1.1931年日本入侵中国,中国人民为寻求解放,进行了长达十四年的抗日战争。
2.中国军队的武器虽然落后,但他们始终坚信能够战胜装备了飞机、大炮及坦克的敌人。(形容词短语作状语)
3.面对敌人的狂轰滥炸,中国军民团结一心,奋勇杀敌。(过去分词短语作状语)
4.在付出了巨大的代价后,中国人民赢得了这场战争的光辉胜利。
5.中国抗日战争的胜利为世界反法西斯战争的胜利奠定了基础。
6.难怪有人说中国人民抗日战争的伟大胜利将永远铭刻在人类正义事业史册上。
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1. What’s the speaker probably?
A.A musician. | B.A cook. | C.A worker. |
A.It has its own national type of music. |
B.It has the oldest bookstore in the world. |
C.It is the oldest country in Europe. |
A.The beaches. | B.The major cities. | C.The northern forest area. |
A.After finishing university. |
B.After a few years of work. |
C.After his retirement. |
Name of the country | The People’s Republic of China |
Capital city | Beijing is the capital of the People’s Republic of China. 43.5 meters above sea level, Beijing covers an area of 16,808 square kilometers and has a resident population of 21.7 million (the year 2017). Under the city’s control there are 10 districts and 8 counties. Beijing’s history as a city can date back to 3,000 years ago. Its time-honored history left Beijing plenty of historical relics and colorful customs. As the center of the country, here gathers the offices of the Party, the Government and the Military, as well as headquarters of national companies, industrial associations and financial institutions. Beijing is in the central place of the nation’s financial decisions and macro-control. It is also China’s most prosperous city in terms of science, education and culture, because it covers all subjects of sciences and has strong research capabilities. Beijing is the communication pivot between China and the international community and, the most important center for international exchanges. |
Population | China has a population over 1.39 billion people (the year 2017), and over 58.52% of the total (the year 2017) are distributed in urban area. Strict population controls was in place for several decades, but now two-child policy has been carried out. |
Area | China has a territory area of 9.6 million square km, second to Russia and Canada, with a sea area of about 4.73 million square kilometers. |
Location | In East Asia, border on the west Pacific Ocean |
National flag | The National Flag of the PRC is a red rectangle emblazoned with five stars. The proportion of its length and height is 3 to 2. The upper left of the face of the Flag is set with five yellow five-pointed stars. One of the stars is bigger than the others, with its circumcircle’s diameter being three-tenth of the height of the Flag, and is placed in the left; the other four stars are smaller, with their circumcircle’s diameter being one-tenth of the height of the Flag, surrounding the big star on its right in the shape of an arch. |
National anthem | March of the Volunteers (lines: Arise, those who do not want to be slaves! We will use our flesh and blood to build another Great Wall. China has reached the brink of national collapse. All the people have been making their last outcry. Arise! Arise! Arise! All our hearts become one. Let us face the enemy’s gunfire. March on! Let us face the enemy’s gunfire. March on! March on! March on! On!) |
National Emblem | The National Emblem of the PRC features Tiananmen Gate beneath the five shining stars, encircled by ears of grain and with a cogwheel at the bottom. The ears of grain, stars, Tiananmen and cogwheel are gold; the field within the circle is red, as are the ribbons festooning the bottom of the circle. |
National flower | Peony |
National Animal | giant pandas
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Ethnic groups | There are 56 ethnic groups in China. The Han people make up 92 percent of the country’s total population, totaling 1159.4 million; and the other 55 ethnic groups, 8 percent, totaling 106.43 million. |
Languages | Of the 56 ethnic groups in China, the Hui and Manchu use the same language as Han people, while the rest groups have their own spoken and written languages. |
Written languages | 23 ethnic groups have their own characters. |
Religion | The main religions are Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Christianity, and Catholicism. Chinese citizens’ right of the freedom of religious belief is protected by the Constitution and laws. |
Main festivals | New Year’s Day (January 1), the Spring Festival (the New Year’s Day by Chinese lunar calendar), International Labor Day (May 1), and the National Day (October 1) |
Currency | Renminbi (RMB) yuan |
Time difference | 8 hours earlier than the Greenwich |
Climate | Most of the country is in the temperate zone, although geographically the country stretches from the tropical and subtropical zones in the south to the frigid zone in the north. |
Topography | High in its west and low in its east: mountain areas 33.3%, plateaus 26%, basins 18.8%, plains 12% and hills 9.9%. |
Mountains | Among the 19 mountains over 7,000 meters high in the world, seven are in China. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as “the roof of the world”, has many high mountains. The Himalayas, with an average elevation of 6,000 meters, have the world’s highest peak Mount Qomolangma, 8,848 meters above sea level. |
Rivers | The Yangtze River, 6,300 km long, is the third longest in the world after the Nile and the Amazon. The Yellow River, the second longest in China, stretching 5,464 km. |
Canal | The Grand Canal, 1,801 km long, is the longest man-made river in the world. Its cutting began in the fifth century BC. |
Lakes | The Poyang Lake on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is China’s largest freshwater lake, with an area of 3583 sq. km; the Qinghai Lake on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the country’s largest salt lake, covering 4583 sq. km. |
History | China is one of the world’s oldest civilizations with a chronicled history of more than 5,000 years. China has gone over a long history of primitive society, slavery society, feudal society and semi-feudal semi-colonial society and the present socialist society. In 221 BC, Qinshihuang established the Qin Dynasty, the first feudal autocracy in Chinese history, therefore unveiling a 2,000-year period of feudalism which was to last through a succession of dynasties such as the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing, a period which finally met its end in the bourgeois democratic Revolution of 1911 by Dr. Sun Yat-sen. October 1, 1949 saw the founding of the People’s Republic of China. |
Famous Tourist Attractions | Tiananmen Square, Badaling Great Wall, the Imperial Palace, the Summer Palace, the Water Cube, Chengde Imperial Summer Resort, Hulunbuir Pasture Land, Shenyang Imperial Palace, the Bund, the Oriental Pearl Tower, Mount Huang, Mount Lu, Mount Tai, the Longmen Grottoes, the Three Gorges, the Potala Palace, figurines of soldiers and horses from the Qin Mausoleum. |
Traditional Festivals | Spring Festival, New Year’s Day, Lantern Festival, National Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Festival. |
2. Describe the National Emblem and its meaning.
3. Please list some main festivals of China?
4. Which time zone does China lie in?
5. What is The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau known as?
6. Which is the longest river in China?
7. Please list some famous tourist attractions in China.
8. Please list some typical traditional festivals.
4 . The picture of miseries and sufferings of the Black woman in America may appear, perhaps darker and more depressing than Dante’s (但丁) description of Hell because in the history of human race, the Black woman in America has suffered the most. A close and critical
As a mother she has seen her children sold into slavery. She has seen them left at home without attention while she
Thus feminism in America means much more than what it stands for in other European countries, chiefly because it has different role and meaning
A.respect | B.reference | C.account | D.expression |
A.associated with | B.completed with | C.involved in | D.joined by |
A.exploration | B.exhaustion | C.exploitation | D.explosion |
A.performer | B.survivor | C.substance | D.object |
A.including | B.occupying | C.containing | D.striking |
A.procedures | B.processes | C.descriptions | D.practices |
A.complexity | B.anxiety | C.simplicity | D.gravity |
A.look to | B.look upon | C.look over | D.look through |
A.took | B.kept | C.attended | D.appealed |
A.richness | B.lack | C.variety | D.possibility |
A.populating | B.emphasizing | C.charging | D.criticizing |
A.undertake | B.underline | C.undervalue | D.undergo |
A.Therefore | B.Somehow | C.However | D.Moreover |
A.with respect to | B.in line with | C.in addition to | D.in parallel with |
A.reappointing | B.representing | C.reconsidering | D.reinterpreting |
A.The U.S. is not one of the happiest countries in the world. |
B.The U. S experienced a decline in happiness only from 2005 to 2007. |
C.The U. S. is not included in the top 10 happiest countries. |
D.The U. S. is among the 47 countries experiencing a decline in happiness. |
A.Greece. | B.Burundi. | C.Denmark. | D.Australia. |
A.Quality education. | B.Safety from crime. |
C.Good health. | D.Wealth. |
1. How many aspects of the United Kingdom does the man refer to?
A.Two. | B.Three. | C.Four. |
A.Windsor Castle. |
B.The Tower of London. |
C.The National Gallery. |
A.James Bond. | B.Star Wars. | C.Harry Potter. |
A.Badminton. | B.Basketball. | C.Golf. |
7 . Rahul Aggarwal was in medical school when he got the surprising news that his mother-a fit woman in her 40s-had been diagnosed with type2 diabetes (糖尿病). “I always thought of diabetes as a disease of people at higher weights and with certain lifestyle practices.” he recalls, “but my mom was an Indian American woman with a healthy weight and good diet and exercise practices.”
Aggarwal, now a clinical fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston began thinking about how diabetes seems to affect certain ethnic and racial groups. It quantified diabetes risk in minority groups to determine if current screening recommendations are correct and equal.
The current standard was released in 2021 by the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), which issues evidence-based guidance on disease prevention. The recommendation is to test adults aged 35 to 70 for diabetes if they are overweight or obese, defined as having a body mass index (BMI)of 25 kg/m2 or more. Aggarwal and his cooperators looked at the lowest-risk individuals qualified to screen under that rubric(评价量规). The researchers were shocked to find that the rate was about double for Hispanics and even higher among Black and Asian Americans. They concluded that to detect diabetes equally across all these groups, you would need to test Asian Americans with a BMI of 20 and Black and Hispanic individuals with a BMI of just 18. 5-measures considered to be in the healthy range.
Ngo-Metzger, who was the USPSTFs scientific director from 2012 to 2019, notes that “most studies of diabetes were done in middle-aged white individuals,” She argues that they ‘should be revised. “The study found that you would miss so many Blacks, Hispanics and Asians when you use these guidelines. I think it’s a kind of harm.”
1. What can we learn about Aggarwa’s mother?A.She seldom had exercise. |
B.She was diagnosed with diabetes at an old age. |
C.Her poor diet and overweight accounted for her disease. |
D.Her disease probably had a connection with her race. |
A.Critical | B.Positive | C.Neutral | D.Indifferent |
A.New findings about cure diabetes. |
B.The causes of diabetes are complicated. |
C.More and more people suffer from diabetes. |
D.The current screening standards are not proper. |
A.Detecting diabetes early. |
B.Diabetes prevention. |
C.Revising the current screening standard. |
D.New ways to cure diabetes in the future. |
Generally, the US
These immigrants tend to move to certain areas. This may be for
America’s melting pot cities tend to concentrate in states
In America’s melting pot cities, people from Mexico make up the largest share. Mexican immigrants account for about a quarter of all the American residents
9 . This Is How Scandinavia Got Great
Almost everybody admires the Nordic model. Countries like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland have high economic productivity, high social equality, high social trust and high levels of personal happiness.
Nordic nations were ethnically homogeneous(同质的) in 1800, when they were dirt poor. Their economic growth took off just after 1870, way before their welfare states were established.
The 19th-century Nordic elites did something we haven’t been able to do in our country recently. They realized that if their countries were to prosper they had to create truly successful “folk schools” for the least educated among them. They realized that they were going to have to make lifelong learning a part of the natural fabric of society.
Today, Americans often think of schooling as the transmission of specialized skill sets — the student can read, do math and recite the facts of biology.
The Nordic educators worked hard to cultivate each student’s sense of connection to the nation. Before the 19th century, most Europeans identified themselves in local and not national terms.
That educational push seems to have had a lasting influence on the culture. Whether in Stockholm or Minneapolis, Scandinavians have a tendency to joke about the way their sense of responsibility is always nagging at them. They have the lowest rates of corruption in the world. They have a distinctive sense of the relationship between personal freedom and communal responsibility.
A.Bildung is the way that the individual matures and takes upon him or herself ever bigger academic responsibility. |
B.What really launched the Nordic nations was generations of phenomenal educational policy. |
C.Bildung is designed to change the way students see the world. |
D.But the Nordic curriculum conveyed to students a pride in, say, their Danish history, folklore and heritage. |
E.They look at education differently than we do. |
F.The Nordic educators also worked hard to develop the student’s internal awareness. |
10 . Switzerland is surrounded by three of Europe’s major—and most populous—countries: France, Germany and Italy. For thousands of years, the region has been a busy trade
Switzerland is a popular place to do business, a center of education and a favorite travel destination. At the heart of this success story lies a stable political system. The county has not gone through any major political changes since the foundation of the federal state inn 1848. This has created space for economic, social and artistic development. Federalism, the successful integration of different cultures, and the mechanisms of direct democracy are all means to increase the
Political stability is also
Stability, a well-developed sense of service and discretion, and a strong currency have turned Switzerland into a leading financial center. From a historical
In terms of income, assets and per capita gross national product. Switzerland ranks among the top in the world.
The
All these factors make Switzerland a safe country with a low crime rate. The Swiss
A.business | B.partner | C.route | D.channel |
A.boasts | B.brags | C.occupies | D.claims |
A.networks | B.links | C.planes | D.tourBys |
A.welfare | B.consciousness | C.participation | D.obligation |
A.complication | B.diversity | C.liberation | D.simplicity |
A.manageable | B.negligible | C.expandable | D.exhaustible |
A.undermined | B.eliminated | C.underrated | D.expressed |
A.Crimes | B.Strikes | C.Accidents | D.Appeals |
A.Thanks to | B.Contrary to | C.In combination with | D.In case of |
A.argument | B.perspective | C.attitude | D.stance |
A.few | B.boundless | C.abundant | D.nonexistent |
A.exceeding | B.variable | C.resulting | D.unbelievable |
A.By contrast | B.To sum up | C.As a rule | D.Put differently |
A.value | B.deny | C.consider | D.suspect |
A.Tie | B.Contribute | C.Add | D.Adjust |