初中英语新目标八年级下讲解版08

[14:22.59]4.Children parade with lanterns to celebrate the festival in____.
[14:33.59]3 Match the words and expressions with meanings.
[14:35.83]把单词与其解释用线连起来，
[14:38.08]Then make sentences with the words and expressions.
[14:39.63]然后用这些单词和短语造句子。
[14:41.19]palace
[14:43.00]皇宫
[14:44.82]f.where kings and queens live
[14:48.12]国王和皇后住的地方
[14:51.43]gaze
[14:52.43]盯
[14:53.44]e.look at something for a long time
[14:54.79]盯着东西看很久
[14:56.13]graves
[14:56.64]坟墓
[14:57.15]d.a place in the ground for a dead person
[14:59.64]死人呆的地方
[15:02.14]lunar calendar
[15:02.83]阴历
[15:03.52]months of the year following the moon
[15:05.78]以月亮运行计算的月份
[15:08.04]female characteristics
[15:09.35]女性特征
[15:10.65]c.like a woman
[15:12.16]像妇女一样
[15:13.66]take the day off
[15:14.72]放假
[15:15.77]b.have a free day with no school or work
[15:17.79]不用上班或上学的一天
[15:19.80]4 Read the passage and write what underlined words refer to.
[16:45.87]读文章，写出画线单词所代表的意思。（见教科书）
[18:11.94]Mid-Autumn Festival
[18:14.56]An old Chinese story talks about a woman
[18:17.95]who flew to the moon after she stole a magical pill from her husband.
[18:22.58]He chased after her but failed.
[18:25.50]The woman stayed on the moon,
[18:27.51]safely protected in the palace of a rabbit.
[18:30.28]You might hear this story during the Mid-Autumn Festival,
[18:34.70]a night in many Asian countries for friends and families to get together,
[18:39.03]eat moon cakes and gaze at the full,round moon.
[18:42.95]The date of the festival is different every year.
[18:46.97]sometime between the end of August and Septemer.
[18:50.61]It is set by the lunar calendar on the fifteenth day of the eighth month.
[18:56.61]In china,people might leave work early to celebrate with a family dinner.
[19:02.54]After dinner they may go outside to a park to get a good view as the moon rises.
[19:09.26]Children enjoy playing with colorful lanterns lit with candles or electric lights.
[19:14.85]Friends buy each other moon cakes,filled with fruit and nuts.
[19:19.55]In China,the night is special for women
[19:22.74]because people think of the moon as having female(yin) characteristics.
[19:28.04]In the past,
[19:29.79]people set tables outside houses with dishes of round fruit
[19:33.81]like apples,oranges,and peaches representing the moon.
[19:38.70]In Korea,
[19:40.81]stores and businesses take the day off
[19:43.35]so that families can spend the day together.
[19:45.91]People dress up in their best clothes -men in suits
[19:51.00]and woman in traditional Korean dress.
[19:53.98]In the morning,there are visits to family graves.
[19:57.90]Later families gather for dinner.
[20:00.69]The Mid-Autumn Festival is very much a children's holiday in Vietnam,
[20:05.60]but adults like it too.
[20:07.35]Friends and families exchange moon cakes filled with peanuts,
[20:11.87]sugar,duck eggs,raisins and watermelon seeds.
[20:16.31]Paper lanterns are very popular.
[20:18.93]Children can be seen playing with them a few days before Mid-Autumn night.
[20:23.99]On the evening of the full moon,
[20:26.42]children light candles inside their lanterns and take them out into the streets.
[20:31.73]The colorful bright lanterns light up the night.