It's 4:54 a. m. on a November morning in 2016 in Yosemite National Park, the United States. The moon shone over the south-west face of El Capitan. Alex Honnold was alone. He held on tightly to the rock with nothing but the tips of his fingers and two thin edges of shoe rubber. He was trying to do something that had been considered impossible-a "free solo" (徒手攀岩) up the world's most dangerous cliff.
Some people think free soloing is a meaningless sport. The sport, they say, has claimed the lives of many professional climbers. Others think mastering a mountain with only excellent physical and mental skill is the essence of climbing. Such was the attitude of Paul Preuss. Preuss was the father of free soloing. By the age of 27, he had made about 150 ropeless climbs He was admired (钦佩) throughout Europe. Then, on October 3,1913, he fell to his death while free soloing a cliff in the Alps (阿尔卑斯山).
But Preuss's ideas lived on. They have influenced generations of climbers. In the 1960s, the "free climbing" movement was born. The movement supports using ropes and other gears (设备) but only as safety devices. The next serious free soloist appeared in 1973. Henry Barber climbed a 460-meter-tall rock in Yosemite without a rope. In 1987, Peter Croft, a Canadian, free soloed two of Yosemite's most dangerous routes in one day.
Croft's achievement stood until 2007. That year, 22-year-old Honnold showed up in Yosemite. He surprised the world by repeating Croft's masterpiece. The next year, he free soloed two famously difficult routes in America. The routes were so dangerous that no one had imagined they could be climbed without a rope.
Now, as fans celebrate his achievements, Honnold is preparing for his next big goal. Thousands of moves are still to come. Honnold is on his way to completing the greatest rock climb in history.
1. How many ropeless climbs had Paul Preuss made by the age of 27?2. On October 3,1931, Preuss
3. The "free climbing" movement was born
4. Alex Honnold repeated Peter Croft's masterpiece
5. Now, Honoold is on his way to
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Over a hundred years ago people in London were surprised to see a very unusual boat come sailing up the Thames River. The boat was eighty feet long, flat-bottomed, with big wooden eyes on both sides in the front and was colourfully painted at the back.
People came to know that it was a sailing boat from Fuzhou in distant China. The boat had sailed round the Cape of Good Hope, up the western coast of Africa, and finally to England. It had covered fifteen thousand miles…more than half of the distance round the world.
Although it was unexpected, the Chinese were warmly welcomed. The boat carried goods (货物) such as silk and tea as well as a number of gifts from the Emperor of China for the Queen of England.
People had always mistakenly thought of the Chinese as a people who were not used to the sea. However, from centuries of trading and sailing in dangerous seas, the Chinese had learned how to build good boats and sail them well.
The coming of this sailing boat to London proved once again the Chinese could sail to distant countries in the world.
1. When did the Chinese sailing boat arrive in London?2. How long was the boat?
3. How many miles did the boat travel to London?
4. What goods did the boat carry?
5. What did the Chinese learn to do at that time?
6. What did the writer want to prove in the article?
Have you ever visited the Forbidden City? It is about 600 years old so far. It is the world’s largest palace and has over 17 million visitors every year. If we traveled back to the past, we possibly couldn’t go inside. In the past, all buildings in Beijing were low, but the Forbidden City had high walls. From outside, common people could only imagine it looked like inside.
The Forbidden City takes up 720, 000 square meters in the heart of Beijing. It was built from 1406 to 1420 by the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Yongle Emperor. After that, it was the living and working place of 14 emperors of the Ming Dynasty and 10 emperors of the Qing Dynasty. During those times, the Forbidden City was where the country’s supreme power(最高权力）could be found. Emperors were born, lived, fought and died there. It saw the highs and lows of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it plays a very important part in Chinese history.
The cultural relics(遗物）and documents(文件）in the palace show how the royal families lived. They are still used today for historical research, as well as inspiration for literature(文学）and entertainment(娱乐).
In 1987, the Forbidden City was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. For world leaders who visit China, it has become a must-see. In 2017, when US President Donald Trump visited China, President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan welcomed Trump and his wife there.
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Did you watch the movie Changjin Lake? It’s about how new China joined the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (抗美援朝). It is _________ the movie itself that makes people moved but the heroes of the war who fought for our country and the people.
Let’s take a close look at the real- life history behind the movie. Changjin Lake is located in North Korea. The Battle (战役) of Lake Changjin was in a very cold winter with temperatures of around -40℃. In the 1950s, our Chinese soldiers had to face life- and- death problems when they got on the train to enter the DPRK. A US enemy plane bombed (轰炸) the trains, and the soldiers had to quickly moved into the mountains and forests to hide. I still deeply remember a picture in the movie. In order not to expose the target (暴露目标), they stayed in the ice and snow without any moving. Although the follow- up troops (后续部队) killed the enemy and won the battle, unluckily 125 soldiers were frozen (冻) to death. Many can’t help crying after watching this movie, because our Chinese soldiers lost their lives to protect the country and the people.
It is the loveliest persons who guarded China’s rivers and mountains. However, many of them never have the chance to live and enjoy their life on this land again. The movie Changjin Lake wants to tell us today’s young people, though we live in an age without war, we should never forget the true heroes in the history and we need to pass on their great spirit!
1. Please fill in the blanks with a proper phrase to complete the sentence. (在空白处填入恰当的连词使句意完整)2. What’s the movie Changjin Lake about? (根据短文内容回答问题)
3. What was the weather like when the Battle of Lake Changjin happened? (根据短文内容回答问题)
4. Please translate the underlined sentence into Chinese. (将画线句子翻译成汉语)
5. What can you learn from the movie? (至少写出两条)
【推荐1】Li Shizhen was one of the most famous doctors in Chinese history. He was born in Hubei in 1518.
Both of Li Shizhen’s father and grandfather were doctors. Li Shizhen’s grandfather was a country doctor who traveled in the countryside with a bag of herbs (药草) and medicine and cured (治愈) people. His father was a doctor who wrote several books.
Li Shizhen used to help his father in his medical practice when he was young. Li Shizhen’s father wanted him to enter politics (从政). Li Shizhen studied for the exams and passed the country-level examination, but he was never able to pass the imperial (帝国的) examination.
When he was 38, he cured the son of the Prince and was invited to be an official in that court (宫廷). A few years later, he became an official at the Imperial Medical Institute.
Even though he achieved his father’s dream, he didn’t want to continue working for the court. One year later, he left the court and returned to be a doctor again.
Li Shizhen was famous for his book, Compendium of Materia Medica (《本草纲目》). It took him twenty-seven years to write the book. Unluckily, Li Shizhen died before the book was officially published (出版). It is such a successful book. Now it is still one of the most important medical books in China.
1. Where was Li Shizhen born?_______________________________________________________________
2. What was Li Shizhen’s father ‘s job?
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3. What did Li Shizhen use to do when he was young?
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4. Did Li Shizhen pass the imperial examination?
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5. How long did Li Shizhen spend in writing Compendium of Materia Medical?
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【推荐2】Jinguo is a kind of scarf in ancient China. Women would often wrap their hair up in it. During the Three Kingdoms period, the famous statesman (政治家) Zhuge Liang started a war (战争) against the Kingdom of Wei. The Wei general Sima Yi didn’t want to fight. He asked his army to stay in the city. Zhuge thought Sima was scared, so he sent a woman’s scarf to Sima to make fun of him. He was saying that Sima was as timid (胆小的) as a little girl. After that, people started to use jinguo to refer to women. But in a good way, they would say “巾帼不让须眉” in Chinese, which means “Women can be as good as men”. Xumei refers to men because men often have thick beards and eyebrows. People also use “jinguo yingxiong”, or female heroes to refer to women who have done great things.
1. What is jinguo in ancient China?2. Who was the Wei general?
3. Why did Zhuge send a woman’s scarf to Sima?
4. What does xumei refer to?
5. Which people can be called jinguo yingxiong?
【推荐3】Marco Polo was born in Venice in 1254. He was the most famous westerner to visit Asia during the middle ages. He wrote a book about his travels. In his book he wrote all the things he saw and heard. Many people read the book but few believed what Marco Polo said. He spoke of strange people and places that nobody knew about at that time.
As a young man, Marco Polo decided to travel together with his father. It took them more than three years to travel to China. He became the Chinese emperor’s friend. He learned the Chinese language when he traveled around and talked to many people. Before he reached the age of thirty he was made a Chinese official.
After nearly seventeen years in the east, Marco and his father prepared to return home. When they finally arrived in Venice, their family and friends were surprised to see them again. They had been away for almost 25 years.
| When and | In Venice in 1254 |
| How long it took them to travel to China. | |
| The time he became a Chinese official | In his late |
| When he traveled around | He learned the |
| What he wrote in his book | The things he saw and |
【推荐1】Wu Wei, artist
“Wu Wei is a born artist,” said his best friend. “He’s quiet and doesn’t like to talk much, but his works shout!” Wu Wei, the young artist, has impressed the whole country with his creative work. His sculptures for the town square have won high praise from the art community. “I want to share the best art with people, so I’m always searching for something better or different. This in itself is great fun,” he said.
Su Ning, manager
Su Ning gave up her job as an accountant five years ago and started to work for the sales department in a big company. “I’m active and energetic, and I love working with people. However, in my last job, I could only work with numbers day after day. That made me upset.” Su Ning is now the general manager of the company. “I was glad that I changed job,” she said. “Life is like a race. You either take the lead or fall behind. I’m ready to take on new challenges any time.”
Liu Haotian, engineer
Liu Haotian is the chief engineer of the high-speed railway connecting Sunshine Town to Tianjin. “To us, a miss is as good as a mile. We can’t afford to make any mistakes,” said Mr Liu. “All of us know that it’s necessary to pay attention to every detail.” “He’s serious and well organized. He always works to high standards,” one of his team members said, “but he is modest and easy to work with.”
Fang Yuan, doctor
Doctor Fang, head of Sunshine Hospital and a pioneer heart surgeon, often does operations for about 10 hours a day. She is kind and patient. “As a doctor, you can’t be too careful,” she said. “Carelessness will be a disaster not only to ourselves but also to patients.” “She’s always willing to work extra hours,” said another doctor. In fact, Fang Yuan has devoted most of her time to her work. All the people in the town respect her.
1. Why does Wu Wei’s best friend think that Wu Wei is a born artist?2. What does Su Ning do now?
3. How does one of Liu Haotian’s team members think of him?
4. How long does Fang Yuan do operations a day?
5. Which of the above jobs do you prefer? Please give your reason.
It is a cold evening in the middle of winter. But Harry’s house is warm. He reads a book in the room. The book is about a Chinese doctor and his invention（发明）.
The doctor was called Zhang Zhongjing. It was very cold in his city. The people could not stay warm. Zhang saw many poor people. (A) He wanted to make something warm for them to eat. He cooked mutton and vegetables. Then he put the mutton and vegetables inside the small dough（面团）ears. He put them in the soup and cooked them. In this way Zhang invented dumplings! The winter solstice came. It is the shortest day of the year. It has the longest, coldest night. Zhang gave the dumplings to the people in the town. They ate the dumplings and felt warm. People thanked Zhang.
After Harry reads the story, he tries to make Zhang’s mutton dumplings. But unluckily when he cooks them, all the dumplings break. (B) They taste bad. Harry is sad. It is the winter solstice. His parents will be home soon. He wants his parents to eat dumplings on this day. Harry looks around. He finds a bag of mutton dumplings in the freezer（冰箱）. He cooks them quickly. Harry’s parents come home. They eat the dumplings together with Harry. They love the dumplings. Harry tells his parents about the bad dumplings. His mom laughs, “It’s OK. We are all together, and we have hot dumplings. It’s a great winter solstice, isn’t it? thank you!”
1. 将文中(A)处划线句子He wanted to make something warm for them to eat.译成汉语。2. 将下列图片按照文中内容的先后顺序排序，并将其字母代号填到答题卡的相应位置。_______
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4. 请从文中找出(B)处划线单词“They”指代内容：
5. 根据文章内容填空。每空一词。
After
Li's biography has more than 8，000 words.He wrote about each of his classmates，including their birthdays and personalities(个性)．The ninth－grader sees it as a graduation gift to them.
In fact，writing a biography was part of his Chinese homework for winter vacation.Students were asked to read Historical Records(《史记》)．Then they had to write a biography for others.
At the beginning，Li just wrote about six classmates he knew well.His teacher then encouraged him to write more.It was a big project，but Li worked hard to complete it successfully.He didn't know everyone well.So he talked with his classmates' friends and observed(观察) them carefully.“Once，to write about a girl who I didn't know well，I talked with her friends for a few days，” he said.“My hard work paid off.I got to know she likes Pikachu and food！”
Expressing his ideas in classical Chinese was not easy.Sometimes，he searched online to learn it.But gradually，his language skills improved.“When I wrote the last 10 pieces，the words came to my mind naturally，” he said.Also，he tried to say something more about each person's special side.“Even if it is not a good，shining point，I keep it.I want to be objective(客观的)，” he said.
1. What did Li Yaoyou write about in his biography? (不超过15个词)
2. Why did Li write a biography? (不超过15个词)
3. What do you think of Li? (不超过10个词)
Weiyuan Lake is famous for Wei Yuan, the first person to know the west world in the Qing Dynasty. It is in the north of Longhui. It is one of the second largest freshwater lakes in Shaoyang. Every year, lots of tourists come to Longhui to enjoy the beautiful scenes around Weiyuan Lake.
However, the environment of the lake is becoming worse and worse. Protecting Weiyuan Lake becomes very important. In fact, people of Longhui are always trying to improve the environment of the lake. They built Weiyuan Lake National Wetland Park in 2018. Factories mustn’t pour waste water into the lake so that fish can live in the clean water. Also, people planted beautiful flowers and green trees along Weiyuan Lake.
Information about Weiyuan Lake | |
| Why it is famous | It is one of |
| What people enjoy around it | The beautiful |
| How people protected it | ●They built Weiyuan Lake National Wetland Park ● ●People planted beautiful flowers and |
【推荐2】Daisy was in the bathroom of her flat. She was brushing her teeth and the tap was on. Water was coming into the sink.
“Turn that tap off,” a voice said loudly. Daisy looked round, but saw no one. “Turn that tap off. You’re wasting（浪费）water,” the voice sounded again.
“Who…who are you?” “I’m water. It’s not easy for me to get here. Do you know where I’m from?”
“From the tap, of course.” said Daisy.
“Yes, yes, but before that?” the voice said, “24 days ago, I was in a cloud in Jiangxi, enjoying the sights comfortably. Then the cloud dropped me into a stream and I ran down the mountain into the Yangtze River. It carried me to a lake. I stayed there for a few days, and then I travelled a long way and ran into the Huangpu River. Then it was time to get cleaned up.”
“Cleaned up?” Daisy was surprised.
“Yes, I was dirty after my journey so they took me to a water factory. They gave me a cleaning and added a few chemicals（化学品）to me. Then I travelled in the pipes under the streets. I waited there until you called me, and here I am.”
Daisy said, “So this is the end of your journey.”
“No. When you’ve finished with me, I’ll go to a sewage plant（污水处理厂）. Then they’ll pour me into the river and I’ll be back in the sea again.”
“Again?”
“Yes. That’s where I came from in the first place. Remember not to waste me or make me dangerously dirty. I’m precious（珍贵）like gold. See you.”
“Wait a minute. What do you mean by that?” But there was no answer. The water left.
1. How long was the water’s journey from a could to the tap?2. Where did water come from first?
3. What do you think of water? Why do you think so?
【推荐3】Extreme Amazon（亚马孙之最）
Twenty percent of all the water that goes into oceans around the world comes from one river—the Amazon.
The Amazon River begins in the Andes Mountains in Peru. It travels about 6000 kilometers to the Atlantic Ocean. It is the largest river in the world. It is also the second longest. Most of the Amazon's water comes from rain. During the rainy season, parts of the river are 190 kilometers wide.
The Amazon River goes through the world's largest rain forest. The Amazon rain forest is home to the highest number of plant and animal species（种类）on Earth. There are 2.5 million kinds of insects, such as the world's largest ant. At least 3,000 kinds of fish live there, and one-fifth of all the bird species in the world. Some of the Amazon's animals are dangerous, such as the anaconda, the largest snake in the world. But there are also gentle animals, like the sloth and the pink dolphin.
The Amazon is very important to Earth. There are still many kinds of animals and plants there that we don't know about. If we lose the Amazon, we will lose a big part of life on Earth.
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