A duck is very sad because he is the ugliest among his brothers and sisters. But to his surprise, when he grows up, he finds that he has become a handsome young swan (天鹅)! This is the story of The Ugly Duckling (丑小鸭) by Danish (丹麦) writer Hans Christian Andersen.
In fact, Andersen was an “ugly duckling” himself. In 1805, he was born into a poor family in Odense, Denmark. As a young boy, Andersen was tall, ugly and had a very big nose. His friends always made jokes about his big nose. During his school life, young Andersen spent most days dreaming about the stories he imagined (想象) in class.
Later, because of his father’s death, Andersen had to make a living (谋生) by himself. He once worked as a tailor (裁缝) and made money in a theater. The difficulties helped him write his fairy tales (童话). Andersen began his writing by writing plays and poems for some small magazines. He talks about love and sacrifice (牺牲) in The Little Mermaid (美人鱼), and makes fun of authority (权威) in The Emperor’s New Clothes.
Andersen wrote for 43 years until the end of his life in 1875. He finished 168 works and we can read them in about 150 languages. They never stop bringing happiness to kids around the world.
1. Who wrote the story of The Ugly Duckling?2. Did Andersen study hard at school?
3. Why did Andersen have to make a living by himself?
4. How did Andersen begin to write?
5. How long did Andersen write in his life?
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Once there were two little ducks, Quick and Quack. They didn’t feel lonely, because they were good brothers and they often ate and played together.
One day, they hung out everywhere happily as usual. Soon they came to a big river. To show who swam faster, they decided to have a race. The two ducks swam quickly down to the river. Both of them knew the way very well. But Quack wanted to try a much quicker way. He knew that currents (水流) in the middle of the river were faster and they would help him.
However, their parents had told them never to swim in the middle of a river. Quack thought about it for a moment, but he finally decided to try it. “I’m old enough now to swim there,” he thought.
It didn’t take Quack much time to be the faster one. Suddenly, Quack was caught by a big whirlpool (漩涡). He wasn’t strong enough to get away from it. Luckily, a cow passed by and saved him.
After that, Quack realized he should have followed his parents’ advice.
1. The passage mainly talks about2. The two little ducks often did something together like
3. In order to
4. Who saved Quack in the end? (5个词以内)
5. What can you learn from the passage? (10个词以内)
A spider was looking for a place to make a web. He wanted a suitable place where there were lots of insects. In this way, he could spend his life eating, drinking and relaxing with pleasure.
Soon the spider found a corner in a room. Just when he started making a web, a cat saw him and laughed loudly. The spider asked, “Why are you laughing?” “Can’t you see how clean this corner is? No insects will come here. They like dirty places,” the cat replied. Hearing this, the spider gave up the idea of making a web in that corner. Then he decided to make a web on a window. When he had prepared half of the web, a bird came and said, “Have you lost your mind? A strong wind will blow away your web.”
The spider stopped working. He started looking for another place. The whole day passed. He was tired, hungry and thirsty. He didn’t have any energy left to make a web. Just then an ant went to him and said, “I’ve been watching you since morning. You started making a web and left it incomplete after listening to others, so you didn’t complete your web.”
The spider realized his mistake and started regretting it. He said to himself, “I should have done my work with confidence (自信) and determination (决心).”
1. The spider was looking for a place where there were2. The cat said the corner was so
3. The bird didn’t think it was a good idea to make a web on a(n)
4. The whole day passed and the spider
5. From the story, we can learn that we shouldn’t be easily
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Jessie had gone to the woods with Jamie and Joe to get green branches to decorate the house for Christmas. She wore her little cap, her white furs, and her red socks.
She was a happy little girl, but she felt sad this morning because her mother had said, “The children will all have Christmas presents, but I don’t expect any for myself. We are too poor this year.”
When Jessie told her brothers this, they all talked about it. “Such a good, kind mother, and no Christmas present ! It’s too bad.”
“I don’t like it,” said little Jessie, with a tear in her eyes.
“Oh, she has you,” said Joe.
“But I am not something new,” said Jessie.
“Well, you will be new, Jessie,” said Joe, “①当你回家时，她得有一个小时没见到你呢。”
Jessie jumped and laughed. “Then put me in the basket, and carry me to Mother, and tell her I am her Christmas present.”So they put her in the basket, and put green branches all around her. They put her down on the doorstep, and went in and said, “There’s a Christmas present out there for you, Mother.”
Mamma went and looked, and there, in a basket of green branches, sat her own little laughing girl.
“②Just the very thing I wanted most.” said Mother.
“Then, dear Mother,” said Jessie, jumping out of the basket, “I should think it would be Christmas for mothers all the time because they see their little girls every day.”
1. 请将①处画线句子译为英语。2. 请将②处画线句子译为英语。
3. 请在文中找出与所给句子含义相同的句子。
All of you will have Christmas present but me.
4. Finally, the brothers put
5. What’s the passage mainly about?
【推荐1】Anthony Hopkins is an actor. He won an Oscar in 1988 for The Silence of the Lambs. He and his wife live in London and they don't have any children. Every day, he gets up at about 6:30 a. m., and he puts on a T-shirt and goes running for about 2 miles in the park. He goes home for breakfast. He has an orange, some bread and a glass of milk. He never uses public transport, such as buses or subways, in London, and he walks for miles, to meetings, to the dentist's—everywhere.
In the morning, even when he is not making a film, he always does something. He usually spends at least 90 minutes learning the script（文本）for his next film. He uses a color pen to mark each line. It helps him to remember the words. He never reads a newspaper or listens to the radio because it's all bad news.
He usually has a sandwich for lunch. He eats very fast—he doesn't really enjoy any meals because he's always busy. The only time he rests during the day is at about 3:00 every afternoon, when he has a 15-minute sleep.
1. What is Anthony Hopkins?_______________________________________________________________________
2. According to the passage, how does Anthony probably go to the supermarket?
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3. Why does Anthony use a color pen to mark each line?
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【推荐2】Eileen Collins is the first woman ever chosen to be a spaceship pilot. She is also the first woman to command a spaceship. Today she has flown more than 5, 000 hours in more than 30 kinds of airplanes.
Talking about high school, she said, “I began reading all kinds of books about famous women pilots. These women went and flew into dangerous places. Their stories encouraged me.” In 1977, Eileen got a pilot’s license and the following year she graduated from university. She went into space in 1999 at the age of 43. She took with her hopes and dreams of a nation of young people on the earth.
Eileen is not only an astronaut but also a wife and the mother of a young daughter. She has short curly hair and friendly brown eyes. She met her husband, Pat, while they were together in the air force.
When she was named as the First Woman Spaceship Commander in 1998, Eileen smiled and said, “When I was a child, I dreamed about space. It was only a dream that I would be one of the astronauts someday. I hope all children will be encouraged to reach for their dreams, when they see I go into space. I believe dreams do come true!”
1. How many hours has Eileen flown? （no more than four words）2. When did Eileen go into space? （no more than two words）
3. What does Eileen look like? （no more than nine words）
4. Who did Eileen meet in the air force? （no more than two words）
5. Did Eileen believe that her dream would come true? （no more than three words）
【推荐3】 Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, France. He was a very small child. Unluckily, at the age of four, he became blind by accident. Louis began attending school in his town when he was seven years old.
Three years later, Louis and his father traveled to Paris. There, he went to a school for blind children. One day a French soldier, Charles Barbier, visited the school. Barbier invented a system of night-reading. This system used small dots for the letters. Soldiers used this system in time of war. Barbier thought this system could help the blind to read.
Soon Braille discovered that there were some shortcoming (缺点) in Barbier’s system, but it gave Louis a brilliant idea. He improved Barbier’s system. By the age of fifteen, his new system was completed! Now he wanted blind schools to try his system. Luck went against him again. The school refused to use his system. Louis died in 1852 in Paris at the age of forty-three.
Two years after he died, the blind schools began to use his system. Today we call this system Braille in honour of Louis Braille. His system is used for all languages, and for maths, science, writing, music, and computers for the blind.
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【推荐1】William Shakespeare was a famous English writer of plays and poems. He wrote about thirty-eight plays, 154 short poems and a few long poems in his life. Two of his famous plays are Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford, England. Like many people 400 years ago, Shakespeare’s parents didn’t learn to read or write. At school he liked plays, so he decided to be an actor when he finished school at fourteen. ①他l582年结婚，有了三个孩子。
Shakespeare went to London and joined a theatre company in about 1592. He became a successful actor and began to write plays. Queen Elizabeth I enjoyed his works very much.
In 1599 the company built the Globe Theatre on the River Thames in London. You can visit the theatre today, but it isn’t the same building. There was a fire in the old theatre. They built it again in 1614 and in the 1990s.
William Shakespeare died at the age of fifty-two. He was rich and successful. ②You can still see his plays in English and in many other languages. He’s famous around the world.
1. 请将①处划线句子译为英语。2. 请将②处划线句子译为汉语。
3. Who enjoyed his works very much?
4. Write down the name of a famous Chinese writer in English.
5. What’s the topic of the passage?
Do you feel bored at home? So does the virus. I know you all want to go out for vacation. But if you stay longer, the virus will be bored to death.”
This is how Zhang Wenhong asked people to stay indoors during the COVID-19 outbreak（爆发）. He works at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai. These days, Zhang becomes an Internet celebrity（网红）because of his funny and honest way of talking.
The 52-year-old doctor believes in the traditional Chinese idea that “the best doctors prevent（阻止）the disease（疾病）”. That’s why he tries his best to spread scientific knowledge on how to prevent the disease. He and his team also write a lot of articles on Wechat every day to tell people something about the latest COVID-19. One of his articles got more than 10 million likes.
But Zhang does not care about how famous he is. He just cares about how to be a good doctor in all his life.
1. Where did Zhang Wenhong ask people to stay during the COVID-19 outbreak?2. Why does Zhang Wenhong become an Internet celebrity?
3. How old is Zhang Wenhong?
4. How many likes did one of his articles get?
5. What does Zhang Wenhong care about?
【推荐3】Zhao Hua is a student from a university. He has led a group of university student volunteers since last year. They help children at a primary school with their studies and daily lives. “When I was a small child,” Zhao said, “I know March 5th was ‘Learn from Lei Feng Day’, but I didn’t know the real meaning of the spirit of Lei Feng. Now when I see the smiling faces of the kids I have helped, I deeply understand Lei Feng. I really like to help others because it makes me happy.”
Lei Feng was born in 1940 in Changsha, Hunan Province. He is one of the best-known soldiers in Chinese history. He lost his parents when he was very young. His neighbors brought him up. Then he did many good deeds (好事) in his life. For example, he gave his own money to other soldiers’ parents, and bought a ticket for a woman he didn’t know without telling her his name. Unluckily, he died in an accident at the age of 22.
On March 5th, 1963, Chairman Mao called on people to learn from Lei Feng and made the day “Learn from Lei Feng Day”.
Almost 50 years has passed since Lei Feng’s death. Some people say that the spirit of Lei Feng is out of date. There have been many reports about the coldness of people towards strangers. These have made many Chinese people think deeply about themselves.
Many people think we need to promote (提倡) that spirit again. The important thing is that people must be ready to help others and make it a habit.
1. Why does Zhao Hua like to help others? (不超过 10 个词)2. Where was Lei Feng born? (不超过 10 个词)
3. What is the important thing to promote Lei Feng spirit? (不超过 20 个词)
