Keeping traditions alive is never an easy thing. Chen Zunkai, the owner of Baoyuan Dumpling House, has the past 16 years improving one of the most traditional Chinese foods: jiaozi.
Her are not the white crescent-shaped (月牙形状的) ones simply filled pork or lamb, but colorful ones using more than 150 kinds of fillings.
“ I try to do is to make dumplings have a taste of home,” Chen says. “I hope every customer, Northerners or Southerners, vegetarians (素食者) or non-vegetarians, Chinese people or foreigners can something familiar.”
Chinese dumplings are believed more than 2,000 years old. , they are made and eaten by people in North China at some festivals such as the winter solstice (冬至). To the year-end cold, people usually fill dumplings with strongly flavored (有强烈味道的) meat such as pork or lamb.
For Chen, her came after she noticed that there were not many choices for those prefer lighter fillings. Most vegetarian dumplings have a filling of only two kinds of ingredients, and not one restaurant in Beijing has more than 10 kinds of vegetarian fillings.
“I think I can make it,” Chen says.
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A．Which B．Where C．What D．When
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A．Suddenly B．Luckily C．Traditionally D．Finally
A．get B．refuse C．enjoy D．fight
A．plan B．idea C．information D．advice
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One afternoon a boss was riding in his car when he saw two men along the roadside eating grass. He felt and ordered his driver to stop and he got out to ask why.
He asked one man, “Why are you eating grass?” “We don’t have any money for . We have to eat grass.” the poor man replied.
“Well, then, you can come with me to my house and I’ll you,” the boss said.
“But sir, I have a wife and two children with me. They are over there, under that tree.”
“Bring them along,” the boss replied. to the other poor man, he said, “You come with us, too.” The second man said a pitiful voice, “But sir, I also have a wife and six children with me!”
“Bring them along ,” the boss answered. They all the car, which was no easy task even for such a large car. In the car one of the poor men turned to the boss and said, “Sir, you are so . Thank you for taking all of us with you.”
The boss replied, “Glad to do it. You’ll love my because the grass there is almost a meter high.”
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A．him B．them C．us D．you
A．grass B．food C．shoes D．clothes
A．leave B．teach C．find D．feed
A．Carrying B．Having C．Turning D．Shouting
A．by B．on C．of D．in
A．as usual B．as well C．in general D．no longer
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A．kind B．lucky C．exciting D．interesting
A．work B．car C．place D．family
One Sunday afternoon，my younger brother and I were left alone at home．I was doing my homework my younger brother was watching TV．Suddenly，the doorbell rang．My brother thought it was our parents, so he opened the quickly．
A tall man stood outside and asked politely our parents were at home．
thinking，my brother answered，“No．” When I wanted to close the door，he suddenly the door very hard and came into our house．He took out a 6and ordered me to tie up my brother’s with a rope (绳索)．I tied up his hands in a special way so my brother could untie（松开）himself ．The man then tied my hands up and locked of us in the kitchen．
Soon, he went upstairs．I taught my brother to untie his rope with his hands．He then untied ．We rushed to the telephone to call the police, but the line was cut off．The doors were all locked from outside．It was lucky that the man forgot the kitchen door．We got out of the house the window and went to the pay phone to call the police．
Soon the police came and the man was caught．By the time, my parents had come home．We told them the whole story．My parents were glad that we were not ．They told me that I should stop my brother from the door to the stranger．I learned a lesson on safety．
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I used to live in a separate room. I loved living alone. But one day it all changed when my brother Mike asked to my room. At first, my parents said “no” to him, but at last my mother agreed. I cried and begged my parents not to do this, it didn’t work.
As soon as Mike entered my room, my room began to become . To my anger, he often left his unwashed clothes everywhere!
One evening,I was doing my homework on my computer while Mike was listening to music. Later, I left my to get some water. A shock was waiting for me when I returned. He had used my computer to play games. I had to save the homework. Sadly, he closed the program without saving it---all my effort had disappeared! I shouted at him at the top of my . He cried a lot as my mother him. My mother also asked him to leave my room .
Then I did my homework once again. At 11:00 pm, I it. I was about to turn off my computer I saw the photo of my brother that he had put on my table. I looked at his lovely face and remembered how he was crying when my mom punished him. I really felt for him.
I went to him. He was_ in my parents’ bed. I kissed his forehead. He woke up, and said, “I’m sorry. I won’t bring you again.”
I was so moved and I hugged him, saying, “From now on, my room is not only . It is ours!”
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A．water B．trouble C．homework D．music
A．his B．ours C．theirs D．mine
While I was waiting to enter university, I saw an advertisement in a newspaper. It said that a teacher at a school. The school was about ten miles from where I lived. I was in great need of money and wanted to do useful, so I applied (申请).
Three days later, a letter . It asked me the principal(校长) of the school at Croydon. It was really a(n) journey-- a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of a quarter of a mile. At last, I arrived there, feeling very hot and nervous. When I at the door, a man opened it. He was short and round.
“The school,” he said, “has a group of twenty-four boys the age of seven and thirteen.” According to the man, I should have to teach all the subjects art, which the man himself taught the class art. I should have to the class into three groups and teach them in turn at three different levels, and I was quiet disappointed at the of teaching math --a subject which I wasn't very good at. It was that I had to teach them on Saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be themselves at that time.
I had time to ask about my salary (薪水), the man got up to his feet. “Now,” he said, “you'd better my wife. She is the one who really runs this school.”
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A．Though B．Because C．Unless D．Before
A．meet B．to meet C．met D．will meet
On Friday I have a busy day. I _____ at half past six in the morning. Then I __________ my hands and face, and have ____________ at seven. At half past seven, I go to school and __________ work at eight. There ___________ four lessons in the morning. At twenty to ten, we have a __________ for twenty minutes. We go to the playground and I ___________ with my friends. We have lunch in the school dining hall. In the afternoon, we have two ___________ and go home at half past three. I don’t do ___________ on Friday evening. I do it ________ Saturday.
A．go to bed B．get up C．go home D．do homework
A．eat B．smell C．wash D．look
A．breakfast B．lunch C．dinner D．lessons
A．finish B．start C．close D．open
A．am B．is C．are D．be
A．break B．dog C．apple D．football
A．talk B．sleep C．look D．listen
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