The 46-year-old Chinese Zhang Hong has successfully climbed the highest mountain in the world from the Nepal side, becoming the first blind man in Asia and the third in the world to climb Mount Everest. Born in southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, Zhang lost his sight at the age of 21.
“Whether you’re disabled or normal, whether you have lost your eyesight or you have no legs or hands, it doesn’t matter. If you have a strong mind, you can always complete a thing that other people say you can’t,”Zhang told Alexander, a reporter from Reuters.
Zhang was inspired by Erik Weihenmayer, a blind American mountaineer(登山运动员)who climbed Mount Everest in 2001, and began training under the guidance of his friend Qiang Zi.With much hard work and great efforts, he completed the 8, 849 metre-high Himalayan feat(壮举)on May 24 along with three high altitude guides, and returned to the base camp on Thursday, May 27.
Nepal reopened Mount Everest in April for foreigners after it was shut last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I was still very scared and frightened, because I couldn’t see where I was walking and I couldn’t find my centre of gravity, so sometimes I was afraid that I would fall, ”said Zhang.” But I kept thinking even though it was hard, I had to face those difficulties and dangers and this is the meaning of climbing.
1. From the text, we can know that Zhang Hong lost his sight at the age of .A.24 | B.27 | C.21 | D.46 |
A.A mountaineer | B.A guide |
C.A reporter | D.A student |
A.It can make him rich |
B.It can make him famous |
C.It can help him find real friends |
D.It can help him face difficulties and dangers |
A.A blind Chinese man climbed Mount Everest |
B.A blind American man climbed Mount Everest |
C.Nepal shut Mount Everest in April for foreigners . |
D.The COVID-19 pandemic broke out around the world |
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【推荐1】A successful businessman, addressing the commercial club of his city, told a story of an orphan (孤儿) named Jim.
Jim was 12 years old, who was the laughing stock of the whole town. He never remembered having a kind word spoken to him in his whole life. One day as Jim walked down the street, he saw some flowers slip from a little lady’s arms just in front of him. Jim gathered up the flowers and replaced them in her arms. “Thank you, dear; you are a nice little boy.” she said kindly, and went on her way after giving him a bright smile.
Jim was amazed. These were the first kind words he had ever heard in his whole twelve years of existence. He stood and stared after her until she was out of sight, then he made straight for a stream. He sat down on the bank of the stream and did some thinking. “Thank you, dear; you are a nice little boy,” he thought. Finally the boy pulled from his pockets a piece of broken mirror and looked at himself. He saw nothing but dirt. He went down to the water and washed his face carefully, almost painfully. Then he looked again. He scarcely recognized himself. He stood straight and looked up instead of down for the first time since he could remember.
A feeding of self-respect awoke within his being. At that moment the course of his life was changed; a determination to be worthy of the kind words spoken to him by the little lady, and to pass them on, took possession of his soul. After telling this story of Jim, the speaker paused and then he shocked the audience by saying, “Gentlemen, I was that boy. That gentle woman implanted in my life the first seed of kindness. As a tribute to her memory I have told you this story.”
1. What does the author mean by “the laughing stock” in paragraph 2?A.Jim liked playing jokes on others. |
B.Jim was always laughed at by others, |
C.Jim was good at making others happy. |
D.Jim had interest in telling funny stories. |
A.Brave. | B.Clever. |
C.Friendly. | D.Honest. |
A.Jim wanted people to say kind words to others. |
B.The lady became very famous because of that story. |
C.It was the first time for Jim to tell his story to others. |
D.Jim made a tot of money by telling his stories to others. |
A.A Story of Jim | B.A Good Lady |
C.A Kind Word | D.A Successful Businessman |
【推荐2】Soaring to 29, 035 feet, the famous Mount Everest had long been considered unclimbable due to the freezing weather, the obvious potential fall from cliffs and the effects of the extreme high altitude, often called “mountain sickness.” But that was to be changed by Edmund Hillary.
When he was invited to join the British Everest expedition in 1953, Edmund Hillary was a highly capable climber. The glacier-covered peaks in his hometown in New Zealand proved a perfect training ground for the Himalaya. It was his fourth Himalayan expedition in just over two years and he was at the peak of fitness.
On May 28, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, an experienced Sherpa (夏尔巴人) set out and reached the South Summit by 9 a. m. next day. But after that, the ridge (山脊) slightly fell before rising suddenly in a rocky spur (尖坡) about 17 meters high just before the true summit. The formation is difficult to climb due to its extreme pitch because a mistake would be deadly. Scratching at the snow with his ax, Hillary managed to overcome this enormous obstacle, later to be known as the Hillary Step.
At 11:30 a. m, the two men found themselves standing at the top of the world. “Not until we were about 50 feet of the top was I ever completely convinced that we were actually going to reach the summit.” Hillary later recounted, “Of course I was very, very pleased to be on the summit, but my first thought was a little bit of surprise. After all, this is the ambition of all mountaineers.”
Emerging as the first to summit Mount Everest, Hillary Hillary continued by helping explore Antarctica, and establishing the Himalayan Trust (信托基金), through which he provided a number of beneficial services to the Himalayan peoples. He also a sizeable legacy that mountain climbers have chased ever since. As a young climber said, “It was not just Hillary and Tenzing that reached the summit of Mount Everest. It was all of humanity. Suddenly, all of us could go.”
1. What made Edmund Hillary a capable climber on the 1953 expedition?A.His undisputed reputation. | B.His remarkable physical condition. |
C.His previous training on Mount Everest. | D.His exceptional ability to adapt to the cold. |
A.A mistake Hillary avoided making. | B.A steep spur of rock Hillary conquered. |
C.An ax Hillary used to scratch snow. | D.A sudden fall of a ridge Hillary skipped. |
A.Overwhelming joy. | B.Enormous pride. |
C.Complete disbelief. | D.A touch of astonishment. |
A.It opens up possibilities for other climbers. |
B.It enabled him to give back to his hometown. |
C.It left financial benefits for climbers to pursue. |
D.It led to friendly regulations for mountaineering. |
【推荐3】Fear is a fact of life everyone faces from time to time. In most cases fear is a healthy reaction to a dangerous situation. But sometimes fear can be so extreme that it interferes with normal living. That is what happened to me driving cross-country last summer.
I’d agreed to help my brother, Mac, move from the East Coast to California. He would drive a rental truck loaded with his belongings and I would follow him in his car, then fly back. We figured it would be a simple trip, with four or five motel (motorists’ hotel) stops along the way.
Living and working in coastal Georgia for most of my life, I did not have a great deal of long-distance driving experience. Looking back on it today, I can see that I’d always felt a sudden, sharp pain of fear when driving over small bridges and along hilly highways. And as I was getting ready for the trip I had an unclear concern about the steep mountain roads that lay ahead. But I thought I would get used to them.
As we crossed some high bridges near the Blue Ridge Mountains on the first leg of our trip, a kind of breathlessness gripped me, a sinking, rolling feeling in the pit of my stomach. I tended to move slightly away from the edge of the roadway and the drop-off beyond. My knuckles (指关节) whitened from my tense grip on the steering wheel. At the end of each bridge, a great rush of relief would come over me, only to be replaced in short order by fear of the next obstacle.
When we stopped in Nashville the first night, I mentioned my feelings to Mac, who is the practical sort. “Oh, that’s nothing.” he said cheerfully. “Lots of people hate driving on mountain roads and high bridges. Just turn up the music on your radio and focus on that. Keep your mind occupied.”
1. Which is NOT the author’s attitude towards fear?A.Fear can sometimes disturb your life. |
B.It is natural to feel fear in everyday life. |
C.In dangerous situations, fear may do good to your body. |
D.Whenever you feel fear, you are likely to make a wrong decision. |
A.They rented a truck and drove it in turn. |
B.The author and his brother drove different vehicles. |
C.The author drove while his brother flew to California. |
D.The author drove a rented car while his brother drove the truck. |
A.frightening | B.pleasant |
C.exciting | D.exhausting |
A.keep using his brains |
B.kill time during the long trip |
C.think of other things instead of fear |
D.enjoy the beautiful music along the way |
【推荐1】Rounds of applause (掌声) broke out as the first Chinese female astronaut (宇航员) Liu Yang shared her space adventure with students at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
“I get excited every time I look up at the sky because I know we have a space home up there, which was built by our Chinese astronauts,” said Liu. When she shared China’s manned space program achievements (成就), her own stories heartened many students who love aerospace.
With the launch (发射) of China’s Shenzhou-9 spaceship in June 2012, Liu became the first Chinese female astronaut in space, spending 13 days there. In June 2022, she re-entered space 10 years later in China’s Shenzhou-14 spaceship and completed many tasks, such as building the space station’s T-shape structure with other crew members during their six-month mission.
Many students from different schools in Hefei, the capital of east China’s Anhui Province, listened closely to the science popularization lecture on site, while many more took part in the event through live streaming in different parts of the country.
“How do you overcome various challenges in work?” “How do astronauts drink water in space?” “What’s your feeling when you first entered space?” Several students were lucky enough to be picked to ask Liu questions after the lecture.
“Lots of students from our school attended the event today. Being the first female astronaut in China, Liu Yang proved that everyone can try to achieve their dreams,” noted Sun Yan, a teacher from the middle school attached to USTC. “I believe the female students would be more confident in their decisions in the future.”
The activity was a part of the celebration of Space Day of China, which falls on April 24 every year. In 2016, China choose this date to celebrate Space Day to honor the launch of its first satellite Dongfanghong-1 into space on April 24, 1970.
1. What does the underlined word “heartened” mean in paragraph 2?A.Encouraged. | B.Frightened. | C.Destroyed. | D.Warned. |
A.Liu Yang’s experiences in space. |
B.The length of Liu’s stay in space. |
C.The launch of China’s spaceships. |
D.The building of the space station. |
A.They wanted to be astronauts. |
B.They were top students in the school. |
C.They were curious about life in space. |
D.They were familiar with space exploration. |
A.Disappointing. | B.Meaningful. | C.Boring. | D.Risky. |
【推荐2】Everyone would like to be a millionaire , a person with a lot of money, but can you imagine having over $30 million and only being 20 years old? Britney Spears from Kentwood, a small town in Louisiana, is only 20 years old. She is a world famous film star with not only $30 million but also a $2 million house in LA. At her young age, she can look after her family financially (经济上) all her life. This year is a big year for Britney. She is now on a 31-day tour of the US and every concert is a sell-out. That means she plays in front of a crowd of around 18,000 people every time. It’s a tiring schedule but brings her a lot. When touring, she goes to bed around 1 a.m. and then has a lie-in until 1 p.m. the next day. Her philosophy (人生观) is to take care of the body and relax but always make sure you work hard and have fun.
Spears is not pleased with only touring and selling nearly 40 million records so she decided to step into the movie business and try a bit of acting. She made an appearance in “Austin Power 3” this year and she is filming a teenage light play that will come out in March 2003. In this movie, she has a starring role.
For Britney, acting is another way to express herself and she is enthusiastic (热心的) about it all. If her movies are successful, her money in the bank is sure to grow by another few million dollars but she does it for the love, not the money, as she herself tells the reporters .
1. We can infer (推断) from the text that most millionaires are __________.A.older than 20 | B.around 20 | C.in their 30s | D.in their 40s |
A.Though young, Britney can support her family now. |
B.While touring, Britney sleeps about 12 hours a day. |
C.The teenage comedy movie was based on Britney’s own story. |
D.Britney will be even richer with her movies successful. |
A.to be a great actress | B.for the enjoyment |
C.for money | D.to be more famous |
【推荐3】Mary Lyon was a leader in women’s education in the nineteenth century. It was a time when women’s education was not considered important in the United States. States did require each town to provide a school for children, but there were not enough teachers. Most young women were not able to continue their education. If they did, they often were not taught much except the French language, how to sew clothing, and music.
Mary Lyon felt that women’s education was extremely important. She believed women were teachers both in the home and in the classroom. Mary opened a school for young women in the village of Buckland. She suggested new ways of teaching, including holding discussion groups for students.
Then, Mary began to raise money for her dream school for the higher education of women. This school would own its own property (财产), guided by an independent group of direction. Its finances would be the responsibility of the directors. It would not depend on any one person to continue. And, the students would share in cleaning and cooking to keep costs down. In 1837, Mary Lyon opened Mount Holyoke Seminary for Women. In 1893, 34 years after her death, under a state law, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary became the first college to offer women the same kind of education as men.
Mary’s efforts led to the spread of higher education for women in the United States. Her influence lasted as the many students from her schools went out to teach others.
1. What was American women’s problem with education in the 19th century?A.Teachers were careless about teaching. |
B.They had few choices about the subjects. |
C.The government paid no attention to education. |
D.They had no chance to continue their education. |
A.Mary thought little of women’s education. |
B.Mary preferred women to be educated at home. |
C.Mary attached importance to women’s education. |
D.Group discussions were not held in Mary’s school. |
A.It would have very strict rules. |
B.It would be independent in finance. |
C.It would be owned by the government. |
D.It would depend on some important person. |
A.She set up the first college. |
B.She made women equal to men. |
C.She helped to pass American education law. |
D.She improved American women’s education. |