Festival Foods Vary from Culture to Culture

Around the world， people have different traditional foods to celebrate different festivals. Traditional foods also show a new year of good luck and good health.

An English Christmas dinner has a meal of turkey， and it also includes pies and plum puddings. In Germany， Christmas is celebrated with bread cookies and cakes， which are made like Christmas trees. In France， Christmas dessert is a cake filled with butter cream.

In southern parts of India， there is a three-day festival in mid-January called Pongal. It includes rice and a dish of rice cooked with sugar that is shared with families and friends.

Japan celebrates New Year with a seven-day festival. It begins from January 1st. Food is prepared before the festival so people don't need to cook during the festival. On New Year's Day， various dishes called Osechi ryori are served- each dish is a wish for the New Year.

People in China prepare their food ahead of time to avoid the possibility that using a knife during New Year's time might “cut luck”. Foods with lucky names are popular， such as fish， which sounds like “yu” （surplus）. Chinese people always get together with their families and have a good dinner during Chinese New Year's Day. The most famous food at that time is dumpling.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇正確答案

（ ?） 1. What do you learn from the passage？

? ? ?A. New Year begins from January 10th in Japan.

? ? ?B. In France， Christmas dessert is a cake filled with butter.

? ? ?C. Traditional foods only show a new year of good luck.

? ? ? D. People have different traditional foods to celebrate different festivals.

（ ?） 2. What was a three-day festival in mid-January in southern parts of India？

? ? ? A. New Year. ? ? ? ? ?B. Pongal. ? ? ? ? C. Christmas. ? ? ? ? ?D. Lantern Festival

? ?（ ?） 3. In Japan， people all like eating ? ? ? on New Year’s Day.

? ? ?A. Osechi ryori ? ? ? B. dessert ? ? ? ? ?C. turkey ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? D. dumplings

（ ?） 4. The word “various” in Paragraph four can best be replaced by “ ? ? ”.

? ? ?A. expensive ? ? ? ? ? B. fews ? ? ? ? ? ? ?C. different ? ? ? ? ? ? ?D. same

（ ?） 5. The word “possibility” in Paragraph five probably means “ ? ? ? ”in Chinese.

? ? ?A.可能性 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? B.可變性 ? ? ? ? ?C.必然性 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?D.必須性

譯文

節(jié)日食品

因文化不同而不同

全世界的人們用各式各樣的傳統(tǒng)食物來(lái)慶祝不同的節(jié)日。傳統(tǒng)食物也可代表新的幸運(yùn)健康的一年。

英國(guó)的圣誕大餐包括一道火雞肉，還包括各種派和李子布丁。在德國(guó)，人們用做成圣誕樹(shù)模樣的面包曲奇和蛋糕來(lái)慶祝圣誕節(jié)。法國(guó)的圣誕甜點(diǎn)是一個(gè)填滿奶油夾心餅的蛋糕。

在印度南部，1月中旬有一個(gè)節(jié)日叫作“豐收節(jié)”，人們會(huì)連續(xù)3天慶祝這個(gè)節(jié)日。人們?cè)趹c祝這個(gè)節(jié)日時(shí)所吃的食物包括米飯以及用糖和米做的一道菜，供全家人和朋友們一起享用。

日本慶祝新年時(shí)會(huì)放假7天，從1月1日開(kāi)始。食品在過(guò)節(jié)前就已做好，這樣一來(lái)，過(guò)節(jié)期間人們就不用做飯了。在新年這天，人們會(huì)奉上叫作“御節(jié)料理”的很多道菜——每道菜都代表一個(gè)新年祝愿。

中國(guó)人會(huì)提前備好食物，避免在新年時(shí)動(dòng)刀從而“砍掉福氣”的可能。名字帶有喜氣的食物很受歡迎，如魚(yú)（意為“余”）。在中國(guó)新年時(shí)，中國(guó)人通常會(huì)與家人團(tuán)聚一堂，享用大餐。這個(gè)時(shí)候，最有名的食物就是餃子。