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A:Hi, Simon! What's the matter with your legs?
B:
A:Sorry to hear that. Have you seen the doctor?
B:Yes.
A:Did you do warm-up exercise before playing basketball?
B:Of course, I did.
A:By the way, is basketball your favourite sport?
B:Yes.
A:How often do you play it?
B:Every day. And I have bought seven basketballs since I began to play it five years ago.
A:So you must enjoy watching basketball games too, right?
B:Yes, I watch it whenever there is a game on TV.
A:Then who's your favourite basketball player?
B:Lin Shuhao.
A.Well done!
B.I became interested in it when I was in primary school.
C.I hurt them badly while I was playing basketball this morning.
D.Sometimes I even watch a game until it is early the next morning.
E.Why don't you enjoy playing basketball so much?
F.I usually play it with my friends as soon as school is over.
G.And the doctor asked me to have a good rest after using the hot pack (热敷包).
The Mid-Autumn Festival has a history of 2,000 years. During these 2,000 years, lots of Mid-Autumn traditions have been thought up by Chinese people. All the celebrations show the happiness and excitement of people.
The main celebrations during the Mid-Autumn Festival are appreciating the moon, eating moon cakes together and making Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns. These three celebrations have been passed from generation to generation. Chinese people may think the Mid-Autumn Festival is not coming if they don't do these three things.
In some places in China, people celebrate the festival in different ways. In Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, people eat taro (芋头) to celebrate the festival, because the taro harvest occurs at the same time as the festival. They eat taro and hope the harvest is good in the next year. In Nanjing, people cook duck with sweet-scented osmanthus (桂花), because Nanjing people think celebrate sweet-scented osmanthus is a symbol of peace. In some places people make fires inside towers to celebrate the festival, because they think the fire is a symbol of good business.
In the literary history of China, many poets penned praise (书面表扬) to the pure moon of mid-autumn night and gave words to their delicate feelings. The following is one of the best of those poems.
Thoughts in the Silent Night
—Li Bai
The moonlight is shining through the window,
And it makes me wonder if it is the frost on the ground.
Looking up to see the moon,
Looking down I miss so much about my hometown.
Li Bai used his poem to express his homesickness at the Moon Festival.
