1 . You throw a flying disc (飞盘). Your friend catches it. Well done!
Flying discs are fun toys. They are becoming popular in China. On the Internet, there are more than thousands of posts about disc games, talking about things like rules and dress codes.
Flying discs are very beginner-friendly. It is easy for anyone to throw a disc almost anywhere they want to, from a field to a beach. No special skills are needed. Boys and girls can also play together, making it a good activity to socialize.
For those who want to compete, there are many choices. They can try the team disc sport called “ultimate”.
A.It could fly farther and higher than a pie tin. |
B.Flying discs have a history of nearly 100 years. |
C.Unlike other games, it encourages honesty and fair play. |
D.All these make the flying discs popular with young people today. |
E.In fact, young people enjoyed this fun activity almost a century ago. |
F.Social activities like attending parties will improve your communicative skills. |
2 . Most people agree that honesty is a good thing. But does Mother Nature agree? Animals can’t talk, but can they lie in other ways? Can they lie with their bodies and behavior? Animal experts may not call it lying, but they do agree that many animals, from birds to chimpanzees (大猩猩), behave dishonestly to fool other animals. Why? Dishonesty often helps them survive.
Many kinds of birds are successful at fooling other animals. For example, a bird called the plover sometimes pretends to be hurt in order to protect its young. When a predator (掠食动物) gets close to its nest, the plover leads the predator away from the nest. How? It pretends to have a broken wing. The predator follows the “hurt” adult, leaving the baby birds safe in the nest.
Birds called cuckoos (布谷鸟) have found a way to have babies without doing much work. How? They don’t make nests. Instead, they get into other birds’ nests secretly. Then they lay their eggs and fly away. When the baby birds come out, their adoptive parents feed them.
Chimpanzees, or chimps, can also be sneaky. After a fight, the losing chimp will put out its hand to the other chimp. When the winning chimp puts out its hand, too, the chimps are friendly again. But an animal expert once saw a losing chimp take the winner’s hand and start fighting again.
Chimps are sneaky in other ways, too. When chimps find food that they love, such as bananas, it is natural for them to cry out. Then others chimps come running. But some clever chimps learn to cry very softly when they find food. That way, other chimps don’t hear them, and they don’t need to share their food.
As children, many of us learn the saying “You can’t fool Mother Nature.” But maybe you can’t trust her, either.
1. A plover protects its young from a predator by ________.A.getting closer to its young |
B.driving away the adult predator |
C.leaving its young in another nest |
D.pretending to be injured |
A.Chimps are ready to attack others. |
B.Chimps are sometimes dishonest. |
C.Chimps are jealous of the winners. |
D.Chimps can be selfish too. |
A.Some chimps lower their cries to keep food away from others. |
B.The losing chimp won the fight by taking the winner’s hand. |
C.Cuckoos fool their adoptive parents by making no nests. |
D.Some cuckoos often steal other birds’ newborns. |
A.Do Animals Lie? |
B.Does Mother Nature Fool Animals? |
C.How Do Animals Learn to Lie? |
D.How Does Honesty Help Animals Survive? |
3 . Henry remembers the day well. It was a day that would change his life. He was sitting at the kitchen table, watching his ten-year-old granddaughter, Sophia, do her homework. She had asked him a question about history and was now
Henry had spent forty years working as a librarian in a school. He was now
After four years, Henry got his degree in history. “
A.pointing to | B.looking for | C.caring about | D.staring at |
A.admitted | B.experienced | C.retired | D.educated |
A.deep | B.soft | C.high | D.low |
A.risks | B.benefits | C.services | D.topics |
A.dull | B.calm | C.active | D.secret |
A.mistake | B.speech | C.interview | D.decision |
A.turn | B.seat | C.picture | D.course |
A.Completing | B.Organizing | C.Planning | D.Preparing |
A.doubtful | B.confident | C.silent | D.puzzled |
A.rarely | B.seldom | C.never | D.only |
4 . Those who make great discoveries must often overcome many challenges along the way — as was the case with the explorer Christopher Columbus. Columbus was born in a port city of Italy in 1451. As a teenager, he loved sailing, and he showed great interest in geography, which inspired him to begin his career as a seaman.
Columbus stuck to searching for a direct sea route to the East Indies by sailing across the Atlantic Ocean. After trying many times, he received financial support from the King and Queen of Spain. On 3 August 1492, he set off from Spain with three ships carrying about 90 crewmen. His adventure was full of challenges: it took longer than expected, they faced the lack of food, and one of the ships was leaking badly, which put everyone on this ship in great danger. The men on board were in panic. Although they faced so many challenges, Columbus managed to keep everyone out of danger with his knowledge and bravery across the ocean. Finally, on 12 October, the crew found land in the distance. Columbus called the natives living on the islands Indians because he believed that he was in the East Indies. However, the shores they had reached were of the Caribbean, not the East Indies.
Between 1493 and 1504, Columbus found more land over the course of the following three voyages. The major contribution of this great explorer is that he “discovered” the New World. His discovery encouraged explorers such as Captain James Cook to explore and discover more vast areas of the world. His voyages opened a new chapter of the Age of Exploration.
1. What’s the main idea of paragraph 2?A.Introduction to Columbus’ first voyage. |
B.Columbus’ preparations for his adventure. |
C.The challenges Columbus and his team met. |
D.Columbus’ discovery of the New World. |
A.strong interest in sailing |
B.support from the Spanish government |
C.rich knowledge and bravery |
D.encouragement from other explorers |
A.Creative and smart. |
B.Determined and adventurous. |
C.Caring and patient. |
D.Kind and knowledgeable. |
Chinese calligraphy is called the art of lines. Practicing calligraphy helps a person to achieve relaxation and inner peace. In the past, children
The 53-year-old craftswoman Ji Yulan, an inheritor (继承人) of the intangible heritage (非物质遗产) of paper-cutting from Xinjiang, has engaged in the art for over 40 years.
She made paper-cuts of people from all
Ji has 12 students, aged from 3 to 23. She often encourages her students to create works based on a younger mindset. “I am
认真阅读短文,在表格的空中填入恰当的单词,每空仅限一词,注意正确形式。
When a thought has found words
Poetry is the forgotten child of literature. Few people read it for pleasure. In Western high schools, poetry is seldom taught because it is considered to be out of date and have little to do with the life of today’s students.
However, compared with the situation in the West, poetry is still an important part of the curriculum (课程) in China. Recently, the Ministry of Education has increased the number of ancient Chinese poems for students to memorize and recite, from 14 to 72. Why is it important to learn poems?
First of all, poetry is a necessary part of learning traditional Chinese culture. It is a path to understanding your history and your society. It is also the key to understanding the thoughts and feelings that are common to everyone but that we may be unable to express, the joy of Li Bai dancing with the moon, for example. Everyone has feelings of joy, love, loneliness, sadness and even anger, and a good poem can put those feelings into words and bring us self-understanding.
Poems can also express beauty. In a few short lines, even something common can become beautiful. Here is a poem called Fog by Carl Sandberg: The fog comes/on silent haunches (弓腰) /and then moves on. Yes, a fog does move smoothly, silently and like a cat, and Sandberg catches that feeling and image, and makes it beautiful.
Of course, to really enjoy poetry, it has to be read aloud. After all, a poem is really just a song without music. Most ancient poems, like Homer’s Epics (《荷马史诗》) and China’s Book of Songs, were spoken for hundreds of years before they were written.
The American poet Robert Frost said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” You are lucky that you now have seventy-two poems to learn!
Title: When a thought has found words | |
Outline | Detailed information |
In the West, poetry is considered to be | |
In China, poetry remains an important part of the curriculum. | |
◇Poems help you ◇Poems help express your personal thoughts and feelings. ◇Poems can express beauty of common things with very few lines. | |
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8 . Zhang Shuo became a winner of Labor Day Medal of this year. Before that, he was
Zhang Shuo got a job of designing advertisements in Harbin in 2015. Two years later, he decided to return to his hometown, Dongsheng Village in Hegang, to help his aging parents with their rice farm. He started his job as a food deliveryman (快递员) in 2018. “I just wanted to use the off season of farming to
Zhang Shuo was always attaching more importance to the quality of service than the quantity of orders. In late December 2018, a snowstorm
In June, 2019, Zhang Shuo became the manager of the delivery operations of Meituan in Hegang City. Since then, he began to find more ways to help young villagers get out of poverty (贫穷) and increase their
A.brought | B.lost | C.greeted | D.honored |
A.pay | B.earn | C.win | D.spend |
A.narrow | B.limited | C.huge | D.little |
A.put up | B.stay on | C.watch out | D.hold back |
A.forced | B.encouraged | C.warned | D.allowed |
A.provided | B.decorated | C.served | D.wrapped |
A.cold | B.warm | C.burning | D.freezing |
A.order | B.challenge | C.dinner | D.review |
A.pressure | B.safety | C.income | D.degree |
A.However | B.Otherwise | C.Moreover | D.Therefore |
9 . Once upon a time, there was a shepherd (牧羊人). He
One morning, the shepherd found that one sheep was
However, the shepherd was
The neighbor said, “If you had
The shepherd filled up the hole
If there is a mistake, we should
A.raised | B.produced | C.searched | D.hired |
A.sick | B.thirsty | C.sleepy | D.missing |
A.mend | B.check | C.block | D.tidy |
A.married | B.deaf | C.used | D.thankful |
A.good | B.excuse | C.use | D.doubt |
A.received | B.followed | C.ignored | D.heard |
A.immediately | B.carefully | C.hopelessly | D.hardly |
A.neither | B.any | C.each | D.none |
A.make | B.save | C.correct | D.recover |
A.efforts | B.wastes | C.chances | D.losses |
10 . I’m not athletic. In high school, for example, I joined the soccer team for a year, ending up as a
In 2020, I was in a difficult stage of life and wanted something to fight for. Therefore, though I’d never run even 5 kilometers before, I entered the lottery (抽签) to run a marathon, a
I figured the only way to finish the 42 kilometers was to start by running just one. But even one kilometer proved too hard, so I adjusted the
Then the
Last year I decided to
So, again: I read books, talked to friends and found
A.storyteller | B.bystander | C.benchwarmer | D.cheerleader |
A.process | B.progress | C.platform | D.position |
A.drawn | B.claimed | C.adopted | D.employed |
A.stage | B.strategy | C.standard | D.status |
A.attention | B.balance | C.energy | D.breath |
A.walker | B.runner | C.player | D.jumper |
A.due | B.last | C.big | D.large |
A.Likely | B.Entirely | C.Necessarily | D.Absolutely |
A.distinguish | B.establish | C.engage | D.explore |
A.ignorant | B.aware | C.short | D.capable |
A.improve | B.promote | C.arrange | D.approach |
A.colleagues | B.coaches | C.competitors | D.cooperators |
A.show off | B.take off | C.call off | D.put off |
A.boiled down | B.come down | C.broken down | D.torn down |
A.get it | B.take it | C.name it | D.make it |