Dazha Crabs from Yangcheng Lake
With the Mid-Autumn Festival coming, the time for crabs is around the corner! Dazha Crabs from Yangcheng Lake in China are believed to be the best freshwater crabs.
“They are delicious, because the bottom of Yangcheng Lake is hard and the crabs grow strong by walking on such a hard surface,” said one sales manager in Suzhou.
Li Lei, a crab lover from Beijing, said “It’s very delicious! But there are too many fake Yangcheng Lake Dazha Crabs”.
“Maybe the crabs from other regions can appear to be glistening green back, white belly after people wash them, but the golden fine hair on crab claws is still a point of pride and is exclusive to Dazha Crabs from Yangcheng Lake,” said the manager.
The best time for enjoying them is during September and October of Chinese lunar calendar. “When the season for crabs arrives, the Dazha Crabs from Yangcheng Lake are flown to various cities so that people’s appetites can be satisfied,” said the sales manager. “They are really expensive here, sometimes more than 320RMB/500g, 10% of my salary!” said Li Lei.
Dazha Crabs are usually steamed or boiled for within 20 minutes before they come on the dinner table. They are often enjoyed with vinegar mixed with minced ginger to add flavor and get rid of the cold. People who are particular about how they eat crabs also need to have high-grade Shaoxing rice wine to warm their stomachs.
There is much work required to eat crabs. So much shell!Most people use both hands and teeth while eating Dazha Crabs. “The eating way is not graceful or elegant,” said Huck. “However, some professionals of eating crabs can use tools to take all the meat out of the crab without damaging a single bite and the crab can be restored to its original shape if the empty shells are pieced together!” said Han Mei, another Dazha crab lover.
1.What do we know about Dazha Crabs from Yangcheng Lake from the text?
A. They belong to seawater crabs.
B. You must use tools to eat them.
C. The best time for eating them lasts over three months.
D. Vinegar, ginger and rice wine can be enjoyed together with them.
2.The underlined word “exclusive” in Paragraph 4 probably means ___________.
A. expensive B. unique
C. entire D. similar
3.Which of the following is correct according to the passage?
A. The sales manager believes the living environment contributes nothing to the good taste of Dazha Crabs from Yangcheng Lake.
B. Li Lei has mixed feelings about Dazha Crabs from Yangcheng Lake.
C. Han Mei thinks little of some professionalsof eating crabs.
D. Huck supports the way that most people eat crabs.
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Dazha Crabs from Yangcheng Lake
With the Mid-Autumn Festival coming, the time for crabs is around the corner! Dazha Crabs from Yangcheng Lake in China are believed to be the best freshwater crabs.
“They are delicious, because the bottom of Yangcheng Lake is hard and the crabs grow strong by walking on such a hard surface,” said one sales manager in Suzhou.
Li Lei, a crab lover from Beijing, said “It’s very delicious! But there are too many fake Yangcheng Lake Dazha Crabs”.
“Maybe the crabs from other regions can appear to be glistening green back, white belly after people wash them, but the golden fine hair on crab claws is still a point of pride and is exclusive to Dazha Crabs from Yangcheng Lake,” said the manager.
The best time for enjoying them is during September and October of Chinese lunar calendar. “When the season for crabs arrives, the Dazha Crabs from Yangcheng Lake are flown to various cities so that people’s appetites can be satisfied,” said the sales manager. “They are really expensive here, sometimes more than 320RMB/500g, 10% of my salary!” said Li Lei.
Dazha Crabs are usually steamed or boiled for within 20 minutes before they come on the dinner table. They are often enjoyed with vinegar mixed with minced ginger to add flavor and get rid of the cold. People who are particular about how they eat crabs also need to have high-grade Shaoxing rice wine to warm their stomachs.
There is much work required to eat crabs. So much shell!Most people use both hands and teeth while eating Dazha Crabs. “The eating way is not graceful or elegant,” said Huck. “However, some professionals of eating crabs can use tools to take all the meat out of the crab without damaging a single bite and the crab can be restored to its original shape if the empty shells are pieced together!” said Han Mei, another Dazha crab lover.
1.What do we know about Dazha Crabs from Yangcheng Lake from the text?
A. They belong to seawater crabs.
B. You must use tools to eat them.
C. The best time for eating them lasts over three months.
D. Vinegar, ginger and rice wine can be enjoyed together with them.
2.The underlined word “exclusive” in Paragraph 4 probably means ___________.
A. expensive B. unique
C. entire D. similar
3.Which of the following is correct according to the passage?
A. The sales manager believes the living environment contributes nothing to the good taste of Dazha Crabs from Yangcheng Lake.
B. Li Lei has mixed feelings about Dazha Crabs from Yangcheng Lake.
C. Han Mei thinks little of some professionalsof eating crabs.
D. Huck supports the way that most people eat crabs.
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As the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, mooncakes are turning up all over China, from traditional teashops to Starbucks counters. The holiday is one of China’s four most important festivals, and in the weeks before the date arrives, top hotels get into the spirit with lavish(奢华) treats in lovely packaging. Traditionally, the cookie-sized round pastry(馅饼) has a rich thick filling usually made from red-bean or lotus-seed paste and covered by a thin crust. It may also contain yolks from salted duck eggs, integrating a beautiful savory tinge into the sugary taste. Fillings and crusts have become more diverse over time, especially in the hands of skilled pastry chefs. The mooncakes in Chinese culture represent homesickness, and the top crust of each moon-shaped pastry is generally imprinted with the Chinese characters for longevity or harmony.
This year, the fancy gift boxes that have long driven the mooncake trade are particularly striking and rich with tradition.
For example, the Fairmont Peace Hotel in Shanghai, built in 1929 and a magnet for Hollywood celebrities in the 1930s, has prepared a selection of mooncake gift boxes with designs inspired by the beauty and elegance of the hotel’s famous art deco style. The simplest box of four pieces (red-bean paste, creamy custard, plain cheese, green-bean paste) is 198 yuan($29.64), while more lavish selections of five or six pieces, including mooncakes with egg yolk, run up to 338 yuan for a box.
Beijing’s Nuo Hotel, meanwhile, has created Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) inspired mooncake gift packs based on the design of porcelain vases in the hotel lobby, with the essence of landscape painting using Zhang Dai’s poetic passages to show the peaceful harmony of man and nature. The box of six is 158 yuan, and includes mooncakes ranging from cheese mango to charcoal burning fragrant Pu'er tea and white lotus with egg yolk. A box of eight cakes of different flavors is 228 yuan.
1.What feeling does the mooncake stand for in our country?
A. Separation. B. Harmony. C. Homesick. D. Happiness.
2.Which place selling mooncakes doesn’t mention in the passage?
A. Stations B. Teashops. C. Starbucks. D. Hotels..
3.What do the last two paragraphs mainly tell us about mooncakes?
A. The high price. B. The various shapes.
C. The rich fillings. D. The fancy boxes.
4.Which kind of mooncakes is’t made by Beijing’s Nuo Hotel?
A. Green-bean paste. B. Cheese mango.
C. White lotus with egg yolk. D. Charcoal burning fragrant Pu’er tea.
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阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
The Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the Moon Festival or the Moon cake Festival. It has a long history 1. (date) back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907). It 2. (traditional) falls on the 15th day of the 3.(eight) month of the lunar calendar. Since ancient times, customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival 4. (include) appreciating the moon, eating moon cakes 5. drinking wine. The full moon on Mid-Autumn night symbolizes family reunion 6. Chinese culture because the moon is round and the 7. (bright) of the year on this day. With the full moon hanging above in 8. sky, people 9. are far away from their 10.(hometown) might miss families while looking at the beautiful moonlight.
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近年来,随着清明节(the Tomb-sweeping Festival)、端午节(the Dragon Boat Festival)、中秋节(Mid-Autumn Day)等传统节日成为法定假日越来越多的人选择“自驾游(self-driving travel)”作为假期出游的首选。
请你根据以下提示,以“My Views on Self-driving Travel”为题写一篇短文:
1.自驾游增加的原因(至少两条);
2.自驾游的优势及缺点;
3.自驾游的注意事项;
注意: 词数100--120;
可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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Mid-Autumn Festival is the second grandest festival in China after Chinese New Year. It’s a time when families come together to appreciate the full moon and eat mooncakes during the festival. In fact, besides these two traditions, there are many others.
1. Watching the tide
In ancient times, watching the tide on the Qiantang River in East China’s Zhejiang province was another grand event of Mid-Autumn Festival. It has been recorded in detail since the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220). Many famous ancient poets, like Su Shi in the Song Dynasty (960-1279) wrote about the grand occasion in their poems.
2. Making colorful lanterns
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, people usually make colorful lanterns to decorate th beautiful night. They also make Kongming lanterns, which can fly because the burning candles h t the air in the lanterns. Children write good wishes on the lanterns and let them fly up into the sky.
3. Burning pagodas (佛塔)
When night falls, people gather together in an empty place, and pick up broken bricks and tiles to pile up several pagodas. The pagodas are hollow and are filled with firewood. Then the firewood in the pagodas is lit, and the red flames rise and sparks explode, through which people express the joy of harvest in autumn.
4. Stealing vegetables
Among the Dong ethnic group in Central China’s Hunan province, it is the custom for young ladies to steal vegetables on Mid-Autumn Festival night. Whoever eats vegetables with sweet dew on this night will be healthy and happy. Also, women and girls express their adoration to their favorite young men by this way.
5. Drinking osmanthus-flavored wine
Osmanthus-flavored wine is a gift during this season. Drinking Osmanthus fragrance wine at Mid-Autumn Festival implies sweetness, wealth and luck, and prosperity of the family.
People gather together to appreciate the moon, on which Wu Gang, who chases Chang’e, is cutting a sweet-scented osmanthus tree outside the Moon Palace, according to a legend. They drink the sweet osmanthus-flavored wine to echo the festival atmosphere.
1.What do people usually do during Mid-Autumn Festival?
A.People in Hunan province steal vegetables on Mid-Autumn Festival night.
B.People drink Osmanthus fragrance wine to appreciate the moon and honor Chang'e.
C.People make Kongming lanterns to express good wishes and the joy of harvest in autumn.
D.People watch the tide on the Qiantang River, which dates back to the Han Dynasty.
2.Which column of a magazine does this article probably belong to?
A.Science. B.Culture. C.Advertisement. D.History.
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During enjoying the Mid-Autumn Festival, celebrating the harvest is an important reason, but of __________ importance is the whole family’s get-together.
A. fair B. reasonable C. equal D. proper
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Do you know Mid-Autumn Festival? It’s one of the most 1._________
important festival in China. It’s like Thanksgiving Day in 2._________
America. It usually comes in September and October. This 3._________
year it’s going to be in October 3. On that day families 4._________
get together for a big dinner and eat moon cakes. Moon cakes 5._________
are delicious, some of that have eggs, nuts or something 6._________
sweet inside and some has meat inside. Many families eat their 7._________
dinner outside in the open air. The moon looks like brighter 8._________
and rounder on this day. We could watch the moon, eat delicious 9._________
moon cakes and listen the story of Chang’e. How happy 10._________
we are!
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The Chinese government has made the Mid-Autumn Festival a legal holiday,____ people will have a day off.
A.when B.which C.where D.what
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阅读下面材料,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Many of us have eaten mooncakes, the food of the Mid-Autumn Festival. This September, Chinese people will be able to enjoy a new kind of mooncakes. What makes the traditional mooncakes special is the stuffing inside-fake meat. These mooncakes were developed by1.Chinese food company in cooperation with Beijing Technology and Business University.
There are two kinds of fake meat: one is made2.(main) from plant protein; the other is real meat3.(grow) from animal stem cell. The fake meat inside these moon cakes belongs to the first type. It’s a good news for those who want4.(eat) healthy.
So far, the new moon cakes5.(receive) positive feedback from the fore tasters. “A lot of people couldn’t tell them6..” Liu Zhongming,7.is the company’s founder, told Chongqing Morning Post.
Fake meat is very popular in the world of food science. In January, U. S. fast food chain Burger King,8.(own) more than 7,000 restaurants across the U. S., began to sell a burger made of fake meat. The9.(popular) of fake meat is partly because it's more environmentally10.(friend) than real meat.
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The Mid-Autumn Festival is ________ special holiday for most Chinese when ________ whole family will get together.
A. the; the B. a; the C. a; a D. the; a
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