The cold reception has prompted cultural experts to seriously worry that the lovers' festival,marked for generations since the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), is dying out. Some have evencalled for legislation to make the festival a legal "Chinese Lovers' Day." which falls on theseventh day of the seventh month of the lunar year.

　　But the effectiveness of such a measure is in doubt, although efforts to preserve traditionalfestivals are highly commendable.

　　A growing number of traditional Chinese festivals, such as the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. share the same fate as the Qixi Festival.

　　Young people are showing less interest in traditional cultuce as symbolized by these festivals.Even if all traditional festivals are finally made legal, the risk of them becoming purelyformalized celebrations with little meaning is not removed. If the younger generation fails toidentify with the cultural significance of these holidays, there is little that can be done.

　　While complaining about traditional festivals' fading appeal decision-makers should reflecton cultural protection. Undeniably our country has done a bad job of preserving culture andtraditional Festivals, compared to neighbouring Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK).

　　The 2,500-year-old Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Thetraditional customs and rituals of the occasion. which originated in China, have been betterpreserved in the ROK.

　　Only a few years ago did China begin to realize the signiticance of preserving intangible culturalheritage when the ROK planned to apply to the United Nations Educational, Scientific andCultural Organization iolist its version of the Dragon Boat Festival as an important example ofintangible culture.

　　Concern about traditional holidays also reminds people of che growing influence of foreigncultures as thecountry opens wider to the outside world.With traditional festivals waning andimports such as Christmas and Valentine's Day gaining widespread popularity, the publicincluding cultural professionals have tended to measure traditional Chinese festivals ineconomic terms.

　　Business rather than culture has begun to play a dominant role. More and more people arepreoccupied with how much money can be generated during the holidays.

　　In fact what makes traditional festivals unique and what keeps them alive is their culturalelements. After all, it is unique culture that contributes to the world's diversity amidglobalization.

　　昨天是七夕節，相當于中國的情人節，它不僅讓忘了過節的情人們失望，也讓沒有賺到錢的商人們感到失望。

　　七夕節遭到冷遇促使文化學者為這個情人節由衷地擔心起來——[2]七夕節從漢朝開始(公元前206年到公元220年)就世代相傳，如今卻正在消亡。[l]有人甚至呼吁立法，把農歷七月初七這個節日設為法定的“中國情人節”。

　　[1]然而，盡管保留傳統節日的勢力非常值得肯定，但是這種措施效果如何還是令人懷疑。

　　[2]越來越多的中國傳統節日，例如端午節、中秋節等，都面臨和七夕節同樣的命運。

　　年輕人對這些節日所象征的傳統文化顯示出越來越少的興趣。即使所有傳統節日最后都被確定為法定節日，它們淪為沒有什么內涵的、純粹是形式上的慶祝活動的風險并沒有消除。如果年輕人不能認同這些節日的文化意義，那就真沒辦法了。

　　在抱怨傳統節日喪失吸引力的同時，決策者們應該考慮文化保護的問題。[3]不可否認，在保護文化、保護傳統節日方面，與鄰近的日本和韓國相比，我國做得很差。

　　已有2500年歷史的端午節是在農歷的五月初五。該節日的傳統風俗和儀式原本起源于中國，卻在韓國得到更好的沿襲。

　　只是幾年前。當韓國人計劃向聯合國教科文組織申請把它的端午節風俗列為重要的非物質文化遺產項目時，中國才開始意識到保存非物質文化遺產的重要性。

　　對傳統節日的關注也提醒人們注意，隨著對外開放的進一步擴大，外國文化的影響越來越大。[4]隨著傳統節日逐漸消失，而諸如圣誕節、情人節等外來節日廣泛受到歡迎，包括文化專員在內的大眾已經開始傾向于從經濟的角度來考量中國傳統節日。

　　是商業活動而不是文化開始起主導作用。越來越多的人們開始關注在節日期間能夠賺多少錢。

　　[4]實際上，使傳統節日顯得獨特并使它們有生命力的是它們所包含的文化要素。[5]畢竟，在全球化過程中，正是獨特的文化帶來了世是的多樣性。

　　1.The public look at the effectiveness of the legalization of the Qixi Festival witha(n)______________attitude.

　　2.By saying that a growing number of traditional Chinese festivals "share the same fateas the Qixi Festival", the author is worried that such festivalswould_______________someday.

　　3.In what aspect do Japan and ROK do a better job than China?

　　4.It is implied by the author chai traditional Chinese festivals should be measuredin______________terms.

　　5.What makes the world diversified amidst the frend of globalization?

　　1.[doubtful]

　　[定位]根據effectiveness和legalization查找到第2段最后一句和第3段。

　　解析：原文第2段中的in doubt表明公眾對七夕成為法定節日后可能產生的效果持有懷疑態度，回答本題時應將doubt改為其形容司形式doubtful。

　　2.[die out]

　　[定位]根據worry查找到第2段第1句，根據a growing number查找到第4段。

　　解析：原文開頭三段以七夕為例說明中國傳統節日正受到冷遇，并擔心傳統節日會最終消亡，題目事實上是對原文前四段觀點的概括，根據would后用動詞原形，可確定空白處應填寫die out。

　　3.[In preserving culture and traditional festivals.]

　　[定位]根據ROK查找到第6段末句。

　　解析：原文該句中的比較點preserving...也是題目雙方的比較點，由此可見，preserving culture andtraditional festivals為本題答案。

　　4.[cultural]

　　[定位]根據traditional festivals查找到倒數第3段末句和末段第1句。

　　解析：倒數第3段提出了現在大多數人從經濟角度考量中國傳統節日的現象，但是末段用In fact來表轉折，表明作者實際上認為“文化”(而非經濟)才是最重要的，由此可推斷，作者認為我們應從“文化的”角度考量中國傳統節日，“文化的”可表達為cultural。

　　5.[Unique culture.]

　　[定位]根據globalization查找到末段末句。

　　解析：末段末句是一個強調句，表明是unique culture使世界變得多樣化，即為本題答案。