1 . Before children can learn to read, they need to have a good understanding of basic words and what they mean.
If you are looking for a great place to start building your preschooler’s vocabulary and early reading skills, look no further than your local library. Research shows a strong correlation between library use and literacy-building skills in young children.
When it comes to increasıng your child’s vocabulary, more is better. The more words that your child hears, the more he or she will learn. For example, when describing a fabric pattern, try using words such as unusual, relaxing, or creative. These words may be beyond a kid’s understanding right now.
If you want your preschoolers to learn more words, then make it easy.
Besides being a wonderful way to spend quality time with your preschooler, reading aloud is a great way to expose your preschooler to new words. Choose books that are of interest to your preschooler but that use words that are slightly above their understanding. Together you can work through what they mean, by using context—the other words on the page and any pictures that might be on the page as well.
A.Reading aloud together |
B.Spending time together |
C.While that may sound a bit difficult |
D.In addition to saying them often, show them too |
E.If you aren’t sure what to do when you get there |
F.But by using them in the proper context, you’ll make them understandable |
G.The more parents help children overcome challenges, the better they’ll be for kindergarten |
2 . I grew up both a little frightened and excited by storms and tornadoes. Nearly 9 years ago, when the news reported that there would be
While I was preparing for the storm, I heard the rumble (隆隆声), saw power flashes and knew it was coming. After
My
I suddenly felt something
A.storms | B.thunder | C.clouds | D.lightning |
A.phenomenon | B.benefit | C.effort | D.threat |
A.turning up | B.keeping from | C.turning off | D.taking off |
A.shook | B.covered | C.raised | D.stretched |
A.healing | B.safety | C.happiness | D.forgiveness |
A.face | B.body | C.mouth | D.mind |
A.constructing | B.entering | C.destroying | D.cleaning |
A.fell down | B.broke up | C.put up | D.turned down |
A.sound | B.song | C.news | D.alarm |
A.graceful | B.attractive | C.frightening | D.helpless |
A.hit | B.touched | C.shaved | D.grabbed |
A.noisy | B.peaceful | C.clear | D.normal |
A.kept | B.felt | C.received | D.collected |
A.bar | B.spot | C.room | D.cut |
A.satisfied | B.amused | C.blessed | D.encouraged |
3 . Yu Zeling, an award-winning master of paper cutting, fills her studio with cutouts of animals, people, and scenes that are so vivid that they seem to leap from the walls. Her art covers village life in Ansai, a rural district in Shaanxi Province.
Ms. Yu came to paper cutting in the late 1970s as naturally as she breathed the earthy air. “We were very poor, and when it was time to celebrate the New Year, we all put paper-cuts on the windows to decorate our houses,” she says, recalling the holiday at her childhood home. Ms. Yu and others are working to keep the folk art alive, even as it evolves away from its roots as adornment for farmhouses.
The art originated in China in the centuries after paper was invented in A. D. 105. Full of auspicious(吉利的) symbols from daily life, the decorations represented good weather, many offspring, long life, wealth, and happiness.
Using newspaper, Ms. Yu first practiced cutting the image of a Chinese national flag that she saw in a school textbook. She cut it 100 times before she was satisfied. Then her aunt took over, introducing her to increasingly complicated traditional themes.
Ms. Yu was later invited to train in the Ansai’s Cultural Center. After years of training, Ms. Yu became a master in her own right, winning one award after another. Her works are on display in museums. But she’s humble about her achievements. “I was, and still am, a farmer,” she says with a smile.
Hoping to carry on and grow the folk art, Ms. Yu volunteers to teach at free community training sessions. Paper cutting is also taught in Ansai’s public schools. Ms. Yu is aware of the need to go beyond protecting traditions and embrace new paper-cut experiments.
1. What does the underlined word “adornment” in paragraph 2 mean?A.Celebration. | B.Symbol. | C.Invention. | D.Decoratıon. |
A.It has cultural value. | B.It features animals. |
C.It attracts the young. | D.It remains in fashion. |
A.Talkative. | B.Curious. | C.Devoted. | D.Competitive. |
A.A brief history of paper cutting. |
B.A new approach to paper cutting. |
C.An introduction to a paper cutting master. |
D.The direction of a traditional paper cutting. |
1.电子设备阅读的优点与缺点;
2.合理使用电子设备阅读的建议。
注意:
1.写作词数应为80左右;
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Digital Reading
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________An optional college course named Appreciation of the Jiangxi Opera has been taught in a packed house recently at Nanchang University. Waving water sleeves while
Many of students
The course has been open for many years, mainly introducing the history, tunes and performance characteristics of Jiangxi Opera. Originally this course was rarely attended but now is full of people. “
6 . It is hard to imagine humans spending their lives in virtual reality (VR) when the experience amounts to waving your arms about in the middle of the waiting room with a device fastened to your face. But this is where humanity is heading.
Chalmers, an Australian professor of philosophy and neural science at New York University, makes the case to embrace VR in his new book, Reality +. Well-known for explaining “the hard problem” of consciousness, Chalmers sees technology reaching the point where virtual and physical are the same in the sense and people live good lives in VR. In the decades ahead, Chalmers suspects we will replace the clumsy (笨拙的) headsets with brain-computer interfaces that allow us to experience virtual worlds with our full set of senses.
“A common way of thinking about VR is that it is somehow fake ability. I think that’s wrong,” Chalmers explained. “The virtual worlds we’re interacting with can be as real as our ordinary physical world.”
“But there are plenty of risks to be cautious of,” he notes. As fulfilling as virtual worlds may become, people will need real food, drink and exercise, and perhaps even the glimpse of daylight, to keep their bodies from fading away. These are not the only health problems. Some people have raised serious concerns about the risk of psychological damage: If we are better looking and have better clothes and a nicer home in the meta verse (元宇宙), how will we feel when we leave?
“The lure (诱惑) of VR might also cause neglect on a global scale,” Chalmers reveals. Would climate change and other crises facing the physical world lose their urgency? That would be a disaster. He says,“Physical reality is really important. We must maintain a connection to it and care for it responsibly.”
1. Why does the author mention “a device fastened to your face” in paragraph 1?A.To offer a suggestion on improving virtual reality. |
B.To introduce the latest advance in virtual technology. |
C.To emphasize a physical barrier to enjoying virtual reality. |
D.To demonstrate the necessity of wearing a virtual device. |
A.He considers that virtual reality has various definitions. |
B.He argues that virtual reality is genuine reality. |
C.He believes that virtual reality is fake reality. |
D.He suggests that virtual reality is temporary. |
A.It might speed up global warming. |
B.It might offer an alternative solution. |
C.It might encourage people to solve it. |
D.It might make people neglect the issue. |
A.The future of VR. | B.The worries about VR. |
C.The professor’s insights into VR. | D.The public’s views on VR. |
7 . In a world filled with things that take our attention away, and ego-driven (自尊心驱使的) ambition, it’s easy to lose sight of what’s truly important. Among the chaos of modern life, humility(谦逊) emerges as a powerful force that, if embraced, can help us navigate challenges, understand ourselves and those around us, and change our true values and purpose.
Drawing from personal experiences and reflections, Peter Ash talks about the transformative power of embracing humility as a tool to navigate the challenge, build true confidence, and lead life as our authentic selves.
In Humble: Reflections On The Power Of Humility And Its Place In An Ego-Obsessed World, the author Peter Ash puts forward a different perspective on a happy life, by addressing what he considers to be the definition of what humility is, and what it is not. Using his experiences to set a backdrop, Ash’s guidance is designed to intentionally flow between autobiography and reader guidance.
The book has ten chapters, covering topics such as making the case for humility, personal ego, and the importance of humility in the digital age and in the workplace. The guidance provided is less around direct bullet points and key takeaways, but more asking the reader to draw general reflections and conclusions. This is done by comparıng and contrasting themselves to the author’s experiences as they progress through the book.
The book comes in at just over one hundred pages in length. Ash has a clear and well put together writing style to take readers on that journey to highlight his argument for living a more modest existence.
The book is suitable for anyone who wishes to reflect and gain inspiration on how to live a more meaningful life. When terms such as “be kind” and “be humble” are bounced around the Internet with no clear definition, this book could be seen as an interesting story to the chaos of modern life.
1. What do we know about humility?A.It leads us to a deeper understanding of self and others. |
B.It is the key to achieving our ego-driven ambition. |
C.It is the most powerful tool for us to overcome difficulties. |
D.It definitely contributes to success in all aspects of life. |
A.It provides numerous direct suggestions. |
B.Its writing style is formal and academic. |
C.It is based on the author’s childhood experiences. |
D.Its contents are enlightening and inspiring. |
A.Skeptical. | B.Approving. | C.Dismissive. | D.Ambiguous. |
A.A news report. | B.A book review. |
C.A novel. | D.An autobiography. |
1. 一次难忘的家务劳动经历;
2. 你的收获和感受。
注意:1. 写作词数应为80左右;
2. 可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
A Memorable Housework Experience
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________9 . One day, I had a serious quarrel with my father. I felt he was always trying to
All that day, my mind was racing with
Suddenly, I realized that I didn’t do the assignment that was
“I am the son of an idiot!” I wrote and then
I felt like someone had
Slowly, my attitude
A.prevent | B.trouble | C.criticize | D.control |
A.details | B.shouts | C.tears | D.laughs |
A.happy | B.regretful | C.angry | D.strange |
A.lecture | B.overcome | C.tell | D.compete |
A.near | B.easy | C.close | D.due |
A.forced | B.encouraged | C.confused | D.forbade |
A.Hopeful | B.Desperate | C.Excited | D.Curious |
A.quarrel | B.love | C.talk | D.feeling |
A.put away | B.calmed down | C.signed up | D.handed in |
A.down | B.up | C.over | D.around |
A.do | B.agree | C.give | D.leave |
A.listened | B.struck | C.looked | D.learned |
A.blamed | B.praised | C.blessed | D.pardoned |
A.faded | B.struggled | C.shifted | D.disappeared |
A.report | B.answer | C.reply | D.question |
10 . Going through social media can quickly convince you that everyone’s life is more interesting than yours. During a particularly adventurous week on Instagram some months ago, I saw waterskiing in Maui, and swimming with wild pigs in the Bahamas. Wild pigs! I started googling flights to new places, imagining adventures. Then I ordered food from the place I eat at every week and … felt bad about not trying somewhere new.
Recent research about repeat and novel experiences suggests that we ought to reconsider those negative feelings associated with repetition. Ed O’Brien, a professor at the University of Chicago, launched a series of studies on this topic, “There’s a general belief that if you want to seem like an interesting, cultured person, the best thing you can do is to showcase that you’re open to new experiences,” he says. “That may be true, but I think we take for granted the value of really digging deep into one field.”
To test this hypothesis (假设), O’Brien and his team exposed all participants to the same stimulus (刺激), including museum visits, movies, and video games. Next, some people were asked to imagine repeating the experience, while others actually did repeat what they had done. The researchers found that on the whole, participants said that repeating experiences was often far more enjoyable than they had predicted.
There is joy in repetition partly because every human mind wanders. Consequently, we miss a good part of every experience. Repeating things can really be seen as another opportunity to actually experience something fully. O’Brien’s studies show that people are too quick to assume that they’ve seen all the layers even in those cases where they haven’t. It’s safe to assume there are more explorable layers in any experience. When we’re noticing new things in any experience, our brain becomes engaged. All we need to do is approach whatever task is at hand by searching for the things that we didn’t see in it the first time around.
1. Why does the author mention his experiences in Paragraph. 1?A.To introduce the bad feelings linked to repetition. |
B.To show novel experiences are more interesting. |
C.To tell us a common belief about social media. |
D.To present to us his new imagined adventures. |
A.People were open to new experiences. |
B.Imagination was exciting on the whole. |
C.Repeating experiences made one bored. |
D.Digging deep into one field was enjoyable. |
A.By searching for the ignored elements. |
B.By assuming we didn’t see all at first. |
C.By approaching whatever task is at hand. |
D.By keeping focused on every experience. |
A.The joy of social media adventures. | B.The value of repetition in experiences. |
C.The importance of trying new things. | D.The benefits of travel and exploration. |