On May 22, 2021, people in China and around the world felt sad. China’s “father of hybrid rice(杂交水稻之父)” Yuan Longping died at 91 on this day.
Yuan spent his life researching hybrid rice, which ended hunger for millions of people not only in China, but around the world. Hybrid rice is grown in 57 percent of China’s rice fields. It feeds an extra 80 million people a year. It is also grown in over 40 countries, including India, the US and Brazil, etc.
Yuan grew up in a time of war and famine(饥荒). How to get enough to eat was a serious problem in China at that time. After he finished high school, he decided to study agriculture(农业). After seeing many people die of hunger during a serious famine that lasted from 1959 to 1961, he decided to study hybrid rice.
In 1973, he succeeded in growing the world’s first high-yield(高产的) hybrid rice. It could reach a yield of over 500 kg per mu, higher than the 300-kg yields from normal rice.
In 2019, he was awarded the Medal of the Republic, China’s highest state honour. In 2020, hybrid rice achieved 1,500 kilograms per mu in two growing seasons, setting a new world record. His team also started to research growing seawater rice in 2016. Their experiment succeeded in 2017.
Yuan once said he had two dreams. One was to enjoy the shade under rice crops that were taller than men. The other was that hybrid rice would be grown all over the world. I think his dreams might come true one day.
1. Yuan Longping helped people solve the food problem by ________.| A．developing the hybrid rice with his team |
| B．borrowing enough food from other countries |
| C．discovering another kind of food to eat |
| D．asking people to grow more rice in their fields |
| A．It is grown in over half of China’s rice fields. |
| B．It is grown all over the world at present. |
| C．Its yield is much higher than that of normal rice. |
| D．It can help people solve food problems. |
| A．300 kg per mu. | B．500 kg per mu. |
| C．750 kg per mu. | D．1,500 kg per mu. |
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| A．children’s daily activities | B．fighting against COVID-19 |
| C．ten questions about COVID-19 | D．love between family members, friends and everyone |
| A．Virus, Virus, You Cannot Scare Me! | B．A Special Spring Festival. |
| C．Ten Tips to Fight Monsters. | D．A Brief History of Viruses for Children. |
| A．Mu Xiangzhen. | B．Gao Jing. |
| C．Dong Ruihan. | D．Changsha Whiteflag Dolphin Children’s Book Workshop. |
| A．The books were translated into many languages. |
| B．Children can do something to protect themselves. |
| C．We have won the war against COVID-19 completely. |
| D．We can understand the virus basing on reason and science. |
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School Day was held successfully on May 6th. Twenty-four student helpers from Grade 8 were divided into four groups of six. Each group had a task to raise money for the disabled.
Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 |
School postcards Leader: Natalie | Chinese painting Leader: Tina | Recycling bags Leader: Leo | Homemade snacks Leader: Nick |
All of groups performed well on School Day and received praise from the visitors. In short, our School Day went well and we got no poor opinions from the visitors.
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Group | School postcards | Chinese painting | Recycling bags | Homemade snacks |
Percentage | 10% | 30 % | 45% | 15 % |
Follow-up:
Have a meeting with the headmaster about prizes for excellent student helpers.
1. What was sold in Leo’s group?| A．School postcards. | B．Chinese paintings. | C．Recycling bags. | D．Homemade snacks. |
| A．Satisfied. | B．Surprised. | C．Worried. | D．Excited. |
| A．50. | B．25. | C．15. | D．10. |
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Also, the solar terms help farmers make plans. They are going to sow seeds （播种） when lichun comes. When mangzhong comes, wheat is ripe（成熟的）. The harvest time is coming!
Today, the solar terms are still used by Chinese people and they are helpful to our daily life. Did your mom ever tell you “don’t show your feet after hanlu”? You’d better listen to her, because hanlu means the beginning of cold days.
1. Why did Chinese people make 24 solar terms?| A．To make the Chinese calendar change. | B．To show the changes in season and weather. |
| C．To change the weather in the past. | D．To name the days in the past. |
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② dongzhi b. It is the coldest day of the year.
③ xiaoxue c. It is the day with the year’s longest daytime.
④ dahan d. It is usually snowy.
| A．①-a; ②-c; ③-b; ④-d | B．①-a; ②-b; ③-d; ④-c |
| C．①-c; ②-a; ③-d; ④-b | D．①-c; ②-d; ③-b; ④-a |
| A．Chinese people | B．solar terms | C．plans | D．farmers |
| A．We should sow seeds after hanlu. | B．We shouldn’t show our feet after hanlu. |
| C．We shouldn’t take a walk after hanlu. | D．We should swim in the sea after hanlu. |
| A．Solar terms | B．Seasons and weather | C．Lunar calendar | D．Chinese history |
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While other kids lived for gym class, I hated it. I didn’t see the point in the games the kids played.
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Since then, my ideas have been used to look at the world differently. Some say that they changed the way we look at the universe.
It all started that day when I looked at something I had seen many times and asked the question, “Why?”
You may know me. My name is Al… Albert Einstein.
1. Why did Al have a hard time when he was young?| A．He spent too much time playing with other kids. |
| B．He was one of the most difficult students in his class. |
| C．He didn’t find anything he was really interested in. |
| D．He failed to graduate from the school. |
| A．The encouragement from his classmates and teachers. |
| B．The fact of asking the simple question, “Why?” |
| C．The experience of having a gym class. |
| D．The strong will of entering a famous university. |
| A．The questions. | B．The games. | C．Some books. | D．Al’s ideas. |
| A．No pain, no gain. | B．Every dog has its day. |
| C．Where there is a will, there is a way. | D．Interest and thinking make great minds. |
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Gu Fangzhou, a famous medical scientist, was born in June, 1926. Gu’s family faced a difficult time with the sudden death of his father. He studied hard and finally entered Peking University as a medical student in 1944. After graduation, Gu made the decision to work to help improve public health.
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1. Which is the right order of the following events?①Gu Fangzhou became “the People’s Scientist”. ②Gu Fangzhou went to university.
③Gu Fangzhou was asked to lead polio research. ④Gu Fangzhou lost his father.
| A．④②①③ | B．②④①③ | C．②④③① | D．④②③① |
| A．15. | B．16. | C．18. | D．20. |
| A．466. | B．1,959. | C．1,680. | D．1,960. |
| A．Gu Fangzhou’s son. | B．Gu Fangzhou himself. |
| C．Gu Fangzhou’s partner. | D．Gu Fangzhou’s partner’s kid. |
| A．A Great Medical Scientist. | B．An Important Medical Invention. |
| C．The Hard Work of Preventing Polio. | D．Some Facts about the Polio Vaccine. |
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The extravehicular activity began at 6:51 pm on November 7, 2021 when Zhai opened a hatch(舱口). By 8:28 pm, Zhai and Wang had left the Tiangong space station. Ye Guangfu had remained inside the station to monitor and support the spacewalk, which was scheduled to last six hours. It’s said the Shenzhou XIII crew will carry out one to two more spacewalks in the coming months.
A native (当地人) of Shandong province and mother of a 5-year-old girl, Wang joined the army in August 1997 and joined the second group of astronauts in May 2010. In March 2012, she was part of the backup (备用) crew for the Shenzhou IX mission. In June 2013, she took part in the Shenzhou X mission, which lasted 15 days. She is the second Chinese woman to have flown in space. During the Shenzhou X flight, Wang gave China’s first space-based lesson inside the Tiangong I to more than 60 million Chinese students at about 80,000 schools across the country.
On November 10, three days after the spacewalk, Wang Yaping, Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu sent the TV show The Reciter《朗读者》a video from the space. They read the general introduction of The Torrent Trilogy written by Ba Jin. On December 9, 2021, Wang and the other two Shenzhou XIII mission crew gave a science lesson 400 kilometers above the earth to millions of students. They showed us how they live and work inside the space station and they also did some experiments.
1. When did the extravehicular activity begin?| A．At 8:28 am on November 7. | B．At 8:28 pm on November 7. |
| C．At 6:51 am on November 7. | D．At 6:51 pm on November 7. |
| A．Once. | B．Twice. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．She had a spacewalk with Ye Guangfu. |
| B．She gave lessons to the other astronauts. |
| C．She read a passage outside the space station. |
| D．She did some experiments inside the space station. |
| A．has a daughter who is five | B．joined the army in May 2010 |
| C．took part in the Shenzhou IX mission | D．did a spacewalk in 2013 |
| A．China’s first extravehicular activity | B．China’s first space-based lesson |
| C．China’s first woman spacewalker | D．China’s first video from the space |
