As the afternoon sun bathed the local beach with its warm, golden rays, four-year-old William sat on the beach with a mix of expectation and confusion. His dad, Steven, sat by his side. They were waiting for William’s friends to arrive and celebrate his long-awaited birthday party. William’s wide eyes, filled with hope and happiness, stared at the shoreline, looking for familiar faces.
He kept asking his dad where everyone was, and Steven just told him “they’re coming soon, ”trying to ease his son’s growing impatience. But the longer they waited, the more hopeless William became. He was extremely disappointed when the two invited families called and said they couldn’t make it to the celebration because of unexpected situations.
Steven watched his son, who had been eagerly expecting his special day for what seemed like ages. This year, William had been more aware than ever of his upcoming birthday, asking throughout the month when his birthday was, eagerly expecting a good time.
Feeling a sense of guilt for his son’s disappointment, Steven decided to turn to social media for help. He posted a lovely picture of him and William on the beach. Their faces were filled with a mix of hope and disappointment. The sincere words with the picture read, “William would love some friends to play with on the beach. To celebrate his fourth birthday, he has Hot Wheels, sand toys, dinosaurs, and we have some snacks and drinks. Any and all welcome. ”
William’s wish for companionship produced a strong response from the local people. They flooded the post with messages of support, birthday wishes, and offers to join the celebration. They were determined to make William’s day special.
“Going there. See you soon, ”one warm-hearted local commented on the post, promising to bring her family along. The message aroused the same feeling from many others, who were quick to follow suit.
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Soon, the beach was filled with scenes of joy.
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____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2 . 75-year-old hip-hop (街舞) grandma Stephanie Walsh has gained worldwide attention with her intense dance moves and incredible energy. Better known as “Ms. Stephanie” online, Walsh has been featured on social media accounts with some videos drawing more than 11 million people to watch.
Walsh believes the videos gained popularity because she is 75. “It’s because I’m a senior,” said Walsh. “You don’t usually see someone my age doing hip-hop and moving like that. ”But actually, it’s more than that. Just as her profile claims, Walsh’s videos are “inspiring the world to dance like no one is watching. ”
“Dance isn’t just your body, it’s what you’re feeling inside about the dance and it’s what comes out here in your face,” Walsh said. “What I want to put through my movement is how much fun it is and how much joy it gives you.”
From a young age, Walsh loved to dance but her family didn’t have the money for classes. When she was nearly 30, she got her daughter ballet lessons, which her daughter hated. So, she took her daughter out and started classes herself right away.
Walsh believes her lifelong passion for dance is what motivates her today. “Everybody has to have a passion in their life,” she said. “It’s like that saying, ‘A life without passion is a life half lived.’ I believe that.”
Walsh dances for fun and fitness, but also for therapy (心理治疗). She struggled through countless hardships, and she has more than enough reasons to keep her down. But they don’t. She turns to her faith, her friends and of course, dance, to shine as an inspiration to those around her.
Gilbert, one of Walsh’s followers, says she inspires him every day. “She’s a beautiful soul who teaches me that it doesn’t matter about your age or your size. As long as you feel good, that’s all that matters,” says Gilbert. “I am truly thankful that Walsh is teaching me at the age of 32 to live my life full and stop being so scared.”
1. What motivates Walsh to do hip-hop?A.Its great social benefit. | B.Its growing popularity. |
C.Her enthusiasm for dance. | D.Her hunger for reputation. |
A.Her advanced age. | B.Her smooth moves. |
C.Her endless energy. | D.Her confident claim. |
A.Be active in social media. |
B.Set a good example to others. |
C.Take full advantage of his talent. |
D.Adopt a positive approach to life. |
A.Optimistic About Life: The Way to Survive |
B.Forever Young in Dance: An Inspiring Figure |
C.Embracing Social Media: The Key to Success |
D.Dancing with the Young: An Amazing Journey |
The Yellow River No.1 Tourist Highway,built in 2018 in Shanxi province,was designed
Thanks to this initiative, Laoniuwan village,an intersection
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Meanwhile, new businesses are also emerging. Since its opening in September last year, the Zhangjiawan recreational vehicle camp located along the highway
4 . Maya Lin, designer and sculptor, has created some of the most iconic works and spaces with the belief that art can address important issues. Her latest projects are no different, from museums to sculptures for Presidential centers.
Lin, 62, grew up in Ohio, the daughter of college professors who were Chinese immigrants. As a 21-year-old student at Yale University, she gained national prominence when her entry won a design competition for the new Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Her winning design — two black granite (花岗岩) walls engraved with the names of US service members who died in the Vietnam War (1954-1975) or remain missing — is considered one of the most influential in modern architecture.
Lin went on to design the 1989 Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, and dozens of other projects globally, all with social and environmental justice in mind. She told The Wall Street Journal she uses facts in her art. She said, “I am going to present you with what the story is, but I am not going to draw the conclusion for you.” Currently underway is Lin’s plan for the new Museum of Chinese in America in New York City. Lin said she wants it to be a celebration of Chinese American stories and contributions to the country.
Lin is also designing a sculpture to honor former President Barack Obama’s mother, who died in 1995, at the Obama Presidential Center in Illinois. When Obama awarded Lin the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, he called her work “physical acts of poetry, each reminding us that the most important element in art or architecture is human emotion.”
1. What is Maya Lin’s principle to make her creation?A.Art is to lead to reputation | B.Art is a physical act of poetry. |
C.Art is to create something distinguished. | D.Art can be a medium to approach affairs. |
A.US soldiers’ sacrifice in the Vietnam War. |
B.The influence of the Vietnam War on America. |
C.The bloody and cruel scenes of the Vietnam War. |
D.Vietnamese soldiers’ fearless fight in the Vietnam War. |
A.Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. |
B.Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. |
C.Museum of Chinese in America in New York City. |
D.Obama Presidential Center in Illinois. |
A.Designing with talents |
B.Stirring up emotions in art |
C.Becoming a great Chinese immigrant |
D.Creating the most influential architecture |
Festivals
Of all the traditional festivals, the harvest festival can be found in almost every culture. This important
Customs play a significant and relatively stable role in festivals,
Festivals are an important part of society. They are occasions
One incident will always come to my mind when I think of China. One day, I was off work early in my hometown in Western Nepal. I was about to leave
Over the past 70 or so years, China
China has lifted 850 million out of absolute poverty in forty years,
These are the reasons I love China and I want it to prosper forever.
7 . We all know that water is tasteless. But it happens from time to time: you pick up the bottle of water you didn’t finish yesterday, and it tastes strange. Most often, you tend to drop the bottle in the trash bin, believing that the water has gone bad. But is it true?
According to Time, of course not, taste has little to do with quality of water.
According to Time, when water is exposed to the air for 12 hours, CO2 interacts with the H2O in the water, and the pH value lowers slightly. As a result, the water has a different taste.
“But it’s most likely safe to drink,” Norwegian expert Truls Krogh told Science Nordic. “If the water is covered and of good quality to start with, in principle it can last a thousand years. That’s because when water is fresh, it contains little organic matter. As long as water is held in clean glasses or bottles, no pollutants will enter it to harm our health.”
People in countries like the US, the UK and Australia usually drink tap water. According to Time, if tap water is drunk within six months, the chlorine(氯气)in the water will be enough to kill any bacteria and keep it safe to drink.
However, there are also some exceptions. If you accidentally put your fingers into water or store water in unclean containers day after day, microorganism (微生物) will enter the water.
With the help v of surrounding temperature, and sunlight streaming through windows, these microorganisms multiply quickly. Sooner or later, the water will be in the charge of the unfriendly bacteria. And if you drink the water too often, then you’re more likely to be ill.
And what about water in plastic bottles? Heat and plastic are a bad combination, US researcher Kellogg Schwab stresses. When plastic bottles are used at high temperatures, they produce a chemical called BPA.BPA is something that affects hormones (荷尔蒙) and research has tentatively linked it to “several health damage, including heart disease and cancer”, Time reported.
Schwab suggests replacing disposable (一次性的) plastic bottles with the refillable containers made of metal or glass to deal with BPA.
1. The purpose of the first paragraph is to ________.A.show an example | B.draw a conclusion |
C.set a background | D.introduce a topic |
A.BPA does little harm to our health. |
B.Tap water is always safe to drink. |
C.Microorganisms are easy to produce in the heat. |
D.Disposable plastic bottles have been forbidden already. |
A.Why Is Water Tasteless? | B.How to Get Clean Water |
C.Does Water Really Go Bad? | D.Learn to Protect Water |
A. People have always been interested in how things will change in the future. But we should remember that people have often got things wrong.
B. Undoubtedly, these predictions weren’t right. But we can be sure that developments in IT today will become the changes in our lifestyles tomorrow. It’s possible that by 2025, anything small enough to contain a microchip (微型芯片) will have one.
C. So, for example, household technology might be very different. We could have fridges which can read the use-by date on your milk. Or our washing machines could be so smart that when something goes wrong, they send a message to a service engineer about the problem.
D. In 1943, Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM, was asked what he thought about the future of technology. And he predicted that one day there might be a worldwide market “for maybe five computers”. And H. G. Wells, the writer, said that one day public transport would be moving walkways, and you’d just step on and off to go anywhere you wanted.
E. And even the things you wear could be connected to this technology. For example, a device could change your mobile to various settings, depending on whether you’re in your work or casual clothes. But if you don’t like the sound of all this, don’t worry. Even H. G. Wells got the future wrong!
9 . Maybe you’ve heard about the saying, “A bird with a broken wing will never fly as high.” I’m sure that T. J. Ware was made to feel this way almost every day in school.
By high school, T. J. was the most famous troublemaker in his town. He got into lots of fights. He failed almost every exam but was passed on each year to a higher grade level. Teachers didn’t want to have him again the following year.
When I showed up to lead the first training for a leadership retreat, a program designed to have students become more involved in their communities, the community leaders told me about T. J. Ware, the boy with the longest arrest record in the history of town. Somehow, I knew that I wasn’t the first to hear about T. J.’ s darker side as the first words of introduction.
At the start of the retreat, T. J. didn’t readily join the discussion groups and didn’t seem to have much to say. But when his group started a discussion about positive and negative things that had happened at school that year, he joined in and had clear thoughts on those situations, and the other students in his group welcomed his comments. Suddenly, T. J. felt like a part of the group, and soon he was treated like a leader. He was saying things that made a lot of sense, and everyone was listening. By the end of the retreat, he had joined the Homeless Project team. He knew something about poverty, hunger and hopelessness. The other students on the team were impressed with his ideas and love for the homeless. They elected T. J. vice-chairman of the team.
Two weeks later, the Homeless Project team organized a communitywide service project — a giant food drive. Seventy students led by T. J. collected a school record: 2,854 cans of food in just two hours, enough to take care of poor families in the area for 75 days. The local newspaper covered the event with a full-page article the next day. T. J.’ s picture was up there for doing something great.
T. J. reminds us that a bird with a broken wing only needs mending. But once it has healed, it can fly higher than the rest.
1. What can be learned about T. J. before the author met him?A.He didn’t have a good teacher. | B.He was feeling hurt every day. |
C.He would graduate the next year | D.He was not welcome in the school. |
A.his words were meaningful | B.he was part of the group |
C.he joined the leadership retreat | D.his deeds were famous at school |
A.life on campus | B.cultural discoveries |
C.encouraging stories | D.training programs |
10 . There’re stories behind Olympic medalists. Among them, a very
21-year-old Figueroa made his first
“It’s many years since I started; now is the time to stop,” he said at the 2016 Olympics. “But I am full of emotion. It’s as though I was
A.pleasant | B.specific | C.touching | D.bitter |
A.competed | B.won | C.lost | D.shone |
A.blame | B.guilt | C.misunderstanding | D.disappointment |
A.promise | B.appearance | C.record | D.victory |
A.dissatisfied | B.excited | C.optimistic | D.worried |
A.Unbelievably | B.Unusually | C.Unfortunately | D.Unbearably |
A.pulled through | B.put off | C.drove away | D.set back |
A.older | B.readier | C.tougher | D.calmer |
A.experienced | B.suffered | C.prepared | D.passed |
A.apply | B.enter | C.approach | D.fight |
A.awkward | B.brilliant | C.typical | D.rare |
A.sweat | B.shame | C.tears | D.shouts |
A.retire | B.rise | C.resign | D.disappear |
A.spirit | B.sport | C.silver | D.gold |
A.training | B.lifting | C.living | D.exercising |