A 13yearold Russian, Daniil Korotkikh, was walking with his parents on a beach when he saw something lying in the sand.
“I saw that bottle and it looked interesting, ” Korotkikh told The Associated Press on Tuesday.“It looked like a German beer bottle and there was a message inside.”
It said, “My name is Frank, and I'm five years old.My dad and I are travelling on a ship to Denmark.If you find this letter, please write back to me, and I will write back to you.” The letter, dated 1987, included an address in the town of Coesfeld.
The boy in the letter, Frank Uesbeck, is now 29.His parents still live at the letter's address.
The Russian boy and the German man met each other earlier this month through an Internet video link.The Russian boy said he did not believe that the bottle actually spent 24 years in the sea.He believed it had been hidden under the sand where he found it for a long time.
Uesbeck was especially happy that he was able to have a positive effect on a life of a young person far away from Germany.“It's really a wonderful story, ” he said.“And who knows? Perhaps one day we will actually be able to arrange a meeting in person.”
1. What is this passage mainly about?
A.Message in a bottle. | B.A beautiful beer bottle. |
C.Travelling on a ship. | D.Meeting an old friend. |
A.he was going back home |
B.he was already 29 years old |
C.he was walking with his parents on a beach |
D.he was travelling to Denmark by ship with his dad |
A.Korotkikh's parents still live in the town of Coesfeld. |
B.The German boy did not believe that the bottle actually spent 24 years in the sea. |
C.Frank Uesbeck and Daniil Korotkikh have met each other in person. |
D.Daniil Korotkikh and Frank Uesbeck have got in touch with each other. |
A.Because he could have a new friend. |
B.Because the two boys could surf the Internet together. |
C.Because he finally got what he had lost. |
D.Because he could have a positive influence on a life of a young person. |
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【推荐1】When my family moved to America in 2010 from a small village in Guangdong, China, we brought not only our luggage, but also our village rules, customs and culture. One of the rules is that young people should always respect elders. Unluckily, this rule led to my very first embarrassment in the United States.
I had a part-time job as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant. One time, when I was serving food to a middle-aged couple, the wife asked me how the food could be served so quickly. I told her that I had made sure they got their food quickly because I always respect the elderly. As soon as I said that, her face showed great displeasure. My manager, who happened to hear what I said, took me aside and gave me a long lecture about how sensitive Americans are and how they dislike the description “old”. I then walked back to the table and apologized to the wife. After the couple heard my reason, they understood that the problem was caused by cultural differences, so they laughed and were no longer angry.
In my village in China, people are proud of being old. Not so many people live to be seventy or eighty, and people who reach such an age have the most knowledge and experience. Young people always respect older people because they know they can learn from their rich experience.
However, in the United States, people think “growing old” is a problem since “old” shows that a person is going to retire or that the body is not working well. Here many people try to keep themselves away from growing old by doing exercises or jogging, and women put on makeup, hoping to look young. When I told the couple in the restaurant that I respect the elderly, they got angry because this caused them to feel they had failed to stay young. I had told them something they didn’t want to hear.
After that, I changed the way I had been with older people. It is not that I don’t respect them any more; I still respect them, but now I don’t show my feelings through words.
1. Jack brought the couple their food very fast because _______.A.the manager asked him to do so | B.the couple wanted him to do so |
C.he respected the elderly | D.he wanted more pay |
A.nervous | B.unhappy |
C.satisfied | D.excited |
A.changed his way with older people | B.made friends with the couple |
C.no longer respected the elderly | D.lost his job in the restaurant |
【推荐2】They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them. With little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, who died at 101 on Monday, calculated (计算) the precise track that would let Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969 and, after Neil Armstrong’s history—making moonwalk, let it return to Earth.
Yet throughout Mrs. Johnson’s 33 years in NASA and for decades afterward, almost no one knew her name. Mrs. Johnson was one of several hundred educated, capable but largely unrecognized women who well before the modern feminist (女权) movement, worked as NASA mathematicians. But it was not only her sex that kept her long unsung. For some years at mid-century, the black women were forced to a double segregation (隔离):They were kept separate from the much large group of white women who in turn were segregated from the agency’s male mathematicians and engineers.
Mrs. Johnson broke barriers at NASA. In old age, Mrs. Johnson became the most celebrated of black women who served as mathematicians for the space agency. Their story was told in the 2016 Hollywood film “Hidden Figures,” which was nominated for three Oscars, including best picture.
In 2017, NASA dedicated a building in her honor. That year, The Washington Post described her as “the most high - profile of the computers” — “computers ” being the term originally used to describe Mrs. Johnson and her colleagues, much as “typewriters” were used in the 19th century to represent professional typists.
“She helped our nation enlarge the frontiers of space,” NASA’s administrator, Jim Bridenstine, said in a statement on Monday, “even as she made huge steps that also opened doors for women and people of color in the universal human quest to explore space.”
As Mrs. Johnson herself was fond of saying, her tenure (任期) at Langley — from 1953 until her retirement in 1986 — was “a time when computers wore skirts.”
1. What is the function of the first paragraph?A.To present the Apollo moon mission. |
B.To stress Mrs. Johnson’s contributions |
C.To honour Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk. |
D.To present breakthroughs in moon exploration. |
A.Gender inequality and color line. |
B.Mrs. Johnson’s unrecognized talents. |
C.The agency’s male mathematicians and engineers. |
D.The hardships before the modern feminist movement. |
A.Because they used computers to keep their work secret. |
B.Because they were the NASA’s human calculators |
C.Because computer systems engaged them deeply. |
D.Because they opened a door to outer space. |
A.Try things that may not work. |
B.The world awaits our discovery. |
C.Use knowledge to wipe out ignorance |
D.Never be limited by the labels given by others. |
【推荐3】When I was little, my dad would let me sit beside him o the porch while he painted. He would tell me how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you’ve got magic.
I understood what he was saying, but I never felt what he was saying until one day when I was up in the sycamore tree to rescue a kite stuck in the branches. It was a long way up, but I thought I’d give it a shot. I started climbing. Then I looked down. And suddenly I got dizzy and weak. I was miles off the ground! But the kite was still beyond my reach. I caught my breath and forced myself to concentrate on the kite as I climbed up.
When I had the kite free, I needed a minute to rest. That’s when the fear of being up so high began to lift, and in its place came the most amazing feeling that I was flying. Just soaring above the earth, sailing among the clouds.
Then I got to notice how wonderful the breeze smelled. It seemed like sunshine and wild grass and rain! I couldn’t stop breathing it in, filling my lungs again and again with the sweetest smell I’d ever known.
I never got over the view. I kept thinking of what it felt like to be up so high in that tree. I wanted to see it, to feel it, again. And again.
It wasn’t long before I wasn’t afraid of being up so high and found the spot that became my spot. I could sit there for hours, just looking out at the world. Sunsets were amazing. Some days they’d be purple and pink, some days they’d be a blazing orange, setting fire to clouds across the horizon.
It was on a day like that when my father’s notion (观念) moved from my head to my heart. The view from my sycamore was more than rooftops and clouds and wind and colors combined.
1. Why did the author climb up the sycamore tree?A.To practice climbing skills. | B.To get a trapped kite. |
C.To prove her courage. | D.To play in the tree. |
A.well-planned and interesting | B.adventurous but rewarding |
C.competitive and imaginative | D.unusual but painful |
A.she could enjoy more than good views |
B.her father encouraged her to do so |
C.it could help her to concentrate |
D.the tree had the sweetest smell |
A.The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. |
B.Beautiful things don’t ask for attention. |
C.Positive action leads to happiness. |
D.Practice makes perfect. |
【推荐1】In October, I told the eight-year-olds in the class I teach in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, about my plan. “Since all of you have done extra jobs around the house to earn some money,” I said, “then we’ll buy food for a Thanksgiving dinner for someone who might not have a nice dinner otherwise.”
I watched them while they walked up and down the supermarket. “Flowers!” Kristine cried. The group rushed towards the holiday plants.
“You can’t eat flowers.”— It was wiser to use any extra money to buy something that could be turned into meals.
“But Mrs Sherlock,” came the begging voice, “we want flowers.”
Defeated finally, I put a pot of “funny” purple mums in the cart full of foods. “She’ll like this one,” the children agreed.
An organisation had given us the name and address of a needy grandmother who had lived alone for many years. We finally pulled up in front of a small house. A slightly-built woman with a weary face came to the door to welcome us.
My little group ran to get the foods. As each box was carried in, the old woman kept on saying “Thanks.”— much to her visitors’ pleasure. When Amy put the mums on the counter, the woman seemed surprised. She was wishing it was a bag of rice, I thought.
We returned to the car. As we fastened our seat belts, we could see the kitchen window. The woman inside waved goodbye, then turned and walked across the room, past the turkey, past the goods, straight to the mums. She put her face in them. When she raised her head, there was a smile on her face. She was transformed (转变) before our eyes.
The children were quiet. At that moment, they had seen for themselves the power they have to make another person’s life better. The children had sensed that sometimes a person needs a pot of funny purple flowers on a dark November day.
1. What does the story mainly tell us?A.Everyone has the power to change the world. |
B.Acts of kindness can change someone’s life. |
C.The poor people may need flowers as well. |
D.Children have different thoughts from adults. |
A.Mothers. |
B.Teachers. |
C.Flowers. |
D.Gifts. |
A.She thought they were too ugly. |
B.She thought they were for children. |
C.She thought they were too expensive. |
D.She thought they couldn’t help people in need. |
A.The old woman preferred food to flowers. |
B.Flowers are more important than food to the poor. |
C.The old woman’s dark day was brightened by the children. |
D.All the money the children earned was transformed into food. |
【推荐2】Why do only famous people have biographies (传记)? This is the question two young sisters, 7-year-old Aishvarya, and 11-year-old Vaishali, asked their parents. They were reading famous people’s biographies in school and realized that they knew more about Beyonce, a famous singer than about their own grandparents. So they decided to do something about it.
They created “Grand Stories”, a workbook that helps grandchildren learn about their grandparents. Through answering a list of guided questions and telling stories, Grand Stories helps families learn more about each other.
This family came from India to the US, and all four grandparents live very far away. Obviously through modern technology and some family visits, these young girls know their grandparents and love them very much—but they wonder why they don’t know more about their grandparents. For example, where did they grow up, and go to school? How they married and raised their families? What were their stories? Perhaps not surprisingly, many of the stories the family wanted to know reflect the “Do you know” questions that my workmate, Marshall Duke, and I developed to study how much people know of the family history.
The sisters’ father told about the visit to India when the girls asked their own grandparents to write their biography. Because of his character, the grandfather didn’t share much during the interview. But then he stayed up all nights writing his stories, and when the father looked through the stories, he realized there was so much he’d never known about his own father! Through these stories the father felt closer to his own family.
What these two young sisters have already discovered is how much we depend on knowing our family stories to understand who we are in the world and what our strength is. You can see more about Grand Stories at www. grandstories.bigcartel.com. Whether you’re 7 or 70, it’s never too early or too late to start sharing family stories.
1. What made the two girls decide to know their family stories?A.Telling stories at school. |
B.Reading biographies at school. |
C.Showing their love for a singer. |
D.Being asked to create a workbook. |
A.designed. | B.proved. | C.described. | D.imagined. |
A.Strict. | B.Impatient. | C.shy. | D.Careless. |
A.To prove the power of family storytelling. |
B.To introduce ways of telling interesting family stories. |
C.To tell people about the two girls’ family. |
D.To encourage people to know their family stories. |
【推荐3】Twenty years ago I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to pick up a passenger at 2:30 AM. When I arrived to collect, I found the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window.
I walked to the door and knocked, “Just a minute,” answered a weak, elderly voice.
When we got into the taxi, she gave me an address, and then asked, “Could you drive through downtown?”
“It’s not the shortest way,” I answered quickly.
“Oh, I’m in no hurry,” she said. “I’m on my way to a hospice (临终医院). I don’t have any family left. The doctor says I don’t have very long.”
I quietly reached over and shut off the meter (计价器).
For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked, the neighborhood where she had lived, and the furniture shop that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.
Sometimes she’d ask me to slow down in front of a particular building and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.
At dawn, she suddenly said, “I’m tired. Let’s go now.”
We drove in silence to the address she had given me.
“How much do I owe you?” she asked.
“Nothing.” I said.
“You have to make a living,” she answered. “Oh, there are other passengers,” I answered.
Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held on to me tightly. Our hug ended with her remark, “You gave an old woman a little moment of joy.”
1. The old woman chose to ride through the city in order to ________.A.see some places for the last time | B.show she was familiar with the city |
C.let the driver earn more money | D.reach the destination on time |
A.wanted to help her | B.shut off the meter by mistake |
C.had received her payment in advance | D.was in a hurry to take other passengers |
A.Giving is always a pleasure. |
B.People should respect each other. |
C.People should learn to appreciate others’ concern |
D.An act of kindness can bring people great joy |