If Confucius(孔子)were still alive today and could celebrate his September 28 birthday with a big cake, there would be a lot of candles. IIe’d need a fan or a strong wind to help him put them out.

While many people in China will remember Confucius on his special day, few people in the United States will give him a passing thought.It’s nothing personal. Most Americans don’t even remember the birthdays of their own national heroes.

But this doesn’t mean that Americans don’t care about Confucius. In many ways he has become a bridge that foreigners must cross if they want to reach a deeper understanding of China.

In the past two decades, the Chinese studies programs have gained huge popularity in Western universities. More recently, the Chinese government has set up Confucius Institutes in more than 80 countries. These schools teach both Chinese language and culture. The main courses of Chinese culture usually included Chinese art, history and philosophy(哲学).Some social scientists suggest that Westerners should take advantages of the ancient Chinese wisdom to make up for the drawbacks of Westerners philosophy. Students in the United States, at the same time, are racing to learn Chinese. So they will be ready for life in a world where China is an equal power with the United States. Businessmen who hope to make money in China are reading books about Confucius to understand their Chinese customers.

So the old thinker’s ideas are still alive and well.

Today China attracts the West more than ever, and it will need more teachers to introduce Confucius and Chinese culture to the West.

As for the old thinker, he will not soon be forgotten by people in the West, even if his birthday is.

1.The opening paragraph is mainly intended to ________

A. attract the readers’ interest in the subject

B. provide some key facts about Confucius

C. show great respect for the ancient thinker

D. prove the popularity of modern birthday celebrations

2.We can learn from Paragraph 4 that American students______

A. take an active part in Chinese competitions

B. have a great interest in studying Chinese

C. try to get high scores in Chinese exams

D. fight for a chance to learn Chinese

3.What is the best title for the passge?

A. Forgotten Wisdom in America B. Huge Fans of the Chinese Language

C. Chinese Culture for Westerners D. Old Thinker with a Big Future

4.The passage is likely to appear in ___________.

A. a biography B. a history paper

C. a newspaper D. a philosophy textbook

Festivals and celebrations

Festivals of the Dead

1., who might return either to help or to do harm. For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors. They also light lamps and play music because they think that this will lead the ancestors back to earth.

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Festivals can also be held to honour famous people. The Dragon Boat Festival in China honours the famous ancient poet, Qu Yuan. In the USA, Columbus Day is in memory of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. India has a national festival on October 2 to honour Mohandas Gandhi, the leader who helped gain India's independence from Britain.

Harvest Festivals

Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals can be very happy events.3. . In European countries, people will usually decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruit, and will get together to have meals. Some people might win awards for their farm produce, like the biggest watermelon or the most handsome rooster. China and Japan have mid-autumn festivals, when people admire the moon and in China, enjoy mooncakes.

Spring Festivals

The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring.4. , fish and meat and may give children lucky money in red paper. There are dragon dances and carnivals, and families celebrate the Lunar New Year together. 5., usually in February. These carnivals might include parades, dancing in the streets day and night, loud music and colourful clothing of all kinds. Easter is an important religious and social festival for Christians around the world. It celebrates the return of Jesus from the dead and the coming of spring and new life.

People love to get together to eat, drink and have fun with each other. Festivals let us enjoy life, be proud of our customs and forget our work for a little while.

A. People are grateful because their food is gathered for the winter and the agricultural work is over.
B. Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to satisfy the ancestors.
C. Some Western countries have very exciting carnivals, which take place forty days before Easter
D. Festivals are meant to celebrate important times of year.
E. Festivals to Honour People
F. Different countries have different festivals.
G. At the Spring Festival in China, people eat dumplings

Honesty is always the best policy, especially when it comes to mental health problems. In a TV ______, one girl gets very real about dealing with anxiety and panic.

“ I was the bast student in my high school. I put so much ______ on myself,” she said. “ I never ______ a class. But I got sick during 10th grade and I started to ______. That’s when the panic attacks began.” She goes on to describe what a panic attack ______ like, “One day the teacher handed me my grade ______, and I couldn’t breathe. My heart was beating very ______. I felt disconnected. I saw people trying to talk to me but I couldn’t hear them.Afterwards, I was sent to ______,” she shared.

It was then ______ the attacks started happening ______ daily, and they haven’t stopped. “Last year I started college. And I can’t be the best student here no matter how hard I try,” she said. “Everyone is so ______. My panic attacks got so bad that I had to ______ my first semester.”

However, now she is facing her anxiety, and things are getting better. “ I used to try to hide ______. I thought that ______ nobody know, it didn’t exist,” she said. “But the more I talk about my ______, the more I realize that other people experience ______ things. So I’m trying to express it more. I had a great teacher ______ told me, ‘Instead of letting anxiety keep you from doing your art, let it be the thing that ______ your art.’”

Recently, woman all over the world took to Twitter to ______ what anxiety is like. We are ______ alone.

1.A. project B. program C. platform D. station

2.A. weight B. height C. pressure D. measure

3.A. joined B. succeeded C. failed D. attended

4.A. fall behind B. fall down C. leave behind D. leave alone

5.A. looks B. sounds C. tastes D. feels

6.A. report B. survey C. research D. notice

7.A. mildly B. wildly C. slowly D. severely

8.A. school B. work C. hospital D. home

9.A. when B. since C. before D. that

10.A. still B. always C. merely D. almost

11.A. ambitious B. anxious C. talented D. experienced

12.A. arrange B. perform C. operate D. cancel

13.A. it B. them C. me D. us

14.A. unless B. if C. while D. as

15.A. confidence B. dream C. issue D. desire

16.A. similar B. familiar C. various D. serious

17.A. who B. whom C. whose D. which

18.A. abandons B. quits C. motivates D. protests

19.A. advertise B. advise C. share D. compare

20.A. always B. sometimes C. seldom D. never

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