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浙江省金华市婺城区2023-2024学年八年级上学期期末考试英语试题
Many Chinese words have interesting meanings in them, and there is lots of history behind.
Where to buy things
When going shopping, we say mai dong xi, not mai nan bei. It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, there were two popular markets in Chang' an. One was called the East Market, and the other was the West Market. When shopping, people usually went to the East Market first, and then the West Market. As time went by, people started to describe shopping as mai dong xi.
Left or right
In Chinese, we say yi jian xiang zuo when we don't have the same idea. Why is it not yi jian xiang you? Most people today are right- handed. They feel uncomfortable if they use left hand to write or eat. It was true in the past too. So in ancient Chinese, ▲ .
"Left" and "right" also have something to do with people's status(地位). For a long time in ancient China, "right" stood for higher status than "left".
Up or down
We use shang ce suo to mean "go to the bathroom" and xia chu fang to mean "go to the kitchen". Why? In ancient times, houses were laid out(布局) in a certain way. The gate would face south, with the bathroom in the northeast of the house and the kitchen in the southeast.
On maps, north is usually at the top while south is at the bottom. In Chinese, we talk about "the north" as shang and "the south" as xia. So people say they are going "up" to the bathroom and "down" to the kitchen.
March 20 is a special day. It's the International Day of Happiness! The United Nations (UN) made this day to remind everyone that being happy is important.
{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Leaders of the country wanted to know how happy its people were. So, they created the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index ( 国民幸福指数 ) and did its first GNH survey ( 民意调查 ) in2008 to measure the happiness of its people .
Bhutan's interest in happiness caught the world's attention. Then the UN agreed in 2012 to create the International Day of Happiness.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}
People get joy from many things like friends, family, good health and a clean environment.
Every year on March 20, the World Happiness Report comes out to show what makes people happy and how happy people are in different countries around the world.
Maher Nasser from the UN helped make the International Day of Happiness.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}"I want to make every day an International Day of Happiness," he said.
Nasser thinks that governments can help by making their people happier and healthier. But it's not just up to governments. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}For- example, helping others can make us feel good about ourselves and that makes us happier.
The International Day of Happiness is more than just a happy day. It's about making a better world together .
A. Each of us can also do things to make ourselves happier. B. It chose March 20 as the date and began celebrating it in 2013. C. The idea for this day came from an Asian country called Bhutan. D. But he doesn't believe people should only celebrate on March 20. E. It's important to remember our happiness doesn't depend on how much you have . |
What else can you do to make yourself happy? (15词以内) {#blank#}5{#/blank#}
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