The Start of Spring started this year on Feb.4 and ended on Feb.19. When the Start of Spring comes, everything turns green. People can see that the daytime is becoming longer and the weather is becoming warmer. Here are some things you should know about the Start of Spring.
Flying kites Spring is a good time for kite-flying. It has a history of about 2,000 years. It can help people keep healthy.
Tasting spring In many places of China, it’s a tradition (传统) to “taste spring” on the first day of the Start of Spring. People usually eat spring cakes and spring rolls (卷).
Appreciating plum blossoms (赏梅花) Plum trees blossom (开花) from the 12th lunar (农历) month to the second lunar month of the next year. Chinese people like appreciating plum blossoms because of their special beauty.
Welcoming spring People in China started doing special things on the first day of the Start of Spring about 3,000 years ago. They made sacrifices (祭品) to Gou Mang, the god (神) of spring.
1. When did the Start of Spring end this year?| A．On Jan. 1st. | B．On Feb. 4th. | C．On Feb. 19th. |
| A．Dumplings. | B．Zongzi. | C．Spring rolls. |
| A．People fly kites on the Start of Spring. |
| B．All people in China “taste spring”. |
| C．Welcoming spring has a history of about 2000 years. |
| A．It’s very hot on the Start of Spring. |
| B．Plum trees blossom for five months. |
| C．Chinese people show great love for spring. |
A． | B． | C． |
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| A. Huang Zu quan’s Workshop Mr. Huang will show you how to boil sugar and blow it into different figures. This art is really a combination of hand, eye, heart, breath, and the timing of temperature skill. B. Wang Shao xi’s Workshop Here you can enjoy a play of shadow. In the play, actors or actresses are figures made of cow leather. Being controlled by one or several persons, these figures are reflected with a light on the screen. This art is very popular in Shanxi and Gansu Provinces. C. Zhang Xiu fang’s Workshop Here you can try creating art pieces with red paper and a pair of scissors. This folk art has a history of more than 1,500 years. People often beautify their homes by putting these art pieces on doors, windows and rooms during Spring Festival or weddings. D. Yin Chong q in’s Workshop Here you can see a decorative handicraft art—Chinese knot. It dates back to the Tang and Song dynasties. One major feature is that all the knots are tied using one piece of red thread, which is usually about one meter long. E. Huang Yongyu’s Workshop Here you can discover how Chinese people use a brush and ink to paint figures, landscapes, flowers, birds, and other animals on paper or silk. The art has been developed since six or seven thousand years ago. F. Duan Xiaolan’s Workshop Mr. Duan will introduce an ancient Sichuan art, Face Changing, or Bian Lian in Chinese. Visitors can see how silk masks are painted to show the mood changes of their characters, and how these masks are change data superfast speed. G. Liu Yongzhan’s Workshop Here you can experience the process of making a figure with raw clay by shaping, air-drying, heating, polishing and painting. The works of this old folk art are usually cute children or lively characters from Chinese fairytales or historical stories. |
【推荐3】Now more and more foreign(外国的) students make visits to China to study Chinese. 24-year-old Russian girl Alina Salionova is one of them.
Alina had a six-day trip with her two friends in China. They joined a traveling group. In the group, there were more than 60 visitors from different countries. They visited the Great Wall and the Palace Museum in Beijing, the ancient city—Pingyao in Shanxi and the Terracotta Army(兵马俑) in Shaanxi.
“I wanted to see the Terracotta Army before. My dream comes true now,” Alina said.
Alina started to study Chinese at the Confucius Institute(孔子学院) in her country eight years ago. The girl is really interested in Chinese language and culture.
“China has many famous places and a long history. People are kind to help when we’re in need,” Alina said.
Alina visited China for the second time. She first visited Beijing to watch the 2008 Olympic Games. During that summer, she also visited Harbin, Shanghai and Hangzhou.
“That trip made me fall in love with China. I decided to study Chinese well. Now I’m quite good at it. Russia is the host of the 2018 World Cup. I’ll try my best to help travelers from China at that time,” said Alina.
1. More and more foreign students visit China because _________.| A．they plan to study Chinese | B．Chinese people are friendly to them |
| C．China held the 2008 Olympic Games | D．there are many places of interest in China |
| A．In 2007. | B．In 2017. | C．When she was 24 years old. | D．When she was 16 years old. |
| A．Alina went to Pingyao in 2008. | B．Alina may do a job at the 2018 World Cup. |
| C．Alina always dreamed of visiting the Great Wall. | D．Alina is learning Chinese at the Confucius Institute in China. |
| A．The 2018 World Cup | B．A Girl’s Travel in China |
| C．How to Join a Traveling Group | D．Why Many Foreign People Come to China |
【推荐1】Before you learned how to walk or talk, you learned how to snack. It started as a handful of Cheerios (面包圈) on your high chair tray (高脚椅), then some Goldfish Cookies after school. In fact, many teens snack as often as four times a day.
The top snack picks for teens are factory made desserts, salty snacks, candies, and fruit drinks. While unprocessed food like strawberries or cheese can give you what your body needs. Those aren’t the foods that are the easiest to get your hands on. Have you looked at the vending machine (投币式自动售货机) or local convenience store recently? They’re not exactly filled with oranges or hard boiled eggs.
One reason: There’s less money to be made on real food, so companies have invented “snack food”, which are cheaper to make and take years to go bad.
Still, you buy them anyway. It’s hard not to, thanks to billions of dollars spent on snack-food marketing. You can see ads for these between-meal snacks everywhere— whether they’re TV ads or ads on a phone app. “Everywhere you go, you see ads to snack on the wrong kinds of foods.” says Margo Wootan. “The reason is simpler: The more you eat. the more money food companies make.”
EATING WRONG FOOD
You love chips and cookies. But they’re full of man-made materials and lack of nutrients (营养素) you need like iron.
Do it right: Junky snacks are OK sometimes, but always include fruit or vegetables with every meal or snacks.
REDUCING PROTEIN
Your store’s snack shelf is filled with things that are heavy on fat hut light on protein (蛋白质), a nutrient that’s especially filling. So you end up eating more, but still feeling unsatisfied.
Do it right: Stay satisfied between meals by adding a healthy protein to your snacks, like a hard-boiled egg or cheese.
1. The first paragraph implies (暗示) that ________.| A．eating snacks is becoming our habit |
| B．snacks are the favourite food of babies |
| C．a teen usually eats four kinds of snacks at a time |
| A．Salty snacks. | B．Cheese. | C．Fruit drinks. |
| A．Because it won’t bring more money for companies. |
| B．Because it isn’t what your body really needs. |
| C．Because it can’t be easily kept fresh. |
| A．Margo Wootan supports the ads on snacks |
| B．Margo Wootan doesn’t mind the ads on snacks |
| C．Margo Wootan is against the ads on snacks |
| A．Are you snacking to death? |
| B．Are you losing yourself in eating snacks? |
| C．Are you interested in keeping fit? |
【推荐2】①Have you heard of mourning (悼念) technology?
②Last night is really unusual for me. I couldn’t imagine I could speak to my parents. And for a moment I even forgot I wasn’t really speaking to real them, just their virtual images (虚拟形象). In fact, both of my parents are still alive and well. But the virtual images could help me understand the technology, which is an APP created by a company called Here After Al.
③Mourning technology can let you communicate with the people you have loved but lost. This used to appear in science fiction. But now it has come into our real life. Maybe it sounds some scary, but it’s not difficult to see that more and more people might turn to the virtual images for comfort.
④However, there is still something imperfect. These virtual images are just facades (表象), but in fact they don’t know anything about you. Anyone who talks to them can get almost the same answer. The biggest problem with the technology is that you can’t create a person who is only right for you.
⑤A virtual image that can hold more conversations with you helps make you feel connected to the person you loved but lost. But a sad person needs to know that only a small part of a person can be captured (捕捉) by these images instead of replacing healthy, normal human relationships.
⑥At the same time this also brings other risks when creating a virtual image, such as moral (道德) problems. Some may think that it’s less important to a person who is already dead. But what if the person isn’t actually dead? Should he or she have a say, too?
⑦If virtual images really come fully into our lives, there’s no doubt that we need new rules about what we leave online. But if we deal with the possibility of misusing virtual images before, rather than after, they are widely used, our lives will be better.
⑧Luckily, I still have the valuable chance to spend more time with my father and mother, face to face, without technology.
1. What does the write think of mourning technology?| A．He thinks it has become a perfect technology. |
| B．He doesn’t think it should be used in our life. |
| C．He thinks it can meet the needs of some people. |
| D．He can use it to communicate with his parents better. |
| A．Value the ones we love when they are still alive. |
| B．Mourning technology won’t be used widely. |
| C．We can keep mourning technology safe by making new rules. |
| D．The progress of technology is faster than imagined. |
| A．More and more people show interest in the technology. |
| B．Mourning technology can’t reflect everything about a person. |
| C．The living may not allow us to use mourning technology on them. |
| D．Mourning technology may be harmful to the interests of the living. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
【推荐3】New research says mosquitoes（蚊子）are most attracted to a special color.
The researchers from the University of Washington tracked（追踪）the behavior of female mosquitoes when they were given different types of things with different colors and smells. The researchers put the mosquitoes into small labs and offer them different things, like a colored dot or a person’s hand. When mosquitoes look for food, they first find that you’re around by smelling carbon dioxide from your breath. That causes them to look for certain colors and shapes that could indicate（暗示）food, the researchers explained.
When there was no smell like carbon dioxide in the lab, the mosquitoes paid no attention to the colored dot, no matter what color it was. But once researchers sprayed（喷洒）carbon dioxide in the lab, they flew toward dots that were red, orange or black. Dots that were green, blue, or purple were not noticed.
“Light colors are dangerous to mosquitoes, which is why many insects avoid biting in direct sunlight,” a biologist says. “Mosquitoes are easily affected to death because of being short of water. But darker colors are different. They can take in and remain heat, allowing mosquitoes to locate（锁定）a host.”
If you have the choice of wearing lighter or darker clothes when you know you’ll be going into an area with lots of mosquitoes, you’d better choose lighter ones.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. What makes you attract mosquitoes easily?
| A．Your height. | B．The color of your hair. |
| C．Your weight. | D．The color you’re wearing. |
| A．Researchers. | B．Mosquitoes. |
| C．Things. | D．Insects. |
| A．They should wear lighter clothes. | B．They should wear darker clothes. |
| C．They should wear thick clothes. | D．They had better wear short clothes. |
| A．Education. | B．Culture. | C．Science. | D．Pets. |
| A．How do mosquitoes bite? |
| B．What color clothes should you buy? |
| C．Do you like light colors or dark colors? |
| D．What color are mosquitoes most attracted to? |
【推荐1】Everyone has a family name. In China, the family name comes first, while (然而) in English countries (国家), the family name is the last name. Do you know how English people get their family names? And what do they mean (意思是)? English people usually get their family names in these ways.
Some family names come from the places of their homes. If a man lives on or near a hill, his family name may (可能) be Hill. In England, people's family names may be Woods or Lake because they live near the woods or the lake.
Some family names come from a person’s job. If a man is a cook (厨师), his family name may be Cook.
And many people get their family names from their father's names. If you hear the name Jackson, you can know that he may be the son of Jack.
1. Li Lin is a Chinese girl. Li is her ________ name.| A．first | B．family | C．given | D．English |
| A．职业 | B．地方 | C．习惯 | D．爱好 |
| A．place | B．color | C．job | D．country |
| A．John’s father | B．John’s best friend |
| C．John’s grandfather | D．John’s son |
| A．family names | B．English people |
| C．hills and lakes | D．jobs and homes |
The Spring Festival is
The colour of red is everywhere during the Spring Festival. People think red is a happy
The Spring Festival is the time to make everyone
【推荐3】假设你是李华，请阅读即将来你校的交换生Tony的邮件，并根据邮件内容给予回复。
| Dear Li Hua, How’s everything going with you? These days I’m really busy with my schoolwork. I know you’ve been a 9th-grader for a term. What do you think of your life in Grade 9? As you know, I’ll be a 8th-grader in your school next term. What advice do you have for the 8-graders? I’d also like to know about the customs in China. Could you please tell me some? Looking forward to your early reply. Tony |
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Dear Tony,
I’m so glad to hear that you’ll be my schoolmate soon. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wish you all the best.
Li Hua
