6．People hold dragon boat race on Dragon Boat Festival in_memory_of_Qu_Yuan.

　　人们在端午节举行龙舟比赛是为了纪念屈原。

课下作业（二） 话题阅读培优练

　　Ⅰ.根据提示填空

　　The ancient Loulan City ❶is_located (locate) on the west bank of Lop Nur Lake in Xinjiang region.The city ❷was_founded (found) in the 2nd century BC in an oasis (绿洲) on the Silk Road.But it became less powerful and strong after its 800 years of development, and ❸disappeared_(消失) suddenly in the middle of the 6th century AD.At the beginning of last century, a Swedish explorer Sven Hedin ❹_discovered (发现) the city ❺buried (bury) in the desert, which attracted attention from all over the world.

　　The city has already totally turned into dust.But archaeologists (考古学家) believe there was a water tunnel running through the city and dividing it into two different ❻functional (function) parts.Large numbers of potsherds (陶瓷碎片), wood pieces, coins, pieces of jewellery and wood slip documents ❼provide (提供) us with plenty of information about the ❽ancient (古老的) city.

　　Scientists studied the materials of the ❾ruins (废墟)of Loulan City and they believe that a large amount of forest was cut down at that time, which made Loulan City \s\up1(10(10)destroyed (destroy) by the sandstorms at last.

　　Ⅱ.片段选词填空

during， protection， period， historic， valuable， ancient， traditional， site， beginning， show， be used as， known as， in good condition

　　Pingyao, in the center of Shanxi Province, is a famous ❶historic cultural city of China and a world cultural heritage (遗产) ❷site.It's 90 kilometers south of Taiyuan on the Fen River.

　　People lived in Pingyao during the New Stone Age.Its long ❸period as a county government seat has left Pingyao with lots of historic buildings and sites.Ninety­nine of them are under government ❹protection.

　　❺During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, businessmen organized commercial (商业的) groups that did business nationwide.Shanxi Province had some of the most important ones and Pingyao was their center.In 1823, a store, ❻known_as Rishengchang (Sunrise Prosperity), traded in bank checks rather than in silver or gold coins.It was the ❼beginning of modern Chinese banking.