《2025年同步解析与测评学考练八年级英语上册人教版》

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In most countries, people usually eat traditional food on special holidays. A special day in China is the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is coming! It's a time to wish your family. The Spring Festival is a traditional holiday in China. The celebration usually starts on Xiaonian and lasts (持续) for fifteen days.
On the Spring Festival, Chinese people wish their family members and friends good health and luck for the whole year. They see the Spring Festival as a time to get together and usually celebrate it with a big family meal on the Chinese New Year's Eve (除夕).

Of this meal, dumplings are necessary.
What you need: wrappers (饺子皮)，vegetables，beef，salt and oil (食用油).
How to make dumplings: Put beef in a bowl. Cut the vegetables into small pieces with a knife. Add the vegetables to the beef. Then add a little oil and salt and mix them with chopsticks. When it is ready, put a spoon of filling (馅) on a wrapper and fold the wrapper around it.

1. How long does the Spring Festival celebration last according to the passage?
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2. What do Chinese people wish on the Spring Festival?
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3. What was the monster “Nian” afraid of?
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4. What do we need to make dumplings?
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5. Please finish the fourth step in the chart.
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答案： 1. The celebration usually lasts for fifteen days. 2. On the Spring Festival, Chinese people wish their family members and friends good health and luck for the whole year. 3. "Nian" was afraid of loud noises and the colour red. 4. Wrappers, vegetables, beef, salt and oil. 5. Add a little oil and salt.