People have talked about whether aliens（from another planet）have been to the Earth or not for thousands of years. Some pictures drawn over 50,000 years ago are thought to be the first pictures of spacecrafts. Alien spaceships are often called flying saucers（飞碟）. The first person to use this name an American, Kenneth Arnold. On 24th June, 1947, he was flying a small plane in Washington State in the USA when he saw something strange. “I was looking out of the window, when I saw nine saucer—like things in front of me,” Arnold said.
Two other Americans, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, said that aliens took them into a flying saucer while they were fishing to the Mississippi River on the night of 11th October, 1973. It was a dark night. The two men were sitting in their fishing boat when they saw a bright light. It was hanging in the air over the water and it looked like a flying saucer. It pulled Hickson and Parjer into their spacecraft. In the spacecraft the aliens had a close look at the two men and then sent them back to their boat. “The aliens were in a pale colour and had very small eyes,” Hickson said. “But they didn’t hurt us.”
In 1983, Pioneer 10, an American spacecraft, went into space. On the outside of the spacecraft are 13 pictures of men and women and a map of space. If aliens find Pioneer 10, they will know how to get to the Earth.
1. What were Charles and Calvin doing when then met aliens?2. How did Kenneth feel when he saw the sauce—like things?
3. Will you be afraid if you meet aliens? Why or why not?
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The Spirit of Giving
Terry Crossman is an American who lives in Beijing now. He is 64 years old and he is retired (退休). He has lived in Beijing for 24 years. Now he spends some of his time volunteering to help tourists find their way around the beautiful area of Xicheng District in Beijing. He can even give people directions in fluent (流利的) Chinese.
Things were not easy for him when he started volunteering in March 2017, since he was unfamiliar (不熟悉) with the neighborhood. At first, he walked around for a long time until he could give right directions. And he worked harder to study Chinese every night.
Being a foreigner speaking fluent Chinese and the only male in the volunteer group called “Aunties from Xicheng District”, Terry has been famous on the Internet. He has attracted many tourists who come just to take a photo with him. Some people ask him for directions, and a lot of time he is asked to take photos.
He says. “The spirit of volunteering is you get more than what you give in a way. I love volunteering because I love doing things for people. I also want to make people happy.” He thinks it’s like throwing a stone into the river and then you have little waves. Then happiness can be given to other people.
Volunteering is a sure sign of an advanced and civilized society. According to a survey, there are over 129,000 community voluntary groups, 10.72 million volunteers like Crossman. They have volunteered for 23.88 million hours. Volunteers are serving the world beyond borders (国界).
1. Can Terry help tourists find the way in Chinese?2. When did Terry start volunteering?
3. What’s the spirit of volunteering?
4. Why does he love volunteering?
5. What do you think of volunteering?
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A vlogger is someone who makes and posts short videos on the Internet. Vloggers may share their opinions, interests and experiences with people to learn something or just watch for fun.
Chen Qiqi, from Deyang in Sichuan, is working as a plant science vlogger. In her account (账号) on Douyin, more than 100 videos explain different kinds of plants and they help her get 1, 000, 000 followers there.
Her love for plants can be easily seen in her well-prepared videos. They showed the beauty of each plant and the fun topics are welcomed— plants that can be used to wash hair, flowers that carry special meanings or fruits that taste good in childhood memories.
Chen surprised people last year by showing how to use red peppers to make lipstick (口红). The video had over 4, 000, 000 views on Douyin. In the video, Chen shared her real-time experience. Her followers asked if she could feel the spiciness (辛辣). “To be frank, I can feel it on my lips!” Chen said laughingly.
It usually takes Chen three to four days to make a mid-length video. She says the most difficult part is researching because she needs to check every piece of information many times. “I need to read a large number of books and double check everything I want to use in my videos on different websites,” Chen says. “Sometimes I also ask university teachers for advice.”
Speaking of her future plans, Chen says she wants to go on exploring the world of plants. “My job is valuable when people say they fall in love with those plants because of me,” Chen says. “I’d like to show the interesting side of plants. By understanding their roles in nature, we can truly love and care for them.”
1. What kind of blogger is Chen Qiqi working as?2. How did Chen surprise people last year?
3. How long does it usually take Chen to make a mid-length video?
4. Do you think Chen enjoys her job as a vlogger? Why or why not? (Give at least two reasons)
【推荐3】Simon, a 28-year-old German student, rode 5,800 kilometers in China for his trip blog. He wanted to learn about the Chinese Dream.
“What’s your Chinese Dream?” This is the question he asked every stranger he met on his 100-day trip.
Simon came to China for the first time in 2011. After a year in China, he was able to speak Chinese. Because of his interest in Chinese culture, he went to Zhejiang University in 2017.
Simon learned “Chinese Dream” in 2013 and now it has become one of the hottest words in China. To learn the meaning of it among Chinese people, he started his trip in May 2018.
Simon believes that riding across China is natural. And it is friendly as well. During his trip, he found that people in the cities usually keep following their hearts, What’s more, older generation(一代) of Chinese cares more about social stability(稳定) but the young generation cares more about education and environment.
“People look for their ways to make their dreams come true. They all believe that a strong country is the most important.” Simon said.
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3. People look for their ways to make their dreams come true.
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4. Where did Simon go in 2017?
5. What has become one of the hottest words in China?
6. How does Simon feel about riding across China?
Linda and Mary are good friends. Linda is thirteen. She comes from the U.S.A. Mary is twelve. She’s from London(伦敦). They study in the same school, but in different classes. Linda’s father teaches English in a middle school. Her mother drives a car. Mary’s mother works in an office. Her father is a doctor. Linda can speak English, French(法语) and a little Chinese. Linda’s mother likes cooking. She likes eating rice. But Linda’ s father doesn’t. He likes drinking milk and eating bread. Mary’s mother doesn’t like cooking. But she likes doing some shopping. She can make nice skirts and dresses. Mary’s father likes doing housework(家务).
1. Where does Mary come from?2. What does Linda’s father do?
3. Where does Mary’s father work?
4. What can Linda speak?
5. What does Mary’s mother do?
【推荐2】Mike was a good and well-trained boy. His parents loved him very much. He did everything well, but Mike had one bad habit. He ate a lot of sweets and chocolates. Those were his favorite. He just couldn’t refuse. His mother always told him, “Mike, you shouldn’t eat so many sweets. You will get toothaches.” His mother used to keep all the sweets in a glass jar. It had a narrow (狭窄的) mouth and a tight lid on it.
One day when his mother went to the market, Mike saw that his father was asleep. So he walked carefully and slowly to the kitchen and got the sweet jar (罐子). With great effort, he opened the tight lid and put his hand in the narrow mouth. Mike picked a fist (拳头) full of sweets. But when he tried to pull his hand out, it got stuck (卡) in the jar.
Mike’s father was awake and watching. He said to Mike, “You have picked up too many sweets in your fist. It’s more than your little hand can keep. Your fist cannot come out of the jar. Let go off the sweets and pick only one sweet in your two fingers and you can pull your hand out easily. Always take as much as you can control.”
Mike pulled out his hand from the jar easily and he learned a lesson for his life, too.
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1. Mike likes to eat
2. How many sweets did his father advise him to get?
3. What lesson did Mike learn?
4. It was easy for Mike to pull out his hand from the jar.
5.
Peter was a carpenter of our village. Once I asked him to make a dining table for my wife. He made it just the right size to fill the space between the two windows. When I arrived home that evening, Peter was drinking a cup of tea and writing out his bill for his work.
My wife said to me, quietly, “That’s his ninth cup of tea today.” But she said loudly, “It’s a beautiful table, dear, isn’t it?”
“I won’t decide about that until I see that bill.” I said.
Peter laughed and gave me his bill for the work. It said:
| BILL One dining table June 10, 2016 Cost of wood 27.00 Paint 5.50 Work, 8 hours (2 an hour) 16.00 Total 58.50 |
When I was looking at the bill, Peter said, “It’s been a fine day, hasn’t it? Quite sunny.”
“Yes,” I said. “I’m glad it is only the 10th of June.”
“Me too,” said Peter. “You wait—it’ll be a bit hotter by the end of the month.”
“Yes. Hotter and more expensive. Dining tables will be 20 more expensive on June 30th, won’t they, Peter?”
Peter looked hard at me for half a minute. There was a little smile in his two blue eyes. I gave his bill back to him.
“If it isn’t too much trouble, Peter,” I said, “Please add it up again. You can forget the date.”
I paid him ________ and he was happy to get it.
1. The dinner table was made by Peter, wasn’t it?2. How long did it take the carpenter to make the table?
3. Why did the writer ask Peter to add the bill up again?
4. What number can be filled in the blank in the last paragraph?
5. Which character do you think was clever? Why?
My two little daughters and I usually go out and help others on Thankful Thursday. Last Thursday, we were going to buy lunch for the beggars in the street. Then we went to the nearest McDonald’s(麦当劳). I ordered 15 lunches from it and drove my car to hand them out.
We gave the lunches to the beggars. They were excited. We were happy to see that.
Then we noticed a small, old woman, asking for pocket money. We gave her our last lunch bag. Before we got into the car, she started to speak to us. “No one did anything like this for me before,” she said with a smile. “Well, I’m glad that we were the first,” I answered. “So, when will you eat your lunch?” I asked.
She just looked at me with her big tired brown eyes and said, “Oh, dear, I’m not going to eat this lunch. You see, I have a little daughter of my own. I usually can’t buy her favorite food. But today she will be so happy!”
I didn’t know if the kids noticed the tears in my eyes. I have asked many times whether our actions of kindness were too small to change anything. Yet at that moment, I realized(意识到) the truth of the words: We cannot do great things—only small things with great love.
1. Who were they going to buy lunch for?（No more than 6 words.）2. How many lunches did the writer order?（No more than 5 words.）
3. When did the woman start to speak to the writer?（No more than 8 words.）
4. Was the woman going to eat the lunch?（No more than 3 words.）
5. What can we learn from the story?（No more than 15 words.）
Richard went to a small Japanese town and was staying with his wife at a hotel there. One night he went out for a walk alone. It was late and the small street was dark and quiet. Suddenly he heard footsteps behind him. he turned around and saw a young Japanese man walking quickly past him. The man was nearly out of sight when Richard suddenly found his watch was gone. He thought that it must be the Japanese who had taken away his watch. He decided to run after him and got his watch back.
Soon Richard caught up with the Japanese. Neither of them understood the other’s language. Richard pointed to the Japanese’s watch. Finally the Japanese gave up his watch to Richard. When he returned to the hotel, Richard told his wife about that. His wife pointed to the table. He was greatly surprised to see watch there. Now he knew he had made a silly mistake.
Questions:
1. What did Richard hear when he was walking alone on the street?
2. What did Richard find after a Japanese passed him quickly?
3. Who did Richard think had stolen(偷) his watch?
4. Where did Richard find his watch at last?
5. Did the Japanese steal Richard’s watch?
It was very cold .It snowed heavily and blew very strongly . It was not a good night to go out . But David had to walk home from work ."I can be warmer ," he thought ,"I wear my coat backwards (反方向地)."He took off his coat and put it on backwards "That’s much better." He thought and walked on . About ten minutes later a car hit him. The driver stopped his car and got out of it .He ran to help David .
Soon a police car arrived .The policeman ran to look at David ."I’m afraid he’s dead. " The policeman told the driver .
The driver could not believe it ." He can’t be dead ."He cried, "I did not touch him. Look at my car. There is not a mark on it."
"He’s dead ." The policeman said again .
"I don’t understand it ." The driver said ,"As soon as I hit him. I ran to help him. He was lying on the road , but he was breathing and there was no blood."
"Did you touch him ? " The policeman asked .
"Yes," The driver said ,"________________________
1. Why was David walking in such bad weather ?2. How did David make himself warmer ?
3. Did the driver run to help David ?
4. Who killed David ?
5. 把画线的句子译成汉语。
