Beijing Opera, also called Peking Opera, is our national opera. It came into being(形成)after 1790 and has a history of over 200 years. Its music and singing came from Xipi and Erhuang in Anhui and Hubei. The Guangxu Emperor (帝王) and Empress Dowager Cixi were also crazy about Beijing Opera and helped develop the art form.
There are four main roles in Beijing Opera: Sheng, Dan, Jing, Chou. Sheng is the leading male(男性) actor. For example, a Wusheng is a soldier or fighter. A Xiaosheng is a young man. A Laosheng is an old man with beard(胡子). Dan is the female(女性)role. Jing, mostly male, is the face painted role and Chou is the comedy (喜剧)actor or clown(小丑).
Beijing Opera is full of famous stories, beautiful facial paintings, wonderful gestures and fighting. Some of the stories are from history books, but most are from famous novels. The people in the stories usually can't agree with each other. They become angry, unhappy, sad and lonely. Sometimes they are afraid and worried. Then they find a way to make peace with(与......讲和) each other. Everyone is usually happy in the end.
Beijing Opera is an important part of Chinese culture. In China it used to be popular with old people while young people didn't like it very much. However, more young people are becoming interested in it nowadays. And more people around the world are learning about Beijing Opera's special singing, acting and facial paintings.
1.Beijing Opera's singing is from ____________________.
A.Anhui and Hubei
B.Beijing and Anhui
C.the history book
D.the literature and novels
2.The second paragraph of the passage is about the ____________________ of Beijing Opera.
A.stories
B.roles
C.gestures
D.paintings
3.From the passage, we know the role Chou most probably has a (n) ____________________ feature.
A.honest
B.funny
C.boring
D.serious
4.You can most probably read this kind of passage ____________________?
A.in a geography textbook
B.in a science and technology magazine
C.in a business report
D.on a culture website
5.Which is TRUE according to the passage?
A.Peking Opera is full of different gestures.
B.There are only four roles in Beijing Opera.
C.Beijing Opera is the most popular in the world.
D.The people in the story usually are in agreement.
Here are 4 of the best children's museums in the world.
Canadian Children's Museum, Ottawa, Canada This museum attracts about half a million families every year. Since it opened in 1989, it has been developed around a main theme-The Great Adventure -and gives children a chance to travel around the world. Cost: $ 30 for families, free for children under 3. $ 8 for children aged 3to 12,$ 12 for adults. |
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V & A Museum of Childhood, London, England This popular museum was set up in 1974 and has all kinds of childhood toys from the 1600s to now. It's filled with puppets dolls teddy bears, and all sorts of other toys. Cost: free |
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The Children's Museum, Boston, the USA This famous museum has been open since 1913, making it one of the world's oldest museums. It has: several interactive (互动的) exhibits for visitors to explore. Cost: $ 12 per person, Fri. 5pm- 9pm $ 1 per person |
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London Regional Children's Museum, Ontario, Canada This museum opened in 1982. It attracts over 100000 visitors each year. It has three floors full of interactive and interesting exhibits, such as dinosaurs, underwater adventures, and Arctic explorations. Cost: $ 2 per person (12-23 months) and $6 per person (two and over) |
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1.11-year-old Mike and his 19-year-old cousin visited Canadian Children 's Museum yesterday. They paid ________ for the tickets in total.
A.$8 B.$16 C.$20 D.$30
2.From the underlined sentence, we can learn puppets are a kind of ________.
A.toy B.animal C.plant D.food
3.________ is the oldest museum of the four museums.
A.Canadian Children's Museum, Ottawa B.V & A Museum of Childhood, London
C.The Children's Museum, Boston D.London Regional Children's Museum, Ontario
4.If you visit some adventures, you should 'go to ________.
A.Canadian Children's Museum and V & A Museum of Childhood
B.V & A Museum of Childhood and The Children's Museum
C.The Children's Museum and London Regional Children's Museum
D.Canadian Children's Museum and London Regional Children's Museum
5.If you want to a free museum, you should go to ________.
A.Canadian Children's Museum, Ottawa B.V & A Museum of Childhood, London
C.The Children's Museum, Boston D.London Regional Children's Museum, Ontario
Elias is the new language teacher at a Finnish primary school. It is patient with students and never makes a pupil feel embarrassed(尴尬的)for asking a question. It can even do the Gangnam Style dance.
Elias is also a robot. The robot is able to understand and speak 23 languages. There is a kind of software in Elias, which allows it to understand students' requirements and helps it to encourage learning. Elias communicates in English, Finnish and German only.
The robot can know the pupils' skill levels. It can also tell teachers about a student's possible problems. Some of the human teachers who have worked with the robot see it as a new way to help with students' learning.
"I think in the new course the main idea is to get kids active. I see Elias as one of the tools to get different kinds of practice' and bring different kinds of activities into the classroom,"language teacher Riika Kolunsarka said.
1.Elias is ____________________.
A.a human teacher
B.a robot teacher
C.a Chinese teacher
D.a math teacher
2.Elias can communicate in ____________________ languages.
A.23
B.32
C.3
D.1
3.____________________ can allow Elias to understand students 'requirements and helps it to encourage learning.
A.A robot
B.A teacher
C.Students
D.A kind of software
4.We can learn ____________________ from the passage.
A.Elias works alone
B.Elias works with a robot
C.Elias works with the human teachers
D.The human teachers work alone
5.Language teacher Riika Kolunsarka thinks ____________________.
A.The students don't like Elias
B.Elias is very useless to their work
C.Elias can get students active
D.The human teacher is the best
上面这幅漫画展现了丁丁和奶奶去购物发生的一幕，请根据你对画面的理解，写一篇100词左右的英语短文。
内容包括：1.描述漫画内容，可以进行适当想象；2.简要表述你的看法。
要求：文中不能出现真实的人名、校名等信息。
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Al Larson is also known as the "Bluebird Man". He first began his work of love after he read a passage in National Geographic. 1. Then he started to fix up little boxes that could serve as homes for bluebirds. His work is helpful. It shows building birdhouses can help to control their falling populations.
At first, he started the work as a hobby to spend time in his retirement(退休). 2.After almost forty years of experience, he has recorded over 30,000 bluebirds, thanks to the 350 birdhouses that he has built across southwest Idaho. He often travels over 5,000 miles to check on all of his boxes during the summer nesting season.
3. Their population began to drop after the invention of the electric chainsaw(链锯)in the 1920s. It made it easier for people to cut down dead trees. Cutting down dead trees broke bluebirds' homes. The use of pesticides(农药)caused an uncertain future for the bluebirds in Idaho.
4. It has shown us that if we take a moment to understand the needs of a kind of animal, we'll find a way to deal with the problem.
Now that he is about 97 years old, Larson shows no signs of slowing down, what's more, his encouraging story has been turned into the Emmy award-nominated movie Bluebird Man.
"A1 is a living example of how much one person can achieve when he sets his mind on a task. But he's also an example of the advantages that a project like this can have for people, " filmmaker Matthew Podolsky said, "5."
And they are truly the secret to his long.
A.Bluebirds have given meaning to Al's life.
B.It’s true that the work of Larson is successful.
C.It's kind of good for bluebirds to live in zoos.
D.However, he turned it into full-time work later.
E.Bluebirds usually live in dead or nearly-dead trees.
F.The population of Bluebirds has increased quickly.
G.Larson saw a bluebird going in and out of a dead tree around his house.
在处理外交关系时，我们应在充分考虑国家现实条件的基础上，用和平手段解决争端。
When dealing with diplomatic relations, we should solve the disagreements in a _________ manner based on the full consideration of the country's actual ____________.
