Traditional New Year pictures originated from the peach wood..

第1题

What subject was not believed as a traditional subject of New Year Pictures？（)

A.Likenesses of various deities

B.Scenes from the peasants' lives

C.Allegoric or symbolic figures and objects

D.Monster Year

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第2题

Traditional New Year pictures originated from the peach wood charms hung on the gate early in the Shang Dynasty.（）

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第3题

Laba is celebrated on the eighth day of the last lunar month, referring to the _________.

A、end of the past year

B、traditional start of celebrations for the Chinese New Year

C、traditional start of celebrations of a new lunar month

D、traditional start of celebrations of the last lunar month of the year

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第4题

Which is not a kind of traditional decorations of Spring Festival？

A、Spring couplets

B、New Year pictures

C、Lanterns

D、Bamboo pole

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第5题

According to the passage, after the average per-minute cost dropped to 11 cents this year

from 56 cents in 1995, the phone companies ______.

A．attracted more and more new users and as a result, they began to flourish

B．began to suffer from a great loss

C．made traditional phones more popular

D．invested much more money in creating new phones

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第6题

Traditional New Year pictures mainly feature local people's life and customs with intense ______ and violent_______.

A.paintings

B.colors

C.contrast

D.similarity

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第7题

For overseas students: New Year Festival is a time for family members to gather together.

Are there any similar festivals in your home country？ What are the major differences and similarities？ For Chinese students: New Year Festivals have gone through great changes during the past few decades. Please search for new elements and customs of New Festivals to compare with the traditional ones.

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第8题

The Chinese New Year is a big traditional holiday in Singapore. On its Eve, while many wil

l 【C1】______ for the reunion dinner, others will head for the airport or train station to "flee" 【C2】______ such festivities. With a 【C3】______ number of Singaporeans going on overseas tours during this time, the Chinese New Year holiday has in recent years become a 【C4】______ season for travel agents, 【C5】______ it Used to be a lull period for them. Isn't Chinese New Year the 【C6】______ important traditional festival for the Chinese？ Well, for those who choose to 【C7】______ flight, it means an opportunity to enjoy a holiday out of the country. The concern is, if even Chinese New Year can be 【C8】______ , what other traditional festivals cannot be disregarded？ Why do we need to 【C9】______ traditional festivals？ Firstly, they are inseparable from our ethnic identity. The Chinese, Malays and Indians all have their own traditional festivals 【C10】______ which they derive "a sense of belonging to a particular community". So if any Chinese does not see himself 【C11】______ one, there is no need for him to celebrate any Chinese festivals. True, everyone has the right to 【C12】______ traditions. The problem is: you cannot deny your ethnic origins or change your skin color. We are 【C13】______ with a certain skin color which cannot be "bleached"—if one has a "yellow face" and yet refuse to 【C14】______ with the Chinese, who else can he or she identify with？ Secondly, the 【C15】______ spirit of the more than 2000-year-old Chinese New Year is closely intertwined with the traditional culture and values of the Chinese. 【C16】______ its core is the Confucian value of good interpersonal relationships. Traditional Chinese festivals 【C17】______ center on maintaining and improving human relations. Reunion dinner helps to 【C18】______ family ties while the exchange of gifts and greetings enhance relations among friends. To skip the reunion dinner and stay 【C19】______ from Chinese New Year means losing many great opportunities to forge stronger kinship and friendship ties. A tradition must be capable of being 【C20】______ down from one generation to another. Yet this does not mean traditions cannot be changed.

【C1】

A．separate

B．invite

C．gather

D．long

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第9题

In the United States, the fall holiday season begins on Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thurs

day in November. Originally(最初) a day of thanks for good harvests, it is celebrated with a big dinner, and turkey(火鸡) is the traditional main course. Christmas comes on December 25, about a month after Thanksgiving. At Christmas time, people give each other gifts and send Christmas cards. Children especially look forward to this season. New Year's Eve, December 31, comes a week after Christmas. On New Year's Eve, people have gay parties to celebrate the end of the old year and the beginning of the new. This is the end of the holiday season. Easter comes in March or April. This is a religious holiday, and it also celebrates the coming of spring. At Easter, children receive gifts of baskets containing toy rabbits or chickens and eggs. On Easter Sunday, many people go to church. It is also a traditional time for woman to buy new clothes.

When does the fall holiday season begin in the United States？

A．At Christmas.

B．On New Year's Eve.

C．On Thanksgiving Day.

D．On Easter Sunday.

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