英语口语考试大纲话题详解.doc

专业课辅导材料 第 PAGE 20页 共 NUMPAGES 20页 英语口语考试大纲话题详解 1．节假日Holidays and festivals 1.1学生可选择的陈述为： The Mid-Autumn day The Mid-Autumn Festival, on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, we can observe the biggest and brightest full moon of the year, the harvest moon. One legend about the Moon Festival concerns expert architect Hou Yih, who built a palace of jade for the Goddess of the western heaven. In reward, she gave Hou Yih a pill with the elixir of immortality, warning him not to take it until he had fulfilled certain conditions. Hou Yihs ever-curious wife, Chang O, found the pill and promptly swallowed it. As punishment, she was banished to the moon where, according to tradition, her beauty is at its most radiant on the day of the Moon Festival. The Festival is a public holiday marked by family reunions, moon gazing, and the eating of moon cakes-round pastries stuffed with red bean paste and an egg yolk, or fruit and preserves. Dragon Boat Festival Boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival commemorate the attempt to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan, who drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Unable to save him, the people threw bamboo stuffed with cooked rice into the water so that the fish would eat the rice rather than the body of their hero. This evolved into the present custom of eating zongzi, rice dumplings filled with ham or bean paste and wrapped in bamboo leaves. Since antiquity the Chinese have believed that the fifth lunar month is a pestilential, danger-fraught period. Sanitation is emphasized, medicines are added to food, aromatic branches are hung above doors, and beautifully embroidered protective amulets or sachets containing spices or medicines are fastened to the clothing of children. Large crowds attend the festive boat races in Taipei, Taiwan, and Kaohsiung(高雄). Teams from all over the world compete in the races as excited observers cheer form the riverbanks. Spring festival Spring Festival is the most important fes