1 . Susan is reading something about how to keep healthy on the Internet.
Good Sleep
Good health needs good sleep. Go to bed before you’re tired. Don’t eat or read in bed. Go to bed at the same time before midnight and get up early in the morning at the same time every day. For more information, please visit www.sleeping.com.
Stay Away from Flu (远离流感)
The cold or flu virus (病毒) can live on our hands for a long time. So often wash all parts of your hands with soap and water. For more ways to prevent (阻止) the spread of the flu, please call Health Line at 1800-848-1313.
Oral Health (口腔卫生)
Brush your teeth twice a day and visit the dentist at least once a year. The oral examination is not only for the health of teeth, but for the whole body. For more information, please visit www.mydr.com.cn.
Fit for Life
Studies show that physical activity is very important. Try to do exercise for 30 minutes a day, 5 days or more a week. For more information, please call Health Line at 1800-438-2000.
1. If you want to get a good sleep, you’d better ________.| A．go to bed at different time | B．go to sleep at midnight |
| C．go to bed before you’re tired | D．eat something or read in bed |
| A．to clean your fingers often | B．to wash all parts of your hands |
| C．to get up early every morning | D．to brush your teeth twice a day |
| A．At least once a year. | B．At most once a year. |
| C．At least once a week. | D．At most twice a month. |
| A．call at 1800-848-1313 | B．call at 1800-438-2000 |
| C．visit www.mydr.com.cn | D．visit www.sleeping.com |
| A．To advise how to eat healthily. | B．To give the ways to exercise. |
| C．To show why we should exercise. | D．To tell us how to keep healthy. |
Do you like chicken soup? Do you know how to make delicious chicken soup? Let me tell you!
Chicken soup is a kind of traditional Chinese food. It is very delicious and it’s good for our health. And I think it is easy to cook. If you follow my steps, you can enjoy the delicious chicken soup.
First, you need a saucepan (炖锅). Clean the saucepan and pour eight big bowls of water into the saucepan. Heat it as you do other things for cooking. You will need some chicken, carrots, salt and pepper. Cut up the chicken and carrots. When the water boils, put the chicken into the saucepan. Wait for 20 minutes and add the carrots. Simmer (煨炖) for one hour, and then add salt and pepper.
Finally, pour out chicken soup into bowls. Don’t eat at once. Because it’s too hot! You can enjoy it five minutes later.
1. Chicken soup is bad for our health.2. We need a saucepan to make chicken soup.
3. It will only take us 20 minutes to cook chicken soup.
4. We can enjoy it at once when we pour out chicken soup into bowls.
5. The passage (文章) may come from a food magazine.
3 . China is a country with 56 nationalities (民族). Does each nationality celebrate New Year in the same way? Let’s see some of them.
Dai people in Yunnan Province usually celebrate the Water Festival, also their new year, from April 13th to April 15th. They take part in many interesting activities like the dragon boat racing, fireworks shows and other performances on the first day. And the most popular event—water splashing (泼洒) will be on the second day.
Tibetan New Year called Losar falls on the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar (late January or early February). The word Losar is a Tibetan word for New Tibetan people Year. People visit temples (寺庙) to make offerings and give gifts to monks (僧人).
Han People has the largest population in China. The new year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day are a time for Han people family reunion. People get together to enjoy a big family meal, watch TV, play mahjong and so on until the next morning.
1. The Water Festival _________.| A．lasts for four days | B．is celebrated by Han people |
| C．isn’t so interesting | D．is also Dai People’s new year |
| A．Have dragon boat races. | B．Throw water to each other. |
| C．Make firework shows. | D．Perform different kinds of dances. |
| A．In January or February. | B．In April or May. |
| C．In June or July. | D．In October or November. |
| A．Han people have family reunion only on New Year’s Eve. |
| B．Han people give gifts to monks in the new year. |
| C．Han people’s new year starts with the New Moon. |
| D．Han people often visit the temples on the New Year’s Day. |
| A．How do Dai people celebrate the Water Festival? |
| B．How do Han people celebrate the New Year’s Day? |
| C．How do Tibetan people celebrate Losar? |
| D．How do different nationalities celebrate New Year? |
4 . The Egyptian Pyramids (埃及金字塔) are really something special. They have a history of four to five thousand years. Every year millions of tourists from all over the world travel there.
It is said that many people want to experience the feeling of climbing to the top of the Pyramids. Unluckily, none of them can achieve it. According to the police records, since 1940, no one who climbed the Pyramids could come back alive, which is a great mystery of the Pyramids.
The gate of the Pyramid weighs about 20 tons. But the amazing thing is that you can push the door with one hand easily. It’s really unbelievable.
The Pyramids in Egypt also have much magic power: For example, when you have a headache, it will stop the pain if you sleep in the Pyramids; Vegetables or fruit can be kept for longer time in the Pyramids. So people think that there must be an energy that can’t be discovered in the Pyramids. But what could it be?
Another mystery of the Pyramids is that when we enter the Pyramids with electronic instruments, they won’t work well. It seems that something disturbs (打扰) them.
The Pyramids are magical, and everyone has a common question: How were they built? We haven’t known the answer yet.
1. How old are the Pyramids according to the passage?| A．Two to three thousand years old. | B．Four to five thousand years old. |
| C．Five to six thousand years old. | D．Six to seven thousand years old. |
| A．gate | B．top | C．size | D．history |
| A．In a storybook. | B．In a novel. | C．In a dictionary. | D．In a magazine. |
| A．Those who reached the top of the Pyramids died. |
| B．It’s hard for us to open the heavy gate of the Pyramid. |
| C．The Pyramids can keep food fresh. |
| D．There are many mysteries about the Pyramids. |
| A．The advantages of the Pyramids. | B．The position of the Pyramids. |
| C．The mysteries of the Pyramids. | D．The changes of the Pyramids. |
5 . In the 13th century, Marco Polo saw many wonderful things in China. One of the things he discovered was money made of paper. People in the West did not have such kind of money until the 15th century. However the Chinese began to use it in the 7th century.
Paper was invented by a Chinese man called Cai Lun almost 2,000 years ago. But it was not made in Europe until the year 1100. Four hundred years later, a German discovered that he could make the best paper from trees. After that countries rich in forests, such as Canada, Sweden, America, Finland became the most important ones in paper making.
Paper can be used in many ways. The common uses include newspapers, magazines and books. But do you know that paper can be used for keeping warm? In Finland, the farmers wear paper boots to keep their feet warm in the snow. And even houses can be insulated (使绝缘) from heat or cold with paper.
However, we have to understand that paper still comes from trees now. If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not be any trees left on the earth someday in the near future. Every day people throw away about 2,800 tons of paper in our city. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. This means that we are cutting down nearly 48,000 trees every day. The fact is that it takes more than 10 years for a tree to grow.
So we must start saving paper right now. We can use both sides of every piece of paper. We can make useful things out of used paper. We can use china cups instead of paper ones. When shopping, we can use fewer paper bags and reuse them if we have some.
In short, we should keep a balance between using paper and protecting trees, and do it now before it is too late.
1. When did people in the West have paper money?| A．In the 5th century. | B．In the 13th century. |
| C．In the 7th century. | D．In the 15th century. |
| A．Because it had a large population. | B．Because it was a large country. |
| C．Because it had lots of forests. | D．Because it was a rich country. |
| A．Keeping warm. | B．Making newspaper. |
| C．Reducing waste. | D．Making books. |
| A．Seventy trees are needed to make one ton of paper. |
| B．Marco Polo found money made of paper in China. |
| C．Used paper can not be used again. |
| D．It takes five years for a tree to grow. |
| A．Save Paper | B．History of Making Paper |
| C．Information of Paper | D．The Use of Paper |
6 . Sending flowers is popular. More and more young people love to send flowers as a present for others. But there are some taboos on sending flowers. You cannot copy others without thinking. You should know how to choose flowers wisely. Here are some useful ideas about sending flowers.
Every flower has a certain meaning. If you want to congratulate your elders on their birthdays, you can send the jonquil or the Chinese evergreen. The former(前者)means “health and long life”, and the latter means “never growing old”.
Every flower has its silent language. Let’s take roses for example. When a man and a woman are in love with each other, the man usually sends roses to the woman. The roses are very beautiful. The most important thing is that their silent language is “love”.
When you send flowers, you should also choose flowers according to the receivers’ conditions. When you visit a sick person, you shouldn’t send a potted(盆栽的)flower. The sick person may mistake your meaning. Some people might think getting a potted flower means they would be ill for a long time. If the receiver has had an operation(手术), you shouldn’t choose flowers which have a strong smell. They may make him or her cough.
Don’t forget to choose the right number of flowers. For example, don’t send four flowers because “four” sounds like “death” in Chinese. Which numbers are good choices? Well, you can choose to send six, eight, nine or ten flowers. Chinese people agree that these numbers are good choices.
1. The underlined word “taboos” in Paragraph 1 means “________” in Chinese.| A．禁忌 | B．优势 | C．难题 | D．纰漏 |
| A．Health and long life. | B．Never growing old. |
| C．Love for mothers and teachers. | D．Long and true friendship. |
| A．the smell of the flower is bad for him | B．it means death in Chinese |
| C．its silent language is “love” | D．he thinks it means he would be ill for a long time |
| A．three | B．four | C．seven | D．eight |
| A．tell us different meanings of flowers | B．describe the most beautiful flowers |
| C．share some wise ideas about sending flowers | D．tell us why to send flowers as a gift |
Hainan Chicken Rice is a delicious rice. It is one of the specials of Hainan. People in Hainan often eat it. It is one of the 50 best specials in the word.
There are many ways to cook Hainan Chicken Rice. When cooking Hainan Chicken rice, some people cook rice with oil（油）. Some people use Chinese green onions to make it hot. Some people use great vegetables to make it look good.
People in Hainan usually use White-cut Chicken for this dish. The chicken is soft. And it tastes delicious. They think this kind of Hainan Chicken Rice is the best.
When eating Hainan Chicken Rice, you should drink a bowl of soup. There are some eggs or tomatoes in the soup. They make the soup look beautiful and taste good.
1. Hainan Chicken Rice is the special of Hainan.2. There is only one way to cook Hainan Chicken Rice.
3. We can use Chinese green onions to make Hainan Chicken Rice hot.
4. Great vegetables can’t make Hainan Chicken Rice look good.
5. Eggs or tomatoes make the soup taste good.
8 . Zhurong, the name of China’s first Mars rover (火星车) ,was announced on April 24th, 2021, China’s Space Day. The name of Zhurong comes from a character in ancient Chinese stories.
The way it was named is the same as other space programs like Chang’e, Tianwen and Beidou. In ancient Chinese stories, Zhurong is a fire god. He is a proud man dressed in the soldier’s clothes.
holding a sword and riding on a large tiger. And he is famous for stopping his son from causing floods for humans successfully. Besides according to the words’ Chinese meanings “Zhu” means “wish” which can be used to express the good wishes for humans’ study of the universe (宇宙) . And “rong” means “integration” which shows Chinese people would like to use the space with other countries peacefully, and to build a community with a shared future for human beings.
Zhurong, the Mars rover, is 1.85 meters high and weighs about 240 kilograms. It has six wheels and four solar panels (太阳能面板) and it can move at 200 meters an hour on the planet’s surface. With six scientific instruments, it can work for at least three months. On the Mars, it can do a lot of surveys and collect information, such as the make-up of the planet’s surface, the weather and environment conditions on the Mars. Zhurong shows that China’s space programs have taken a huge step forward again.
1. Zhurong, Chang’e, Tianwen and Beidou are all the names of Chinese ________.| A．IT programs | B．space programs | C．paintings | D．poems |
| A．融合 | B．象征 | C．忍受 | D．担当 |
| A．What Zhurong looks like. | B．Why Zhurong is a fire god. |
| C．How Zhurong got its name. | D．When Zhurong got its name. |
| A．Zhurong can work for only three months. |
| B．Humans don’t want to study the universe. |
| C．Zhurong is 1.85 meters high and weighs about 200 kilograms. |
| D．China wants to use the space with other countries peacefully. |
| A．China’s Space Day | B．China’s Space Culture |
| C．China’s first Mars rover—Zhurong | D．China’s Space Industry |
Chinese people have been celebrating the Spring Festival and enjoying dumplings for centuries. Dumplings are always a kind of popular food in Northern China and are often found on the table during the Spring Festival. Dumplings are in the shape of Yuanbao. They carry people’s wishes to the New Year. Eating dumplings during the Spring Festival means “Bring in health and treasure”. Dumplings are also a symbol of home and warmth.
There are many legends (传说) about the origin (起源) of dumplings, but no one knows who invented dumplings exactly. Nowadays, many agree that dumplings were first created by medical Saint Zhang Zhongjing in the Eastern Han Dynasty. At that time, dumplings were used for medicine. It is said that Zhang noticed that many people’s ears were frostbitten (冻伤) when he returned to his home-town one winter. He decided to help them. So he wrapped (包) mutton, pepper and some warming medicinal (药用材料) in dough (面) . Folding them into the shape of an ear. Then he boiled them in water before giving them to the poor. This food was first called “Jiao’er” for its shape, and later the name slowly became Jiaozi.
Nowadays, dumplings are popular around the world. Many people have regarded them as a symbol of Chinese culture.
1. Dumplings are always a kind of popular food in western China.2. Dumplings are in the shape of Yuanbao and also a symbol of home and warmth.
3. Dumplings were used for medicine in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
4. Zhang Zhongjing created dumplings to tell people the importance of ears.
5. The article is mainly about dumplings’origin and culture.
10 . In China, there are 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 (醋).
The Spring Festival is very important in China. When it comes, we make dumplings, usually we put a coin (硬币) into 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．mooncakes | B．vegetables | C．noodles | D．dumplings |
| A．vegetables and pork | B．vegetables | C．seafood（海鲜） | D．dumplings |
| A．you are free | B．you are happy |
| C．are busy | D．you are hungry |
| A．They will be sad. | B．They will feel lucky. |
| C．They will be afraid. | D．They will feel worried. |
| A．Chinese Food | B．Welcome to China |
| C．Real Chinese Food—Dumplings | D．My Favourite Food |
