《2025年小学英语听读空间六年级上册译林版读写版》

B What are the twelve animals?
导读：中国新年和动物有关,让我们一起了解下吧。

Sara：Hi,Yangyang! Happy Chinese New Year!
Yangyang：Hi,Sara! Happy Year of the Horse!
Sara：Sorry. What do you mean?
Yangyang：Well,we Chinese name the years after(用……命名)twelve animals. In the Chinese calendar(日历),it is the Year of the Horse.
Sara：How interesting! What are the twelve animals?
Yangyang：They are the Rat,Ox,Tiger,Rabbit,Loong,Snake,Horse,Sheep,Monkey,Rooster,Dog,and Pig.
Sara：How often does each animal come around?
Yangyang：Every twelve years. I was born in the Year of the Tiger,so my birth-year animal is the tiger.

Sara：Who decided the order of the birth-year animals?
Yangyang：There are many different(不同的)stories about it.
Sara：It's so interesting. Thank you.
我来试试
一、阅读对话,根据对话内容选择正确的答案。
(　)1. What is Yangyang's birth-year animal?
A. The Rat.　　B. The Tiger.　　C. The Rabbit.
(　)2. This year is the Year of the Horse. How about next year?
A. The Year of the Tiger.　　B. The Year of the Sheep.　　C. The Year of the Snake.
二、填空。
1. We also call Chinese New Year “______”.
2. Sara wants to know her birth-year animal. She says,“When in Rome,do as the Romans do.”
请写出画线句子的汉语意思：______。

答案： 一、1. B 2. C 二、1. the Spring Festival 2. 入乡随俗