根据短文内容及首字母提示, 填写所缺单词, 使短文意思完整。
For thousands of years, poems have been the favorite types of literature in China. There were many f ___1___poets from different periods of time in Chinese history, and most of their poems are s ___2___ read and enjoyed today.
To remind people of those classic Chinese poems, CCTV has p_____3_____a TV programme called Chinese Poem Competition. The final
of the show’s second s_____4_____was shown in February. A girl named Wu Yishu w___5___ studies at the High School Affiliated to Fudan University, came out to be the w_____6_____of the
competition. She recited lines from the Classic of Poetry: “In July, the crickets(蟋蟀) are in the field; In A ___7___, they are in the yard; In September, they are at the door; In October, the crickets enter and crawl under our beds.” “I really admire her k ___8___of poems. The first time I saw her wearing traditional Han clothing on TV, I was very impressed by her classical looks. She always appears so calm t ___9___the show, which is very unusual for her age,” said Huang Zijin after watching the final show.
Mr. Huang also said we would find Chinese cultures and t_____10_____the beauty of life by enjoying poems.
根据句意用所给的单词的适当形式填空。
1.The (week) talk show “Readers” hosted by Dong Qing has become popular in China.
2.I like the song I Believe I Can Fly because it encourages us to believe in (we).
3.How can you leave your classroom much (tidy) than before? Would you please clean it up after school?
4.On April 20th, 2017, China (success) in sending Tianzhou-1 Cargo Spaceship (天舟一号货运飞船) into space in Wenchang.
5.As a guide, I must pay attention to all the (tour) safety during their trip.
根据句意和汉语提示写出单词, 完成句子。
1.Do you know Zhang Xueyou, a famous (歌手) in Hong Kong, gave a concert in Yancheng last week?
2.As Chinese, we are strongly (反对) US-Korean THAAD.
3.You can’t imagine what difficulty she had (表达) herself clearly at the beginning.
4.He should return the book to me. Actually he has_____(借) it for over two weeks.
5.I think we should pay attention to the (发音) of each word if we want to speak English well.
You run among crowded people in a railway station, only to find that the train has left. Do you feel depressed(沮丧的)? Probably. But if you are in France, someone may play the piano
for you. It might be a performance of Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu or the Pirates of the Caribbean theme song. To our surprise, it is not performed by a paid musician or a street
entertainer asking for coins. Instead, a passer-by jams (即兴演奏) on the piano in the station.
The national railroad company SNCF has put pianos in nearly 100 stations across France. They are rented from Yamaha Corporation. The first piano was set up in the Gare Montparnasse in Paris in 2012.
The pianos have proved to be very popular. In 2014, the SNCF and Yamaha organized a nationwide contest called "Your Turn to Play". It asked participants to upload (上传) video clips of themselves using one of the pianos. At last, about 900 people took part in the contest.
So if you miss a train in France one day, perhaps someone will be playing your favourite piece, and that will reduce your anxiety (焦虑) a bit. Or perhaps you'll sit down, roll up your sleeves and play your sadness away yourself.
回答下面 5 个问题。( 56--58 小题回答不超过 7 个单词。)
1.If you miss a train in France, who may play the piano for you?
2.When was the first piano set up in the Gare Montparnasse in Paris?
3.What was the name of the contest organized by the SNCF and Yamaha in 2014?
4.Why has the company SNCF put pianos in nearly 100 stations across France?
5.If possible, would you like to jam on the piano in such stations? Why or why not?
We brush our teeth every day but few people know how well we’re brushing. Today, a French company has introduced an electric toothbrush, which can work wirelessly (无线地) with a smartphone.
It’s called the Kolibree toothbrush. It has different models, and will cost from $99 to $200.
Users download an app and connect via Bluetooth, and the Kolibree will record 1) the time you spent brushing teeth, 2) whether all areas of your mouth are reached, 3) whether you brush up and down instead of just side to side. Then it will send the information to a mobile phone via Bluetooth, telling you whether you have brushed in a proper way. The Kolibree app records your progress and scores your brushing way to help you improve brushing habits.
The toothbrush will also be able to talk to other apps on your phone, so developers could create a game controlled by your toothbrush. That would be very interesting.
The Kolibree toothbrush was invented by Thomas Serval. He says the idea of inventing it came from his experience as a father. He would come home from work and ask his kids if they had brushed their teeth. They always answered “yes”, but Thomas used to find their toothbrush
heads dry. He decided that a kind of brush was needed to tell him how well they brushed their teeth. Thomas says that one day, it’ll be possible to use a brushing unit with a camera. The camera can even examine holes in your teeth while you brush.
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Do you look like your name? Scientists say there’s a good chance you do.
This comes from a new study published in a magazine. Researchers from Israel found that
our given names may have something to do with our facial (面部的) appearances.
Lead writer Yonat Zwebner of a university, along with her team, did eight different experiments (实验) in Israel and France. The different experiments were set up to answer two main questions:
whether people can correctly guess a person’s name based only on a photo of a face and what is behind this matching effect.
During the experiments, researchers asked students to look at photos of people’s faces and
guess each person’s name from a list of four choices. They correctly guessed the right name 38 percent of the time, which was better than the 25 percent of a random (随机的) guess.
What’s more, when the faces the students looked at came from within their own country, they were able to best match the faces to the names. French students were better at matching only French names and faces while Israeli students were better at matching only Hebrew names and Israeli faces.
Researchers believe it is possible that people change their appearances without paying attention to it, to match their names. One study especially backed up this idea, showing that a hairstyle, something that can be changed by people easily, was enough to guide others in correctly guessing their names.
“Earlier research has shown there are cultural stereotypes (偏见) carried by names, including
how someone should look. For example, people are more likely to imagine a person named Bob to have a rounder face than a person named Tim. We believe these stereotypes can, over time, influence people’s facial appearances,” Zwebner said.
The results of the experiments may even make parents think twice when choosing a name for their children.
“If a name can influence appearance, it can influence many other things. This research opens an important direction that may suggest how parents should consider better the names for their children,” said Zwebner, who recently had a baby herself.
“As parents, it was really difficult for us to name our 12-day-old daughter as we know the meanings of names.”
1.One of the purposes of the experiments is to _.
A. give the students a chance to know each other
B. explain what influences our facial appearances
C. find out different characteristics carried by different names
D. see if people can correctly guess a person’s name based only on a photo of a face
2.People could match the faces to the names more easily .
A. when they did a random guess
B. when the faces are from other countries
C. when the faces are from their own country
D. when they have more knowledge themselves
3.The underlined part “backed up” in Paragraph 6 most probably means “ ”.
A. supported B. changed C. compared D. cancelled
4.Paragraph 6 and Paragraph 7 are mainly to show .
A. the results of changing names
B. names have something to do with appearances
C. the importance of cultural stereotypes carried by names
D. the importance of a hairstyle in guessing different looks
5.According to Zwebner, we know that .
A. facial appearances may influence names
B. we shouldn’t think of others just according to their names
C. a name may influence many things and should be well chosen
D. we should pay less attention to the meanings of names and be ourselves
