What is your dream life like in summer? It may be eating some watermelon in a house with an air conditioner (空调). Watermelons came from Africa. Later, they came to the west of China. Watermelons are very popular with Chinese people. Here are two reasons.
One is that watermelons have a good taste. And they have lots of vitamins (维生素) and minerals (矿物质). They are good for people’s health. People would think of watermelons first when they buy fruits in summer. The other is that most of the world’s watermelons are from China each year. In supermarkets, we can know that watermelons are cheap in China.
People are careful when buying watermelons. Most of them usually knock (敲) at them and the sound can tell which one tastes the best. However, there are many ways to eat watermelons. For most people, it is cool to enjoy half a watermelon just with a spoon. There are also some ways we don’t often use. For example, in Xinjiang, people eat watermelons around a stove (炉子) and in Hainan, people eat watermelons even with salt. No matter how we eat watermelons, they make our summer better.
The Watermelon | |
| The history of it | People in Africa first |
| The reasons why Chinese like it very much | It’s |
| The way most people buy and eat it | People knock at it and Most people eat it with a spoon. |
| Some of the special ways to eat it | People in Xinjiang eat watermelons around a stove. People in Hainan eat watermelons even with |
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Do you love sweet food, like cakes and candy? I’m sure you do! What makes this food sweet? Sugar, of course! Do you know any facts about sugar? Most sugar comes from sugar cane. This plant is very tall!
How do we make sugar from sugar cane?
Farmers cut off the top of the plant. They leave some of the plant in the earth. This will grow into more sugar cane.
Workers put the sugar cane into big machines. One machine washes the cane. Another machine cuts and turns the cane over and over. Another machine gets the juice from the cane.
Workers make the juice hot and it becomes thick. The thick juice is called syrup (糖浆). Workers put a little sugar to the syrup. It turns to crystals (结晶). A machine dries the crystals. Now we have sugar.
Sugar can be brown or white. Sugar can be different sizes. Then the sugar can go to the sweet factory. Workers will be happy to use it to make sweets!
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Most of us use alarm clocks to wake up at the right time for school or work. We look at our watches to know the right time for the bus or train. However, there is also a right time to eat, sleep, exercise, and take medicine. We can’t look at a clock for the right time for these activities. We must listen to the clock inside our bodies: the biological clock.
Barbara Wells exercised every morning. She woke up at 6:00 a.m. She ran about two miles before she went to work. But Barbara’s legs and back started to hurt. She did some exercise before she ran. But her legs and back still hurt. She ran slower, but the pain didn’t stop. Barbara talked to her doctor. The doctor said, “Don’t run in the morning. Try to exercise later in the day. That is the time when your body is at the right temperature for exercise after work.” Her legs and back didn’t hurt anymore.
Today, doctors are learning more about chronobiology (n.生物钟学), the study of biological (adj.生物的) clocks. They are learning about the importance of time for our bodies. For example, it is best for people to go to sleep on time every night and to eat only when they’re hungry. Also, doctors discovered that some illnesses, such as heart attacks, occur (v.发生) most often in the morning. This information tells them that the best time to take heart medication may be at night. When patients take heart medication (n.药物) at night, they may prevent a heart attack in the morning.
Many doctors believe chronobiology (生物钟) can help us live healthier lives. It may be the right time to listen to these doctors!
1. Do we all have biological clocks inside our bodies?____________________________________________________________________
2. How far did Barbara Wells run every morning?
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3. How did Barbara Wells’ legs and back get well?
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4. What is the right time for the person who has a heart attack to take heart medication?
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5. What can we learn from the passage?
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【推荐3】Researchers in the 1960s found bilingual (双语的) people scored higher on intelligence (智力) tests than monolinguals—people who speak only one language. The latest studies show that being bilingual does not necessarily make people cleverer, but it probably does make you better at certain skills.
Imagine driving down the highway. There’re many things that could attract your attention and you really need to be able to watch all of them. Why would bilingualism make you any better at that?
The answer is that bilingual people are often better at controlling their attention—a function (功能)called the executive control system. It’s quite possibly the most important system we have because it’s where all of your decisions about what to attend to, what to ignore (忽略), what process are made.
The best method to measure (测量) the executive control system is called the Stroop Test. Suppose you would have the word “blue” written in red, but you have to say the color red. But “blue” is so eye-catching, and you really want to say “blue”. You need to ignore it so that you can say the color red. That’s the Stroop Test.
Bilingual people continually practice this function. They have to, because both languages are active in their brain at the same time. They need to ignore one to be able to speak in the other. This exercise might help in other ways, too. Researchers say bilingual children are more likely to have friends from different cultures. Bilingual adults are often four to five years later than others in developing Alzheimer’s disease.
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2. 用英语表达文中画线单词it所指代的内容
3. 简略回答问题
What is the Stroop Test?
4. 找出并写下全文的主题句；
5. 将文中画线句子译成汉语。
【推荐1】When a leafy plant is under attack, it doesn’t sit quietly. Back in 1983,two scientists,Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin,reported that young maple trees getting bitten by insects send out a particular smell that neighboring plants can get. These chemicals come from the injured parts of the plant and seem to be an alarm.What the plants pump through the air is a mixture of chemicals which are called VOCs for short.
Scientists have found that all kinds of plants give out VOCs when being attacked .It’s a plant’s way of crying out.But is anyone listening？Exactly.Because we can watch the neighbours react.
Some plants release smelly chemicals to keep insects away.But others do double duty .They pump out perfumes designed to attract different insects who are natural enemies to the attackers.Once they arrive,the tables are turned .The attacker who was lunching now becomes lunch.
In study after study,it appears that these chemical conversations help the neighbors .The damage is usually more serious on the first plant,but the neighbors ,relatively speaking ,stay safer because they heard the alarm and knew what to do.
Does this mean that plants talk to each other？ Scientists don’t know. Maybe the first plant just made a cry of pain or was sending a message to its own branches, and so, in effect, was talking to itself. Perhaps the neighbors just happened to “overhear” the cry. So information was exchanged, but it wasn’t a true communication.
Charles Darwin, over 150 years ago, imagined a world far busier, noisier and more intimate(亲密的) than the world we can see and hear. Our senses are weak. The world is .
1. Does a leafy plant sit quietly when it is under attack?2. What does a plant do when it is under attack?
3. How can scientists know that there is someone listening to the crying?
4. What does the author mean by “the tables are turned” in paragraphs 3?
5. From the scientists' studies, can plants protect themselves against insects or really talk to each other?
6. What can be filled in the blank at end of the passage?
Yangge is an interesting folk dance. The performers dance to the music with handkerchiefs or fans in their hands. It’s the most popular festival performance in many places, especially in the countryside of northern China.
Many people love yangge very much. Most of them are young men and young women. But some are even old ladies. Nearly every village in northern Shaanxi Province has yangge groups. They begin to rehearse (排练) almost a month before the Lunar New Year’s Day. On that day, after eating jiaozi, the yangge group begins paying New Year calls from house to house.
They wish people a happy New Year, and then they do the yangge dance in the street. Some young men often play the drums, and the performers begin to wave red silk bands. The hosts set off firecrackers (鞭炮) to welcome the dancers and invite them to taste their home-made rice wine. The sounds of songs, drums and firecrackers blend, forming a festival atmosphere in the village.
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1. The performers dance yangge to the music with
2. Yangge is the most popular festival performance in many places, especially in the countryside of
3. When do the performers begin to rehearse the yangge dance every year?
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【推荐3】On October 20, 1936, Zhong Nanshan was born in Nanjing Central Hospital. His parents called him "Nanshan" because the hospital where he was born in the south of Zhongshan of Nanjing. Zhong Nanshan loved sports and broke the national record of 400m hurdles(跨栏) with 54.4 seconds at the first national games in 1959.
In those days of fighting against SARS in 2003, he became a brave soldier. He thought it was a war for life with death. Zhong Nanshan, with his excellent medical skills and strong fighting action, became the hero in the people's hearts. On January 21, 2020, as a great team leader, he went to Wuhan with his team members in order to beat COVID-19 (新冠肺炎). Till now, many sick people have been cured (治愈). His family are well-known not only because Zhong Nanshan has got success in Chinese medicine, but also all his family are really good at sports. In 1956, Zhong Nanshan, who was in his third year of university, took part in the 400-metre race in the Beijing university sports meeting and won the gold medal. His whole family are basketball fans. Zhong Nanshan's wife, Li Shaofen, was the main player of the first Chinese Women's Basketball Team. After they got married, they had a son and daughter. His son, Zhong Weide, is now a doctor and the main player of the hospital basketball team. Her daughter, Zhong Weiyue, was an excellent swimmer in China and won the 100m Butterfly championship.
Zhong Nanshan is Chinese people's great hero, but he continues working hard and helps many sick people get well every week. "It's my habit", he said.
1. In what sports did Zhong Nanshan win the gold medal in 1959? (不超过15个词)2. Why are Zhong Nanshan's family well-known? (不超过25个词)
3. Would you like to be a good doctor like Zhong when you grow up? Why or why not? (不超过15个词)
