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The Mid-Autumn Festival has a history of 2 ,000 years. During these 2 ,000 years lots of Mid-Autumn traditions have been thought up by Chinese people. All the celebrations show the happiness and excitement of people.

The main celebrations during the Mid-Autumn Festival are appreciating the moon,eating moon-cakes together and making Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns. These three celebrations have been passed from generation to generation. Chinese people may think the Mid-Autumn Festival is not coming if they don^Jt do these three things.

In some places in China people celebrate the festival in different ways. In Chaozhou,Guangdong Province,people eat taro (芋头) to celebrate the festival,because the taro harvest occurs at the same time as the festival. They eat taro and hope the har vest is good in the next year. In Nanjing,people cook duck with sweet-scented osmanthus (桂花) ，because Nanjing people think sweet-scented osman-thus is a symbol of peace. In some places people make fires inside towers to celebrate the festival,because they think the fire is a symbol of good business.

In the literary history of China,many poets penned praise to the pure moon of mid-autumn night and gave words to their delicate feelings. The following is one of the best of those poems.

Thoughts in the Silent Night

—Li Bai 

The moonlight is shinning through the window,And it makes me wonder if it is the frost on the ground,Looking up to see the moon,Looking down I miss so much about my hometown.

Li Bai used his lines to express his homesickness at the Moon Festival.

() 1. All the celebrations of the Mid-Autumn Festival show .

   A. the happiness of people

   B. the differences of people

   C. the importance of the festival

   D. the happiness and excitement of people

() 2. How many main kinds of celebrations are mentioned?

   A. One. B. Two.

   C. Three. D. Four.

() 3. Why do people make fires inside towers to celebrate the festival in some places?

   A. Because they think the fire is a symbol of peace.

   B. Because they think the fire is a symbol of good business.

   C. Because they hope the harvest is good in the next year.

   D. Because they hope they will be healthier in the next year.

() 4. What does the underlined word “frost”

mean in Chinese?

   A. 霜   B. 雾   C. 影   D. 光

() 5. What did Li Bai do to express his homesickness at the Moon Festival?

   A. A story of Moon.

   B. A poem named Thoughts in the Silent Night.

   C. A song called Thoughts in the Silent Night.

   D. A joke.

I.任务型阅读

Zongzi is a kind of traditional food in China which is eaten on Duanwu Festival to honor Qu Yuan—one of the greatest poets in ancient China.

Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River on May 5th according to the Chinese calendar. It was said that people jumped from boats into the river and tried to save him. But it was too late. They were very sad and then droppedzongzi into the river to keep the fish away from Qu Yuan's body. In order to remember Qu Yuan,people named the day Duanwu Festival or Dragon Boat Festival. Also,people have dragon boat races and eat zongzi on that day every year.

In the past,zongzi was made only once a year on Duanwu Festival,but now it is quite different. Zongzi is now not only made for Duanwu Festival. People can eat zongzi at any time of the year. Also,different areas have developed different styles. Some types of zongzi are made with meat or yolks (蛋黄)

根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

1. Was Qu Yuan a poet in ancient China?

2. Why did people drop zongzi into the river?

3. When is Dragon Boat Festival?

4. What do people do on Dragon Boat Festival?

5. Can people eat zongzi at any time of the year now?

IV.课文反馈根据短文内容，用适当的词填空，使短文意思完整、通顺。

Chinese people have been celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival and enjoying mooncakes for centuries. Mooncakes are in the 1. of a full moon on the Mid-Autumn night. They carry people's 2. to the families they love and miss.

There are many 3. folk stories about this festival. However,most people think that the story of Chang’e is the most touching. Chang’e was Hou Yi's beautiful 4. . After Hou Yi shot down the nine suns,a goddess gave him magic

5. to thank him. Whoever drank this could live forever,and Hou Yi planned to drink it with Chang’e. However,a bad man,Pang Meng,tried to 6. the medicine when Hou Yi was not home. Chang’e refused to give it to him and drank it all. She became very light and 7. up to the moon. Hou Yi was so sad that he called out her name to the moon every night. One night,he found that the moon was so 8. and round that he could see his wife there. He quickly

9. out her favorite fruits and desserts in the garden. How he wished that Chang’e could come back!After this,people started the tradition of admiring the moon and 10. mooncakes with their families.

5. 孩子们喜欢打扮成卡通人物。

The children like to cartoon characters.

4. 他们认为鸡蛋是新生活的一种象征。

They think an egg is new life.

3. 找工作正变得越来越难。

It's becoming to find a job.

2. 我们打算今天下午开会。

We have a meeting this afternoon.

III.根据汉语意思完成句子

1. 我代替我父亲来了，因为他病了。

I have come my father be cause he is ill.

II.从方框中选出合适的词或短语，并用其适当形式填空

tie,folk,lay out,be similar to,relative,put on,fly up,shape,call out,celebrate

1. The girl her mother.

2. How do you Father's Day?

3. Many people want to to the moon.

4. I am going to visit my this Saturday.

5. You’d better wear a shirt and a for the concert.

6. The mooncake is in the of a full moon.

7. I was so excited that I her name.

8. Don’t eat too much,or you will weight.

9. The Greens much delicious food for us to eat yesterday.

10. There are many traditional stories about the Mid-Autumn Festival.

10. The host treated us with kindness and w .