Wang Yaping, together with Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu, went into space aboard the Shenzhou XIII on October 16th 2021. The 41-year-old Wang became the first female astronaut（女航天员）to enter Tiangong space station.
Wang’s space dream started in 2003, when China sent its first astronaut Yang Liwei into space. At that time, Wang was a pilot（飞行员）in the Chinese army. After having safe flights for 1,600 hours over nine years, Wang was a strong candidate（候选人）to become an astronaut in 2010. She pushed herself hard, getting the same training as men. “The space environment won’t change because you are a woman,” she told Xinhua. The hardest part is the high-G training. Sitting in a spinning（旋转的）machine, Wang would become blind for a while because her brain was short of blood. “There’s a red button（按钮）,” said Wang. “If you can’t bear it, you can press it to stop.” But Wang never used it. “There is no such red button in my heart.” That strong spirit finally made her dream come true in 2013. She joined the team for the Shenzhou X mission.
Wang said that as astronauts, women have their own advantages（优势）. “Women may be more patient and can better deal with loneliness. Women’s hearts are also easier to adapt（适应）to the weightless environment, making them more suitable for long-term missions.”
Wang Yaping went a long way before becoming the first woman to enter the Tiangong space station. She sets a good example for all women who dream of going to space.
1. Is Wang Yaping the first female astronaut to go into space or to enter Tiangong space station?2. How long has she been a pilot before she became an astronaut?
3. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese. (英译汉)
4. What makes her dream come true?
5. What is the advantage of a women astronaut?
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Xu Yuanchong was born on April 18，1921 in Jiangxi，China. He is best known for translating Chinese ancient poems into English and French. Xu took foreign language studies at Tsinghua University after he studied abroad. And after that，he became a professor in English and French. Since 1983 to now，he is a professor at Peking University.
Xu's mother was well educated and good at painting. She had great influence on Xu in his literature. His uncle Xiong Shiyi was a translator，who translated the play Wang Baochuan into English，which was a hit in the UK. Xiong's achievement gave Xu a strong interest in learning English. In 1939，he translated his first work，Lin Huiyin's poem Do not Throw Away into English，which was published in the Literary Translation News.
His 30 poetries were selected（选）as teaching materials by foreign universities. In 1994，British publishing company Penguin published Xu Yuanchong's300 China's Immortal Poems（《中国不朽诗三百首》）. That was the first time that the publishing company publishes a Chinese translation. Apart from（除……之外）translating the classical Chinese poetry into foreign languages，Xu Yuanchong also translated many of the British and French classics into Chinese. Xu was awarded the“Lifetime achievements in translation”from the Translators Association of China（TAC）in 2010.
Now，at the age of 96，Xu is still working hard at translating. He said，"I start my work at 3：30 in the morning because I like doing what I like. ”
阅读下面短文，并用英语回答问题（请注意每小题后面的词数要求）。
1. What is Xu Yuanchong famous for?(no more than 8 words)
2. Who had great influence on Xu Yuanchong?(no more than 6 words)
3. When did Xu Yuanchong translate his first work?(no more than 3 words)
4. What was selected as teaching materials by foreign universities?(no more than 5 words)
5. Why is Xu Yuanchong still working hard at translating?(no more than 8 words)
During the Song Dynasty (960-1279), there was an official named Zhang Guaiya who worked in Chongyang county(县), in today’s Hubei. Theft(偷窃)was common at that time—even money from the county’s vault(钱库)was stolen(偷盗).
One day, Zhang saw a low-ranking(低阶的)official come out of the vault in a hurry. Zhang stopped him and asked, “Why are you in such a hurry?”
“No reason,” said the official.
Zhang knew things were being stolen from the vault. So he asked the guards to search the official. They found a copper coin in the official’s headband(头巾).
Zhang asked him how much more money he had stolen. The official said he didn’t steal(偷) anything else. Zhang ordered the guards to beat the official.
The official didn’t give in. He said, “I only stole a copper coin. You can’t kill me just because of that!”
Zhang was very angry. He wrote in a red pen, “If you steal a coin every day, there will be a thousand coins after a thousand days. Constant dripping wears away a stone(水滴石穿). ”
1. What was Zhang Guaiya’s job?2. Why did Zhang stop the low-ranking official?
3. Did the official do anything wrong?
4. How did Zhang Guaiya feel when the official didn’t give in?
5. What can you learn from the story?
【推荐1】I am Alice, a mother of a big family. Chores were not popular at my house. My children didn’t like to do chores. They always saw me do chores, but they hardly ever helped me do them.
A year ago, I made a game called “The Endless Chore Game”. It is really great. Here’s how the game works.
I make a card with forty squares, and I write a different chore on each square. These chores can be easy and interesting like making dessert. Then my family rolls the dice (骰子) to decide what chores we have to do. The card also has a few squares with fun things, like watching TV and singing. If you are lucky, you can watch TV while the others are doing the chores.
My son likes the game best. He goes to the kitchen happily every morning to do the game. It is really a good way to make my children do chores. You can have a try if you have the same problem as me.
根据短文内容回答问题。1. Who did most of the chores in the family two years ago?
2. What does Alice write on each square?
3. Does the card have any squares with fun things?
4. Who likes the game best?
5. Will you try this way in your family? Why or why not?
【推荐2】I help to look after some old ladies at the old people’s home every week. I’d like to bring them a little happiness.
This afternoon when I was about to go there, the telephone rang. It was my husband, “Sorry, dear, but I have to work late in my shop today. So you have to take Taylor home after school.” I decided to take my son with me to the old people’s home for the first time because I couldn’t find any friend to help take care of him.
With my new partner, I started my work. I found that just when we wanted to leave their rooms, my son kissed everyone on their faces and whispered (低声说) something in their ears. Every lady looked happy.
Later in the evening, my husband asked how my work went on “It’s lots of fun,” I said “We are quite a pair. When Taylor kissed to the ladies, it surely made them happy, especially when he whispered in their ears.”
“What did you whisper about?” asked my husband.
Looking up at his dad and me with his big brown eyes, he told us, “I whispered, ‘I love you, Grandma. And I just want you to know that you look so beautiful today.’”
I asked,“Why did you do that?”
He said, “I just know it can make them feel good.”
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
1. Where did the writer help the ladies?
2. Why did the writer take Taylor to meet the ladies?
3. When did the writer’s husband ask how her work went on?
4. How did Taylor make the old ladies happy?
5. What did Taylor whisper about?
【推荐3】My name is Zhang Hua. I'm a Chinese boy. I am fourteen years old. I can play basketball and soccer. But I can't play volleyball. I can also play the guitar. I want to join the sports club and the music club. I often play basketball with my classmates after school. I like to exercise. I get up early in the morning. After I get up, I usually run on the road（道路）.I take a shower at half past six and eat breakfast at seven. Then I go to school at half past seven. I go to school by bike. It takes me about twenty minutes. School starts at eight o'clock. We have four classes in the morning and two in the afternoon.
I get home at about five o'clock in the afternoon. When I get home, I do my homework first. Then I watch TV with my parents. I go to bed at nine o'clock. My father is a teacher. He works in another school. He takes the bus to school every day. He is very funny and often tells his students stories, so his students all love him. They think he is a good teacher.
根据短文内容，回答问题。
1. Can Zhang Hua play volleyball?
2. Does he go to school at 7:30?
3. How many classes does he have every day?
4. What time does Zhang Hua go to bed?
5. Why do his father's students love his father?
April 16th, 2022 is a big day for the three astronauts, Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu. Because they returned to Earth safely after having a six months’ stay on the country’s Tiangong space station. On Oct. 16th, 2021, Shenzhou XIII carried out three Chinese astronauts（航天员）into space. They lived and worked in Tiangong score module（核心舱）Tianhe during six months. This will be the longest space journey by Chinese astronauts. Zhai Zhigang holds the Chinese record（记录）for most spacewalks. Especially, WangYaping is the first Chinese woman to enter a spaçe station and walk in space.
Let’s try to find out what their life is like in space. They had two spacewalks and did tests. They gave two open classes on science and space and they made a live video call with students in Beijing, Hong Kong and Macao.
Besides their work in space, they tried to enjoy their free time outside of work. So they exercised every day, read books, watched TV shows and movies, listened to music and held video calls with their family members. Also they brought their favorite things with them in space to enjoy their hobbies. Zhai Zhigang brought the four treasures of Chinese calligraphy（书法的笔墨纸砚）and Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu brought their traditional Chinese musical instruments. During their stay in space, Zhai practiced his calligraphy and wrote Spring Festival couplets. Wang and Ye gave musical shows with the guzheng and Hulusi.
They are our heroes. Welcome home!
1. Which day is a big day for the three Chinese astronauts?It is on
2. What makes Wang Yaping special?
She is
3. What are their open classes about?
They are about
4. What did Zhai Zhigang bring into space?
He brought
5. What are the two musical instruments?
They are
On October 12, 2022, students from all over the country took the third live class from China’s space station. Shenzhou-14 members Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe gave the class to students on the earth.
At the beginning of the 50-minute class, the astronauts showed the new “classroom”, the Wentian lab module (问天实验舱). They worked and lived there. It became part of China’s space station in July last year.
The astronauts did four interesting experiments (实验) in the microgravity (微重力) environment. Liu Yang tried drinking mango juice with a two-metre straw and she made it! Another experiment showed that a water ball became “lazy” after a small steel ball was put inside it. Chen Dong made two T-handles “dance” on the space station…The astronauts also invited students to do the experiments on the earth. The students found the differences between space and the earth. “How interesting!” they said.
The astronauts also answered questions from students like “how to become an astronaut” and “what kinds of plants they will grow in space in the future”.
It was the first science class from the Wentian lab module and the third “Tiangong Class”. The first and second were given by the Shenzhou-13 members in the station’s Tianhe core module. The classes made a lot of young people fall in love with space science.
1. When did students take the third live class from China’s space station?2. How long was the live class?
3. How did Liu Yang drink mango juice?
4. What else did the students do after watching and doing the experiments?
5. What may many young people do after having the space classes?
The Shenzhou XIII mission was sent on October 16th, 2021. The astronauts are Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu. They planned to spend six months working in the space station. Early last month, 41, was China’s first woman spacewalker in the space.
They gave space-based classes from space station to students around the world. The astronauts showed the space station and their scientific experiments to the students, and showed some interesting physical phenomena to them.
On October 13th, almost all students watched the space-based classes around China. It was the first time for Chinese students to have classes in this new way. It is a good way to make more young people be more interested in the space and study science and technology harder.
1. How long will the astronauts stay in the space station? (not more than 2 words)2. Where did the astronauts give space-based classes? (not more than 3 words)
3. According to last paragraph, how are the space-based classes? (not more than 3 words)
