Traditional Chinese festivals are now getting their own logos(标识).Here’re logos for China’s seven important traditional festivals.

	Chunjie, Spring Festival, China’s lunar new year, is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. People usually get together, watch fireworks and the lion dance, eat dumplings and put on new clothes. They pay New Year calls to their relatives and friends. Children usually get red packets.
	Yuanxiao, Lantern Festival is on the 15th day of the first month in the Chinese calendar. People watch lanterns and eat sweet dumplings.		Qixi, the Night of Sevens is on the seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese calendar. It’s Chinese version(版本)of Valentine’s Day(情人节).
	Qingming, Tomb-Sweeping Festival is around April 5.People from home and abroad go to the graves(墓)of the dead in memory of(纪念)them.		Zhongqiu, Mid-Autumn Festival, is on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar. Families enjoy moon cakes and tell the story of  Chang’e.
	Duanwu, Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth month in the Chinese calendar. People eat rice dumplings and remember the poet Qu Yuan.		Chongyang, Double Ninth Festival is on the ninth day of the ninth month in the Chinese calendar. It’s the date to pay respect(尊敬)to the old.

On October 31st, 2009, Chinese famous scientist Qian Xuesen, died in Beijing when he was 98 years old. He is famous as “the country’s father of space technology and king of rocketry”.

Qian was born in 1911 in Hangzhou. He left for the United States after winning a schol­arship to graduate school in 1936. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute{学院) of Technology and later at the California Institute of Technology.

Qian began his career in the US and was regarded as one of the brightest minds in the new field of aeronautics{航空学) before returning to China in 1955.

After he returned, Qian set up the first missile (导弹) and rocket research institute of China. The institute later helped start Chinese space program. He led the development of China's first nuclear-armed ballistic missile and worked on its first satellite.

He retired in the year before Chinese manned space program was launched in 1992. But his research formed the basis for the Long March CZ -2F rocket that carried astronaut Yang Liwei into orbit in 2003.

In August, 2009, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Qian and praised him for devoting his life to Chinese defense technologies. Qian told him, “I'm trying to live to be 100 years old”

1. Qian was regarded as __________ before returning to China.

    A. A father of space technology        B. king of rocketry

    C. one of the brightest minds in the new field of aeronautics

    D. one of the best-known scientists

2.When did Qian Xuesen retire?

    A. In 1970       B. In 1991      C. In 1992       D. In 2009 

3. What does the under­lined word mean in Chinese?

    A. 发奖品        B. 批评      C. 赞扬          D. 鼓励

4. List the following things in correct orders. Which is the correct?

    ① left for the United States      ② won a scholarship to graduate school

    ③ returned to China from the United States

    ④ set up the first missile and rocket research institute of China

    ⑤ studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    A. ②①③④⑤    B. ②①⑤③④.   C. ⑤③④②①   D. ⑤②①③④

5. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

    A. Qian was born in 1936 in Hangzhou.    

B. Qian began his career in China.

    C. The Lρng March CZ-2Frocket carried YangLiwei into orbit in 2009.

    D. Wen Jiabao visited QianXuesen in August 2009.