A 45-second video of a Nigerian boy dancing barefoot in the rain has landed the dancer a scholarship at New York's ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School of Dance.
Anthony 's dance video went viral on social media with hundreds of thousands of views from people all over the globe. The video eventually caught the attention of Cynthia Harvey, a former principle dancer with American Ballet Theater and the current artistic director of the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School of Dance, one of America’s most distinguished ballet schools. "A friend who lives in the UK sent me the video.” Harvey told Cincinatti.com. “Within a day, I was trying to find him.”
Two days later, Harvey managed to contact the boy and his teacher. Soon after, she had arranged for full scholarships so Anthony could attend the ABT virtual Young Dancer Summer Workshop, a three-week intensive program. "A child who shows this much devotion, you just have to help," she said.
Anthony's teacher, Daniel Ajala Owoseni, is a self-taught dancer who opened the Leap of Dance Academy in his own small home.
The video of Anthony was filmed outside of his home due to limited space inside.
"It made us just feel very astonished and grateful. We can not believe our eyes, and so much support, sometimes we think we’re dreaming. "God has been so gracious to us by providing all these things.Anthony is very excited and has always been a hard worker, so he is happy to continue working towards his dreams and have this opportunity, Owoseni told Bored Panda.
1. How did Harvey learn about the boy?| A．His teacher recommended him to her. |
| B．She found him in the UK. |
| C．She happened to see him performing online. |
| D．She watched his video from a friend. |
| A．She was deeply touched by him. | B．Her friend asked her to do so. |
| C．Her school was expecting students. | D．She wanted to realize her dream. |
| A．Light-hearted. | B．Kind-hearted. | C．Sensitive. | D．Honest. |
| A．He never went to school. | B．He learned dance by himself. |
| C．He is hard-working and ambitious. | D．He opened a dance school. |
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【推荐1】The first known dress, as well as the earliest known bar and restaurant in France, were identified this week. The discoveries, reported in the journal Antiquity, provide a glimpse of what early life was like in both ancient Egypt and southern France thousands of years ago.
The garment, which dates to around 3482 BC, is known as the Tarkhan Dress, and now looks like a shabby and dirty shirt. When new, however, the linen dress would have looked fashionable even today, as researchers determined it featured a natural pale gray stripe with pleated sleeves and bodice. Its edge is missing, so the original length of the dress is unknown.
"The survival of highly perishable textiles（纺织品）in the archaeological record is exceptional（例外的）, the survival of complete, or almost complete, articles of clothing like the Tarkhan Dress is even more remarkable," Alice Stevenson, head of the University College London（UCL）Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, said in a press release.
Now that the dress' age has been confirmed, it has been named Egypt's oldest garment and is the oldest known surviving woven garment in the world. To calculate its age. Michael Dee of the University of Oxford and colleagues measured a small Sample of the dress to determine how much radiocarbon remained in the linen. Linen is especially suitable for radiocarbon dating, according to the researchers, because it is made of flax fibers that grow over a relatively short time. The dress, currently on display at the UCI.
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, features wear and tear that date back to its earliest days. The researchers believe that a young teenager or a very slim woman wore it.
A separate study in the same journal reports the discovery of a hotel in southern France. At first the researcher thought that they had found a bakery, since they determined that the site once featured three huge ovens. They later, however, found that another nearby room across from a courtyard, had furniture lining its walls.
1. Why is it difficult to determine the length of the garment?| A．Its bottom edge is gone. | B．It has broken into pieces. |
| C．Part of the bottom is missing | D．The edge of sleeves is missing. |
| A．Really in high quality. | B．Valuable and unusual. |
| C．Lasting for quite a long time | D．Being rotten or destroyed easily. |
| A．linen is especially suitable for radiocarbon dating |
| B．the dress proves to be the oldest woven one in the world |
| C．how radiocarbon in the linen is measured by the researchers |
| D．the researchers of University of Oxford knew the dress' age |
| A．TV series. | B．A book review. |
| C．A science report. | D．A fashion show. |
【推荐2】Chinese astronauts delivered a science lecture to millions of students on Earth on March, 23. Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu conducted diverse scientific experiments in micro-gravity environment and introduced the space science facilities during the lecture. “The goal is to popularize space science,” noted China Daily.
In the lecture, the micro-gravity experiment showed how to separate oil from water in space. Wang prepared a small bottle of oil and water, which were separated at the beginning, while the students on the ground also had such bottles, allowing them to follow the procedures. The teacher and students all shook bottles to mix oil and water into a fluid mixture. The students found their mixture gradually separated into oil and water again, but the fluid in space remained as a mixture.
When Wang asked for a method of separating water and oil in space, a student from Beijing suggested swinging the bottle in a circle. Wang’s teammate Ye Guangfu tried the method and succeeded in separating the two. Wang said that centrifugation, the simple principle behind the experiment, can play an important role in science experiments.
This was not the first time that Chinese astronauts had tried this kind of lecture. Early in June 2013, Chinese female astronaut Wang Yaping, assisted by the other two crew members aboard Shenzhou-10 spacecraft, delivered the country’s first space lecture to over 60 million schoolchildren across China via live video streaming.
In a 40-minute lesson, she demonstrated how different objects behaved in a micro-gravity environment, and explained the concepts of weight and mass in Newton’s laws of motion. Towards the end of the class, Wang Yaping made a film of water using a metal ring, explained by the increased surface tension of water in space due to zero gravity. She then turned the film of water into a water ball by pouring more water onto it.
Although the astronauts are thousands of miles away, their research does influence our life and spark students’ interest in science.
1. Why did the astronauts conduct such experiments in space?| A．To explain the principle behind. | B．To introduce the space science facilities. |
| C．To spread scientific space knowledge. | D．To attract more students to attend the courses. |
| A．The students’ mixture eventually settled into a fluid one. |
| B．Wang’s mixture separated successfully after the first swing. |
| C．Swinging the bottles in a circle made the separation succeed. |
| D．Centrifugation helped to separate the oil and water on Earth. |
| A．Wang’s excellent experiment skills. | B．The increased gravity in space. |
| C．The stronger water surface tension in space. | D．The advanced science technology in space. |
| A．Experiments in space | B．Learning from Space |
| C．Micro-gravity environment | D．Astronauts in space |
【推荐3】Hongbai Primary School was completely destroyed in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. The school was located just 10 kilometers away from Yingxiu, Sichuan province, the tremor’s epicenter (震中).
All of the school buildings fell down. Nearly 160 students and seven teachers were buried under the fallen buildings.
After the quake, Beijing worked together with Shifang, a city 40 km from Hongbai town, to rebuild the school. By the end of 2009, construction of the new school was finished. They named it Bo’ai Primary School, which means universal love to show their gratitude to those who helped bring things back to normal.
The school’s headmaster, Wu Chenglin, said new equipment in the school and help of teachers from Beijing and Hongbai are contributing to the students’ education.
From the looks on the children’s faces and the sounds of their laughter, it would be nearly impossible to tell that just a few years ago this land and their school was destroyed by a terrible earthquake.
Bo’ai Primary School is not just a replacement building to cover up past disaster. It is a symbol of hope happiness and the determination of the residents of Hongbai.
1. The text mainly talks about__________.| A．the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake | B．a new school in quake town |
| C．the school’s headmaster | D．the students’ education |
| A．New equipment in the school | B．Help of teachers from Beijing |
| C．Help of teachers from Hongbai. | D．Gratitude to those who offered help |
| A．Bo’ai Primary School fell down in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. |
| B．Bo’ai Primary School is only a replacement building. |
| C．Construction of Bo’ai Primary School hasn’t been finished. |
| D．The name of Bo’ai Primary School is to show gratitude to those who offered help. |
| A．in a magazine | B．in a dictionary | C．in a story-book | D．on a map |
【推荐1】I am Duncan Bannatyne. I am a successful businessman with a chain of health clubs and hotels. I also appears on the BBC series Dragons Den, where I judge new business ideas. The only thing I enjoyed at school was maths. I had the ability to add up, but my maths teacher didn’t have much time for me because I couldn’t write down how I got the answers. I hated things like English-I slightly had difficulty in reading. I was hopeless at sport, too. I could see that the kids who went to high school had better toys than me so I made up my mind to do as well as I could, so that I could pass the exam and get into the best school. I worked very hard, and then I made it. I was the only one in the family who did, so my parents were so proud of me.
I started delivering newspapers when my mother said I couldn’t have an ice cream because we were too poor. When I went to the newsagent’s, the owner told me that there was no need for a delivery boy. I said that my mother would like her paper delivered. But he told me, “That’s one person. I need 100.” At last, I knocked on 150 doors. When the ice cream van came around again, I had enough money to buy ice creams for my whole family.
When I left school, I didn’t use my business skills for fifteen years. I was in the Navy and then worked as a garage mechanic. It was always in my mind, though. When I was twenty-nine, I was on a beach in the Channel Islands with my girlfriend and we decided to go back to the mainland and make money. Believe it or not, my first company was Duncan’s Super Ices which expanded from a single ice cream van to a large group of ice cream vans.
1. What can we know about Duncan from paragraph 1?| A．He did well in reading. | B．He was good at maths and sport. |
| C．He was admitted to the best high school. | D．His parents were not satisfied with his performance. |
| A．To buy ice creams. | B．To set up his first company. |
| C．To get some working experience. | D．To improve his calculating skills. |
| A．Wanting ice creams. | B．Wanting better toys. |
| C．Helping his mother. | D．Making money. |
| A．Duncan made a fortune in the Channel Islands. |
| B．Duncan attended Dragons Den to make himself well-known. |
| C．Duncan didn’t start a business until he went back to the mainland. |
| D．Duncan persuaded over 150 households to have their newspapers delivered. |
【推荐2】At just 19 years of age, the young Belgium-British pilot, Zara Rutherford, aims to be the youngest woman to fly around the world solo in a single-engine aircraft. If she succeeds, she will overtake Shaesta Waiz’s world record to become the youngest woman to fly around the globe solo.
Zara has been on the plane her whole life. Her mother is an amateur pilot, and her father is a professional one. Over 80 hours of flight recorded and countless more in the future, she received her pilot's license in 2020.
To pay for her two-month journey, Zara has sold her car and sought out different sponsors (赞助商). Also concerned about the environmental effects of her trip, she plans to spend $710 on tree projects to make up for her carbon footprint (碳排放量). Her small, single-engine plane is customized for her needs and includes radio and satellite communications.
Zara has faced challenges such as bad weather, being forced to fly low over the ocean, and failing radio contact. “I’m really happy to be on the ground, to be honest,” she says in a video posted after her arrival in Kulusuk, Greenland. “The first little bit was fine, but then suddenly the clouds were getting lower and lower. At one point I was 600 feet above the ocean, which was pretty scary.” She lost radio contact 30 minutes into that trip and had two hours without communications.
While setting a world record is Zara’s aim, her main purpose is to inspire others. She said, “Growing up, I was really into aviation (航空), science, tech, engineering, and mathematics. But I didn’t see many other girls in those fields.” So, with this flight, she hopes to encourage and motivate other girls and young women to pursue their dreams and reduce the gender (性别) gap in STEM.
1. What did Zara Rutherford do before for her flight?| A．She reduced her carbon footprint. |
| B．She asked her parents to support her. |
| C．She took long hours of flight training. |
| D．She personalized her plane for her special needs. |
| A．Being a pilot is a dangerous job. |
| B．Zara was scared of flying over the ocean. |
| C．Zara successfully overcame some difficulties. |
| D．The weather is very changeable in Greenland. |
| A．Prove her outstanding ability in flying. | B．Win fame as the world record breaker. |
| C．Encourage people to go into aviation. | D．Increase girls’ confidence in STEM. |
| A．A girl’s road to becoming a pilot | B．A big step in reducing gender gap |
| C．A girl’s solo flight around the world | D．A girl’s dream of travelling the world |
【推荐3】The little country schoolhouse was heated by an old coal stove. A little boy, Glenn Cunningham, came to school early each day to start the fire and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates got there.
One morning they arrived to find the schoolhouse burning. They dragged (拖) the little boy out of the building. He was almost dead. Then he was quickly taken to a nearby country hospital. The doctor told the boy’s mother that since the lower part of his body was seriously burnt, he couldn’t use his legs anymore. However, the brave boy made up his mind that he would walk. Unluckily his thin legs just hung there, all but lifeless.
Finally he returned home from the hospital. Every day his mother would press his little legs, but there was no feeling, no control, nothing. Yet his determination that he would walk was as strong as ever.
When he wasn’t in bed, he would sit in a wheelchair. One sunny day his mother wheeled him out into the yard to get some fresh air. This day, instead of sitting there, he threw himself from the chair and pulled himself across the grass, dragging his legs behind him.
He worked his way to the white fence (栅栏) around the yard. With great effort, he raised himself up on the fence. Then, he began dragging himself along the fence, and he believed that he would walk. He started to do this every day. There was nothing he wanted more than to develop life in those legs.
In the end, through his determination he stood up. Gradually he began to walk to school, then to run to school, to run for the joy of running. Later in college he made the running team.
Still later, this determined young man in Madison Square Garden, Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran the world’s fastest mile in 1934!
1. What happened to Glenn Cunningham in his childhood?| A．He had a serious illness. | B．He saved a little boy. |
| C．His legs were badly burnt. | D．His mother was out of work. |
| A．The doctor helped him with training. |
| B．The college team members helped him. |
| C．He had a great talent for running. |
| D．He trained his legs with great effort. |
| A．Determined and strong-willed. | B．Serious and confident. |
| C．Gifted and open-minded. | D．Friendly and careful. |
| A．All roads lead to Rome. | B．Determination counts. |
| C．Easier said than done. | D．Seeing is believing. |
