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【題目】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 favourite 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 and 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 twelve 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(復(fù)雜的) language. Chinese writing developed almost 4，000 years ago and may even be older. Chinese writing has thousands of characters. A character(文字) 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.

D. About 13，000 million.

【2】The underlined “dialects” probably means “________” in Chinese.

A. 交際 B. 對話

C. 方言 D. 文化

【3】According to the passage, what's one of the main foods in China?

A. Tea. B. Rice.

C. Meat. D. Fruit.

【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. D. Maybe.

【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.

D. Chinese population.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】B

【4】A

【5】C

【解析】

本文是一篇社會文化類短文。主要講述了中國的文化，中國有13億人口，具有悠久的歷史，中國主要的食物是米飯，不同的食物具有不同的意義，中國用了和其他國家不一樣的日歷，春節(jié)是中國最重要的節(jié)日。每年都要用一種動物來命名，叫生肖。中國最主要的語言是普通話，還有很多的方言。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文開頭的句子“China is a large country. The population is over 1.3 billion.可知中國的人口超過13億。over=more than多于，超過。故答案為B。

【2】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)全文最后一句Besides Putonghua, Chinese people speaks six other forms of the language, and there are many kinds of dialects.可知，除了普通話外，中國人還說其它六種形式的語言，都與“語言”有關(guān)，因此最后一句話的意思是“還有各種各樣的方言�！贝鸢笧�C。

【3】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段倒數(shù)第二句“One of the main foods in Chinese culture is rice.”可知，中國人的主食之一是米飯。答案為B。

【4】細節(jié)理解題。本題是否定句的反意疑問句的回答。A不，它是；B是，它不是；C我不知道。D.可能。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段最后一句“For example, the year that begins in 2016 is the year of the monkey.”可知2016年是猴年。故答案為A。

【5】主旨大意題。本文講了中國的人口、 歷史、食物、日歷、生肖、語言，這一切統(tǒng)稱為“文化”。A.不同的食物在中國文化中有不同的含義；B.中文是一門很受歡迎的語言；C.中國文化。D. 中國人口。A,B,D選項只是文章的其中一部分。故答案為C。