Festival Foods Vary from Culture to Culture

Around the world， people have different traditional foods to celebrate different festivals. Traditional foods also show a new year of good luck and good health.

An English Christmas dinner has a meal of turkey， and it also includes pies and plum puddings. In Germany， Christmas is celebrated with bread cookies and cakes， which are made like Christmas trees. In France， Christmas dessert is a cake filled with butter cream.

In southern parts of India， there is a three-day festival in mid-January called Pongal. It includes rice and a dish of rice cooked with sugar that is shared with families and friends.

Japan celebrates New Year with a seven-day festival. It begins from January 1st. Food is prepared before the festival so people don't need to cook during the festival. On New Year's Day， various dishes called Osechi ryori are served- each dish is a wish for the New Year.

People in China prepare their food ahead of time to avoid the possibility that using a knife during New Year's time might “cut luck”. Foods with lucky names are popular， such as fish， which sounds like “yu” （surplus）. Chinese people always get together with their families and have a good dinner during Chinese New Year's Day. The most famous food at that time is dumpling.

根据短文内容，选择正确答案

（  ） 1. What do you learn from the passage？

     A. New Year begins from January 10th in Japan.

     B. In France， Christmas dessert is a cake filled with butter.

     C. Traditional foods only show a new year of good luck.

      D. People have different traditional foods to celebrate different festivals.

（  ） 2. What was a three-day festival in mid-January in southern parts of India？

      A. New Year.          B. Pongal.         C. Christmas.          D. Lantern Festival

   （  ） 3. In Japan， people all like eating       on New Year’s Day.

     A. Osechi ryori       B. dessert          C. turkey                 D. dumplings

（  ） 4. The word “various” in Paragraph four can best be replaced by “     ”.

     A. expensive           B. fews              C. different              D. same

（  ） 5. The word “possibility” in Paragraph five probably means “       ”in Chinese.

     A.可能性               B.可變性          C.必然性                D.必须性

译文

节日食品

因文化不同而不同

全世界的人们用各式各样的传统食物来庆祝不同的节日。传统食物也可代表新的幸运健康的一年。

英国的圣诞大餐包括一道火鸡肉，还包括各种派和李子布丁。在德国，人们用做成圣诞树模样的面包曲奇和蛋糕来庆祝圣诞节。法国的圣诞甜点是一个填满奶油夹心饼的蛋糕。

在印度南部，1月中旬有一个节日叫作“丰收节”，人们会连续3天庆祝这个节日。人们在庆祝这个节日时所吃的食物包括米饭以及用糖和米做的一道菜，供全家人和朋友们一起享用。

日本庆祝新年时会放假7天，从1月1日开始。食品在过节前就已做好，这样一来，过节期间人们就不用做饭了。在新年这天，人们会奉上叫作“御节料理”的很多道菜——每道菜都代表一个新年祝愿。

中国人会提前备好食物，避免在新年时动刀从而“砍掉福气”的可能。名字带有喜气的食物很受欢迎，如鱼（意为“余”）。在中国新年时，中国人通常会与家人团聚一堂，享用大餐。这个时候，最有名的食物就是饺子。