中考英语阅读理解专项训练-风俗与文化
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Passage 1
China is a large country. The population is over 1.3 billion. It has a special culture with a very long history.
Chinese food plays an important role for Chinese families. Different foods have special meanings. The main difference is that Chinese people eat their meals with chopsticks. One of the main foods in Chinese culture is rice. Tea is a favorite drink and it is popular in the market.
Chinese calendar is different from the one used in western countries. New Year's Day is in late winter. It is also called the Spring Festival. It has a big celebration of ringing out the old a
nd ringing in the new. It has special foods and traditions. For example, sweeping the floor before New Year's Day sweeps away all the old year's bad luck.
The Chinese zodiac(生肖), known as Sheng Xiao, follows a twelveyear cycle. Each year is named for an animal. These animal signs are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. For example, the year that begins in 2016 is the year of the monkey.
Chinese is a complex(复杂的)language. Chinese writing developed almost 4，000 years ago and may even be older. Chinese writing has thousands of characters. A character stands for a word and also a meaning. Besides Putonghua, Chinese people speak six other forms of the language, and there are many kinds of dialects．
( )1. What's the population of China?
A. Almost 4，000.
B. More than 1.3 billion.
C. 12 million.
( )2. The underlined “dialects” probably means “________” in
Chinese.
A. 交际 B. 对话 C. 方言
( )3. According to the passage, what's one of the main foods in China?
A. Tea. B. Rice. C. Meat.
( )4. The year that begins in 2016 isn't the year of the monkey, is it?
A. Yes, it is. B. No, it isn't. C. I don't know.
( )5. What's the main idea of the passage?
A. Different foods have special meanings in Chinese culture.
B. Chinese is a popular language.
C. Chinese culture.
Passage 2
Are you an eatinglover? Do you want to eat every delicious food in the world? Then do you watch the popular program A Bite of China? It's a TV program on Chinese delicious food which has been produced by CCTV. Is there any holiday that isn't celebrated with special festival food? Here are several traditional Chinese foods：
Noodles are a symbol of long life in Chinese culture. They are as much a part of Chinese birthday celebration as a birthday cake with its candles lit in many western countries. Since noodles mean long life, it is considered very unlucky to cut it off.
Although westerners sometimes may be very sorry to see fish lying on the plate, in China a whole fish is a symbol of richness. In fact, at a party it is a tradition to serve the whole fish last, pointed towards the most valued guest. Fish also has a special meaning because the Chinese word for fish, yu, sounds like the word for richness or plenty, and it is believed that eating fish will help your wishes come true in the year to come.special怎么读

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