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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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One of the traditions which is now a necessary part of Christmas is that of Father Christmas, or Santa Claus. According to the modern legend, he is a magical figure who visits all the children of the world during the night before Christmas Day, leaving presents, which they find the next morning. He flies through the night sky in a sledge pulled by reindeer, and enters houses by climbing down chimneys. This strange legend is based on the life of a man called Nicholas, but in fact we know very little about him. Historians think he was a Christian bishop（主教）in Turkey in about 285-350 A.D. One of the stories about him is that he helped three poor girls. No one would marry them because they were so poor. To provide them with money for their weddings, Nicholas secretly dropped some gold coins down the chimney of their house. After Nicholas died, he was made a saint（圣人）by the church. (The name Santa Claus thus comes from St Nicholas.) His feast day was celebrated in December, and parents started giving their children secret presents from St Nicholas. Over the years, this custom became part of our Christmas traditions. Recently, a psychologist has claimed that Father Christmas is “the perfect fantasy” for children. According to Professor Anthony Clare, children love the character of Father Christmas because he is like an ideal father: he loves children and gives them presents, but he never criticizes them, is never angry and children do not even need to thank him for presents. Other writers, however, point out that Father Christmas can be a frightening character to some children. Jane Bidder says that some children are terrified of this fat, bearded old man. It can certainly confuse many children. As presents, we warn our children to be careful of strangers and never to let them into the house, and yet we tell children that a strange man will come into their bedroom at night! Some children can become very worried about this idea and fear that he is a kind of burglar. Most children, however, understand from their parents and from the media that Father Christmas is basically a benign character, and look forward to his annual visit with joy and excitement. 1.The writer mentions details such as Father Christmas’s sledge, the reindeer and the way he climbs down chimney because he/ she ________. A. wants to make it clear that these things are impossible B. is describing the history of St Nicholas C. wants everyone to believe that Father Christmas is real D. is explaining the modern legend of Father Christmas 2.Why does the writer mention the story about St Nicholas helping three poor girls? A. It shows us that historians know very little about him. B. This story explains why parents give secret presents to children. C. It supports the writer’s main point that Father Christmas is based on an untrue story. D. This story explains why we celebrate Christmas in December. 3.In the last paragraph, the word “benign” means ________. A. religious B. friendly C. frightening D. unreal 4.The best title for this passage would be ________. A. Is Father Christmas Dangerous? B. The True History of St Nicholas C. The Legend of Santa Claus D. The Traditions of Christmas
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As a Chinese saying goes, “Taste is actually a memory of childhood”. Local specialty food may not be popular among all people, but it offers outsiders a glimpse of local culture and history. Gongcheng “oil tea” is such a kind of food that would be considered “weird” by many first-time visitors to the remote county in the north of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Many people dislike its bitter and astringent（涩的）flavor when they take a sip. “It felt like drinking Chinese herbal medicine. I never expected that I would gradually accept it afterwards, and even become addicted to it,” said a traveler surnamed Zhang who comes from Shijiazhuang in northern China’s Hebei province. Langshan village is said to be birthplace of Gongcheng “oil tea” whose ideal ingredients are green tea and fermented（发酵）tea. The village has preserved well its buildings and roads dating back to late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), as well as its traditional way of making the special tea. Lin Fengyou, 60, introduced the cooking process. She looks younger than her age, and attributes this to the benefits of drinking “oil tea” throughout the year. The first procedure is to use a wooden hammer to pound the tea while heating it in an iron pot, and then add edible（可食用的）oil and boiled water afterwards. She filters off the solid residues（余渣）, and pours the glue-like green tea soup into bowls. Then, she adds salt, caraway seed（葛缕子籽）, green onion, dried rice, fried groundnuts, sliced taro（芋头）and fried beans. The taste of the “oil tea” is a mixture of the distinctive（特有的）flavors of all its ingredients. Local people usually eat it together with glutinous rice（糯米）balls, rice dumplings and glutinous rice cake. The villagers consume “oil tea” three times a day. The tea soup is a healthy and refreshing food. “The tea soup to us is coffee to Westerners”, said Lin. “But it is tastier.” 1.Many first-time visitors may find “oil tea” ________ when taking a sip. A. popular B. beneficial C. addicted D. strange 2.What can we learn about Lin Fengyou according to the passage? A. She thinks drinking “oil tea” throughout the year makes her look younger. B. She is one of the reasons why the special tea has been preserved. C. She never expected that she would gradually accept “oil tea”. D. She drinks “oil tea” three times every day and considers coffee tastier. 3.Which is the correct order of cooking “oil tea” according to Lin Fengyou? a. pour the glue-like green tea soup into bowls b. heat the tea in an iron pot and pound the tea c. add salt, caraway seed, green onion, dried rice, etc d. add edible oil and boiled water e. filter off the solid residues A. acebd B. dbace C. bdeac D. beadc 4.Which column is this passage probably taken from? A. Culture & Education B. Entertainment C. Health D. Travel
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Film has properties that set it apart from painting, sculpture, novels and plays. It is also, in its most popular and powerful form, a story telling medium that shares many elements with the short story and the novel. And since film presents its stories in dramatic form, it has even more in common with the stage play: Both plays and movies act out or dramatize（使戏剧化）, show rather than tell, what happens. Unlike the novel, short story, or play, however, film is not handy（日语做的）to study; it cannot be effectively frozen on the printed page. The novel and short story are relatively easy to study because they are written to be read. The stage play is slightly more difficult to study because it is written to be performed. But plays are printed, and because they rely heavily on the spoken word, imaginative readers can bring t mind at least a pale imitation of the experience they might have been watching a performance on stage. This cannot be said of the screenplay（电影剧本）, for a film depends greatly on visual（视觉的）and other non-visual elements that are not easily expressed in writing. The screenplay requires so much “filling in” by our imagination that we cannot really obtain the experience of a film by reading a screenplay, and reading a screenplay is worthwhile only if we have already seen the film. Thus, most screenplays are published not to read but rather to be remembered. Still, film should not be ignored because studying it requires extra effort. And the fact that we do not generally “read” films does not mean we should ignore the principles of literary of dramatic analysis when see a film. Literature and films do share many elements and communicate many things in similar ways. Perceptive（精辟的）film analysis rests on the principles used in literary analysis, and if we apply what we have learned in the study of literature to our analysis of films, we will be far ahead of those who do not. Therefore, before we turn to the unique elements of film, we need to look into the elements that film shares with any good story. Dividing film into its various elements for analysis is a somewhat artificial process, for the elements of any art form never exist in isolation. It is impossible, for example, to isolate plot（情节）from character. Events influence people, and people influence events; the two are always closely interwoven in any fictional（虚构的）, dramatic, or cinematic（电影的）work. Nevertheless, the analytical method uses such a fragmenting（碎片）technique for convenience. It does so with the assumption（假设）that we can study these elements in isolation without losing sight of their interdependence or their relationship to the whole. 1.In the writer’s opinion, the reason why it is not handy to study film lies in ________. A. screenplay is not as well written as literary works B. publishers prefer to publish literary works C. a film is too complicated D. a film cannot be effectively represented by a printed screenplay 2.From the 3rd paragraph we learn that ________. A. the means by which we analyze a literary work cannot be applied to analysis of the film B. we should not pay extra effort to study films C. a good film and a good story have many elements in common D. using the principles of literary analysis makes no difference in film analysis 3.The underlined word “It” in the last sentence of the passage refers to ________. A. Film. B. The fragmenting technique. C. The analytical method. D. Convenience 4.What is mainly discussed in the passage? A. The unique charm of film. B. The importance of film analysis. C. The relationship between film analysis and literary analysis. D. How to identify the techniques a film uses.
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Parents Model Healthy Eating It should come as no surprise that the more stressed parents are at work, the greater the burden on their family is. 1. After all, the more time parents spend working, the less time and energy they have to plan and prepare healthful meals. For years, most studies have focused on the role of working mothers while fathers were ignored. They didn’t look at the family as a whole. 2., adds a new wrinkle（褶皱）to the relationship between work stress and family nutrition. Mom’s work related stress is still a central factor in low well families eat because they typically do most of the food shopping and cooking. 3. The study found that when mom or dad experience high levels of work related stress, their families are eating one-and-a-half fewer family meals per week, and the parents themselves report eating fewer fruits and vegetables, more fast food, and are less likely to eat breakfast regularly. It’s worth nothing that the study looked mainly at low income families who belonged to ethnic（民族的）or minority groups. 4. But the implications are wide ranging. 5. Teaching kids, especially teenagers, to help with grocery shopping and to cook actual meals, instead of just putting a frozen pizza in the microwave, could be an important piece of the puzzle in helping families improves their eating habits. A. And the role of fathers in particular B. But dad’s work related stress has a large impact, too. C. Yet, the kids’ stress may influence the families’ nutrition, too. D. So the findings don’t necessarily apply directly to other types of families. E. When it comes to family nutrition, the entire family plays a role even kids. F. It’s also probably not a surprise that this can negatively affect a family’s nutrition. G. It is parents who give their kids a good model to develop a good eating habit.
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On Dec. 13, 2014, Nubia Wilson turned 16. But instead of ________ with an exciting Sweet 16 birthday party, the California teen devoted this milestone to ________ the lives of orphans in Ethiopia. Through several summers of volunteer work at an Ethiopia orphanage（孤儿院）, Nubia learned firsthand the severe poverty so many children ________. In an email to The Huffington Post, Nubia said that she was ________ struck by the children’s lack of ________ to education — their school only went through the fourth grade. Over the course of her volunteer work, Nubia became interested in one ________, Hermela. She writes: Out of the many students in the kindergarten class, Hermela became close and ________ to me to a point where it was becoming ________ for both of us to leave each other. She is now in the second grade. The thought of Hermela not being able to have her meal and ________ education after the fourth grade became ________ and I knew I had to do something. That’s when Nubia decided that she didn’t want a traditional Sweet 16. ________, she wanted to use the money her parents would have spent on a party to establish ________ grade class for Hermela and other kids. “The money could provide a (n) ________ solution that will serve for many years compared to the one-day ________ of my party, “Nubia wrote to Huffpost Live. ________, I want Hermela to continue ________.” After ________ friends and family her plan, Nubia ________ a donation page “Keep Hermela Smiling” on CrowRise. Her ________ will raise funds for the Fregenet Foundation（基金会）, which funds education and community services in Ethiopia. So far, Nubia has raised $2,781 of her $10,000 goal. Nubia says her parents have been extremely ________; they’re selling most of their Ethiopian artifacts to help raise funds. Nubia’s birthday may not have been a party, but it’s truly a celebration. 1.A. communciating B. corresponding C. celebrating D. compromising 2.A. improving B. experiencing C. enjoying D. rescuing 3.A. face B. describe C. concern D. discuss 4.A. slightly B. apparently C. especially D. urgently 5.A. image B. priority C. access D. enthusiasm 6.A. parent B. student C. doctor D. teacher 7.A. condemned B. addicted C. exposed D. attached 8.A. possible B. boring C. difficult D. strange 9.A. provide B. leave C. finish D. receive 10.A. unimportant B. uncomfortable C. unimaginable D. unnecessary 11.A. Besides B. However C. Instead D. Therefore 12.A. fifth B. third C. fourth D. sixth 13.A. technical B. early C. simple D. lasting 14.A. relief B. trouble C. honor D. pleasure 15.A. In turn B. In short C. In particular D. In relief 16.A. smiling B. crying C. yelling D. whispering 17.A. speaking B. saying C. telling D. talking 18.A. broke up B. pull up C. set up D. took up 19.A. school B. family C. story D. campaign 20.A. creative B. effective C. supportive D. sensitive
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dWolf Warrior IIis putting China in the global spotlight. It’s also the first film 1. (taste) success both in terms of box office（票房）earnings and promoting Chinese values. Since its release on July 27, it 2. (earn) an unimaginable 4.5 billion yuan, setting a record for domestic movies at the box office. The film focuses on a rescue operation in Africa, 3. (lead) by former special forces soldier Leng Feng — played by Wu Jing helps Chinese workers and local Africans flee a war-torn（受到战争破坏的）and plague-ravaged（瘟疫肆虐的）country. Wolf Warrior II links（联系）art to reality, and reminds people 4. the massive evacuation（撤离）of Chinese people from Libya when civil war 5. (break) out there in 2011, and from Yemen in 2015, as well as the challenges the Ebola virus created in West Africa from 2013 to 2016. The film describes 6. the Chinese government aims to protect overseas Chinese citizens. Just 7. the message at the end of the film reads, “Citizens of People’s Republic of China, when you encounter danger in a foreign land, do not give up! Please remember, at your back 8. (stand) a strong motherland.” Thanks to China’s increasing participation（参与）in global affairs, the president could 9. (consider) as a modern Chinese hero. “10. (hold) up a banner（信仰）of peace, friendship and responsibility, Wolf Warrior II should be seen as a brave effort to promote Chinese values around the world.
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌中间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加：在缺词处加个漏字符号（），并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。 修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。 China is an ancient civilization with culture dated back more than 4,000 year. Basic elements for a modern world such as paper, gunpowder, or the magnetic compass originated in China. Today, China is again at the forefront of the world, with Chinese goods reaching all parts of the world. The Chinese culture have also fascinated many people. In the Shaolin Monasteries or the Forbidden City of Beijing, China has its unique art and architecture that what draw thousands of visitors every year. The Chinese food is equal popular around the world and it is loved by many non-Chinese. In China, the food can be found in great varieties and was different region to region. So join we and experience all these.
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假如你是刘明，中国传统节日春节快到了，你的美国朋友Jack来信表示对新春和对联很感兴趣，请你写一篇回信，邀请他参加对联展，要点如下： 1. 新春在门上贴红色对联是中国传统，表达对新的一年的美好祝愿； 2. 新春对联展从2月10号开始一直持续一周； 3. 活动包括对联欣赏，自创对联比赛，获奖者将免费获赠对联； 4. 邀请Jack来参加，体验中国传统文化。 注意：词数100左右； 参考词汇：新春对联：spring festival couplets；贴：paste ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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