1 . “Great progress and achievements on education have been made in Xinjiang,” Rahman said, adding she is one of the many people in Xinjiang to benefit from the country’s fair education policies.
Rahman has seven younger brothers and sisters, and her father passed away when she was 15. Life had been difficult for her family. With the help of the local government, Rahman and her seven siblings completed their nine-year compulsory education. She and her three sisters graduated from colleges and now work as teachers.
“It is the fair education policies that created a happy life for us,” said Rahman.
Rahman has been working with two classes of Xinjiang students in a senior middle school in Changqing district of Jinan, Shandong province since 2020.
“Children here have free accommodation and meals. In addition, they have subsidies for medical care and a student grant of 50 yuan ($7.50) every month,” said Rahman.
Almost all of these children are able to be admitted by colleges and most of them return to Xinjiang after graduation, becoming an important strength in the development of Xinjiang, she said.
Rahman is now taking care of 65 girl students from Xinjiang. For these students, she is not only a teacher but a relative.
“The first thing that I need to do with the students is to change their attitudes on studying, as well as their parents’ attitudes on education to let them understand that only knowledge can upgrade their lives,” said Rahman.
“To care for the students is not to educate them with empty talk but with every detail and specific event in our daily life,” she said.
What kind of people we should cultivate, how and for whom — these are the fundamental issues that education must address, Rahman quoted from the report.
1. What is Rahman’s job?| A．a school teacher | B．a college student |
| C．a young teenager | D．A government worker |
| A．普通的 | B．晴朗的 | C．公平的 | D．温和的 |
| A．All of them can go to colleges. |
| B．They can have a student grant of $7.0 every month. |
| C．they don’t have subsidies for medical care. |
| D．They can have free accommodation and meals. |
| A．Issues of education in Xinjiang | B．Importance of education promoted in Xinjiang |
| C．Students who are studying in Xinjiang | D．Teachers who are working in Shandong Province |
In 2014, 40.8 percent of the people in the village of Bianjiang in Guizhou Province
As poverty alleviation (扶贫) proceeds and the road system in the village improves, industries such as fish, chicken farming and growing mums have been developed. Now, a family of five can earn an average of 10,000 yuan ($1,435) a year through employment and industry bonuses. China
Through the alleviation project, China, home to nearly one
One year ago, China rolled out the “double reduction” policy to ease the burden of excessive core-subjects homework and off-campus tutoring faced by middle and primary school students. The policy not only allows children more time to rest and play, but also allows them to obtain the nutrition
Positive changes
To Yue Xinyu,
Football, basketball, opera classes and clay workshops, are available
A dance lover herself, Yue is eager to join the school’s club
The governments of Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang
Over the past two years, a total of 88
5 . China is a large country and has a population of about 1. 3 billion. But most people live in the east and the living standard is much higher than in the west. Recently, the Chinese government has decided to promote development in central and western China. The part includes 11 provinces and autonomous regions (自治区) with a population of 285 million and an area of 5. 4 million square-kilometers.
The rich nature resources in western China is one of the advantages for development. According to the plan, the government will focus on improving transportation. Highways and railways will be built. To protect nature, farmers will turn farmland back into forest. Since the western part is developing fast, all kinds of talents are badly needed. In June, 2003, several thousand college students chose to start their career in the west. They worked as volunteers. Some people even give up the chance of working in big companies in China' coastal cities. For example, Wang Fei was a student from Qinghua University. Before June, he had received a job offer in Shanghai. However, he turned down the offer. Instead, he became one of the "Go West" volunteers.
Since 2003, tens of thousands of college students have gone to the west. They are trying their best to make the west become more and more beautiful. We are sure that the development will be a great success. China will be richer and stronger.
1. According to this passage, we know that ________.| A．eastern China is developing faster than western China |
| B．China is the richest in the world |
| C．eastern China has a population of 285 million |
| D．There are more people in the west than in the east |
| A．Forest | B．Highways and railways |
| C．skilled talents | D．Resources |
| A．They want to make contributions to the development of western China |
| B．Western China is more beautiful than eastern China |
| C．They want to get more money |
| D．They hate working in coastal cities |
| A．Return |
| B．Refuse to accept |
| C．Make something less |
| D．Review |
| A．Volunteers |
| B．China's development |
| C．The bright future in western China |
| D．Western China needs help |
6 . Primary school and junior-high school students and their parents across the country have seen some changes since the new school year started on September 1st. Students have less homework, and their parents no longer need to correct the homework of their children. At the same time, the number of after-school tutoring institutions (课外辅导机构) for primary and junior-high school students is reducing. These changes are the results of national guidelines to ease the burden (负担) of excessive (过度的) homework and off-campus tutoring for students during the nine years of compulsory education (义务教育). Known as the “double reduction” policy (双减政策), the guidelines were issued at the end of July, and took effect this semester.
The policy is an important step in China’s boosting of more well-rounded education practices. In addition to providing compulsory education, China is also working to develop an education system that enables young people to create a moral, intellectual, physical and mental grounding. China’s education system had become increasingly exam-oriented (应试教育) in recent decades due to the desire of achieving high scores in high school and the college entrance examination. It contributed to an excessive burden on primary and junior-high school students.
The policy of easing study burden aims to help education recover its essential purpose with schooling as the cornerstone of the system, social education as the supplement and family education as the foundation, so as to better educate talents for the country.
The policy may bring back well-rounded education; however, the motivation to receive and offer exam-oriented learning will last as long as exam scores remain the standard of entry to high schools and colleges. There is still a long way to go for China to change from exam-oriented to well-rounded education.
1. What change has taken place since this September?| A．Students have no homework. | B．Parents have to correct homework. |
| C．After-school tutoring institutions disappear. | D．The burden of students become less. |
| A．An education to develop students in many ways. |
| B．An education to encourage students to achieve high scores. |
| C．An education to train students to deal with exams. |
| D．An education to put young students’ health in danger. |
| A．To welcome the new policy. | B．To introduce the new policy. |
| C．To support the new policy. | D．To question the new policy. |
| A．In a text book. | B．In a novel. |
| C．In an education magazine. | D．In a diary |
7 . Summer floods are an annual occurrence for many cities across China. According to the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, in 2012, urban flooding affected 184 cities, while in 2013 the number was 234, and last year it was 125, it said. Now, new measures are being introduced to reduce loss of life and the economic damage caused by flooding.
One of the most effective measures to increase the efficiency of storm drains in cities would be to reduce the storm-water runoff and raise the levels of water filtration（过滤）and conservation in urban areas, experts said. To solve the problem of urban flooding once and for all, the central government has decided to push forward the "Sponge City" program, which in part borrows the experiences of low-impact development from the United States and Canada in recent years.
The program will allow at least 60 percent of rainwater to soak into the ground, rather than being discharged into rivers. The level of filtration could be further raised in some areas with low levels of rainfall to increase the use of rainwater. The project includes the development of residential communities with storage ponds, filtration pools and wetlands, plus roads and squares built with materials that will allow storm water to soak into the ground more effectively, according to the guideline.
"It would require a major shift in ideas about urban construction. Rainwater should be regarded as a resource, rather than a burden to be dealt with. Concepts of urban construction should shift from the destruction of the ecosystem to its renewal," Chen Zhenggao, Minister of Housing and Urban-rural Development, told a work conference in May. "If the urban runoff cannot be effectively filtered into the ground, the floods that follow will cause the direct loss of life and property," he said. He also believes low-impact development represents the future of the country's urbanization drive. "It（the dealing with storm water）is an issue of public security. Thus it should be a compulsory requirement when new urban areas are being planned and built," he said.
1. The purpose to build a "Sponge City" is to________.| A．reduce the storm-water runoff in urban areas |
| B．raise the levels of water filtration and conservation |
| C．address the problem of urban flooding permanently |
| D．achieve low-impact development with borrowed experiences |
| A．At most 60% of rainwater is to soak into the ground. |
| B．The level of filtration could be increased in areas with more rainfall. |
| C．Residential communities should be replaced by ponds, pools and wetlands |
| D．Roads should be built with materials allowing water to soak into the ground |
| A．Floods take place because of the shift of the ecosystem |
| B．Floods will not happen when, urban runoff is filtered into rivers. |
| C．New urban construction concept means replacement of the ecosystem. |
| D．Low-impact urban development is a must to solve the issue of public security. |
| A．Summer floods have always been an issue for cities |
| B．"Sponge City" program is set to soak up urban floodwater. |
| C．Rainwater should be regarded as a resource rather than a burden. |
| D．Low-impact development can change the situation of urban ecosystem |
Changing China
I've visited many amazing cities over the years, but Shanghai is the most spectacular I've ever seen in my life. When you see Pudong's incredible collection of space-age skyscrapers up close, it's almost impossible to believe that in 1990 there was nothing there
I've been in China for nearly 20 years, and while Beijing is still China's cultural and political centre, Shanghai
After 25 years of rapid industrial development, China is now
I've just got back to my hotel room, which is "only" on the fifty-fourth floor. And as I look across the Huangpu River at the millions of lights
China’s industrial output is expected to rise by around 6.5 percent this year,
The increase is 0.5 percentage points higher than the
“The country’s industrial economy has maintained steady and sound
The ministry also
According to Miao, the country will also publish policies
10 . U.S. resident Donald Trump announced on June 1, 2017, that the United States would exit the Paris Agreement. Hours later, a broad group of governors and business leaders declared that they would support the climate deal anyway and continue tackling global warming on their own. To date, however, not enough
On September 8, tens of thousands of people took part in marches and other events across the U.S.,
The “Rise for Climate” protest was headed up by
Hundreds of other actions took place in roughly 90 countries around the world. As part of a coordinated effort, those responses struck back at the dangerously regressive(倒退的) policies of the Trump administration. Those policies have sought to pull down the rules
“Today, people across the country are rising up for climate in their communities to fight back against Trump’s toxic agenda. They are sending a message to every politician
The protests were planned surrounding the summit in San Francisco for a week, with organizers hoping to draw attention to air pollution.
