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Chinese Dumplings — Wealth

With a history of more than 1,800 years, dumplings are a classic Chinese food, and a traditional dish eaten on Chinese New Year's Eve, widely popular in China, especially in North China.
  Chinese dumplings can be made to look like Chinese silver ingots (which are not bars, but boat-shaped and turned up at the two ends). Legend has it that the more dumplings you eat during the New Year celebrations, the more money you can make in the New Year.
Fish — an Increase in Prosperity
  In Chinese, "fish" means there is something left for the coming use. Chinese people always like to have something left at the end of the year, because they think if they have managed to save something at the end of the year, then they can make more in the next year.
  The fish should be the last dish left with some left over. This is practiced north of the Yangtze River, but in other areas the head and tail of the fish shouldn't be eaten until the beginning of the year, which expresses the hope that the year will start and finish with something left.
Spring Rolls — Wealth
  Spring rolls get their name because they are traditionally eaten during the Spring Festival. It is a dish especially popular in East China: Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Fujian, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, etc.
  Spring rolls are a Cantonese dish of cylindrical-shaped rolls filled with vegetables, meat, or something sweet. Fillings are wrapped in thin wrappers, then fried, when the spring rolls are given their golden-yellow color.
Glutinous Rice Cake — a Higher Income or Position
  In Chinese, glutinous rice cake sounds like it means "'getting higher year-on- by year"'. The main ingredients of niangao are sticky rice, sugar, chestnuts, Chinese dates, and lotus leaves.
Sweet Rice Balls — Family Togetherness
  Sweet rice ball is the main food for China's Lantern Festival, however, in south China, people eat them throughout the Spring Festival. The pronunciation and round shape of tangyuan are associated with reunion and being together. That’s why they are favored by the Chinese during the New Year celebrations.

21.If an employee hopes to get promoted in the coming year, what would he/she favour?

A£®The fish           B. The spring rolls

C. The glutinous rice cake        D. The Chinese dumplings   

22. How many kinds of dishes have the potential meaning of “wealth”?

A. 2              B. 3            C. 4            D. 5

23. For what reason do spring rolls get its name?

A. Because of its cylindrical shape.      B. Because of its sweet taste

C. Because of its yellow colour.      D. Because of its eaten season.