Confucius was born on August 27th,551 BC in Zou, China. He was great teacher at that time. Confucius is also as Kong Qiu. It is generally thought that he was born into a rich family. However, some people describe him as being born into a poor family.
Confucius’ beliefs were based on the concept of self-discipline(自律). He believed a leader need to exercise self-discipline. His teaching ideas focused on the “Six Art”. To Confucius, the main goal of a teacher was to teach people to live with honest. his teaching he made a big difference in that society.
Confucius is famous for writing. He wrote some of the traditional Chinese works, one of is the Book of Odes (《诗经》). He also wrote a historical book of Lu, called the Spring and Autumn Annals (《春秋》). Confucius also Lunyu. It was so important in Chinese culture that everyone in China knew it.
Confucius died November 21st,479 BC in Qufu, China. Today he is regarded as one of the greatest teachers in Chinese history.
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【2014年福建省龙岩市中考】完形填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的三个选项（A、B和C）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
What are the British like when they learn languages?
is said that the British are the worst language learners in Europe —62 percent of them can’t speak other language except their own! 38 percent of them speak at least one foreign language, only18 percent speak two.
Learning a foreign language is not at school in Britain; children start studying a foreign language at 11 and many completely at 14. So why don’t young people studying languages at school?
The government is now looking at different ways to language learning. One idea is to start much and introduce foreign languages when kids are five. idea is to give school children more choice—they can choose to study their favorite language.
It may be difficult to people’s attitude(态度) to learning languages but the government has decided to have a try!A. That B. It C. This
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【2012苏州市中考】Is the art of conversation dying? The other day, my wife two teenage children did something we haven’t for ages. It didn’t require the Internet, a TV screen, batteries… or anything else for that matter. But we all it so much we’re thinking of doing it again sometime.
We had a conversation. The kind of real, live conversation that was when I was growing up, but which seems all too rare these days. Today we have chat rooms, text messages, e-mails but we seem to be losing the of communicating face-to-face. We all know young people are out on a date(约会）these days, they spend most of that time their mobile phones. And teenagers nowadays seem to communicating with their friends by sending text messages rather than actually to them.
If we carry on like this，in the future, we’ll lose the use of our . What do you think? E-mail me, and who knows? Maybe we could even have a real conversation about it!
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【2012年山东济南】In 1608 an Englishman named Thomas Coryate traveled in Italy .He liked the country and down everything interesting. But he found one thing interesting than the others. In his diary Thomas wrote，“ the Italian eat meat，they use small forks. They do not eat with their hands because，as they say，people do not always have hands.” Before he went back to England，Thomas Coryate bought a few .
At home Thomas had a dinner party to show the forks to his friends. When the steak（牛排）
was brought out，he took out a fork and wanted to the steak as the Italians did in Italy. His friends were when they saw this. He told them what the fork was. They all said that Italians were very strange people because the fork was not easy to use at all. Thomas Coryate tried to prove that his friends were ，so he began to show that it was easy to use the fork. But the first of meat he took with the fork fell to the floor. His friends began to at him and he had to take the fork away.
People in England began to use forks only fifty years later.
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【2012安徽中考】The umbrella is a very common object. It keeps the and the sun off the people. Most umbrellas can be folded up[折叠] so it is to carry them. However,the umbrella has not always been as as it is now. In the past,it was a symbol of importance.Some African countries still use umbrellas in this .Someone carries an umbrella and walks behind the king or important person.
Umbrellas are very old.People in different parts of the world began to umbrellas at different times. The Chinese had them more than 3,000 years ago. From there,umbrellas to India and Egypt. In Greece and Rome, wouldn't use them. They believed umbrellas were only for women. England was the first country in Europe where common people used umbrellas against rain.The weather there is very and umbrellas are very useful. Everybody uses umbrellas today. The next time you 60 one, thinking that for centuries only great men and women used them, you'll feel you are important people,too.
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【2013浙江杭州】Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a distance of about 80 miles. It was late, I was late, and I was driving _________.
At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was _________ on the road by now, but as I came near the light, it turned _________, and I braked to a stop. I looked left, right, and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, _________ there I sat, waiting for the light to _________, the only human being, for at least a mile in any _________.
I started wondering why I _________ to run the light. I was not afraid of being caught, because there was _________ no policeman anywhere around and there certainly would have been no _________ in going through it.
Much later that ________, after I’d met with a group in Lewisburg and had climbed into bed near midnight, the question of why I’d stopped for that light ________ me. I think I stopped ________ it’s part of a contract(契约) we all have with each other. It’s not only the law, but it’s an agreement we have, and we trust each other to follow ________: we don’t go through red lights.
We do ________ we say we’ll do. We show up when we say we’ll show up.
I was so ________ of myself for stopping for that red light. And as no one would ever have known what a good person I was on the road from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, I had to tell s someone.
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