In Hanyang, Hubei Province, there is a place called Guqin Platform. It is named in memory of Yu Boya.
Yu Boya was a great musician of the Zhou Dynasty. He was famous for playing the qin. But he was always unhappy because he thought no one could understand his music.
On the night of one Mid-Autumn Festival, Yu was playing the qin on a boat. As he finished playing it, he heard a loud applause (掌声). It came from a young named Zhong Ziqi. Yu invited him to come on board, and discussed music with him. He was quite amazed at Zhong’s deep understanding, he considered Zhong as his “zhi yin”.
Yu had to leave to continue his journey, but they decided to meet one year later .
It was time for them to meet again. Yu waited and waited, but Zhong didn’t come at all. Then he found a grave (坟墓) with the name of Zhong Ziqi along the river. He played a piece of music with tears. Then he broke his qin, he thought nobody would understand him.
Ever since that day, the expression “zhi yin” usually means a friend who knows your heart.
回答下面5个问题，每题答案不超过5个词。
1. What was Yu Boya famous for?
2. Where was Yu Boya playing the qin when he met Zhong Ziqi?
3. When did Yu and Zhong decide to meet again?
4. Why did Yu broke his qin?
5. What kind of friend do you want to have?
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One day, Sun Quan sent Cao Cao a present. It was a huge elephant. Cao Cao wanted to (A) ________ out the weight of the elephant.
“What a huge animal it is! Can (B) anybody tell me how to weigh it?” he asked the crowd (C) round him.
“Can we get a large scale?” asked a soldier. However, no one could find a scale large enough.
“Can we cut it up?” asked another soldier.
“No. I don’t want to kill it,” said Cao Cao.
Just then, young Cao Chong had a wonderful idea. “I can weigh the elephant!” he said.
“(D) 让我试一试.”
Cao Chong asked some soldiers to lead the elephant onto a boat. As the heavy animal walked onto it, the boat went lower into the (E) ________. Cao Chong drew a line on the side of the boat to mark how low it went. The elephant was then taken off the boat and the boat was filled with rocks until it went down again and water reached the line on the boat.
Cao Chong then weighed the rocks. He added up the weight of all the rocks and said, “(F) This is the weight of the elephant.”
Cao Cao was very happy with his son. “My son is very clever, isn’t he?” he said. Everyone agreed.
1. 在文中(A)和(E)的空白处填入适当单词：2. 写出文中划线部分(B)和(C)的同义词或近义词：
3. 将文中划线部分(D)翻译成英文：
4. 将文中划线部分(F)改写成：This is
5. 在文中找出两个历史人物：
General information about Zheng He and his voyages
| Year of birth | 1371 | |
| Place of birth | Yunnan | |
| Career | a trusted official of the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty | |
| Order from the emperor | to visit and explore the lands outside China | |
| Tasks of his voyages | • to develop relations with foreign countries • to set up trade routes with foreign countries | |
| Facts about his voyages | period | from 1405 to 1433 |
| times | 7 | |
| the areas he visited | South-East Asia, the Middle East and the east coast of Africa | |
| the significance of the voyages | • They allowed China to trade valuable goods like gold, silver and silk. • They encouraged the exchange of cultures and technologies. • They helped the development of those countries and regions. | |
2. What was the order from the emperor?
3. How long did Zheng He’s voyages last?
4. Where did Zheng He and his ships travel during the seven voyages?
5. What valuable goods could China trade after Zheng He’s voyages?
Buying Horse-bones with 500 gold bars!
During the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), King Zhao wanted to have talented people to make the state strong. He asked the scholar (有学问的人) Guo Wei (A) _________ advice. Guo told the king a story. In ancient times, there was a king who wanted a special kind of horse. This horse could run 1,000 li a day. It was called qianlima. He sent many people to find these horses and buy them for him. 3 years later, nobody found him such a horse.
One day, a man volunteered to help. Within three months, he heard about a qianlima. He rushed to find (B) it, but the horse was already dead. Still, he bought the bones of the horse with 500 pieces of gold. The king was very angry. “What I want is a live horse, not the bones of a dead horse!”
The man answered, “Look! You’re willing to pay a high price for a dead horse, (C) let alone a live one. This shows people that you truly wish to buy the horses. Just wait and the horses you want will come very soon.” Within a year, many qianlima owners brought their horses to the king.
Guo told the king that he could see himself (D) _________ the bones of the horse. “If I am valued (重视), more talent will be willing to serve the state,” he said. The king built houses for Guo and treated him as a teacher. Soon, talented people across the state came to help the king. His state was stronger and stronger.
1. 在(A)和(D)空白处填入适当的介词使句意完整。2. What does the underlined word (B) it refer to?
3. 根据上下文猜测划线(C)处let alone 的汉语意思。
4. Fill in the blanks according to the text.（每空 1 个单词）
King Zhao of the State Yan actually wanted to have ①
【推荐1】Have you heard of Tian Wei? She was a pretty girl, and she was born on April 5, 1986. She was from Beijing. She had two big eyes and short hair. She was good at Chinese. And she loved writing.
She was unlucky. When she was in Grade 8, she was seriously ill. Her doctor said she would lose her life anytime. But she wasn’t afraid of death. She kept on studying and writing. Unluckily, she died on August 13, 2007. But she smiled till the end of her life.
Tian Wei had a great dream. She hoped that people could read her book in the bookshops. In March, 2009, her only book Hua Tian Ban Mu came out. It had more than 500 thousand words. In her book, she said, “I’m always aching (疼痛的). If possible, I’ll let my right eye weep (哭泣) but the other one smile.”
1. What did Tian Wei do well in?2. Did she love writing?
3. What happened to Tian Wei when she was in Grade 8?
4. When did the book Hua Tian Ban Mu come out?
5. How many words did the book Hua Tian Ban Mu have?
【推荐2】Hobbies can bring happiness and help people. In my family, we have different hobbies. My grandpa left work three years ago when he was sixty. He has been painting for three years. And his pictures are very beautiful. My father likes cars very much. He has many pictures and models of cars in his room. My mother likes flowers very much. She always waters them after she comes back from the school.
(1) What I like best is singing. I started to learn to sing when I was very young. My uncle taught me first. (2) I showed great interest in music. I dreamed of becoming a singer in the future. As time went by, I knew that my dream wouldn’t come true. It was hard for me to be a singer because I didn’t have a nice voice. However, I still like singing. When I put my heart into singing, it makes me feel comfortable. This is my hobby. I hope everyone can enjoy his or her own hobby.
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1. The writer’s grandpa is sixty years old and his hobby is painting.
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3. I was very
4. What does the writer think hobbies can do?
5. Where does the writer’s mother work?
【推荐3】Podareva was born in the hometown of Russia’s famous poet Sergei Yesenin. She loved poetry very much. She wrote many poems in both Russian and English. After she came to China to study Chinese in 2013, the world of Chinese poetry opened up before her.
Podareva had colorful experiences in China. She won prizes in many Chinese poetry writing competitions and published (出版) her own Chinese poetry collections. Her most unusual memory was that one of her Chinese poems was turned into a song.
“Some people may praise China in a direct way, but I prefer to express my feelings about the country and describe the friendship between China and Russia through different styles of poems,” Podareva said.
Podareva always wanted to be a cultural ambassador (使者) between the two countries. In 2020, she began to make videos and shared them online. Besides sharing Chinese poems she had written, Podareva also produced videos about cultural differences between China and Russia. Sometimes she made humorous videos to explain the misunderstandings that Chinese people have towards Russians.
Podareva was not only good at writing poems but also good at painting. She didn’t think the two art forms were different from each other. “Wang Wei was a famous Chinese poet, and he was also a painter,” she said. In December 2022, Podareva showed 66 of her paintings in Shanghai.
Podareva thought all art was a way for the creators to express their spirit. To make the friendship between China and Russia deeper, she decided to create a website in Russia and introduce China—through her poetry and paintings—to Russian.
根据短文内容，回答问题。1. How many languages could Podareva use to write poems?
2. What was Podareva’s most unusual memory?
3. How did Podareva express her feelings about China?
4. Where did Podareva show 66 of her paintings?
5. Why did Podareva decide to create a website in Russia?
Cartoonist: Charles Schulz
Charles Schulz is a true hero. For nearly 50 years, Schulz's comic strip, the Peanuts collection has been the most well-known cartoon in the world. It has 355 million daily readers in 75 countries. On February 13th, 2000, Schulz died of cancer. But he will always be remembered by people old and young worldwide.
In Schulz's works, he always stayed positive. He tried to give readers a happy feeling. Kids like Peanuts because the characters live a simple life and go through the same troubles as they do. He did not pick out stressful topics of the day. Instead, he always brought readers into a joyful world by writing about a happy place with simple stories.
Schulz was also a good father of four children. It's said that he never failed to stop his work to play a pick-up baseball game or have lunch with his family. He was always very involved in his children's lives and supported their decisions. He taught them the importance of a person's inner worth. His family describes Schulz as a man with the fewest needs.
His youngest daughter, Jill, said, "He's a fighter, but he always has bad luck." When Schulz learned his cancer was serious, he was forced to give up the job he loved - writing the Peanuts cartoons. Unluckily, Schulz died the night before the last strip of his comics came out in the Sunday papers. Some might say this was unlucky, but Jill said her father enjoyed spending his whole life writing to make people happy.
Charles Schulz put a little comedy into our often-stressful world. He will be remembered as the world's favorite cartoonist. "You're a good man, Charles Schulz!"
1. How many daily readers does the Peanuts collection have?2. How did Schulz bring readers into a joyful world?
3. What did Schulz teach his children?
4. Why was Schulz forced to give up the job he loved?
5. Why didn’t Jill agree that her father’s death was unlucky?
A young Chinese illustrator (插图画家), who loves traditional Chinese culture, has created many interesting drawings. The artist’s online name is Jiao Xiangyue. She often posts her works on the Internet and the creative illustrations have won her more than 300,000 fans.
Jiao’s book, Da Tang Feng Su Zhi, came out in October 2018. The book, with beautiful pictures and writings, shows interesting daily lives of people in the Tang Dynasty. On the last day of 2019, Jiao posted the drawings she had created during the past year online. Since then, the illustrator and her works have caught the attention of the public.
“I’m deeply impressed by the people, culture and art of the Tang Dynasty,” Jiao says. In her drawings, most people have round faces. Her best-known series include drawings of women from the Tang Dynasty and classic images (形象) from Dunhuang art. In fact, many of her drawings are based on classic paintings from the Tang Dynasty, as Jiao hopes her works will help develop people’s interest in Chinese history and traditional art in this way.
Jiao pays a lot of attention to details. She has bought lots of books and studied ancient paintings to make sure she can draw things correctly. “Once a person told me that the pipa of Tang Dynasty had four or five strings (弦) while the pipa of today has only four,” she says. Through her works, people will realize that images from ancient times can also be cool and cute.
1. How many fans has Jiao Xiangyue received so far?2. What is the book, Da Tang Feng Su Zhi mainly about?
3. Why are many of Jiao’s drawings based on classic paintings from the Tang Dynasty?
4. Are Tang pipa and today’s pipa the same?
5. What do you think of Jiao Xiangyue’s drawings?
【推荐3】Like every successful person, Lang Lang went through years of hard and lonely practice before making his name. He began to take piano lessons at the age of three. With great talent, he won his first competition at the age of five. Lang’s father pushed little Lang very hard to succeed. When he was nine, Lang went to learn music in Beijing. His father even quit (离职) his job and moved to Beijing with his son.
Then came the difficult time. “I got fired (开除) by the piano teacher six months later. It totally destroyed my piano dream.” Lang recalled (回忆).
Hearing about his son’s failure, Lang’s father was so angry that he told Lang to jump off a building! Of course Lang didn’t jump, and pressure (压力) soon changed into power. His big break came at the age of 17, when he won worldwide fame (名声) at “Gala of the Century”， a wellknown concert in Chicago, U.S. Lang said it was his true love of music and the piano that made him keep working. “At the age of two, I fell in love with the piano when I saw Tom-the cat playing it in the cartoon” said Lang. “Today, playing classical (古典的) music on the piano is still the happiest thing in the world for me.”
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1. Lang Lang began to take piano lessons at the age of
2. When did Lang Lang win his first competition?
3. Where did he go to learn music when he was nine?
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