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Chinese, unlike many other languages, has a large family of dialects and written forms. Spoken Chinese is specially complex with more than five recognized dialect groups, even the written language with two recognized characters.

The written forms of Chinese include a traditional system of characters and a simplified one. The simplified version of characters came into use in 1949.

Traditional Chinese characters are still widely used throughout Asia and among Chinese people around the world, while the simplified characters are only found in the People’s Republic of China.

It is usually accepted that there are five major dialect groups within the Chinese language group. These are Mandarin, Wu, Min, Cantonese and Hakka.

Mandarin is the official language on the Chinese mainland and Chinese Taiwan. It  is also one of the four official languages of Singapore.

Wu is spoken around the lower Yangtze River and its tributaies(支流). Shanghai is a well-known dialect of Wu.

Min is commonly spoken by people in Taiwan, Fujian and Hainan. Cantonese is mainly spoken in the province of Guangdong. Cantonese is also spoken in many parts of the Chinese Diaspra(移居地), particularly Hong Kong and overseas Chinese settlements in the United States, Europe and Southeast Asia. Hakka is the least well-known dialect group inside China compared to the above four. Most of the Hakka dialect group is scattered(散居) throughout southeastern China in Guangxi Province. Historically, the Hakka people were northerners who moved south over several hundred years. Their name Hakka means “guest” indicaing their immigrant(移民) status in the southern areas to which they moved.

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Chinese Language

Theme

Chinese differs from many other languages in that it has many written forms and dialects.

Two (1)______ forms

Traditional characters

Still in wide (2)_______ throughout Asia and among

Chinese all over the world.

Simplified characters

●Used after the People’s Republic of China

was (3)_______.

●Commonly used on the mainland.

Five Major Chinese dialect Groups

Mandarin

The official language of the PRC, known as Putonghua in

mainland China.

Wu

●Spoken around the (4)_______Yangtze River and its tributaries.

●One famous dialect is Shanghaiese.

Min

Commonly spoken by people in Taiwan, Fujian and Hainan.

Cantonese

●Mainly spoken in Guangdong and Hong Kong.

●The language of Guangzhou is also known as Canton..

Hakka

●Compared to the four above, it is the (5)_______well-known.

●Spoken in Guangxi and it means “guest”.

Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today because it is about simple but strong human feelings and events------love, sadness, good times, and bad times. It tells real-life, stories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more complicated(复杂), it is good to hear music about ordinary people.

Country music, sometimes called country-western, comes from two kinds of music. One is the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern Unite States. The other is traditional cowboy music from the west. The singers usually play guitars, and in the 1920s they started using electric guitars. At first city people said country music was low class. It was popular mostly in the South. But during World War II, thousands of Southerners went to the Northeast and Midwest to work in the factories. They took their music with them. Soldiers from the rest of the country went to army camps in the South. They learned country music. Slowly it became popular all over the country.

Today country music is also popular everywhere in the United States and Canada-------in small towns and in New York City, among black and white, and among educated and uneducated people. About 1, 200 radio stations broadcast country music twenty-four hours a day. English stars sing it in British English, and people in other countries sing it in their own languages. The music that started with cowboys and poor southerners is now popular all over the world.

77. It can be learned from the passage that country music comes from          .

    A. the Northeast and Midwest

    B. factories and army camps in the South

    C. the Appalachian Mountains and the West

    D. real-life stories in small towns

78. Before World War II country music was popular mainly in            .

    A. the south       B. the north      C. the Midwest      D. the Northeast

79. Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the world

today because               .

    A. city people said it was low class

    B. people could sing it in many different languages

    C. it started with cowboys and poor Southerners

    D. it is loved by different kinds of people in the world

80. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

    A. Country music is about human feelings and events.

    B. Country music is sung by stars all in English.

    C. Country music is popular among city people today.

    D. City people didn’t like country music at first.

第二节 完形填空 (共20小题;每小题1.5分, 满分30分)

A fisherman was lying on a beautiful beach and enjoying the warm sunshine with one end of his fishing pole (鱼竿) placed in the sand.

   Then a 21 came walking down the beach to have a 22 from his work. He saw the fisherman and decided to 23 why this fisherman was not working  24 .

   “If you want to catch lots of fish, you should be 25 rather than lying on the beach!”

   The fisherman asked, looking 26 at the businessman and smiling, “And what will my reward be?”

   “Well, you can get big 27 to catch more fish!” the man answered.

   “And then what will my reward be?” asked the fisherman, 28 smiling.

The businessman replied, “Then you will 29 money and you can buy more nets and also a big boat 30 you can get a lot more fish!”

“And then what will my reward be?” the fisherman asked the 31 question with a smiling face again.

The businessman was beginning to get 32  .

“You can buy a bigger boat, and hire (雇) some people to fish for you! Then you will be a rich man,” he said in a higher 33  .

Once again the fisherman smiled at him and asked, “And then what will my reward be?”

The businessman was 34  of his question and shouted at the fisherman, “Don’t you understand? You can become so 35  that you will never have to work for your living again! You can 36  on this beach and enjoy the  37  .”

The fisherman didn’t  38  the question this time.  39  , he asked “What do you think I’m doing right now?”

Not knowing  40  to say, the businessman left.

21.A. teacher                     B. doctor        C. farmer              D. businessman

22.A. look                        B. rest                   C. walk                 D. meeting

23.A. look up                    B. hunt for            C. find out             D. watch out

24.A. little                        B. much                C. hard                  D. early

25.A. learning                   B. working            C. sleeping            D. resting

26.A. down                B. up                    C. away                 D. out

27.A. fields                B. space                C. nets                  D. houses

28.A. still                       B. even              C. not                   D. only                

29.A. accept               B. receive              C. make                D. create

30.A. as if                         B. even though       C. so that        D. although

31.A. same                 B. difficult            C. special              D. different

32.A. frightened               B. interested          C. hungry              D. angry

33.A. voice                      B. sound         C. grade                D. place

34.A. fond                        B. tired                 C. proud         D. worried

35.A. famous                    B. rich                  C. happy        D. lucky

36.A. sit                           B. stand                 C. lie                    D. run

37.A. sunshine                   B. moonlight  C. cool wind          D. sunrise

38.A. reply                B. repeat        C. consider            D. report

39.A. However                  B. Instead              C. So                   D. Besides     

40.A. when                B. where        C. what                 D. which

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