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 favourite 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 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(文字) 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.

D. About 13，000 million.

【2】The underlined “dialects” probably means “________” in Chinese.

A. 交际 B. 对话

C. 方言 D. 文化

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

A. Tea. B. Rice.

C. Meat. D. Fruit.

【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. D. Maybe.

【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.

D. Chinese population.

Lots of people like travelling in the world. It's interesting to visit【1】 country, but sometimes there are problems when we don't know the language very 【2】 (good).

It may be difficult to talk with the people there. We may not know how 【3】 (use) the telephone in the country while we【4】 (visit) it. We may not know how to buy the things we need. 【5】 the strange country we might not know【6】 to go or what to order in a restaurant.【7】 isn't easy to decide how much to tip waiters or taxi drivers.【8】 we need help, we might not know how to ask for help. It isn't pleasant to have【9】 experience like that. After a short time, however, we can learn what to do and what to say. We must learn【10】 (enjoy) life in another country, or we may be sorry to leave.

Let me tell you about my travel. At the moment we're visiting Ayers Rock. During different 【1】 (阶段) of the day, it changes its colours. Ayers Rock is a 【2】(中心) of Aboriginal culture. Some of their ancient stories describe the spirits that created the world.

Perhaps you may be 【3】(吃惊的) to find that the Australians have a close 【4】(关系) with the British. That's because many Australians have British 【5】(亲戚). Like the English, Australians like ham and beef with lots of salad. They also grow grapes and other 【6】 (水果)．

Australians are not 【7】 (懒惰的)．They like doing all kinds of 【8】(活动). They often go horse riding and 【9】 (享受) the relaxing riding. They also go to the beach for swimming and 【10】(冲浪) or just lying in the sun.

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【1】Work hard, or you'll be left ________________ behind others.

【2】________________， we are standing on the Great Wall.

【3】They are like us ________________ many ways.

【4】They grow ________________ and other fruits.

【5】I like ________________ in the sun with my family beside me.

【1】The doctor asked him to check his blood pressure at different ________ (period) of the day.

【2】I ________ (write) to my parents at the moment.

【3】Australians love going to the beach for ________ (swim)．

【4】On the second day, we ________ (go) horse riding.

【5】I enjoyed the slow and ________ (relax) riding.

【6】David was surprised ________how much the parrot can speak like humans.

【7】Don't read ________ the sun. It's bad for your eyes.

【8】You should catch up with him, or you will be far ________．

【9】My mother always worried ________ me when I was out.

【10】He has a very close relationship________his little sister.

【1】He doesn't like working.In other words, he is ________(懒惰的)．

【2】The ________(色拉) is made of vegetables and fruit.

【3】One evening she came back home in high ________(精神) with flowers in her hands.

【4】Last weekend we played cards together with some friends and ________ (亲戚)．

【5】The ________ (袋鼠) uses its back legs to jump.

Model: Sharks are animals. They live in the sea.→Sharks are animals that live in the sea.

【1】The book is my favourite. It is written by J．K.Rowling.

________________________________________________________________________

【2】Basketball is a game. I love it best.

________________________________________________________________________

【3】That man is Mr Smith. He is taking photos near the river.

________________________________________________________________________

【4】This one is a photo of a shark. I saw it on the Great Barrier Reef.

________________________________________________________________________

Australia, the largest country in Oceania, lies on the south coast of the Pacific Ocean. It is a 【1】(神奇的，迷人的)country. It covers an area of about 7.6 million square kilometres. There are so many 【2】(羊，绵羊)in it. Farmers always wear special hats to keep the【3】(苍蝇)away and use 【4】(剪刀) to cut 【5】(羊毛). Sadly, there are also many 【6】(蚂蚁)everywhere. If they are on your clothes, you have to try to 【7】(刷)them off your clothes.

Australia has a 【8】(人口) of over 20 million. Most of its people live in the east of the country by the sea. Canberra, the capital of Australia, is a beautiful city. Sydney is the biggest city in Australia, which has many places of interest. The Opera House is well known all over the world. It looks like a huge 【9】(航行)boat. The 2000 Olympic Games were held in Sydney.

If you're lucky to visit Australia, you can keep a 【10】(日记)every day and enjoy the beautiful time later. Isn't it a good idea?

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【1】There are 2，000 ________________ on my father's farm.

【2】________________ a new survey, young people are lack of exercise.

【3】The shops in ________________ London keep open late on Thursday evenings.

【4】The ________________ of the building is three hundred feet.

【5】Can you see the ________________？ They are working together to take the dead bird home.

【1】My teacher asks us ________ (finish) homework as quickly as possible.

【2】I have some photos that I ________ (take) last year.

【3】My hair soon grew back to its ________ (nature) colour.

【4】They wear special clothes that ________ (look) very different from others'.

【5】This is a rock ________ (call) Ayers Rock.

【6】That's ________ I believe in him all the time.

【7】Unlike China, Australia is ________ English speaking country.

【8】He brushed the snow ________ his clothes and went inside.

【9】The British Isles are a group of islands that lie ________ the west coast of Europe.

【10】Are you ready? ________ we go.