1 July 2021
On June 29 this year, Zhang Guimei was awarded CPC’s top honor July 1 Medal at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. At the ceremony. she said she did all this out of her gratefulness and love for the country, as well as the original aspiration and mission of a CPC member.
Zhang Guimei, who has dedicated her 40 years to education at China’s southwestern border, is a principal motivating young girls from impoverished families in mountainous areas.
Zhang was born in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang province in 1957. At 17, she came to Dali in Yunnan province to support the development of border areas, where she stumbled into teaching and started a career as an educator. After her husband’s death in 1996, she went to teach in Huaping county, Yunnan’s Lijiang. Five years later, she established a chilren’s home and worked as a part-time president of it. The organization adopted a total of over 170 children, who call Zhang mom though she has never given birth to a child..
While teaching there,she saw many girls drop out of school due to poverty. To change the destiny of the girls in the mountain, Zhang started her preparation to build a free all-girls high school in 2002. In 2007, Zhang went to Beijing for the 17th CPC National Congress as a deputy. Her report titled “I have a dream” delivered at the meeting made her dream of building a free all-girls high school known to all. Later, both the Lijiang and Huaping governments sponsored her with a million yuan. A year later, Zhang’s school was completed, becoming the first free all-girls high school in China. During the past 13 years, the school has nurtured over I,800 students who have made it to universities.
With no offspring and property, Zhang lives in a dormitory building with her students. She has donated all her cash awards, donations from others, and most of her salaries, more than a million yuan, to the children and other people in need. She suffers from 23 diseases, but she is still working selflessly.
Her story has moved millions of Chinese people and is now written into a newly published Brief History of the People’s Republic of China.
1. What’s the writing style of this passage?A.A biography. | B.An argumentation. |
C.A news report. | D.A narration. |
A.To change the destiny of the girls in the mountain. |
B.To lift girls in the mountain out of poverty. |
C.To establish a children’s home. |
D.To found a free high school for girls only. |
A.She has committed herself to education in urban areas |
B.She is a moral model burning herself to light others. |
C.She has been teaching in Huaping county since she came to Yunnan. |
D.She was awarded the Medal on 1 July. |
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Thinking back the group’s first tour in Europe, Camake Valaule, a physical education teacher and the founder of the Taiwu Elementary School Folk Singers, admitted that he felt very nervous. He was worried that the audience would fall asleep since most of the 75-minute performance was a cappella, that is, singing without instrumental sound. Surprisingly, the audience listened with full focus and high spirits. Camake said, “They told me afterward that through our performance, they had a vision of our country, our village, without having to visit it. This experience greatly increased our confidence.”
According to Camake Valaule, singing traditional ballads has helped students and their parents to re-understand their culture. “It used to be that the only ones who could sing these songs were tribal elders aged between 50 and 60. Now with the children performing the pieces, parents are beginning to ask, ‘Why do we not know how to sing these ballads?’ Many times nowadays, it is the children who teach the songs to their parents, putting back the pieces of a blurred memory.
Winning international fame, however, was neither the original intention nor the main reason why Camake founded the group in 2006. The most important thing was to make children understand why they sing these songs and to preserve and pass on their culture. Referring to the relocation of Taiwu Elementary School and Taiwu Village following Typhoon Morakot in August 2009, Camake said, “We could not take the forest or our houses in the mountains with us; but we were able to bring our culture along. As long as the children are willing to sing, I will always be there for them, singing with them and leading them to experience the meaning of the ballads.”
1. Which of the following is true about Taiwu Elementary School Folk Singers?
A.The group was first established in 2009. |
B.The group was founded by a PE teacher. |
C.The singers usually sing popular folk songs. |
D.The singers learn to sing from their parents. |
A.The average age of the audience was between fifty and sixty. |
B.Most of the performance was not accompanied by any instrument. |
C.Nobody could understand the language and the meaning of the songs. |
D.The audience could not visualize the theme sung by the school children. |
A.The fading memories about old tribal people. |
B.The children’s ignorance of their own tradition. |
C.The broken pieces of knowledge taught at school. |
D.The parents’ vague understanding of their own culture. |
A.The significance of the relocation of Taiwu Elementary School. |
B.The need to respect nature to avoid being destroyed by it. |
C.The importance of passing on the traditional culture. |
D.The consequence of building houses in the forest. |
【推荐2】Still dressed in their sleepwear, Dian Turner’s kids couldn‘’t wait to get outside. But they didn’t go far — they stopped at the footpath outside their Melbourne home, armed with a box of chalks.
Max, seven, and Lenny, four, have been away from their friends since coronavirus physical-distancing rules came into force and the Victorian school holidays were brought forwards a week. They’re just two of the many children who have been spending their shutdown time drawing rainbows (彩虹) and encouraging messages like “We’re all in this together” across Australia. “It was something for the kids to make them feel connected to other people, because obviously they’re feeling a little bit uncertain about staying at home and what this means, and not being able to go to the playground and the park,” Ms Turner said.
Ms Turner first saw the idea when she was added to a Facebook group called the Rainbow Trail, which documents children and their parents drawing rainbows for others to spot. Ms Turner, a lawyer who has been spending much of her time working from home amid the shutdown measures, said it was “something positive to talk about” with the family. “You’re not breaking any of the social-distancing rules but it’s something that you can do and you can be happy and show that there’s a connection.”
University of Melbourne public health researcher Lisa Gibbs said it was important to provide children with age-appropriate ways to make them feel active and capable during the pandemic. “It’s easy in times of danger, which essentially this is, to be so concerned with protecting children, which obviously is of great importance,” Professor Gibbs said. “But in protecting children we can sometimes treat them as vulnerable (脆弱的), which makes them feel useless. So these sorts of activities are really helpful in providing a sense of agency in children that they can make a contribution to others.”
Professor Gibbs said in times of disaster, two patterns were very common — community mobilization, where people banded together, and community deterioration (恶化), where social supports fell apart. “So what these activities from children are doing is really contributing to social mobilization,” she said. “And people respond really positively to children’s messages, because they spread joy.”
1. What did Max and Lenny do during the shutdown time?A.They held a party. |
B.They drew rainbows in pencil. |
C.They gave their neighbors a lift with art. |
D.They played some sports games on the footpath. |
A.It is beneficial. |
B.It is time-wasting. |
C.It should be further developed. |
D.It may break social-distancing rules. |
A.They are safe. |
B.They are careless. |
C.They are helpless. |
D.They are valuable. |
A.They help to build social connection. |
B.They are hard to understand. |
C.They will cause pollution. |
D.They lack creativity. |
【推荐3】On the day Apple debuted the often-delayed white-colored iPhone 4, the company’s marketing department gave a nod to the product’s troubled history.
“Finally.” read the big headline Thursday above a picture of the white phone on the homepage of Apple.com.
The white model was supposed to ship alongside the black one at the iPhone 4’s launch (推出) last June. But design and manufacturing complications delayed the process by 10 months, catching Apple off guard, executives say.
As CNN reported last month, earlier test models of the white iPhone 4 produced unclear photos, especially when the flash(闪光灯) was used. Its whiteness confused the proximity sensor (距离传感器) , which detects when the phone is held next to someone’s head and turns off the touch screen to save battery life.
These problems weren’t present in older iPhones that came in white because they didn’t have flash photography; the proximity sensor was unaffected because the front side of previous models was black.
“We thought we were there a year ago, or less than that, when we launched the iPhone 4, and we weren’t,” Philip Schiller, Apple’s chief marketing executive, said in an interview. “It’s not as simple as making something white. There’s a lot more that goes into both the material science of it —how it holds up over time…but also in how it all works with the sensors. ”
Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White predicts that the white model could help drive sales of Apple’s phones. He says Apple could sell 1 million to 1.5 million every three months until the next iPhone model is unveiled, which is expected to be this fall.
Forty-five people were lined up at Apple’s flagship New York store Thursday morning to buy white iPhones, according to a CNN Money report.
1. The reason why white-colored iPhone 4 was delayed by 10 months is that _______.A.it’s always sold out due to its popularity |
B.it met some problems concerning design and manufacture |
C.it lacked white manufacturing materials |
D.its proximity sensor can’t save battery life |
A.There are multi-colored models of iPhone 4. |
B.The same design problems were also found in older white iPhones. |
C.IPhone4 will be launched this fall. |
D.Originally designers thought they could solve the problems before iPhone 4 was launched. |
A.Why the White iPhone 4 Took So Long |
B.The History of iPhone 4 |
C.The Attraction of White iPhone 4 |
D.The Design and Manufacture of iPhone 4 |
A.to remove one’s mask from his face |
B.to remove a cloth from something, especially as part of a ceremony |
C.to show to the public for the first time |
D.to disappear from the public for the first time |
【推荐1】Collette Divitto, 31, was born with Down's Syndrome (唐氏综合征) but she is far from disabled. This woman channeled her passion for baking into a cookie business with a global mission to change the world, one, cookie at a time.
Based in Boston, Massachusetts, her company was founded in 2016. Although she didn’t plan on being a business owner, she really created jobs for disabled people with all types of abilities. She said that she opened the bakery after receiving numerous job interview rejections, often being told she was not “a good fit” for the company. “It was sad and it was hard,” she said. “To me, it felt like they didn’t like me at all because of who I am. No one would hire me, so I decided to open my own business.”
The path to success wasn’t easy. Divitto’s mother Rosemary Alfredo didn’t raise her daughter to think of herself as different from her classmates. But this changed when Divitto was in the fourth grade and she was bullied by a boy in her class who started calling her “Down Syndrome”. Her mother had to have a conversation with her about what it meant and from then on, Divitto worked hard to be fully accepted at school.
Divitto is not resting on her laurels (荣誉). A big part of her company’s mission is to help people with disabilities find jobs. She is also the author of two children’s books and she was featured on the documentary Born for Business, about pioneers with disabilities. Divitto also runs a nonprofit organization, Collettey’s Leadership Org.
Her first priority is to let people start seeing abilities in the physically disadvantaged and to employ the 82 percent of the people with disabilities who are capable of working but cannot find jobs. With her drive and vision, Divitto is sure to be a success.
1. What drove Divitto to Start her own business?A.The desire to help others. |
B.The failure to find a job. |
C.The prospect of bakery. |
D.The passion for baking. |
A.She attempts to be a pioneer. |
B.She aims to assist the disabled. |
C.She wants to enlarge her business. |
D.She plans to direct a documentary. |
A.Equal human rights. |
B.Their working conditions. |
C.Chances of self-development. |
D.Recognition of their abilities. |
A.Independent and strict. |
B.Ambitious and humorous. |
C.Determined and responsible. |
D.Outgoing and knowledgeable. |
【推荐2】Ida Nelson was relaxing herself in her sister’s sauna (桑拿室) when she heard the sound of a small airplane circling the nearby airport.
It was 11: 30 at night in a remote village with a population of 70, and, as she told the newspaper reporter, Any time a plane flies over that late, you know something is wrong. Nelson and her sister leaped out of the sauna, ran to the window, and saw the problem-the airport’s runway lights were out. Nelson threw on some clothes, jumped into her jeep, and floored it to the airport, where she found a local pilot trying to turn on the lights manually.
Normally, if you push the button 10 or 15 times, the lights will just light up, Nelson told the reporter. Not this time. Meanwhile, she and the pilot learned of the plane’s exigent mission - it was a helicopter there to transport a seriously ill local girl, to the nearest hospital, 280 miles away in another city.
Nelson had a plan. Driving her jeep to the end of the runway, she shone her headlights on the road for the plane to follow. Great idea, but it wasn’t enough. More light was needed so a neighbor called nearly every home in the village 32 of them.
Within 20 minutes, 20 vehicles arrived at the airport, many of the drivers still in pajamas. Following directions from the helicopter pilot, the cars lined up on one side of the runway. The helicopter made its final approach and, guided by the headlights, landed safely. The young patient was loaded onto the aircraft, and the plane immediately took off again Her illness was never publicly known, but she has since been recovered.
Without them, the girl might not have made it. However, for Nelson, it was only a small deed.
1. What problem did the helicopter encounter?A.Its lights went out by accident |
B.It made noise as it ran out of fuel |
C.It could not land safely in darkness. |
D.It didn’t arrive at the scheduled time |
A.impossible | B.unique | C.intense | D.urgent |
A.The girl has been in the hospital since her illness was reported. |
B.The creative thought and the sense of duty of Nelson led to the final landing. |
C.The helicopter was to transport the girl from the local hospital to another one. |
D.The villagers gathered so quickly because they were awake and ready to help. |
A.No way is impossible to courage. |
B.A friend in need is a friend indeed |
C.A small act of kindness makes a big difference. |
D.Where there is a wisdom. there is effectiveness. |
【推荐3】In 1955, when Rosa Parks refused an order to give up her seat to a white passenger and moved to the back of the bus, her incredible act of resistance became the fuel for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Led by none other than Martin Luther King Jr., it led to the civil rights movement in America.
Known as “the Mother of the Modern Civil Rights Movement”, Parks moved to Detroit in 1957 where she continued to fight for civil rights. In 1994, at the age of 81, Parks was attacked and robbed in her home.
When word of the attack got out, Judge Damon Keith contacted Mike Ilitch, a real estate (地产) developer. Upon hearing of the incident, Mike Ilitch offered to pay for safer housing for Parks until her death.
Hidden from public knowledge, and known only to a select few individuals, Ilitch’s kindness towards Rosa Parks remained a secret for many years. It wasn’t until an article was published in the Sports Business Daily in 2014 that the secret came out. And it didn’t gain popular attention until it resurfaced after Ilitch’s death in 2017.
The article contained a photograph of Keith holding a copy of a cheque.
“It’s for $2,000, dated November the first, 1994,” Keith said. “It’s from Little Caesars Enterprises to Riverfront Apartments. It’s important that people know what Mr. Mike Ilitch did for Ms. Rosa Parks because it’s symbolic of what he has always done for the people of our city.”
It wasn’t Ilitch’s only act of giving. Throughout his life, the billionaire made significant contributions to various charitable causes. In 1985, he established the Little Caesars Love Kitchen which provides food for those in need.
Mike Ilitch and Rosa Parks may have come from two completely different worlds and lived very different lives, but there is one common thread that ties them together—commitment to creating positive change.
1. What can we learn about Rosa Parks?A.She is a brave white woman. | B.She fought for gender equality. |
C.She contributed a lot to American history. | D.She was attacked and robbed on the bus. |
A.Creative. | B.Generous. | C.Passionate. | D.Courageous. |
A.In 1957. | B.In 1994. | C.In 2014. | D.In 2017. |
A.A Buried Secret | B.A Great Woman |
C.An Old Check | D.A Lifelong Friendship |