maidenn少女
deceptiveadj欺騙的
realgarn雄黃
potentadj有力的；有效的
omenn預示
fancifuladj奇怪的；稀奇的
viciousadj惡意的
interferencen幹涉
setbackn挫折
fungusn真菌
surgen巨浪；波濤
suppressv鎮壓
summoned up喚起；使出現
Emei Mountains峨眉山
Jinshan Temple金山寺
Leifeng Pagoda雷峰塔
ⅠDecide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F).
1 has a close connection to the Spring Festival.
2The story is about the love affair between White Snake and Xu Xian.
3White Snake once lived on Wutai Mountain.
4White snake,being magical,turned herself into beautiful maiden and set off on a journey to the East Lake of Hang Zhou.
5Lady Green Snake quickly fell in love with Xu Xian and they were soon married.
ⅡTranslate the following sentences into Chinese.
1White Snake always helped her husband to cope with trouble by her magic.
2Xu Xian suggested her drinking some realgar wine,as this was a tradition during the Dragon boat festival.
3When her husband came to her side,he couldnt find his wife but a huge white snake.So great was Xu Xian shocked that he fell on the floor and died.
4She set off on a journey to obtain a potent medicinal herb,which could revive her husband.
5Xu Xians fears were put to rest for the moment by his wifes fanciful story.
This is a wide spread legend about the Great Wall.There was once an old man named Meng who lived in the southern part of the country and was the neighbor of Jiang.One spring,Meng sowed a seed of bottle gourd in his yard.The bottle gourd grew up bit by bit and its vines climbed over the wall and entered his neighbor Jiangs yard.Meng and Jiang cut the gourd,a pretty and lovely girl was lying inside! They felt happy to have a child and brought the child up together.They named the girl Meng Jiangnv.
As time went by,Meng Jiangnv grew up and married Fan Qiliang.The couple was married several days later.However,three days after their marriage,officials suddenly broke in and took Fan Qiliang away to build the Great Wall in the north of China.Meng Jiangnv missed her husband and cried nearly every day.She sewed warm clothes for her husband and decided to set off to look for him.She climbed over mountains and went through the rivers walking day and night; finally she reached the foot of the Great Wall at the present Shanhai Pass.Bad news came to her,however,that Fan Qiliang had already died of exhaustion and was buried into the Great Wall.Meng Jiangnv could not help crying.She sat on the ground and cried and cried.Suddenly with a tremendous noise,a 400 kilometerlong (248milelong) section of the Great Wall collapsed over her bitter wail.
Emperor Qin happened to be touring the wall at that exact time,and he was enraged and ready to punish the woman.However,at the first sight of Meng Jiangnv Emperor Qin was attracted by her beauty.Instead of killing her,the Emperor asked Meng Jiangnv to marry him.Suppressing her feeling of anger,Meng Jiangnv agreed on the basis of three terms.The first was to find the body of Fan Qiliang,the second was to hold a state funeral for him,and the last one was to have Emperor Qin wear black mourning for Fan Qiliang and attend the funeral in person.Emperor Qin thought for a while and reluctantly agreed.After all the terms were met,Emperor Qin was ready to take her to his palace.When the guardians were not watching,she suddenly turned around and jumped into the nearby Bo Hai.
In memory of Meng Jiangnv,later generations built a temple,called the Jiangnv Temple,at the foot of the Great Wall in which a statue of Meng Jiangnv is located.Meng Jiangnvs story has been passed down from generation to generation.(438)
gourdn葫蘆
vinen藤
exhaustionn疲憊；筋疲力盡
wailn. 悲痛
ⅠAnswer the questions.
1Who were the neighbors lived in the southern part of the country?
2What happened when Meng and Jiang cut the gourd?
3Why did officials take Fan Qiliang away?
4What did she sew for her husband and decided to set off to look for him?
5Why did Fan Qiliang die?
ⅡFill in the blanks with the correct words from the passage.
After all the terms were met,.Meng Jiangnvs story has been passed down from generation to generation.
The Chinese dragon is depicted as a long,scaled,snakelike creature with five claws.In contrast to the Western dragon which stands on four legs and which is usually portrayed as evil,the Chinese dragon has long been a potent symbol of auspicious power in Chinese folklore and art.The Chinese dragon is traditionally also the embodiment of the concept of yang (male) and associated with the weather as the bringer of rain and water in an agriculturally waterdriven nation.Its female counterpart is the Fenghuang.
Firstly,the dragon was historically the symbol of the Emperor of China.Starting with the Yuan Dynasty,regular citizens were forbidden to associate themselves with the symbol.The dragon reemerged during the Qing Dynasty and appeared on national flags.
Secondly,in Europeaninfluenced cultures,the dragon has aggressive,warlike connotations that the Chinese government wishes to avoid.It is for these reasons that the giant panda is far more often used within China as a national emblem than the dragon.
Many Chinese people often use the term “Descendants of the Dragon” as a sign of ethnic identity,as part of a trend started in the 1970s when different Asian nationalities were looking for animal symbols for representations.
In Chinese culture today,it is mostly used for decorative purposes.It is a taboo to disfigure a depiction of a dragon; for example,an advertisement campaign commissioned by Nike,which featured the American basketball player slaying a dragon (as well as beating up an old Kung Fu master),was immediately censored by the Chinese government after public outcry over disrespect.