精品解析：辽宁省沈阳市第七中学2023-2024学年八年级下学期开学考试英语试题

2024年2月26日沈阳市七中初二考试 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 一、阅读理解 ①You may think you cannot live through summer without air conditioners(空调). But in ancient China, hand fans were almost the only help for people to drive the heat away. ②Chinese people started to use hand fans over 2,000 years ago. The fans came in different shapes, such as round and square. They were also made from all kinds of materials(材料). Palm leaf fans were cheap and easy to make. Feather(羽毛) fans showed the owner’s high status(地位). Sandal wood(檀香) fans could send out a sweet smell. ③Later, hand fans became even more popular because they were seen as artworks. At that time, tuanshan (round fans) and zheshan (folded fans) were the most common. ④In the shape of a full moon, tuanshan was usually made of silk. They had beautiful embroidery(刺绣) of birds and flowers on them. Women, especially those in the palace, liked to use them. Poets in ancient China often compared a woman’s abandoned(被抛弃的) fate to tuanshan. Nalan Xingde wrote during the Qing Dynasty, “If only life were as beautiful as when we first met, why should the autumn wind bother to pity deserted painted fans?” ⑤However, men, especially the literati(文人), used zheshan, or folded fans. The literati liked them because zheshan were usually made of paper and they could paint and write poems on them. It was a way for them to show off their talents in literature, painting and calligraphy(书法). Almost anything can be painted on zheshan, but the most popular ones are usually landscapes(风景). ⑥Today, Chinese people still use these fans. They have already become a symbol of Chinese culture and also a part of our everyday life. So the next time you use a fan, you may think of the stories behind it. 1. According to this passage, which of the following may be Wang Xizhi’s favorite hand fan? a. b. c. d. A. ac B. ad C. bc D. bd 2. Which of the following is the Chinese translation of the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4? A. 人生若只