Although most of us are staying at home because of the corona virus (新型冠状病毒), there are still many people trying to do some creative things during this difficult time. Now, let’s look at some creative indoor activities.
Write a rap song
“I close my eyes and hope everything will be okay, the one who can save you is not God but a common man in flesh and blood.”
These are a few lines from a rap song written by Liu Yixin and Li Yusheng who are Senior 3 students in Beijing. Titled An Empty City, the song became a hit because of its great words and deep emotion (感情). People was touched by their strong sense of social responsibility.
Encourage people to dance
Matthew Lee is a 16-year-old Chinese-American who is now living in Los Angeles, US. When he learned that most Chinese are unable to leave their houses, he and Jojo decided to encourage them to work out at home by making a dance video with his friends. Lee chose to dance to the song We Are the World.
Write an English poem
Du Wenwen is a Junior 2 student from Cangzhou, Hebei. While staying at home, Du and her classmates wrote acrostic poems (藏头诗) in English to help cheer people up. She said, “I found it quite interesting, because I can hide a message in the first letters of each line and surprise readers. As teenagers, we can’t go to the front line to save people’s lives, but we should learn to care about others and do something meaningful.”
1题完成句子； 2、3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下全文的主题句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. The song An Empty City became a hit because of
2. How did Matthew Lee and Jojo encourage people to work out?
3. Why does Du Wenwen find it interesting to write acrostic poems?
4.
5.
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【推荐1】Until a few years ago, only boys could become students at the University of Ruritania. Then the University decided to allow girls in. But one of the lecturers（讲师）, Dr. Goller, was not at all pleased. He did not want to let girl students in.
Dr. Goller used to begin his lectures with the word “Gentlemen!” What would he do now? Well, when girl students came to his lectures for the first time, he continued（继续）to begin with the word “Gentlemen!” For him, the girls were just not there.
Then one day there was only one boy in his class among a lot of girls. For a moment, Dr. Goller did not know what to do. Then he began, “Sir!”
Finally a terrible day came when there were no boys in his class. He came into the room, looked at the seats of girls, and said, “Oh, nobody’s here today!” Then he turned and went out without giving his lecture.
1. Dr. Goller is a2. Dr. Goller wouldn’t like
3. Dr. Goller always began his lectures with “
4. When there was only one boy in his class, Dr. Goller began his lectures with “
5. Dr. Goller
【推荐2】Have you ever heard of a girl of 15，who set up a company of her own？Wendy Wong is the girl．She started the business two years ago．She has already written several successful computer games．They are so popular that over half a million games are sold every year．Now all of her family work in her business，and she is still at school．
She gets up early in the morning，and then she talks with her family about the business over breakfast．Every day she goes to school in her own car with a driver，for she is not old enough．
She enjoys her school，but some of the work is too easy for her to feel interested．She usually gets“A”grades in all her subjects，so the other students often ask her for help．
She finishes her homework in half an hour after her driver takes her home．After dinner，she goes to her office and goes on working on her computer，writing games until 2 a.m．She does not usually need so much sleep as other children．
根据短文内容，回答问题。
1. When did Wendy Wong start the business？
2. What has Wendy Wong already written successful？
3. How does Wendy Wong go to school every day？
4. How about her grades in all her subjects？
5. How long can she finish her homework？
【推荐3】Mary is a worker. She works in a glass factory in London. Mary doesn’t work on Sunday. She usually gets up early. She doesn’t like staying at home. After breakfast she often drives the red car to see her friend Jane. Jane is a doctor. She lives with her parents near London. Mary drives to Jane’s hour in about forty minutes. There they talk about their jobs(工作), their families and their friends. Then in the afternoon they often go shopping. They have a good time.
1. What does Mary do?2. Where does she work?
3. Does she like staying at home?
4. When does she see her friends?
5. What do they talk about?
【推荐1】Mitchell Wollen, 15, is a good swimmer and a second-year student at a high school in US. When swimming stopped and the school shut down because of the COVID-19, he found that he had a lot of free time.
“My friend and I were brainstorming (集思广益) ,” said Wollen. “We thought we’d make these hearts for people on the frontline who are doing everything for us.”
Wollen first made a red wooden heart with the words “Thank You” painted on the front. His mother Julie posted a picture of the heart online on April 5.
After that, Wollen didn’t have any more free time. He had 100 orders for his heart signs in the first week. He had to cut out the signs with a knife, paint them and deliver (寄送) them.
When online learning started up at the school, Wollen had to do schoolwork for six or seven hours a day before finding time to work on the signs.
Wollen has asked people to donate whatever they can for the signs. So far, he’s raised about 1,600 dollars, which he will use to buy meals for medical workers.
He’s talked with workers at Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford. His mother has a friend with a coffee truck, so he pays the people who run the truck to go to Gaylord and give the workers free coffee.
“Everybody’s having a hard time right now,” he said. “I just want to help those who are struggling in these times.”
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
1. Why did the swimming stop according to the passage?
2. What did Wollen’s mother Julie do on April 5?
3. How many orders did Wollen have in the first week?
4. How long did Wollen have to do schoolwork a day?
5. Who did Wollen buy meals for?
Most of us have never thought about building an educational toy by ourselves. If we need a learning toy or something, we simply go to the nearest store and buy it. However, things are not as easy in third world countries. With families even having no food to put on the table, buying toys, especially the educational ones, is the last thing on the parents’ minds.
So how can one get these kids interested in science? This was a question that worried the Indian engineer Arvind Gupta so much that he decided to give up a good job and spend his life making toys from things that people no longer want or need!
Mr. Gupta began teaching in the 1970s. While still an engineering student at the Indian College of Technology, he volunteered to teach the children who could not afford to go to school. Upon graduation, he found a good job at India’s Tata Motors and spent the next five years designing cars.
But he soon realized that this was not something he wanted to do for the rest of his life. So he took a year’s training course and took part in the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program whose aim was to make science fun and exciting for poor children using available materials.
Mr. Gupta found the whole project so satisfying that he decided to leave his high-paying job and focus his attention on designing educational toys that were not only cheap and easy to build, but are also full of scientific principles(科学原理), so that children could get interested in this interesting subject.
When the Internet started becoming a more widespread learning tool, Mr. Gupta created a Toys from Trash website and also recorded over 250 YouTube videos.
Today, over 50,000 children and teachers visit the website daily to download the videos for the toy creations based on cool science. Some young children have become so inspired (鼓舞)that they have even won international science competitions with the help of his creations.
Making educational toys from rubbish
| Reasons | ●Most people never thought about building educational toys. ●Usually people go to the nearest store to buy educational toys in ●To some families, food is more ●We should help children to get interested in science. |
| About Mr. Gupta | ●Finding a good job and spending five years designing cars after ●Deciding to give up a good job and spending his life making special toys ● ●Taking a year’s training course to learn to make science fun and exciting for poor children ●Focusing his attention on designing educational toys |
| About the website | ●A Toys from Trash is a website with over 250 YouTube videos ●Many children visit the website and they are ●With the help of his creations, children have even won international science competitions |
【推荐3】Madison Wilson is a primary school student in the U.S. She loves to read and watch movies. Madison is black, but she doesn’t often see people who look like her in books or movies. Most of the characters(角色) are white. Sometimes she draws pictures of herself, but it’s not easy. Most boxes of crayons (蜡笔) only have one or two kinds of brown colors. Madison saw the problem and wanted to do something.
With the help of her mother, Madison started to raise (筹集) money on the Internet. She wanted to buy crayons and books for her school, the crayons with all skin colors and the books with characters in different colors. She hoped to raise $3, 000, but she raised more than $40, 000 in less than two months.
She and her family are still raising money. They want to buy crayons and books for more schools. “I want to make a difference,” says Madison. “When I grow up, I want to be a world changer!”
1. What does Madison love to do?2. Who helps Madison to raise money?
3. Why did Madison raise money on the Internet?
4. How much did Madison raise in less than two months?
【推荐1】Everyone likes their childhood and wishes to go back there. I also have a wonderful childhood. There are many sweet memories in it, and I want to share some with you.
During my childhood I lived with my family. I had an elder sister and a younger brother, and we used to play a game called “yard sale”. It meant “selling” old things like old toys, clothes, books, crayons and so on in the front yard, and we didn’t buy them with money. Instead, we bought them with cards (扑克牌). We had so much fun.
Like other children, I also played a lot with many toys during my childhood. Children are always crazy about their toys. I owned two cute toy bears in my childhood, and I liked them very much. They felt so soft and comfortable that I fell asleep with them every night. I regarded them as my best friends then and I didn’t share them with anyone. Whenever someone touched them, I would cry loudly.
This is my childhood. Do you have any kind of sweet memories like this?
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| Yard sale | It is a game. It meant “selling” other things We had so much fun. |
| Toys | I had two cute toy bears in my childhood. They felt so soft and comfortable that I fell I regarded them as my |
Alex Honnold is a mountain climber from the USA. Recently he became the first person ever to climb the 3,000-foot-high EI Capitan granite（花岗岩）wall in Yosemite National Park without using a rоре.
Alex climbed EI Capitan on June 3, 2017. After just three hours and 56 minutes, he reached its top. All he used to help him climb was a bag of chalk powder. It helped improve his grip（紧抓）on the slippery granite.
To make his job a little easier, the young climber climbed the wall several times before, using ropes. He marked the places where he could put his fingers and toes when climbing.
The brave climber said, “During my climb, sometimes the holds were so small that they could only be gripped with a thumb.” Luckily, he was well prepared. Alex spent hours every other day hanging by his finger tips and doing pull-ups（引体向上）.
Climbing EI Capitan was a life goal for Alex back in 2009. Now his dream has come true.
1. Who is Alex Honnold?2. Where is EI Capitan?
3. How long did it take Alex to reach the top of EI Capitan?
4. How did Alex reach the top of EI Capitan?
5. What do you think of Alex? （请自拟一点内容）
【推荐3】Once upon a time, there was a little monkey. His parents let him live alone. One day, the little monkey was very hungry and went in search of some food to eat.
(A)He searched everywhere, but he couldn't find anything that he could eat. He wanted to have a rest because he was tired. But he couldn't, because he was too hungry, so he had to went on searching. Finally, with his stomach rumbling(发出低沉连续的响声), he (B)came upon a farmer's wall.
On top of the wall, he saw the biggest, juiciest grapes the little monkey had ever seen. The rich purple color told the little monkey that they were ready to be eaten. He was so happy that he could find something to eat, though they were not the most delicious food.
The little monkey was so excited that he wanted to eat the grapes immediately. He (C)________ high in the air to catch the grapes, but he missed. He tried again and missed again. He tried a few more times but missed each time. He was exhausted(精疲力尽的).
In the end, the little monkey decided to go home. On the way home he was all the while muttering(喃喃自语), " I'm sure the grapes were sour anyway. "
1. Translate the underlined sentence (A) into Chinese. (把(A)处划线句子译成汉语)2. What does the phrase (B) "came upon" mean in Chinese? (短语came upon的意思是什么？)
| A．撞到 | B．偶然发现 | C．出现 | D．爬上 |
4. What are the grapes like? (根据短文内容回答问题)
5. Fill in the blank (C) with a verb. (在C处填一个合适的动词，使语句通顺)
