1 . Interesting festivals in the world

Throwing tomatoes-Spain Spain takes “tomatoes fights”to a whole new level.But the tomatoes are thrown,not eaten.The festival takes place during the last Wednesday in August.Trucks carry tomatoes   into the square.People rush to the tomatoes and throw them into the crowd.

Rolling cheese-England This festival is celebrated on the last Monday in May. It takes place on Cooper’s Hill. A large wheel of cheese is rolled down Cooper’s Hill. The festival is actually a race where people run down the hill after the rolling cheese. The first person to cross the finish line at the bottom of the hill wins the cheese.

Burning man-The United States The Burning Man Festival lasts a week,and it falls on the first Monday in September in America. The festival takes place in the Black Rock Desert. The best part of the festival is the burning of a large sculpture (雕塑) of a man.

Pouring water-Thailand The Songkran Festival is the celebration of the New Year in Thailand. Thailand celebrates the New Year from April 13th to April 15th. Thai people run after each other and pour water. Songkran is one of the most important reasons why foreigners travel to the beautiful land.

Enjoying Snow Ice-China Snow&Ice Festival is held in Harbin in China from Jan.5 to Feb 5 every year. It lasts a month. The Harbin festival is the largest snow and ice festival in the world. There are all kinds of full-size buildings made of ice and many ice and snow sports activities. All of the people in Harbin do ice and snow activities.

1. How many festivals are mentioned in the passage?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

D．Five.

2. When will you probably go to England to enjoy rolling cheese?

A．In February.

B．In April.

C．In May.

D．In August.

3. Which festival is held in the Black Rock Desert?

A．Throwing tomatoes.	B．Rolling cheese.
C．Burning man.	D．Pouring water.

4. Where will you go if you want to enjoy Snow Ice in January?

A．China.

B．England.

C．The United States.

D．Thailand.

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Delicate strokes, carved onto wood, with ultimate precision-this is woodblock printing,     1     ancient printing technique that advanced human civilization.

As Buddhism prospered in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) , there was a strong need     2     (produce) a large amount of Buddhist scriptures. Meanwhile,     3     (copy) by hand could not meet the rising demand. Ancient Chinese craftsmen thus came up with a novel way to mass produce printed works. Hence came the earliest form of woodblock printing.

    4     (tradition) woodblock printing comprises four major steps: writing, engraving, printing, and binding. With each step then further     5     (divide) into several procedures, it takes roughly 30 steps to produce a woodblock print. Carving is at the center of woodblock printing as this painstaking step can make     6     break the final print. Characters and images     7     (carve) to produce raised areas or lines that will eventually apply ink to paper. It calls for a pair of skilled hands.

A five-meter-scroll of the Buddhist scripture Diamond Sutra, printed in 868, is the “earliest dated printed book” in the words of the British Library     8     it is stored. It is just one example of ancient works of art that not only tell the wisdom of our ancestors, but also are an evidence of the     9     (pursue) of beauty by Chinese craftsmen throughout centuries.

The invention of writing gave life     10     great thoughts, but it is the invention of printing that made knowledge a shareable fruit for all humankind.

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Classical Chinese poetry is traditional Chinese poetry     1     (write) in Classical Chinese and typified by certain traditional forms and close connections with particular historical     2     (period), such as the poetry of the Tang Dynasty. Its existence     3     (document) at least as early as the publication of the Classic of Poetry or Shijing.     4     (variety) combinations of forms and genres exist. Many or most of these     5     (arise) at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

Use and development of Classical Chinese poetry     6     (active) continued up to the year of 1919,     7     the May Fourth Movement took place, and is still developed even today. Poetry created during this 2,500 year period of more or less continuous development shows     8     great deal of diversity-classified by both major historical periods and by dynastic periods.

Of the key aspects of Classical Chinese poetry, another is     9     (it) intense interrelationship with other forms of Chinese art, such as Chinese painting and Chinese calligraphy. Classical Chinese poetry has proven to be of strong influence     10     poetry worldwide.

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By drawing patterns on the surface of a cup of tea, Zhang Zhifeng, a practitioner of chabaixi, displayed a special Chinese tea trick in a recent TV drama,     1    (arouse)great interest among ordinary people due to its apparent     2     (similar) with modern latte art (咖啡拉花艺术).

Chabaixi, with     3     name Shuidanqing, can create endless patterns such as bamboos and mountains or even calligraphy. It is different from making latte because people use clear water as the object     4    (put) into the cup instead of milk. But when the water     5     (touch) the surface of whipped (搅打起泡沫的) tea, it turns into a white color and disappears in 20 minutes. The process before the drawing is known as the tea-making technique, diancha,     6     quality is crucial to whether patterns can be successfully produced later.

Chabaixi     7     (list) as part of China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2017, after it was recovered by Zhang Zhifeng, who started researching the origins of chabaixi in     8     1980s and brought the technique back in 2009 after decades of trials and practice.

“Chabaixi, as one of the     9     (vary) forms of tea-making techniques in China, gives us a window into people’s lifestyle in the Song Dynasty, a period of time when leisure activities in some ways resemble     10     we have now. It would be a shame to let it fade. This technique must be passed on to the next generations so they can understand its history,” Zhang said.

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Straw weaving (草编) is a method of manufacturing daily items or artworks. It       1     (list) as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008. The earliest straw-weaving products were discovered at Hemudu Cultural Ruins (河姆渡文化遗址),       2     Neolithic cultural site located in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. One such intangible cultural inheritor, Wu Cui, can turn the straw left over from harvested wheat     3     beautiful and eye-catching artworks.

Wu explains the process of straw weaving:    4    (select) of materials is the first step of a complicated, time-consuming and labor-intensive process     5     can take weeks, or even months, to complete. You need to sketch (素描) the piece on paper, which requires drawing skills. Next     6       (come) weaving, shaping and preserving of the work. Even by finishing that process, it does not mean that you will always create a good piece of work, and the hardest part is to make     7     lifelike.

There are only about 100 individuals     8     (involve) in the work across the country. “The world has changed, and     9     (craftsman) need to transcend practicality and pursue the beauty and artistry of straw culture to help the craft survive and thrive,” Wu says. When asked about her plans in the future, Wu says she will systematically study the local traditional culture     10     create cultural creative products by developing the straw-weaving technique.