The Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Some parents send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the US or Australia, regardless of how much this costs. Many also want their children to take extra-curriculum activities (课外活动) where they either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes that will give them a better start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is, so parents often spend a large amount of money on education. Even poor parents manage to buy a computer for their son or daughter.
In fact, most parents fail to see that the best education they can give their children is usually very cheap. Parents can see that their children’s skills are different; they will usually be skilled in some areas while poor in others. However, they fail to realize that today's children are lack (缺乏) of self-respect and self-confidence.
The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take exams and how to study effectively. They are not teaching them the most important skills they need. They do not teach them to be confident, happy and clever.
Parents can help achieve this by teaching their children practical skills like cooking, sewing and other housework.
Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and finish his job step by step. The result, a well--cooked dinner, will give a child a lot of satisfaction and confidence. All these will help the children step to success in the future.
An old machine such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child as a toy may make him curious and arouse(唤醒) his interest. If he will spend hours looking at it, and try to mend it; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. Such activities do more than teaching a child to read a book. They teach them to think and to use their minds. This is much more important than learning by reading a book.
1. Is the writer satisfied with the Chinese parents’ ideas of educating their children?
2. Put the underlined sentence “the more expensive an education is, the better it is” into Chinese.
3.What are the children lack of today?
4. How is the experience of cooking according to the fifth paragraph?
5.What does the underlined word “They” refer to(所指的是) in the last paragraph?
C）根据对话内容，从下面方框中选择适当的单词或词组填空，使对话内容完整正确，并将答案填写相应位置上。
By the time he was 13 years old, a rare disease had taken away Erik Weihenmayer’s eyesight. Although he lost his eyesight, he did not lose his 1. . On May 25th, 2001, the 32-year-old man became the first blind person to climb the world’s2. mountain. Erick is not only a world-class mountain climber but also a good skier and skydiver. He3. long-distance cycle races and run several marathons. He hopes to become one of the youngest people to climb all of the “Seven Summits”, the highest mountains on each of the world’s seven continents. 4. the best thing he has done, 5. , is showing the world that it is possible to overcome even the greatest difficulties.
B）根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. The amazing magic show made Liu Qian is as __________(popular) as Jay Chou.
2. The year of 2039 will be the ___________(hundred) birthday of our country.
3. All of us are preparing everything for the charity show ________(active).
4. All the people around cheered when the policemen saved the three _________ (child) lives successfully.
5. In order to improve his spoken English, Jim spends as much time as possible ______(practice) every day.
6. Not only you but also I ______(allow) to join the party yesterday.
A）根据括号中所给的汉语写出单词，使句子意思完整正确。
1. People ran in all ______(方向) in fear when the earthquake hit the city suddenly.
2. A video game will bring us ________(无尽的) hours of fun.
3. Water turns into ice if the temperature drops ______(低于) 0℃.
4. The boy was badly hurt in the traffic accident. He ________(几乎不) said a word when he was sent to the hospital.
5. Cities are getting much more ______(拥挤的) because of the new immigrants.
Millions of stars are travelling about in space. A few form groups which travel together, but most of them travel alone.
And they travel through a universe which is so large that one star seldom comes near to another. For the most important part each star makes its journey in complete loneliness, like a ship on an empty ocean. The ship will be well over a million miles from its nearest neighbour. From this it is easy to understand why a star seldom finds another anywhere near it.
We believe, however, that some two thousand million years ago, another star wandering(漫游) through space, happened to come near our sun just as the sun and the moon raised its tides(潮汐) on the earth, so this star must have raised tides on the surface of the sun. But they were very different from the small tides that are raised in our oceans; A large tidal(潮汐的) wave must have travelled over the surface of the sun, at last forming a mountain so high that we cannot imagine it. As the cause of the disturbance came nearer, so the mountain rose higher and higher. And before the star began to move away again, its tidal pull had become so powerful that this mountain was torn to pieces and thrown off small parts of itself into space.
These small pieces have been going round the sun ever since. They are the planets.
1.Most stars are _________________________.
A. following a regular path in space
B. moving about without a fixed course
C. seldom wandering about in the universe
D. always travelling together
2.Some two thousand years ago, the mountain on the sun was raised probably because _____________.
A. the star moved away from the sun
B. another star happened to come near the sun
C. the sun and the moon raised the tides on the earth
D. a large tidal of wave travelled over the surface of the sun
3.The article suggests that _______________.
A. how space formed
B. our earth exists before the sun
C. no one knows where the earth comes from
D. our earth used to be a high mountain in the sun
4.The expression “the cause of the disturbance” refers to ________.
A. the large tidal wave B. the powerful tidal pull
C. the star coming near the sun D. one of sun’s planets
5. In the article, the writer mainly wants to tell us ______________.
A. where the planets in the universe came from
B. how the high mountains were formed on the sun
C. that the universe is so large that we cannot imagine it
D. why the tides over the surface of the sun were so powerful
You may have known several kinds of police --- traffic police, fire police and street police. But have you ever heard of energy-saving(节能) policeman?
A group of 22 energy-saving policemen went to work last week in Beijing. They go around the city to see the use of energy in hotels, office buildings, shopping centers and other public places. One of their aims is to make sure that these places have set their air conditioning(空调) no cooler than 26℃.
They also set up a special phone line so that people can tell them which buildings fail to follow the rule.
“If everyone sets their air conditioning at 26℃, Beijing will save 400 million kilowatthour of electricity in one summer. That’s one-third of all the usages of the city in the season,” said a TV advertisement.
Other Chinese cities, like Wuhan in Hubei Province and Yangzhou in Jiansu Province, are going to follow Beijing’s steps in setting up a similar police team.
As one of the fastest developing countries, China is using a lot of energy. This has a great effect on the country’s environment and limited(有限的) energy.
From 1986 to 2005, the country experienced 20 warm winters continuously(连续). Numbers show that Chinese cities have to spend billions of yuan solving environmental problems every year.
At the beginning of this month, China made its first action plan to fight pollution. It aims to reduce energy usage by 20% and increase renewable(可更新的) energy up to 10% from 7% by 2010.
To introduce the public to a green life, last week Beijing held a show on energy-saving technology and productions. Environment-friendly machines, such as a vending machine that helps collect used bottles, have attracted lots of attention. “We want to tell people that there are certain ways to protect the environment. Each of us can find effective ways to do it on our daily lives,” said Liu Qianguang, an environmental engineer in Beijing.
1.The job of the energy-saving policemen is ______.
A. to set up a special phone line
B. to set the air conditioning cooler
C. to check the use of energy in public places
D. to make sure that more energy will be produced
2.Beijing uses ______ million kilowatt-hour electricity in summer.
A. 1200. B. 800. C. 400. D. 133.
3.Which of the following years’ winters were all warm in China?
A. 1968—1988. B. 1999—2003. C. 2002—2006. D. 2005—2009.
4.In the year 2010 China’s energy usages is going to be cut by ______.
A. 7%. B. 10%. C. 17%. D. 20%.
5.According to Liu Qianguang, ______.
A. there are few ways to protect the environment
B. it’s difficult to find good ways to save energy
C. it’s easy for one to do something good for the environment
D. it’s difficult for one to do something good for the environment
