| A．Eat out. | B．Go shopping. | C．Stay at home. |
2 . Four Preschool Winter Stories
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Keats captures that childhood joy of playing in the snow. The boy, Peter, puts on his snowsuit and heads out into the beautiful snow. The illustrations are absolutely beautiful. It is full of fun. Peter takes some snow home with him in his pocket only to find that it melted while he was taking a bath. Oh no! Is that the last of snow? Not to worry, the snow is waiting for Peter in the morning.
How to Catch a Yeti (雪人) by Adam Wallace
In this silly snowy adventure, the kids set a whole bunch of clever traps to catch a yeti.
However, the yeti easily escapes and the traps backfire on the kids with funny results. If you look closely at the illustrations, you can find “hidden” members of the yeti’s family watching the kids.
Winter Dance by Marion Dane Bauer
This is a sweet story that teaches kids about how animals spend the winter. As the first snowflake falls on the fox’s nose, fox wonders what he is supposed to do in winter. The other forest animals tell him how they prepare for winter. Some fly south, others store food, and some hibernate (冬眠) . Unfortunately none of these ideas will work for fox. Finally, another fox comes along and shares what foxes do in winter— they dance in the falling snow!
Bear is Awake: an Alphabet Story by Hannah E. Harrison
With hardly any words, the reader pieces the story together from the fantastic illustrations and the alphabet letter and corresponding word on each page. In this book, a bear awakens too early (A=awake) and sets off in search of food. It finds a little girl in a cabin, who, through a series of humorous events, helps the bear return to its home and go back to sleep.
1. In which book is the leading character Peter?| A．The Snowy Day. | B．How to Catch a Yeti. |
| C．Winter Dance. | D．Bear is Awake: an Alphabet Story. |
| A．The joy of playing in the snow. | B．The way animals spend the winter. |
| C．The story of animals hibernating. | D．A bear in search of food. |
| A．Ezra Jack Keats. | B．Adam Wallace. |
| C．Marion Dane Bauer. | D．Hannah E. Harrison. |
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2. 提出建议(至少3条);
3. 表达祝愿。
注意：
1. 词数100左右;
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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10 . English and Chinese have for a long time been the languages most studied around the world but the line up of other languages of study is ever-changing.
In 2020, Spanish overtook (超越) French as the second most learned language on the popular language learning app Duolingo. This could be explained by a number of factors. The Spanish-speaking community is increasingly influential in the US and Latin America is seen as increasingly influential worldwide. It could be that for many people in the US there’s a practical need to speak Spanish domestically (国内地) that has overridden (比……更重要) the wish to speak French for travel.
Asian languages are also increasing in popularity. There’s recently been great interest in Japanese from China, as well as from some African countries including Chad and Ethiopia. We can mainly relate this growing interest to Japan’s cultural output and general attraction to its unique culture. Not to mention the Olympics getting the interest of language learners from around the world.
What’s striking is that Chinese is now a more popular choice than Russian for language learners. That’s probably because the increasing global influence of China means it is seen as a more useful language to speak compared to Russian. Over 100 million learners are thought to be studying Chinese worldwide with interest from the UK, US, India and Africa. It’s interesting to see a relatively new superpower overtake a more established one — in language terms at least.
It’s hard to judge the cultural influence of a country but the number of people spending time learning more about it through its language is surely a sign that it is exerting (施加) influence.
1. What can we infer about Latin Americans?| A．They often travel to France. |
| B．They mostly speak Spanish. |
| C．They influence the US most. |
| D．They learn the most languages. |
| A．Culture. |
| B．Tourism. |
| C．The Olympics. |
| D．The global influence. |
| A．confused. |
| B．interested. |
| C．proud. |
| D．anxious. |
| A．Languages most studied |
| B．The app most downloaded |
| C．Changes in language learning |
| D．The battle between English and Chinese |
