Are you an eating?lover? Do you want to eat every delicious food in the world?Then do you watch the popular program A Bite of China? It's a TV program on Chinese delicious food which has been produced by CCTV. Is there any holiday that isn't celebrated with special festival food?Here are several traditional Chinese foods.

Noodles are a symbol of long life in Chinese culture. They are as much a part of Chinese birthday celebration as a birthday cake with its candles in many Western countries. Since noodles mean long life, it is considered very unlucky to cut it off.

Although Westerners sometimes may be very sorry to see fish lying on the plate, in China the whole fish is a symbol of richness. In fact, at a party it is a tradition to serve the whole fish last, pointed towards the most valued guest. Fish also has a special meaning because the Chinese word for fish, yu, sounds like the word for richness or plenty, and it is believed that eating fish will help your wishes come true in the year to come.

A very popular dish during the Dragon Boat Festival is zongzi. This tasty dish is made of rice dumplings with meat, peanuts or other delicious food in bamboo leaves. The tradition of zongzi is meant to remind us of a great man, Qu Yuan, in Chinese history.

1.A Bite of China is ________.

A. a magazine B. a newspaper

C. a film D. a TV program

2.According to the passage, in traditional Chinese culture, people will eat ________ on their birthdays.

A. eggs B. noodles C. fish D. cakes

3.Fish has a special meaning in Chinese culture mainly because ________.

A. it is served last at a party

B. it is pointed to the valued guest

C. it sounds like the word for richness or plenty in Chinese

D. it is so delicious that all Chinese people like it

4.________ in the Dragon Boat Festival makes us think of Qu Yuan.

A. Zongzi B. Meat C. Peanuts D. Dumpling

5.The article mainly talks about ________.

A. Chinese food B. Chinese history

C. Chinese festival D. Chinese language

Choose the right sentences to complete the article.

The Taj Mahal is a love story, a sad and beautiful one.1.. Three hundred years ago, there lived an Indian emperor called Shah Jahan. His wife was a beautiful and bright woman whom he loved greatly. Her title was Mumtazl Mahan: its shortened form Taj Mahan, means “pride of the palace”. In the year 1630 this beloved wife of the emperor died. 2.. He decided out of his love for his wife, to build her the most beautiful tomb that had ever been seen.

3.. It took more than twenty thousand men working over a period of 18 years to build the Taj Mahan, one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.

The building itself stands on a marble platform 29 meters square and 6-7 meters high. 4.. The Taj itself raises another 61 meters into the air. It is an eight-sided building made of white marble.

The emperor planned to build the same tomb (坟墓)of black marble for himself. 5.. However his son put him into a prison in the palace before he could finish, and for the rest of his life, he could only gaze across river at the tomb of his beloved wife.

A. It sets on the other side of the river connected by a silver bridge.

B. He was so brokenhearted that he thought of giving up his throne.

C. If it didn’t exist, we would easily imagine that the story of its construction was simply a fairy tale.

D. Towers rise from each of the four corners.

E. He organized the best artists and architects(建筑师) from India, Turkey, Persia and Arabia and finally, the design was complete.

A. It sets on the other side of the river connected by a silver bridge.

B. He was so brokenhearted that he thought of giving up his throne.

C. If it didn’t exist, we would easily imagine that the story of its construction was simply a fairy tale.

D. Towers rise from each of the four corners.

E. He organized the best artists and architects(建筑师) from India, Turkey, Persia and Arabia and finally, the design was complete.

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