6 . “I feel my heart heating, my eyes widen and almost automarically (自动地), I start to smile,” Prayito Goenarto said. This is how he feels when he sees a new kind of bird.

Goenarto is a birdwatcher and wildlife photographer from Indonesia. He is now 31 years old. When he became sick in college, his doctor asked him to go out more often for sunlight, exercise and fresh air.     1    

A birdwatcher needs to know a lot and be brave and strong. Goenarto spends most of his time working in the wild. He knows where and when to find different kinds of birds. Sometimes he has to go deep into the forest to find the shy birds.     2     He might get lost. He has to look out for snakes and some big animals. Once Goenarto went to a faraway island to look for some rare birds.     3     He worked in wet clothes for the whole trip.

Goenarto loves his work. Birdwatching helps him stay healthy and he can make friends with other birdwatchers.     4     This helps more people learn about birds and take action to protect them. That’s the best part of the job!

    5     They study and protect the rare birds. Terry Townshend is a British birdwatcher in China. He has studied Beijing swifts for over ten years. Xu Zhuo protects red-crowned cranes in Heilongjiang. Her father, aunt and grandparents also spent their lifetime looking after the birds. Now the young girl has the job.

7 . A series of outdoor basketball games in a mountain village has become popular recently, and millions of people watch it online.

The basketball games are held in Taipan Village in Taijiang County, Guizhou Province. 16 teams from across Guizhou join in the competition. Most of the players are farmers, so people call it “Cun BA”.

“Basketball is our hobby. We are not professional players, but we have a dream in our heart to show our basketball skills on a bigger stage,” says Yang Changyi, one of the players.

For the winning team, the prize is a 650-kilogram cow. The second-placed team will get two sheep and the third-placed team will get two pigs.

More than 10,000 local people watch the games every night. “I bring a high chair to stand on to watch the games.” says Yang Tianrant, a local farmer. “I can not leave my place, or someone will take my place right away.” Some people even climb onto hills to watch the games.

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8 . 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，从下面方框内所给的11个词中选择10个意义相符的词，必要时进行词形变化。

Yang Jiang, the famous woman writer and translator, is well known to us all.

She was born in Beijing in 1911, originally named Yang Jikang.     1     a girl, she liked laughing. Her parents let every daughter develop their characters     2    , which was rare (罕见的，珍贵的) at that time and even at present. Yang Jiang, therefore, had a happy     3     in 1920s.

She graduated from university and went to Tsinghua University as a postgraduate (研究生) in 1930s. There she met Qian Zhongshu, and they fell     4     love and married later.

In 1940s, she started in use the name Yang Jiang in her pen     5    . Since then she was commonly known as Madam Yang Jiang.

In 1950s, she worked for Peking University, and started to learn Spanish. She was the     6     woman to transtate Don Quitote into Chinese.

She begin to write short     7     in 1980s. The novel The Old Wang written in 1984 was selected as the passage in     8     middle school textbooks. Besides, her famous works After the Baptism (《洗澡之后》) and We Three also became household in China.

    9     to hear that Madam Yang died at Peking Union Mesical College Hospital in Beijing on May 25th, 2016.

Such was Malam Yang, the     10     wife and the most talented woman! Her legend is still remembered by us.

9 . 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，从下面方框内所给的11个词中选择10个意义相符的词，必要时进行词形变化(必要时可加情态动词或助动词).

One day during the Spring Festival, I     1     a walk near my house when suddenly there came a voice, “Excuse me, Sir.” I trune d around and saw an old beggar (乞丐) “2.___________ you     2     some money, about fifty yuan, around here? I lost it just now.” He looked at me and waited for my reply. “Sorry, I haven’t” I answered. He     3     away saying in a low voice, “Where is it? My sick wife     4     forward to my coming home. What should I do now? I really need the money.”

I     5     that he was worried. Then I got an idea. I took out a fifty-yuan note and dropped it on the ground. “Here! Here is the money!” I picked it up and passed it to him. Then I walked towards my   house.

A week later, on a snowy afternoon, I heard someone     6     at the door. It was the old beggar with a heavy bag on his shoulder. He put down the bag carefully and said, “Thank you so much. I know you gave me your own money that day, for the money I lost was in change (零钱). But my wife was sick, and I really needed it to buy some medicine for her. So I     7     it to you,” He added. “I have nothing     8     for you , here’s some rice I got from door to door for your kindness.” As the saying says, “A child who     9     by many famous families grow stronger, I     10     pleased if you like it.” Hearing his words, my wife and I were so moved that tears man down our faces.

Cute lion heads, deafening gongs and drums, an excited crowd—these are all part of the lion dances you often see during Chinese holidays.

The lion dance has been performed for more than 2,000 years. Chinese people believe that lions can drive away bad things and bring good luck.

Wang Rentao, 41, has been performing the lion dance for 28 years. He was born in Zhongkeng Village in Dongguan, Guangdong. Wang watched villagers perform it when he was young. “It’s a tradition with a long history here and the love for the lion dance is in everyone’s blood,”Wang said.

He is now the head of the village’s lion dance team. In 2019, the team took part in the celebration of the 70th birthday of New China at Tian’anmen Square. Wang was very proud of the team’s achievements.

The team is famous for dancing on quincuncial piles (梅花桩), one of the most difficult lion dance skills. Performers jump from one pile to another at a height of about 2.5 meters. The piles are about 1.8 meters away from each other. When performing, performers need to have enough team spirit, which can also show the unity of the people.

“The training is really hard. Performers need to have a great base of kung fu skills first. Even with that, they can fall from the piles and get hurt.” Wang said. “It can take many years to learn this skill.”

The lion dance is popular not just in China, but in overseas Chinese communities. Many overseas Chinese see the lion as a symbol of China. The lion dance reminds them of the culture of their homeland.