1 . Third grade was the worst year ever. My parents split up that year, and my dad moved out. I know that every divorce is different, and I’m told that not all of them are as painful as ours was. Ours was cruel.
There were other difficult things happening, too. I was epileptic and had a brain tumor. So I had to leave he classroom sometimes, to go to the nurse’s office to take pills or to head to the hospital for blood work, an EEG, or a CAT scan. Not fun.
And I turned, as kids often do, to books. Books were doorways out of my cold house, to imagined ands, full of magical creatures and wishes-come-true. I read from sunup to sundown. I read at breakfast, and I read late into the night. I devoured books.
Originally, in that terrible year, I sought out books that distracted me from my pain. I loved Half Magic; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Mary Poppins, books where regular kids encountered magic in the world around them. I was eager for something unexpected to happen and radically alter my world, so those books were many of my favorites. But they were not my only favorites.
The other books I loved were the books that made me cry. My brain is still full of so many perfect painful moments. Beth, dying in Little Women. I read Oscar Wilde stories in which all hearts were broken. The Nightingale, dead from love.
I’ve thought a lot about why these books mattered so much. And I think it was because I was very alone in my sadness. Lonely, I sought company, the best way I could. Books were company. And though Half Magic was one kind of company, a distracting, cheerful friend — that wasn’t enough.
So sometimes you need a friend who is also struggling, a friend who is sad in the very way that you are sad, and so makes you feel normal. For me, sad books were that friend. After a sad book, I slept easier.
1. What didn’t happen to the author in the third grade?A.The author’s dad left him/her. | B.The author had to quit school. |
C.The author had serious diseases. | D.The author’s parents got divorced. |
A.Fantasy books. | B.Funny books. |
C.Sad books. | D.Medical books. |
A.Because the author didn’t want to read cheerful books. |
B.Because reading these sad books could make him/her cry. |
C.Because he/she liked the perfect painful moments in the books. |
D.Because they made the author feel he/she was not alone in sadness. |
A.To share with readers his/her experience of growing up. |
B.To encourage readers to read more books in their spare time. |
C.To call on readers to pay more attention, to those who are suffering. |
D.To tell readers how he/she got through a tough time in his/her life by reading. |
2 . The Ouray Ice Park sits at the mouth of a narrow box canyon sculpted by the Uncompahgre River. As we picked our way up the canyon, Davis, operations manager at the park, pointed out the various projects his staff were rushing to complete before opening day. There was signage to build, a new bridge to check, and of course, lots of ice to grow.
He showed. me the lines of water pipes and sprinklers (洒水器) located along the cliff edge. There are more than 200 of these sprinklers, which spray water directly onto the rock, creating walls of ice containing 100-plus climbs. Starting in November when the temperature drops, the ice farmers wet the rock with water to cool it, essentially building a canvas for the waterfalls. They use existing features on the rock to grow a variety of routes for all skill levels. Though the job involves much labour in freezing weather, Davis described growing ice as a kind of art form. If half an ice farmer’s job is creation, the other half is upkeep. Exposed water pipes in the mountains are easy to freeze and break and it is up to those farmers to fix them.
This winter has been unusually warm and temperatures, even in December, were not cold enough to make sufficient ice. It even rained a day before the park was set to open, destroying 30% of the ice farmers’ efforts. “Winter climate is less certain due to the warming of our planet,” said Heidi Steltzer, a professor of environment and sustainability. “Human-made ice may not be possible every year, but in years when it is, the ice park offers joy, a gathering place and opportunities of earning money to sustain rural mountain life.”
1. What does paragraph 1 mainly talk about?A.The significance of building an ice park. |
B.The geographical variety of the Ouray Ice Park. |
C.The location and building schedule of the Ouray Ice Park. |
D.The influence of the Uncompahgre River on the Ouray Ice Park. |
A.To make ice walls for climbing. |
B.To form an attractive landscape. |
C.To remove dirt from the rock surface. |
D.To avoid the rock breaking in high temperatures. |
A.Profit. | B.Repair. | C.Impact. | D.Service. |
A.It offers a method of recreation and livelihood. |
B.It seems only a waste of manpower and money. |
C.It has some unforeseeable impacts on local ecology. |
D.It is better than other kinds of parks with its unique amusements. |
I was 10 years old when I asked my mum for piano lessons. She was recently laid off due to the economic downturn. She said a polite “no”.
That didn’t stop me. I Googled the dimensions of a keyboard, drew the keys on to a piece of paper and stuck it on my desk. I would click notes on an online keyboard and “play” them back on my paper one keeping the sound they made on the computer in my head. After a while I could hear the notes in my head while pressing the keys on the paper. I spent six months playing scales and chord sequences without touching a real piano. When my mum saw what I did, she borrowed some money from family and friends, and bought me 10 lessons.
I still remember the first one. I was struck by how organic the sound of the piano was, as I had become familiar with the artificial electronic sound. The teacher tried to explain where middle C was but I could already play all the major and minor scales, as well as tonic and dominant functions.
I took the first grade piano test after eight lessons and got distinction. By the time I started secondary school, we couldn’t afford lessons again, so I returned to my paper keyboard. I passed grade three, then grade five, practicing only on my piece of paper.
When the head of music at my school knowing my experience, he said I could practice on the school’s grand piano. I would wake up at 5: 30 am to get there in time and play until lessons started. I’d forgo lunch and then practice after school until the caretaker kicked me out. At home, I’d have dinner, do one hour of revision, and then mental practice until 11 p. m.
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One evening, when I was about 12, I came home, and my mum said she had a surprise for me.
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My dad was very much against me playing, but when he heard that piece, something inside him changed.
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It’s common to see a barista (咖啡师) create coffee art (咖啡拉花). However, it’s a whole different ball game doing same thing with tea. Over the past several years, Han Zheming, a 40-year-old Shanghai resident,
Chinese tea culture started to enjoy
Han is curious about the patterns
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5 . “Students with a good mastery of foreign languages need to accumulate (积累) knowledge in other aspects so that they can better
Born in 1922, Chen worked in foreign education for more than 70 years. In 1949, he
Since China’s reform and opening-up in the late 1970s, Chen broke new ground (打破常规) by
In 1999, Chen
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6 . Some people can begin a conversation with anyone ——even complete strangers.
A great way to start a conversation with the people around you is to simply comment on your shared surroundings.
Keep your comments positive——never mean-spirited or critical. You want the other person to feel comfortable getting in on the joke with you. You could follow up on your previous comment about your professor with something like, “I wonder where Hedwig is?”
If you don’t receive a positive response from one person, the method might work with someone else.
A.A little humor works great here |
B.Here are some ways to help you |
C.A good conversation really matters a lot |
D.But many others find it difficult to talk to a stranger |
E.Humor is difficult with someone you don’t know well |
F.The more you practice, the easier it will be to talk to a person you don’t know |
G.The more confident you are, the more chance to receive a positive response there will be |
7 . In today’s classroom, homework is completed not only with the pen and paper, but also with computers and cell phones. How to make the best use of such digital products is an important question for teachers and students. The following top digital portfolio platforms (作品集平台) offer a broad range of functions. Most importantly, they provide a way to share students’ work with pride.
Google Sites
Creating a digital portfolio could not be any easier than Google Sites makes it. It lets students quickly put in contents, such as text, images, videos, maps, and much more. Use one of the provided six themes or create a custom one,and then publish it as a public or restricted-view (限制浏览的) site.
Seesaw for Schools
Designed for education, Seesaw for Schools provides a platform through which students complete and share school projects. By recording the process of gradually improving their schoolwork, kids gain a sense of mastery (熟练) and pride, so it is popular among them. Plus, parents can be involved too — just download the Seesaw Family app.
Artsonia
Artsonia is like a dream come true for art-minded students: a free, safe, educational space through which students show their digital creativity. Friends and family can view, comment on and buy objects. Just celebrate the artistic skills with Artsonia!
Edublogs
One of the oldest and best-known web platforms for education, Edublogs makes it easy for teachers and students to start building a free WordPress platform. The free plan offers some storage space, class management tools, and no advertising. What impresses the users most is that a set of educators guide them and answer their questions on this site.
1. Which is true about Google Sites?A.It offers students online publishing rights for free. |
B.It provides students seven themes. |
C.It allows students to fill in contents in different forms. |
D.I lets students learn from others' work. |
A.Google.. |
B.Seesaw for Schools. |
C.Artsonia. |
D.Edublogs |
A.It requires little charge. |
B.It is a platform for art-minded students. |
C.It can store large amounts of information. |
D.It provides the guidance from specialists. |
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Dear Tom,
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
Following the tradition of wearing new clothes for the Chinese New Year, young people in China pushed the purchase of hanfu to
An initiative (倡议) launched in late January by Xiaohongshu, a social media platform,invited users
Hanfu,as well as other traditional forms of Chinese costume, has become
Analysts say the rise of“China chic” shows young Chinese people's
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