Tea is an important part of Chinese tradition. Tea has a very close relationship to Chinese culture.
It is said that Chinese tea was discovered by King Shen Nong. People say that he lived 5000 years ago. One summer day, while he was visiting a faraway part of his country, he felt very thirsty. The servants began to make water hot enough to turn into gas for him to drink. Dried leaves from a near plant fell into the water. The king drank some, and found it could make him feel less tired. Also as a scientist, Shen Nong was interested in the new drink.
Drinking tea has many advantages. It makes people feel less tired and clears heat inside the human body. As you add a cup of tea to your daily life, please check the following helpful advice.
●Drink it hot. Tea oxidizes(氧化) quickly, so it is suggested that you drink it hot.
●The best time to drink tea is between meals. It may not make you have a strong wish to eat when your stomach is empty, or cause stomachache when your stomach is full.
●Do not drink with medicine. It may change the medical result. You can drink tea two hours after you take medicine.
●Green tea is the best choice for office workers. Why? Because green tea helps stop the bad result of the computer.
●Do not drink too much strong tea. If you make the tea too strong, it will probably be harmful to your stomach and make you feel sick.
1题完成句子；2、3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下第二段的主题句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. The best time to drink tea is
2. What are the advantages of drinking tea?
3. Why is green tea the best choice for office workers?
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It is said that the eyes are “the windows of our soul”. Beautiful and bright eyes not only show a good health but also make you look very attractive. However, to have healthy eyes you have to look after them properly. Your eyes need taking good care of.
Be careful with your diet. First, eat food that is good for your eyes. They are fresh fruits and vegetables as fish, eggs, and milk. Besides, a regular amount of vitamins A and B2 should also be taken.
A regular and sound sleep is a must. It relaxes your eyes and gives them enough rest. Sleep not only helps repair the tired body. Usually, you must sleep for at least seven to eight hours every day. Loss of sleep can give you dark circles under the eye.
You must exercise your eyes every day. Blink (眨眼) your eyes at regular periods, which makes the eyeballs full of water and gives them a good wash.
We use our eyes in many wrong ways. Fox example, if a small thing goes into our eye we start rubbing it, which is wrong. Rubbing can hurt your eyes. Don’t read or write in poor or bright sunlight. Always use sunglasses as sunlight can cause eye tiredness. Light should not shine directly in your eyes. Too much reading, watching TV or working on the computer can also cause eye tiredness.
Remember to always take care of God’s most beautiful gift to you. Your life will be very colorless without your eyes.
| How to keep your eyes | |
| Diet | ●Eat food that is good for your eyes, such as fresh fruits and vegetables. ●Take an amount of Vitamins A and B2. |
| Sleep | ●Sleep ●Sleep can also |
| Eye exercising | ●Blink your eyes at regular periods. |
| Eye using | ●It’s not ●Reading or ●You have to use sunglasses to keep away from bright sunshine. ●You should have a rest after reading, watching TV or working on the computer. |
| Conclusion | ●It’s very important to take good care of your eyes. |
【推荐2】Many of you have probably had this experience: You get on a train and are ready to have a rest or read a book, but you find that the passenger in front of you is watching a TV show on his tablet without headphones. The child next to you won’t stop crying. And the old lady behind you talks on her phone during the whole trip.
Wish the train could be less noisy? There might be a solution for you. The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, one of China’s busiest high-speed rail lines, will have “quiet” carriages（车厢）starting from Dec 23, Xinhua reported.
In quiet carriages, onboard videos will be muted（静音）and announcements will be made at a lower volume. Doors at the ends of the carriages will be kept closed to reduce noise from other carriages, CGTN noted. Train attendants（乘务员）will be responsible for making sure that passengers remain quiet and follow the rules.
Passengers who are willing to follow the rules can choose the quiet carriages when booking their tickets, according to China’s national railway operator.
Some people have pointed out that this kind of quiet environment should be offered in all carriages. They say that having quiet carriages might give people the impression that they don’t need to be quiet in non-quiet carriages.
While some Internet users are in support of the new service, others have some doubts about it. For example, they have raised questions such as “What if I snore（打呼噜）?” and “Can we talk to our friends if we need to?” Will these kinds of noises be allowed to make on the train?
1. Can announcements be made in quiet carriages?2. What will train attendants do in quiet carriages?
3. Why do some Internet users have doubts about the new service?
4. Would you like to choose quiet carriages when you take the train? Why or why not?
【推荐3】Our teacher work very hard. They get up early in the morning and work very（A）______. How to help our teacher ?
First, we must try to （B）learn our subjects well to make our teachers spend less time on us and let them have more rest.
Second, we must clean the blackboard and the teacher’s desk very （C）______. If we can do so, our teachers will work better and of course they will be happier.
Our teachers often have to speak for a long time and they are very tired. At this time, （D）it is better for us to bring them some water. When our teachers drink the water, they will speak （E）more clearly. After our teachers correct our exercise books, we can help to hand them out.
We all know that our teachers care about our marks（分数）most, so we should try to go over our lessons to get high grades. If all of us can get high marks, （F）我们的老师会感到很高兴。
1. 在文中（A）和（C）的空白处填入适当的单词：2. 写出文中画线部分（B）和（E）的同义词或近义词：
3. 文中画线部分（D）指代的是：
4. 将画线部分（F）译为英语：
5. 找出本文的中心语句：
Britons are well known for the amount of tea that they drink. The average (平均) person in the UK consumes (消费) around 1.9 kg of tea every year. That’s around 876 cups of tea. Tea is drunk by all sections of society. But tea is not native to Britain. Most tea is grown in India and China. So, how did it become an important part of British culture?
Tea arrived in London in the 1600s. At this time, British ships were exploring the world and came across the drink in China. It was not long before green tea was available to buy. However, this was only available to the richer sections of society.
At the beginning of the 1700s, the amount of tea arriving in Britain increased gradually. Black tea arrived at this time. At first, people drank this tea exactly as it was in China. They soon discovered that it mixed really well with a little milk and sugar, giving the drink a special British characteristic (特色).
In the 1800s tea was still a product enjoyed only by people with money. At this time, they began to have “afternoon tea”. This involves (包含) drinking tea with a snack around 4 pm to avoid feeling hungry between lunch and dinner. It is a tradition that is still going today.
In the late 1800s, the price of tea decreased sharply as more tea began to arrive on ships from India and China. It was no longer a drink just for rich people. Tearooms started to appear across the country. People enjoyed drinking tea and socializing in these places. At the start of the 20th century, Britons began to make tea in their homes whenever they felt like it.
1. How many cups of tea does average person drink each year in the UK?2. What should be mixed with tea to make it a special British characteristic?
3. Why do British people have afternoon tea?
4. Could most people in Britain afford tea in the late 1800s?
5. Please say something about Chinese tea culture.
Every country has its favorite food. Italians (意大利人) like to eat pizza. Indians (印度人) like to eat hot food. (3)Japanese like to eat fish and often they don’t cook it.
In England, the most popular food is fish and chips. But the world’s most popular food may be American fast food. In New York, Moscow, Paris and even in some big cities in China, you can find people eating hamburgers and chips.
Chinese food is also very popular in the world. Why? It has different tastes and it is usually very delicious. There are many kinds of noodles in China, like rolled noodles (手擀面), pulled noodles (拉面), knife-cut noodles (刀削面) and fried noodles (炸酱面). (4)在中国，过生日的时候吃长寿面是很流行的。
Of all Chinese food, dumplings are the best. There are also many kinds of dumplings in China, such as fried dumplings (煎饺) and boiled dumplings (水饺).
1. What may be the most popular food in the world?2. Why is Chinese food very popular in the world?
3. 请把(3)处下划线的句子翻译成汉语。
4. 请把(4)处下划线的句子翻译成英语。
5. What’s the best title of this passage? (文章的题目)
Chinese people usually eat three meals (三餐) a day. Let’s have a look!
Breakfast
The breakfast in China is usually from 7 o’clock to 9 o’clock. Most Chinese students have breakfast at about 7 o’clock. They usually have milk, eggs, bread and noodles for breakfast. And some people like Youtiao, or porridge (粥), too. In Guangzhou, people usually have a great breakfast for a long time. They call it zaocha.
Lunch
Lunchtime is usually at about 12 o’clock. Most Chinese have rice with some vegetables, beef and chicken. And most of them have a quick lunch, because they usually eat at the company (公司). Most students do not go home (回家) to eat lunch. They are at school.
Dinner
Dinner is the most important (重要的) meal for many Chinese, because they can be with their family. For dinner, pork, fish vegetables and rice.people usually have dinner between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.. There is one interesting thing in China. People do not go home from the restaurants (餐馆) very quickly after dinner. They usually talk (交谈) with their family and friends at table.
| Three meals in | ||
| Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner |
| The breakfast time usually lasts (持续) for about Most students eat It takes a long time for people in Guangzhou to have breakfast. | ◆Lunchtime is usually at 12 o’clock. ◆Most Chinese have a quick lunch. ◆Most students have lunch | ◆People like to have dinner with ◆People usually have dinner between 6 p. m. and 8 p. m. . ◆After dinner, people don’t go home quickly because of talking at table. |
As humans have a need to communicate, animals have it to send and receive messages as well. This communication may be to tell others where food is or to show feelings such as happiness, sadness, or anger.
But how do animals communicate? According to a study carried out in 1898 by a scientist called Char, there are usually three ways for them to communicate.
For example, if a monkey notices a snake, it will give an alarm call for the other monkeys to climb into the trees. If the monkey notices an eagle (鹰), it will send loud noise to tell other monkeys to get close to the ground. The second way seems quite different. Those with a pet dog will easily know how a happy dog happily moves its tail. A cat that feels it is in danger will stand with its back high. Another type of animal communication takes place among some certain animals. For example, elephants and giraffes will touch their friends if they like each other. Horses also touch their noses together as a sign that they are comfortable with one another.
It is truly amazing to discover the nature’s secret and exciting for us to take a step closer to the animal world. More and more countries have put much money and effort into further research on this. At the same time, plenty of different voices are appearing. Is it really necessary to waste so much money on something that may be meaningless to us humans?
All in all, every coin has its two sides. We shall wait and see what this change can bring us in the future.
1、2题完成句子；3~5题简略回答问题。
1. Like humans, animals also need to
2. Char finds that there are usually
3. What will a monkey do if it sees a snake?
4. What will horses do if they feel comfortable with one another?
5. What do you think of discovering the nature’s secret for us humans? Why?
All living things on the earth need other living things to live on. Nothing lives (1)________. Most animals must live in a group, and even a plant grows close together with others of the same kind. Sometimes one living thing kills another, one eats and the (2)________ is eaten. Each kind of life eats another kind of life in order to live, and together they form a food chain(食物链) . Some food chains are simple, while others are not. But all food chains begin with the sun,and all food chains become broken up if one of the links disappears.
All the lives need sunlight to survive.(3)但是只有植物才能直接使用阳光。 Plants are “factories”. They make food from sunlight, water and things in the soil and air.
Plants feed all other living things. (4)Animals can only use the sun’s energy after it has been changed into food by plants. Some animals feed directly on plants others eat smaller animals. Meat-eating animals are only eating plants indirectly.
What about human beings? We are members of many food chains. We eat wheat, rice, vegetables, fruits and so on. We also eat meat and drink milk. But men often break up the food chains. They kill wild animals and make the rivers, lakes, and seas dirty. When these rivers, lakes and seas are polluted, (5) men can’t eat the fish in them. If men eat the fish, they will get strange diseases(疾病).
Each form of life is linked to all the others. Breaking the links puts all life in danger.
1. 在(1) (2)句的空白处分别填入适当的词使句意完整、上下文通顺。(1)
2. 将(3)句译成英文
3. 将(4)句译成中文。
4. 将(5)划线句子变成被动语态。
5. 找出文中或写出最能表达该短文主题的句子。
任务A：补全1—4题的信息。
任务B：回答问题，完成第5题。
How much space do you need to grow 10,000 heads of lettuce(生菜) each day? Not that much surprisingly. On an indoor fam in Miyagi, Japan, farmers grow that much lettuce every day. They grow it in a building smaller than half a football field.
On this farm, farmers grow lettuce on shelves. The shelves can be up to fifteen levels high! Special LED lights help the lettuce grow faster. In fact, the lettuce is ready to pick even sooner than on an outdoor farm. Another big advantage is that indoor farms don’t use as much water as outdoor farms.
On outdoor lettuce farms, there’s usually a lot of food waste. Some plants are damaged or don’t look good, so farmers can’t sell them. Sometimes farmers have to throw away more than 30% of the lettuce they grow! On this indoor farm, they throw away less than 3% of lettuce they grow.
Facts about an indoor farm | |
Place | In a building 1 than half a football field in Japan |
2 | Grow 10,000 heads of lettuce a 3 Help the lettuce grow with special LED lights Only use 1% of the 4 an outdoor farm uses Throw away less than 3% of lettuce they grow |
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5. What do the numbers in the picture tell us?
Paper cutting is a traditional Chinese art. People first started paper cutting in the 6th century. Many people in China stick(粘贴) paper cuttings on their walls or their windows.
The paper cutter uses very simple tools such as knives and scissors, to cut parts of the paper away. After these parts are cut away a lovely picture of people or animals appears. Some paper cuttings are of Chinese characters. Others are of animals or plants Paper cuttings are commonly used during festivals or for happy events. For example, people put red paper cuttings on windows in the Spring Festivals or in wedding for good luck and best wishes.
Paper cutting seems easy to learn, but it is actually quite hard. It requires years of practice to become good at this art.
1. When did people first start paper cutting?2. How many types of tools for paper cutting are mentioned in the text?
3. What do people think paper cuttings will bring them?
4. How can people become good at paper cutting?
5. What animal can be seen in the above paper cutting?
During ancient（古代的）times, children didn’t have smart phones, iPads or computers to play. So they found something interesting to do. Let’s take a look. Playing stone balls（踢石球） During the Qing Dynasty（清朝）（1644-1911）, playing a stone ball was a popular sport in the north of China. Children often played stone balls to keep warm in winter. Stones were made into small balls and played with feet. Flying kites Kites have a long history. The earliest kites were made of（由……制成）wood（木头）. It’s getting popular to fly a kite in spring now. The three most popular kites are the Beijing kite, Tianjin kite and Weifang kite. Hide-and-seek（捉迷藏） Hide-and-seek can bring children quite a lot of fun. There are two ways to play: covering（遮盖）a child’s eyes while other kids run around to tease（逗弄）him, or some children hide and one child must try to find them. Setting off firecrackers（爆竹） Firecrackers have a history of more than 2,000 years. Many years ago, there was a beast（怪兽）named Nian. To scare off（吓跑）the beast, people burnt（点燃）the firecrackers. Firecrackers are still set off（燃放）during Spring Festival nowadays. |
2. Why did children love to play a stone ball in winter?
3. What were the earliest kites made of?
4. How do children feel about Hide-and-seek?
5. When do people set off firecrackers nowadays?
How time flies! The summer of 2020 is coming. As the days get hotter, we can stay inside and turn on an air conditioning (空调) to stay comfortable. But do you know how people in ancient China used different ways to avoid the heat in summer?
Starting from the Qin Dynasty, royal (皇家的) and rich families began to store ice during winter. As summer began, they used ice to cool their homes. People would put a container (容器) with many ice cubes (冰块) inside of it in their rooms. Servants would fan (用扇子扇) the containers to create cool air.
But common people couldn’t store ice. So they liked to spend hot days near wells (井) better than in other places. Some people would keep their food in empty wells. The wells would keep the food cool and fresh, just like a refrigerator.
There are some other ways for the Chinese ancient people to cool themselves. They also made their own summer drinks, such as well water and drinks made from herbs (草药). According to a report, Kublai Khan (忽必烈) — emperor of the Yuan Dynasty — liked drinking milk with ice and sweet candy. Some people believe that it was the world’s first ice cream.
How People in | |
| Royal and rich families: | They stored ice in winter. They used ice for Servants fanned the containers to make cool air. |
| Common people: | They To keep food cool and fresh, people put it in empty wells. |
| Some other ways for the Chinese ancient people to cool | Chinese people made summer drinks from well water or herbs. It is |
