Unit 3 Traditional skills
课时 6 More practice ~ Culture corner
一、根据句意和汉语提示完成句子。
1. The________________(可爱的)panda has won the love of the whole world.
2. The book read by me only tells a brief story without many________________(人物).
3. —How amazing ChatGPT is!
—Yes. The new invention makes it quite________________(简单的)for people to write papers and stories.
4. Of course we’ll change it for a larger________________(尺码), madam.
二、从方框中选短语并用其适当形式填空。
no more, put up, cut out, be made of, in front of
5. He________________a map on the back wall because there was a hole in it.
6. The T-shirt is very soft, and it________________cotton.
7. The temple lies________________the mountain among the thick forest.
8. In 50 years,perhaps there will be________________ cormorant fishermen in the world.
9. The pictures on the wall were________________from magazines and newspapers.
三、根据汉语意思完成句子。
10.我认为你不应该购买动物皮革制成的衣服。
I think you should not buy clothes________________animal leather.
11.皮影戏已经不像以前那么受欢迎了。
The shadow puppet plays are________________as before.
12. 我们将表演一个话剧,你愿意加入我们吗?
We are going to________________ a play. Do you want to join us?
13.游泳池被建为心形。
The swimming pool was built________________a heart.
14. 政府已经把这个旧电影院变成了一个旅游景点。
The government has__________the old cinema__________a tourist attraction.
四、短文填空。
根据短文内容,在空白处填入适当的词。
Would you like to start your day with a cup of tea? If the answer is Yes, you may have the same habit as many people.
You may not know 15._________popular tea is. Among all kinds of drinks, tea is one of the most popular two choices. People like it because it is good for their health.
Tea is mostly produced 16._________Asian countries like China and India. Chinese people started to drink tea as early as 5,000 years ago. At that time, people made tea in a simple way. They just put fresh tea leaves into hot 17._________.
Tea wasn’t introduced into Europe 18._________the early 17th century. And now it has become popular in Europe and America. People there like to drink tea with sugar or milk in it. As the population of tea drinkers gets larger, tea business is getting more important than before.
The first International Tea Day was on May 21st, 2020. 19._________then, people have celebrated it every year. The day makes people realize the importance of tea workers and tea culture.
五、短文缩写, 每空一词。
Musician Zhao Taisheng calls his favourite instrument(乐器)—the sanxian—a voice for his feelings, and a ticket to a wonderful life.
Zhao is a sanxian player in the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra(香港中乐团). He thinks the sanxian is an important part of Chinese folk music tradition. It is difficult to find out the origin(起源)of the sanxian. It may date back to(追溯到)the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC), and the characters sanxian first appeared in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
Zhao has played the instrument since he joined a student band in primary school. After his classmates chose the more popular instruments such as the guzheng or erhu, he found that only one was left: a long, strange thing, lying against the wall. “In fact, I thought it looked pretty cool, so I picked it up,” he says.
He mostly had to learn the instrument by himself. The more prizes he won for his performances, the harder he practiced. After college, Zhao joined the Beijing Performance and Arts Group, where he would give solo performances on weekends. He explained that the number of students of the sanxian was similar to that of those learning other traditional Chinese string instruments like the pipa or guzheng.However, this instrument began to lose popularity(受欢迎)with the wide use of Western instruments.
根据上面文章内容缩写,每空一词。
Zhao Taisheng is a sanxian player in the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. He thinks the sanxian is an important part of Chinese folk music tradition. It's not 20._________to find out the origin (起源) of the sanxian. It may date back to the Qin Dynasty. Zhao started to play the instrument in primary school. 21._________, he thought it looked pretty cool. Zhao mostly learned the instrument by himself.
He practiced the sanxian so hard that he 22._________many prizes for his performances. Zhao joined the Beiing Performance and Arts Group after finishing 23._________. He said that the number of students of the sanxian was almost the 24._________as that of those learming other traditional Chinese string instruments like the pipa or guzheng. However, with the wide use of Western instruments, the sanxian wasn t so popular as before.
参考答案:
一、1.lovely 2.characters 3.simple 4.size
二、5.put up 6.is made of 7.in front of8.no more 9.cut out
三、10.made of 11.not as/so popular 12.put on13.in the shape of 14.turned; into
四、15.how 16.in 17.water 18.until 19.Since
五、20.easy 21.Actually 22.won 23.college24.same