1 . For children, English is a relatively strange language. If children are directly allowed to learn English without any prelude(前奏), they will be difficult to understand and have no interest in learning. Books are one of the main ways for children to understand if children can develop a good habit of reading, they can further expand their knowledge. In addition, in the process of reading English stories, children can learn many words and grammar knowledge that are not in textbooks, and their English level can also be improved. Now there are three stories to share with parents, so that children can see whether it is helpful for their English learning.
Long long ago, several people had a jar of wine among them and all of them wanted to drink it by himself, so they set a rule that everyone would draw a snake on the ground and the man who finished first would have the wine. One man finished his snake very soon and he was about to drink the wine when he saw the others were still busy drawing, so he decided to draw the feet to the snake. However, before he could finish the feet, another man finished and grabbed the jar from him, saying, “Who has ever seen a snake with feet? ”The story of “Draw a snake and add feet to it” tells us going too far is as bad as not going far enough.
In the Warring States Period, there was a man in the State of Wei called Geng Lei. One day he said to the king: “I can shoot down birds by simply plucking my bowstring(弓弦). ”When the king expressed doubt, Geng Lei pointed his bow at a wild goose flying in the sky, twanged the bowstring and the goose fell to the ground. Geng Lei said, “This goose been hurt in the past. Hearing the twang of the bowstring it assumed that it was doomed. So it simply gave up trying to live. ”This idiom means that if one has been frightened in the past one’s will may become paralysed(瘫痪的) in a similar situation.
Five dynasties(五代) painting tiger famous through the company since the childhood like painting, especially like painting a tiger, but not having seen the tiger really, always painted sick cats, the tiger, so he decided to enter the mountains, visit the tiger, really experienced untold hardships with the help of Orion’s uncle, finally met the tiger really, through a lot of sketch copy, the painting techniques by leaps and bounds, tiger’s tiger lifelike, a few can be spurious. Since then, and spent most of his time visited many famous mountains and great rivers, see more birds beast, finally become a generation of masters.
1. What is the purpose of this article?| A．Tell three stories. | B．Guide parents to help children learn English. |
| C．Advertise storybooks. | D．Improve children’s English. |
| A．Because of his superb skills. | B．Because he knew that the goose was hurt. |
| C．The goose was specially trained. | D．Because that wild goose has a special breed. |
| A．The three stories are all from ancient Chinese classical fables. |
| B．The author of these three stories is the same person. |
| C．At the end of the three stories, there are some principles of being a man. |
| D．The protagonists(主人公) of these three stories have their own excellence. |
| A．It is wrong to do too much or not enough. |
| B．Don’t waste too much time on meaningless things. |
| C．Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth. |
| D．Only after personal experience can we really understand anything. |
2 . A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes(奇才) and music prodigies(神童), what it’s like inside the family, and whether they could do it too. Well, I can tell them, because I’ve done it. Here are some things my daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were never allowed to do:
• attend a sleepover
• have a play date
• be in a school play
• complain about not being in a school play
• watch TV or play computer games
• choose their own extracurricular activities
• get any grade less than an A
• not be the No.1 student in every subject except gym and drama
• play any instrument other than the piano or violin
• not play the piano or violin.
I’m using the term “Chinese mother” loosely. I know some Korean, Indian, Jamaican, Irish and Ghanaian parents who qualify too. Conversely, I know some mothers of Chinese heritage, almost always born in the West, who are not Chinese mothers, by choice or otherwise. I’m also using the term “Western parents” loosely. Western parents come in all varieties. All the same, even when Western parents think they’re being strict, they usually don’t come close to being Chinese mothers. For example, my Western friends who consider themselves strict make their children practice their instruments 30 minutes every day. An hour at most. For a Chinese mother, the first hour is the easy part. It’s hours two and three that get tough.
Despite our squeamishness(神经过敏) about cultural stereotypes, there are tons of studies out there showing marked and quantifiable differences between Chinese and Westerners when it comes to parenting. In one study of 50 Western American mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers, almost 70% of the Western mothers said either that “stressing academic success is not good for children” or that “parents need to foster the idea that learning is fun. ” By contrast, roughly 0% of the Chinese mothers felt the same way. Instead, the vast majority of the Chinese mothers said that they believe their children can be “the best” students, that “academic achievement reflects successful parenting,” and that if children did not excel at school then there was “a problem” and parents “were not doing their job. ” Other studies indicate that compared to Western parents, Chinese parents spend approximately 10 times as long every day drilling academic activities with their children. By contrast, Western kids are more likely to participate in sports teams.
1. Why can Sophia and Louisa become geniuses?| A．Because they listen to their mother’s arrangement. |
| B．Because they are gifted in mathematics and music. |
| C．Because Chinese parents can always cultivate successful children. |
| D．Because they are restricted to do something. |
| A．Cultural differences between China and the West. |
| B．Westerners tend to be more strict with their children. |
| C．Time for children to learn music. |
| D．The difference between Chinese mothers and Western mothers. |
| A．Participate in extracurricular activities with classmates. |
| B．Study hard and ignore everything else. |
| C．Practice your familiar musical instruments. |
| D．Strike a proper balance between work and rest. |
| A．Western mothers feel very different from Chinese mothers. |
| B．Western mothers have prejudice against Chinese mothers. |
| C．Western children develop more comprehensively than Chinese children. |
| D．Chinese mothers put too much pressure on their children to study. |
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4 . You may have recently seen a video from the Beijing Wildlife Zoo becoming a hit. What exactly was so interesting about this video? It shows a dog playing with big cats four to five times its size! Many people might wonder if this dog has a death wish, but it seems that the dog and the big cats are good friends.
The dog was actually raised alongside the lion and tiger cubs, making up an odd but loving family, according to zoo officials. As opposed to the common belief, cross-species friendship has been around for centuries. People have domesticated many animals, most notably cats and dogs, and formed bonds with them as pets. Perhaps you even have a pet yourself.
There are many other instances of cross-species friendships.
At an animal sanctuary in Santiago, Chile, a jaguar named Marina and a deer named Laura formed a friendship after they both came to the park. As neither animal had a mother, sanctuary staff said they instantly bonded when they met. Laura had been rescued from a slaughterhouse while Marina had been rescued from the street.
One possible explanation for these friendships is the environment of the zoo. Animals don’t hunt for their food and don’t need to worry about marking their territory or looking for mates in the way an animal in the wild would. “All those activities take time and energy, and if these needs are removed, the animals get bored,” Gordon Burghardt, a psychologist at the University of Tenessee, US, told The Atlantic magazine. “In this particular situation, the animal’s motivation to engage socially and playfully may be higher in its need hierarchy(等级)than eating.”
Marc Bekoff, former biology professor at the University of Colorado, US, told Slate magazine, “I think the choices animals make in cross-species relationships are the same as they’d make in same-species relationships. Some dogs don’t like every other dog. Animals are very selective about the other individuals who they let into their lives.”
1. What is the common opinion about the friendship between animals?| A．It’s easier for dogs and cats to become friends. |
| B．Animals tend to play with peers of the same species. |
| C．The friendship between animals is not solid and reliable. |
| D．It’s common that animals of different species can become friends. |
| A．To present a truth. | B．To explain a phenomenon. |
| C．To introduce the topic. | D．To provide a proof. |
| A．The existing tradition. | B．The influence by mates. |
| C．The animals’ inner social drive. | D．The animals’ raisers’ instruction. |
| A．To appeal to people to treasure animals. |
| B．To inform readers of a special friendship. |
| C．To demonstrate the history of bringing up pets. |
| D．To compare friendship between cross-species and same-species. |
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2. 活动过程；
3. 个人感受。
注意：
1.字数：100词左右；
2.可适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯。
3.参考词汇：英语配音比赛the English Dubbing Contest/Competition
4.凡使用铅笔答题，或答题中使用了涂改液或不干胶带，一律不给分。
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