Pang Hui placed a few more pairs of chopsticks on the table for a family dinner, though she did not expect her big family of seven would use them as serving chopsticks.
Surprisingly, her 75-year-old father, who used to shrug off the idea of serving chopsticks, became a firm supporter this time, said Pang, 40, from Beihai, a coastal city of South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Chinese people often share dishes, and diners use their own chopsticks to serve themselves food from the shared dishes, a tradition now being challenged by the outbreak of novel coronavirus.
“We feel a sense of crisis as well as the urge to desert our old habits when we see reports of family infections,” Pang said; pointing to the reports of the virus spreading via droplets (飞沫) and close contact.
Local governments are helping to encourage a shift, too. On Feb 10, local authorities of Beihai started a campaign promoting serving chopsticks and spoons, which will avoid cross-infections caused by the use of personal chopsticks.
Similar measures were also adopted in other cities like BeiJing, Shanghai and Hangzhou. Taizhou city in east China's Jiangsu Province even standardized the colours of serving chopsticks and spoons to help diners differentiate (区分) them from personal ones.
The government is also targeting the practice of eating wild animals, which remains present in certain areas.
China stopped the illegal trading and transportation of wild animals shortly after the outbreak.
The move became a permanent ban on Feb 24, when the country made a decision on thoroughly prohibiting (禁止) the illegal trading of wildlife and the consumption of wild animals.
Li Bo, with the Hainan International Center for Wildlife' Protection, said wild animal consumption could lead to the faster extinction of particular species, damage the ecological balance and harm people's health.
“The epidemic (流行病) could become a turning point to eliminate the bad habit,” Li said.
1.What can we learn about Pang Hui’s family from the text?
A.Usually more than seven people dine together.
B.They have started to use serving chopsticks at table.
C.Pang Hui’s father opposes using serving chopsticks.
D.They don't know how to avoid being infected by the virus.
2.According to the text, what has been done by the government?
A.Sharing dishes has been abandoned.
B.Cross-infections have been prevented.
C.Eating wild animals has been forbidden.
D.Standard personal chopsticks have been adopted.
3.What does the underlined word "eliminate" in the last paragraph probably mean?
A.Explain. B.Discover.
C.Form. D.Remove.
4.What can be the best title for the text?
A.Serving Chopsticks Promoted B.Ways to Help People Stay Healthy
C.Corona virus Leads to Change D.China Bans Trading of Wildlife
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题
Pang Hui placed a few more pairs of chopsticks on the table for a family dinner, though she did not expect her big family of seven would use them as serving chopsticks.
Surprisingly, her 75-year-old father, who used to shrug off the idea of serving chopsticks, became a firm supporter this time, said Pang, 40, from Beihai, a coastal city of South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Chinese people often share dishes, and diners use their own chopsticks to serve themselves food from the shared dishes, a tradition now being challenged by the outbreak of novel coronavirus.
“We feel a sense of crisis as well as the urge to desert our old habits when we see reports of family infections,” Pang said; pointing to the reports of the virus spreading via droplets (飞沫) and close contact.
Local governments are helping to encourage a shift, too. On Feb 10, local authorities of Beihai started a campaign promoting serving chopsticks and spoons, which will avoid cross-infections caused by the use of personal chopsticks.
Similar measures were also adopted in other cities like BeiJing, Shanghai and Hangzhou. Taizhou city in east China's Jiangsu Province even standardized the colours of serving chopsticks and spoons to help diners differentiate (区分) them from personal ones.
The government is also targeting the practice of eating wild animals, which remains present in certain areas.
China stopped the illegal trading and transportation of wild animals shortly after the outbreak.
The move became a permanent ban on Feb 24, when the country made a decision on thoroughly prohibiting (禁止) the illegal trading of wildlife and the consumption of wild animals.
Li Bo, with the Hainan International Center for Wildlife' Protection, said wild animal consumption could lead to the faster extinction of particular species, damage the ecological balance and harm people's health.
“The epidemic (流行病) could become a turning point to eliminate the bad habit,” Li said.
1.What can we learn about Pang Hui’s family from the text?
A.Usually more than seven people dine together.
B.They have started to use serving chopsticks at table.
C.Pang Hui’s father opposes using serving chopsticks.
D.They don't know how to avoid being infected by the virus.
2.According to the text, what has been done by the government?
A.Sharing dishes has been abandoned.
B.Cross-infections have been prevented.
C.Eating wild animals has been forbidden.
D.Standard personal chopsticks have been adopted.
3.What does the underlined word "eliminate" in the last paragraph probably mean?
A.Explain. B.Discover.
C.Form. D.Remove.
4.What can be the best title for the text?
A.Serving Chopsticks Promoted B.Ways to Help People Stay Healthy
C.Corona virus Leads to Change D.China Bans Trading of Wildlife
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Chopsticks are shaped pairs of equal-length sticks that have been used in the kitchen and on the table in almost all of East Asia for over 6, 000 years. First 1. (use) by the Chinese, chopsticks later spread to other locations 2. (include) Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
In ancient China, chopsticks signified far more than tools 3. take food to the mouth, and they also signified status and rules “can” and “can’t”. During the Northern Song Dynasty,4. official named Tang Su once had dinner with the emperor. He was not well informed in noble table manners and 5. (lay) down his chopsticks horizontally on the table before the emperor did. As a result, he was sent to a frontier area as a 6. (punish).
Actually, there were over a dozen taboos concerning chopsticks. For example, they could not be placed 7. (vertical) into a dish, as this was a way of making sacrifices to the dead. Diners could not tap 8. push a dish with chopsticks, nor use a chopstick as a fork. When taking food, they could not let their chopsticks go from one dish to another or cross over 9. of others. When diners wanted 10. (put) down their chopsticks during a meal, they would place them lengthways on a chopstick holder or on the plate on their right-hand side. Many of these chopstick taboos are valid to this day.
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The host poured the tea into the cup and placed it on the small table in front of his guests, who were a father and daughter, and put the cover on the cup. Apparently thinking of something, he hurried into the inner room, leaving the thermos (热水瓶) on the table. His two guests heard a cupboard opening.
They remained sitting in the sitting room, the ten-year-old daughter looking at the flowers outside the window, the father just about to take his cup, when the crash came, right there in the sitting room. Something was hopelessly broken.
It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor. The girl looked over her shoulder, shocked, staring. It was mysterious. Neither of them had touched it, not even a bit. True, it hadn't stood steadily when their host placed it on the table, but it hadn't fallen then.
The explosion caused the host to rush back. Gawking at the steaming floor, the host said "It doesn't matter! It doesn't matter!"
The father started to say something. Then he said softly, "Sorry, I touched it and it fell."
"It doesn't matter," the host said.
When they left the house, the daughter said, "Daddy, did you touch it?"
"No. But it stood so close to me. "
"But you didn't touch it. I saw your reflection in the window glass. "
The father laughed. "What then would you give as the cause of its fall?"
"The thermos fell by itself. The floor is not smooth. Daddy, why did you say that you …"
"That won't do, girl. It sounds more acceptable when I say I knocked it down. There are things which people accept less the more you defend them. The truer the story you tell, the less true it sounds. "
The daughter was lost in silence for a while. Then she said, "Can you explain it only in this way?"
"Only in this way," her father said.
56. Which statement is a possible theme of this story?
A. People rarely tell the truth.
B. You can't always make people believe the truth.
C. If you defend yourself, people will believe you.
D. People should take the blame for what they didn't do.
57. It can be inferred from the story that the father _______.
A. didn't know the host well B. felt satisfied that he didn't tell the truth
C. was sorry that he told the truth D. didn't think the host would believe the truth
58. From the story we know that the daughter ________.
A. thought her father should tell the truth B. didn't know why the thermos fell
C. knocked over the thermos D. strongly objected to her father's explanation
59. The underlined "gawking at" probably means _______.
A. staring at with anger B. looking at curiously
C. glancing at hopelessly D. looking at in a dull way
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阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Chopsticks, or kuaizi in Chinese,1. (be) a pair of small equal- length sticks,usually made of wood,2.( use) for eating Asian food It is believed the first chopsticks3. (develop) over 5,000 years ago in China. The4.(early) evidence of a pair of chopsticks made out of bronze was excavated (出土) from the Ruins of Yin near Anyang, Henan province,dating back to roughly 1,200 BC.
Chopsticks play,5.important role in Chinese food culture. Chinese chopsticks are usually 9 to 10 inches long and rectangular with a blunt (钝的) end. They are round on the eating end6.symbolizes heaven,and the other end is square which symbolizes earth. This is because7.(maintain) an adequate food supply is the greatest concern between heaven and earth.
There is an old Chinese custom making chopsticks part of a girl's dowry, since the 8.(pronounce) of kuaizi is similar to the words for ''quick" and "son".
Chopsticks are9.(frequent) used in daily life. They have become more than a kind of tableware and have established a set of etiquette (礼仪) and customs10.their own.
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阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Chopsticks, or kuaizi in Chinese, are a pair of small equal-length sticks, usually made of wood, used for eating. We Chinese eat1.chopsticks. It is believed the first chopsticks2.(develop) over 5,000 years ago in China. Excavated (出土) from the Ruins of Yin near Anyang, Henan province, dating back to roughly 1,200 BC was the3.(early) evidence of a pair of chopsticks made out of bronze. Chopsticks,4.are roughly uniform in size throughout China, can be made of a variety of5.(material), including bamboo, wood, plastic, silver and gold.
Chopsticks play6.important role in Chinese food culture. Chinese chopsticks are usually 9 to 10 inches long. They are round on the eating end which symbolizes heaven, and the other end is square which symbolizes earth. This is because7.(maintain) an enough food supply is the greatest concern between heaven and earth.
There is an old Chinese custom making chopsticks part, of a girl's dowry (嫁妆) since the8.(pronounce) of kuaizi is similar to the words for “quick” and “son”.
Chopsticks are 9.(frequent) used in daily life. They have become more than a kind of tableware and have established a set of etiquette (礼仪) and customs of10.(they) own.
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FRANCE has destroyed the hopes of those who had planned to take refuge(避难)in one of the few places on Earth which some believe will be spared when the world ends on December 21 .Local officials banned access to the Pic de Bugarach,a mountain in the southwest where rumor has it that the hilltop will open on the last day and aliens will appear with spaceships to save nearby humans.
Eric Freysselinard,the state’s top representative in the area,said he was blocking access to the mountain for public safety reasons to avoid a rush of New Age fanatics(盲信者),sight-seers and media crews. Believers say the world will end on December 21,2012,the end date of the ancient Mayan calendar,and they see Bugarach as one of a few sacred mountains sheltered from the cataclysm(大灾难).
Mr Freysselinard said the 100 police and firefighters will also control approaches to the tiny village of the same name at the foot of the mountain,and if too many people turn up,they will block access there too.“We are expecting a few people who believe in this end of the world,but in extremely limited numbers,” he said in the. nearby city of Carcassonne.“We are expecting greater numbers of people who are just curious,but in numbers we cannot determine. Above all,we are expecting lots of journalists,”he said.
Films,documentaries and websites have promoted the idea that the ancient Mayan calendar predicts that doomsday is on December 21.The culture ministry in Guatemala-where half the population are of Mayan descent-is hosting a massive event in the capital just in case the world actually does end,while tour groups are promoting doomsday-themed getaways.
1.Many people plan to go to Pic de Bugarach mainly because________.
A.they want to take refuge on December 21,2012
B.they want to meet aliens with spaceships to save humans
C.they want to visit the scenery of the mountain
D.they want to make profits by attracting tourists
2.Eric Freysselinard was blocking access to the mountain for________.
A.forbidding the rumour spreading B.improving environmental protection
C.protecting public safety D.avoiding destroying natural sources
3.What kinds of people would come to Pic de Bugarach?
a. Tourists. b. Journalists. c. Local officials. d. Visionaries. e. The Mayans.
A.a. b. e. B.a. b. c. C.a. b. d. D.b. d. e.
4.Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A.The World Ends on December 21 B.The Ancient Mayan Calendar Ends
C.A Massive Event in The Capital D.French Say‘No’to The Refugee
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Grab an ice cube from the freezer and place it on a table. Watch closely enough and you will see, well, not much at all. The ice cube is absorbing heat, but it is still an ice cube. Before it melts, it will draw heat from the environment to change from solid to liquid. Only then will it begin to slip and slide in a puddle of its own making.
And so to A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack, retired professor of geophysics at the University of Michigan and a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shared the 2007 Nobel peace prize with AI Gore.
The book gets off to a slow start. You may have to work a little before being rewarded. But given time. Pollack’s account warms up and really takes off. The story he has to tell is fascinating, frightening and important.
Despite the title, this is not a book about the world without ice. Much is given over to the impact of ice in Earth’s long history, as an important force that shaped our planet’s landscape, controlled migrations and influenced cultures. Pollack takes us through Antarctic and Arctic explorations, the natural cycles that bring us ice ages and milder periods without extremes of heat or cold and the rise of climate science which, among other achievements, can recreate a history of the temperature on Earth from kilometers of ice core drilled from the polar caps.
Pollack’s intellectual power and clarity of phrase are invaluable in describing the scientific evidence for global warming, the ways in which it will affect the world, and the all-too-probable consequences. Pollack is not one to brush awkward issues under the carpel. There is serious discussion about uncertainties in climate science, and in particular the computer models used to forecast future warming. For its forensic analysis (取证分析) and strong destruction of climate sceptic (怀疑论者) arguments alone, A World Without Ice is worth keeping on a nearby shelf.
Some readers may hind Pollack’s US-centric approach occasionally grating (刺耳的). He tells of intense irrigation in southwestern Kansas, IPCC reports as big as several New York City phone directories and school-day stories from Omaha. But this is forgivable. The US is uniquely placed to act on climate change but faces a significant barrier in the shape of the outdated. influential, oil-funded anti-climate change lobby (游说议员的团体).
Thoughtful throughout, Pollack occasionally delivers paragraphs that stay with you long after closing the book. On the subject of the book itself, he writes: “Nature’s best thermometer (温度计), perhaps its most sensitive and unambiguous indicator of climate change, is ice, When ice gets sufficiently warm, it melts. Ice asks no questions, presents no arguments, reads no newspapers, listens to no debates. It is not burdened by ideology and carries no political baggage as it crosses the threshold (门槛) from solid to liquid. It just melts.”
A World Without Ice is a call to arms. Debates about which mitigation (减缓) strategies might give us the best chances of reducing our emissions miss the point, Pollack says. If we want to avoid the worst that climate change may bring, we need “every horse in the stable pulling together, and as hard and as fast as possible”.
Pollack’s argument is attractive, persuasive and deeply upsetting, no matter the climate change tiredness that unavoidably sets in as a consequence of endless media coverage of global warming. The author’s final warning comes from Lao Tzu, an ancient Chinese philosopher: “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
Pollack leaves us in no doubt as to where that is.
1.A World Without Ice mainly focuses on_______.
A.the adventures to the freezing Poles
B.the impact of ice on human and nature
C.the role of climate science in drilling ice
D.the process of ice cube turning into water
2.We can learn that A World Without Ice________.
A.brings us to the core of the issue at the very beginning
B.convinces sceptics of the truth about climate change
C.gives an in-depth analysis of global warming
D.gets funded by anti-climate change lobby
3.Why does Henry Pollack think ice is nature’s best thermometer?
A.Ice is a reminder of peaceful co-existence.
B.Ice is a common topic of the media coverage.
C.Ice is a controversial issue in political debates.
D.Ice is a clear indicator sensitive to climate change.
4.The underlined sentence in Paragraph 8 probably means the book_____.
A.urges us to make joint efforts to fight climate change
B.advocates addressing climate change by armed forces
C.recommends debating on strategies to reduce emission
D.calls for separate and tough actions in a timely manner
5.What does the underlined word that in the last paragraph refer to?
A.Warning from Lao Tzu. B.Destination of a journey.
C.Effect of global warming. D.Argument on climate change.
6.What is the author’s attitude to A World Without Ice?
A.Ambiguous. B.Cautious. C.Positive. D.Skeptical.
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The giant panda is an animal unique to China, and Wolong in Sichuan Province is one of the few places in China where ______.
A. the giant panda live B. lives the giant panda
C. does the giant live C. the giant panda is living
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There are many places in the world have been visited only by a few, many are of enormous beauty.
A. where; of which B. which; of whom
C. that; of which D. that; of whom
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________ some more chairs,tables and so on, the room looked more beautiful.
A.Furnished with B.Furnished by
C.To furnish with D.Furnishing with
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