In the world, more and more people are studying Chinese as a second language and the situation is developing increasingly. Chinese is too hard to learn, right? There is no doubt that written Chinese is difficult to learn. However, the spoken language is a different kettle of fish. Many people in the world ask their children to learn how to speak Chinese at first. A famous quote (语录) says, “When you have children, you should be sure to teach them Chinese. Chinese is going to be the most important language in their lifetime.
Why do more and more people want to learn Chinese? The first reason is that Chinese is the language spoken by the largest number of people in the world. Learn to speak Chinese and you can speak with millions of people around the world. More reasons:
• Culture — With thousands of years of history, Chinese culture is very fascinating. Whether your interests are in history, art, music, or food, a knowledge of Chinese will improve your understanding of Chinese culture.
• Travel — China offers exciting travel opportunities. Getting around is much easier if you can speak Chinese.
• Business — China is becoming more and more powerful. Business people who speak Chinese have a huge advantage in developing the Chinese market. It is much easier to develop all-important relationships if you can speak Chinese.
回答下面五个问题，每题答案不超过5个词。
1. What do the people in the world study Chinese as?
2. What does the words “a different kettle of fish” in Paragraph2 probably mean?
3. How many reasons for learning Chinese are given in the passage?
4. Why do businessmen study Chinese?
5. What does the passage mainly talk about?
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【推荐1】An international student, Doris, at Beijing International Studies University said she started to learn Chinese in Grade One at her primary school in Panama(巴拿马). “China is developing very fast, and being able to speak Chinese will give me more chances around the world,” she said.
More than 70 countries have included Chinese as part of their national education system(体系), and it has become one of the official languages of the United Nations World Tourism Organization(联合国世界旅游组织).
To meet some learners need, Chinese-language teachers are using different kinds of new ways such as the Global Chinese Learning Platform(平台). The platform has already had more than 2.1 million users from 170 countries since it was started in 2019.
The platform has developed a mobile app that supports Chinese, English, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Thai. In the future, it will support more languages. What interests most learners is that it offers an immersive(沉浸式虚拟现实的) learning experience.
It’s said that about 40 million(百万) students around the world have taken Chinese-language exams over the years.
根据短文内容完成表格，每空一词。
| Chinese-language Learning Going Global(全球) | |
| The time when Doris started to learn Chinese | In the |
| One of the official languages of the United Nations World Tourism Organization | Chinese-part of the |
| The ways used by Chinese-language teachers to meet some learners’ need | |
| What most learners are | An immersive(沉浸式虚拟现实的) learning experience offered by the platform |
| The | 40 million |
What will you get if you see a baby with a fish? It’s not the start of a joke, but one of a series of pictures drawn by Shanghai illustrator（插画师）Frankie Huang. Chinese is already one of the most pictorial（形象化的）languages in the world, but she’s taking it to the next level-by literally（字面上）turning words into pictures. Her series Putong Animals re-imagine animals according to what they’re called in Putonghua, the official language of China.
In Chinese, a zebra, for example, is literally a “patterned horse”. Frankie said she came up with the idea for the series after seeing people on the Internet discussing how some animals had funny names when being translated literally. “I want to create something that is not just pretty but also in-teresting,” she said.
Frankie’s thoughts have a close relationship with her background. Frankie was born in Beijing, but grew up in the US. “I’m both an outsider and insider to the Chinese language. I think sometimes you need to be an outsider in order to really enjoy something,” said Frankie.
It takes Frankie around three hours to produce one illustration. She has for now completed her series on Putong Animals, but she is looking into turning the animals into characters of their own.
Frankie hopes her works will help people recognize the “humour of Chinese culture”. “I want to reach more people to help them become interested in Chinese language and culture,” she said.
1题完成句子；2、3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下第三段的主题句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. Frankie Huang is taking Chinese language to the next level by
2. When did Frankie come up the idea to re-imagine animals?
3. What does Frankie hope her works to help?
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【推荐3】A History of English...in Five Words
In 1582, Richard Mulcaster, the headmaster of a British school, wrote that English would not go beyond their island. However, it didn’t stay that way. Today, English is spoken all over the world. It is a colorful and diverse (多样的) language that long has picked up words from many other languages. Here are five words that show the English language’s interesting history.
English
English began in the language spoken by the early Germanic people in the 5th century AD. It is from them that the word “English” comes.
Beef
Although roast beef is seen as a traditional English dish, the word “beef” was introduced from the French word boeuf during the Middle Ages. It was one of a group of words, including pork and mutton, that were taken from the speech of the French who moved to Britain following the Norman Conquest (诺曼底登陆) of 1066. However, the farmers who kept these animals continued to call them by their old English names: cow, pig and sheep. This difference passed on till this day.
Dictionary
Dictionary is a borrowing from Latin dictornarius liber, “book of words”. It first appeared in English in the 6th century, along with a huge number of other words from Latin and Greek. The first English dictionary was written by Robert Cawdrey in 1604. Cawdrey focused only on the difficult words whose meanings would have caused problems for those not educated in Latin and Greek.
Tea
The word tea comes from the Chinese word cha. A love of tea is so ingrained (根深蒂固的) in British life that the expression “cup of tea” has come to stand for anything viewed positively. The saying “It’s not my cup of tea.” means “I don’t like it.”
Emoji
Emoji originated (起源于) in Japan in the 1990s.The word “emoji” is formed by combining the Japanese “e”—picture and “moji”—letter. Emojis are just another example of the development and diversity of English.
1. What language is the word “beef” from?2. Who wrote the first English dictionary?
3. What does “It’s not my cup of tea” mean?
4. How is the word “emoji” formed?
5. What makes English a colorful and diverse language?
【推荐1】Usually people sleep between seven and eight hours a day, but a lot of people have problems getting to sleep every night.
Many people do not know why they have insomnia (失眠症). Most people know that tea and coffee often make it difficult to go to sleep because there is caffeine (咖啡因) in them. But there is caffeine in some medicines, such as cold pills (药片), too. Sleeping pills can help you go to sleep, but when you get up the next morning you feel tired.
You will sleep more easily if you use your bedroom only for sleep. You can’t use your bedroom as an office, a TV room or an exercise room. You should also have a regular sleeping habit. So try to go to bed at the same time every night and get up at the same time every morning. Don’t eat anything just before you go to bed but try a glass of warm milk. And if all this doesn’t work, count sheep!
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How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep | |
| How | Between seven and eight hours |
| How you feel after taking a sleeping pill | Feeling |
| The ways to sleep more easily | • Using your bedroom only as a place to sleep • Having a regular sleeping • Eating |
It’s very easy to waste money-even small buying like school things and snacks quickly add up. This not only makes it harder to save up for the things you really want, but also means you might run out of money. 1 Working out what you need can surely help you.
What do you need?
People often mistake things that they need for things that they want. For example, you need a pair of shoes, but that doesn’t mean you need to buy a pair in the latest fashions (时尚).
What do you want?
Wants are things that would be nice to have, but that you can live without. 2 As a child you might want a new bike, but when you get a bit older you’re more likely to want a phone, new clothes, or even a car.
Mindful spending
It’s important to try “mindful spending”. This means thinking carefully about whether you really need something right now, or whether it would be better to wait or save the money instead.
3 This helps you get into a good habit of spending. You will make it much easier to manage your money when you’re grown up.
A. Can you find the differences?
B. Stop and think before you spend.
C. Your wants will change as time passes.
D. That’s why you need to manage your money.
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4. 请模仿文中划线句子，结合你的理解再举一例。
For another example,
The year 2022 will be a big year for sports in China. That’s because it will hold not only the 24th the Winter Olympics in Beijing, but also the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou.
On Aug.6, 2018, the official emblem(会徽) for the Hangzhou Asian Games was released. The city won the hosting right for the 2022 Asian Games in 2015. It will be the third Chinese city to host the Asian Games after Beijing and Guangzhou in 1990 and 2010.
The first Asian Games was held in 1951. Now it is the largest multi﹣sport event in Asia. It also means a lot for China. The Beijing Asian Games was the first large international sports event to be hosted by China, China News Service noted.
To make the Games a great success, Chinese people worked hard to prepare. Beijing built a great number of roads and stadiums(体育馆), including the famous Beijing Olympic Sports Center and Asian Games Village.
The Games helped the world see China and its achievements. Since then, China has improved its global image, China Youth Daily reported.
For the upcoming 2022 Asian Games, Hangzhou has already started building 33 sports venues(场馆). The theme for the Hangzhou Asia Games are “green, smart, economical(节俭) and civilized(文明)”. All the Games’ buildings will be environmentally friendly.
1. The 2022 Asian Games will be held in2. Guangzhou was the
3. The first Asian Games was held in
4. The Beijing Asian Games helped the world see China and its
5. All the 2022 Asian Games’ buildings will be good for the
