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Located① in Changle Road on the side of Shanghai Jinjiang Hotel, the “Tang-style Costume Street” has been enjoying high popularity for its traditional Chinese attire② following the costume pattern of Tang Dynasty (618-907) . Its fame③ soared④ higher after the APEC⑤ meeting in Shanghai at which Tang-style costumes were offered for APEC leaders.
On the street are custume shops of various grades and features. Some sell modern costumes with traditional touch, such as cloth-knotted⑥ buttons and round flower patterns. Others offer 100 percent traditional attire.
Most shops sell costumes, so you can enjoy the Chinese costumes. Why are the Chinese costumes so popular now? It"s in touch with the high development of our country. The getting-in-fashion was also owned to APEC leaders. They all wore Tang-style costumes at Shanghai meeting. This has proved an old saying that only things of a national touch can prevail⑦ in the world.
Notes: 1. locate v. 位于，坐落于
2. attire n. 服装，盛装
3. fame n. 名声
4. soar v. 猛增
5. APEC 亚太经合组织
6. cloth-knotted adj. 用布打结的
7. prevail v. 流行
1. Does the Tang-style Costume Street locate in Shanghai?
2. Where did APEC leaders wear the Tang-style costumes?
3. Are the modern costumes with traditional touch in fashion?
4. Most shops sell Tang-style costumes, do they?
5. What"s the old saying for the fashion?
答案
2. At APEC Meeting.
3. Yes, they are.
4. Yes, they do.
5. Only things of a national touch can prevail in the world.
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Most people in the United States like fast food. But if you think that American people don"t like cooking, you
are wrong. It"s true that most Americans take fast food as their breakfast and lunch. But they also think cooking
is interesting. Parents see the importance of teaching their daughters how to cook. And most Americans say that
home-cooking meal is the best.
Americans have their own way of cooking. For example, baking (烘烤) is the most popular way of cooking
in America. We can see ovens (烤炉) in most American families. American cooks pay attention to the balance
of food. In order to plan a big meal, they try to cook meat, a few vegetables, some bread and often some sweet
food in different colors on the plate, so the food is healthy and looks beautiful, too.
B. cook food in the morning
C. like home-cooking meal
D. don"t like home-cooking meal
B. have fast food as their breakfast
C. cook meat as their breakfast
D. only like sweet food
B. Frying.
C. Boiling
D. Steaming
B. He tries to cook meat, vegetables, bread and sweet food for a big meal.
C. He tries to make the food delicious.
D. He tries to cook a lot of sweet food.
B. American people do not like to cook food at home.
C. American parents do not like to teach their children to cook.
D. American people don"t think home-cooking food is the best.
popular. Many of the players, like Shaquille O"Neal of the Los Angeles Lakers, write rap rhymes (有节奏
感的唱歌) when they travel on planes from one city to another.
When they play basketball, some of the younger stars even try to look like hip-hop singers. "Hip-hop is
just part of our culture." says one player. "All of us grew up listening to rap and playing basketball, and
rappers grew up doing the same thing."
Master P is a famous rap star who wants to become a basketball player. Two NBA teams, have invited
him to join them. They enjoy listening to his music. An NBA player has become a rapper. He has made four
successful rap albums (集).
The NBA has a closer connection (亲密的联系) to hip-hop than any other sports league.
2. Many NBA players ________ rap rhymes when they travel on planes.
3. ________ is just part of the NBA players" culture.
4. Master P is invited to join the NBA teams just because ________.
5. Some rapper hip-hop singers have become ________.
people. These people moved from one place to another. They moved over the land, hunting animals for food.
No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives
changed. They did not have to look for food any longer. They could stay in one place and grow it.
People began to live near one another, so the first village was established. Many people came to work in
the villages, and these villages became even larger.
When machines appeared, life in the villages changed again. People built factories. More and more people
lived near the factories. The cities began.
Today, it"s strange that some people are moving back to small villages. Can you tell me why?
( )2. The story says, "No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when
they did, their lives changed." In this sentence, the word "they" means people.
( )3. When machines appeared, life in the cities changed again.
( )4. All people like to live only in very big cities.
( )5. People built factories after the cities grew big.
always 2 . People need new words 3 new inventions and new ideas. Different words come into use or
older words are used in a new way.
English can change by borrowing words from other languages. The word "tomato" was borrowed from
Mexico, the word "coffee" came from Turkey, and "tea" from 4 and so on. Now new space and science
words 5 from other countries, too. New words are also made by adding two words 6 . The words
"strawberry", "postman" and "blackboard" are made up of two parts.
Sometimes new words are 7 forms of old words. The word "photo" was made from "photograph" by
cutting off the 8 of the long word. The word "plane" was made by cutting off the 9 part of "airplane".
While "smog" was made by using only the first two letters of "smoke" and cutting off the front part of "fog".
And products can become new words. Our "sandwich" was named after 10 named Sandwich, and "jelly
(果冻)" was a name made up by the company that first made this product.
| ( )1. A. leave ( )2. A. keeping ( )3. A. for ( )4. A. India ( )5. A. are borrowing ( )6. A. alone ( )7. A. longer ( )8. A. beginning ( )9. A. back ( )10. A. a man | B. change B. changing B. of B. America B. are being borrowed B. out B. middle B. end B. middle B. a kind of food | C. stay C. kept C. with C. Germany C. borrow C. together C. never C. middle C. front C. a company | D. use D. changed D. about D. China D. buying D. outside D. short D. front D. end D. a place |
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| You may know that some English words come from French. One interesting thing is that when we talk about meat at the table, we use French words. But when we talk about animals, English words are used. For example, a pig is called pig when it"s living, but it"s called pork when it is killed and its meat is brought to the table. When the Normans (诺曼人) ruled (统治) England, the English farmers were made to raise animals for food, but they could not eat the meat. The meat was sent to the Normans" tables. The farmers could only eat rabbit, because rabbits ran all over the fields and rabbit meat was cheap. So the meat of a rabbit was not changed into a French word. It was called rabbit by the English farmers at that time and is still called rabbit today. | |||
| 1. We know that the word "pork" is _____. | |||
| [ ] | |||
| A. a kind of animal B. really an English word C. really a French word D. used only by Frenchman | |||
| 2. The English farmers were made to raise animals by _____. | |||
| [ ] | |||
| A. the farmers themselves B. the landlords (地主) C. the Normans D. the owners of the animals | |||
| 3. Which of the following sentence is wrong? | |||
| [ ] | |||
| A. A rabbit is a kind of animal. B. "Pig" is another way of saying "pork". C. The expressions of some meat of animals was changed into French words. D. The farmers could eat rabbit, because it was cheap when the Normans ruled England. | |||
| 4. When the meat of a cattle (奶牛) is brought to a table, its _____. | |||
| [ ] | |||
| A. known as "pork" in English now B. a kind of French food C. changed to another thing D. called "beef" in English now | |||
| 5. In the sentence "When the Normans ruled England", which of the following can substitute (替换) "ruled"? | |||
| [ ] | |||
| A. had power to control the country and the people of B. moved to live in C. were born in D. became the king of |