Most recently, Zhang Chaofan has been honored as a national ethical role model at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Over the past six years, Zhang has donated 1.35 million yuan and raised 5.2 million yuan from the public to help more than 400 people with health problems — including teachers with severe cancer, disabled children and autistic (自闭症的) children in poor families — learn traditional Chinese culture.
She has also made more than 700 public welfare speeches at universities and in poor mountain areas, teaching people how to gain self-esteem, confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement.
The young girl was born without a left forearm in Changchun, Jilin Province, but her constant drive to become stronger has inspired many people.
In 2015, Zhang rejected an offer of postgraduate study from a famous university and set up a calligraphy and painting school in Changchun. When she found that some parents were unable to afford their children’s education fees, she made the lessons free and began providing 300,000 yuan annually to help them through her foundation.
“I think it’s important for teenagers to receive quality education because they are the future of the country,” she said. “I will make great efforts to help them get equal opportunities to pursue their dreams and inspire them to do their best.”
In early 2020, her school stopped all courses because of the pandemic, but she didn’t stop her public welfare activities. She raised materials and donations worth more than 8 million yuan. Then she sent masks, protective suits, and daily necessities to medical workers.
“Women in the new era should have the courage to create value and also have a sense of social responsibility,” she said. “It is my great honor to be elected as a role model. This will become a driving force for me to forge ahead and pass on the seeds of public welfare through even greater efforts.”
1. What do we know about Zhang Chaofan?A.She donated all her money to help people in difficulty. |
B.She will be elected as a national ethical role model in Beijing. |
C.She made many public speeches at universities in poor mountain areas. |
D.She provided many free lessons for the children who couldn’t afford them. |
A.Enthusiastic and entertaining. | B.Devoted and responsible. |
C.Capable and creative. | D.Professional and talented. |
A.She will teach girls to win more prizes through her courses. |
B.She will influence many girls like her to be painters and calligraphers. |
C.She will continue her career and spread her public welfare activities. |
D.She will encourage women in the new era to be courageous and sociable. |
A.Only the strong-willed girl can reach her goals. |
B.Disability and experience made the girl strong. |
C.A girl with the broken wing followed her dream bravely. |
D.Kindness and generosity helped the girl be well-known. |
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【推荐1】My name is Sara. When I was little, I played the drum. I also had a guitar. In fourth grade, I started playing the trombone(长号). I practised about four hours a week. All of this might not seem like a big deal for a lot of kids, but there's something about me that makes me a bit different from others. I was born without hands. Since I was about one year old, I've worn prosthetics(假肢).
This year, I got an invitation to join the high school marching band(行进乐队). I told my mum I wanted to do it. But I had an instructor who thought I would not be able to march in the band—not because it was a high school band and I was only in seventh grade, but probably because my body was different. All I wanted was to show that I could do it, so I joined the band. And it paid off!
Music gives me energy. That happens sometimes. One time I was so down. I didn't even want to get out of bed. Then I hit my MP3 player by accident. A song came on, and I got up and started dancing. It helped me say to myself, “OK, I can get through today.”
Around my musician friends, we all share the same problems, like working out how many beats there are in a measure(小节). I have a hard time counting the beats, but so do a lot of the other kids. It's a normal problem that we musicians share. When I'm with the band, I don't feel as different as I do in other situations. It's just another way that music makes me want to go on, and not to just sit down by myself and not care about life.
1. In what way is Sara different from other kids?A.There's something wrong with her body. |
B.She knows how to play many instruments. |
C.She learned to play the drum at a very early age. |
D.She kept playing the trombone for the longest hours. |
A.said no at first | B.had no idea what to do |
C.followed the instructor's advice | D.believed that she would make it |
A.Bored. | B.Relaxed. |
C.Tired. | D.Afraid. |
【推荐2】Maria Sibylla Merian-drawing from life
In 17th-century Europe, it was unheard of for a woman to travel by herself, but that didn’t stop Maria Sibylla Merian. In 1699, she and her 2l-year-old daughter Dorothea sailed from Amsterdam to Suriname in South America. The three-month voyage was dangerous but she was determined to go. Besides, she was on a bold mission. She would be the first person to go to a foreign country to study and paint insects directly from nature.
When they arrived in Suriname, Maria and Dorothea started working. Day after day, they took their painting materials into the hot and humid rainforest to collect and draw insects and plants. Artists had never done such a thing before. Still life painters drew from dead specimens. But Maria had always been interested in painting living animals and plants, and her favourite subjects were insects.
In the rainforest, she climbed ladders to study and collect insects. She had trees cut down so she could see what lived at the top level of the forest more than a hundred feet overhead. Maria combined both art and science in her work. As a skilled observer, she kept detailed notes.
Maria planned to stay in Suriname for five years, painting and collecting insects and plants that Europeans had never seen. She learnt about the medicinal plants of the area and expanded her interest to spiders, birds, lizards and snakes. She planned to publish a book of her new work on her return to Amsterdam.
After two years, she had to leave Suriname. The heat was unbearable and she was ill with malaria. But she had more than enough material for a book. In June 1701, Maria and Dorothea sailed back to Amsterdam with many paintings and specimens—butterflies preserved in brandy, bottles with crocodiles and snakes, lizards’ eggs and boxes of pressed insects.
Four years later, in 1705, Maria published the book, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, for which she is best known. The paintings of insects and plants in their natural habitats revolutionized scientific illustration and advanced the scientific study of insects.
1. Why did Maria make the voyage in 1699?A.To sail with her daughter. | B.To study and draw life from nature. |
C.To experience the danger. | D.To show her courage and determination. |
A.Plants. | B.Samples. | C.Animals. | D.Insects. |
A.Keen and ambitious. | B.Risky and careless. |
C.Kind and aggressive. | D.Brave and creative. |
A.Drawing from dead specimens. |
B.Studying and collecting enough material. |
C.Staying in Suriname for five years. |
D.Learning and working along with her daughter. |
【推荐3】A story posted by The New York Post Monday tells the tale of Katrina Holte, a Hillsboro woman who quit her job to cosplay a 1950s housewife.
Let me start by expressing admiration to Holte for using her 2019 freedoms to follow her 1950s dreams. Everyone should be so lucky as to get to decide what they wear and how they spend their time. That’s the future our foremothers fought for.
But as much fun as I am sure she is having living a vintage (复古的) life, which literally includes watching shows like “I Love Lucy” and listening to vinyl recordings (刻录碟片) , I think it’s important to remember that being a 1950s housewife was actually totally awful, and something our grandmothers and mothers fought against.
For example, once I called my grandma and asked her for her recipe for Cloud Biscuits, these delicious biscuits she used to make that we would cover with butter and homemade raspberry jam on Thanksgiving.
“Why would you want that?” she said. “Go to the store. Go to the freezer section. Buy some pre-made biscuits and put them in the oven.”
She straight-up refused to give me the recipe, because it was hard and took a long time to make. In her mind, it was a waste of time.
Getting off the phone, it occurred to me that spending every day of your life serving a husband and five children wasn’t fun at all. And then there are the grandchildren who eventually come along demanding Cloud Biscuits, a whole new expanded set of people to feed.
She was basically a slave to those hungry mouths, cooking scratch meals three times a day
When she wasn’t trapped in the kitchen, she had to keep the house clean, make sure she looked good enough to be socially acceptable, and make sure her kids and husband looked good enough to be socially acceptable. And she had no days off.
I know my grandma loves her kids and her grandkids, her husband and the life she led, but man, it must have been a lot of thankless, mindless labor.
No wonder everyone went all-in on processed foods when they came around. Imagine the nice break something like a microwave dinner would give a woman working, unpaid, for her family every single day?
I also had another grandma. She was a scholar who helped found the Center for the Study of Women in Society at University of Oregon. She was a pioneering second-wave feminist who wrote books, gave lectures and traveled the world.
But, she did all of that after divorcing my grandpa, when most of her kids were out of the house. Back then, in the 1950s and the 1960s, there was no illusion about women “having it all”. How could that even possibly happen? If you were taking care of a family, waiting on your husband, you had no time to follow your dreams, unless you made that your dream
A lot of women took that approach. We call it Stockholm Syndrome now.
And of course, these women I am talking about are upper-middle-class white women. Romanticizing the 1950s is especially disgusting when you think about how women of color and poor women were treated back then, and the lack of education and choices available to them.
Because the women in this country demanded something approaching equality, Holte has the chance to live out her fantasy. Not every woman in America is so lucky.
We still don’t have pay equality and in many states, we still don’t have autonomy over our own bodies. Poor women and women of color still lack the opportunities of their wealthy and white peers.
And while it’s getting better, women are still expected to be responsible for the emotional labor of running a household and raising the children.
But at least we can get jobs. At least we don’t have to sew our own clothes, wear a full face of makeup every day and spend hours making Cloud Biscuits some ungrateful kid will wolf down, barely remembering to say thank you.
1. According to the author, what is the future our foremothers fought for?A.Watching shows like “I Love Lucy” and listening to vinyl recordings. |
B.Having the freedom to make choices in their daily life. |
C.Making Cloud Biscuits for their kids and husbands. |
D.Making sure their kids and husbands socially acceptable. |
A.Writing books, giving lectures and traveling the world. |
B.Divorcing husband when kids were out of house. |
C.Taking care of a family and waiting on husband. |
D.Women’s illusion about “having it all”. |
A.Women have been used to the unfair treatment at home |
B.Women nowadays like the way of life in the 1950s. |
C.Victims end up sympathizing with the abusers. |
D.Women have the chance to live out their dreams. |
A.fantastic | B.admirable |
C.awful | D.unforgettable |
A.It was a waste of time to give grandchildren the recipe. |
B.All women are not lucky to follow their own dreams in America now. |
C.Housewives received recognition for their efforts from family members. |
D.The upper-middle-class white women did a better job in running the household. |
A.To show great appreciation to her grandmas. |
B.To call on housewives to claim the pay for the housework they undertake. |
C.To draw readers’ attention to the situations women face, especially those poor and of color. |
D.To arouse women’s awareness of equal pay at work. |
【推荐1】Life on the street is a constant struggle for homeless people. In times of extreme weather conditions, that struggle becomes even more difficult. Recently, homeless people across Chicago faced freezing to death if they couldn't find shelter for the night.
Thankfully, one local woman refused to let that happen. On January 30,2018, 34-year-old Candice Payne, a local managing broker, was lucky enough to have shelter from the dangerous conditions.
“It was - 20℃, and I knew they were going to be sleeping on ice and I had to do something,” said Payne. Payne started brainstorming different ways she could possibly help. Finally, she decided to see if there were any rooms available at local inns and hotels that she could get to help those stuck on the street.
For Payne, her mission was personal. According to Payne, her husband, Carlos Callahan, had lived on the streets at one point in his life. Based on his experiences, Payne knew that the homeless people still out on the street desperately needed help and that if she didn't step up to help, no one likely would.
However, when Payne explained what she was trying to do,many of the local hotels refused to allow her to pay for the rooms as they didn't want homeless people to stay in their rooms. “No one wanted them, but one hotel, the Amber Inn, was nice enough to allow me to buy the rooms,” said Payne.
Payne's selfless act made news across the country. However, she insisted she had never done it for attention. “I am a regular person, ” said Payne, who spent thousands of dollars of her own money to help complete strangers.“It all sounded like a rich person did this, but I’m just a little black girl from the South Side. ”
1. What does the underlined word “ that” in Paragraph 2 refer to?A.Locals living on the street‘ |
B.The homeless freezing to death. |
C.The extreme weather. |
D.The shelter for the homeless. |
A.By drawing public attention. |
B.By giving them money directly. |
C.By taking them to her own house. |
D.By buying hotel rooms for them. |
A.Her husband's past experiences. |
B.The requests from the homeless. |
C.Her desire to become famous. |
D.The coldness of local hotels. |
A.A Black Fighter Changes the World |
B.A Woman’s Curiosity Brings a Reward |
C.A Regular Woman Makes a Difference |
D.A Couple's Brave Act Moves the Country |
【推荐2】Gutiérrez’s life changed after finding a copy of Anna Karenina in the trash (垃圾) 20 years ago. It happened one night when he saw discarded books while driving his garbage truck through wealthier neighborhoods. It ignited his desire to start rescuing books from the trash. He took home about 50 books every morning after his night shift. Eventually, he turned his book collection into a community library for children from low-income families.
Bogota, Colombia’s capital, has 19 public libraries. However, they are far away from where rural and poorer communities live. The option of buying new books is out of reach for families struggling to make ends meet. Gutiérrez’s community library is a true representation of how one man’s trash can be another’s treasure. “I don’t think I’m doing something so great. The library is simply a bridge between people who throw books and those who have no access to books,” he said about his remarkable efforts.
Today, his library, called “the Strength of Words”, contains over 20,000 books and occupies most of his home. Everything from school textbooks to storybooks can be found in his collection. The library is open every weekend, when neighborhood children pour in. “The whole value of the library lies in helping kids start reading. This is important for kids in Bogota where many young people kill time in the streets and fall victim to vices such as taking drugs,” said Gutiérrez.
Gutiérrez grew up poor, and his family couldn’t afford to educate him beyond primary school. Nevertheless, he never lets a lack of formal education stop him from reading. “Books are the greatest invention of human beings. There’s nothing more beautiful than having a book handy,” Guiérrez said. His journey to giving back to his local community is an amazing example of how every one of us can improve the lives of those around us by identifying needs, investing time and finding a simple solution.
1. What does the underlined word “ignited” mean in the first paragraph?A.Indicated. | B.Satisfied. | C.Limited. | D.Stimulated. |
A.Caring and humble. | B.Smart and independent. |
C.Traditional and self-disciplined. | D.Ambitious and easy-going. |
A.Bogota’s main social problems. |
B.The library’s rich variety of books. |
C.The bad habits of Bogota’s young people. |
D.The library’s significance for the neighborhood. |
A.Education is the key to success. |
B.All things are difficult before they are easy. |
C.Small acts of kindness make a big difference. |
D.Books are the food for the hungry of great mind. |
【推荐3】On the first night of the police curfew (宵禁) in Minneapolis last summer, Rose McGee could hardly sleep. “People I know were out on the streets,” says the 69-year-old resident of nearby Golden Valley. “I was worried.”
McGee decided to stay up the following night and bake sweet potato pies. She doesn’t really like to cook, but in difficult times she often turns her kitchen into a pastry (糕点) factory. This time, she also went on Face book to invite others to drop by, pick up a pie, and take it to someone in need of comfort—or at least, comfort food.
In the morning, dozens of neighbors gathered around McGee’s front porch (门厅). Many had brought their own homemade pies to share. “It was amazing,” McGee says. Together, they delivered their baked goods first to mourners (哀悼者) at George Floyd’s memorial site, just 14 miles away, and then to volunteers at the Minneapolis branch of the NAACP. The following weekend, they took dozens more to a temporary food delivery center in St. Paul, where many grocery stores had been destroyed.
Sadly, McGee has made Sweet Potato Comfort Pies, as she calls them, all too often in recent years. She originally baked her pies in 2014, after news broke of unrest (动荡) in Ferguson, Missouri, following the police killing of Michael Brown. McGee drove more than 500 miles to Ferguson to personally deliver the 30 pies she had made. The next year, she shipped more to Charleston, South Carolina, where nine people going to church had been shot dead at the Mother Emanuel AME Church. In 2018, she sent pies to Pittsburgh in the wake of the Tree of Life shooting for the religious reasons. Tragedy also struck closer to home. McGee’s pies comforted those in and around Minneapolis after police officers shot Jamar Clark in 2015 and Philan do Castile in 2016.
McGee, who works for the Minnesota Humanities Center, an educational council and community resource, also hosts an annual pie-baking event to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.—the group made 91 this year, to mark the age he would have been if he were alive. In a sense, he is, at least in the participants’ (参加者) discussions of how they can promote relationships and social justice. “As people carry these pies, they’re able to have dialogues, able to listen to each other,” McGee says. “If we don’t start listening more, I don’t know how we’ll ever be able to move forward. The pies are simply the catalyst for that.”
1. Which of the following best describes McGee?A.Determined and helpful. | B.Tolerant and hard-working. |
C.Concerned and ambitious. | D.Humorous and generous. |
①. filling the stomach ②. promoting communication
③. relieving anxiety and pain ④. curing mental problems
A.①②④ | B.②③④ | C.①③④ | D.①②③ |
A.McGee’s home is near Ferguson. |
B.McGee likes making pies in recent years. |
C.McGee always drives a long distance to deliver food by herself. |
D.McGee makes it possible for people to get together and communicate with each other. |
A.innovation | B.motivation | C.variation | D.solution |
A.The comfort food | B.Where there is trouble, there is McGee |
C.The voluntary delivery | D.Hope for the best, prepare for the worst |