D.          The Moon Festival is a big holiday for the Chinese. On this day, people eat mooncakes, so it’s also named” Mooncake Festival.”You must be surprised that mooncakes once helped a revolution.          Long ago, Mongolians from the north built Yuan Dynasty(1280—1368) and ruled the Han Chinese. The Han Chinese oftenplanned or tried to fight Mongolians back. A Han Chinese leader, Zhu Yuanzhang, and his advisor, Liu Bowen, had an idea to get theHan Chinese together to end Yuan Dynasty. Liu started a rumor that a terrible disease would hurt people and the only way to be safefrom it was to eat special mooncakes. The rumor helped Liu’s followers pass mooncakes fast. They put a secret message in eachmooncake to tell the Han Chinese to fight on the 15th day of August. The plan worked! At last, Zhu won and built Ming Dynasty. *revolution 革命 Mongolian 蒙古人 Dynasty 朝代 the Han Chinese 漢人 advisor 軍師 rumor 謠言 disease 疾病follower 追隨者 secret message 秘密訊息
【題組】9. What does “fight Mongolians back” mean?
(A) Mongolians got a terrible disease and died out.
(B) Push Mongolians to their home land in the north.
(C) Change Mongolians to be the Han Chinese.
(D) Ask Mongolians to stay in Ming Dynasty.