Sugar painting, as
Covering vast distance and
The Silk Road began to develop in the 2nd century BCE. Zhang Qian, an ambassador assigned by the emperor,
These amazingly long routes connected Eastern and Western civilizations, which achieved a
Flames in kilns (窑炉) around China have been burning since the Xia and Shang dynasties. Along the way
Porcelain is made by heating materials, often a mix of China stone and kaolin clay, in a kiln at a temperature as high as 1,200 degree Celsius. Temperature is key to
As a memory that is felt with both hands, porcelain is touchable history.
1. What is the conversation mainly about?
A.A picture. | B.A designer. | C.A building. |
A.Math. | B.Music. | C.History. |
The Olympics play
The 2008 Beijing Olympics appealed
1.电影放映的时间和地点;
2.简单介绍郑和及郑和下西洋的意义;
3.建议他看电影前先了解相关的历史。
注意:1. 可以增加适当的细节,以使行文连贯;
2. 词数 80 左右,信的开头和结尾已经给出,不计入总数。
Dear Peter,
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Yours,
Li Hua
7 . Every day people joined archaeologists and artists in finding some of the year’s most dramatic discoveries. Below are some examples of 2023.
“Naughty pupils”-ancient punishment method resurfaces
Archaeologists discovered 18,000 ink-carved pieces of pottery-known as “ostraca”—at the site of Athribis early this year, and among them were hundreds of fragments(碎片)with a single symbol repeated front and back.
Those scribbles(潦草的文字)are evidence of ‘naughty “pupils” being made to write lines, according to researchers a Germany’s University of Tuebingen. The fragments also included receipts, school texts, trade information and lists of names.
Van Gogh peers out in hidden portrait
There is one more known van Gogh’s self-portrait in the world, and it was hidden behind a painting of a peasant woman. People made the discovery when they took an X-ray of one of his portraits from 1885 and discovered the artist’s own image behind layers of cardboard and glue. While X-rays often reveal how artists-changed their compositions, the full self-portrait of van Gogh came as a huge surprise, who was known to reuse canvase(画布)to save money.
Another treasure collection from Sanxingdui
The Sanxingdui archaeological site has produced thousands of relics. The latest discovery, reported by Chinese state media in June includes 3,155 objects, a turtle shell-shaped box and a sacrificial altar among them. A team has been digging six places of the site, turning up more than 13,000 objects so far. Last year, the relics they uncovered included a golden mask, ivory artifacts(手工艺品)and a jade knife. The Sanxingdui culture still remains mysterious, as it left behind no written records or human remains, though many believe it to be part of the ancient kingdom of Shu, which ruled along the upper stream of the Yangtze River until it was conquered in 316 BC.
1. What led to the researchers’ conclusion about the fragments?A.The repeated symbol. | B.Trade information. |
C.Lists of pupils’ names. | D.The mark of ink. |
A.To keep away from X-rays. |
B.To save money. |
C.To make his works more mysterious. |
D.To help people find his composition. |
A.A jade knife. | B.A golden mask. |
C.A written record. | D.A turtle shell-shaped box. |
With a history of more than 2,000 years, the Silk Route dates back to the Han dynasty. Through this route, the Chinese highly qualified silk made its fame to the western countries. The merchants in different regions
Throughout all these years, many great figures have made significant contributions to the development of the Silk Route. Today, the Silk Route has a
9 . Football has found its way to the most remote corners of the globe, becoming one of the hottest topics of the day
Cuju became popular during the Warring States Period.
During the Han Dynasty, the popularity of Cuju gradually spread from the army to the royal courts and upper classes. Football matches were often held inside the Imperial Palace. A type of court called “ju cheng” was built especially for Cuju matches.
The sport was improved during the Tang Dynasty. First of all, the feather-stuffed ball was replaced by an air filled ball with a two layered hull(外壳)
The popularity of the sport exploded during the Song Dynasty due to social and economic development, extending to every class in society. At that time, professional Cuju players were quite popular, and the sport began to take on a commercial edge. Cuju organizations were set up in large cities called Qi Yun She or Yuan She-now known as the earliest professional Cuju club——whose members were either Cuju lovers or professional performers.
A.Also, two different types of goal posts showed up. |
B.Both adults and children played Cuju in everyday life. |
C.Cuju began its decline during the Ming Dynasty due to neglect. |
D.Back then, it was used to strengthen the fighting power of soldiers. |
E.Meanwhile, Cuju games were standardized as rules were established. |
F.About 2,500 years ago in China there was a similar game called “Cuju”. |
G.Dating back to over 2,000 years ago, it has changed and developed over time. |
10 . Before humans stored memories as zeroes and ones, we turned to digital devices of another kind — preserving knowledge on the surface of fingers and palms.
When Mogao Caves was uncovered in 1900, an aging drawing was lifted from a trove of religious manuscripts. The drawing illustrates a mnemonic (助记符号) system, a way of projecting knowledge onto the hands so it can be studied, memorized, and stored in a pocket. Around the same time this mnemonic was made, a monk named Bede halfway around the world was developing a different system of manual knowledge. These two systems are perhaps the earliest examples of manual mnemonics.
Beginning roughly twelve hundred years ago, we started using the hand itself as a portable (便携的) place of knowledge, a place to store whatever tended to slip our mental grasp. The hand became an all-purpose memory machine.
In different times and places, hands provided mnemonic maps of sound. As early as the thirteenth century, Chinese scholars were projecting syllable charts (音节图表) onto the palms and fingers. The so-called “Guidonian hand” owes its name to the eleventh-century Italian music teacher, Guido d’Arezzo. Arranging the different pitches in a scale onto the joints, he developed this technique to help students learn “unheard melody most easily and correctly”. Other thinkers in Europe, perhaps inspired by Guido, developed systems for learning the sounds of language.
Then questions arise. First, what makes the hand so popular as a mnemonic prop? A large part of the answer, surely, involves portability. The hands are always, well, ready to hand. A further advantage stems from how hand mnemonics offer both visual and kinesthetic (动觉的) routes to memory: They are both seen and felt.
It’s also hard to determine when and why hand mnemonics faded out. Hand mnemonics are still used to teach the “right-hand rule” in physics classrooms and remain especially popular in medicine. Today, we increasingly store our “thoughts” in virtual realms (领域), but we sometimes still reach for that original “digital” repository (存储库) in our pockets.
1. What do we learn about the two earliest examples of mnemonics?A.Bede made a hand mnemonic in Mogao Caves. |
B.They are the same system of manual knowledge. |
C.The drawing was uncovered on the fingers and palms. |
D.The drawing from Mogao Caves illustrates a mnemonic system. |
A.Human hands mapped sound charts. |
B.Human hands played a role in sound mnemonics. |
C.Guido helped his students learn unheard melody. |
D.Scholars projected syllable charts onto the palms and fingers. |
A.The hand is always available for use. |
B.The hand can feel what people memorize. |
C.Fingers can easily be marked with characters. |
D.Hand mnemonics help memorize visible things. |
A.Positive. | B.Pessimistic. | C.Uncertain. | D.Indifferent. |