2023年中考英语时事热点阅读专练
热点26 七夕节以及相关文化等
一、阅读理解
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Here are some Chine traditional festivals. Let's share them together.
Qingming Festival
三岁半It often falls on April 4—6 each year. People often offer their favorite food to their ancestors(祖先) and sweep the tombs of the dead. Also, they will not cook on this day and only cold food is rved. People also enjoy hope of spring on this day. The Qingming Festival is a time when the sun shines brightly, the trees and grass become green and nature is again lively. So people love to fly kites.
Lantern Festival
It is the first traditional Chine holiday after the Spring Festival. And it often comes on the 15th in Chine first lunar month. People often perform dragon dances during the day and hold lantern show and guess lantern riddles that night. The full moon of the night stands for the hope of all the Chine for the whole year.无人机操作教程
Mid-Autumn 茄子焖面>美丽山水Festival
It falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. The festival has a long history. There is also a love story about Chang'e and Houyi in the festival. Today people will enjoy the full moon and eat moon cakes on that day. Also, all family members or friends meet outside, putting food on tables and looking up at the sky while talking about life.
Double Seventh Festival
It's on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, and is a traditional festival full of romance. There are many Chine folktales(民间故事)about love and one of the most famous is Niu Lang And Zhi Nu. Chine girls prepare fruits, melons and incen(熏香) for their lovers. In the evening, people sit outdoors to obrve the stars and Chine grannies often tell stories.
1. Micheal comes from the USA and he will visit China on the 12th day of the 8th lunar month. He will stay in China for a week. Which festival can he enjoy?
A. Qingming Festival B. Double Seventh Festival
C. Mid-Autumn Festival D. Lantern Festival
2. People always enjoy the full moon on ______ and ______.
A. Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival
B. Mid-Autumn Festival and Lantern Festival
C. Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Seventh Festival
D. Lantern Festival and Double Seventh Festival
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3. During Qingming Festival, children often ______.
A. enjoy the bright full moon B. enjoy some folktales from grannies
C. fly kites with parents D. eat moon cakes
4. Which of the Chine festival is similar to Valentines' Day?
A. Lantern Festival B. Double Seventh Festival
C. Mid-Autumn Festival D. Qingming Festival市场调研怎么写
5. Li Hua wants to learn more about Mid-Autumn Festival from his granny. So his granny may tell him ______.
A手工制作品. it's on the 15th in Chine first lunar month
B. the romance story between Niu Lang And Zhi Nu
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C. how to fly kites
D. the love story about Chang'e and Houyi
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Embroidery (刺绣) is an important art form in Chine culture. The most famous embroidery styles are Su embroidery from Suzhou, Shu embroidery from Sichuan, Xiang embroidery from Hunan and Yue embroidery from Guangdong.
Shu embroidery is the oldest of the four. It dates back to the Han Dynasty(206 BC-220 AD). People sold it to other countries through the South Silk Road.
Embroidery takes time and patience. Since modern machines can make cheaper embroidery products today, fewer people buy handmade Shu embroidery products. They are also very few young embroiderers. So the skill is in danger of dying out. To protect the skill, Shu embroidery was added to China's intangible cultural heritage list (非物质文化遗产目录) in 2006.
Meng Dezhi has been making Shu embroidery for forty years. The 59-year-old is a national-level inheritor (传承人) of the art form. She ud to work at the Chengdu Shu Embroidery Factory. But in 2006, the factory went broke and Meng lost her job.
Wanting to save the art, Meng wanted to have her own place and teach Shu embroidery to others. It's hard work. Workers need to divide each silk thread (线) into more than ten or even thirty pieces. Each piece is thinner than a single human hair. In 2016, Baidu invited Meng to make a homepage logo for Qixi Festival. It was a small logo, but it required the u of 45 types of wing techniques (针法) and 35,000 stitches (针).
Meng is trying to save Shu embroidery by teaching in different universities and communities. She believes that Shu embroidery stands for thousands of years of Sichuan culture and should be saved.
"I feel that I have the responsibility to pass on Shu embroidery skills to young people, to let it run from generation to generation," she said.
6. ________ famous embroidery styles are mentioned in the passage.