Question

【題目】閱讀短文，根據短文內容回答問題。
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(明顯的) 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(日歷) is called a lunar(陰歷的) 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(循環(huán)). 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(復雜的) 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：該文從食物、語言、生肖以及語言等五個方面介紹了中國的文化。

（1）根據第二段的最后一句Tea is a favorite drink and it is popular in the market 可知茶是一種最受歡迎的飲料，它在市場上很受歡迎。所以作答Yes, (it is).

（2）根據第三段的第一句The Chinese calendar(日歷) is called a lunar(陰歷的) calendar. 可知中國的日歷被稱為陰歷。所以作答A lunar calendar./The lunar calendar.

（3）根據第四段中The Chinese zodiac, known as Sheng Xiao, follows a twelve-year cycle(循環(huán)) 可知中國的生肖每十二年循環(huán)一次。所以作答Twelve/12.

（4）根據最后一段中A character represents(代表) a word and also a meaning. 可知一個字符代表一個詞，也是一個意思。所以作答A word and (also) a meaning.

（5）通讀全文，可知這篇文章主要介紹的內容就是每一段的小標題，所以作答Chinese food, Chinese New Year, Chinese zodiac and Chinese language.