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The Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Some parents send their children to the best schools or even to England, the US or Australia, though this costs too much. Many also want their children to learn a musical instrument or ballet that will give them a head 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 couples buy a computer for their son or daughter.
However, what most parents fail to see is that the best education they can give their children is usually very cheap. Parents can see that their children’s skills vary (变化); they will usually be skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today’s children don’t believe in themselves.
The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study effectively. They are not teaching them the most important skills they need 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 gradually finish his job successfully. The result, a well-cooked dinner, will give a child a lot of pleasure and confidence.
An old machine such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child as a toy may make him curious and interested. If he will spend hours looking at it, and try to repair it; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. Such activities do more than teach a child to read a book; but they teach them to think, and to use their minds. This is much more important than learning by reading a book.
Title:How Chinese Parents Should 1. their Children | ||
Common practice | ◆ Being2. with money when it comes to education. ◆ Sending them to the best 3._________ or abroad. ◆ Taking extra-curriculum activities to have a head start in life. ◆4.________ more money than they can afford on education. | |
5._______results | ◆ Children will be lack (缺少) of confidence. | |
6.___ | ◆ Teaching their children practical skills, which are of the greatest7.____. | Cooking. |
Sewing. | ||
Other8.____________ . | ||
Repairing a broken radio or TV. | ||
Good results | ◆ To make the children hard-working, 9.___and confident. ◆ To enable(使---能够)them to10.___ and to use their minds. | |
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195 countries reached an agreement on December 12 to do with climate(气候) change. It’s the first time in history that most of the world’s countries, rich or poor, agreed to take action. The meeting lasted two weeks. The agreement sets the long-time goal of making sure the world temperature does not get 2°C higher than the levels in the 1800s. Otherwise there will be serious problems on Earth like natural disasters.
The agreement also asks countries to volunteer to make promises based on each country’s economy(经济), politics and technology. For developed countries, they will do even more. They have a plan to offer over $100 billion (about 647 billion yuan) to help poorer countries develop clean energy like water and wind power.
Besides, there are some legally binding (法律约束的) rules. Those countries need to set national goals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions (排放) every five years. And they will publicly report their progress every five years starting in 2023.
However, the Paris Agreement alone won’t solve the climate change problem. The future depends on how well each country will carry out their promises.
1.What is the meeting’s agreement on? (no more than 6 words)
__________________________________________________________
2.How long did the meeting last?(no more than 3 words)
__________________________________________________________
3.What will the poorer countries use the money to do？(no more than 4 words)
__________________________________________________________
4.How often will they publicly report their progress starting in 2023? (no more than 3 words)
__________________________________________________________
5. Where was the meeting held? (no more than 2 words)
根据句意用所给单词的适当形式填空。每空不限填一词。
1.Because of the strong El Nino, there is a strong(possible) that floods will hit the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River this summer.
2. All these words _____________ (write) on the blackboard early this morning.
3.What? Jack had his purse ______________ (steal) on the bus? How careless he was!
4.It’s exciting that the thirty-first Olympic Games ________(hold) in Rio, Brazil this summer.
5.Do you know which shop he went to ______________( buy ) paintings for this new house？
根据句意和汉语提示写出单词，完成句子。每空限填一词。
1.Yuan Longping has devoted all his life to _________(开发) a new type of hybrid rice plant.
2.She said she would never forget some pleasant___________ (经历)While working in China.
3. A young man moved like(闪电) and caught the little girl before she fell in front of a running bus.
4. I don’t like that my mother always ______________ (比较) me with my classmates.
5. —Paul is very (相像的) in appearance to his brother.
—They are twins. Don’t you know that?
What is the best-selling book in the world? Is it the Harry Potter series or Secret Garden? According to the Guinness World Records, the Xinhua Dictionary, published by the Commercial Press in China, is the world’s most popular dictionary and the best-selling book.
In 1950, Chinese language experts(专家) and scholars, Wei Jiangong and Ye Shengtao, started to edit(编辑) the Xinhua Dictionary. There was a lot of discussion, research and paper work. Some hand scripts (稿件) were checked again and again like compositions, People’s Daily reported. Many people’s hard work and interesting stories went into making the dictionary.
In 1953, the first Xinhua Dictionary was published. Today, 567 million copies of the dictionary have been sold worldwide.
However, revisions (修订) to the dictionary continue to be made. According to Yu Guilin from Commercial Press, editors(编辑) usually summarize (总结) the meaning of words again while revising. If the example sentences are out of date, editors need to have experiences and make new examples. “To give a correct explanation of the word ‘焗油 (deep condition)’ , one editor went to a barber shop (理发店) to experience it for himself,” Yu told the Beijing Times. So far, the Xinhua Dictionary has been revised 11 times.
To keep up with the times, some popular and widely used internet words are also added to the dictionary. For example, in the 11th edition, the phrases “晒工资 (show off salary)” and “晒照片 (show off pictures)” were included.
All these efforts create the “National Dictionary” of China. The Xinhua Dictionary is not only a useful tool for generations of Chinese people. It also helps foreigners who are learning the Chinese language and culture.
1.According to Guinness World Records, the best-selling book is _____.
A. the Xinhua Dictionary
B. the Harry Potter series
C. Secret Garden
D. Guinness Book of World Records
2.What’s the meaning of the underlined word “scholars” in the second paragraph?
A. 校长 B. 学长 C. 学者D. 学生
3.Which of the following is NOT true about the first Xinhua Dictionary?
A. Wei Jiangong and Ye Shengtao edited it.
B. The editors had a lot of discussions, did research and paper work.
C. The editors checked the hand scripts again and again.
D. The first Xinhua Dictionary was published in 1950.
4.While revising the dictionary, the editors _____.
A. just need to read and correct the printing mistakes
B. make new examples for the words
C. have to go to a barber shop to experience deep conditioning
D. have to change all the examples of the words
5.According to the article, the Xinhua Dictionary _____.
A. has to include internet words
B. is little help for foreign learners
C. is better than any other dictionary
D. tries to keep up with the times
Even kids know that we should wait for the traffic light to turn green before crossing a road, but not everybody follows this basic rule.
“Chinese style road crossing” has become a hot expression recently. Chinese people “cross roads without thinking about traffic lights, so long as（只要）they are part of a crowd”, said a post on Sina Weibo.
A CCTV news program showed that in only an hour, more than 600 people jumped red lights when crossing a road at a crossing in Shijiazhuang, Hebei.
Many people say that they jaywalk（乱闯马路）because the red light lasts too long. Such an opinion is supported by a research team at Tongji University. The team did research on people’s waiting times at different road crossings from 2008 to 2010. They found that Chinese people would wait for 70 to 90 seconds before they lost their patience. “People are likely to ignore(忽视) the light when the waiting time is longer than they can stand,” said Ni Ying, a member of the research team.
However, a survey on Sina Weibo suggested that half of the respondents（调查对象）believe that people jaywalk mainly because they disregard（忽视）rules.“I always obey traffic rules. Time is important but safety should come first,” wrote “Qixiaoe” on Weibo.
Many countries give out punishments to jaywalkers. In Singapore, the maximum(最大量) can be three months in prison. Some Chinese cities have started taking some actions, too. For example, the first three people in a jaywalking group will be fined 50 yuan in Shijiazhuang.
But calling on people to respect rules is more important. To completely solve the problem, everyone should realize the importance of obeying the traffic rules.
1. Which of the following is the “Chinese style road crossing”?
A. To wait for the traffic light to turn green.
B. To cross a road slowly.
C. To cross roads without looking at traffic lights.
D. To follow the basic traffic lights.
2.What does the phrase “the team” in Paragraph 4 refer to (指的是)?
A. A CCTV news program.
B. A research group at Tongji University.
C. A post on Sina Weibo.
D. A daily newspaper.
3. How long will Chinese people wait to cross the road before they lose patience?
A. Less than one minute.
B. About five minutes.
C. Less than one and a half minutes.
D. More than ten minutes.
4. Why do people jaywalk according to the survey on Sina Weibo?
A. Because there are too many people on the road.
B. Because the red light lasts too long.
C. Because people don’t pay much attention to rules.
D. Because people have less patience.
5.The writer suggests that we should________ to solve the problem of jaywalking.
A. punish the jaywalkers
B. disregard the traffic rules
C. reduce the time of red lights
D. call on people to obey the traffic lights
