As Chinese, I’m sure you know something about Taichi. It’s a kind of sport and one of the symbols of Chinese culture.
Taichi is common in China. If you walk through a park, you might see people doing these slow and beautiful actions. They are doing Taichi, an ancient art called Wushu. Doing Taichi is good for our health. It can make us walk and move freely. During slow actions we can pay special attention to our hands and feet. We can control them better. Taichi also mixes slow actions and deep breaths perfectly. People will become healthier by practicing it.
But Taichi is more than a kind of sport. It shows how we see the world as well. The world is full of yin and yang, such as dark and light, soft and hard, full and empty etc. Taichi sets up good relationships between yin and yang, while they aren’t opposite. Just like the picture on the left, a white circle is in the black area and a black circle is in the white area. After a dark night, the sun will rise. Leaves fall in autumn but grow in spring. Everything keeps changing— that is how we should see the world. Yin and yang depend on each other and make differences to each other. That is why humans can get on well with nature and people can use softness to beat hardness. Taichi makes full of yin and yang. In China, Taichi has been practiced for about 600 years. At present, more people are encouraged to join in the Taichi and pass it on. Over 100 million people in more than 150 countries practice Taichi. It is getting more and more popular in the world. |
1. The actions of Taichi are ________.
| A． |
slow and beautiful |
B． |
quick and free |
C． |
quick and beautiful |
2. The underline word “them” refers to (指的是) ________.
| A． |
Wushu and sport |
B． |
walking and moving |
C． |
hands and feet |
3. What does Taichi show us?
| A． |
It shows us that yin and yang are opposite. |
| B． |
It shows us that nothing is changing. |
| C． |
It shows us the relationships between yin and yang. |
4. How long has Taichi been practiced in China?
| A． |
For about 600 years. |
| B． |
For about 100 years. |
| C． |
For about 150 years. |
5. We can most probably read this article in ________ in a newspaper.
| A． |
BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT |
| B． |
SPORTS & CULTURE |
| C． |
TRAVEL & TRANSPORTATION |
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News 1 Huang Heshan, a boy from Xinghua, has moved(感动) many people in Taizhou. Thanks to Huang Heshan, Yang Kangshao can go to school every day. Yang is disabled, but Huang Heshan carries him to school on his back. It’s eight years since he started to do that. They help each other. At school, Yang helps Huang with his study, too. Huang says that he feels happy when he can do something to help disabled people. |
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News 2 In Taizhou City, Ren Min Park is a good place for families to have fun. There are many green trees and the air is fresh. People can have different activities in the park. However, we can also find the waste bags and other rubbish everywhere. How can we get such bad environment? Now it’s time to keep the park clean if we want to have a nice field trip. |
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News 3 On March 25, more than four thousand people started to run from Jiangsu Taizhou Middle School. All the runners ran about 4.7 kilometers. They took part in the activity to lead a healthy life and show the spirit of the people in Taizhou. After running, many runners signed their names on the wall. |
In News 1, we know Huang Heshan has helped Yang Kangshao for _____.
| A．eighteen years | B．eighty years | C．eight months | D．eight years |
We should _____ if we want to have a nice field trip in Ren Min Park.
| A．throw the rubbish |
| B．find some waste bags |
| C．plant more trees |
| D．help keep the environment clean |
To lead a healthy life, over four thousand people _____ on March 25.
| A．cleaned the park |
| B．signed their names on the wall |
| C．ran about 4.7 kilometers |
| D．started to help disabled people |
According to the news, we can know something happened in _____.
| A．Beijing | B．Taizhou | C．Guangzhou | D．Shanghai |
We may know the news above from _____.
| A．a newspaper | B．a book | C．a magazine | D．a poster |
Jane Scott is fourteen and the year before last she began to study in a middle school. She likes dancing and singing and spends a lot of time on them. But she hates math and does not work hard at it. She thinks it difficult to learn. She falls behind her classmates and once failed the math exam. She decides to drop it. Her father is angry with her when he knows about it.
It was Sunday. Mr Scott gave a call to his sister, who teaches math in another school. He hoped she would come and tell his daughter how to learn math. The woman came quickly and said. “You’re a clever girl, Jane. I’m sure you’ll soon do well in math if you work hard at it.”
“I’m afraid I can’t, Aunt,” said Jane, “Girls can’t be good at math.”
“I don’t think so,” said the woman. “I was good at it when was a girl. You must do more exercises and practice a math problem again and again until you master it. Remember: Practice makes perfect. Well, it’s a math problem. Think about it and practice it again, and you’ll work it out.”
“OK,” said the girl, “Let me try.”
About an hour later, Jane took the exercise book to her aunt and said, “I’ve done the problem ten times.”
“Well done!” her aunt said happily, “What result did you get?”
“Ten answers.”Jane has difficulty in learning ______.
| A．dancing | B．math | C．singing | D．English |
Jane Why does Jane fall behind classmates in math?
| A．Because it’s too difficult to learn. |
| B．Because she isn’t clever. |
| C．Because she spends much time on any other lesson. |
| D．Because she doesn’t study it hard. |
Mr Scott wanted her sister to help with her because______.
| A．She was a math teacher |
| B．Jane loved her very much. |
| C．Jane was afraid of her. |
| D．He knew nobody except her. |
The woman told her _______.
| A．it is not difficult to learn math |
| B．to work hard at math |
| C．math is important |
| D．She was clever at math |
Which of the following is true?
| A．Jane has learned math. |
| B．Jane agreed with her aunt. |
| C．The woman is pleased with Jane’s answers |
| D．Jane hasn’t worked out the math problem at all. |
If you have had a volunteer experience, share it with other readers. Also you can tell us about the worst volunteer experience you’ve had. And tell us how to improve.
| Volunteering is inspiring. Volunteering is inspiring. I never had the interest to volunteer until I was in my late 20s. Volunteering gave me the best experience in social life. Now I’m confident to do my challenging work. I thank volunteering more and more. --Guest Wilton |
| Animal rescue (营救) 11 years ago, as a member of our local Great Dance Club, I volunteered to help with animals. Now I am the founder of Animal rescuers. And it covers all Texas. I’ve placed the homeless dogs in homes from Maine to California, and have met some of the worst and some of the best people on the planet. I only regret that I didn’t volunteer sooner. --Guest Jerry Dunham |
| Terrible experience I was asked to help out in the computer lab because I was a computer expert. When I arrived, a person (another volunteer) there was very rude to me, said she didn’t need any help. I was speechless and left. It really made me sad and I didn’t offer to volunteer again. --Guest Rebecca |
Sam is twenty-seven now. He’s tall and strong. He worked hard in the small field. He’s known a girl called Mabel for three years, who lives in another village. He wishes she could marry him soon, but she won’t marry him until he has built a new house. He hasn’t enough money. Of course it’s difficult for him to do so.
Winter had come and the fields were covered with thick snow. Sam had nothing to do at home. Mabel told him to find some temporary employment in the town. He thought she was right and came to Mr White’s factory, where he carried stones from the hill to the workplaces. It was hard work but he was paid more. At the end of the month Mr White paid the young man nearly two thousand dollars. He was very happy. He hurried to the post office, but it was closed. He had a look at the clock on the wall. It was half past five, and he was told to go there the next morning. He had to return to the factory. He felt hungry and went into a restaurant and ate something. He didn’t see a thief following him, and as soon as he sat at table, the man sat down next to him and asked him to drink a cup with him. He agreed and drank a lot. And when he woke up two hours later, his money was stolen. He was sad of it and cried for a long time.
The following day Mr White saw the young man’s eyes were red and asked what had happened to him. He told him about it and at last he said, “I worked for the thief last month!”
根据材料内容选择最佳答案，将其标号填入题前括号内。Mabel doesn’t marry Sam because _______.
| A．he lives in a small field | B．he’s a poor farmer |
| C．he lives in an old house | D．he is too tall |
Mabel asked Sam to ______.
| A．make money in the town | B．borrow some money from his friend |
| C．spend the winter in town | D．build a house in her village |
The underlined word “temporary employment” means _______.
| A．许多钞票 | B．全职工作 | C．临时工作 | D．轻松工作 |
Sam went the post office to _____.
| A．ring up Mabel | B．post the money | C．buy some stamps | D．post a letter |
The money was stolen when ______.
| A．Sam left the factory | B．Sam went into the restaurant |
| C．Sam ate something in the restaurant | D．the thief got Sam drunk. |
Jiang Wen and his new film are at the top of the world - the world of Chinese cinema. His Let the Bullets Fly has just broken the box-office record for a Chinese film with some 700 million yuan ($107 million). It is such a big success that wherever you go, you can hear people talking about Bullets.
This time, he is not just the leading actor in the film, ______ also the _______ himself. Young people believe he was playing himself because to them, he himself is a true man. And experts also think highly of his way of telling stories. It seems that he does not need others to tell him how great he is ––– not any more.
That does not mean he is not proud of Bullets. It’s just that Bullets, for him, is fun. He has heard of all the political interpretations（政治隐喻的解读）of his story that have up across the Web and mainstream media（主流媒体）.
The most wonderful scenes in his movies all seem to have something to do with reality, for example, in Bullets opens with a train pulled by white horses.
"I did not invent this set-up. For 30 years in the early 20th century, there was a part of rail line in Northeast China that was powered by horses," he explains, "You may come up with the most unlikely scenes, and you’ll find that fact is stranger than fiction." 根据上下文在空格处填入所需单词使句意完整、正确。 _________、__________
将划线句子译成中文： ____________________________________________________.
在文中找出下面句子的同义句：
The film is so successful that it’s popular with people almost everywhere.
__________________________________________________________________________What do young people think of his performance in the film?
___________________________________________________________________________What is this article mainly about?
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