Hi, Louis!
I’m writing to tell you something about the customs(风俗) and festivals.
Everyone loves holidays since one doesn’t need to go to school or work. Although all holidays mean no school and work, but not all of them are the same. On some of them you go out with friends; on others you stay home to eat, talk, and have fun with your family. For example in the USA, everyone thinks New Year’s Eve and New Year are both for playing with friends. Christmas is the time to stay home and exchange gifts with family members. The opposite (相反) is true in Japan though. For example, in Japan, New Year is for spending time with the family to eat, talk, have fun, and go to the temples. But Christmas is for boy and girl friends to go out and exchange gifts. Originally Christmas should be to celebrate(庆祝) the birth of Christ.
I have been interested in foreign customs since I was little. If you learn these different holiday customs, you will learn about different histories and cultures. This is much more interesting than learning them at the library from morning to evening.
Loves,
Judge the following sentence true(T) or (F)
【小题1】Usually, nobody goes to school or works during holidays.
【小题2】Christmas is the time to stay home to eat, talk and have fun with the family.
【小题3】All the countries have the same way to celebrate the holidays.
【小题4】Being interested in foreign customs means being interested in different histories and cultures.
【小题5】This passage is about the customs and holidays in Japan.

Hi, Louis!

I’m writing to tell you something about the customs(风俗) and festivals.

Everyone loves holidays since one doesn’t need to go to school or work. Although all holidays mean no school and work, but not all of them are the same. On some of them you go out with friends; on others you stay home to eat, talk, and have fun with your family. For example in the USA, everyone thinks New Year’s Eve and New Year are both for playing with friends. Christmas is the time to stay home and exchange gifts with family members. The opposite (相反) is true in Japan though. For example, in Japan, New Year is for spending time with the family to eat, talk, have fun, and go to the temples. But Christmas is for boy and girl friends to go out and exchange gifts. Originally Christmas should be to celebrate(庆祝) the birth of Christ.

I have been interested in foreign customs since I was little. If you learn these different holiday customs, you will learn about different histories and cultures. This is much more interesting than learning them at the library from morning to evening.

Loves,

Judge the following sentence true(T) or (F)

1.Usually, nobody goes to school or works during holidays.

2.Christmas is the time to stay home to eat, talk and have fun with the family.

3.All the countries have the same way to celebrate the holidays.

4.Being interested in foreign customs means being interested in different histories and cultures.

5.This passage is about the customs and holidays in Japan.

　　The people in China don't call themselves “Chinese”. You will never hear them call their own country “China”. The Chinese word for their country means “Central Country.” Of course, they want to be called “people of the Central Country.”

　　These facts come from the book called China by Daniel Chu. What else does the book talk about? The index (索引) in the back pages of the book will tell you. A part of the book's index is shown below.

　　Use the index from the book China to answer these questions.

1．Which of these pages might describe the daily life of the “people of the Central Country”?

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2．If you want to know how big the “Central Country” is, on what page will you start to read?

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3．Which of these words give the pages that will have facts about the Chinese New Year?

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4．Which pages have photographs or pictures of farms?

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5．The words in the index are in the order of the alphabet. Therefore, families comes before farming and right after ________ .

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