1 . Tell us your story on“China and me, Five years from Now”
About the contest (赛事)
As China is well on its way to achieving its 14th Five-Year Plan goals, the country is more open than ever and more attractive to every member of the society. Wouldn't it be wonderful to get your memorable moments in China through your lens (镜头) or put them into words?
We would be so happy to hear your voice in this contest. Please feel free to share your memories and impressions with us by article or photo.
First prize: 10 winners HUAWEI MatePad
Second prize: 20 winners iFLYTEK Transpen
Third prize: 30 winners Bluetooth Sports Neckband
Online and offline
Works will be submitted ( 提交) for the contest online, while an offline award ceremony will be held. Also, China Daily website will set up special areas for collecting and displaying works.
Award ceremony
An award ceremony and online forum will be held in July in Beijing.
The rules
Articles and photos
Word count: Between 500 and 1000 English words.
Photo format: JPG or NPG
Photos should reflect the theme of the article, including but not limited to photos of people or landscapes. You can upload no more than 10 photos, each within 5MB. Every photo has a description of no more than 200 English words.
1. If you get the first prize, you can get| A．iFLYTEK Transpen | B．HUAWEI MatePad |
| C．Bluetooth Sports Neckband | D．Articles and photos |
| A．In the form of photos and articles. | B．In the form of online forum. |
| C．In the form of holding a ceremony. | D．In the form of advertisement. |
| A．500. | B．200. | C．10. | D．5. |
| A．To give people awards. | B．To make the country more open. |
| C．To achieve the 14th Five-Year Plan of China. | D．To share the beautiful moments of China. |
2 . This is really a very fast game, the fastest I have seen so far this year. Both sides are fighting for the ball all the time. The crowd is loving every minute of it. They are shouting at the top of their voices.
Willis has the ball now. This is only his third game for Scotland, but he’s playing so well that it won’t be his last, I’m quite sure.
Willis passes the ball to Cotton. Cotton kicks it over the heads of the waiting Frenchmen, towards the goalmouth , but he’s too far away. Dupond picks it up easily, and throws it to Patou, out on the left.
France and Scotland still have one goal each, and there are only two minutes left of the game. But during that time, anything can happen. Patou kicks the ball across to Crozat. It’s. a beautiful kick, but Steven jumps and just stops the ball with the side of his head. But Meunier is there, he passes to Crozat, and Crozat, without waiting a second, puts the ball into the back of the goal. It takes everybody by surprise. I’ve never seen a goal like it.
1. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 1 refer to?| A．The ball. | B．The game. | C．The crowd. | D．The voice. |
| A．Willis | B．Patou | C．Crozat | D．Steven |
| A．France plays against Scotland. | B．Meunier’s goal is a surprise. |
| C．The score is three to one. | D．It is the last game for Cotton. |
| A．Willis’ Third Game | B．The Waiting Frenchmen |
| C．Stop the ball! | D．A Surprising Goal |
3 . Travel Peru
Peru is a perfect touring destination: Everything from the ancient Inca culture and centuries-old Spanish villages to deep rainforests, high mountains, and a beautiful coastline.
Amazon Rainforest Tour
Arriving at Amazon rainforest, you’ll spend one day traveling by boat to your hotel in the middle of the forest. You can then spend three days exploring the rainforest with a local guide and enjoying the plants and animals unique to the rainforest.
Machu Picchu Tour
This four-day walking tour will take you to the city of MachuPicchu. There you will have a day to explore and be amazed by this ancient city. Especially amazing is the Inca’s dry stone method of building. Inca builders cut stones to exact sizes so that nothing was needed to hold walls together, other than the perfect fit of the stones.
Cusco Tour
Spend four days enjoying the unique Spanish and local Indian culture high in the Andes at Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th until the 16th century. Stay in a local hotel, visit the museums, admire the architecture, enjoy the excellent local food, and go shopping at the local markets,
Lake Titicaca Tour
Enjoy the beautiful countryside as you spend a day driving along the new highway connecting Cusco to Lake Titicaca. There, a boat will take you to stay with a local Uros family on an island for three days. Both the island and Uroshomes are made of water plants from the lake.
For more information about other package tours around Peru, contact us at turinfo @travelperu. org.
1. What is the most surprising in the city of Machu Picchu?| A．Unique plants and animals. | B．Dry stone method of building. |
| C．Excellent local food. | D．Houses made of water plants. |
| A．Amazon Rainforest Tour. | B．Machu Picchu Tour. |
| C．Cusco Tour. | D．Lake Titicaca Tour. |
| A．The traveling time. | B．The transportation means. |
| C．The living condition. | D．The shopping markets. |
4 . The following is the information about plays which will be on these days.
Big and Little
It is a play written by Botho Strauss and directed by Laurence Strangio, featuring (由……主演) second-year Performing Arts students. It is about a lonely woman living in a big city. From the play, we can learn how to get along well with our friends, our family, our lovers, and with ourselves.
When:15-17 March, 7:30 pm
Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus (校园)
Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions (优惠票价) $5
You can get the tickets at the door.
Love Play
It is written by Moira Buffini and directed by Trent Baker, featuring Performing First-year Arts students. It follows a series of unexpected meetings that have taken place in the same place in London across 2,000 years, through the centuries from the Romans to the Elizabethans to the present day. Love Play is a comedy that challenges the reasons and ways we want love.
When: 17-19 April, 8 pm
Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus
Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions $5
You can get the tickets at the door.
Smashed
It is a play written by Lally Katz and directed by Suzanne Chaundy, featuring second-year Performing Arts students. Smashed is about friendship, time travel and death. Writing for the age, Helen Thomson calls the play “a wonderful memory of childhood on the edge (边缘) of adulthood.” Smashed thinks well of invention, imagination and girl power.
When: 24-26 April, 8 pm
Where: Drama Theatre, Centre for the Performing Arts, Building 68, Clayton campus
Tickets: Adults $10, Concessions $5
You can get the tickets at the door.
1. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?| A．All the plays begin at 8 pm on Clayton campus. |
| B．The tickets have different prices but all are sold at the door. |
| C．Love Play is a comedy which has a different idea about love. |
| D．All the plays are performed by second-year Performing Arts students. |
| A．friendship, time travel and death |
| B．the life experience of a lonely woman |
| C．the life of a Performing Arts student on Clayton campus |
| D．unexpected meetings in London during the past 2,000 years |
| A．A student has started a dreamlike journey. |
| B．Love always takes place on an unexpected situation in London. |
| C．The ability of girls should be thought highly of. |
| D．We often regret what we have done in our childhood. |
5 . The Rockford police chief and some city officials want to put video cameras in all 100 police cars. They think this will reduce the number of lawsuits (诉讼) filed against the city. In the last five years, Rockford has paid out more than five million dollars to settle about four lawsuits.
The chief said, “If cameras had been in those cars, we wouldn’t have had to pay any money. We’re always pulling over drunks of drug users who try to fight the police officers or shoot them. Then they always say that the police started basting them first or started shooting at them first.”
The cost of fixing cameras will be about $500 per car. The city council (市正厅) will make a final decision on the proposal (提议) next Monday. Ten of the 13 council members, when asked about the proposal, said that they liked the idea. One member said that it is money-saving and it makes common sense. If this is agreed, cameras can be fixed in all the cars within six weeks.
The police officers fully support camera use. One office said that too many people think the police are liars; cameras would show citizens that the police tell the truth. “The money that we’ve been spending on lawsuits will be better spent our more cameras,” said one officer.
The citizen response to the idea of police car cameras is mixed. One person said that the police should have started doing this years ago when video cameras were invented (发明). But an elderly man said that cameras might be misused. “These police are trying to stick their nose into everything,” he said. He was going to attend the council meeting to stop the proposal. He hoped that other citizens would join him.
1. What is the purpose of fixing video cameras in cars?| A．To help settle about 40 lawsuits. | B．To reduce the number of crimes. |
| C．To please officials of the city council. | D．To collect evidence in favor of the police. |
| A．The council will turn it down. | B．Most council members support it. |
| C．Ten council members question it. | D．Ten council members will tell the truth about it. |
| A．He makes no comment. | B．He is strongly against it. |
| C．He thinks it needs to be improved. | D．He doubts whether it is practical. |
6 . The dogsled (狗拉雪橇) race was about to begin. Julie’s team of dogs was lined up at the sating gate. Julie stood behind them. The air was so cold that she could see her breath. The other teams were lined up, too, and the dogs were excited. Julie kept her eyes on the clock. At exactly ten o'clock, she and the other racers shouted, “Mush!” The dogs knew that meant “Go!” They jumped forward and the race began!
Julie had trained months for this race, and she hopes she and her dogs would win. Hour after hour, day after day, Julie’s dogs pulled the sled in order to get in shape for the race.
Now, they ran over snowy hills and down into frozen valleys. They stopped only to rest and eat. They wanted to stay ahead of other teams. The racers got them to go a thousand miles across Alaska. The dogs, thick fur coats helped keep them warm in the cold winds and weather. In many places along the way, the snow was deep. Pieces of ice were as sharp as a knife. The ice could cut the dogs’ feet. To keep that from happening, Julie had put special booties (短靴) on their feet.
At first, the dogs seemed to pull the sled very slowly. They were still getting used to the race.
But on the the third day out, they began to pull more quickly. They worked as a team and passed many other racers. Once, one of the sled’s runners slid into a hole and the sled was broken. Julie could have given up then, but she didn’t. She fixed it and they kept going.
When they finally reached the finish line, they found out that they had come in first place! It was a great day for Julie and her dogs.
1. What does the passage tell us about the race?| A．It was a single-day race. | B．It was a race for children. |
| C．It was a race of a thousand miles. | D．The racers came from different countries. |
| A．They were fed enough food. | B．They wore warm clothes. |
| C．They were put on special shoes. | D．They were trained to get up early. |
| A．They were the first to reach the finish line. | B．They had an accident and gave up. |
| C．They ran slowly and lost the race. | D．They ran faster at the beginning. |
| A．A Girl and Her Dogs | B．Winter Sports in Alaska |
| C．Training for a Dogsled Race | D．The Story of a Dogsled Race |
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8 . Whether you have ten minutes or an hour to practice each day, you’ll find a wide variety of learning materials to help you make progress and improve your language skills. All the material on the LearnEnglish website is designed for self-study to support your learning.
Take our online level test: Start by taking our free English grammar and vocabulary test to help you find your level. All the material is labelled(标记) with the level, to make it easier to find material to suit your needs.
Explore our Skill Sections: In our Skills sections you can find self-study lessons to practice your listening, reading and reading and writing skills. There are different types of texts and audio(音频) recording, all with interactive exercises and worksheets that practice the skills you need. Choose your level and then choose a lesson!
Practice grammar: In this section you can improve your grammar with our clear and simple grammar lessons. The lessons start with an exercise to test your understanding, then an explanation to improve your grammar knowledge and finally another exercise to test your understanding again to see if you have improved. Choose your level and then choose a grammar point!
Read our Magazine sections: Are you looking for something quick to read? Our Magazine and Business magazine sections have short interesting articles for you to read about special days and business topics.
Challenge a friend or a colleague: If you want to play a quick online game and practice your English vocabulary at the same time, have a go at Wordshake. See how many points you can get in three minutes! You can challenge a colleague to play too and compare your points to see whose English vocabulary is improving the most.
1. If you want to find learning materials that suit you, you can start by________.| A．taking an online level test | B．finding self-study lessons |
| C．playing a quick online game | D．practicing your English grammar |
| A．Explore our Skill Sections | B．Read our Magazine sections |
| C．Practice grammar | D．Challenge a friend or a colleague |
| A．Similar types of texts are provided for learners. |
| B．The grammar lessons are clear but complicated. |
| C．The Magazine sections provide long articles for learners. |
| D．A quick online vocabulary game is limited to three minutes. |
| A．Students. | B．Self-study learners. |
| C．Teachers. | D．Workers. |
9 . Computer technology has its own special words. One example is the word “mouse”. A computer mouse is not a small animal that lives in buildings or open fields. It is a small object that you move around on a flat surface in front of a computer. The mouse moves the pointer on the computer screen. Computer expert （专家）Douglas Engelbart developed the idea of the mouse in the early 1960s. It was called a mouse because it had a tail at one end. The tail was the wire （电线）that connected it to the computer.
Using a computer takes some training. People who are experts are sometimes called hackers. A hacker is usually a person who writes software programs in a special computer language. But the word “hacker” is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.
Another well known computer word is Google, spelled g-o-o-g-l-e. It is the name of a popular “search engine（引擎）“for the Internet. People use the search engine to find information about almost any subjects on the Internet. People who started the company named it Google because in mathematics, googol, spelled g-o-o-g-o-I, is an extremely large number. It is the number followed by one hundred zeros.
If you Google someone, you might find that person's name on a blog. A blog is the shortened name for a Weblog. A blog is a personal Web page. It may have stories, opinions, pictures and links（链接）to other Web sites. Some people add information to their blogs every day. People who have blogs are called bloggers.
Blogs are not the same as spam. Spam is unwanted sales messages sent to your electronic mailbox...
1. How did the computer mouse get its name?| A．Because of its size. | B．Because of its use. |
| C．Because of its appearance. | D．Because of mouse's living habits. |
| A．often surfs the Internet | B．steals things from other people |
| C．needs some training in computer | D．is experienced in writing computer language |
| A．By giving examples. |
| B．By following the order of time. |
| C．By asking and answering questions. |
| D．By comparing different computer words. |
| A．Computer technology. |
| B．Some famous computer experts. |
| C．Some computer words and their meanings. |
| D．How to use some computer words properly. |
Where: Becket, Massachusetts
When: Jun.15-Aug.24
Each summer, this influential dance center presents a number of classes and performances by more than 50 companies from around the world. Highlights(最精彩的部分) in this season include the Dance Theater of Harlem’s production of Alvin Ailey’s "The Lark Ascending", which opens the festival.
Many events are free. Ticketed performances start at $22. Jacobs pillow. org.
Moab Music Festival
Where: Moab, Utah
When: Aug. 29-Sept. 9
This area is better known for mountain biking than for music. But since 1992, it has hosted a private festival that brings classical, jazz, Latin and other types of music to the land. This year there will be 16 concerts, including three "Grotto Concerts", where guests take a 45-minute boat ride down the Colorado river to performances.
Events start at $25. moabmusicfest.org.
Cheyenne Frontier Days
Where: Cheyenne, W yoming
When: July19-28
There is something for everyone at this 117-year-old festival, from an "Indian village and Old West museum" to country concerts. But the competition is still the main attraction, with cowboys and cowgirls competing for major money in the world’s largest outdoor stage.
Competition tickets start at $18, and concert tickets at$23. cfdrodeo.com.
The Glimmerglass Festival
Where: Cooperstown, New York
When: July 6-Aug.24
Each summer, opera lovers from around the country travel to upstate New York to watch productions that include stars like Nathan Gunn and Ginger Costa-Jackson. This year’s performances include Wagner’s "The Flying Dutchman" and Verdi’s "King for a Day", in honor of the 200th birthdays of both composers(作曲家).
Tickets start at $26. glimmerglass.org.
1. Where can you watch a competition and enjoy concerts?| A．In Becket, Massachusetts. | B．In Moab, Utah. |
| C．In Cheyenne, Wyoming. | D．In Cooperstown, New York. |
| A．Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. | B．The Glimmerglass Festival. |
| C．Cheyenne Frontier Days. | D．Moab Music Festival. |
| A．To introduce some art festivals. |
| B．To compare which art festival is the best. |
| C．To call on people to support those festivals. |
| D．To advise readers to join and perform in the festivals. |
