There are eight major cuisines of China based on regional cooking. They are Shandong cuisine、Sichuan cuisine、Anhui cuisine、___________、Hunan cuisine、Fujian cuisine、Zhejiang cuisine and ______________.

Chinese Cooking China is one of the largest countries in the world. Over the past hundred years, Chinese culture has spread throughout the globe. Today, in nearly every city around the world, you can find Chinese language classes, Chinese stores, and Chinese restaurants. What most people do not know is that in China, each region has a very different cuisine. "Cuisine" means a style of cooking. While there are some foods that you can find in all regions of China, some are very specific to certain areas because of the climate (weather) or the landscape. Rice, noodles, soybeans, and vegetables can be found in food around China. They are staple foods. A "staple" is something that is basic, standard or always there. Rice is a very important part of Chinese cuisine, especially in the southern part of China where the rice farms are. Noodles are also very important and can be found around China in soups or in dishes of their own. Sometimes they are served hot and sometimes they are served cold. Soybeans are also very important to Chinese cuisine. Chinese cuisine does not have any milk in it but soybeans, tofu, and soy milk can be used in dishes where milk would be used in other cultures. Vegetables are also found in food all over China. Many Chinese vegetables only grow in China and so people in other countries have never tasted them. Within China, there are eleven major different kinds of cuisine. There are only three or four of these that are easily found outside China. The most popular and easily found Chinese cuisine found in countries outside of China is called Cantonese cuisine. This cuisine comes from an area in the southeastern part of China that is called Guangdong Provence. This area is on the ocean and also has many rivers. The weather is usually wet and hot. This means that there are specific kinds of crops (plants people grow) that can grow in the area. However, being on the ocean and rivers means that food can come from other parts of China to the area. Both of these things influence the kinds of food that are found in Cantonese cuisine. People who eat Cantonese food will be able to find beef, chicken, pork, and seafood (fish) dishes. They will also find plenty of dishes made with rice and noodles as well as lots of vegetables. There are different kinds of cooking that are used in Cantonese cuisine, but one thing they all have in common is that they are quick (fast). Cantonese cuisine does not have very many dishes that take hours to cook. Usually, Cantonese food can be made in just a few minutes with fresh ingredients. When you are eating Chinese food, it is important to remember that the food you are eating represents (shows) just one region in China. Chinese cuisine, just like China itself, is very diverse (different) and has many different kinds of dishes, flavors, and ingredients. 1. What does "cuisine" mean?

A、a) style of cooking

B、b) kind of language

C、c) kind of people

D、d) style of stories

In general, there are four kinds of conflict: conflict between people, conflict with one self, conflict with nature, and conflict with society. The most common conflict is between people. A fist fight, for example, is certainly conflict between two people. Competition for the job of head cheerleader or class president is also conflict among people. But there are qui et conflicts between children and parents, and students and teachers. There are conflicts over jobs in business.

People also find conflict within themselves. A guilty conscience is a form. of inner conflict. Struggling to decide what to do in a certain situation is also a personal conflict. Will you go to college or not? Will you follow someone else's advice or your own? Will you break off with a friend? All of these questions that require soul-searching and decision-making are personal or inner conflicts.

Conflicts with the forces of nature arise, too. A trapper lost in a snowstorm is in conflict with nature. So is someone who is making his way through the forest. And fighting a swift river on a raft is also conflict with nature. Finally, a person may be in conflict with society. This would describe a criminal with a grudge against the world. Or a conflict with society might involve a homeowner whose house is in the way of a new highway. An animal character faced with the destruction of its forest home is also in conflict with society.

The best title for the passage is___________.

A．How to Prevent Conflict

B．Conflicts with Forces of Nature

C．Various Kinds of Conflict

D．The Most Common Conflict

There are some______(indicate)that they are generous young souls.

A、Sichuan Cuisine

B、Henan Cuisine

C、Guangdong Cuisine

D、Anhui Cuisine

A．They are boiling a cup of water.

B．They are stirring a cup of mud.

C．They are cooking sweet and sour rice.

D．They are writing down the recipe.

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. There are some each phenomena you can count on, but the magnetic field, someday is not of them. It fluctuates in strength, drifts from its axis, and every few 100,000 years undergo, dramatic polarity reversal-a period when North Pole becomes South Pole and South Pole becomes North Pole. But how is the field generated, and why is it so unstable?

Groundbreaking research by two French geophysicists promises to shed some light on the mystery. Using 80 metres of deep sea sediment (沉淀物) core, they have obtained measurements lots of magnetic-field intensity that span 11 polarity reversals and four million years. The analysis reveals that intensity appears to fluctuate with a clear, well-defined rhythm. Although the strength of the magnetic field varies irregularly during the short term, there seems to be an inevitable long-term decline preceding each polarity reversal. When the poles flip—a process that takes several hundred thousand years-the magnetic field rapidly regains its strength and the cycle is repeated.

The results have caused a stir among geophysicists. The magnetic field is thought to originate from molten (熔化的) iron in the outer core, 3,000 kilometers beneath the earth’s surface. By studying mineral grains found in material ranging from rocks to clay articles, previous researchers have already been able to identify reversals dating back 170 million years, including the most recent switch 730,000 years ago. How and why they occur, however, has been widely debated. Several theories link polarity flips to external disasters such as meteor (陨星) impacts. But Peter Olson, a geophysicist at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, says this is unlikely if the French researchers are right. In fact, Olson says intensity that predictably declines from one reversal to the next contradicts 90 percent of the models currently under study. If the results prove to be valid geophysicists will have a new theory to guide them in their quest to understand the earth’s inner physics. It certainly points the direction for future research.

第26题：Which of the following titles is most appropriate to the passage?

A) Polarity Reversal: A Fantastic Phenomenon of Nature.

B) Measurement of the Earth’s Magnetic-Field Intensity.

C) Formation of the Two Poles of the Earth.

D) A New Approach to the Study or Geophysics.

听力原文： Twin sisters are supposed to be very much alike, aren't they? Well, my twin Jane and I do look alike. However, we are different in many ways. We like very different styles of clothing. I prefer to dress informally, whereas my twin sister dresses like a model, always in the latest fashions. We have very similar characters in most ways. I do not get angry easily and enjoy being with friends. In this respect, my twin sister feels the same. But she likes loud music and modern dances while I find that night clubs give me a headache. She is always with friends, is the favorite of our teachers and never wants to have children, whereas I prefer to be alone at times, don't really try to impress my teachers and intend some day to have a family of my own. We have tried to live in the same room several times and even agreed on the color we like best and the kind of furniture we wanted. But I like to keep things neat and orderly while my twin sister acts as if there were a servant around to pick up all the things that get thrown on the floor. I like to go to bed early and get up early. In contrast, she doesn't seem to have any definite habits, often goes to bed very late and then sleeps late the next day.

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A．Cheap clothes.

B．Expensive clothes.

C．Fashionable clothes.

D．Informal clothes.