30篇关于中国传统文化的语法填空练习课件-2024届高三英语二轮复习

Talk about China in English Kethrine Culture 1 Traditional Chinese Culture Chapter One 2 A modern Chinese usually has (1) a surname (“family name”) or xing 姓 and (2) a given name (“first name”or “Christian name”), 1._________ ming 名(or mingzi 名字)，always in that order. Thus Deng Xiaoping is Mr. Deng with the personal name Xiaoping the same way John Jones is Mr. Jones 2. ________ the personal name John. In ancient China, however, 3. ________(name) was very complicated and one person usually had several 4. ______ (name), and naming involved xing, shi, ming, and zi. Each of 5.________(this) four words 6. ______(mean) a different thing. Xing and shi together formed today's surname, and ming 7.______zi today's given name. Today, people use xingshi 8._________(refer)to a person's surname, mingzi to refer to one's given name. Day 1 Chinese Personal Names or with naming names these meant and to refer 3 Study of ancient Chinese documents shows that xing 9._________(original) referred to the names of different matriarchal tribes（母系部落). It also had something to do 10.______ the place 11._________people lived. Researches show that xing came into being during the matrilineal society (母系社会)period, i. e. , around four to five thousand years ago. Nearly always the family name (surname) is one-syllable long. The only common modern surnames that 12.______ (be) two-syllables long are ouyang and Sima. Day 1 Chinese Personal Names originally with where are 4 The Chinese Lunar Calendar is 1._______(base) on the cycles of the moon, and is constructed in a different fashion than the Western solar calendar. In 2._____Chinese calendar, the 3.________(begin) of the year 4._____(fall) somewhere between late January and early February. The Chinese 5.___________(adopt) the Western calendar, but the lunar calendar is still 6.______(use) for festive occasions such 7.____ the Chinese New Year. Many Chinese calendars will print both the solar dates 8._____ the Chinese lunar dates. Day 2 The Chinese Lunar Calendar based the beginning falls have adopted used as and 5 Day 3 The Twelve Animal Signs that In traditional China, dating methods were cyclical means something 1.____ is repeated time after time according to a pattern. A popular folk method which reflected this cyclical method of 2.________(record) years are the Twelve Animal Signs. Every year 3._________(assign) an animal name or "sign" according to a 4._________(repeat) cycle: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, 5._____Boar. Therefore, every twelve years 6.____same animal name or "sign" would reappear. recording is assigned repeating and the 6 Day 3 The Twelve Animal Signs The animal signs serve a useful 9._______(society) function for finding 10._____ people's ages. Instead of asking 11._______(direct) how old a person is, people often ask what is his or her animal sign. This would place that person's age 12.______ a cycle of 12 years, and with a bit of common sense, we can deduce the exact age. More often, people ask for animal signs not to compute a person's exact numerical age, but to simply know who is 13._______(old) among friends and acquaintances. social out directly within older 7 The Four Treasures of the Study are the 1.______(write) tools with Chinese characteristics. Also known 2._____“the Scholars Four Jewels” namely the writing brush, ink-stick, paper and ink-slab. The study got 3._____ (it) name in the Northern and Southern 4._______ (dynasty), referring only to the study of the literati (文人). The Four Treasures, 5.______(vary) and colorful, are famous for their hubi (writing brush 6.___________ (produce) in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province), huimo (ink-stick produced in Huizhou, Anhui Province), xuanzhi (rice paper 7.____ xuan paper, made in Xuancheng, Anhui Province), and duanyan (ink-slab 8.______ (make) in Duanxi, Guangdong Province). Day 4 The Four Treasures of the Study as writing its dynasties varied prodeced or made 8 Day 5 Chinese Medicine With a history of 2000 to 3000 years, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) 1._________(form)a unique system to diagnose 2._____cure illness. The TCM approach is 3.___________(fundamental) different from 4._____of Western medicine. The theory of TCM is based 5.__ jing, qi, shen, yin-yang, five elements principle etc. to diagnose 6.______(ill) and to cure it according to the well-known Bencaogangmu (Compendium of Materia Medico) 7._____(write) by Li Shizhen. has formed and fundamentally that on illness written 9 器具 Similar 1.___ people of other nationalities, ancient Chinese people 2.__________(grasp) or tore food 3.____ their bare hands at the beginning. Chopsticks, forks, knives and spoons 4._________(use) much later, of which chopsticks, with a history of thousands of years, 5.___(be) a wonder of Chinese dining utensils (器具). Chopsticks are the dining utensils most 6._______(frequent)used in Chinese people’s daily life. In ancient China, they 7._________(call) zhu. When the Chinese began to use chopsticks 8.__ an eating instrument is anybody's guess. They were first mentioned in writing in Liji ( The Book of Rites ), a work compiled some 2 000 years ago. Chopsticks may be made 9.___ any of several materials: bamboo, wood, gold, silver, ivory, pewter, 10.___ plastics. In cross-section, they may be either round 11.___ square. Some of them are engraved with coloured pictures or calligraphy for decoration. Ordinary chopsticks12._________ (use) in Chinese homes are of wood or bamboo, those for banquets are often ivory, whereas gold ones belonged only to the royalty and aristocracy（皇室和贵族）. Day 6 Chopsticks to grasped with were used are frequently were called as of and or used 10 China has long been known as the “land of ceremony and propriety”(文明礼仪之邦). 1.___________(consequent), there are certain manners 2._______ should be observed at banquets or formal dinners. First, seat order. Chinese people attach great 3.___________(important) to the seating order at banquets or formal dinners. In the ancient 4.______(time), at a banquet, people sat in a circle 5.___ the ground. Their seating 6._______________(arrange) are unknown, but it is certain that they 7.________________(arrange) in a certain order. It was recorded 8.______ the most honorable guest sat 9._______(face) the east, the next important guest sat facing the south, next facing the north 10.____ the last facing the west. Day 7 The Etiquette of Chinese Banquets （1） Consequently that importance times on arrangements were arranged that facing and 11 Day 8 The Etiquette of Chinese Banquets （2） Even today at formal banquets people are arranged 1._____ a certain order, but in different areas, there are different rules 2.__________(concern) seat order. In the past, Chinese people often sat around a so-called eight-immortal table ( a table with a rectangular top, normally with eight seats around it) 3._______(dine). In the north, the seat order was arranged this way: the two seats facing the door were the 4.________________(importance), the host sat on the right and the most honorable guest 5.______ the left; opposite these two seats sat two specially 6.__________(invite) guests who were supposed 7.________(help) entertain the main guests； the other people, guests or specially invited guests, were arranged, according to their age, to sit on the other two sides of 8.______ table. The two seats 9.________(close) to the host and most honorable guest were considered more important 10.______ the other two seats. In the south, the seat order was a bit different. in concerning to dine most important on invited to help the closer than 12 Day 9 The Etiquette of Chinese Banquets （3） Apart 1._______ seat order, there are also rules regarding the order of 2.______(serve) dishes and the way dishes 3._______(set) on the table. Dishes, in the broad sense, refer 4.__ wine (or liquor), meat and vegetable dishes and grain food; in 5._____ narrow sense, it only refers to meat and vegetable dishes. The rules 6.___________________(undergo) some changes. In the ancient times, grain food 7.___________(serve) before wine, while today wine and meat and vegetable dishes are served before grain food. For meat and vegetable dishes, there are cold dishes and hot dishes. 8.____________(normal) cold dishes are served before hot 9.______(one), dry dishes are served before soup. Hot dishes are the main courses; usually there 10.____(be) even numbers of hot dishes, 4, 6 or 8. Sometimes there could be 16 or 32 dishes. The most sumptuous feast一Man Han Feast, has as many as 108 dishes. Soup is usually the last dish. from serving are set to the have undergone was served Normally ones are 13 For the way dishes 1.________(set) on the table, there are also rules. For example,2._____ (new) served dishes are always put near 3._____ most honorable guest; when whole fish, whole chicken or whole duck 4.__________(serve), the dish is normally put 5.______ such a way 6.______the head is towards the most honorable guest. This is a way 7.________(show) respect to the most honorable guest. In order to show their respect and hospitality, Chinese hosts often help the guests to the dishes. For hygiene's sake, when 8._____(do) this, they usually use 9.____extra pair of chopsticks or spoon 10.____(put) on the table. Day 10 The Etiquette of Chinese Banquets （4） are set newly the is served in that to show doing an put 14 Chinese Festivals Chapter Two 15 Far and away the most important holiday in China is the Spring Festival, also 1.______(know) as the Chinese New Year. To the Chinese people it is as important 2.________ Christmas to people in the West. The dates for this annual celebration 3._____________(determine) by the lunar calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar, so the timing of the holiday varies from late January 4._____ early February. To the ordinary Chinese, the festival actually 5._______(begin) on the eve of the lunar New Years Day and ends on the 6._____(five) day of the first month of the lunar calendar. But the 15th of the first month, 7._______ normally is called the Lantern Festival, 8.________(mean)the official end of the Spring Festival in many parts of the country. 9._____________(prepare) for the New Year begin in the last few days of the last moon, when houses are thoroughly cleaned, debts 10.______(repay), hair cut and new clothes purchased. Houses are festooned with paper scrolls bearing auspicious antithetical couplet and in many homes, people burn incense at home and in the temples 11._______(pay) respects to ancestors and ask the gods for good health in the 12.______(come) months. known as are determined Day 11 The Spring Festival （1） to begins fifth which means Preparations repaied to pay coming 16 “Guo Nian, ” which 1. means "passing the year, ” is the common term 2. among the Chinese people for 3. celebrating the Spring Festival. It actually means 4. greeting the new year. 5. At midnight at the turn of the old and new year, people 6.used to let off fire-crackers which serve to drive away the evil spirits and 7. to greet the arrival of the new year. In an instant the whole city would be engulfed in the deafening 8.noise of the firecrackers. On New Year's Eve, all the members of families come together to feast. Jiao- zi, a steamed dumpling, 9. is popular in the north, 10. while southerners favor a sticky sweet glutinous rice. means Day 12 The Spring Festival （2） “Guo Nian, ” which 1. _________(mean) "passing the year, ” is the common term 2. ________ the Chinese people for 3. __________(celebrate) the Spring Festival. It actually means 4. _______(greet) the new year. 5._______ midnight at the turn of the old and new year, people 6._________(use) to let off fire-crackers which serve to drive away the evil spirits and 7. _________(greet) the arrival of the new year. In 8.______ instant the whole city would be engulfed in the deafening noise of the firecrackers. On New Year's Eve, all the members of families come together to feast. Jiao- zi, a steamed dumpling, 9. ______(be) popular in the north, 10. _________ southerners favor a sticky sweet glutinous rice. among celebrating At used to greet an is while greeting 17 Day 13 The Lantern Festival （1） The Lantern Festival is 1._____ the 15th day of the first Chinese lunar month. It is part of and the last day of the Spring Festival. In the old days, people began preparing 2._____ the Spring Festival about 20 days before. However the Lantern Festival 3._______(mark) the end of the New Year celebrations. And 4.________ the Lantern Festival, everything returns to normal. The Lantern Festival is also 5.______(know) as the Yuanxiao Festival. Yuan literarily means “First" while“Xiao" refers to “night". Yuanxiao is the first time 6.______ people see the full moon in the New Year. It is traditionally a time for family reunion. The most prominent activity of the Yuanxiao Festival is the display of all 7.______(type) of beautiful lanterns. So the occasion 8.________(call) the Lantern Festival. There are many 9.________(believe) about the origin of the Lantern Festival. But one thing for sure is 10._______ it had something to do with religious worship. on for marks after known when types is called beliefs that 18 Day 14 The Lantern Festival （2） There are many beliefs about the origin of the Lantern Festival. But one thing for sure is that it had something to do 1.___ religious worship. One legend tells that it was a time 2._________ (worship) Taiyi, the God of Heaven in ancient 3.________(time). The belief was 4.____ the God of Heaven controlled the destiny of the human world. He had sixteen dragons at his back and call. It was he 5._____ decided when to inflict drought, storms, famine or pestilence upon human beings. Beginning with Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor 6._____ united China, all subsequent emperors 7._______(order)splendid ceremonies each year. The emperor would ask Taiyi 8.________(bring)favorable weather and good health to him and his people. Emperor Wudi of 9._____ Han Dynasty directed special attention to this event. In 104 BC, he proclaimed it one of the most important 10.__________(celebrate), and the ceremony would last throughout the night. with to worship times that who who ordered to bring the celebrations 19 Day 15 China's Tomb Sweeping Day （1） April the fourth 1.___ fifth of the solar year (according to the Gregorian calendar) is a traditional day for the Chinese people to show respect 2.____ their ancestors. On this day, people sweep their ancestors' tombs and burn paper money 3.__________(wish) their ancestors good luck. There is a legend 4._________(relate) to this tradition. According to the legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, a person 5._________(name) Jie Zhitui followed his master Chong'er, the prince of Jin, and 6._______(stay) with him during all the 19 years when the prince was in exile. Jie Zhitui was so loyal to his master that once when the prince was starved to7._____ (die), Jie cut one piece of flesh from his leg to feed his master so as 8.______(save) his life. However, when the prince ascended the throne and became king of the Jin state, he forgot about Jie Zhitui 9._________(complete). He awarded all his other 10._________(follow) except Jie. Jie, on his part, left his master with his old mother 11._____ even one word of complaint. The local people were very indignant about this and they compiled a rhyme to satirize the king. or for to wish related named stayed death to save completely followers without 20 Day 16 China's Tomb Sweeping Day （2） The king learned about this and in order not 1._______(ruin) his reputation, he ordered his men to go to Jie's home to bring him back,2._________they failed to find Jie. The king then learned that Jie 3.___________(hide) in the Mian Mountain, so he ordered his men to search the mountain, again, they failed to find Jie. The king knew that Jie was a filial son, so he thought 4.______he set the mountain on fire, Jie, 5.____ his mother's sake, would definitely come out. 6.______(base) on this thought, he ordered his men to set the mountain 7.____fire. The fire lasted three whole days and nights, yet to the king's 8._________________(disappoint), Jie never came out. In the end, Jie and his mother's 9._______(burn) bodies were found beside a tree. That was the 103rd day after the Winter Solstice. The local people admired Jie Zhitui for his moral integrity. To commemorate him, they ate cold food and restrained from making fire on that day and the following two days. This is 10.______ hanshi, the Cold Food Day, came into being. Due to the fact 11._____ Cold Food Day and Pure Brightness often fall on the same day, the two are combined to form a comprehensive folk festival, during 12._____ time people go for outings, play kites, and sweep their ancestors' tombs. to ruin but/yet had hidden if for Based on disappointment burned how that which 21 Day 17 The Dragon Boat Festival（1） The 5 th day of the 5 th month of the lunar year is an important day for the Chinese people. The day 1._____(call) “Duan Wu” (meaning Day of Right Mid-Day) is observed everywhere in China. This unique Chinese 2.__________(celebrate) dates back to earliest times and a number of legends 3.______(explain) its origins. The best 4._______(know) story centers on a patriotic court official named Qu Yuan, of the State of Chu5._________the Warring States Period more than 2, 000 years ago. Qu tried 6.______(warn) the emperor of an increasingly corrupt government, but failed. In a last desperate protest, he threw 7._________(he) into the river and drowned. The State of Chu was soon annexed by the State of Qin. Later Qu Yuan's sympathizers jumped into boats, beat the water with their oars and 8._____(make) rice dumplings wrapped in reed-leaves (zongzi) and scattered them into the Miluo River in the hope 9.______ fish in the river would eat the rice dumplings instead 10.______the body of the deceased poet. called celebration explain known during to warn himself made that of 22 Day 18 The Dragon Boat Festival（2） The custom of making rice dumplings spread to the whole country. Today, people eat glutinous rice cakes 11._________(mark) the occasion.At the news of the poet's 12.________(die), the local people raced out in boats in an effort of searching his body. 13._________(late) the activity became a boat race and the boats 14.________(gradual) developed into dragon-boats. In many places15._____ rivers and on the coast today, the holiday also 16._________(feature) dragon-boat races. In these high-spirited 17____________(compete) , teams of rowers stroke their oars in unison to propel sleek, long vessels through the water. to mark death Later gradually along features competitions 23 Day 19 Qiqiao Festival （1） Qiqiao Festival (Ingenuity-Begging Festival) falls on the 1.________(seven) day of the seventh lunar month; it is also called Girls' Festival, or Daughters' Festival. The legend 2.________(relate) to this festival goes like this: Once upon a time a fairy in heaven (the Weaving Girl) fell in love 3.______ a cowherd (the Herd Boy) on earth. The fairy was 4.______ devoted to her love that she gave up all her privileges of being a fairy in heaven and came down on earth 5._________(live) with her beloved. For several years, they led 6._____happy life, and the Weaving Girl gave birth to two lovely 7._______(child). Then the fairy's mother—the Lady Queen Mother learnt about this 8._______ she was so angry that she had her daughter, the Weaving Girl, taken back to heaven 9._______ force. The Herd Boy, with their two children, ran after the Weaving Girl, 10.____ the Lady Queen mother took out her hairpin and drew a river between them. People 11.______(be) very sympathetic with the couple, and 12._________(help) them, thousands of swallows formed a bridge across the river on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month so that they could meet each other once a year. seventh related with so to live a children and by but were to help 24 Day 20 Qiqiao Festival （2） The so-called river is 1._______(actual) the Milky Way, and the Weaving Girl and the Herd Boy are two stars. It is said2._____ on the Eve of Qiqiao Festival, 3._____ one stands under a wine trellis and tries really hard enough, one can hear the loving whisper of the Weaving Girl and the Herd Boy. Because the Weaving Girl was a symbol of 4.________(beautiful), kind-heartedness and ingenuity, on the eve of this festival, girls would gather in the gardens 5._______yards to pray to the Weaving Girl to bestow upon them intelligence and ingenious skills. There were also 6.________(vary) activities on this day, such as 7._____(eat) qiaoguo, a kind of wheaten food in varying sizes and 8._______(shape) and the competition of puffing a thread as quickly 9._______ possible through the eye of a needle, etc. In some places in Shandong Province, the practice of eating qiaoguo is still popular. In recent years, some folk and official organizations 10._____________(hold) a series of activities to revive the festival. that actually if beauty or various eating shapes as have held 25 n the 15th day of the 8 th month of the lunar calendar, the moon is round and the Chinese people mark their Moon (or /V\id-autumn) Festival. The round shape to a Chinese means family reunion. Therefore the Moon Festival is a holiday for members of a family to get together wherever it is possible. On that day sons and daughters will bring their family members back to their parents' house for a reunion. Sometimes people who have already settled overseas Day 21 The Mid-Autumn Festival （1） 1.______ the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, the moon is round and the Chinese people mark their Moon (or Mid-Autumn) Festival. The round shape to a Chinese 2.______(mean) family reunion. Therefore the Moon Festival is a holiday for members of a family 3.__________(get) together wherever it is possible. On that day sons and daughters will bring their family members back to their parents' house for a reunion. Sometimes people 4.___________ have already settled overseas will come back 5._______ (visit) their parents on that day. As every Chinese holiday is accompanied 6._____ some sort of special food, on the Moon Festival, people eat moon cokes, a kind of cookie 7._______fillings of sugar, fat, sesame, walnut, the yoke of preserved eggs, ham or other material. In Chinese fairy tales, there live on the moon the fairy Chang E, a wood cutter named Wu Gang and a jade rabbit 8._____________ is Chang E's pet. In the old days, people 9._______ (pay) respect to the fairy Chang E and her pet the jade rabbit. On means to get who/that to visit by with which/that paid 26 Day 21 The Mid-Autumn Festival （2） The custom of 10._______(pay) homage to the fairy and rabbit is gone, but the moon cakes are showing 11._____________(improve) every year. There are hundreds of 12.__________ (various) of moon cakes on sale a month before the 13.___________(arrive) of the Moon Festival this year. Some moon cakes are 14.______ very high quality and very delicious. An overseas tourist 15.________(advise) not to miss it if he or she happens to be in China during the Moon Festival. paying improvement varieties arrival of is advised 27 n the 15th day of the 8 th month of the lunar calendar, the moon is round and the Chinese people mark their Moon (or /V\id-autumn) Festival. The round shape to a Chinese means family reunion. Therefore the Moon Festival is a holiday for members of a family to get together wherever it is possible. On that day sons and daughters will bring their family members back to their parents' house for a reunion. Sometimes people who have already settled overseas Day 22 Chongyang Festival（1） The Chongyang Festival falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, so it is also 1._________(know) as the Double Ninth Festival. The festival is based 2.________ the theory of Yin and Yang, the two opposing principles in nature. Yin is feminine, negative principle, 3.______ Yang is masculine and positive. The ancients believed that all 4.__________(nature) phenomena could be explained by this theory. Numbers are related 5.____ this theory. Even numbers belong to Yin and odd numbers to Yang. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is a day 6.______ the two Yang numbers meet. So it 7.___________ (call) Chongyang. Chong means double in Chinese. Chongyang 8.___________ (be) an important festival since ancient times. The festival is held 8.______the golden season of autumn, at harvest-time. The bright clear weather and the joy of bringing in the harvest make for a festive happy atmosphere. The Double Ninth Festival is usually perfect for outdoor 9.________ (activity). Many people go hiking and climbing in the country, 10.________(enjoy) Mother Nature's final burst of color before she puts on her dull winter cloak. Some will carry a spray of dogwood. known on while natural to when is called has been in activities enjoying 28 Day 23 Chongyang Festival（2） It is hard 11._______(say) when these customs were created. But there are many stories which are 12.________ (close) related. The book Xu Qi Xie Ji, 13._______(write) by Wu Jun in the sixth century has one such story. In ancient times, there lived a man 14._____ (name) Huan Jing. He was learning the magic arts from Fei Changfang, who had become an immortal after many years of 15.________ (practice) Taoism. One day, the two were climbing a muntain. Fei Changfang suddenly stopped and 16._______ (look) very upset. He told Huan Jing, On the ninth day of the ninth month, disaster will come to your hometown. You must go home immediately. Remember 17.______ (make) a red bag for each one of your family members and put a spray of dogwood in every one. Then you must all tie your bags to your arms, leave home quickly and 18._______(climb) to the top of a mountain. Most 19._________(important), you must all drink some chrysanthemum wine. Only by doing so can your family avoid this disaster. On hearing this, Huan Jing rushed home 20._______ asked his family to do exactly as his teacher said. The whole family climbed a nearby mountain and did not return until the evening. When they got back home, they found all their animals 21.________(die), including chickens, sheep, dogs and even the powerful ox. to say closely written named practicing looked to make climb importantly and dead 29 n the 15th day of the 8 th month of the lunar calendar, the moon is round and the Chinese people mark their Moon (or /V\id-autumn) Festival. The round shape to a Chinese means family reunion. Therefore the Moon Festival is a holiday for members of a family to get together wherever it is possible. On that day sons and daughters will bring their family members back to their parents' house for a reunion. Sometimes people who have already settled overseas Day 24 Chongyang Festival（3） The dogwood is a plant 22._______ a strong fragrance, and is often used 23.____ a Chinese herbal medicine. People in ancient times believed it could drive away evil spirits and prevent one 24.______ getting a chill in late autumn. So its history as a medicine goes back many centuries. But the custom of carrying a spray of dogwood during the Double Ninth Festival is slowly 25._______(die) out and many people, especially young people in the cities, do not even know 26._______ a dogwood spray looks like. Even though the tradition of carrying a few spray of dogwood dies out, that of climbing mountains is reaching new heights. Early in the Western Han Dynasty, about 2 000 years ago, people used to climb a high platform outside the capital city of Chang'an 27.______ the occasion of the Chongyang Festival. For many, it was the last outing of the year before the onset of winter. The custom evolved into 28._____ (it) present form, when people go climbing to get some exercise as well as enjoy the autumn scenery. with as from dying what on its 30 Day 25 Chongyang Festival（4） But what about those people 29.__________ live in flat regions far from any mountain? The problem is solved by going for a picnic and 30._______(eat) cakes. The Chinese word for cake is Gao, a homonym of the Chinese word for high. Mountains are high, 31.______ eating cake can, by a stretch of the imagination, take the place 32.______ going for a climb. Since nine is the highest odd digit, people take two of them together to signify longevity. Therefore, the ninth day of the ninth month has become a special day for people to pay their respects 33._____ the elderly and a day for the 34.________(elder) to enjoy themselves. It has also been declared China's day for the elderly. who/that eating so of to elderly 31 Chinese Historical Tales Chapter Three 32 Day 26 When the Map is Unrolled, the Dagger is Revealed In the end of the Warring States Period, there was a strong country 1._________ (name) Qin. It wanted to annex other countries 2.___________(unite) China. In 228 BC, the Qin army captured a country 3._________ prepared to attack another country named Yan. So the prince Dan of Yan sent a brave man called Jing Ke to assassinate the King of Qin. In order to gain the confidence of the King of Qin, he 4._________(carry)a map of the most fertile part of Yan territory to Qin and hid a sharp dagger in it. He came to Qin and entered the palace. When the king ordered the map 5.____________ (present), he took out the map and presented it to the king 6._________ great respect. Slowly, he unrolled the map. When it was 7._____________ (complete) unrolled, the 8. ____________(hide) dagger appeared. Jing Ke grabbed it and stabbed at the king. But the king dodged the dagger and hid 9.___________ (him) behind a big pillar. Jing Ke had never got the chance to kill the king 10.________ he was soon killed by the palace guards. The plan has failed. Later, Qin had wiped off Yan. The idiom describes the real 11.____________(intend) is revealed in the end. named to unite and carried be presented with completely hidden himself as intention 33 Day 27 Sleep on Brushwood and Taste Gall During the Spring and Autumn period, the State of Wu launched an attack 1.________ the State of Yue. The King of Wu was seriously 2._____________(wound) and soon died. His son Fu Chai became the new King. Fu was determined 3._____________ (revenge) . He drilled his army 4.__________(rigid) until it was a perfect 5.___________(fight) force. Three years 7._________ (late), he led his army against the State of Yue and caught its king Gou Jian. Fu took him to the State of Wu. In order to avenge his father’s 8._______ (die), Fu let him live in a shabby stone house by his fathers tomb and ordered him to raise horses 9._______ him. Gou pretended to be loyal to Fu 10._________ he never forgot his humiliation. Many years later, he was set free. Gou secretly accumulated a military force 11.________ he went back to his own state. against wounded to revenge rigidly fighting later death for but after 34 Day 27 Sleep on Brushwood and Taste Gall In order to make himself tougher he slept on firewood and tasted a gall-bladder before having dinner and 12.___________(go) to bed. At the same time, he administered his state carefully, 13._________(develop) agriculture and educating the people. After a few years, his country became strong. Then Gou seized a favorable opportunity to wipe off the State of Wu. Later, people use it to describe one 14. _______endures self-imposed hardships to strengthen one's resolve to realize one's 15.___________(ambitious). going developing who ambition 35 Day 28 Three Moves by Mencius' Mother Meng Ke's mother, also known 1._______ Mencius, mother, is a great mother of Zou State. Meng Ke, later known as Mencius, lived near a graveyard 2._______ his childhood. Therefore, as he played, he amused himself by imitating the others' 3._________(dig) tombs. His mother said, “It's not good for a child 4._______ (live) in this kind of place. They moved to a house near a market. Then the son took pleasure in 5.__________ (imitate)the peddler's hawking. Again the mother said, “It's not good for a child to live here. " She changed their residence a second time and 6._________(house) themselves near a school. There her son 7.__________(play) imitating the sacrificial rites on ceremony and formalities of courtesy. The mother said, “This is the right place for a child. " They settled there. After Meng Ke grew up, he acquired six classical arts (rites, music, archery, riding, writing and arithmetic) and became a scholar well- known 8.______his erudition and one of the 9.______________(represent) of Confucianism. Since then this idiom 10. ______________________(use) to eulogize mothers' inculcation. as in digging to live imitating housed played for representitives has been used 36 Day 29 Everything is Ready Except the East Wind China has been divided 1._______ three kingdoms historically：Wei in the north, Shu in the southwest and Wu in the southeast. Once Cao Cao from Wei led a 200,000 strong army down to the south 2.________(wipe) out the kingdoms of Wu and Shu. Therefore, Wu and Shu 3._________(unite) to defend his attack. Cao ordered his men to link up the boats by iron 5.________(chain) to form a bridge for the Cao's 6._____________(pass) from the north bank of Yangtze River 7._____the south bank. The General Commander of the allied army was Zhou Yu. He analyzed the situation carefully. Then he got a good idea. He decided to attack the enemy with fire 8._________he began to prepare 9.________the coming battle. Suddenly he thought of the 10.___________(direct) of wind. He needed the east wind to blow strongly in order to accomplish his scheme. However, the wind did not come for days. Thus, Zhou Yu was worried about it. into to wipe united chains passing to so for direction 37 Day 29 Everything is Ready Except the East Wind 11._______that time, he got a note from Zhuge Liang, the military adviser of the State of Shu, which reads: “To fight Cao Cao Fire will help you win Everything is ready Except the east wind" Quickly he turned 12.______ Zhuge Liang for help. Zhuge told him not to worry, and there would be an east wind in a couple 13._______ days. Sure enough, two days later, it 14.________(blow) the east wind, taking the chance of it, Zhou Yu burnt all the warships of Cao. At last, the allied army won the war. Later, people use it to say “All is ready except 15_________ is crucial". At to of blew what 38 Day 30 To Tie One's Hair on the House Beam and Jab One's Side with an Awl to Keep Oneself Awake-Take Great Pains with One's Study It 2.____________(record) in Biographies of Virtuous Persons of the Chu State, that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a man named Sun Jing was a famous 2._______(politic). As a young man, he was diligent in study and often 3.________(forget) food and sleep. When he felt 4._________(sleep), he tied his hair 5.______ the roof beam. Therefore, when he dozed, he would feel pain and wake 6._______as his hair was pulled upward by the rope. Then he would go 7._______ with his study. In Volume One of Anecdotes of the Qin State in Strategies of the Warring States, there is another story as follows: Su Qin felt sleepy 8.________ he was reading, so he took an awl and stabbed 9.________ into his own legs. Thus, the sudden pain would wake him up, and he could continue 10._________(read). Now people like to praise those 11._____ grind away at their studies with this allusion.. is recorded politician forgot sleepy to up on when it reading who 39 $$