1 . Chinese food is getting popular and the dumpling is a real Chinese food. It’s believed that Chinese dumplings were first made by Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in China. So Chinese dumplings have a history of over 1, 800 years.
Everyone in China likes dumplings very much, and there are many different kinds of dumplings. Some have meat and vegetables in them and others have eggs. I like dumplings with beef and vegetables best.
Usually people make dumplings at home. If you have no time to make them, you can buy them in a supermarket. You can also eat dumplings in a restaurant.
The Spring Festival is very important in China. When it comes, families get together to make dumplings at home. We usually put a coin (硬币) in a dumpling. If someone eats a dumpling with the coin in it, he or she will be lucky in the year. Dumplings are also very popular in other Chinese festivals.
Do you want to eat dumplings? Welcome to China and try Chinese dumplings!
1. It’s believed that Zhang Zhongjing first made Chinese dumplings.2. Chinese dumplings have a history of less than 1, 800 years.
3. The writer likes dumplings with beef and vegetables best.
4. If you want to eat dumplings, you can’t buy them in a supermarket.
5. The person who eats the dumpling with the coin in it will be lucky.
2 . Beijing Opera is one of the oldest operas in the world. It started hundreds of years ago. In Beijing Opera, people sing, act and dance to tell stories. Everything the actors wear, say and do has special meanings.
In the past, all the roles in Beijing Opera were played by men. Men who played women’s roles wore special shoes to help them walk like women. Nowadays women can perform in Beijing Opera, but they still practice wearing the shoes.
A character’s make-up also tells us something about him or her. Red, yellow, white, black, purple, green and silver are the main colors used for make-up. Red shows that the character is brave. While black shows that a character gets angry easily.
As a traditional art form of Chinese culture. Beijing Opera has become more and more popular around the world.
根据短文内容，判断正误（正确“T”，错误“F”）。1. Beijing Opera has a long history of about thousands of years.
2. The actors sing, act and dance to tell stories in Beijing Opera.
3. The roles are played by men so there are no women’s roles in Beijing Opera.
4. The color red in Beijing Opera shows that the character is brave.
5. Beijing Opera is not so popular because it’s the oldest opera in the world.
3 . Have you ever put your old clothes into the donation (募捐) box in your community? If not, you can do it right now because the clothes donation is becoming popular in China.
“You know, we are growing fast. I think it’s a good idea to give away the clothes that we no longer wear.” Zhao Han, a junior student says.
“I often pick out some of my clothes which are out of fashion. Then I put them into the donation box.” Miss Li, a beautiful young lady says after shopping.
However, there are some problems along with clothes donation. A reporter from a TV station made a survey last week. Here are the results:
◆The box is full of clothes in a short time. There is no more room for people to give away clothes.
◆Some people sell the clothes in the donation box for making money instead of wearing them.
◆Some communities set up the box in unsuitable places. So there are few clothes in it.
◆Many clothes are too old and dirty.
◆Some people throw rubbish into the box.
In order to make the donation boxes work better, the communities are taking action (采取行动) Clothes donation will be better-organized and it’ll be easier for people in need to take the clothes away.
1. Zhao Han gives away his clothes because ______.| A．the clothes are short for him |
| B．he wants to make money |
| C．the clothes are out of fashion |
| D．he wants to buy new clothes |
| A．Four. | B．Five. | C．Six. | D．Seven. |
| A．Miss Li disagrees with the idea of clothes donation. |
| B．All the donation boxes are full of clothes in communities. |
| C．Some people break the donation box to get the clothes in it. |
| D．Some people put old and dirty clothes into the donation box. |
| A．People can get new clothes from clothes donation boxes. |
| B．Schools prevent students wearing fashionable clothes. |
| C．The communities are doing something to make clothes donation work better. |
| D．The clothes donation will become less popular because of its serious problems. |
| A．In a newspaper. | B．In a story book. |
| C．On a book cover. | D．On a notice board. |
4 . Do you want to be a volunteer on weekends or during the vacation? The voluntary work can help you make more friends and learn new skills. The most important thing is that you can get some useful guides to your future job. Here are some places for you to do voluntary work.
Hospitals
Are you interested in medicine? Do you enjoy helping patients? The volunteering in the local hospital may be the right thing for you. There are many volunteer chances for children between 13 and 16 years old. You can do the following jobs: transporting (运送) patients with a nurse, talking to them and reading to them.
Libraries
Do you enjoy working in the local libraries? Some volunteers in the libraries are between 12 and 18. The libraries offer some chances such as computer center helpers and children’s program helpers.
Nursing homes
Are you interested in helping the old people? Then you can go to a nursing home. You can do the following work: pushing wheelchairs, talking with old people, helping them write letters and so on.
Garden centers
If you like gardening, pay attention to (关注) the notices of local garden centers. You may have the chances like planting trees, watering flowers and looking after plants. You’re sure to improve your gardening skills by working as a volunteer in a garden center. It’s possible that you will become a good gardener some day.
1. The writer thinks the biggest advantage (优势) of doing voluntary work is ________.| A．making more friends |
| B．learning some new skills |
| C．getting some useful guides to the future job |
| D．becoming a good gardener |
| A．medicine | B．history | C．music | D．math |
| A．An 8-year-old boy. | B．A 10-year old boy. |
| C．A 19-year-old girl. | D．A 16-year-old girl. |
| A．three | B．four | C．five | D．six |
| A．How to be a good volunteer. |
| B．How to do voluntary work. |
| C．Some places to do voluntary work. |
| D．Some places to get a good job. |
5 . Are you interested in country music? I like it very much! It will take me away for a while after I’m tired. The guitars and songs will take me to mountains and fields.
Country music usually talks of everyday life and feelings. It’s the spirit of America, easy to understand, slow and simple.
Country music developed in the Southern United States. It was the folk music (民俗音乐) of American countryside. Many of songs tell about the lives of farmers. They talk about love, crops (庄稼) or death.
The life of the countryside can be hard, so the words in country music are often sad. At first, people played the music only at family parties. But it became more popular later. In the 1920s, people played country songs on the radio, and they made them into records.
When people in the countryside moved to towns and cities to look for work, they took their music with them. Country music continued to change and became popular across America.
John Denver was one of America’s most famous country singers in the 1970s. His song “Take Me home, Country Roads” is famous and people still play it today.
1. Country music is usually about ________.| A．love stories | B．farmers’ feelings |
| C．everyday life and feelings | D．the lives of workers |
| A．in South Africa | B．in John Denver’s city |
| C．in the Northern United States | D．in the Southern United States |
| A．city people liked the music |
| B．they have no good music to enjoy |
| C．country music talked about city people’s lives |
| D．farmers moved to cities with their music and it continued to change |
| A．Garth Brooks. | B．John Denver. |
| C．A farmer in the countryside. | D．A person who moved to towns. |
| A．Country Music | B．Rock Music | C．Popular Music | D．Great Musicians |
For thousands of years, tea has been a popular drink in China. Now it has also caught the world’s eye. On Nov. 29th, 2022, the ways of making traditional Chinese tea and the social practices that go with them entered the UNESCO (联合国教科文组织) intangible cultural heritage list (非物质文化遗产名录).
Since a long time ago, Chinese people began planting, picking, making and drinking tea. China’s tea culture has a number of social practices. For example, an old tradition is that a host should welcome guests with boiled (煮沸的) tea. Boiling tea is one of the oldest ways of brewing (煮沏). It started in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Later, in the Ming Dynasty (1368—1644), a faster way took its place-steeping (冲泡).
However, the old way is now making a comeback among Chinese young people now. The topic of “stove-boiled” tea (围炉煮茶) has had over 40,000 posts on the app Xiaohongshu, or Little Red Book. They lightly roast tea leaves before boiling them in a teapot on a stove. People sit around the stove in natural environment and have snacks with their hot tea.
Through “stove-boiled” tea, people can taste a slower life and find their inner (内在的) peace. As is written in one Xiaohongshu post, “feel the fall breeze (微风), and chat with best friends.”
1. Chinese tea culture is popular around the world.2. Boiling tea began from the Ming Dynasty.
3. Nowadays, “stove-boiled” tea becomes a hot topic on the Internet.
4. People only drink tea and chat while they are boiling tea.
5. “Stove-boiled” tea is a way to enjoy a peaceful and relaxing time.
7 . Many people like to see animals in the zoo. But do you know most of the animals in the zoo are very sad? Animals usually live in the forests or mountains. They like to live freely. But the life in the zoo is quite different from that in the forests and mountains. They have to stay in cages (笼子) all day and wait for the zoo keepers to feed them. They can’t come out of the cages, so they have to walk round and round.
The wildlife parks can solve all these problems for them. All the animals live in the open air everywhere in the parks. They don’t need to stay in cages. They can run, jump and play with other animals happily. They look for food by themselves. The most important thing is that they are free and happy, and they are protected there. People are not allowed to hunt (捕猎) in wildlife parks.
Some of the animals in wildlife parks are friendly, but some are fearful, such as lions, wolves (狼) and tigers. But it’s not very dangerous to see the animals in wildlife parks if you stay in the bus all the time. It will be very exciting if a tiger or a bear looks at you through the window. But don’t worry, nothing will happen. You are quite safe inside the bus.
1. Most of the animals in the zoo are ________.| A．sad | B．happy |
| C．friendly | D．fearful |
| A．are in danger | B．look for food by themselves |
| C．are fed by the zoo keepers | D．are fed by visitors |
| A．they want to play with people |
| B．they are hungry and want to eat |
| C．they can’t come out of the cages |
| D．they are friendly and want to show themselves to people |
| A．Forests. | B．Mountains. |
| C．Zoos. | D．Wildlife parks. |
| A．inside the bus | B．outside the bus |
| C．inside the cage | D．outside the cage |
8 . China covers large areas and has a big population. Different living habits have always been an interesting topic in the country. Recently, another difference between southern Chinese and northern Chinese became a hot one: the way people shop at markets.
People from southern China say that they always buy what they need for just one or two meals. It is normal for them to buy half of a Chinese cabbage, two potatoes and 0.25 kilograms of beef at a time. However, one may be laughed at if he does this in the north. Instead, buying vegetables and meat enough for a week is usual. Also, you can buy a small amount (数量) of fruit, such as a single apple or pear, each time in the south. Shop owners even help you peel and cut them. But shop owners in the north hardly offer such service. And many fruits are sold in baskets and boxes.
The difference could be due to the different weather. Food can be kept for a long time in the north, as it is usually cold and dry there. Many northern Chinese have the habit of storing food, especially for the long winter. But the hot and wet weather in the south makes southern Chinese buy just enough food for one meal or one day, or else the food may go bad.
1. In southern China, people usually buy ________ at a time.| A．a small amount of food | B．a large amount of food |
| C．enough food for a week | D．a lot of meat and vegetables |
| A．peel and cut them for you | B．laugh at you |
| C．only sell them in boxes and baskets | D．only sell a single apple or pear |
| A．the weather is hot and wet | B．food goes bad quickly |
| C．the weather is cold and dry | D．they live far away from markets |
| A．buy fruits in baskets and boxes | B．buy meat for a week |
| C．store a lot of food | D．buy half of a Chinese cabbage |
| A．Different Weather in China |
| B．Different Living Habits in China |
| C．Southern Weather and Northern Weather |
| D．Southern Chinese and Northern Chinese |
9 . Yunnan is such a wonderful place that thousands of tourists come here to take a holiday every year. If you have a travel plan, here are three places of interest that you can choose.
 | Green Shad Valley (荫翠峡) is a long valley in Yiliang and it is covered with plants on both sides of the river. It has another name of “Love Valley” because it was a place for young people to sing songs to find lovers. It’s said that the Dragon King’s third daughter and a young man sang to each other from the cliff (悬崖) tops of the valley. You can take a boat through the valley and enjoy yourselves along the way. |
 | Erhai Lake in Dali is the second largest fresh water lake in Yunnan Province. This beautiful lake covers an area of 256.5 square kilometers and it’s about 10-20 meters deep. Because Yunnan is far from oceans, the people here call it Erhai Sea. In recent years, Erhai Lake has become more and more popular. You may see it on Tik Tok (抖音) all the time. |
 | Honghe Hani Rice Terraces (红河哈尼梯田) have different kinds of beauty in different seasons. From November to March, the terraces are filled with water. When the sunlight shines on the water, the terraces will be very beautiful. From April to early September, there is green paddy rice (水稻) all over the field. In late September and early October, the rice fields turn yellow. |
1. Why is Green Shad Valley also called “Love Valley”?
| A．Because people could sing songs to find lovers there. |
| B．Because the valley is so lovely. |
| C．Because the Dragon King loved singing from the cliff tops of the valley. |
| D．Because people love taking boats through the valleys. |
| A．the second largest lake in China | B．256.5 square kilometers in size |
| C．more than 20 meters wide | D．close to the ocean |
| A．April | B．March | C．October | D．November |
| A．You can see plants on both sides of the river in Green Shad Valley. |
| B．You can hardly see Erhai Lake on Tik Tok. |
| C．The terraces are beautiful under the sunlight from November to March. |
| D．There are many tourists traveling in Yunnan every year. |
| A．a science fiction | B．a storybook | C．a dictionary | D．a guidebook |
10 . Lao She wrote Teahouse in 1957. The play shows the audience the life in China between 1898 and 1945. It takes place in a teahouse in old Beijing and it tells us the story of Wang Lifa and his customers (顾客). It describes the changes in Chinese society for about fifty years.
The story starts in 1898 during the Qing Dynasty. It continues in 1916, and finally, it brings the audience to the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1945. After the war, Wang loses the teahouse and his life becomes miserable (痛苦的).
Lao She was born in Beijing in 1899. He wrote many plays, novels and short stories. He was named “the People’s Artist” and described as a great master of language. He was one of the greatest Chinese writers in the 20th century.
At Lao She Teahouse today, waiters bring tea to the customers and sell them delicious Chinese food. If you like the Beijing Opera, folk music, acrobatic (杂技的) or magic shows, you can enjoy them at the teahouse. Lao She Teahouse gives a wonderful welcome to everyone from all over the world.
1. When did Lao She write the play Teahouse?| A．In 1898. | B．In 1945. | C．In 1957. | D．In 1899. |
| A．57 years. | B．45 years. | C．98 years. | D．47 years. |
| A．the boss of Lao She Teahouse | B．the People’s Artist |
| C．a great master of language | D．one of the greatest Chinese writers in the 20th century |
| A．Only Chinese customers. | B．Only foreign customers. |
| C．Every customer around the world. | D．Only the Beijing Opera audience. |
| A．Lao She. | B．Lao She Teahouse. |
| C．The story of Teahouse. | D．The play Teahouse. |
