阅读理解。
President Xi Jinping announced Thursday that China will cut its military by 300,000 troops, a significant reduction in one of the largest militaries in the world and a move that the Chinese leader called a gesture of peace.
“The great renewal of the Chinese nation requires efforts of one generation after another,” Xi said in a speech at Tiananmen Square remembering the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in the Pacific. “Having created an impressive civilization of over 5,000 years, the Chinese civilization will lead to an even brighter future,” he said.
Xi’s announcement came as China staged a massive military parade in central Beijing, sending a stream of troops, tanks, and ballistic missiles(弹道) down a major east-west street as fighter jets flew overhead with multicolored smoke.
Xi’s speech kicked off the parade. An estimated 12,000 troops—about 1,000 of whom hailed (致敬) from Belarus, Cuba, Tajikistan, and other countries-marched along the 10-lane Chang’an Avenue from the commercial center wangfujing to Tiannmen Square, about 1.5 miles away. They were joined by 200 fighter jets and 500 pieces of military hardware, including tanks and ballistic missiles. Representatives from 49 countries were in attendance, including Russian leader Vladimir Putin, South Korean President Park Geun-hye and U. N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Rory Medcalf, head of the national security college at Australian National University, said the Beijing may have decided to cut 300,000 troops “in the name of efficiency and cost saving.”
Xi conducted a “troop inspection” after his speech, riding down Chan’gan Avenue in a Chinese-made Hongqi parade car. On Thursday morning, China’s popular microblogging site Sina Weibo filled up with 350 million comments related to the parade. While many users expressed their love of their country and pride, few posts were filled with criticism. “The soldiers are too serious,” wrote one user. Others complained about the cloud of gray exhaust that followed a column of tanks.
1.Why did China make the military reduction?
A. For the efficiency and cost saving.
B. For the peace of the whole the world.
C. For the celebration of the end of World War II.
D. For the renewal of the Chinese civilization.
2.What can we infer from the passage?
A. The majority of web users think highly of the parade.
B. Many web users thought that the soldiers were lovely.
C. The parade might bring air pollution to the capital city.
D. The parade led to a heated discussion on the line.
3.What is mainly talked about in the passage?
A. China decided to cut its military forces.
B. World leaders attended China’s military parade.
C. China sowed its weapons to the world.
D. China held a military parade in Beijing.
阅读理解。
Do you know how to tell a story? The following are some tips:
Who Will Listen?
Will you tell your story to people of your own age? Will they be friendsor young people you haven’t met before? Perhaps you will tell it to younger children, or will it be an audience of adults? Will it be just a few people, a small group, or a large audience?
Why Are You Telling It?
There are many reasons for telling a story. Knowing why you are telling it may be the most helpful reason in choosing a story for a particular audience.
Many storytellers choose tales just to entertain(娱乐). They tell jokes or silly stories. Others want to teach something, such as how to be kinder to animals, the environment, or other people. One storyteller likes to encourage his listeners to try new things. Some babysitters tell stories to help children not to be afraid of thunder, lightning or frightening shadows in their rooms. Others want to make people think or to help people remember. Some like to frighten their audience with ghost (鬼) stories.
Where Will You Speak?
How you tell your story and what story helpers you use will depend on where you will be speaking. Will you be talking at an evening party, in your classroom, in a library storytelling program, at a family dinner, at a museum, or at a storytelling festival?
1.The passage is mainly about ___________.
A. the audience to whom you tell stories
B. the situation where you can tell a story
C. the reasons for telling a story
D. important tips for telling a story
2.The author shows his ideas by ______.
A. description B. listing questions
C. making comparisons D. reciting
3.The purpose of knowing why you are telling a story is to ____________.
A. decide what helpers you need
B. do something good to animals, the environment or other people
C. choose stories suitable (合适的) for certain audience
D. satisfy different listeners
4.What decides how you tell your story according to the passage?
A. The place where you will tell your story.
B. The type of the story you will tell.
C. The purpose of telling your story.
D. What kind of people you will tell your story to.
阅读理解。
According to a new US study, couples who expect their children to help care for them in old age should hope they have daughters because they are likely to be twice as attentive overall.
The research by Angelina Grigoryeva, a sociologist at Princeton University, found that, while women provide as much care for their elderly parents as they can manage, men do as little as they can get away with and often leave it to female family members.
Her analysis of the family networks of 26,000 older Americans concluded that gender(性别) is the most important predictor(预示物) of whether or not people will actively care for elderly parents.
In a paper being presented at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco, she concludes that simply having a sister makes men statistically likely provide less care.
Using data from the University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study, a study which has been tracking a cross-section of over-50s for the last decade, she calculated that women provide an average of 12.3 hours a month of care for elderly parents while men offer only 5.6 hours.
“Sons reduce their relative care-giving efforts when they have a sister, while daughters increase theirs when they have a brother.”
“This suggests that sons pass on parent care-giving responsibilities to their sisters.”
In the UK, the 2011 census(人口普查) showed that there are now around 6.5 million people with caring responsibilities, a figure which has risen by a tenth in a decade.
But many are doing so at the risk of their own health. The census showed that those who provide 50 hours or more of care a week while trying to hold down a full-time job are three times more likely to be struggling with ill health than their working counterparts(相对应的人) who are not carers.
1.In the text, what’s the most important factor to predict if people will actively care for the elderly?
A. Career. B. Education.
C. Gender. D. Family networks.
2.The US study finds that _______.
A. sons are twice likely as daughters to care for parents in old age
B. having a sister makes men less likely to do their fair share
C. sons and daughters seem to give equal care to their parents
D. sons are unwilling to leave care-giving responsibilities to female family members
3.What does the author stress in the last paragraph?
A. People should give up their jobs to care for the elderly.
B. Many care providers work longer hours than others.
C. People shouldn’t pass on caring responsibilities to others.
D. Many care providers have potential health problems.
4.The author develops the text by _______.
A. analyzing various research and data
B. describing people’s experiences
C. explaining social networks of careers
D. comparing different gender behavior
书面表达
假定你是李华，你校英文报“外国文化”栏目拟刊登美国节日风俗和中学生生活的短文。请给美国朋友彼得写信约稿，要点如下：
1.栏目介绍。
2.稿件内容；
3.稿件长度：约400词汇
4.交稿日期：6月28日前天
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯的；
3.开头语已为你写好。
Dear Peter,
I’d like to ask you to write an article for our school’s English newspaper.
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Yours,
Li Hua
短文改错。
When I was a child, I hoped to live in the city. I think I would be happy there. Now I am living in a city ,but I miss my home in countryside. There the air is clean or the mountains are green. Unfortunately, on the development of industrialization, the environment has been polluted. Lots of studies have been shown that global warming has already become a ver y seriously problem. The airs we breathe in is getting dirtier and dirtier. Much rare animals are dying out . We must found ways to protect your environment. If we fail to do so ,we’ll live to regret it .
语法填空。
It was raining lightly when I1.(arrive) in Yangshuo just before dawn. But I didn’t care. A few hours2., I’d been at home in Hong Kong, with 3.(it) choking smog. Here, the air was clean and fresh, even with the rain.
I’d skipped nearby Guilin, a dream place for tourists seeking the limestone mountain tops and dark waters of the Li River4.are pictured by artists in so many Chinese 5.(painting). Instead, I ‘d head straight for Yangshuo. For those who fly to Guilin, it’s only an hour away6. car and offers all the scenery of the better-known city.
Yangshuo7.(be) really beautiful. A study of travelers8.(conduct) by the website TripAdvisor names Yangshuo as one of the top 10 destinations in the world. And the town is fast becoming a popular weekend destination for people in Asia. Abercrombie & Kent, a travel company in Hong Kong, says it9.(regular) arranges quick getaways here for people10.(live) in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
