
| Tiger parents | ● ●Want them to get the best grades; ●Love their kids in their hearts. |
| ●Want their kids to be happy and healthy; ●Make sure their kids get enough sleep and exercise. | |
| Helicopter parents | ●Worry too much about their children; ●Should give their children |
| Lawnmower parents | ● Get rid of all difficulties for their children; ● |
