Yang Hongwei, born in 1966, is an inheritor (传承人) of the Weifang kite-making technique (技艺). Born into a kite-making family, Yang often saw kites with bright colours and different shapes in her grandfather’s workshop.
Yang learned the technique from her grandfather at the age of 16. After practising the technique for 10 years, she started her own shop in 1992.
“Many places around the world have a tradition of flying kites,” Yang said. “But I think the cultural background behind our kites is unique.”
On Yang’s kites, people can see not only common designs like butterflies and birds, but also some prints telling Chinese myths and history. For example, she once made a kite showing a phoenix (凤凰) that was lined with portraits (肖像) of 50 famous women from Chinese history on each side.
Yang said that each woman is different in look, clothes and make-up style. To create their portraits, she made lots of effort to check historical records and talk about details with professionals.
“It took me a lot of time,” Yang said, “but when I explain the stories of the kites to foreign people, I feel a great sense of achievement.”
In her free time, she travels to different countries including Germany, Australia, the United States and New Zealand to tell people stories of Chinese kites and the traditional ways they are made. “It is an important job of mine to spread our heritage (遗产) around the world and onto the next generation,” she said.
1. How old was Yang Hongwei when she began her own shop?| A．10. | B．16. | C．26. | D．57. |
| A．The same. | B．Special. | C．Usual. | D．Common. |
| A．Butterflies. | B．Birds. |
| C．Chinese characters. | D．Foreign stars. |
| A．The only inheritor of traditional skills. |
| B．The importance of Chinese tradition. |
| C．An inheritor of the Weifang kite-making technique. |
| D．How to spread our heritage around the world. |
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【推荐1】Success is often measured by the ability to overcome adversity. But it is often the belief of others that gives us the courage to try.
J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter book series, began writing at the age of 6. In her biography, she remembers with great fondness when her good friend Sean, whom she met in secondary school, became the first person to encourage her and help build the confidence that one day she would be a very good writer.
“He was the first person with whom I really discussed my serious ambition to be a writer. He was also the only person who thought I was bound to be a success at it, which meant much more to me than I ever told him at the time.”
Though there were many setbacks, Rowling went on with her writing, particularly fantasy stories. But it wasn’t until 1990 that she first got the idea about Harry Potter. As she recalls, it was on a long train journey from London to Manchester that the idea of Harry Potter simply fell into her head. “To my immense frustration (沮丧), I didn’t have a functioning pen with me, and I was too shy to ask anybody if I could borrow one. I think, now, that this was probably a good thing, because I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled (戴眼镜的) boy who didn’t know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.”
That same year, her mother passed away after a ten-year battle with serious illness, which deeply affected her writing. She went on to marry and had a daughter, but separated from her husband shortly afterwards.
During this time, Rowling was diagnosed with depression. Unemployed, she completed her first novel in area cafes, where she could get her daughter to fall asleep. After being rejected by 12 publishing houses, the first Harry Potter novel was sold to a small British publishing house.
Now with seven books that have sold nearly 400 million copies in 64 languages, J. K. Rowling is the highest earning novelist in history. And it all began with her commitment to writing that was fostered by the confidence of a friend!
1. Which of the following could be the best title of the passage?| A．Famous Harry Potter series |
| B．Confidence of a friend made Rowling a great writer |
| C．The life of a wizard |
| D．How J. K. Rowling got the idea of Harry Potter |
| A．had a happy family | B．had a ten-year illness |
| C．earned a lot of money | D．had her daughter sleep in cafes |
| A．benefits | B．difficulties | C．stories | D．values |
| A．Harry Potter’s friends didn’t know he was a wizard until he graduated. |
| B．J. K. Rowling wrote down her idea by borrowing a pen while she was on the train. |
| C．Harry Potter was a thin, yellow-haired handsome boy, with a glass on his nose. |
| D．It’s lucky that J. K. Rowling didn’t have a pen while she got the idea of Harry Potter. |
After being warned by the principal （负责人）that his class was the least disciplined (有纪律的）group she had seen in years. Ron visited the home of each student before the first day of school. He also took part in some projects in the city and stay with his students， and by the end of the year， their scores were higher than the “gifted” classes in his district.
In 2003， Ron Clark released（发布） the book The Essential55. His second book， The Excellent 11， was released in August 2004 and further received the attention of parents， educators and students.
On June 25， 2007， Ron Clark founded The Ron Clark Academy， a school serving students from across Atlanta. The school was famous for its
His stories gave us a message—we should be always full of hope， dedication(奉献) and the never-say-never attitude in order to achieve our goals and dreams.
1. The third paragraph mainly tells us about _______.
| A．Ron Clark’s books |
| B．Ron Clark’s school |
| C．Ron Clark’s students |
| D．Ron Clark’s teaching method |
| A．苛刻的 | B．创新的 | C．糟糕的 | D．艰难的 |
①Ron Clark started to work in Aurora.
②Ron Clark founded The Ron Clark Academy.
③Ron Clark released his book The Excellent 11.
④Ron Clark won the Disney American Teacher.
| A．①②③④ | B．④②①③ |
| C．①④③② | D．③②①④ |
| A．the most important thing to achieve our goals is never to say yes |
| B．the never-say-never attitude is necessary for achieving our goal |
| C．if we want to realize our dream， we only need hope and dedication |
| D．hope， dedication and the good attitude are not helpful to us sometimes |
【推荐3】Nigeria is a hot and dry country in Africa where electricity is not available (可获得的) to many families. Most people grow and sell their own fruit and vegetables. Keeping them fresh in the hot place is a real challenge. Without a fridge, most fresh food goes bad in a couple of days. Throwing away the food means losing money for poor families. Eating the bad food causes serious health problems.
A local teacher, Mohammed Bah Abba, was worried about this problem and decided to solve it. As a boy born into a family of clay pot (陶罐) makers, Mohammed knew that these traditional clay pots could keep water even when the weather was dry. In the 1990s, he used this traditional knowledge to invent a cooling system. It worked as a “desert fridge”.
Mohammed’s cooling system is made up of two pots--a small pot inside a big pot. In the space between the two clay pots, there is wet sand. People put the fruit and vegetables in the small pot, and cover it with a piece of wet cloth. Then they leave the big pot in a dry place. When water in the sand evaporates (蒸发), the temperature in the pots will go down. In this way, the food in the small pot is cool.
Mohammed’s “desert fridge” has improved the lives of thousands of people. So in 2001, he won the Rolex Award for Enterprise.
1. The underlined words “this problem” in Paragraph 2 refer to the fact that ________ in Nigeria.| A．fridges were hard to get | B．there wasn’t enough electricity |
| C．there were more health problems | D．food couldn’t be kept fresh for long |
| A．He worked as a clay pot maker. | B．He was born in a family of teachers. |
| C．He helped to keep people’s houses cool. | D．He made a great invention in the 1990s. |
| A．Food | B．Water | C．Wet sand | D．A piece of wet cloth |
| A．invented lots of things | B．was a successful businessman |
| C．made local people’s life better | D．had great knowledge of science |
| A．A Fun Prize | B．A Cool Invention |
| C．The Influence of Education | D．The Importance of Electricity |
【推荐1】Many Chinese people will wonder what presents to get for their moms on Mother’s Day, but not many know Mother’s Day is actually a festival from overseas (海外).
Mother’s Day originated (起源) in America during the early 20th century. The festival spread to China as early as the 1980s and was widely accepted.
Why did a foreign festival become popular in China? In fact, Chinese traditional culture has always encouraged filial (孝顺的) devotion to parents. There are many stories which show filial respect in ancient China. For example, the story of “Taste Liquid (液体的) Medicine for Mother” tells us the filial virtue (美德) of Emperor Wen of the Western Han dynasty. His mother had been sick for three years. He often stayed up by her bedside and cared for her day and night. He tasted the liquid medicine first before she drank it. Also, mother love is a repeated subject in Chinese ancient poems, like “Song of the Parting Son” by Meng Jiao, a poet of the Tang dynasty. Now this poem is still a must in the school textbooks. Children in China are brought up with the education of filial devotion.
On special days, people often use roses or forget-me-nots to express love. Carnations (康乃馨) are considered as the perfect flowers for mothers around the world, but few know that China has its own flower for mothers—the tiger lily.
Love for mothers can have different ways of expression. What matters most is love, not the festival itself. What mothers truly want is perhaps just a simple expression of love from their children.
1. When did Mother’s Day spread to China?| A．In the 1920s. | B．In the Western Han dynasty. |
| C．In the 1980s. | D．In the Tang dynasty. |
| A．its wide spread in many countries |
| B．our ancient stories of respecting parents |
| C．our traditional cultural values |
| D．its simple way of expressing love |
| A．a big dinner | B．greetings of the children |
| C．a celebration party | D．expensive presents |
【推荐2】From a plane you can see the fields, cities, mountains or rivers below. If we go into space, we see more and more of the earth. People and man—made satellites (卫星) are sent into space to look at the earth, the stars and other planets and learn more about them.
The moon is our nearest neighbor in space. It is our satellite and men have visited it already. It is smaller than the earth. Plants can’t grow on the moon because there is no air or water on it. There are lots of mountains on the moon. At night, it is very cold on the moon. It is not comfortable to live on the moon if possible. On the moon, there is much dust here and there. The things on the moon are much lighter than the things on the earth.
The moon hasn’t its own light. It shines back (反射) the light of the sun. When the sun is shining on the side of the moon that faces us, it looks like a great round ball. We can’t see the moon when the sun is shining on the side of the moon that faces away from us.
In fact, the moon isn’t as near as it looks. It is 380, 000 kilometers away from the earth. Of course we can fly to the moon in a spaceship. It only takes more than three days to get there by spaceship.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
1. The underlined words “dust” in the passage means “ ________” in Chinese.
| A．液体 | B．尘土 | C．冰山 |
| A．find there is more air |
| B．see more of the earth |
| C．learn more about the sun |
| A．a great round face |
| B．a great square box |
| C．a great round ball |
| A．Many kinds of plants can grow on the moon. |
| B．It takes the spaceship at least three days to the moon. |
| C．People can live on the moon easily. |
| A．Something about the moon. |
| B．How to get to the moon. |
| C．The introduction (介绍) the sun. |
【推荐3】Let’s take a look at some of the more interesting high school and university graduation traditions around the world.
| China | College graduates in China celebrate their graduation as they wish. Many female graduates run to rent wedding dresses instead of wearing graduation gowns（长袍） and caps. Parents usually don’t attend graduation ceremonies, so the day is more about celebrating with classmates. |
| Japan | Celebrations for senior high school level graduation usually last about an hour and take place during the week. Students often wear their school uniforms. Ceremonies usually take place in March just before the beginning of a new school year. |
| the United States | Students can expect several graduation ceremonies: preschool, elementary school, high school, college, etc. So the families have more chances to take family photos to cherish forever. |
| the United Kingdom | Graduation ceremonies only appear at the university level. The graduates are always waiting in line until their names are called aloud. |
| Philippines | At many high schools, ceremonies usually take place in April. Graduating students will wear beautiful garlands（花环）and are encouraged to wear only their school uniforms. |
| A．School uniforms. | B．Caps and gowns. | C．Wedding dresses. |
| A．Japan. | B．America. | C．Philippines. |
| A．Graduation ceremonies only take place in the university in the UK. |
| B．Families hardly like taking photos with their graduating kids in the US. |
| C．In both countries, graduating students are always waiting for being called. |
| A．The ceremony usually lasts about ninety minutes on the weekday in Japan. |
| B．Graduating students in China always celebrate the graduation with their classmates. |
| C．In Philippines, graduating students will wear caps and gowns with beautiful garlands. |
| A．In an American storybook. |
| B．In an English magazine. |
| C．In an English ad. |
【推荐1】Making a deer out of paper without cutting or using glue sounds impossible. But for Du Jialei, paper can be folded into anything. There is no limit to his imagination.
Du, 23, is a student from Shanghai University. He won third place at the ninth IOIO (国际折纸奥林匹克) in February this year. A total of 803 competitors from 59 countries and areas took part in this year’s event.
Du discovered his interest in folding paper in his childhood. After Du went to college in 2017, he had enough time to take hobby seriously. He learnt holding from online teachers and experts. Later he copied patterns from books. He spent almost three years improving his basic skills by making copies of other artists’ designs. Then he made his own creation.
For Du, folding paper develops his ability to pay attention to both the bigger picture and the details. He is creative as he has been challenging himself to make original works.
1. What place did Du win the ninth IOIO?| A．1st place | B．2nd place | C．3rd place | D．4th place |
| A．copying | B．cutting | C．writing | D．designing |
| A．Many hands make light work. | B．Every dog has its day. |
| C．Put all your eggs in one basket. | D．Practice makes perfect. |
①He took part in the ninth IOIO.
②He went to Shanghai University.
③He discovered his interest in folding paper.
④He worked hard to improve his basic skills in folding paper.
| A．②③④① | B．③②④① | C．②④①③ | D．③④②① |
| A. Shadow play is a kind of drama projected onto a white screen. The performers control the characters behind the screen while singing the libretto (剧本) to tell stories. Come and enjoy it from July to September. B. Ink and wash painting is one of Chinese traditional arts. It is painted by water through the mix of different proportion. The pieces of several Chinese painting masters will be displayed on Jan.1st. C. Do you want to know the origin of paper cutting? We have teachers to teach you to form different patterns. You can enjoy its beauty as artwork. D. In the costurme culture, embroidery takes an important position in Chinese traditional arts and crafts. You can admire and learn how to make a beautiful embroidery craft in our culture center. E. We will show you some awesome paper cutting artwork from Shanxi, China. The papercuts are rich in shape. You can take them home at a good price. F. Sugar painting is a Chinese folk handicraft which uses sugar as material. The artists use small spoons to scoop (舀) up the sugar melted, and spread quickly to draw shapes. You can taste it in Tianjin. G. Xiangsheng (cross talk) is a traditional Chinese comedic and foremost performance. Modern xiangsheng is made up of four skills (speaking, imitating, teasing and singing). De Yun She will make its show on New Year’s Day. |
Have you ever tasted a kind of snack, which is also one of the traditional Chinese forms of art—sugar painting?
Sugar painting started from the Ming Dynasty and became popular in the Qing Dynasty. At that time, many people made a living through sugar painting, setting up stalls (货摊) in crowded streets, in front of theatres and busy public places.
The sugar painters usually sit before a wooden table. On the side, there is a wooden plate with a revolvable arrow (可旋转箭头) on it. The plate is painted with different pictures such as a dragon, a bird, a flower and so on.
Sugar painting is very different from normal painting. The sugar painters use syrup (糖浆) as the material, a spoon as the “paintbrush”, and a smooth slab (台面) as the “paper”.
| A．To make the syrup, they have to make sugar hot before painting. |
| B．A large number of young people begin to learn how to make it. |
| C．The number of sugar painters is getting smaller. |
| D．And now it can still be found in many areas of China. |
| E．After paying, the customers turn the arrow and wait till it stops. |
