What are the special foods for the Dragon Boat Festival?A.rice dumplingsB.dumplingsC.chocolatesD.moocakes

Chinese people eat rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival,___________ is observed in honor of Qu Yuan.

A.that
B.which
C.when
D.where

共用题干
What is Chinese New Year?
In many parts of Asia,nations follow the lunar calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar used by the rest of the world.______(46)Many nations including Vietnam and Korea celebrate the lunar New Year with festivals and special foods.The Chinese,however,have turned the celebration into an art form:a 15 day festival called the Spring Festival in China,although it is known to the rest of the world as Chinese New Year.
______(47)which is considered to be a particularly auspicious day.Children are given hong bao,lucky red envelopes full of money,and households exchange visits and gifts. Most celebrants at Chinese New Year wear red,which is a lucky color,and also refrain from reflecting on the past year and uttering unlucky words,as it is believed that the first day of the new year will determine your fortune in the months to come.
Chinese New Year continues with 15 days of celebration and auspicious days,including a day to welcome the god of wealth,a day to celebrate farming and produce,and days to celebrate friends and family. Friendships and family relationships are a very important part of Chinese New Year,______(48)Numerous lucky foods are served throughout the Chinese New Year festival,and after all that rich dining,the 13th day of the festival is set aside for eating rice and bitter greens to cleanse the palate. on the 15th day,the Chinese New Year celebration culminates with the Lantern Festival, which is traditionally held at night. During the Lantern Festival,hundreds of citizens flood the street with lanterns representing wealth,animals,historical figures,plants,and a variety of other things.______(49)The Lantern Festival ends with a burst of fireworks to celebrate the upcoming year while celebrants eat special round dumplings to celebrate unity.
In Vietnam,the new year festival is known as Tet Nguyen Dan,and is celebrated for seven days. Much like Chinese New Year,Tet is believed to be an especially auspicious period in Vietnam which will establish the fortunes of celebrants for the coming year.______(50)In Korea, the one day festival is known as Sol-nal,and is a time to reflect on ancestors and family.

______(47)
A: and a great deal of food and dinner invitations are exchanged as part of this tradition.
B: The lanterns are paraded through towns and cities throughout China,Taiwan,and parts of the world with large Chinese communities.
C: As a result,the year starts on a different day,usually in January or February by the Gregorian calendar.
D: Chinese New Year is the most important festival in Chinese culture.
E: Chinese New Year begins on the first day of the first moon of the year.
F: Special foods are eaten and gifts are exchanged.

二、考题解析
【教案】
Teaching Aims:
Knowledge aim:
1. By the end of the class, students will know more about festival and its origin.
2. Students will master the meaning and the usage of some words and expressions.
Ability aim: Students can train their reading skill and the speaking skill through learning of the discourse and communicating with each other around the given topic.
Emotional aim: Students will cherish the traditional value and foster national pride through learning.
Teaching Key Points:
Students can master the meaning and the usage of words and expressions in the discourse.
Teaching Difficult Points:
Students can express themselves correctly and fluently and gain the confidence of learning
English.
Teaching Methods:
Task-based teaching method and audiolingual teaching method.
Teaching Aids:
Video, Blackboard and so on.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1: Warming-up
Have a free talk with the student, inspire them to do a brainstorming about some Chinese festivals.
Collect the answer such as The Double Ninth Festival,The Lantern Festival, The Dragon Boat Festival and ask them “What do people celebrate on these festivals?”
Step 2: Presentation
1. Ask students to read the passage and underline all the sentences providing the information of origin of the festivals.
2.Ask students to read the passage again and guess the meaning of the bold words in these underlined sentences.
3.write down these bold words on the blackboard “hunters, starve, origins, religious”and interpret these words to the students.
Step 3: Practise
1.Let students to do an exercise -- fill in the blanks with the proper form.
a.Most ancient ____ (festival) will celebrate the end of clod weather,planting in spring and harvest in autumn.
b.Sometimes celebrations will be held after haunters had caught animals. At that time people would ____ (starve) if food was difficult to find,especially during the cold winter months.
c.Today’s festivals has many ____ (origin), some religious, some seasonal and some for special people or events.
2.Ask students to make sentence using the target words.