Can you cook by yourself? Do you like the homework of making a meal? Those days, primary and middle school students are required to take the Practical Activity Class at least one class hour every week. The topic of cooking was discussed mostly by parents and students. Learning practical skills plays an important role in shaping a person’s character for sure.
Some schools and students have already practiced their practical activities. Gu Quan, 13 years old, from No. 18 Middle School, used to be a lazy boy. In his own words, he hardly ever did any housework. But things have changed since No. 18 Middle School made housework part of its students homework. Doing the dishes, cooking and making the bed… All of these tasks have become part of Gu Quan’s daily life.
At the beginning of each month, every student gets a list of housework to do every weekend. Their parents help them keep a record of their performance. The tasks are common and simple in daily life, such as sweeping the floor, washing cups and cooking food. On holidays like Mother’s Day, students should prepare presents for their mothers. Huang Yixi, 14, has learned several skills, including cooking. “I used to be afraid of fire,” she said. But she managed to overcome fear and complete her cooking tasks. At the same time, she also learned how tired her mother gets after doing housework every day. On Mother’s Day, she made a cake for her mother to show her thanks. “I’ve begun to better understand my parents and want to help them more,” she said.
1. How many hours do primary and middle school students take the Practical Activity Class every month?About
2. Why did Gu Quan start to do housework?
Because his school made housework part as its
3. What did Huang Yixi learn besides cooking skills?
She learned to
4. What was the writer’s aim to write this passage?
The writer wrote it to call on students to
5. What do you think of the Practical Activity Class according to the passage?
I think it
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A travel magazine gave a report on Monday, saying that study travels are welcomed by people of all ages. More than 6 million people joined study travels last year, higher than the number in 2019.
“The key difference between study travels and other tourism products is that study travels focus on learning knowledge while traveling,” Luo Shugang, director of the magazine, said on Monday. He said that study travels first appeared in the Song Dynasty（朝代）. At that time, many poets wrote their experiences on study travels.
Dai Bin, another director of the magazine, said that study travels have improved the social education of students. That’s why study travels are so popular with them. Study travels also offer chances for students to visit places with beautiful natural views and rich culture.
Wang Ning, a middle school student in Beijing, shared her experiences of study travels with the reporter. She has study travels once a year in the middle school. Last summer holiday, she went to Nanjing for her school trip. She visited some museums and attended some courses in Nanjing University. She also learned some knowledge about Chinese history.
1. How many people joined study travels last year?2. When did study travels first appear?
3. Why are study travels so popular with students?
4. Where did Wang Ning go for her school trip last summer holiday?
5. What did Wang Ning learn from her school trip last summer?
How to get through exams? Here are some advice:
Ask a teacher or tutor about how to review your lessons, and exam skills—how to work when you are in an exam.
Take short rests during your time of work. If your mind is tired, it will not remember well.
Plan your work: study at times when you know you will work at your best.
Get enough sleep, and eat healthy food.
You need exercise to work well. Walk, run, play sport—whatever you enjoy.
Stop thinking about the future and failing.
If you feel ill, talk to someone about your worries. But don’t be too relaxed!
If it upsets you to talk to your friends about an exam when it is finished, don’t do it! In fact, don’t even think about the exam you have finished. What is done is done. You cannot change what you have written!
To this advice, we could add:
If you are studying in the evening, don’t go straight to bed. Your mind will still be “going round and round”—thinking too much. Do something else, maybe walk or get exercise. Choose something that will relax you, and make you think of other things.
（A）根据短文内容简要回答问题。
1. Why do some students hate exams?
2. What should you do if the exam upsets you when it is finished?
（B）将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。
3. ______________________________________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________________________________
（C）请给短文拟一个适当的标题。
5. ______________________________________________________________________
New rules and behavior standards(行为规范) for middle school students came out in March. Who are the most excellent students? Middle school uses a new way to decide them. The best students won’t only have high marks. They will also be kids who don’t dye(染) their hair, smoke or drink. The following are some of the new rules.
Tell the truth.
Have you ever copied someone else’s work on an exam? Don’t do it again. That’s not something an honest student should do. If you have played computer games for two hours in your room, don’t tell your parents you have done your homework.
Do more at school.
Good students love animals and care for others. April is Bird-Loving Month in China. Is your school doing anything to celebrate? You should join! That way, you can learn more about animals and how to protect them. When more people work together, it makes it more fun for all the people.
Be open to new ideas.
Have you ever thought that people could live on the moon? Maybe you discover Earth someday. Don’t look down on new ideas. Everyone’s ideas are important. You should welcome them, because new ideas make life better for everyone.
Use the Internet carefully.
Try not to look at Web pages that are bad for you. You can use the Web for homework. Can’t you find good Web sites for children? Here are some:
hps://kids.eastday.com, https://www.chinakids.net.com, https.//www.cynet.com
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Introduction | Middle school uses a new way to decide who are the most excellent | |
Contents | Telling the truth | Don’t copy |
| Take part in some school | ||
Being open to new ideas | Never look | |
| Being | If you use the Internet, try to find some Web pages that are | |
Conclusion | The best students will not only have high marks, but also have high qualities without dying hair, smoking or | |
【推荐1】Creativity (创造力) comes from imagination. When you imagine a new way of doing something and then take action to do it, you are being creative. Generally, there are three steps to be creative.
Step 1 Getting knowledge and skills of how things are done.
Strong knowledge and skills help you understand how to do something. Knowing when and how to apply (运用) this knowledge comes from studying how others deal with the same situation. Think about learning to play the piano. In this step, you learn how to read music and where the keys are on the piano. You also practice playing.
Step 2 Learning to copy the way that people do those things.
Practicing how others do something will bring what you have learned. Repeating other people’s skills will create a lot of experience and increase understanding. So your next step in playing the piano would be seeing how other good musicians play, and copying their songs and styles of playing.
Step 3 Exploring new and maybe better ways of doing things.
Knowing the rules, and then using or breaking them in your own style is the basic creativity. At this point in playing the piano, you are experimenting with your own styles of playing; you might play songs in new ways; or even write your own songs and music. Make time to think about different ideas. Sometimes you need to be brave enough to try new things.
Being creative is the useful ability to help solve problems in many different situations. Being able to come up with new ideas will make your life more successful, more enjoyable. So start being creative today!
1题完成句子；2、3、4题简略回答问题；5题找出并写下全文的主题句。
1. If you want to understand how to do something, you should have strong
2. Why do you need to repeat other people’s skills?
3. How can you make your life more successful, more enjoyable?
4. Do you think it is necessary to be creative? Why or why not?
5.
We need love from others, and at the same time we need to learn to love others. But how to love others?
Show that they are worthwhile (值得的).
Loving people around us is probably the most difficult thing. Everyone needs love. Disliking others can't change them and it may only hurt us. So show people around you that they are worthwhile to be loved.
Respect (尊敬) others.
The simple way of showing love to others is respecting them. Show your respect to other people.
Accept (接受) who they are.
No one is perfect. No matter what you dislike about others, you should let them be themselves, and accept who they are.
Let them do things freely.
Everyone should have the freedom to do things they like. We need to give them freedom.
Make them happy.
Make people around you happy, and you can also get happiness from what you do.
Life is short and be quick to love!
1. How many ways of loving others are mentioned (被提到)?2. Is it easy to love others according to the passage?
3. Why should we accept people we dislike?
4. What can you get if you make people happy?
5. What does this passage mainly talk about?
【推荐3】Life is a process of growing up instead of growing old. So cut down the following habits today if you want to enjoy a healthier and younger life.
◆Waiting for your sadness to go away
Sadness isn't just uncomfortable, it also makes you become older fast. Take your mental( 精 神的 )health as seriously as your physical health. If you've been fighting with your sadness for more than two weeks, be sure to find professional help. Paying no attention to your sadness or just waiting without doing anything can do harm to your mental health and make you older.
◆Having a cigarette or two on weekends
If you smoke only when you are with your friends on weekends, can you keep away from the harmful effects of smoking? The answer is “No”. Smoking can break down your skin's elasticity( 弹 性 ). Your smoking habit may even make your hair become gray. Changing your smoking habit is changing your life.
◆Having a long to do list day after day
It's natural to have a to-do list in our "go, go, go" daily life. But if you're always running from one thing to the next, and caught in too much business, you are turning older fast, because your too long to-do list makes you tired and under lots of stress. Stress can cause heart disease, high blood pressure and other physical diseases. It can also cause mental health problems or make the problems worse and worse.
1～2 题完成句子；3 题简略回答问题；4 题找出并写下全文的主题句；5 题将文中画
线句子译成汉语。
1. If you can’t get out of your sadness for more than 2 weeks, you are sure to
2. Your smoking habit can
3. Why are you turning older fast if you have a long to-do list day after day?
4.
5.
【推荐1】Many parents think that it’s very difficult to get their children to do chores. But I think it’s easy to get children to do chores.
Doing chores is helpful, so I always ask my children to do chores. My daughter is ten years old. At night, I write down her chores for the following day. She knows her chores by reading the paper with chores on her door. Usually she gets three to eight chores a day. It depends on how she does the chores. If she does all of her chores well, she can get fewer chores the next day. Some chores are easy, such as sweeping the floor, folding the clothes and cleaning the table after dinner.
For my other two children, the chores are different because they are too young. They both know how to put their empty dinner plates in the dishwasher (洗碗机). My 19-month-old son helps me put the dirty clothes in the washing machine when I am washing the clothes. They can also help me when I’m working in the yard. They help me pick up the sticks (树枝) and throw them away.
1题完成句子；2—3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下全文的主题句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. The writer always asks her children to
2. How many children does the writer have?
3. How does the writer’s ten-year-old daughter know her chores?
4.
5.
As a young child, I was pretty lazy when it came to doing chores. If my parents asked me to do something, I would do it — not a problem. But I always needed to be told to do things that I could easily see. That undoubtedly annoyed (惹恼) my parents.
Every Saturday afternoon, my mother drove me to another town for a piano lesson. During my half-hour lesson, she’d rush to the nearby market and buy a week’s food. Considering my mom drove me twelve miles there, twelve miles back, paid for my lesson, and bought me a candy, I should be thankful enough to help her bring the food into the house without being asked. But I didn’t.
With homework weighing heavily on my mind and with “me” still the center of my world, I generally just brought in a small bag and then ran to my room, shut the door and started doing my homework.
Gradually, my “not helping” became a bigger and bigger problem for me because what I learned at school made me realize that I was avoiding responsibility. I wanted to change.
So one Saturday I made a decision. Getting off the car, I didn’t go away directly but helped my mother. I’m sure Mom thanked me that day, but what I remember most is the valuable sense of satisfaction I felt after helping her. Unknown to her, I’d already decided to offer help every Saturday. From that day on, I really did.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
1. What did the writer use to be?
2. Did the writer always help after shopping?
3. What did the writer usually do after arriving home from his/her lesson?
4. Why did the writer want to change?
5. How did the writer feel after helping Mom for the first time?
Do you know how to cook, clean or grow plants? A survey was done among 1,000 students about the labor (劳动) activities that interest them most. These are all parts of Chinese public education starting now.
A new standard for labor education recently came out. The goal is to make Chinese students’ life colorful and build their characters through labor. Starting from the 2022 Autumn term, students in primary and middle school have at least one class a week to try and experience different kinds of labor and learn different life skills and even job skills.
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In foreign countries, people have known the importance of labor education. For example, children over 6 years old must help their parents with housework in Germany. Chinese school education didn’t pay attention to this in the past. In fact, many people welcome such courses. They think it is necessary to teach young students basic life skills.
Schools and families play an important role in teaching students about the value of working hard.
| Some Skills Students Need to Learn Make a healthy daily eating plan. Make their rooms and classrooms tidy. Cook three or four dishes by themselves. Take part in local labor such as planting and fishing. ▲ |
Chart II
1. According to the Chart I, how many more students are interested in cooking than doing the dishes?2. What’s the goal of the new standard of labor education?
3. What’s the common point of Li Tao and Lin Lin on the cooking lessons?
4. What does the underlined word “this” refer to in the passage?
5. Please add another skill that students need to learn in ▲ in Chart II.
6. What do you think of labor education? Why?
