Many foreigners who visit Beijing are interested in the old lanes (巷子) there. Chinese call them Beijing hutong. Many of them appeared hundreds of years ago during the Ming and Qing dynasties. And now, they keep not only the traditional culture but also the way of the life in the past.

Some Beijing hutong have interesting names, which tell their location or history. For example, Nanluogu Lane is the busies hutong in Beijing and it is about 787 meters long. And on the west of Nanluogu Lane is Mao’er Lane. There are many great and famous places along this hutong.

Along Beijing hutong, there are usually traditional courtyard compounds (筑有围墙的院子), which are called siheyuan. Many Beijing people grow up in siheyuan. And when they were young, they all experienced running and playing in Beijing hutong.

The famous writer, Laoshe, was born in siheyuan in the west of Beijing city. What he experienced in hutong when he was young was so important for him to create his novels. And even after he was away from Beijing for 20 years, he still clearly remembered and wrote them into his novel named Four Generations under One Roof.

Now, Beijing still has about 400,000 siheyuan for people to live in. However, most hutong are in great danger because more and more new buildings have been built. So we should try our best to protect this treasure of traditional culture—hutong.

【小题1】How many hutong does the writer talk about in the second paragraph of the passage?

A．5.

B．4.

C．3.

D．2.

【小题2】The writer’s purpose of creating this passage is to ______.

A．encourage more people to protect hutong	B．tell his experiences of living in hutong
C．encourage more people to live in siheyuan	D．tell his deep love to Laoshe’s novels

【小题3】Where can we read this passage?

A．From a magazine about languages.	B．From a book about Chinese traditional culture.
C．From a magazine about movies.	D．From a book about Chinese traditional food.