A.A new Chinese restaurant.B.The woman's new job.C.The days they spent together in sch
A.A new Chinese restaurant.
B.The woman's new job.
C.The days they spent together in school.
D.The man's experience after graduation.
A.A new Chinese restaurant.
B.The woman's new job.
C.The days they spent together in school.
D.The man's experience after graduation.
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What is Chinese New Year?
In many parts of Asia, nations follow the lunar calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar used by the rest of the world. __________ (46) Many nations including Vietnam and KoreaceleB.rate the lunar New Year with festivals and special foods. The Chinese, however, have turned the cele- bration into an art forrn:a15 day festival called the Spring Festival in China, although it is known to the rest of the world as Chinese New Year.
__________ (47) which is considered to be aparticularly auspicious day. Children are givenhongbao, lucky red envelopes full of money, and households exchange visits and gifts. Most cele-brants at Chinese New Year wear red, which is alucky color, and also refrain from reflecting onthe past year and uttering unlucky words, as it is believed that the first day of the new year willdetermine your fortune in the months to come.
Chinese New Year continues with 15 days of celebration and auspicious days, including aday to welcome the god of wealth, aday to celebrate farming and produce, and days to celebratefriends and family. Friendships and family relationships are avery important part of Chinese NewYear, __________(48) Numerous lucky foods are served throughout the Chinese New Year festi-val, and after all that rich dining, the 13th day of the festival is set aside for eating rice and B.ittergreens to cleanse the palate.
On the 15th day, the Chinese New Year celebration culminates with the Lantern Festival,which is traditionally held at night. During the Lantern Festival, hundreds of citizens flood thestreet with lanterns representing wealth, animals, historical figures, plants, and avariety of otherthings. __________ (49) The Lantern Festival ends with aburst of fireworks to celebrate the up-coming year while celebrants eat special round dumplings to celebrate unity.
In Vietnam, the new year festival is known as Tet Nguyen Dan, and is celebrated for sevendays. Much like Chinese New Year, Tet is believed to be an especially auspicious period in Viet-nam which will establish the fortunes of celebrants for the coming year.(50) In Korea,the one day festival is known as Sol-nal, and is atime to reflect on ancestors and family.
A.and agreat deal of food and dinner invitations are exchanged as part of this tradition.
B.The lanterns are paraded through towns and cities throughout China, Taiwan, and partsof the world with large Chinese communities.
C.As A.result, the year starts on adifferent day, usually in January or February by the Gre-gorian calendar.
D.Chinese New Year is the most important festival in Chinese culture.
E.Chinese New Year begins on the first day of the first moon of the year.
F.Special foods are eaten and gifts are exchanged.
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A.a writer
B.B
C.C
D.D
E.E
F.F
Where will they probably have dinner in a year to come?
A.A new French restaurant.
B.A Chinese restaurant.
C.A Western restaurant.
D.A Japanese restaurant.
Who most likely is the speaker?
A.A medical doctor
B.A salesperson
C.A fitness center instructor
D.A pharmacist
.The 8th day of the 12the lunar month is the Laba Festival.It is treated as the beginning of the Chinese holiday season.After the Laba Festival,people enter into the busy preparation for the Lunar New Year.The main activity of the Laba Festival is cooking and sharing the special laba gruel(laba-zhou).Most people believe it has a close relation to Sakyamuni,the Buddha.He left his comfortable home and set off in search of the final enlightenment.After days of travelling without rest,he collapsed near a river in northern India.He was revived by a wandering shepherdess,who offered him her lunch of family leftovers consisting of sticky cereal,glutinous rice,dates,chestnuts and wild fruit.After consuming this repast,Sakyamuni took a batch and sat under a tree for meditation,where he finally attained enlightenment.The very day was the 8th day of the last lunar month.The meal was the original laba gruel.
Sakyamuni ate a meal which was made of all the following except()
A、wild fruit
B、rice
C、cereal
D、meat
Section A
Several centuries ago, when European people marveled at the fine pottery shipped from a mysterious nation in the orient, they decided to give it a name.【76】The trader explained that the exquisite products were made in a town called " changnan", which people gradually began to pronounce as"china".
【77】Chinese ceramics were first created more than 2,000 years ago when Changnan was little more than a village. The township was not established until the early ninth century AD, when the Song Emperor Jingde named Changnan with his own royal name as a reward for the local people’s creativity and inspiration.【78】From then on, Changnan gradually fell into oblivion(遗忘) , but Jingdezhen, or Jingde Town, in the same place, is still the capital of ceramics(陶瓷).
【79】Traditional Jingdezhen china art can be categorized into four schools, with the most famous one being the " blue and white porcelain". Chinese families take pride in possessing Jingdezhen-made porcelain pieces, and they know how to distinguish good china from inferior china by referring to the unique features attributed to Jingdezhen ceramics only.
【80】In the face of challenges from Europe and the rest of Asia in the production of chinaware today, local minds advocate giving priority to artistic porcelain. Several new generations of masters have added many new types of china to their traditional legacy by diversifying into a large variety of wares, including pots, plates, sculpture, other decorations and screens.
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Who is Francesca Bertolini?
A.A subscriber to Eat Right Magazine
B.A magazine editor
C.A restaurant chef
D.A writer at Eat Right Magazine
A.A French word.
B.A Chinese word.
C.An Indian Word.
D.A Spanish word.
Gross National Happiness
In the last century, new technology improved the lives of many people in many countries. Howev-er, one country resisted these changes. High in the Himalayan mountains of Asia, the kingdom of Bhutan remained separate. Its people and Buddhist (佛教) culture had not been affected for almost a thousand years. Bhutan, however, was a poor country. People died at a young age. Most of its people could not read, and they did not know much about the outside world. Then, in 1972, a new rulernamed King Jigme Singye Wangchuck decided to help Bhutan to become modern, but without losing its traditions.
King Wangchuck looked at other countries for ideas. He saw that most countries measured their progress by their Gross National Product (GNP). The GNP measures products and money. When the number of products sold increases people say the country is making progress. King Wangchuck had a different idea for Bhutan. He wanted to measure his country's progress by people's happiness. If the people's happiness increased, the king could say that Bhutan was making progress. To decide if people were happier, he created a measure called Gross National Happiness (GNH).
GNH is based on certain principles that create happiness. People are happier if they have health care, education, and jobs. They are happier when they live in a healthy, protected environment. They are happier when they can keep their traditional culture and customs. Finally, people are happier when they have a good, stable government.
Now this is some evidence of increased GNH in Bhutan. People are healthier and are living longer. More people are educated and employed. Twenty-five percent of the land has become national parks, and the country has almost no pollution. The Bhutanese continue to wear their traditional clothing and follow their ancient Buddhist customs. Bhutan has also become a democracy. In 2008, King Wangchuck gave his power to his son. Although the country still had a king, it held its first democratic elections that year. Bhutan had political parties and political candidates for the first time. Finally, Bhutan has connected to the rest of the world through television and internet.
Bhutan is a symbol for social progress. Many countries are now interested in Bhutan's GNH. These countries are investigating their own ways to measure happiness. They want to create new poli-cies that take care of their people, cultures, and land.
Brazil may be the next country to use the principles of GNH. Brazilian leaders see the principles of GNH as a source of inspiration Brazil is a large country with a diverse population. If happiness works as a measure of progress in Brazil, perhaps the rest of the world will follow.
Who was Jigme Singye Wangchuck?
A.A president
B.A Buddhist priest
C.A general
D.A king
In this passage, inertia means ______.
A.a situation in which no action is taken
B.a situation in which no progress is made
C.the feeling of someone not wanting to move or do anything
D.the force making an object stay at rest or continue moving
In 1993, New York State ordered stores to charge a deposit on beverage (饮料) containers. Within a year, consumers had returned millions of aluminum cans and glass and plastic bottles. Plenty of companies were eager to accept the aluminum and glass as raw materials for new products, but because few could figure out what to do with the plastic, much of it wound up buried in landfills (垃圾填埋场) . The problem was riot limited to New York. Unfortunately, there were too few uses for second-hand plastic.
Today, one out of five plastic soda bottles is recycled (回收利用) in the United States. The reason for the change is that now there ire dozens of companies across the country buying discarded plastic soda bottles and turning them into fence posts, paint brushes, etc.
As the New York experience shows, recycling involves more than simply separating valuable materials from the rest of the rubbish. A discard remains a discard until somebody figures out how to give it a second life--and until economic arrangements exist to give that second life value. Without adequate markets to absorb materials collected for recycling, throwaways actually depress prices for used materials.
Shrinking landfill space, and rising costs for burying and burning rubbish are forcing local governments to look more closely at recycling. In many areas, the East Coast especially, recycling is already the least expensive waste-management option. For every ton of waste recycled, a city avoids paying for its disposal, which, in parts of New York, amounts to savings of more than $100 per tom Recycling also stimulates the local economy by creating jobs and trims the pollution control and energy costs of industries that make recycled products by giving them a more refined raw material.
What regulation was issued by New York State concerning beverage containers?
A.A fee should be charged on used containers for recycling.
B.Throwaways should be collected by the state for recycling.
C.Consumers had to pay for beverage containers and could get their money back on returning them.
D.Beverage companies should be responsible for collecting and reusing discarded plastic soda bottles.