Question

【题目】阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。
Chinese Culture
While China is almost the same size as the US in area, it is home to about 1.3 billion people. It has a special culture with a very long history.
Chinese Food

Food plays an important role for Chinese families. Different foods have special meanings. The most obvious(明显的) difference is that Chinese people eat their meals with chopsticks. One of the main foods in Chinese culture is rice. Tea is a favorite drink and it is popular in the market.
Chinese New Year
The Chinese calendar(日历) is called a lunar(阴历的) calendar. It is not the same as the one used in the US. New Year's Day is in late winter. It is also called the Spring Festival. It has a big celebration of letting go of the old and bringing in the new. It has special foods and traditions. For example, sweeping the floor before New Year's Day sweeps away all the old year's bad luck.
Chinese Zodiac(生肖)

The Chinese zodiac, known as Sheng Xiao, follows a twelve-year cycle(循环). Each year is named for an animal. These animal signs are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. For example, the year that begins in 2016 is the Year of the Monkey.
Chinese Language
Chinese is a complex(复杂的) language. Chinese writing developed almost 4,000 years ago and may even be older. Chinese writing has thousands of characters. A character represents(代表) a word and also a meaning. Unlike English, there are no spaces in Chinese writing. Besides Standard Chinese, or Putonghua, Chinese people speak six other forms of the language, and there are many kinds of dialects(方言).
（1）Is tea a favorite drink in China?
（2）What is the Chinese calendar called?
（3）How many years of cycle does the Chinese zodiac follow?
（4）What does a Chinese character represent?
（5）What does the passage mainly tell us about Chinese culture?

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）Yes, (it is).

（2）A lunar calendar. /The lunar calendar.

（3）Twelve/12.

（4）A word and (also) a meaning.

（5）Chinese food, Chinese New Year, Chinese zodiac and Chinese language.

【解析】短文大意：该文从食物、语言、生肖以及语言等五个方面介绍了中国的文化。

（1）根据第二段的最后一句Tea is a favorite drink and it is popular in the market 可知茶是一种最受欢迎的饮料，它在市场上很受欢迎。所以作答Yes, (it is).

（2）根据第三段的第一句The Chinese calendar(日历) is called a lunar(阴历的) calendar. 可知中国的日历被称为阴历。所以作答A lunar calendar./The lunar calendar.

（3）根据第四段中The Chinese zodiac, known as Sheng Xiao, follows a twelve-year cycle(循环) 可知中国的生肖每十二年循环一次。所以作答Twelve/12.

（4）根据最后一段中A character represents(代表) a word and also a meaning. 可知一个字符代表一个词，也是一个意思。所以作答A word and (also) a meaning.

（5）通读全文，可知这篇文章主要介绍的内容就是每一段的小标题，所以作答Chinese food, Chinese New Year, Chinese zodiac and Chinese language.