Chicken soup is a kind of traditional Chinese food. It is very delicious and it’s good for our health. And I think it’s easy to cook. Do you like chicken soup? If you follow my steps, you can enjoy the delicious chicken soup.
First, you need a pot. Clean the pot and pour eight big bowls of water into it. Then, heat (加热) it as you do other things for cooking. You’ll need some chicken, carrots, salt and pepper. Cut up the chicken and carrots. When the water boils (煮沸), put the chicken into the pot. Wait for about 20 minutes and add the carrots. Then, cook for 30 minutes. And then add salt and pepper and cook them for another 30 minutes. Finally, move the pot off the oven (灶). When the soup cools down, you can enjoy your chicken soup.
根据短文内容，完成下面任务。
1. What ingredients (原料) do we need to make chicken soup? (no more than eight words)
2. When can we put the chicken into the pot? (no more than four words)
3. How long does it take at least to cook chicken soup? (no more than four words)
4. 将文中第一段画线句子译为汉语。
5. 给短文拟一个英文标题。
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A Young Cheese Maker
16-year-old Pat Tulloch has a different hobby. She makes cheese on the family farm in Australia. She began by making yoghurt （酸奶）with her mother when she was little. Then she started watching her father’s workers make cheese. When she was ten, she made some cheese herself for the first time. “It wasn’t great at the beginning,” she says, “but the workers told me what I was doing wrong. I tried hard day and night, and I slowly got better.”
Pat always needs good milk for her cheese, but she doesn’t have to buy it. Her parents keep about 100 cows on their farm. Pat can just ask them when she needs more. Last year, Pat’s neighbour gave her a young cow to keep and look after, but it doesn’t produce milk to make cheese yet.
Pat helped her family created many kinds of cheese. This year they won a prize for one of them. “Last month we started selling cheese in New Zealand. People there read about our prize in a food magazine. Soon we’re going to do some advertisements （广告）, too.”
Pat’s next idea is to post some recipes （烹饪法）for cooking with cheese on the Internet such as having cheese with eggs for breakfast. She also thinks that people can eat cheese with pasta （意大利面）. “I hope a restaurant might buy some one day”, she says. But right now Pat is still at school. “Making cheeses is fun and winning a prize for it is great, but doing well in my studies is more important now.”
1. What is Pat’s hobby?2. What did she do when she was ten?
3. Why doesn’t Pat buy milk?
4. What is Pat’s next idea?
5. What do you think of Pat? And why?
【推荐2】The British like simple food. They usually add only salt and pepper to their food. The British often get their meals ready very quickly, because many women go out to work, and they do not have much time to spend in the kitchen. In supermarkets there are a lot of food in tins (金属盒) and packets. ① Just cook the food for a few minutes, and the meal is ready. On Sundays, there is usually a bigger, better lunch. It is usually a big piece of roast (烤) meat with potatoes and green vegetables, and after that, some dessert.
②So many British women do not spend long in the kitchen, and their husbands (丈夫) do not spend a long time at the dinner table. Some people think that the British eat only when they are hungry. Some families eat their meals in front of the TV. The mealtime is not a time for family to talk to each other as it is in many other countries in the world.
1. 把①处的句子翻译成汉语。根据短文内容，判断2，3句子的正（A）误（B）。
2. The British women don’t spend much time in the kitchen because they don’t like to do so. (根据短文内容，判断句子的正（A）误（B）。)
3. The mealtime is a time for family to talk to each other in many countries in the world. (根据短文内容，判断子的正（A）误（B）。)
4. 把②处的句子变为肯定句
5. 回答问题：When do British people usually eat a big lunch?
Cooking should be considered as art just like any other activity which requires skills and knowledge. It is often said that students are supposed to learn scientific facts as well as how to prepare meals. The following will explain why cooking should be taught in schools.
Cooking is an important skill in life.
Schools are supposed to teach knowledge to the students so that they can lead successful independent lives when they are out of school. Also, they can step into the world knowing how to make a living.
Cooking helps discover a future career.
When schools offer cooking lessons, students will show an interest in it and might take cooking as a career. This will give them the chance to perfect their basic skills and be creative in the kitchen.
Cooking avoids wasting money.
One of the main reasons why cooking should be taught in schools is that the students always use a lot of money to buy ready-made food, while in the real sense they could prepare a nice meal with less cost by buying the required ingredients.
Cooking betters math learning.
Schools do not just teach how to prepare delicious meals. Students are also taught to follow the instructions without any mistakes when mixing ingredients. If it is “add 1/4 spoon of salt,” students should only add that amount. So there is no more or less.
| Cooking Should Be Taught in Schools | ||
| Opinion | Students should learn scientific knowledge and cooking skills. | |
| An important skill in life | Students can lead independent Students can depend on themselves for basic living after graduation. | |
| Discovering a future career | Students might be Students can perfect their basic skills and be creative in the kitchen. | |
| Students can prepare nice dishes with less cost. | ||
| Bettering math learning | Students are taught to follow the instructions | |
【推荐1】Shadow puppetry (皮影戏) started during the Western Han Dynasty and it has a long history of more than 2,000 years. It used to be popular in the countryside because it was simple and cheap.
The puppets are usually made from leather (皮革) or paper. It is hard to make them. The puppet-makers have to take 24 steps, which include washing the leather, carving (雕刻) and painting, to make a puppet.
Just like many things that are in danger, traditional arts also face the risk of disappearing. “Many young people still think that shadow puppetry is an old-fashioned folk art.” said Liu Chaokan, the sixth-generation inheritor (继承人) of shadow puppetry in Yunnan province.
Liu understands why old art forms couldn’t interest young people, so he connects new stories with the traditional form of storytelling. In a recent show based on the ancient Chinese novel Journey to the West, Baigujing dances to a Korean pop song. Popular Chinese cartoon characters, together with the modern factors (元素), are Liu’s secret in getting the attention of children. “Since they couldn’t understand those old stories, why don’t we show them the cartoon characters they love in shadow puppetry shows?” said Liu.
To keep the old art forever young, Liu thinks they should respect (尊重) its traditions and protect the basic of the art.
1. What are the puppets made from?2. How do many young people feel about shadow puppetry according to Liu Chaokan?
3. Which ancient Chinese novel is mentioned in the passage?
4. Do you think traditional arts like shadow puppetry will disappear? Why or why not? Write 30 words or more.
No matter where you are, humans are always checking time. Some of us are good at it—planning and doing things ahead of time (提前), while others are always in a hurry. And that’s only if you’re on time. What if you are late?
So, how late is late? Many cultures take timekeeping very seriously, while others seem to accept lateness as just a common way of things. In different countries, people’ opinions are different. In Latin America, things may happen five minutes, twenty minutes, an hour or even two after the appointed (约定的) time. In Sri Lanka, lateness is a part of the daily habit. Rwanda is a place where it is not unusual to arrive at 11 a.m. for a meeting which starts at nine.
On the other hand, German and Japanese people have a stricter view about time. In Japan, it is common to arrive ahead of time to attend a meeting. Those who arrive at nine to a meeting starting at 9 a.m. would be late in other people’s view. In Germany, however, if a dinner party begins at eight, a person who arrives five minutes earlier may walk around the block to make sure that they get there at eight on time, without being too early or late.
| How late is too late? | |
| Countries | Different |
| People can be late at any time. | |
| Sri Lanka | Lateness is a |
| Rwanda | It is allowed to be late. |
| Germany | Try to |
| Japan | Try to appear |
【推荐3】Electives (选修课) are always popular with students because they offer the chance to learn something exciting, and they're a welcome break from regular courses like maths and physics. Here are just a few of the exciting electives, lucky teenagers can take in some of China's middle schools.
●Self-defense skills
A school from Chongqing
The school offers a self - defense course - just for girls. Those who attend the lessons have the chance to study basic self- protection skills in a one - on – one practice. They learn how to get away when they need to and defend themselves against attacks. "I feel safer in myself now, "said Zhang Yi, 15, a girl student.
●Pottery
A school from Tianjin
Young artists at the school love to get their hands dirty creating beautiful pieces. Students learn how to design and make various clay projects. At the end, they have the skills to make their own clay bowls, cups, vases and pots.
●Horse riding
A school from Beijing
Equestrians (马术) can look pretty cool, can't they? Teenagers at this school can now choose a course in riding skills. They're taught to communicate with their horses and how to use reins. To ride a horse in the proper way, a student must hold the head forward and keep his back straight. Students come away from this elective not only knowing how to ride a horse gracefully but also physically fitter!
●Couplets (对联)
A school from Nanjing
How many of you can write a couplet? This old literary (文学的) form is slowly disappearing, but Chinese culture lovers at the school are trying to make it alive. For their elective, teenagers study old couplets and try to rhyme (押韵) their own lines. Many of this year's students can't wait for the Spring Festival, when they'll be able to show off their new skills.
1. How many electives in Chinese middle schools are introduced in the article?2. What kind of art works can students have at the end of the elective "Pottery"?
3. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
4. What are the common advantages of "Self-defense skills" and "horse riding"?
5. Give a proper title to the passage.
