Having learned much about the War of Resistance against Japan, Mao Jingxin didn’t like the Japanese when she was a child. “I thought they were cruel and rude,” said the 18-year-old girl from Hebei Province.
But she began to change her mind after she met some Japanese teenagers in a history museum six years ago. These fashionable high school students looked seriously at the history displays and talked to Mao in a friendly way. “I found that they are not bad as I thought,” she said.
Like Mao, many Chinese teenagers’ are caught up in this confusion. A survey by 21st Century Teens shows about 51 per cent of Chinese teenagers say they dislike Japan. But most of them still want to have a Japanese friend. Also, Japan lies third on their list of Asian countries that they want to visit, following Singapore and South Korea.
Teens did a survey just before the 60th anniversary of the victory day of the War of Resistance against Japan, which fell on September 3. The survey aimed to encourage understanding and communication between young Chinese and Japanese.
Teens also wanted to understand Chinese teenagers’ attitudes towards Japan, and how much they actually know about the country.
As Teens found, more than 60 per cent of Chinese teenagers learn about Japan through the media or books. Only 16 per cent have ever met a Japanese person.
“Most of my friends hate Japan for what it did to China during World War II. But people should not live in hatred. I think the best way to figure it out is to have contact with the Japanese people myself,” Zhang Yuyuan, a Senior 2 girl, told us in the survey.
“Japan has done wrong to Asian countries including China and it has caused pain to everyone,” said Hikaru, a 17-year-old girl in Kawasaki (川崎市). Having visited China four times and learned much, she understands the importance of communication between the two peoples. She plans to join in an exchange programme with Chinese youth. “Welcome to Japan, my Chinese friends!” She says it with a smile.
1. Most teenagers hate Japanese because _______.
A. the Japanese were cruel during the war
B. the Japanese they meet are cruel
C. the Japanese don’t want to communicate with Chinese people
D. they look too fashionable
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the survey?
A. Many teenagers have met a Japanese.
B. South Korea is the most popular Asian tourist places for Chinese teenagers.
C. More than half of the teenagers in the survey don’t like the Japanese.
D. Most Chinese teenagers learn about Japan through exchange activities.
3. The passage is written to ______.
A. give a brief introduction to the history of the War of Resistance against Japan
B. report what Chinese teenagers think about Japan
C. provide information about Japanese teenagers
D. encourage Chinese teenagers to meet the Japanese
Tu Youyou, 84, honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct 5, 2015. She was the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize in science for her work in helping to create an anti-malaria(疟疾) medicine.
In 1967, Communist leader Mao Zedong decided there was an urgent national need to find a cure for malaria. At the time, malaria spread by mosquitoes was killing Chinese soldiers fighting Americans in the jungles of northern Vietnam. A secret research unit was formed to find a cure for the illness. Two years later, Tu Youyou was instructed to become the new head of Mission 523. Researchers in Mission523 pored over ancient books to find historical methods of fighting malaria. When she started her search for an anti-malarial drug, over 240,000 compounds(化合物) around the world had already been tested, without any success.
Finally, the team found a brief reference to one substance, sweet wormwood（青蒿）, which had been used to treat malaria in China around 400 AD. The team isolated one active compound in wormwood, artemisinin（青蒿素）, which appeared to battle malaria-friendly parasites（寄生虫）. The team then tested extracts（提取物） of the compound but nothing was effective until Tu Youyou returned to the original ancient text. After another careful reading, she improved the drug recipe one final time, heating the extract without allowing it to reach boiling point.
After the drug showed promising results in mice and monkeys, Tu volunteered to be the first human recipient of the new drug. “As the head of the research group, I had the responsibility.” she explained.
1.When did Ms. Tu start her malaria research?
A. When she was 84 years old
B. After she entered “Mission 523”.
C. In 1967
D. When malaria become serious among ordinary Chinese people.
2.What can we learn about the discovery of anti-malaria drug?
A. The process of testing extracts of the compound is very smooth.
B. No one had ever done any research on it before Tu and her team.
C. The idea of using wormwood to treat malaria was from ancient Chinese text
D. Heating the extract until it reaches boiling point is necessary.
3. The underlined phrases “pore over” in paragraph 3 most probably means ________.
A. think about B. pay attention to
C. search for D. go over
4.Which of the following words can best describe Tu Youyou?
A. Responsible B. Traditional
C. Stubborn D. Lucky
Have you got any wonderful plans for your coming summer vacation? Here are some wonderful films for you to kill time.
Away We Go With a baby on his way, a young couple, Burt and Verona, look at their lives and are puzzled about what they really want. So they hit the road and seek a place to call home. On their journey, they visit a handful of characters and learned a lot. It’s about taking the scenic route in life, preparing for the hope and excitement and fear of new beginnings, while never forgetting to look out of the window. | Orphan Esther, a bright and well-behaved child, however, is not as innocent as she appears. Soon after being taken home, the peace of her adoptive family is completely changed You want a good horror film about a child from hell Then you got one! Do not, in any cases, take children to see it. |
500 Days of Summer Tom is in love with Summer from the moment he sees her. Can he accept that she simply likes him for now, not for forever The movie is about Tom wrestling with that reality. Tom remembers his love, Summer, as a series of joys and bafflements (疑惑). But Summer is just herself and he cannot have her. Here is a rare movie that begins by telling us how it will end and is about how the hero has no idea why. | 2012 The director Roland Emmerich successfully dresses an old story with an old Mayan prediction, which is believed by many to happen in the coming 2012 and as a result, attracts millions of people into the cinema. It’s just an entertaining Hollywood blockbuster （大片）with plenty of jokes, instead of a description of what the end of the world is really like. Don’t take it too seriously! |
1.This passage aims to .
A．introduce films for a film corporation
B．recommend several films for fun
C．advertise several films for a website
D．make comments on films for a cinema
2.If you want to kill time with your nine-year-old little brother in the cinema, which of the following film should you avoid
A．2012 B．500 Days of Summer
C．Orphan D．Away We Go.
3. Who is a film director in Hollywood?
A．Esther. B．Tom and Summer.
C．Burt and Verona. D．Roland Emmerich.
4. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage
A．Orphan is a comedy about Esther adopted by a kind family.
B．500 Days of Summer is a romance with a happy ending.
C．Away We Go shows beautiful scenery on the young couple’s journey.
D．The ancient Mayan prediction is going to happen in 2012.
As a child, I was really afraid of the dark and of getting lost. These fears were very real and caused me some uncomfortable moments.
Maybe it was the strange way things looked and sounded in my own room at night that scared me so much. There was never complete darkness, but always a streetlight or passing car lights, which made clothes on the back of a chair take on the shape of a wild animal. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the curtains seem to move when there was no wind. A very low sound in the floor would seem a hundred times louder than in the day. My imagination (想象) would run wild, and my heart would beat fast. I would lie very still so that the “enemy” would not discover me.
Another of my childhood fears was that I would get lost, especially on the way home from school. Every morning I got on the school bus right near my home. That was no problem. After school, though, when all the buses were lined up along the street, I was afraid that I would get in the wrong one and be taken to some other strange places. On school or family trips to a park or a museum, I wouldn’t let the leaders out of my sight.
Perhaps one of the worst fears of all I had as a child was that of not being liked or accepted by others. Being popular was so important to me then, and the fear of not being liked was a serious one.
One of the processes growing up is being able to realize and overcome our fears. Understanding the things that scared us as children helps us achieve greater success later in life.
1.The author had _______ kind(s) of fears when she was a child.
A．three B．two C．one D．none
2._______ would scare the author at night.
A．Wild animals and enemies
B．Moving curtains
C．A very low sound in the floor
D．Wild imagination
3.When she went to some other places, she would _______.
A．walk away without others
B．follow others closely
C．take a bus by herself
D．make sure not to take a wrong bus
4.Which of the following would be possibly true when she was a child
A．She was always the leader of the others.
B．She always got poor grades.
C．She thought being popular among people was important.
D．She was not liked by others at all.
书面表达
假设你是李华。本周六你班将组织参观位于你市郊区(suburb)的某有机农场。请你用英语给你们的外籍老师约翰(John)写一封邮件邀请他参加你们的活动。内容包括：
1. 活动目的：让同学们亲身体验有机农业的耕种方式，了解吃有机食品的益处；
2. 活动项目：①专人引导参观，探究作物轮作(crop rotation)对土壤保护的重要性；
②农场将划出一块地让同学们体验农活。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Someone told me that Li Ming had stolen a pen out my deskmate. I felt I should let my deskmate knew, and before I told my deskmate about it, he asked Li Ming about it. He didn’t admit steal the pen and it caused a terribly argument between them. Later it turned out that the story wasn’t true, and my deskmate refuses to talk to me. It took quite few days for my deskmate to accept my apology. I’ve learned my lessons from it. I shouldn’t have mistakenly believed what that others said and passed it on. Although my deskmate has forgiven him, I still feel ashamed.
