Millions of Chinese have been playing a mobile game called Travel Frog recently. You play as the “mother” of a frog who lives alone and enjoys traveling. You need to prepare food and tools for his trips. The frog will send you postcards while he is away.

The game’s popularity may have something to do with how lonely people are these days, according to the Xinhua News Agency. Many players have said that the lonely frog is just like them. But playing with the frog helps them forget their loneliness for a short time.

Loneliness seems to be a common problem today. According to the Guardian, about 40 percent of American adults say they’re lonely. And in the UK, about one in five people in the country are “always or often lonely”, The Telegraph reported.

This might be why the UK government declared (宣布) the country’s very first “Minister of Loneliness” (孤独大臣) in January. The minister’s job is to find ways to help UK citizens feel less lonely. The minister’s office will provide more money for activities that connect people together.

This loneliness problem may be partly due to social media. When we see pictures of friends having fun or posting selfies (自拍) without us, we may compare their “perfect” lives with our own and feel inferior (较差的) and lonely.

But we should remember that no one is destined (注定) to be lonely. As UK poet John Donne once wrote, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent (陆地), a part of the main.”

Tips to get rid of loneliness

Sing your favorite songs.

Connect with a friend.

Do something creative, such as drawing a picture.

Imagine some place you’d like to visit, like a fun gathering or a sporting event.

1.What do players do while playing Travel Frog?

A. Build houses for their frogs.

B. Prepare food and tools for their frogs’ trips.

C. Choose places for their frogs to travel.

D. Write postcards to their frogs.

2.To deal with loneliness, the UK government _____.

A. designed the game Travel Frog

B. created the “Minister of Loneliness”

C. holds parties for people to get together

D. stopped people’s use of social media

3.What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A. Everyone is connected with others.

B. We should not compare ourselves to others.

C. It’s not fun to feel lonely.

D. No one should live alone.

In China, there're many different kinds of food.Some of them are very popular. The real Chinese food is dumplings. Now let's talk about them, OK?

Everyone in China likes dumplings very much, and there are many different kinds of dumplings. Some have meat and vegetables in them, others have sugar, eggs and so on. I like dumplings with vegetables and pork better than any other kind.Usually people make dumplings at home. If you have no time to make them, you can buy them from any supermarket. Then you take them home and eat them with vinegar

The Spring Festival is very important in China.When it comes, we make dumplings, usually we put a coin in a dumpling. If one eats the dumpling with the coin in it, he will be lucky in the year.

In the old days, people couldn't often eat dumplings, because they were very poor. Now our country is becoming stronger and stronger, and our people are richer and richer. We can eat them very often.

1.What kind of dumplings does the writer like?

A. Meat. B. Seafood.

C. Vegetables and pork. D. Vegetable.

2.What does the underlined word “vinegar” mean?

A. Sugar. B. Sauce.

C. Pepper. D. An acid taste.

3.When can you buy dumplings from the supermarket?

A. When we have time. B. When we are tired.

C. When we are busy. D. When we are hungry.

4.Which of the sentences is NOT true?

A. The Chinese like dumplings very much.

B. If one eats the dumpling with the coin in it, he will be lucky in the year.

C. In the old days, people often eat dumplings because they are poor.

D. Now people are richer and they often eat dumplings.

Keeping traditions alive(继续存在) is never an easy thing.Chen Zunkai is the founder(创办者) of Baoyuan Dumpling House.She has spent over 17 years _____ one of the most traditional Chinese foods:dumplings.

Her dumplings are not the white ones simply filled with meat,_____ colorful ones using more than 150 kinds of fillings(馅).

“What I try to do is to make dumplings have a taste of _____,”says Chen.“I hope every customer—northerners or southerners,vegetarians(素食者) or non?vegetarians,Chinese people or foreigners—can _____ something familiar(熟悉的).”

Chinese dumplings are believed to be more than 2,000 years old._____,they are made and eaten by people in North China at some _____ such as the Spring Festival.

For Chen,her idea came after she found that there were not many _____ for those who prefer lighter fillings.Most vegetarian dumplings have a filling of only two kinds of ingredients(原料),and not one restaurant in Beijing has more than 10 kinds of vegetarian fillings.

“I thought _____ could do better,” says Chen.

Baoyuan Dumpling House has _____ done it.Customers not only find basic meat dumplings at this restaurant,they are also ______ quite a lot of other choices with different colors and exciting taste.

1.A. reporting B. improving C. copying D. comparing

2.A. because B. but C. so D. if

3.A. home B. knowledge C. success D. health

4.A. smell B. hear C. touch D. taste

5.A. Recently B. Luckily C. Traditionally D. Finally

6.A. parties B. meetings C. openings D. festivals

7.A. choices B. symbols C. sizes D. menus

8.A. I B. he C. she D. they

9.A. again B. also C. hardly D. certainly

10.A. returned B. offered C. taught D. mailed

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