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WELCOME UNIT
UNIT 1 PEOPLE OF ACHIEVEMENT
课外拓展阅读——用英语传播中国文化
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Qingming was the most important festival of the year
__1__ ancient times and a spring outing was the most
important part of the Qingming custom and, therefore, it was
the major theme for poetry and paintings.
Of all the ancient __2__ (poem) about Qingming, the one
by the Tang poet Du Mu is a well-known poem and has come down to the present day. It goes __3__ (rough) like this: Qingming's day is a rainy day, and people with a __4__ (break) heart are back and forth on the way. May I ask __5__ I can find a wine shop? The shepherd kid, pointing afar, says there you can find the best. This is __6__ vivid description of the mood you felt on the Qingming Festival.
课外拓展阅读——用英语传播中国文化
The Song __7__ (art) Zhang Zeduan's painting Qingming Scroll (《清明上河图》) is a masterpiece of art, __8__ describes what happens on both banks of the Bian River on the Qingming Festival. There are a crowd of people from all walks of life, some __9__ (take) carriages, others sitting in sedans (轿子), on __10__ (they) way to the suburbs (郊区) for spring outings. When you look at the picture you feel like part of it.
1.________ 2.________ 3.________ 4.________ 5.________
6.________ 7.________ 8.________ 9.________ 10.________
答案:1.in 2.poems 3.roughly 4.broken 5.where 6.a 7.artist 8.which 9.taking 10.their
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Also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Qingming Festival is usually observed around April, 5 and is a time for honoring deceased family relatives.
清明节,也就是中国人熟知的扫墓日,通常在4月5日左右,人们常在这一天祭祀亡故的亲人。
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