The Korean lunar(阴历) New Year falls on a day in late January or February. ____66_____
Before the New Year people have an overall(全部地) cleaning. When the New Year comes, nobody should sleep. They think that if someone slept on that night, the eyebrows would turn white. ____67_____
Have you ever heard of “bokjori”? It is actually a sieve(筛子). It is a tool to clean the rice from small stones. In the morning of New Year’s Day, the hang it up on the wall. ____68____
Offering to ancestor(拜祭祖先) is a common thing in Korean holidays. Women get busy making the food from the day before. They make “ttokuk”, a kind of soup, and dumplings and fried meats. Very early in the morning of the New Year’s Day, Korean people take a bath and put new clothes on. ___69____ Family members drink a glass of a liquor(烧酒). The drink can help people hear clearly all year long.
“Say hay boke-mahn he pah du say oh!” _____70____ But more and more Koreans, especially the young people, have started to say it in English, “Make a lot of blessings(祝福) this year.”

A．Korean people believe it brings good luck.

B．So the light is on in every room.

C．It is the biggest holiday in Korea.

D．Usually it is the traditional costume (装束).

E. It is the New Year’s greeting in Korea.

The Korean lunar(阴历) New Year falls on a day in late January or February. ____66_____
Before the New Year people have an overall(全部地) cleaning. When the New Year comes, nobody should sleep. They think that if someone slept on that night, the eyebrows would turn white. ____67_____
Have you ever heard of “bokjori”? It is actually a sieve(筛子). It is a tool to clean the rice from small stones. In the morning of New Year’s Day, the hang it up on the wall. ____68____
Offering to ancestor(拜祭祖先) is a common thing in Korean holidays. Women get busy making the food from the day before. They make “ttokuk”, a kind of soup, and dumplings and fried meats. Very early in the morning of the New Year’s Day, Korean people take a bath and put new clothes on. ___69____ Family members drink a glass of a liquor(烧酒). The drink can help people hear clearly all year long.
“Say hay boke-mahn he pah du say oh!” _____70____ But more and more Koreans, especially the young people, have started to say it in English, “Make a lot of blessings(祝福) this year.”

A．Korean people believe it brings good luck.

B．So the light is on in every room.

C．It is the biggest holiday in Korea.

D．Usually it is the traditional costume (装束).

E. It is the New Year’s greeting in Korea.

The Korean lunar(阴历) New Year falls on a day in late January or February. ____66_____

Before the New Year people have an overall(全部地) cleaning. When the New Year comes, nobody should sleep. They think that if someone slept on that night, the eyebrows would turn white. ____67_____

Have you ever heard of “bokjori”? It is actually a sieve(筛子). It is a tool to clean the rice from small stones. In the morning of New Year’s Day, the hang it up on the wall. ____68____

Offering to ancestor(拜祭祖先) is a common thing in Korean holidays. Women get busy making the food from the day before. They make “ttokuk”, a kind of soup, and dumplings and fried meats. Very early in the morning of the New Year’s Day, Korean people take a bath and put new clothes on. ___69____ Family members drink a glass of a liquor(烧酒). The drink can help people hear clearly all year long.

“Say hay boke-mahn he pah du say oh!” _____70____ But more and more Koreans, especially the young people, have started to say it in English, “Make a lot of blessings(祝福) this year.”

A．Korean people believe it brings good luck.

B．So the light is on in every room.

C．It is the biggest holiday in Korea.

D．Usually it is the traditional costume (装束).

E. It is the New Year’s greeting in Korea.

 

The French spend more time sleeping and eating than anyone else among the world's rich people, according to a survey.

The average French person sleeps almost nine hours every night, more than an hour longer than the average Japanese and Korean, who sleep the least in a survey.

And while more and more French people have meals at fast food restaurants, they still spend more than two hours a day eating.

That means their meals are twice as long as those of the average Mexican, who spends just over an hour a day on food.

The Japanese spend close to two hours a day eating and drinking, placing them third behind New Zealanders. The Japanese like to spend their free time watching television or listening to the radio. This takes up 47 percent of free time in Japan.

Turks, on the other hand, spend more than a third of their free time staying with their friends.The survey showed that the difference between work and free time within certain countries is clear.

As for Italians, men have nearly 80 minutes a day of free time more than women. Much of the additional work time of Italian women is clearly cleaning the house.

1.Japanese and Korean people usually sleep about _______ a night.

A．six hours          B．eight hours        C．nine hours         D．ten hours

2.The third paragraph mainly tells us _________.

A．French people are used to having fast food

B．French people are used to having sandwiches

C．French people spend much time eating

D．French people spend little time eating

3.How long does a Mexican spend in eating?

A．One hour         B．Two hours         C．Three hours       D．Four hours

4.It takes Japanese _______ of free time to watch TV or listen to the radio.

A．two thirds         B．about half         C．one third          D．all