2 . 【课本改编题】
Discuss these questions in groups and then fill in the table.
What festivals do you celebrate with your family each year?
Why do you think people celebrate different festivals?

Names of the festivals	Reasons for celebrating the festivals
1	2
3	4
5	6
7	8

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Summer Solstice(夏至),    1    (establish) in ancient China, generally falls on June 21st or 22nd. On the very day of Summer Solstice, daylight lasts for the    2    (long) during the whole year in the northern hemisphere(半球). After this day, daylight hours get shorter and shorter, and    3    (temperature) become higher in the northern hemisphere.

In ancient China, Summer Solstice was not only a solar term,    4    also an important festival. As early as the Han Dynasty, Summer Solstice    5    (celebrate). Before the Qing Dynasty, people even had a one-day holiday on Summer Solstice.

As the proverb    6    (go), Winter Solstice is a time to eat dumplings and Summer Solstice noodles. Eating noodles on Summer Solstice is an important custom in many parts of China. Around Summer Solstice, wheat is harvested and new flour comes into    7    market. People eat noodles on Summer Solstice,    8    means “taste new” and “celebrate the harvest”.

Ancient Chinese had the custom    9    worshipping(祭拜) the earth on the day of Summer Solstice. On Summer Solstice, emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties would lead their ministers to worship the earth,    10    (pray) for good weather and peace for the country and the people. The folk custom of worshiping ancestors on Summer Solstice is popular in many cities.

6 . China has named the nation’s first Mars rover (火星车) Zhu Rong. For all of us, Zhu Rong is a well-suited name.

In an ancient Chinese story, Zhu Rong had the face of a man and the body of an animal. H rode on two dragons.

When he had a big fight with Gong Gong, the god of water, Zhu Rong won. But after the fight, the human world came into complete darkness. Then he brought fire from heaven to the world.

“Zhu Rong is regarded as the earliest god of fire in traditional Chinese culture,” a space official said. “The first Mars rover was named Zhu Rong. The name symbolizes light and hope for space exploration in our country, and means to guide humans to continue exploration.”

After leaving the earth last summer, Zhu Rong circled Mars for several months and landed on it in May. In recent years, our country has sent up the world’s first quantum satellite (量子卫星), and Chang’e-4 has made a soft landing on the moon. We have made great progress in space technology and will soon start building our own space station.

1. What Zhu Rong brought from heaven to the world was ________.

A．fire

B．wars

C．water

D．animals

2. For China’s space exploration, the name Zhu Rong symbolizes ________.

A．a big fight

B．complete darkness

C．light and hope

D．Chinese culture

3. The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to “________”.

A．the earth

B．Mars

C．the moon

D．the sun

4. According to the passage, we can infer that ________.

A．Zhu Rong is a bad person in an ancient Chinese story

B．China has made great progress in space technology

C．the writer is proud of China’s space technology

D．the official doesn’t like the name Zhu Rong

8 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Visitors to Chengdu will find many tea houses scattering(分布于) throughout the city. Drinking tea has become     1     essential part of Chengdu people’s daily life. Because of this, Chengdu has formed a special tea culture of its own.

For the     2    (local), the best place to have the proper atmosphere is a tea house,     3     they spend their leisure time while sipping their favorite tea. What often appeals to visitors is the brass teapot with a three foot-long spout(壶嘴), from which the tea can     4    (shoot) at a very long distance. Visitors who have the opportunity     5    (witness) this performance of pouring tea never forget it. Apart from being experts in the art of tea, the tea doctors are also very familiar     6     the local culture and are the perfect source to find out Chengdu’s local lifestyle.

The design of the tea houses varies according to the owner’s tastes. Besides tea, tea houses in Chengdu also have a     7    (various) of local snacks on the menu. Since many people in Chengdu spend many hours in the tea houses, food is a necessity.

The most unique part of Chengdu’s tea houses is the community atmosphere. Everyone comes to the tea houses to relax, do business     8     just drink tea. There are also people     9    (wander) the tea houses offering to clean out customers’ ears or cut their fingernails.

Chengdu is one of the few remaining places with true teahouse culture left in China. The only way we can     10     (true) understand it is to experience it.

10 . 汉译英

很难有人能抵挡得住制作精良的美食纪录片的诱惑。纪录片《舌尖上的中国》一经播出，就获得了广泛的赞誉，因为它成功地唤起了人们探索各种中国食物及其背后的故事的兴趣。决定美食纪录片是否能对观众产生巨大吸引力的因素包括影片是否具备讲故事的能力以及画面与文字的契合度等。人们津津乐道的纪录片，总让人深思人与食物的关系。味道总是连接着一座城又或是一个人，因此每当品尝到某种食物，熟悉的画面便会涌上心头。

A well-made food documentary has a     1         2     for us. The documentary, A Bite of China, once released, has received widespread praise. It has successfully     3         4         5         6     people to explore all kinds of Chinese foods and the stories behind it. The determining factors of extraordinary food documentaries include whether the film is     7         8     telling stories as well as whether the picture goes well with the description. The documentary that people love to talk about gives us an opportunity to     9         10     the relationship between food and people. Just as taste is always associated with one city or one person, good memories of that unforgettable place or person will come flooding back whenever a certain food is tasted.