Photos of eight-year-old Wang Fuman, nicknamed by “Snowflake Boy” in Yun Nan, shared by his principal on Tuesday, showed the boy had a red face from the low temperatures and apparently did not wear enough clothes to keep warm. He also suffered from frostbite. He stood alone with his white hair and eyebrows while other classmates behind were clearly amused and laughing. The picture drew widespread attention around the whole world. Many netizens (网民) were sympathetic to the boy’s difficulties, with many Mircoblog users giving comments under the report.
Just after the report, a donation of 100,000 yuan was sent to his Primary School. Constantly, help still pours in for the Chinese boy. But the local authorities call on others to pay attention to other similar rural areas and give them timely aid. In China, there are still so many children just like Fuman living by himself with parents migrating to cities to make a living.
Boy’s hair is completely FROZEN after he walked an hour to school on a harsh winter morning in rural (and there was no heating when he got there). The third-grade pupil in Yunnan, China, walks 2.8 miles to school every day. He braved minus nine degree weather yesterday morning to sit an exam. His hair and eyebrows had turned into icicles when he aimed at the school. ---Abstracted from Daily Post |
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I have tears in my eyes reading this... Poor little soul doesn’t even have a hat or gloves, and I can’t imagine how cold he must have felt. But he did it! Wish the little boy all good things in life. Hope he become a brilliant adult and success in life and happiness. ---Mng. PL, Mauritius, 19 hours ago |
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This kid is amazing. If I were him, I probably would have frozen to death. And this is why China will rule the world soon! He’ll fight a war tomorrow for his motherland! Take note you poor snowflake students of the UK. If this happened in the UK, they would arrive to find the school closed. Our kids are too soft!!! ---Honest John, Birmingham, 18 hours ago |
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He walked an hour in that weather and still got 99% in the math exam. Wow! With such an attitude and perseverance, I hope that he succeeds in life and gets all the good things that he deserves. Now he is not a snowflake. ---Lucial Cathey, Liverpool, 15 hours ago |
1.What can we learn about Fuman from the text?
A. The boy didn’t do well in the examination.
B. The boy lives in rural area with his parents.
C. The boy’s school has some simple heating appliance.
D. The boy managed to take exams despite of bad weather.
2.Why does Honest John call the UK students poor snowflake?
A. British like to name teenagers as snowflake.
B. The students in UK are fond of being called snowflake.
C. The students in UK are too weak to endure extreme weather.
D. UK always has heavy snow storms in winter as Yun Nan.
3.Which best describes the netizens’ attitude toward Wang Fuman?
A. Sympathetic B. Uncaring C. Cautious D. Dissatisfied
4.What can we infer from the text?
A. All the British students don’t like to walk in the snow.
B. There are still people living hard in mountainous areas in China.
C. The school in the newspaper will rebuild in the near future.
D. The boy gained much donation from people around the world.
How many men do housework? Recently a European commission (委员会) tried to find out people’s ideas and reactions to the women’s movement. As part of their survey, they asked many men and women the question, “Who does the housework?” The men answered very differently from the women!
The housework they asked people about was: preparing meals, washing dishes, cleaning the house and babysitting. 48% of British husbands said they did these things. 37% of Danish (丹麦的) men helped in the house. But only 15% of Italian men said they did the housework; many of them said they never helped at all!
But there was an interesting point of view from the wives. According to British wives, only 38% of their husbands helped in the house. And Italian wives said that their husbands hardly ever helped. The Italian and British men did not tell the truth! The Commission found that Danish men were the most truthful husbands; their answers were the same as their wives’ answers.
Do the men you know help in the house? Do you think the survey gives a true picture in your experience? Write and tell us what you think.
1.The subject of the survey is ________.
A. how many boys do the housework
B. who does the housework at home
C. how many women do the housework
D. who are more diligent, wives or husbands
2.From the passage we can see that ________.
A. there were more husbands who did the housework than wives
B. wives did almost all the housework at home
C. husbands did half of the housework all the time
D. there were more wives who did the housework than husbands
3.More ________ husbands help in the house than ________ husbands.
A. Danish; British B. Italian; British
C. British; Danish D. Italian; Danish
A mystery surrounds my grandmother’s collection of salt cellars (盐瓶). No one in the family seems to know when she started collecting them, or exactly how many she had.
My grandmother died just over two years ago. At 91, she had spent 30 years without her right leg, which was removed due to cancer the year I was born. She was a poet, an artist, a food lover and a salt cellar collector. The funny thing about the salts, as she called them — I never once heard her say salt cellar — was that although everybody knew they were her hobby and everyone was always searching for them at yard sales or in stores, nobody seemed to know what they meant to her and they just wanted to make her happy. Grandma kept her salts in a dark wooden corner display case in the living room. Since her death the case has remained exactly as she left it. Grandpa tries his best to preserve his memories of her just as they are.
Now I am collecting, too. Collecting memories about my grandmother’s hobby, a way she spent her time. And as I hold one of them in my hand, I picture her holding it in her hand on the day she got it. She is smiling. My mother and her two sisters all have small collections, but my mother admits that she was more interested in finding salts to send to Grandma.
Grandma once wrote a poem titled “When April Comes”. The poem contains the line, “When April comes and I am not around, remember me when daffodils are found.” Now, Grandpa is working on a poem with the line, “April came and you were not around”.
But she was, somehow. She was there in the memories left behind by her possessions.
1.It can be inferred from the text that the author’s family_______ .
A. are very proud of their interesting family history
B. value the wonderful poems Grandma wrote
C. are much influenced by Grandma’s interest
D. know much about grandparents’ love
2.In writing the text, the author expressed ________.
A. her love for her grandma B. her desire to collect more salt cellars
C. her sadness at losing her grandma D. her curiosity about her grandma’s possessions
3.The underlined part “her possessions” in the last paragraph refers to ________.
A. Grandma’s experience B. Grandma’s strong will
C. Grandma’s talent D. Grandma’s hobby
4.What would be the best title for the text?
A. Grandma’s Salt Cellar Collection B. The Mystery of Grandma’s Salt Cellars
C. Grandparents’ Lifelong Devotion D. A Family’s Collection History
Happy birthday
The China National Opera (CNO) will give a concert to celebrate its 50th birthday.
Different generations of CNO vocalists, like Li Guangxi, Yao Hong and Ma Mei, will present the concert which will feature both songs from famous Chinese operas like “The White-haired Girl” and “The Hundredth Bride”, as well as, arias of such Western opera classics as “Madame Butterfly”, “La Traviata” and “Rigoletto”.
Time/ date: 7:30 p.m., September 7th, 8th
Location: Tianqiao Theatre
Tel: 6551-4787, 8315-6170
Tickets: 60-500 yuan (U.S. $7.2- 60.2)
Folk music
A concert will be held to feature some recently composed traditional Chinese music works. The concert, given by the Folk Orchestra of the China Opera and Ballet Theatre, will include such pieces as “Memory of Childhood”, “Memorial Ceremony for God” and “Wine Song”.
Time/date: 7:30pm, September 13th
Location: Concert hall at the National Library of China
Tel: 6848 –5462, 6841-9220
Tickets: 30-200 yuan (U.S. $3.6-24.1)
Moon music
A concert of traditional Chinese music will be given on the eve of the Moon Festival which falls on September 21st this year. The concert will feature a number of famous pieces centered on the theme of the moon, such as “Moonlight”, “Spring night on a Moonlit River” and “Lofty Mountain and Flowing River.”
A number of established traditional Chinese music performers like Zhou Yaokun and Fan Weiqing, will play solos as well as collaborate with the folk music orchestra.
Time / date: 7:30 pm, September 21st
Location: Grand Theatre of the Cultural Palace of Nationalities
Tel: 6606-8888, 6606-9999
Ticket: 40-240 yuan (U.S. $4.8-27)
1.“Madame Butterfly” is ________.
A. a Chinese opera B. a piece of music
C. a Western opera D. a song
2.If you want to buy tickets for listening to the music “Memory of Childhood”, you will dial ________.
A. 6551-4787 B. 6606-9999
C. 8315-6170 D. 6848-5462
3.Which statement is right according to the passage?
A. Li Guangxi, Yao Hong and Ma Mei stand for the same generation of CNO vocalists.
B. “Lofty Mountain and Flowing River” is a traditional Chinese music.
C. “Rigoletto” is a famous piece on the theme of the moon.
D. Zhou Yaokun will play solos and Fan Weiqing will collaborate with the folk music orchestra.
4.In which column of a newspaper will the article be published?
A. People. B. Entertainment.
C. Culture. D. Sports.
请听下面一个故事，然后根据故事意思填空，每空一词，录音读两遍。
梗概:Spencer在回家途中以自己的急救知识帮助一个男孩脱离危险。
关键词:bandage (用绷带包扎) bleeding (流血) stable (固定的)
wound (伤口) first aid (急救)
Spencer’s parents taught him basic first aid when he was young. One day, Spencer saw a boy 1. on the ground. The boy’s 2. was badly injured. Several people had stopped to help. Spencer used a cloth to 3. the bleeding and used his own T-shirt to make the boy s arm stable. Spencer showed someone how to apply pressure to the boy’s wounds and talked to him to keep him 4.. When the ambulance arrived, the medical workers 5. Spencer for his good work. If Spencer had not acted so quickly, the boy would have been in even greater 6.. By the next day, the whole school heard about what had happened. Spencer’s parents were very 7. of their son for his good work in the face of an emergency.
情景介绍:
角色:你是Sue。
任务:(1)与Dan谈论写论文的事情。
(2)根据两人对话内容，回答一些问题。
生词:magic trick魔术 magician魔术师 hostess女主持人
下面请用英语提出三个问题。每个问题有20秒的准备时间。当你听见“滴”声时，开始提问。
Now please ask the speaker three questions. You have twenty seconds to prepare the question. When you hear a beep, begin to ask the question.
1.你父母对这件事怎么看呢？
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2.你有没有在电视上表演过魔术？
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3.五年后你想做什么呢？
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4.Who advised Jerry to do magic at first?
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5.When did Jerry join the Young Magicians’ Club?
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6.How often does Jerry perform magic shows now?
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7.Where did the hostess find the card during the magic show?
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8.What language does Jerry want to learn?
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