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Garden building is considered an important part of Chinese culture. Some people say that if you have never walked through a Chinese garden, you cannot say that you have really visited China.
Traditional Chinese gardens are located in North China in such places as Beihai Park, the Summer Palace, and the Forbidden City. In larger imperial gardens, the main buildings are connected by an imaginary(虚构的) line in the middle of the garden on the north-south axis(轴). Other features of imperial gardens are colored paintings, man-made hills and lakes.
Most private gardens are found in the south, especially in cities south of the Yangtze River. Private gardens were mostly built at one side or at the back of the houses. Around the beautiful scene are small open areas with beautiful shaped doors through which visitors can enjoy the sights. They are open on all sides and are often near the water so that the whole scene can be enjoyed. Suzhou, known as the home of gardens, displays the most and the best Chinese traditional private gardens. Different parts of it are examples of the garden style of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The landscape garden contains a number of pleasant natural scenes and some fairy tales. The ancient Chinese used to call the garden landscape “Jing”, which means “scene” in English. Good examples include the ten West Lake Scenes in Hangzhou, the twenty-four slim West Lake Scenes in Yangzhou and the eight Daming Lake Scenes in Jinan.
【语篇概述】本文介绍了中国园林建筑的文化。
1. The passage tells mainly about________.
A. an important part of Chinese culture
B. where foreigners can find Chinese gardens
C. how to appreciate Chinese gardens
D. the characteristics of different styles of Chinese garden buildings
【解析】选D。主旨大意题。本文第一段第一句是主题句。本文主要讲中国的三类园林建筑: 御花园、私家园林和风景园。
2. Which of the following is NOT a feature of the imperial gardens?
A. There is a north-south axis in the centre of the garden.
B. There are man-made hills and lakes in the gardens.
C. They were built because of some fairy tales.
D. They have colored paintings.
【解析】选C。细节理解题。由第四段可知风景园包含童话故事, 而御花园没有, 故C项表述不正确。
3. In the third paragraph, the underlined word “They” refers to ________.
A. private gardens B. beautiful scenes
C. the houses D. rivers and lakes
【解析】选A。词义猜测题。第三段主要讲的是私家园林, 结合“They”所在句子, 可知答案为A。
4. “Jing” which the ancient Chinese used to call the garden landscape actually means “________” in English.
A. well B. tight C. garden D. scene
【解析】选D。细节理解题。由最后一段的第二句The ancient Chinese used to call the garden landscape “Jing”, which means “scene” in English. 可知, 答案为D。
