HY4

Question 1

Dry, boring, uninteresting

Answer 1

adj. kūzào

枯燥

Question 2

Food is the most important part of life

Answer 2

s.p. mín yǐ shí wéi tiān

民以食为天

Question 3

Actually, as a matter of fact, in fact

Answer 3

conj. shíjìshàng

实际上

Question 4

Imagine

Answer 4

v. xiǎngxiàng

想象

Question 5

Industrialisation, industrialise

Answer 5

n./v. gōngyèhuà

工业化

Question 6

Hilly area

Answer 6

n. shāndì

山地

Question 7

Plain

Answer 7

n. píngyuán

平原

Question 8

In summary, in the final analysis

Answer 8

s.p. zǒngdeláishuō

总的来说

Question 9

Arable land, farmland

Answer 9

n. gēngdì

耕地

Question 10

Take up, occupy

Answer 10

v. zhàn

占

Question 11

Percent, percentage

Answer 11

n. bǎifēnzhī

百分之

Question 12

Support, feed

Answer 12

v. yǎnghuó

养活

Question 13

Solve

Answer 13

v. jiějué

解决

Question 14

Food made of wheat

Answer 14

n. miànshí

面食

Question 15

Grain

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n. liángshí

粮食

Question 16

Crop

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n. zuòwù

作物

Question 17

Wheat

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n. xiǎomài

小麦

Question 18

Worthwhile

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adj. zhídé

值得

Question 19

Contract

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n. hétóng

合同

Question 20

Extraordinary, special

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s.p. bùtóngyībān

不同一般

Question 21

Attract

Answer 21

v. xīyǐn

吸引

Question 22

Customer

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n. gùkè

顾客

Question 23

Process

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v. jiāgōng

加工

Question 24

周末过得好吗？

Answer 24

Did you have a good weekend?

Question 25

回族是中国主要的少数民族之一

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Muslims are China’s main ethnic minority.

Question 26

对吃什么，怎么吃特别有研究

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Know how to eat and what to eat.

Question 27

历史书上说

Answer 27

History books say…

Question 28

开始来中国做生意

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Beginning to come to china to do business.

Question 29

后来就留在中国了

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Afterwards, remained in China.

Question 30

他们把中亚的文化带到了中国

Answer 30

Brought central Asian culture to china.

Question 31

信伊斯兰教

Answer 31

Muslim faith

Question 32

把一片一片的生羊肉放在汤里涮一下，然后哈出来吃

Answer 32

Put pieces of lamb into hot soup to boil, then take it out to eat.

Question 33

特别嫩，也特别鲜美

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Relatively tender/delicate, also relatively delicious/tasty

Question 34

在一起生活了几百年

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Live together for hundreds of years.

Question 35

饮食习惯互相影响

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Dietary habits mutually affect each other.

Question 36

在回族放店喝了一种特别的茶

Answer 36

At Muslim restaurants, they drink a special tea.

Question 37

不但有茶叶，而且有果千和糖

Answer 37

Not only has tea leaves, also have sweet fruit flavour (?)

Question 38

合起来又香又甜，非常可口

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Drink is fragrant and sugary, very delicious/savoury.

Question 39

除了回族的食品，她这介绍了别的地方菜吗？

Answer 39

Besides Muslim foodstuff, did they introduce other regional cooking?

Question 40

我给你讲一个很好笑的故事

Answer 40

wo gei ni jiang yi ge hen hao xiao de gu shi, I’m going to tell you a funny story

Question 41

努力发展农业

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Need to work hard to expand/grow agriculture

Question 42

总的来说

Answer 42

In summary

Question 43

跟粮食生产有关

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With grain can produce food made of wheat

Question 44

民以食为天

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Food is heaven, bread is the staff of life

Question 45

西高东低

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West is high, east is low

Question 46

平原集中在东部

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Plains are concentrated in the east.

Question 47

人口多，耕地少

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A lot of people, not enough land.

Question 48

主要大何从西往东流

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Main rivers flow west to east

Question 49

冬天夏天长，春天秋天短

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Summer and winter are long, spring and autumn are short

Question 50

冬暖夏凉

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Summer in cool, winter is warm

Question 51

四季如春

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Spring all year round

Question 52

冬天冷，夏天热

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Winter is cold, summer is hot

Question 53

南米北面

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South has rice, north has wheat

Question 54

粮食作物主要是小麦

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Grain crops are mainly wheat

Question 55

把结果给我们介绍一下

Answer 55

Introduced us to a result

Question 56

要在很少的耕地上养活这么多人不容易

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Sustaining this many people on such little land is not easy