题目内容
China is a large country. The population is over 1.3 billion. It has a special culture with a very long history.
Chinese food plays an important role for Chinese families. Different foods have special meanings. The main difference is that Chinese people eat their meals with chopsticks. One of the main foods in Chinese culture is rice. Tea is a favourite drink and it is popular in the market.
Chinese calendar is different from the one used in Western countries. New Year's Day is in late winter. It is also called the Spring Festival. It has a big celebration of ringing out the old and ringing in the new. It has special foods and traditions. For example, sweeping the floor before New Year's Day sweeps away all the old year's bad luck.
The Chinese zodiac(生肖), known as Sheng Xiao, follows a twelve cycle. Each year is named for an animal. These animal signs are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. For example, the year that begins in 2016 is the year of the monkey.
Chinese is a complex(复杂的) language. Chinese writing developed almost 4，000 years ago and may even be older. Chinese writing has thousands of characters. A character(文字) stands for a word and also a meaning. Besides Putonghua, Chinese people speak six other forms of the language, and there are many kinds of dialects．
1.What's the population of China?
A. Almost 4，000.
B. More than 1.3 billion.
C. 12 million.
D. About 13，000 million.
2.The underlined “dialects” probably means “________” in Chinese.
A. 交际 B. 对话
C. 方言 D. 文化
3.According to the passage, what's one of the main foods in China?
A. Tea. B. Rice.
C. Meat. D. Fruit.
4.The year that begins in 2016 isn't the year of the monkey, is it?
A. Yes, it is. B. No, it isn't.
C. I don't know. D. Maybe.
5.What's the main idea of the passage?
A. Different foods have special meanings in Chinese culture.
B. Chinese is a popular language.
C. Chinese culture.
D. Chinese population.
Family Pictures
1.We visited Grandma last week. She went to her bedroom and brought down old books of pictures. We looked at the old pictures. |
2.We sat at the kitchen table. A mother, a grandmother, and a daughter looked at photos of mothers, grandmothers and daughters. |
3. We turned the yellow pages of the books. The pictures were old. They had men, women, and children I don't remember. |
4.We listened to Grandma talk. “This is little Bonita，” she said. “She had long, curly, brown hair and big brown eyes.” Grandma touched the page. |
5.We listened to stories about aunts, uncles, cousins, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters. I don't remember them. But from the stories I know them. |
1.Where does Grandma keep her books of photos?
A. In her bedroom. B. In the kitchen.
C. On the table. D. On the sofa.
2.In which paragraph does Grandma describe Bonita?
A. Paragraph 2. B. Paragraph 3.
C. Paragraph 4. D. Paragraph 5.
3.Where does the story in this passage take place?
A. At the author's home.
B. At a school.
C. At Grandma's home.
D. At a library.
4.What is the writer's message in this passage?
A. Visiting Grandma is boring.
B. Stories help you know people.
C. Photos are useless.
D. Her grandmother doesn't like to tell stories.