The folk art form, kuaiban, which has a long history, can be performed by a group or a single person. With one or two pairs of bamboo clappers—a kind of traditional Chinese musical instrument in their hands, the performers tell stories in the local dialect(方言). These stories are usually folk tales or about social life.
Recently, Liu Jiming and Wan Yifu made and shared three short videos by using kuaiban which were viewed about 4 million times. As a result, Liu and Wan have gained more than 1million followers on the Internet. They’ve created many new works to raise people’s awareness. Some of their works are about the danger of drunken driving and food safety. They also write stories to show respect to people who make contributions, such as traffic policemen.
According to Liu and Wan, people can understand kuaiban pieces without difficulty. The stories told in kuaiban pieces are close to people’s daily lives. Thus, they consider that it is a fun way to introduce the Chinese folk culture through kuaiban. And what matters to them is that both young people and old people begin to know the charm of the art form, kuaiban, which may not be paid much attention to, compared to other traditional art forms.
Folk art forms, like xiangsheng, pingshu and kuaiban, share something in common. These traditional art forms show the beauty and value of traditional Chinese culture so they should be known by more people and get to more areas. Luckily, through the Internet, new performers who go on sharing kuaiban pieces, like Liu and Wan are playing an active role. Hopefully these Chinese folk art forms will be alive with the times.
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Chinese folk art forms never | |
| The introduction to kuaiban | ·It has a long history and is performed by a group or a single person. ·It is performed in the local dialect by using a special musical instrument made of bamboo. ·The content is about folk tales or what’s happening in |
| The stories of Liu and Wan with kuanban | ·More than 1 million viewers were attracted by Liu and Wan’s kuaiban videos. ·They believe that kuaiban pieces can be ·They use kuaiban pieces to attract people’s attention to Chinese folk culture. |
| Reasons for the wide | ·The beauty and value of traditional Chinese culture will be learned through Chinese folk art forms. ·The new performers |
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The Internet nowadays opens a wide world to people, including teenagers, but many parents worry that their children may meet with something unhealthy when searching online. In order to solve this problem, a new search engine for children called Kiddle has appeared.Search results are filtered（过滤）, so only safe website are shown and descriptions are written in simple language. Searches with bad words are shut off, too.
Kiddles uses the same colors as Google in its logo and a similar design on its homepage, too — with an extra robot picture.
The top three Kiddle search results show safe websites and pages written specially for kids, and those websites and pages are well chosen and checked by Kiddle developers.
The fourth to seventh results will be safe and trusted websites that are not written specially for kids, but have content written in a simple way. These results are also chosen and checked.
Results on the eighth and onwards pages are safe and famous websites that are written for adults. They provide expert content, but are harder for kids to understand.
Unlike on Google, most results appear along with large thumbnail pictures（缩略图）to make it easier for children to find what they are looking for. For example, when searching for ＂meow meow＂. Google produces pages for information about a drug（毒品）that has ＂meow meow＂ as its nickname（绰号）, but Kiddle lists information only about cats, even with some cartoon pictures.
The company explained, ＂Websites which appear in Kiddle search results satisfy family-friendly requirements, as we filter websites with unhealthy content.＂
Kiddle— a Child-Friendly Search Engine | ||
Characteristics | Only safe websites are shown. Descriptions are written in simple language. 36. | |
Logo | It uses the same colors as Google with a robot picture. | |
Content | The top three search results | Websites and pages are written 37. |
The fourth to seventh results | Websites are also worth 38. | |
The eighth and onwards results | Websites are safe and famous, written for adults, and they are not 39. | |
40. | Kiddle has many thumbnail pictures. Kiddle only gives safe information. | |
Advantage | Kiddle satisfies family-friendly requirements. | |
The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms (节气). Start of Autumn/Li Qiu, the 13th solar term of the year, begins this year on August 7th. Although Start of Autumn reflects the end of summer and beginning of autumn, hot weather will not end. The period of hot days after Start of Autumn, usually lasting for 30 days, is called “Autumn Tiger”. The following are some traditions you should know about Start of Autumn.
1. Eating peaches
In Hangzhou, people eat peaches on the Start of Autumn day. The peach stones are kept until New Year’s Eve and thrown into the stove, burned into ash. People believed that in this way, plagues (瘟疫) could be prevented for the whole year.
2. Eating red beans
People in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, have eaten red beans on Start of Autumn day. They take 7 to 14 little beans, swallowing them with well water. When taking the beans, one must face west, it’s said, so as not to get dysentery (痢疾) during the autumn.
3. Eating gourds
People in Tianjing believe that eating melons such as towel gourd, white gourd and bitter gourd can prevent diarrhea (腹泻) in autumn and the coming winter and spring.
4. Touching Autumn
There is the custom of “Touching Autumn” in the north of Yancheng, Jiangsu province. On the eve of Start of Autumn, people can touch and take for free all kinds of fruits as they like in private or public gardens, and the owner will not be angry, no matter how much they lose. Many gardeners even leave some melon fruits in the field on purpose for the guests during the night.
5. Fleshing out in autumn (贴秋膘)
On the first day of the Start of Autumn, usually people will weight themselves and compare their weight to what it was at the Start of Summer. If one has lost weight during the summer, then at the beginning of autumn, he or she needs to flesh out by eating many different kinds of delicious food, especially meat.
| Start of Autumn | |
| Time | Fall in |
| Weather | Hot days will |
| 1. Food such as peaches, red beans and different gourds should be eaten more, which will be good for 2. “Touching Autumn” is a kind of custom in the 3. If one has lost weight during the summer, then at the beginning of autumn, he or she needs to eat many different kinds of delicious food, especially meat. | |
The best paper comes from wood. Wood comes from trees, and trees are plants. Vegetables and fruit are plants, too, and we eat a lot of them. So can we also eat wood and paper? Scientists say, “All food comes in some way from plants,” Is that true? Animals eat grass and grow fat. Then we eat them. Little fish eat little sea plants. Then bigger fish swim along and eat them. Think for a minute. What food does not come from plants in some way? Scientists can do wonderful things with plants. They can make plants taste just like meat and cheese. And they can make it without the help of animals. Now they have begun to say, “We make our paper from wood. We can also make food from wood. The next thing is not very difficult.” What is the next thing? Perhaps it is—food from paper. ②So please… and letters. Maybe one day, they will be on your plate, if what scientists say comes true. |
1. Where does wood come from?
2. What wonderful things can scientists do with plants?
任务二：补全内容
3. 根据材料内容，补全①处标题(标题所给部分不用抄写在答题卡上)
4. 根据以下所给单词提示，将材料②处画线句子补全，使上下文语义通顺、连贯、语法正确。 (词数不限) keep, your, old, book (句子所给部分不用抄写在答题卡上)
任务三：读用结合
5. 根据材料内容，将以下两条食物链中的内容补充完整
【推荐1】After a busy morning at work, lunchtime gives me a chance to do many things, such as exercise, read or watch TV. One cultural difference I've noticed between Britain and China is what we do during lunchtime.
Here in China, workers have longer lunch breaks, which gives them enough time to take a short nap(午睡). Therefore, Chinese people usually use lunchtime to rest. I often see office workers rest their heads on their desks. The room turns into a quiet "bedroom". Once, I even saw workers in a restaurant taking short naps as well. This is also very common for students in China. After lunch, they will go back to their dormitories(宿舍）or classrooms to take a nap. Chinese people believe a short nap at noon can help them feel more energetic(精力充沛的) in the afternoon.
In the UK, this activity is quite uncommon. British students usually have one hour for a lunch break. They don’t nap. Instead, they fill that time by playing sports or talking with friends.
Most workers in the UK don't get the chance to nap. They generally have short lunch breaks-between 30 minutes to an hour. There is not enough time to have a nap. Because of the shortness of their lunch breaks, it is common for people to work through lunch or just finish their lunch at their desk.
Countries | China | |
What to do | Chinese people, not only workers but also ※In the office, workers have a rest on their desks. ※In the restaurant, workers ※Chinese students often | British workers might ※British students usually have a ※British students often |
Why | Lunch breaks are | Lunch breaks are short, usually for |
Li Zigi won Person of the Year in the category of cultural influence (年度文化传播人物) in 2019. She is famous for her videos in which she does the work of a farmer. She owns a great number of fans on social media platforms (社交媒体平台) all over the world.
Li grew up with her grandparents in the countryside of Sichuan province. When she was 14, she went to the city in search of work, but she decided to return to the countryside in 2012 to take care of her grandmother. Four years later, she began to film her life there.
“When I worked in the city, it was about survival.” Li said. “Now when I work in the countryside, I feel like I’m truly living.”
Li’s videos record her and her grandmother’s daily lives in their simple home. She is often seen preparing delicious meals for her grandmother using basic materials and traditional skills. “I simply want people in the city to know where their food comes from,” Li explained. “I also want people to relax and experience something nice by watching them after a busy day.”
Li’s videos show her fans a wonderful world. Many of the skills she shows are based on real-world knowledge and those skills come from real wish for the pastoral ideal (田园式理想生活).
“My videos can be so popular among people because they love Chinese culture very much.” Li said.
1. Where did Li Zigi grow up?Li Zigi grew up in
2. In which year did Li Ziqi begin to film her life?
Li Ziqi began to film her life
3. What do Li’s videos record?
Li’s videos record
4. What does the underlined word “them” refer to in the fourth paragraph?
It refers to
5. In Li’s opinion, why do people like her videos?
Because they love
Fan Shenghua, 61, is one of the inheritors (传承人) of the Longjing tea roasting technique. His palms tell you everything—they’re thick, rough, and full of calluses (老茧), a reminder of more than 40 years of hard work. You have to touch the leaves with your hands to see how much water should be removed. Fan said, “If too much is removed, the leaves will break into pieces; if not enough is removed, the tea will taste bitter.”
This traditional technique dates back to the Ming and Qing dynasty. It not only ensures the quality of the tea, but also is an important part of Chinese tea culture. “Longjing tea leaves are famous for their color, taste and shape. Only by hand can we make the best of them. It’s like making a work of art.” Fan said.
These days, however, more people are using machines to do the job. “It’s easier, but the quality is not as good,” Fan said. “Machine-made tea floats longer in water and tastes bitter.”
When President Xi Jinping visited Hangzhou, he watched Fan roast tea leaves. Fan changed the strength and movement of his hands as he felt the tea leaves roast. Xi later said, “The things made by two palms cannot be replaced by modern technology?”
Fan is now taking apprentices (学徒). His son, a college graduate, is one of them. “It’s a tradition. We need to pass it down,” said the father.
1. Is machine-made tea as good as man-made tea according to Fan Shenghua words?2. What will happen if the tea leaves have too much water?
3. Why are hands so important in traditional technique?
4. If you have a chance to be one of Fan Shenghua’s apprentices, will you be one of them? Why or why not?
In 1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business. But he was not a good artist. So he invented a very simple camera. He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden. That was the first photo.
The next important date in the history of photography was in 1837. That year, Daguerre, another Frenchman, took a picture of his reading room. He used a new kind of camera in a different way. In his picture you could see everything very clearly, even the smallest thing. This kind of photo was called a Daguerreotype.
Soon, other people began to use Daguerre's way. Travelers brought back wonderful photos from all around the world. People took pictures of famous buildings, cities and mountains. In about 1840, photography was developed. Then photographers could take pictures of people and moving things. That was not simple. The photographers had to carry a lot of film and machines. But this did not stop them. For example, some people in the United States worked very hard. Mathew Brady, a famous American photographer, was one of them. He took many pictures of great people. The pictures were unusual because they were very lifelike（栩栩如生）. Photography also became one kind of art at the end of the 19th century. Some photos were not just copies of the real world. They showed some feelings, like other kinds of art.
1. Why did Niepce invent the first camera?__________________________________________________________________
2. According to this passage, how many important dates were there in the history of photography?
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3. In the early days, photographers didn't feel like taking pictures of moving things because they had to carry a lot of film and machines, did they?
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4. How were the pictures taken by Mathew Brady?
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5. Why do people think photography had become a kind of art by the end of the 19th century?
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【推荐2】Mayme Clayton collected books, magazines and letters written by African Americans. Her son, Avery Clayton, thought her collection was important. Unlike most books, these were rare and hard to find. They were written by writers who helped shape African American culture.
One book in the collection was written by Phillis Wheatley. Wheatley was a slave（奴隶）who wrote poetry. She was the first African American to publish a book. Wheatley herself signed（签名）the book in the Claytons' collection. No one else owns a copy signed by Phillis Wheatley.
By the time she passed away at age 83, Mrs Clayton had more than 30, 000 books by or about black people. Her collection also includes papers about slaves, photos, movies, sheet music, and personal letters by black leaders and artists. It is one of the biggest personal collections of African American history and culture in the United States.
Avery Clayton's dream was to create a museum for his mother's treasures. Scholars say that Mrs Clayton's collection is very important. Without her work, part of African American heritage（遗产）would have been lost. "We didn't know these things existed（存在）, a man from California's library says.
The collection's new home is likely to be in Culver City, California. Part of Avery Clayton's dream is to share the cultural riches（财富）his mother collected with others. He especially wants kids to have a chance to see the collection. "At present African American culture is being explained by pop culture,” he says, “It's important to offer a more complete picture. ”
May me Clayton and Her Collection | |
| Personal information | She liked She |
| Her collection | Compared with other books, the books she collected couldn't be found The only copy She had a large collection, Her collection is of great |
| Her | A He hopes to |
Many people in their twenties say that their lives are almost fixed, even if they have dreams in their hearts, they always give up their dreams because of age and realistic reasons. Grandma Van Gogh, she started painting more than 70 years ago, but she was called "Van Gogh in rural China" by people. She once opened an exhibition in Hong Kong and was invited twice to have an appointment with Lu Yu. "Grandma Van Gogh" never gave up her dream in her mind, and became a farmer for a lifetime. When she was more than 70 years old, she picked up her beloved paintbrush, looked at the idyllic scenery of her life, and wrote into the painting one by one, warming countless people.
"Grandma Van Gogh" was just an ordinary peasant and an ordinary old woman. Although she had not attended school and knew no words, this did not affect the unique paintings created by "Grandma Van Gogh", " her painting, although it looks very strong in Van Gogh's style, with some very special lines, if you look at it a second time, you can feel it, it is a kind of transparent with Chinese pastoral paintings.
Many people know the story of "Grandma Van Gogh" and have speculated that she could make such paintings in her 70s, she must have been well educated before, at least when she was young, or "Grand Van Gogh" It was not a farmer in itself, but an educated youth who went to the countryside.
Not as netizens guess, "Grandma Van Gogh" is really an ordinary peasant. Why did she start to contact paintings was mainly because she described to her granddaughter living in the city how beautiful her village was, and how cute it was. Maybe she was with deep nostalgia for the hometown, when creating the painting, "Grandma Van Gogh" was like painting the body of God.
——Adapted from Cat Eye Entertainment, "The 83-year-old grandma Van Gogh dies, she becomes a painter in her 70s, and can't get an animation pen in the end"
1. Why do most contemporary young people give up their dreams?2. What was the actual identity of "Grandma Van Gogh "?
3. What do you feel when you go over the painting of "Grandma Van Gogh" for the second time?
4. Why did “Grandma Van Gogh” begin to touch the painting?
5. What do you learn about life from this passage? (请自拟一句话作答)
【推荐1】Do you always feel busy and tired but still there is lots of work waiting for you to do? You are too busy to have time for your hobbies. How could you find more time in you day? There are lots of ways to do that.
Get up earlier
Get up fifteen minutes earlier. Getting up just a little earlier can give you some free time. You don’t need to do all the things in a hurry (匆忙) or leave home without having breakfast. It’ll give you time to sit down and enjoy your breakfast. Maybe you can use that fifteen minutes a day to read through a book or a magazine.
Make a plan
At the start of your day, make a plan. Write down three important tasks (任务) you want to finish quickly that day. Put a big star next to the most important. Now, before you get into the busy work, start on the important task and finish them one by one.
Many people don’t spend any time in planning their day. They end up spending lots of time on unimportant tasks without really finishing anything big.
Finish Work on Time
Finally, one of the best ways to make more time in your life is to finish your work on time! If you’re students, you must finish your homework on time every day.
If you try these ways, you can have many more hours in a day. What do you want to do with these hours every week? It’s up to you. You can do anything you like to make your life happier and better.
1-2题完成句子；3题简略回答问题；4题在文中找出同义句；5题将文中划线句子译成汉语。
1. Getting up just
2. One of the best ways to make more time in your life is
3. When should you make a plan?
4. Many people spend no time in planning their day.
5.
Hi! I’m the Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway (铁路), I’ve felt happy recently because a new high-speed railway now links (连接) the two cities. Do you want to know my story?
I was born in 1909. I’m 114 years old now. The one who made me was Zhan Tianyou. He was a brave and smart man. He believed China should build its own railways without other countries’ help. So he built me, China’s first self-built railway.
At first, my trains used steam (蒸汽) and they were very slow. Their top speed was only 35 km/h. Then, the trains started to use diesel (柴油). Later, there were even better trains which used electricity (电). But it still took more than three hours to travel from Beijing to Zhangjiakou Hebei.
In 2020, the new high-speed railway opened on Dec 30. I was so excited. It will help people travel more faster. The high-speed train has a top speed of 350 km/h! It only takes 47 minutes to travel from Beijing to Zhangjiakou.
During the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Beijing and Zhangjiakou, the two host cities of the event, welcomed lots of people from around the world.
I’m too old to keep working these days, but people will keep me as part of history. It’s a little sad. But I’m still proud (骄傲的) of all the changes China has made. Zhan Tianyou must be proud too.
1. When was the Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway built?2. How does the speed of trains change?
3. Was Zhan Tianyou a patriot (爱国者)? Why?
4. How long does it take if we travel from Beijing to Zhangjiakou by high-speed trains?
5. How do you feel about the changes of China?
Few people would disagree that email makes our lives easier. But misusing email can cause problems. Answering all those emails and processing all that information can overload(使负荷过)the brain, causing stress. So says the Future Work Center, a business based in London. This company carries out psychological (心理的) )research on people’s experiences in their workplaces.
Dr Richand Memnon at the center was the lead author of a report on messaging habits. He calls email a double-edged sword: Emails provide a useful way to communicate, but they could add to tension(紧张情绪) in the mind, causing stress. Come rain or shine(无论如何)，some office workers are under pressure to read and answer emails all day long. Psychologists care about the pressure that workers bring on themselves. Dr. Mackinnon says that while email can be a valuable, time-saving communication tool, it can also be a source of stress and even anger for many of us. He adds that the stress does not come from the number of emails you get. The problems result from when and how you deal with them.
According to the study, leaving email on all day and never signing off(签收), along with reading and answering emails early in the day and late at night, are what makes email stressful. Dr. MacKinnon says these bad email habits are linked to higher levels of stress in office workers. The report gives several suggestions on avoiding emails stress.
Use email with a plan. Do not just react to endless email. If you use email application, or app, close it down when you want to be left alone.
If you need to communicate with a co-worker, call or better still walk to their office and talk about it.
Be careful with the “ reply all” option. For example, if you are accepting an invitation to attend training, just write back to those who need to know. Trust me. Other workers on that mailing list will thank you.
And accept the fact that if a matter is urgent, employers will call you about it. Email is certainly not going anywhere, so it is important to take control of your emails and not the other way around.
1. Many people disagree that email makes our lives easier, don’t they?_____________________________________________________________
2. Why does Dr. MacKinnon call email “a double-edged sword”?
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3. What is linked to bad email habits in office workers?
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4. What’s the purpose of giving suggestions according to the report?
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5. If you want to receive an invitation by email, what should you do to reply it?
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6. What good or bad habit of email processing have you got?
Why do you think it is good or bad?
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