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The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. It lies on the first day of the first lunar month（农历）in the traditional Chinese lunar calendar .On the evening before the Spring Festival ,families get together and have a big meal .In many places people like to set off firecrackers .Dumplings are the most traditional food .Children like the festival very much ,because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes .They can also get some money from their parents. This money is given to children for good luck . People put New Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune .
Chinese people held the first New Year Festival more than 3,000 years ago. Farmers gave thanks for the harvest and prayed. They asked the gods for good crops in the coming year.
But there is a story behind all the celebration.According to legend, there was a man-eating wild monster（怪兽） "Nian" with an extremely large mouth, capable of swallowing several people in a single bite. The monster seemed too strong to be defeated. So all the villagers would take their old and young deep into the mountains to hide from Nian.One day, a wise old man passed through the village and told the villagers that "nian" was afraid of loud noises and the color red, The villagers came together and agreed that when it was time for Nian's annual visit towards the end of winter they would start a fire in front of every door and not go to sleep but rather make noise. Nian had not come down the mountain to cause any trouble thereafter. This eventually become a tradition of China and leads to the celebration for another year of safe life. Chinese people celebrate in remembrance of this legend and still continues till today! This custom has spread, became the most solemn of traditional Chinese folk festivals "have the spring festival".
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1.What is the name of the festival? (No more than three words)
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2.When is it? (No more than nine words)
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3.What do people do? ( No more than seven words)
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4.How did the villagers feel about the monster “ NIAN”? ( No more than eight words)[来
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5.Why do young kids like it so much?(No more than thirteen words)
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I started English when I was a child because of Michael Jackson. He has been my idol(偶像) 1. 1991. I really wanted to understand him and his music. I liked using a dictionary to learn slowly the meaning of words of songs written 2. him.
There was a lot of work to do to learn English, but I never felt 3. .At first, I learned about pronunciation, which was the 4. part for me. Because music was my only source(来源) of spoken English. 5. I had to use a pronunciation dictionary. Then I made lists of words in order to 6. them. I would spend hours 7. English grammar, too. What’s more, I read a lot. I also 8. my best to translate texts, dialogues and songs into English.
Because of my hard work, my English 9. a lot. In the end, I entered a college and had a 10. to further improve my English . Now I am an English teacher. And I am still making progress in English.
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A. But he doesn’t do that now. B. Father Christmas is very kind. C. But they still put their stockings at the end of their beds. D. He waits until the children are asleep. |
On Christmas Eve—the night before Christmas Day—children all over Britain put a stocking at the end of their beds before they go to sleep. Their parents usually tell them that Father Christmas will come during the night.
1. He gets to the top of each house and climbs down the chimney into the fireplace. He fills each of the stockings with Christmas presents.
Of course, Father Christmas isn’t real. In Jim and Kate’s house, “Father Christmas” is really Mr. Green. Mr. Green doesn’t climb down the chimney. 2. Then he quietly goes into their bedrooms and fills their stockings with small presents.
When they were very young, Mr. Green sometimes wore a red coat. 3. The children are no longer young, and they know who “Father Christmas” really is.
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Almost all cultures celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of another in some way. Different cultures celebrate the beginning of a new year in different ways, and at different times on the calendar.
In Western countries, people usually celebrate New Year at midnight on December 31st- January 1st. People may go to parties, sometimes dressed in formal(正式的) clothes, and the may drink champagne(香槟) at midnight. During the first minutes of the new year, people cheer and wish each other happiness for the year ahead. But some cultures prefer to celebrate the new year by waking up early to watch the sun rise. They welcome the new year with the first light of the sunrise.
Many cultures also do special things to get rid of(摆脱) bad luck at the beginning of a new year. For example, in Ecuador, families make a big doll from old clothes. The doll is filled with old newspapers and firecrackers. At midnight, these dolls are burned to show the bad things from the past year are gone and the new year can start afresh(重新). Other common traditions to keep away bad luck in a new year include throwing things into rivers or the ocean, or saying special things on the first day of the new year.
Other New Year traditions are followed to bring good luck in the new year. One widespread Spanish tradition for good luck is to eat grapes on New Year’s Day. The more grapes a person eats, the more good luck the person will have in the year. In France, people eat pancakes for good luck at New Year. In the United States, some people eat black-eyed peas for good luck-but to get good luck for a whole year you have to eat 365 of them!
1.The reading is mainly about_____.
A. the meaning of “Happy New Year!”
B. several different New Year traditions
C. what to eat on New Year’s Day
D. why people dress up nicely on New Year’s Day
2.It’s clear that_____.
A. some cultures celebrate New Year in the morning
B. the Western people celebrate New Year only on New Year’s Day
C. people in Ecuador go to parties on December 31st-January 1st
D. no cultures do special things to celebrate New Year
3.In some cultures, people throw things into rivers or oceans to_____.
A. bring good luck B. keep away bad luck
C. forget everything D. plan for the next year
4.When eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day, people think_____.
A. one pea brings one day of luck
B. black-eyed peas are the best medicine
C. the peas are too black and taste bad
D. the peas are helpful to count numbers
Three students are talking about the New Year tradition of their own country.
A．Christina from Spain
On the last day of the year, the 31st of December, people wait till 12 p．m. Everybody must have 12 grapes to eat at midnight. At each sound of the clock, we must eat a grape. But we can't ever finish eating the grapes on time! Usually when people still have some grapes in their mouths, they look at each other and start to laugh. This tradition started in Spain long ago. One year, when there were a lot of grapes, the king of Spain decided to give grapes to everybody to eat on New Year's Eve.
B．Cordon from Britain
On New Year's Day in Britain, people have parties. At 12 o'clock, the music stops, and we listen to the radio. On the radio we hear Big Ben, the famous clock in London. Then everybody sings a song about friendship and kisses their friends. We say “Happy New Year” to each other. It's lucky if a tall man with dark hair is the first person to come to the house in the New Year. So I go and visit as many friends as I can. They all give me a drink.
C．Angela from Brazil
In all cities in Brazil, we have a big party on New Year's Eve, especially in Rio de Janeiro. People in this city go to the beaches to watch fireworks (焰火). We put flowers in the sea and think about things we want for ourselves or others. We usually wear white clothes for good luck during the New Year.
1.Which is NOT mentioned (被提到) in the passage?
A. Have 12 grapes to eat. B. Give flowers to others.
C. Have parties. D. Watch fireworks.
2.Who have parties during the New Year?
A. People in Spain. B. People in Britain.
C. People in Brazil D. Both B and C.
3.On New Year's Day, Brazilians usually wear white clothes because ________.
A. they think that they look beautiful in white
B. that reminds them of their happy life
C. they hope that can bring them good luck
D. that's what they have to do during the New Year
4.This article mainly tells us________.
A. what people in different countries do on New Year's Day
B. when and where people have New Year parties
C. what people in Britain do on New Year's Day
D. why people around the world like the New Year
When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do?” as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your translation(翻译)？It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.
Languages do not just have different sounds, they are different in many ways. It’s important to master(掌握) the rules for word order in the study of English, too. If the speakers put words in a wrong order, the listener can’t understand the speaker’s sentence easily. Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence changes, But sometimes the order is changed, the meaning of the sentence doesn’t change. Let’s see the difference between the two pairs of sentences.
“She only like apples.” “Only she likes apples.”
“I have seen the film already.” “I have already seen the film.”
When you are learning English, you must do your best to get the spirit(精神实质) of the language and use it as the English speaker does.
1.From the passage we know that when we are learning English.
A. we shouldn’t put every word into our own language
B. we should look up every word in the dictionary
C. we need to put every word into our own language
D. we must read word by word
2.We can learn from the passage that .
A. the meaning of an English sentence always changes with the order of the words
B. the order of words can never change the meaning of an English sentence
C. sometimes different order of words has a different meaning
D. if the order of words is different, the meaning of a sentence must be different
3.“She only likes apples.” means .
A. is the same as “Only she likes apples.”
B. is different from “Only she likes apples.”
C. means “She likes fruit except apples.”
D. means “She doesn’t like apples.”
4.Which is the best title for this passage?
A. Different Orders, Different Meanings.
B. How to Speak English?
C. How to Put English into Our Own Language?
D. How to Learn English?
