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(jié)，相當(dāng)于中國(guó)的情人節(jié)，它不僅讓忘了過(guò)節(jié)的情人們失望，也讓沒(méi)有賺到錢的商人們感到失望。

　　七夕節(jié)遭到冷遇促使文化學(xué)者為這個(gè)情人節(jié)由衷地?fù)?dān)心起來(lái)——[2]七夕節(jié)從漢朝開(kāi)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(nóng)歷七月初七這個(gè)節(jié)日設(shè)為法定的“中國(guó)情人節(jié)”。

　　[1]然而，盡管保留傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日的勢(shì)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(lái)越多的中國(guó)傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日，例如端午節(jié)、中秋節(jié)等，都面臨和七夕節(jié)同樣的命運(yùn)。

　　年輕人對(duì)這些節(jié)日所象征的傳統(tǒng)文化顯示出越來(lái)越少的興趣。即使所有傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日最后都被確定為法定節(jié)日，它們淪為沒(méi)有什么內(nèi)涵的、純粹是形式上的慶祝活動(dòng)的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)并沒(méi)有消除。如果年輕人不能認(rèn)同這些節(jié)日的文化意義，那就真沒(méi)辦法了。

　　在抱怨傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日喪失吸引力的同時(shí)，決策者們應(yīng)該考慮文化保護(hù)的問(wèn)題。[3]不可否認(rèn)，在保護(hù)文化、保護(hù)傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日方面，與鄰近的日本和韓國(guó)相比，我國(guó)做得很差。

　　已有2500年歷史的端午節(jié)是在農(nóng)歷的五月初五。該節(jié)日的傳統(tǒng)風(fēng)俗和儀式原本起源于中國(guó)，卻在韓國(guó)得到更好的沿襲。

　　只是幾年前。當(dāng)韓國(guó)人計(jì)劃向聯(lián)合國(guó)教科文組織申請(qǐng)把它的端午節(jié)風(fēng)俗列為重要的非物質(zhì)文化遺產(chǎn)項(xiàng)目時(shí)，中國(guó)才開(kāi)始意識(shí)到保存非物質(zhì)文化遺產(chǎn)的重要性。

　　對(duì)傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日的關(guān)注也提醒人們注意，隨著對(duì)外開(kāi)放的進(jìn)一步擴(kuò)大，外國(guó)文化的影響越來(lái)越大。[4]隨著傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日逐漸消失，而諸如圣誕節(jié)、情人節(jié)等外來(lái)節(jié)日廣泛受到歡迎，包括文化專員在內(nèi)的大眾已經(jīng)開(kāi)始傾向于從經(jīng)濟(jì)的角度來(lái)考量中國(guó)傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日。

　　是商業(yè)活動(dòng)而不是文化開(kāi)始起主導(dǎo)作用。越來(lái)越多的人們開(kāi)始關(guān)注在節(jié)日期間能夠賺多少錢。

　　[4]實(shí)際上，使傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日顯得獨(dú)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(guò)程中，正是獨(dú)特的文化帶來(lái)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(jù)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(duì)七夕成為法定節(jié)日后可能產(chǎn)生的效果持有懷疑態(tài)度，回答本題時(shí)應(yīng)將doubt改為其形容司形式doubtful。

　　2.[die out]

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

　　解析：原文開(kāi)頭三段以七夕為例說(shuō)明中國(guó)傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日正受到冷遇，并擔(dān)心傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日會(huì)最終消亡，題目事實(shí)上是對(duì)原文前四段觀點(diǎn)的概括，根據(jù)would后用動(dòng)詞原形，可確定空白處應(yīng)填寫die out。

　　3.[In preserving culture and traditional festivals.]

　　[定位]根據(jù)ROK查找到第6段末句。

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

　　4.[cultural]

　　[定位]根據(jù)traditional festivals查找到倒數(shù)第3段末句和末段第1句。

　　解析：倒數(shù)第3段提出了現(xiàn)在大多數(shù)人從經(jīng)濟(jì)角度考量中國(guó)傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日的現(xiàn)象，但是末段用In fact來(lái)表轉(zhuǎn)折，表明作者實(shí)際上認(rèn)為“文化”(而非經(jīng)濟(jì))才是最重要的，由此可推斷，作者認(rèn)為我們應(yīng)從“文化的”角度考量中國(guó)傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日，“文化的”可表達(dá)為cultural。

　　5.[Unique culture.]

　　[定位]根據(jù)globalization查找到末段末句。

　　解析：末段末句是一個(gè)強(qiáng)調(diào)句，表明是unique culture使世界變得多樣化，即為本題答案。