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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 favorite 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-year 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 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.

2.The underlined "dialects" probably means" "in Chinese.

A.交际 B.对话 C.方言

3.According to the passage, what's one of the main foods in China?

A. Tea. B. Rice. C. Meat.

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.

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.

Yang Jiang,the famous woman writer and translator is well-known to us all.

She was born in Beijing in 1911.originally named Yang Jikang.As a baby she liked laughing.Her parents let every daughter develop their character freely.which is rare at that time and even at present.Jikang,therefore,had a happy childhood in the 1920s.

She graduated from university and went to Tsinghua University as a postgraduate(研究生)in the 1930s.There she met Qian Zhongshu:they fell in love and married.

In the l940s,she started to use the name Yang Jiang as her pen name.Since then she was commonly known as Madam Yang Jiang.

In the l950s,she worked for Peking University,and started to learn Spanish.She was the first to translate Don Quixote《堂吉诃德》)into Chinese.

She began to write short novels in the 1980s.The novel The Old Wang(《老王》)written in 1984 was selected as the passage in our middle school text book.

Besides,her famous works After Baptism(《洗澡之后》)and We Three(《我们仨》)also became a household name in China.

Sorry to hear that Madam Yang died at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing,on May25,2016.

Such was Madam Yang,the best wife and the most talented woman!Her legend is still continuing!

Yang Jiang

Introduction

Born:in Beijing in 1911

Original name:Yang Jikang

1._________:Yang Jiang

Her husband:2.___________

Experiences

In the 1930s,graduated from university

In the 1950s,worked for Peking University,started to learn

3.___________

In the 1980s,began to write 4._________

Famous works

The Old Wang,After Baptism 5.________

1.______

2.______

3.______

4.______

5.______

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