Embroidery(刺绣) has a long history and can date back to the Warring States period in China. Embroidery is very popular in many countries such as China, India, and Japan. Embroidery is the handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needles and thread or yarn. Embroidery may also use other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins. Embroidery is most often used on caps, hats, coats, blankets, dress shirts, denim, stockings, and golf shirts. Embroidery is available with a wide variety of thread or yarn color.
Embroidery has many unique characteristics(特点). One of the interesting characteristics of embroidery is the basic techniques or stitches(针法), such as the chain stitch, the buttonhole or the blanket stitch, the running stitch, the satin stitch and the cross stitch. They are still the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today.
Embroidery can be classified according to whether the design is stitched on top of or through the foundation fabric; and by the relationship of stitch placement to the fabric. Different embroidery has its own advantages and disadvantages. In modern society, we can produce many different embroideries. Machine embroidery is one of them. It appears in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution.
1. From the passage, we can know embroidery can date back to ________.| A．the Warring States period | B．the Spring and Autumn period |
| C．the modern times | D．the Ming Dynasty |
| A．Metal strips. | B．Pearls. | C．Quills. | D．Wood. |
| A．Seven. | B．Six. | C．Eight. | D．Five. |
| A．The flying stitch. | B．The satin stitch. |
| C．The flat stitch. | D．The button stitch. |
| A．The Introduction of Embroidery | B．The Advantages of Embroidery |
| C．The Disadvantages of Embroidery | D．The Meaning of Embroidery |
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【推荐1】As we all know, 2022 is the Year of the Tiger.
Do you know anyone born in the Year of the Tiger? What’s he or she like? Are they brave, strong and decisive?
But in the West, tigers are also seen as very powerful.
根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，使文章意思通顺、内容完整。
| A．In English, if you want someone to calm down, you can say “easy tiger” to them. |
| B．If so, then they are a typical “tiger”. |
| C．Instead of tigers, in the West, lions are considered as the king of all animals. |
| D．Tigers have an important cultural meaning not just in China, but across Asia. |
| E．They stand for power, energy and protection. |
Do you know Wuyi Rock Tea? It is a kind of Oolong tea. The tea trees grow on rock cracks (岩缝) in Wuyi Mountain in Fujian. That’s why people call it rock tea. It is famous for its rich smell. The best kind is Dahongpao. With its long history, Wuyi Rock Tea dates back to the Shang Dynasty (商朝). People usually sent it to the kings as a gift. Now the skills of making Wuyi Rock Tea are on the list of China’s national intangible cultural heritage list (非物质文化遗产名录).
Look! This is Zhang Huichun. The 65-year-old man is a master of making Wuyi Rock Tea. In 1980, he began to learn making the tea and opened a tea factory. It took him 10 years to learn the skills.
There are 13 steps to make it. Drying, shaking (摇) and roasting (焙火) are three of them. When Zhang shakes tea leaves, he has to decide when to stop by looking at the color. “From shaking a few times to hundreds of times, only years of experience can help you find it out,” Zhang says. The last step “roasting” is also important. It often takes more than 20 hours. “Every 50 minutes, you have to turn over the leaves, or it may burn (烧焦).” Zhang says. He often stays up late to roast the tea.
Zhang is good at it, but he says he is still learning. “Every step is full of changes-different tea trees and weather.” To help more tea makers, Zhang often works with schools to teach the skills. “It’s my responsibility (责任) to pass on the skills,” he says.
1. Which of the following is NOT true about Wuyi Rock Tea?| A．It is from Wuyi Mountain in Fujian. | B．The tea trees grow on rock cracks. |
| C．It has a long history of 500 years. | D．People like its rich smell very much. |
| A．Zhang is very good at making the tea. | B．Zhang is growing the tea in his garden. |
| C．Zhang is learning how to make the tea. | D．Zhang changes the ways of making tea. |
| A．By drying the tea leaves. | B．By looking at their color. |
| C．By watching the time. | D．By smelling the tea leaves. |
| A．To learn some new skills in making tea. | B．To study more new changes in tea trees. |
| C．To look for students to help sell his tea. | D．To teach more people tea-making skills. |
This year is the Year of the Tiger.
Do you know anyone born in the Year of the Tiger? What’s their personality like? Are they brave, strong and determined (有决心的)? If so, then they are a typical “tiger”.
In Chinese culture, tigers are seen as the king of all animals.
But in the West, tigers are also seen as very powerful. In English, if you want someone to calm down you can say to them “easy tiger”. Another famous phrase is “eye of the tiger”, which means to have fierceness (凶猛) and strength.
根据短文内容，从下列选项中选出能填入文中空白处的最佳选项，有一项是多余选项。
| A．What does tiger mean in cultures? |
| B．They stand for power, energy, and protection. |
| C．Tigers and lions are called kings of the wild animals. |
| D．Instead of tigers, in the West, lions are considered the king of all animals. |
| E．Tigers have an important cultural meaning not just in China, but across Asia. |
【推荐1】Clean electricity is the power of the future, but engineers are facing a big challenge. How can we store electricity to be used at times when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not shining? In some cases, the answer will be batteries; but in other cases, it could come from a variety of different solutions—starting with gravity.
Gravity is the most abundant source of power on Earth. It’s always been everywhere since the beginning of time. Nobody knew about it until around 1700, when Isaac Newton saw an apple fall from a tree in his garden. Newton asked himself the question: “Why did that apple fall to the ground?” And he soon worked out the answer. Everything will fall to the ground if it can do so, because there is a massive force that pulls things towards the center of the earth. Newton decided to call this force “gravity”, a word that then just meant “weight”.
Engineers have used gravity as a source of power for centuries, long before Newton first explained it. In particular, they used gravity to move water from one place to another to irrigate (灌溉) fields and bring water to cities. They knew that water would flow downhill, but never uphill, so they built structures to use the force of gravity most effectively.
In 1907, engineers in Switzerland first used gravity for a new purpose: to store energy. They pumped (用泵抽送) water up a hill, where they stored it in a lake. Then when they needed more electricity, they let the water come back down the hill, driving electric turbines (涡轮机) as it fell. The idea was just so simple, and it is now used in many parts of the world. However, the problem is that “pumped storage” hydro schemes (抽水蓄能水电方案) can’t be built just anywhere, as they need lots of water and big hills or mountains.
Some experts believe that gravity systems are the cheapest way to store electricity. Gravity-stored electricity is maybe half the price of battery-stored electricity, but even so it is not cheap. In order to make gravity more effective, we would need to increase its force—and that, of course, is quite impossible. Yet gravity is not the only way of storing energy, and engineers are working on systems that store it using water pressure or compressed air... and even sand!
Storage is one of the big scientific challenges of our time, as storage is the essential partner of wind power and solar power. We need clean electricity 24 hours a day, not just when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing.
| A．expensive | B．environmental | C．famous | D．plentiful |
| A．gravity systems are the cheapest way to store electricity |
| B．“pumped storage” hydro schemes can be built on small hills |
| C．engineers in Switzerland first stored energy by using gravity creatively |
| D．experts have already made gravity more effective by increasing its force |
| A．To tell the story of finding gravity. |
| B．To show the importance of gravity. |
| C．To call on people to use clean electricity. |
| D．To introduce a good way to store electricity. |
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Do you know full confidence in your memory? Look at the two pictures and choose the one which you think is correct. Then check with the answer.
Answer: The one on the right is correct. Pikachu never had a black tail in any of its various versions. Its yellow tail does have brown fur at its base, but there is no sign of black fur on its tail. There has been a discussion about whether it is shi or si in the sentence. “Thus when Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man…”
Most people voted si as what they learned at school. However, People’s Education Press (PEP), a leading publisher of Chinese textbooks, claimed on Oct. 26 that all its textbooks say shi. Supporters of si feel shocked and say they’ve experienced the “Mandela Effect”—the situation in which a large number of people believe that an event happened when it didn’t.
Many people believed that former South African president Nelson Mandela died in the 1980s in prison. However, Mandela was alive and well, finally passing away in 2013. US researcher Fiona Broome created a website to detail her discovery of this public phenomenon (现象), coining the term which has been in use till now.
Some often joke that our memories have been changed by a strange force. In fact, psychologists have looked into the reasons for the Mandela Effect, as reported on the US-based website Verywell Mind.
For example, your mind may fill in gaps missing in your memory to make more sense of it, which is called confabulation (虚构症). However, try not to feel bad—this is not lying, but rather remembering details that never happened.
The Internet may be another reason why we tend to have Mandela Effect events, as the news we read can be false from the beginning. In 2018, Science Journal published a study of over 100,000 news stories discussed across Twitter. It showed that false news can spread faster and reach more people than the truth. As a powerful way to spread information, the Internet might be the main reason for falsehoods to enter our minds.
1. Why does the writer mention the discussion about the sentence in Paragraph 2?| A．To solve a mystery of Mandela Effect. | B．To raise readers’ interest in confabulation. |
| C．To introduce the topic of the Mandela Effect. | D．To discuss which word is the right one, si or shi. |
| A．creating | B．borrowing | C．describing | D．correcting |
| A．Attitudes to a special event. | B．A kind of psychological effect. |
| C．The benefit of good memory. | D．The effect of Mandela’s death. |
| A．Most people know the former South African president Mandela well. |
| B．The word si or shi both existed in Chinese textbooks published by the PEP. |
| C．If you can tell the right Pikachu, you will never suffer from the Mandela Effect. |
| D．If you remember details that never happened, you may experience the Mandela Effect. |
Cooking to build character
Do you know how to cook, clean or grow plants? If not, you will soon. These will all be part of Chinese public education (教育) starting this fall.
A new standard (标准) for labor education recently came out. Students in primary and middle school will have at least one class a week to try and experience different kinds of labor and learn different life skills and even job skills. The standard includes different tasks for each grade. For example, fifth- and sixth-graders learn to cook two or three common dishes, like fried eggs or scrambled eggs with tomato (番茄炒蛋).
This move is to enrich Chinese students’ life and build their character (塑造品行) through labor. Chinese school education didn’t pay enough attention (重视) to this in the past. According to a 2019 report, Chinese kids only do 12 minutes of practical activity each day, while US kids do 1.2 hours each day, China Daily reported.
The standard also calls on families to take part in students’ labor education. They will make household lists to help students be more independent (独立的).
In addition to household skills, students will have a chance to try new technologies like 3D printing and laser cutting (激光切割). They will also learn to make traditional handicrafts (手工艺品).
1. ________education will start.| A．Moral | B．Labor | C．Elementary | D．Family |
| A．one | B．two | C．three | D．four |
| A．plant trees | B．clean rooms |
| C．cook two or three common dishes | D．make handicrafts |
| A．教授 | B．学习 | C．制定 | D．参与 |
| A．popularize labor education | B．make a list of labor categories |
| C．meet standards | D．introduce how to cook |
If you have ever had a cat, or have watched one of the many funny cat videos online, you'll know that cats have a mind of their own. A lot of the things they do are hard to understand—they like to climb up tall furniture, fit themselves in small spaces and attack(攻击) small objects for no reason at all.
Now scientists have managed to work out what exactly is going on in the brains of our little friends. According to Tony Buffington, a professor at Ohio State University in the US, cats' strange behavior(行为)largely comes from their way of life back in the wild. "Cats today still have many of the same natural abilities that allowed them to live in the wild for millions of years." he said in a TED Talk. "To them, our homes are their jungles(丛林)."
Cats' bodies and great balancing(平衡)abilities allow them to climb to high places to better look at the environment. Even though they don't have to hunt(猎食)any more in human houses, they still keep the old habit of observing the living room from, for example, the top of the fridge.
Cats' hunting abilities also make them attack small things like keys and USB drives.
In the wild, they hunt whatever they can get for food, and most of the animals they kill are small. However, a cat can also be prey. This explains why they like to stay in small spaces like drawers or washing machines—they are hiding, or they think they are hiding, from more dangerous animals. This is also why cats prefer a clean box: a dirty one with an unpleasant smell could easily show enemies where they are.
Knowing how cats' minds work is not only useful for better understanding them, it may also help cats' owners to better meet cats' needs. For example, owners could try to make climbing easier for cats by moving their furniture around. They could also use "food puzzles" to make eating feel more like hunting instead of just giving food to the cats.
1. According to the passage, Tony Buffington agrees that ________.| A．cats' strange behavior is hard for people to understand |
| B．cats are more used to living in the wild than in humans' homes |
| C．cats' natural abilities are still helpful to make them get food today |
| D．cats act strangely mainly because of their natural abilities in the wild |
| A．an animal that lives in the jungles |
| B．an animal that likes keeping itself clean |
| C．an animal that likes playing hiding games with people |
| D．an animal that becomes others' food after being hunted |
| A．creating hunting games at home | B．giving them delicious food |
| C．making them go back to the wild | D．putting them in the furniture |
| A．To describe cats' past wild experience to readers. |
| B．To tell cat owners how to make life easier for cats. |
| C．To explain the reasons behind cats' strange behavior. |
| D．To compare cats' behavior in human homes with that in the wild. |
Most of the students get useful information for their studies, but some are not using it in a good way. Many students are playing online games too much. Some even visit some unhealthy websites. A teacher from Beijing Yinghua Middle School, Hong Ying warns (警告) that something bad can happen if young people spend too much time on the Internet. She said that one of her students used to be good at school. But when he started visiting unhealthy websites，he hurt a girl by cheating online. At last the police caught him and sent him into the prison (监狱).
In order to help young people use the Internet safely, some schools in Shanghai find a good way. The schools provide a textbook (教科书) for the students. The book uses real examples to teach students about good ways of using the Internet. Teachers and parents all think the book is good.
Hong said that the book will help students keep away from the bad behaviors (行者) of using computer. The book will teach students how to be a good person (人) in the online world.
1. _______ of the 3,375 students use the Internet very often.
| A．10 | B．18 | C．38 | D．About 1282 |
| A．All | B．Not all | C．Each of the | D．Every |
| A．Beijing | B．Wuhan | C．Shenyang | D．Shanghai |
| A．teach students how to get online in a good way |
| B．tell children how to make online friends |
| C．tell a lot of stories about the harm (危害) of the Internet |
| D．teach students how to play computer games |
| A．the police liked him |
| B．he was interested in the Internet |
| C．he cheated and hurt a girl online |
| D．he didn’t study hard |
Where is Linda? Is she in the room? No, she isn’t. She is at school.
1. Linda’s room is .
| A．not nice | B．not clean |
| C．nice and clean | D．not clean or (或者) nice |
| A．A photo of a girl | B．A photo of a boy |
| C．some pictures | D．Two pictures |
| A．Some books, blue pens and a lamp |
| B．Some books, red pens, a bag and a lamp |
| C．Some green pens, a bag and a lamp |
| D．A bag, a book, a blue pen and a lamp |
| A．brown | B．blue | C．green | D．pink |
| A．schoolbag | B．bed and desk |
| C．books and a chair | D．pens and lamp |
【推荐1】Once upon a time, there was a spider with the name Anansi. He knew that he was very clever but he also knew he wasn’t wise. He didn’t like this, but he did not know what to do. One day he had an idea. He went around the village with a basket and asked people to give him some of their wisdom. Each person put a bit in his basket and wished him good luck.
Soon his basket was full, but Anansi was worried that his neighbors might be jealous(嫉妒) of his wisdom and take it from him. He decided to hide it at the top of a tall tree. When he had tied the basket to the front part of his body, he tried to climb the tree, but it was too difficult. He tried again and again without success.
Then his youngest son walked by. ＂What are you doing, father?＂ he asked and Anansi told him. ＂Why don’t you carry the basket on your back instead?＂ his son said.
Anansi put the basket on his back and climbed the tree easily, but he wasn’t happy. ＂I walked all over the village and collected so much wisdom that I am the wisest person ever, but my baby son is still wiser than me. Take back your wisdom!＂ he said. And he threw the basket of wisdom into the air and went home. And that’s how wisdom went all over the world.
1. Anansi went around the village because ____________.| A．he knew he was very clever | B．he wanted to show his good luck |
| C．he hoped to meet his son | D．he wanted to ask people for wisdom |
| A．his son | B．his father | C．the villagers | D．the neighbors |
| A．the tree | B．the basket | C．the luck | D．the wisdom |
| A．a report | B．a story | C．an advertisement | D．a diary |
| A．Anansi’s wisdom | B．The wisdom of Anansi’s son |
| C．Anansi and his son | D．Anansi and the villagers |
【推荐2】Teens want structure in their lives, which means they want their lives well-planned. To begin building structure, teens need love and trust. They need to know their parents are there to give them needed love and support (支持). Teens want to be sure that nothing can prevent parents from shouldering their responsibility for them — not their growing maturity (成熟), misbehavior, nor anger at something they have done. Teens want parents to keep control while allowing them to make some decisions.
There are some ways you can help your teens create reasonable structure and remain close. One way is to spend time together. Parents often mistake their teens’ increased interest in friends for a disinterest in the family.
Teens would like to spend more time doing things with their parents, but watching TV is not counted as spending time together. As your teens mature, it is important for you and your teens spend time alone together, one to one. Your teens need time to talk to you alone without any other family member present. Talk with your teens about their interests and concerns. Make sure you really show interest in what is happening. When talking with your teens, give full attention and do not stop them.
The way to help your teens become adults is to let your teens into your world. Sharing your emotions and concerns with your teens is important. Avoid causing needless worry. Trust your teens. Don’t expect the worst. Hope for the best. Telling your teens you don’t like their friends will cause the teens not to bring their friends home. If something should go wrong, believe that your teens didn’t do it on purpose.
It is very important that you treat your teens with respect. Teens need the same respect adults show for total strangers. Don’t talk down to your teens.
You need to be supportive of your teens. What may be a small problem to you may be troubling to your teens. Teens don’t have the experiences that adults have had. Let the teens know that you understand how much it hurts when something happens that is upsetting or hurtful to them. As they mature, they can look back at some problems they had and laugh at having been upset by something that now seems unimportant.
The most important things to remember are: talk with your teens, listen to their worries and offer suggestions when needed. This will help your teens to live a well-organized life.
1. According to Paragraph 1, teens ______.| A．can control themselves | B．expect direction and freedom |
| C．don’t know how to make decision | D．don’t have responsibility for the family |
| A．compared with | B．used as |
| C．connected with | D．regarded as |
| A．give suggestions | B．spend time alone together |
| C．trust their teens | D．worry about the worst |
| A．invite their teens’ friends home | B．leave their teens’ problems alone |
| C．share their feelings with their teens | D．pay little attention to their teens’ daily lives |
| A．Training Teens to Become Responsible Adults. |
| B．Helping Teens to Build Reasonable Structure. |
| C．Improving the Relationship with Your Teens. |
| D．Stepping into Your Teens’ Secret World. |
One day a woman wrote to a doctor to invite him to have dinner with her family . The doctor wrote an answer, but he wrote too badly and the woman could not read it. She asked her husband, “I don’t know whether he is going come or not. I don’t want to call and say that I don’t understand him. ”
Her husband thought for a few minutes and then he had a good idea. “Take it to the chemist,” he said , “He will be able to read it for us.”
“That’s a good idea.” said the woman. She went to the chemist’s shop and gave the doctor’s note to him. The chemist looked at it for a long time. “Could you wait a moment, Miss?” he said . Then he went to the back of the shop. After a few minutes he came back, carrying a large bottle. He gave the bottle to the woman.
“Take a teaspoon every day.” said the chemist to the woman.
1. The woman couldn’t understand the “note”. Because .
| A．the woman never went to school |
| B．the doctor wrote badly |
| C．the doctor didn’t like to go |
| D．the woman didn’t know much about medicine |
| A．go to the chemist to get some medicine |
| B．call the doctor have dinner with them |
| C．read the note again |
| D．take the reply to the chemist for help |
| A．护士 | B．化验师 | C．药剂师 | D．药房 |
| A．A Piece of Good Advice | B．A Clever Chemist |
| C．An Invitation to the Doctor | D．A Bad Doctor |
