D 核心素养 中华优秀传统文化
The Spring Festival couplets are an important part of the Chinese New Year culture.
People write the Spring Festival couplets with black or golden words on red paper. They put up a pair of lines on each side of the front door. Putting up couplets shows people's happiness during the festival and wishes for a better life in the coming year.
In a pair of the Spring Festival couplets, the first line and the second line have the same number of words, and their meanings match each other well. The horizontal scroll(横批) is a four-word phrase. It has the two lines' meanings.
Reading the Spring Festival couplets is interesting. Here is the way: First, look at the horizontal scroll. If the four words are from left to right, the first line is on the left and the second line is on the right. If
opposite, we read them from right to left.
The Spring Festival couplets started from taofu, some words on peach boards, in the Zhou dynasty. At that time, people thought that peach trees could stop bad things, so they put peach boards with words on the doors. This tradition lasted till the Tang dynasty. During the Song dynasty, people began to write the Spring Festival couplets on paper. It became popular in the Ming dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang found those pairs of lines interesting, so he asked all families to put up the lines during the Chinese New Year.
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A
)37. What is the special meaning of putting up Spring Festival couplets?
A. It carries people's wishes for a good new year.
B. It helps people remember Zhu Yuanzhang forever.
C. It makes houses beautiful with no special meaning.
D. It helps people sell more red paper and peach boards.
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C
)38. What does the underlined word "opposite" mean in Paragraph 4?
A. 类似的
B. 可能的
C. 相反的
D. 必要的

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C
)39. Which of the following is true about the Spring Festival couplets?
A. The words are black or red.
B. Each line of them has four words.
C. The meanings of the two lines match.
D. People put them up on their windows.
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D
)40. What can we learn about the Spring Festival couplets in different dynasties?
A. The peach boards in the Tang dynasty had no words.
B. People in the Zhou dynasty put paper couplets on their doors.
C. People in the Song dynasty used peach boards with words.
D. All families began to put up paper couplets in the Ming dynasty.