Zhou Zhaoyan, 6, who is nicknamed Miumiu by her family, sings and plays the guitar, attracting a great number of followers from both home and abroad after her videos of many classic songs, especially the one Fly Me To The Moon, became popular online. Fans from across the world send emails to her mother, saying that the little girl’s music has “cured” (治愈) their anxiety.
1. Miumiu的父母对看到他们女儿的视频在网上吸引了这么多注意感到很惊讶。“We don’t know who forwarded (转发) our videos to Sina Weibo and foreign websites in March. 2.从那之后，它们就经常在网上被分享。” said Miumiu’s parents, explaining that they have posted videos of Miumiu practicing guitar on Chinese video sharing platform Bilibili since she started to learn the instrument
3. The parents discovered her gift for music when she was three years old, when they decided to let her try playing the guitar. Since then, Mr. Zhou, who is a guitar teacher, has spent almost all his spare time helping his daughter practice guitar.
“At first it was just for fun.4. She made it a habit and has been practicing for a while every day after school since she was four,” said Mr. Zhou. With everyone in the country advised to stay at home, Miumiu has been practicing for five to six hours every day since the COVID-19 outbreak, according to Mr. Zhou.
“I tell her, ‘Dad will teach you all the musical skills I know before you’re 18. And after I’ve done what I can to help you, you can follow your own path’,” the father said. “Just as her songs and guitar playing bring joy to many, music should be a source of happiness to people. 5. I hope she can feel the joy of music all the time as she does now,” said Miumiu’s mother.
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Beijing will improve its medical and health services together with 2022 Winter Olympics co-host Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, to meet the special challenges from the Games.
Winter sports athletes (运动员) sometimes may get hurt, but we have little special medical experience as a young winter sports country. So, we will take action early to train our medical workers.
With two years to go before the Games, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics organizing committee together with local health and sports centers has decided to teach the doctors and nurses how to ski and make emergency (紧急) preparations for the Olympics. The activity will be held both in Beijing and Zhangjiakou.
The organizing committee says that it has chosen 41 hospitals and 7 disease prevention centers to be official medical partners of the Games. They provide hundreds of medical workers for the committee. They will open an Olympic green lane (车道) for every facility (设施).
There are many skills that the medical workers should have. English speaking and skiing are two most important skills for the medical teams. Hundreds of medical professionals from Beijing and Hebei are now receiving English and ski training. The medical workers are also trained to get to the injured athlete in the shortest time. They will also know how to work with the local government to make sure the green lanes are clean both on the ground and in the air.
Besides, the organizing committee has set up 101 hotels as official partners for the VIP guests. The hotels will work on details such as providing clean, healthy food with global tastes, special laundry (洗衣房) for winter sports clothing and multilingual (使用多种语言的) services.
1.Why should we take action early to train medical workers?
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2.Where do the medical workers come from?
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3.What are the most important skills that the medical workers should have?
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4.Do the medical workers need to get to the injured athlete as quickly as possible?
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5.Who will enjoy the wonderful service in the hotels set up by the organizing committee?
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Why do Chinese people refuse to cut their hair during the first month of the lunar (阴历) year?
1.. Tradition says that doing so will cause your mother’s brother die. Although it’s not true, some people still believe it.
So, after a month’s wait, people usually flock (蜂拥而至) to cut their hair on Dragon Head-Raising Day – the second lunar month. 2.. People always had to wait for a long time to get their hair cut.
Dragon Head-Raising Day fells on Feb 24 this year. 3.. Ancient people believed that after this day, rainfall would increase because the rain-bringing Dragon King would wake up from his winter sleep. So that day is the start of spring and farming.
A well-known saying goes, “On the second day of the second month, the dragon lifts his head.”
4.. For example, people eat food with “dragon names”. People call noodles dragon’s beard. (龙须). Dumplings are dragon’s ears and spring rolls (春卷) are dragon’s scales (龙鳞).
A.It is an important traditional Chinese holiday
B.Because people believe that it is the best to cut hair on Dragon Head-Raising Day
C.It was once tradition to line up outside of barber shops (理发店) on this day
D.Besides cutting their hair, there are also other ways to celebrate this holiday
E.This is because people believe that getting a haircut during the first lunar month is not a good idea
Are kids getting too much praise? Too much praise may be doing kids more harm than good.
A cover story in Scholastic Instructor magazine asks whether kids today are over-praised. The worry is that while trying to build up kids’ confidence (自信), parents are paying little attention to kids’ real goals and achievements. In a recent study, eighth graders in Korea and the United States were asked whether they were good at math. Among the American students, 39 percent said they were excellent at math, compared to just 6 percent of the Korean eighth graders. But the reality was kind of different. The Korean kids scored far better than the over-confident American students.
The disadvantage of too much praise is that kids may start to focus on the reward (奖励) rather than what they are learning. Worse, when a student fails, whose confidence comes from a blind sense of achievement rather than his or her real abilities, the result can be devastating (毁灭性). This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t praise our kids or that teachers shouldn’t try to build up their students’ self-confidence. But self-confidence should be the result of good grades and real achievements instead of empty praise from others.
Last month, Cognitive Daily reported that parents and teachers should be specific rather than general when they offer praise. An example of general praise is telling a child, “You’re smart.” Specific praise would be to say, “You did a good job on reading...”, or “You did great on your math test.” Kids who receive general praise about their abilities probably show “helpless” behavior when they meet with problems with learning, compared with kids who receive specific praise about their achievement on a task. The reason: a child who knows she’s a smart girl feel defeated (挫败的) if she has trouble reading a sentence. But a child who has been told she is a good reader will probably have confidence in that specific ability and work a little harder to deal with a more difficult book.
1.The study of the eighth graders in Paragraph 2 shows that ________.
A.Korean students are over-praised so they got higher scores
B.American students are over-confident but they achieve less
C.American students are really good at math
2.According to Paragraph 3. kids’ self-confidence should come from ________.
A.teachers’ love and support
B.what they are able to do well
C.a blind sense of achievement
3.Which of the following is the best example about specific praise?
A.Mr. Miller told her daughter “You are a fantastic girl”.
B.The headmaster wrote to one of his students, saying “I am so proud of you”.
C.Your English teacher said to you, “Your writing has improved a lot because of practice.”
4.Kids getting general praise will ________ in the face of problems with learning.
A.probably give up easily
B.encourage themselves to try again
C.work harder than before
5.The writer of the passage means to prove that ________.
A.too much praise may be doing kids more harm than good
B.Korean students are less confident than American students
C.Achievement lies in self-confidence
There can be no doubt about Sherlock Holmes or Indiana Jones. They are surely invented character. But Robin Hood: fact or fiction (虚构)? That question has many answers.
It depends on what you mean by a “real person”. If we mean, “Was there a man called Robin Hood, who did all the things we can read about?” then the answer is NO. But if we mean, “Was there a man who lived in the Middle Ages, and is remembered in the legends (传说) of Robin Hood?” then YES.
The legend of Robin Hood is a very old one, and it is certainly based on reality.
According to one story Robin was really an Anglo-Saxon nobleman (贵族), perhaps called Robin of Huntingdon, or Robin Fitzooth, and he was a rebel against England’s Norman rulers. After William conquered (征服) England in 1066, England was ruled by Norman kings and Norman barons (男爵). Most of the common Anglo-Saxon people accepted their new masters, but some didn’t. Robin was one of them. He took money from the Normans (who were rich compared to common people), and gave it to poor Anglo Saxons. That’s why he became the enemy of the Norman barons.
Other stories said that Robin lived in Yorkshire. And later stories had him living in Sherwood Forest, Nottingham. In Nottingham, Robin is now a very popular character. Visitors to the city can learn all about him at the “Legends of Robin Hood” exhibition (展览), where Robin and his experiences are brought to life.
Maybe Robin never lived at all in the past, but that would be too bad! His spirit is certainly alive today.
1.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A.Someone created a role called Sherlock Holmes in his story.
B.There was a man called Indiana Jones in people’s real life.
C.Robin Hood was the real name of a hero in the history of England.
2.What does the underlined word “rebel” mean in Paragraph 4?
A.同盟 B.造反者 C.下属
3.From this passage, we can learn that Robin Hood in different stories ________.
A.is a real person who conquered England in 1066
B.is the enemy of the Anglo-Saxon poor people
C.has got different names and different birth places
4.What can we infer from the passage?
A.Many Norman barons might want to help Robin Hood.
B.At the “Legends of Robin Hood” exhibition, people can enjoy lifelike pictures of Robin Hood.
C.Fewer and fewer people are encouraged by Robin's spirit.
5.What’s the best title for this passage?
A.A Legend of Robin Hood
B.Robin Hood: Fact or Fiction?
C.The History of Robin Hood
Spring break is here! Tom and Jack are also on vacation from work all week. They want to plan all kinds of fun things to do, like biking, hiking (远足), fishing, swimming, and tennis. They are hoping for some warm, enjoyable weather. However, they just can’t decide which day to do each activity. So they decide to check the weaker forecast (预报) in the newspaper before making some final plans.
THE FIVE-DAY FORECAST
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
a beautiful day with no clouds, high temperature of 32℃ |
partly cloudy with a 80% chance of rainstorm; high temperature of 27℃ |
heavy rain until noon; then clearer and cooler with a high temperature of 21℃ |
partly sunny with a high temperature of 16 ℃ |
partly cloudy with a high temperature of 18 ℃ |
1.Which days will be the best for hiking?
A.Monday and Tuesday B.Tuesday and Wednesday C.Thursday and Friday
2.Tom and Jack are going out on Tuesday, what will they most probably take?
A.An umbrella. B.Sunglasses. C.A sweater.
3.What can we infer from the information above?
A.They must be very pleased with the weather forecast
B.They will wear jeans and jackets on Monday.
C.They can make the final plans according to the weather.
