随着我国经济的飞速发展,世界与中国的联系越来越紧密,中国在世界舞台上扮演着越来越重要的角色。几位外国友人正在谈论对中国的看法,同学们更需要全方面了解自已的祖国,才能为世界介绍好中国。请根据提示信息,写一篇英语短文。

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1. 来自美国的 Bruce 曾经在中国学习过,喜欢中国的校园,和中国的朋友交朋友。

2. 来自英国的Carol来中国几次,喜欢中国的名胜（places of interest）和美食。

3. 来自加拿大的David喜欢中国产品,喜欢在中国购物和移动支付（mobile payment)方式。

4. …

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1. 短文必须包含提示的所有内容,可以适当发挥;

2. 90词左右,文章开头已经给出,不计入总词数。

With the rapid development of China's economy, more and more foreigners have a better understanding of China.

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    A poor farmer had a friend who was famous for the wonderful apples he grew.

One day, his friend gave the farmer a young apple tree and told him to take it home and plant it. 75.The farmer was pleased with the gift, but when he got home he did not know where to plant it.

He was 74①_________    that if he planted the tree near the road, strangers would steal the fruit. If he planted the tree on his farm, his neighbors would come at night and steal some of the apples. If he planted the tree near his house, his children would take the fruit.

Finally he planted the tree in a forest where no one could see it. But74②__________ sunlight and good soil, the tree soon died.

Later, the friend asked the farmer why he had planted the tree in such a poor place. "What's the difference?" the farmer said loudly. uIf I had planted the tree near the road , strangers would have stolen the fruit. If I had planted the tree on my farm, my neighbors would have come at night and stolen some of the apples. If I had planted it near my house, my74③_______children would have taken the fruit."

“Yes," said his friend, "but at least someone could have enjoyed the fruit. Now no one can get a taste of the fruit . What's worse, you have destroyed a good apple tree!"

1.What was the farmer's friend good at?(No more than 7 words)

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2.Why didn't the farmer want to plant the tree in his field?(No more than 10 words)

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3.Why did the young tree die in the end?(No more than 8 words)

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4.Fill in each blank in the passage with a proper word.

①__________ ②____________ ③ _____________

5.Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 into Chinese.

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6.What does the story tell us?(No less than 5 words)

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Thank you for giving me some useful ____________(建议). It's of great value to me.

Tony's mum looks young and beautiful. It's hard to imagine she is already in her __________(五十).

Too much time is s___________ on computer games by teenagers every day.

T____________ his efforts he succeeded in making so many useful inventions.

Though money isn't everything, it still m____________ a lot to the poor.

    Here is a famous story about the Great Wall of China. The story happened in the Qin Dynasty（秦朝）.1.Do you want to know more about the love story?

One day, the emperor, Qin Shi Huang, ordered his soldiers(士兵)to capture (抓捕)some young men. He sent the young men to build the Great Wall.

A young man named Fan Xiliang didn't want to get captured. 2.. He had nowhere to go and didn't know where to hide. When he heard the soldiers coming towards him, he was terrified. At that time, a woman named Lady Meng Jiang was passing by Fan Xiliang. She saw the poor man and saved him. Fan Xiliang said thanks to Lady Meng Jiang.3. Later on they got married.

Unfortunately, Fan Xiliang was found and captured. He was sent to the Great Wall and worked there. Lady Meng Jiang waited for her husband day and night.

Winter came, but Fan Xiliang failed to return.4.She took the warm clothes to the Great Wall, but she didn't find Fan Xiliang. Someone told her that Fan Xiliang had died and that he was buried in the Great Wall.5..

She cried so sadly that a part of the Great Wall collapsed(倒塌)and she finally found Fan Xiliang's body.

A.Lady Meng Jiang stayed by the wall and kept crying day and night.

B.After a few days' being together, they fell in love with each other.

C.He ran away from his home and planned to hide somewhere.

D.Lady Meng Jiang prepared some warm clothes for her husband.

E.It was a moving love story.

    Who is LiZiqi? For7 million YouTube viewers and 20 million Weibo users, that's an easy question to answer. The 29-year-old vlogger's videos about her rural life recently went viral (走红). Her fans call her "the goddess of nature".

She is not unworthy of this title. Cooking, painting, designing, farming…she is a master of many kinds of skills. In her videos, Li wears hanfu that she made herself. She also raises silkworms(养蚕)in order to make quilts. Li grows plants as well. She is often seen preparing meals with vegetables picked from her backyard. She eats a seasonal(季节性的)diet.

"She performs the work of a farmer with the grace(优雅)）of a fairy(仙子)"the South China Morning Post said.

Li was raised by her grandparents in a small village in Sichuan province. When she was 14, she went to the city to work, but returned to the countryside in 2012 to take care of her sick grandmother.

To make a living, Li runs an online store. At first, she just used her videos to advertise her products. But the simple pleasures she presented quickly won her many fans. "In such a tech-driven age, where everything comes so quickly, it's beautiful to watch such a slow process unfold without stress," one of her fans said online.

For her global fans, what is even more interesting is Li's deep knowledge of food, nature and Chinese culture. "I can see how good Chinese people are at cooking! I never thought of preserving(保存)meat like that!" one foreign fan wrote on YouTube.

As China Daily said, Li shows the world that Chinese people love good food and are good at making art out of the simplest materials. With her videos, she has spread Chinese culture to the world.

1.What's the probable meaning of the underlined word advertise?

A.制造 B.建议 C.做广告 D.注意

2.What does the writer mainly want to tell us in the fifth paragraph?

A.why Li made the videos. B.why Li runs an online store

C.how fans got less stressed. D.why fans liked Li and her videos

3.Which is the correct order according to the passage?

①Li came back to the village to look after her sick grandmother.

②Li made videos to advertise the products she sold in her online store.

③Li grew up in a small village with her grandmother.

④Li became famous at home and abroad because of the videos.

⑤Li practised all kinds of skills, such as cooking, painting, designing, farming.

A.③⑤①②④ B.③①⑤②④ C.⑤③①②④ D.⑤②③①④

4.Where can you probably find this article?

A.An advertisement. B.A science book. C.A newspaper. D.A storybook.

1.What animal can cause heart attacks?

A.The marbled cone snail. B.Death stalker scorpions.

C.Puffer fish. D.The box jellyfish.

2.How many animals in the passage can paralyse people?

A.Three. B.Four. C.Five. D.Six.

3.From the passage, we can know_________________________.

A.The marbled cone snail lives in the sea.

B.Puffer fish is safe to eat.

C.The Brazilian wandering spider looks like a banana.

D.A cobra can kill 20 humans in7 minutes.

4.What's the meaning of the underlined word "venom"?

A.毒液 B.毒牙 C.病毒 D.毒气