AsIwalkedthroughBeijing'sHouhaineighborhoodsomethinggreencaughtmyeye.Sprouts(豆芽)mushrooms(蘑菇)andflowersallcameoutonpeople'sheads.Iwassosurprisedatthecrazinessthatalotofpeoplehaveplantscomeoutontheir

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As I walked through Beijing's Houhai neighborhood something green caught my eye.Sprouts(豆芽) mushrooms(蘑菇) and flowers all came out on people's heads . I was so surprised at the craziness that a lot of people have plants come out on their heads.

The trend(潮流) was a great chance for business. Merchants(小贩) stood on street comers' selling all kinds of plastic(塑料的) mushrooms and sprouts. Three yuan for one sprout five for a pair. Customers put what they bought onto their heads and walked off and the sprouts danced happily on people's head. China Daily also reported that one Taobao merchant sold 28 850

hairpins(发夹) in a month.

The strange trend had been popular for 2 months in China. I wanted to find out what was behind the strange hairpins. I went to the 798 Art District to do some research There were tons of tourists with sprouts on heads and a shopkeeper told me that the film Monster Hunt was the cause of the popularity. The 2015 Chinese movie featured a cute little monster with a patch of moss(苔藓)on the top of his head.

CNN reported in a different way: The idea of the hairpins came from a Japanese cartoon character. One smiling face has a pair of green leaves growing on its head. The trend was catching great attention from all over the world. Major newspapers like The Wall Street Journal and The Telegraph showed their confusion over the strange trend and they said they really couldn't understand why Chinese people were so crazy.

Some people think perhaps the hairpins are a symbol of the cute and childlike "meng" culture. Others believe they are the symbol of the love for cartoons. Who knows? In fact nobody cares about it. After all beauty is mysterious(种秘的). What is it on your head?

1. From the passage we know the strange hairpin was a great chance for_______________.

A. business B. tourism C. environment D. big stores

2. The underlined word "confusion" in Paragraph Four means .

A.愤怒 B.遗憾 C.惊讶 D困惑

3. We can know from the passage that .

A. the strange hairpin may show people's wishes to protect the environment

B. merchants sold all kinds of wooden sprouts and mushrooms

C. a lot of people want to know why people wear the hairpins.

D. the strange hairpin may come from a Korean cartoon

4. The best title of this passage is .

A. A Strange Trend in China

B. Chinese Special Hairpins