Shanghai Xintiandi Style Mall is filled with ...

Shanghai Xintiandi Style Mall is filled with a festive mood, featuring large-scale equipment, knit works and various activities, under the theme "kiss".

"Kissing is seldom taken as the theme of artworks because in oriental (东方的) culture, people restrain themselves from expressing their emotions," says Jiang Shan, who is in charge of the exhibition.

"Through the exhibition, we hope to encourage people to be confident and brave in expressing their love."

Inside the mall, which covers a large area from Zizhong Lu (Road) to Fuxingnan Lu (Road), dozens of colorful decorations, including balloons, lollipops and lip-shaped decorations are hung on the walls and from the ceiling.

Among the decorations, a bright-colored wool artwork attracts most eyeballs and brings about a feeling of warmth.

The designer, Gu Yeli, says the art piece, Kiss Forest, was inspired by US artist Andy Warhol’s 1963 experimental film Kiss, which featured various couples kissing for three and a half minutes each. Gu also organizes a small workshop to teach knitting (编织) to children.

Artist Wang Xuejun sets up a stainless-steel mirror at the mall's gate leading to Zizhong Lu. Visitors, including men, are invited to put on lipstick and kiss the mirror, thus kissing themselves.

The Beast Floral Shop, a flower shop in Shanghai, contributes two walls of flowers that are made into the shape of a book, named Kiss Book. Artifacts (手工艺品) of bees and butterflies are fixed among the blossoms, kissing the flowers. The work represents love and harmony in nature.

Architect Ma Ke creates a Kiss Bridge with transparent (透明的) acrylic boards and ceramic（陶瓷的）fishbowls. Bridges are often spots for dating lovers in traditional Chinese folk stories and the goldfish in the bowls are witnesses of the lovers' kisses.

In the south plaza, an 18-meter-high interactive tree-shaped light equipment encourages people to kiss. Each kiss turns a certain light on, reminding audiences of their sweet childhood memories of kisses.

At the side of the tree is a counter, in which each kiss is counted and represents a donation to charity organizations.

1. What is the main idea of the article?

A. It tells people how important kisses are to life.

B. It introduces an exhibition under the theme "kiss".

C. It describes what Shanghai Xintiandi Style Mall looks like.

D. It introduces various activities in Shanghai Xintiandi Style Mall.

2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

A. people encourage themselves to express their emotions.

B. people teach themselves to express their emotions.

C. people discourage themselves from expressing their emotions.

D. people learn a lot from expressing their emotions.

3.What can we learn from the article?

A. Most people are interested in Jiang Shan's art piece, which brings about a feeling of warmth.

B. Most visitors will kiss each other in front of the stainless-steel mirror at the gate.

C. All the decorations in the mall are aimed at encouraging lovers to express their love bravely.

D. The 18-meter-high interactive tree-shaped light equipment will be on for each kiss.

4.The article above probably is taken from a ____________.

A. textbook　　　 　　 B. science and technology magazine

C. travel leaflet　　 D. news website

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My uncle invited me to spend the Spring Festival with him in Shanghai, but _______ I’d prefer to go on a tour in Hainan.

A. logically            B. personally            C. regularly            D. totally

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The basin _______ water soon. You can’t pour more in.

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Beijing Imperial Court Food

Imperial Court Food（宫廷菜）is a style of food with origins in the Imperial Palace and it is well-known for the original features of the raw materials and carefully selected ingredients. In addition, the dishes are decorated with different colored vegetables and fruits in various shapes. Each dish has a special name, such as Yu Feng Huan Chao. And some of them even have short stories. Today, Imperial Court Food has become an important school of Chinese cooking with several places offering this special taste. While expensive, it is worth trying.

Restaurants of Imperial Court Food

Fangshan Restaurant

Fangshan Restaurant is the most famous one offering the first-class Imperial Court Food. The restaurant is made up of three parts and it can hold 500 people eating at the time. It is decorated in imperial style with the design of dragon and phoenix. Here is the best place to experience the life of the Chinese emperors in former days. Now, it serves nearly 800 kinds of Imperial Court Dishes. Among them, Man-Han Banquet is the most famous.

Li Jia Cai Restaurant

The dinner here is served by set menu starting at ¥298/ person. That is to say, a quest cannot order a dish but a set of dishes. There are no chemicals in the dishes and all tastes are natural. This restaurant has welcomed many famous people including Bill Gates, the former premier of Britain, John Major, and Chinese superstar Jackie Chan.

Yushan Restaurant

The layout of the restaurant follows the imperial palace. When eating in the restaurant, diners are served by waitresses in traditional imperial clothes.

Da Zhai Men

The dishes and snacks cooked in this restaurant are worthy to have a try. And, the traditional performances at night is one of the restaurant’s attractions.

Royal Palace

Both of the food and services of this restaurant are so good. You can also enjoy some wonderful performances in this large courtyard.

1.Imperial Court Food stands out because of the following EXCEPT ________.

A. pretty decorations　　 B. selective materials

C. pleasant names　　 D. reasonable prices

2.If you’d like to try Man-Han Banquet, which restaurant should you go to?

A. Fangshan Restaurant.　　 B. Li Jia Cai Restaurant.

C. Yushan Restaurant.　　 D. Da Zhai Men.

3.In which restaurant can you enjoy Chinese traditional performances?

A. Li Jia Cai Restaurant.　　 B. Da Zhai Men.

C. Yushan Restaurant.　　 D. Royal Palace.

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This pop star is very ______ with young people, who like his songs and style.

A. familiar　　     B. similar　　

C. particular　     D. popular

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This pop star is very ______ with young people, who like his songs and style.

A. familiar　　     B. similar　　     C. particular　     D. popular

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It’s a rink which has become synonymous with a healthy life style-but is green tea the magical potion many heath sites would have us believe? Green tea has been popular in China for centuries and has been used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat a number of health issues-including depression.

Its virtues have also been extolled by celebrities and so-called heath experts for a number of reasons. These include its ability to help weight-loss as well as containing antioxidants which are believed to help combat different types of cancer. heart disease and Alzheimer's. Given these claims, it’s easy to see green tea as sort of magical elixir.

1.Green tea and weight loss

Green tea contains B vitamins, folate (naturally occurring folic acid), manganese, potassium, magnesium, caffeine and other antioxidants, such as catechins. It’s catechins along with green tea’s naturally occurring caffeine which are thought to help the body burn more calories. Weight-loss products containing green tea have a higher concentration of catechins and caffeine than the typical green tea beverage. However, there's some bad news. A review from 2012 of 18 studies　　 involving 1,945 people found no significant effect of weight loss from drinking green tea.

2. Green tea and cholesterol

Thanks again to the catechins, in a reputable review from 2013 of 11 studies involving 821 people, it was found daily consumption of green and black tea (as a drink or a capsule) could help lower cholesterol and blood pressure.

It's important to note, however, that the authors of the study pointed out the trials were short-term, and cautioned longer-term trials would be needed to substantiate their findings.　　 These were back up by an earlier review in 2011, which found drinking green tea enriched with catechins led to a small-reduction in cholesterol, a main cause of heart disease and stroke.

Though no one could say for certain how much green tea a person would need to drink to reap the benefits.

3. Green tea and cancer

On this the NHS is clear. There is no evidence drinking green tea protects against different types of cancer.

1.What's the meaning of the underlined word in the second paragraph?

A. Criticized　　 B. Commented　　 C. Praised　　 D. Exaggerated(夸张)

2.People think the ingredients in green tea that can burn more calories are_______.

①vitamins ② folate ③catechins④magnesium ⑤ caffeine

A. ①②　　 B. ④⑤　　 C. ③⑤　　 D. ②⑤

3.According to Part 2, we can infer that______

A. further researches are needed to prove the findings

B. the short-term research is not right

C. the long-term research is not in the works

D. over drinking green tea benefits health

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1.Jay Chou is ________（极端）pupular with teenagers, as he has a unique acting style.

2.The government should take immediate action.

At the same time it’s of equal ________（重要）to act ourselves.

3.With more and more land turned intofactories, the ________（环境）is being seriously destoryed.

4.The teacher is trying a new ________(方法)to language teaching．

5.Despite their poverty，the children have a strong ________(欲望)for knowledge．

6.With the development of industry，the river has been seriously

________ (污染)．

7.He could see a ship on the ________(地平线)at last after floating for

manydays at sea．

8.It’s indeed a hardjob；it calls for ________(耐心)．

9.I'd like to live in New York for the ________(方便)it brings．

10.As students，we should take up our r________(责任)to build a harmonious

school．

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This pop star is very________with young people, who like his songs and style.

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A balloon ________ as it is filled with air.

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