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In China, there are a number of festivals and people usually eat special food at different festivals. For example, moon cakes are a kind of special food at the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is highly traditional in China to eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. 1. ______B
When the Dragon Boat Festival comes, many families begin to make zongzi. The shapes and tastes of zongzi are different from the north to the south in China. Most people enjoy pyramid-shaped zongzi made of glutinous rice with different fillings inside. People wrapped zongzi in bamboo or reed leaves. 2. ______A
Why do we eat zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival? In ancient times, zongzi was designed to honour Qu Yuan, the pioneer poet of ancient China. People threw zongzi into the river as food for the fish. 3. ______C These rice dumplings now are boiled and eaten at this festival.
4. ______E For example, Jiaxing zongzi is a long strip with four corners, and uses a piece of fatty meat with a slice of lean meat in the rice. After cooking, it is very delicious. Guangdong zongzi has a lot of different fillings and takes a long time to prepare. It's filled with ham, salted egg yolks, meat, roast pork and so on.
For more than 2,000 years, people not only in China but also in some other countries eat zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival. 5. ______D
A. It's great fun making zongzi at home.
B. Here is something about the Dragon Boat Festival.
C. They wanted to stop the fish from eating Qu Yuan's body.
D. It is becoming a more and more popular traditional festival.
E. Many places in the south of China are known for their zongzi.
F. The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month.

答案： 1.B 2.A 3.C 4.E 5.D