1 . Food festivals are a common occurrence in the UK and take place in all sorts of places and at all sorts of times. Whatever your taste, there’s a food festival to match — no matter how specialized.
1. Meatopia
This three-day, London-based festival takes place at the end of August and is a meat lover’s paradise. In addition to a range of legally sourced meat products, from juicy burgers to tender steaks, attendees can listen to live music, watch butchery demonstrations, and attend informal meat-based workshops.
2. The National Honey Show
If you have a sweet tooth, then it could be that the National Honey Show, which started in 1921 and is the largest event of its kind, is the place for you to be. This three-day event attracts many local entries who showcase their sweet golden honey, some of which is sold globally.
3. The Orange Sauce Festival
Have you heard about a festival that is devoted only to orange sauce? Held in Cumbria, this sweet, fragrant festival has been running for 3 years. What attracts people most is a competition to find the best homemade orange sauce. There are thousands of participants from over 30 different countries across the globe, bringing their local snacks to share here.
4. The Ginger and Spice Festival
If you’d prefer something with a little more kick to it, then you could attend The Ginger (姜) and Spice Festival held in Market Drayton. Unlike other food festivals, it celebrates its town’s historic connection to Robert Clive, who returned from India with ginger. Because of this, they specialize in baking gingerbread, but also sell a range of traditional spices from mild to hot.
1. What do Meatopia and the National Honey Show have in common?| A．Both of them last for three days. | B．Both of them hold workshops. |
| C．Both of them originated from London. | D．Both of them have a long history. |
| A．The Meatopia. | B．The Ginger and Spice Festival. |
| C．The National Honey Show. | D．The Orange Sauce Festival. |
| A．It has something to do with a historic figure. |
| B．The ginger used in the festival is from India. |
| C．It sells spicy food. |
| D．The food is cooked by Robert Clive. |
On the first day of Winter Solstice (冬至), the Northern Hemisphere experiences the shortest day and he longest night of the year. From then on, the days become longer and the nights become
As early as the Zhou Dynasty, people worshipped the gods on the first day of the Winter Solstice,
During Winter Solstice in North China, eating
3 . April 25 is World Penguin Day, which is reported to have been started by researchers in Antarctica to celebrate the time of year that Adélie penguins begin moving north for the winter.
Though it was started for Adélie penguins, it has been used for all of the world’s 17 different species of penguins. Meanwhile, penguins are also celebrated on January 20,which is known as Penguin Awareness Day. Most penguins spend about half their time on land and the rest in the sea. They depend on fish and other kinds of small sea life for food. However, climate change has had serious effects on penguins. Around two-thirds of penguin species are dropping in numbers and struggling to adjust. Warming seas, changing ice patterns, loss of food, and pollution are just a few of the problems faced by penguins.
But there’s also happier penguin news. Scotland’s Edinburgh Zoo announced the hatching of four penguin babies. Visitors to the zoo’s webcams(网络摄像机) were able to watch live as the baby birds came out, who are especially good news because they are northern rockhopper penguins-a species in danger of dying out. People who want to see the baby birds grow can watch them over the zoo’s webcamn. Dawn Nicoll, who’s in charge of penguins at the zoo, says there are 14 eggs in all, so it’s possible that more penguin babies will hatch soon. With the zoo struggling to live on, it hopes the webcams will also encourage people to contribute to it.
Another piece of good news about penguins is that two male gentoo penguins, called Sphen and Magic, paired up and began to make a nest. The workers gave the pair an extra egg from another penguin couple(Gentoo penguins may lay more than one egg, but they only raise one baby.)Sphen and Magic turned out to be great parents. They raised a baby girl, who’s known as “Sphengic”.
1. Why was World Penguin Day set up initially?| A．To take the place of Penguin Awareness Day. | B．To mark the day penguins move northward. |
| C．To appeal to people to protect wild penguins. | D．To call for more attention to penguin babies. |
| A．Its finances are not in good shape. | B．It attracts more and more visitors. |
| C．Its environment is unfit for penguins. | D．It advocates hatching more eggs once. |
| A．Entertainment programs for zoos. | B．Introduction to the rare penguins. |
| C．Studies on penguins’ living habits. | D．Efforts to increase penguin numbers. |
| A．A poster. | B．A novel. | C．A guidebook. | D．A magazine. |
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1. 开设理由；
2. 内容设想。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear editor,
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Yours,
Li Hua
(1) “中医”有着悠久的历史，经过了数千年的实践和发展；
(2) “中医”也是一门科学，它的优点正得到越来越广泛的认可；
(3) 你自己对“中医”的看法。
注意：(1)词数不少于 100；
(2)可适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯；
(3)开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：“中医” Traditional Chinese Medicine（TCM）
Dear Chris,
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Yours,
Li Jin
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10 . Winter solstice(冬至), an important solar term in the traditional Chinese calendar, as the name implies, means the coming of winter. It generally occurs between December 21st and 23rd. According to the traditional Chinese calendar, one year is divided into twenty-four solar terms. On this day, in the Northern Hemisphere the period of daytime is the shortest of the year and the period of night is the longest.
In Northern China there is a custom of eating dumplings during winter solstice. The tradition of eating dumplings during winter solstice has its origin in early times. It is said that dumplings were invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a well-known doctor from the Eastern-Han Dynasty.
One winter, he noticed that many people’s ears were frozen, which made him sad. In order to prevent and cure the freezing injury caused by the cold, he asked his followers to boil mutton, chilies and other ingredients with medicinal properties in a pot for fending off cold. After these were boiled, they ladled(舀取) the mutton and other ingredients out of the pot, cut them into pieces, and then wrapped them with dough skins in the shape of ears. Afterward, they put these into pots to boil again.
On the day of the winter solstice, the people whose ears were frozen were sent to eat the dumplings. People who ate it felt warm from head to toe and had their cold injury healed. Thereafter, every winter solstice people ate dumplings. Then there became a saying that if you eat dumplings during the winter solstice, then you won’t freeze your ears off.
Afterwards, Zhang Zhongjing died on the day of winter solstice. In order to honor him, every year on the day of the winter solstice every household makes dumplings.
1. Which of the following should be the best title of the passage?| A．The Custom Of Eating Dumplings | B．The Inventor Of Dumplings |
| C．The Importance Of Eating Dumplings | D．The Origin Of Winter Solstice |
| A．they want to honor Zhang Zhongjing, who invented dumplings to cure peoples freezing injury |
| B．they want to celebrate the important solar term in the traditional Chinese calendar |
| C．dumplings boiled with mutton, chilies and other ingredients with medicinal properties taste delicious |
| D．they can feel warm from head to toe and have their freezing injury healed |
| A．Put off. | B．Put out. |
| C．Keep up. | D．Keep out. |
| A．Winter solstice is the most important among twenty-four solar terms. |
| B．Australia in the Southern Hemisphere has the longest period of daytime on Winter Solstice. |
| C．If people don’t eat dumplings, they will have their ears frozen off. |
| D．China has the longest period of daytime on Winter Solstice. |
