“On the first day of 2024, I saw the snows of Kilimanjaro (乞力马扎罗山),” said Xu Zhuoyuan, a 17-year-old mountain climber from Hunan.
Xu’s mountain climbing journey began on a family trip to Xizang and Sichuan four years ago. Passing by Mount Siguniang in Sichuan, she enjoyed its beauty and decided to try climbing it. She fell in love with mountain climbing right then and there.
For the next few years, Xu did hard training. She went to climb peaks (山峰) over 5,000 meters and doing daily physical exercise like running, swimming and bike riding. All that hard work got her ready for the big challenges she would face on Kilimanjaro.
Above 4,000 meters on Mount Kilimanjaro, the weather is similar to a desert, with big temperature differences. The whole climb took seven days, and staying warm and avoiding heat loss (损失) were the main challenges. Xu had to keep an eye on the temperature and change her clothes when the temperature changed.
During this experience, Xu was climbing with Xia Boyu, the first Chinese climber who reached the top of Mount Qomolangma with a prosthetic (假肢的) leg. “Every time I felt like giving up, just seeing Xia was enough to inspire me. He still kept going although he was having bloodied (流血的) legs from his prosthesis,” Xu said.
Looking ahead, Xu has set great goals for herself. She plans to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents (大陆) and visit the North and South Poles by the time she’s 18. That’s her “7+2 program”.
1. The passage mainly tells the story of a young2. To prepare for big challenges, Xu did daily physical exercise like
3. Xu
4. According to paragraph 5, why could Xia Boyu inspire Xu when she felt like giving up?
5. What do you think of Xu Zhouyuan? Why?
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| 成员姓名 | 特长 | 喜欢的食品 | 身高 体重 |
| Jack | 钢琴 | 蔬菜 | 185cm 50kg |
| Tom | 鼓 | 汉堡 炸鸡 | 170cm 90kg |
| David | 吉他 | 牛肉、可乐 | 170cm 85kg |
| Li Ming | 唱歌 足球 | 蔬菜、牛肉 | 185cm 75kg |
1. How many people are there in the band?
2. What instrument is Tom good at?
3. What does Jack look like? （不可使用表格中的数字回答）
4. What’s Li Ming’s favorite food?
5. Who do you think is the healthiest in the band?
Project-based learning (项目化学习) is learning while doing. It gives leaners the chance to get a deeper understanding of a topic. During the learning, learners solve problems by using real-world examples and challenges. Project-based learning is becoming widely used in schools. Students work on a project over a period of time—from a week to a term. At the end of the project, they show their knowledge and skills by creating a product for people. Let’s take the example of Sandra.
Sandra is an eleven-year-old student in Sunshine Primary School. She wanted to know more about Greek mythology (希腊神话). Well, how did she make it?
| ◆She chose Greek mythology characters as the topic because she was interested in the characters and their stories. | Step 1 Choose a topic |
| ◆She had to learn about that topic and do some research on it. To collect information, she read books and articles about the history of Greek mythology. She also read some novels like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson. She watched videos and played games all connected with Greek mythology. When she collected her information, she was ready to create a project. | Step 2 Do the research |
| ◆She created a project based on her talents and skills. She loves to build with Legos (乐高), so she decided to build lego creations based on the stories of Greek mythology characters. She’s also really good at art, so she created a book about her favorite characters. In her book, she drew pictures of them and wrote the stories in her own words. | Step 3 _____________ |
| ◆After all of that work, she made a living room presentation for Mom and Dad and shared the two products that she had created. Then she shared her project online with friends, and even shared her project on social media. | Step 4 Do the presentation |
From the example of Sandra, we can see that project-based learning allows a student to learn about a topic and then create a project based on his or her talents and skills. Not everyone is a great test taker, but everyone is good at something. Through project work, students can not only learn deeply about a topic, but also have fun learning. So if you’re interested in something, why not start with project-based learning?
1. How do learners solve problems in project-based learning?2. What did Sandra do to collect information? (At least two examples)
3. What is the best subtitle (小标题) of Step 3?
4. What were the two products that Sandra created?
5. What do you think of the project-based learning? Why?
A 70-year-old man decided to take part in 70 different sports on his 70th birthday. He did quite a good job. When asked why, he said it was simply to have some fun. He had played sport as a youngster and never stopped. Here is what the old man said to a reporter about his doing sports that year.
  What was the sport you tried first? | |
| Shortly after my 70th birthday, I tried paddle-boarding. Family members were greatly entertained watching me first try to get on the board, then stand on the board and finally fall into the water before trying all over again. The lesson I learned was “Perseverance paid off”. Eventually I stood, I balanced and I paddled. It was an early success. Then I started to teach myself the basics of figure skating. They made it look so easy on the screen. But trying a simple spin （快速旋转） left me falling down on the ice, my elbow and knee hurting. I refused to give up. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. In this case, I learned the skills of the sport-enough to do a very short program-and performed it for my family and anyone else who happened to be around at the community club. |  |
Besides the fashionable sports, were there any regular sports among your list? | |
| There were some individual sports I took turns to do during the day: running, jumping, walking. For track, I built my own high jump and hurdles. |  |
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| Sure. My family’s support was essential. My wife photographed every event for me to check later. My three sons were always ready for a game, like beach volleyball. The game brought the whole family together. |  |
Definitely you had fun. What else kept you doing such a variety of sports? | |
| There were some health advantages, too. Over the longer term came the realization that dreams are important, regardless of how unbelievable they might seem. As we age, our hopes and dreams may change, but one should never let them disappear. | |
2. What did the old man keep doing so many different sports for?
He kept doing this for
3. What does the underlined part “Perseverance paid off. “mean?
It means
4. What question may the reporter ask in the blank?
The question may be like this, “
5. List at least two things the family did for the old man when he was exercising.
6. What do you think of the old man? Why?
【推荐1】A woman with her son came into the garden which was below a famous corporate headquarters (公司总部). She was in fashionable clothes and was about forty years old. They sat on the bench.
After a while, the woman threw a piece of waste paper on the ground. An old man who was cutting trees picked it up and threw it into the dustbin and said nothing. Soon later, the woman threw another piece of waste paper again and the old man picked it up again.
The woman pointed at the man and said to her son, “Look! If you don’t study hard, you will be as humble (卑微的) as him and you will do the most humble work like this.”
When the old man heard this, he put down the scissors and said, “This is the private garden, how can you come in?” The woman said proudly, “I am the manager that has just been employed (雇用).” Just at that moment, a man hurried into the garden and stood in front of the old man respectfully and said to him, “President, the meeting is about to begin.” The old man said, “Remove (免去) the woman’s position at once.” He came to the boy and said to him, “I hope you can understand, the most important in the world is to respect (尊重) the result of everyone’s work, and if you want to be respected, you must respect others first.”
根据短文内容回答回答问题。
1. Where did the story happen?
2. Was the lady the new manager of the company?
3. What was the old man doing when the lady threw the waste paper on the ground?
4. Who was the old man?
5. What does the story tell us?
Xu Yuanchong was a well-known translator in China. He began translating his college years. In 1939, as a young man, he published his first English translation. Later in the 1940s, he studied in France for a few years before returning to China to focus on his passion for translation.
Xu believed that sharing and helping readers understand different cultures was really important for translation. He knew a lot about British, French, and Chinese cultures, which helped him make his translations easier to understand. He liked sharing the beauty of different cultures with everyone. He also thought it was important to make translations sound and look beautiful. For example, when he translated ancient Chinese poems, he made sure to keep their special beauty. He believed that translation was a kind of art.
On June 17th, 2021, after giving his life to translation for more than sixty years, Xu passed away in Beijing at the age of 100. Today, more than 100 kinds of Xu’s books have been popular at home and abroad.
As Xu said, “Life is not how long you live, but how long you can remember.” He enjoyed a life that was worth remembering.
1. Did Xu Yuanchong translate Fishing in Snow from Chinese to English?2. When did Xu start to translate?
3. What is important for translation according to Xu?
4. Xu said, “Life is not how long you live, but how long you can remember.” Someone also said, “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but about learning to dance in the rain.”
What’s your idea of life? (Within 30 words)
Life is not
【推荐3】I'm Sara. I'm a middle school student. At school, we have nine subjects — math, English, Chinese, science, geography, history, art, P.E. and music. My mother is a Chinese teacher and she says Chinese is beautiful and important (重要的). I like Chinese. I always read Chinese books before I go to bed. I also like history. It is my favorite subject. Mr. Brown is great fun. In his history class, I can learn many interesting stories.
Mr. Green is my math teacher. He says math is useful and interesting, but I think it is boring. My science teacher, Mrs. Smith, is nice. I listen to (听) her carefully (认真的) in class. But I can't do well in the science exam(考试). I don't know why. Although it’s difficult for me, I will try my best to solve it step by step.
We always have art, P.E. or music in the afternoon. For me, the classes in the afternoon are fun and relaxing. In P.E. class, I like to play ping-pong with my P.E. teacher Mrs. Miller. She plays very well.
根据材料内容简要回答下列问题
1. What subject does Sara's mother teach?
2. What is Sara's favorite subject?
3. Does Sara like math?
4. What does Sara think of science?
5. Who is Sara's P.E. teacher?
