Here is a famous story about the Great Wall of China. The story happened in the Qin Dynasty（秦朝）.1.Do you want to know more about the love story?
One day, the emperor, Qin Shi Huang, ordered his soldiers(士兵)to capture (抓捕)some young men. He sent the young men to build the Great Wall.
A young man named Fan Xiliang didn't want to get captured. 2.. He had nowhere to go and didn't know where to hide. When he heard the soldiers coming towards him, he was terrified. At that time, a woman named Lady Meng Jiang was passing by Fan Xiliang. She saw the poor man and saved him. Fan Xiliang said thanks to Lady Meng Jiang.3. Later on they got married.
Unfortunately, Fan Xiliang was found and captured. He was sent to the Great Wall and worked there. Lady Meng Jiang waited for her husband day and night.
Winter came, but Fan Xiliang failed to return.4.She took the warm clothes to the Great Wall, but she didn't find Fan Xiliang. Someone told her that Fan Xiliang had died and that he was buried in the Great Wall.5..
She cried so sadly that a part of the Great Wall collapsed(倒塌)and she finally found Fan Xiliang's body.
A.Lady Meng Jiang stayed by the wall and kept crying day and night.
B.After a few days' being together, they fell in love with each other.
C.He ran away from his home and planned to hide somewhere.
D.Lady Meng Jiang prepared some warm clothes for her husband.
E.It was a moving love story.
Who is LiZiqi? For7 million YouTube viewers and 20 million Weibo users, that's an easy question to answer. The 29-year-old vlogger's videos about her rural life recently went viral (走红). Her fans call her "the goddess of nature".
She is not unworthy of this title. Cooking, painting, designing, farming…she is a master of many kinds of skills. In her videos, Li wears hanfu that she made herself. She also raises silkworms(养蚕)in order to make quilts. Li grows plants as well. She is often seen preparing meals with vegetables picked from her backyard. She eats a seasonal(季节性的)diet.
"She performs the work of a farmer with the grace(优雅)）of a fairy(仙子)"the South China Morning Post said.
Li was raised by her grandparents in a small village in Sichuan province. When she was 14, she went to the city to work, but returned to the countryside in 2012 to take care of her sick grandmother.
To make a living, Li runs an online store. At first, she just used her videos to advertise her products. But the simple pleasures she presented quickly won her many fans. "In such a tech-driven age, where everything comes so quickly, it's beautiful to watch such a slow process unfold without stress," one of her fans said online.
For her global fans, what is even more interesting is Li's deep knowledge of food, nature and Chinese culture. "I can see how good Chinese people are at cooking! I never thought of preserving(保存)meat like that!" one foreign fan wrote on YouTube.
As China Daily said, Li shows the world that Chinese people love good food and are good at making art out of the simplest materials. With her videos, she has spread Chinese culture to the world.
1.What's the probable meaning of the underlined word advertise?
A.制造 B.建议 C.做广告 D.注意
2.What does the writer mainly want to tell us in the fifth paragraph?
A.why Li made the videos. B.why Li runs an online store
C.how fans got less stressed. D.why fans liked Li and her videos
3.Which is the correct order according to the passage?
①Li came back to the village to look after her sick grandmother.
②Li made videos to advertise the products she sold in her online store.
③Li grew up in a small village with her grandmother.
④Li became famous at home and abroad because of the videos.
⑤Li practised all kinds of skills, such as cooking, painting, designing, farming.
A.③⑤①②④ B.③①⑤②④ C.⑤③①②④ D.⑤②③①④
4.Where can you probably find this article?
A.An advertisement. B.A science book. C.A newspaper. D.A storybook.
What are the most poisonous(有毒的)animals in the world? | |
| The box jellyfish is widely regarded to be the most poisonous animal whose toxin(毒素)can cause heart attacks. |
| Cobras, typically found in the jungles of India and China, can kill somebody in a very short time and just 7ml of their venom is enough to kill 20 humans. |
| The marbled cone snail is a sea creature and its venom is so poisonous that it can result in vision loss（视力丧失), respiratory failure(呼吸衰竭),muscle(肌肉）paralysis（麻痹) and finally death. To make things worse, there is no anti-venom available. |
| Poison dart frogs are small and brightly coloured but the toxin in its body can cause paralysis and death. |
| Puffer fish are considered to be a dangerous delicacy(美味佳肴）because some of their anatomy(部位)contains a dangerous toxin which, if ingested(摄入)in a large quantity, can cause convulsions(抽搐),paralysis, cardiac arrhythmia（心律失常）,and finally death. |
| The Brazilian wandering spider, also known as the 'banana spider', has venom so high that it can cause paralysis and death. |
| Death stalker scorpions have a fitting name as enough venom from one can cause a lot of pain and respiratory failure. |
1.What animal can cause heart attacks?
A.The marbled cone snail. B.Death stalker scorpions.
C.Puffer fish. D.The box jellyfish.
2.How many animals in the passage can paralyse people?
A.Three. B.Four. C.Five. D.Six.
3.From the passage, we can know_________________________.
A.The marbled cone snail lives in the sea.
B.Puffer fish is safe to eat.
C.The Brazilian wandering spider looks like a banana.
D.A cobra can kill 20 humans in7 minutes.
4.What's the meaning of the underlined word "venom"?
A.毒液 B.毒牙 C.病毒 D.毒气
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1.If an adult. 2 teenagers and a 10-year-old child want to have a tour there, how much should they pay?
A.￡17. B.￡18. C.￡19. D.￡20.
2.If people want to know more information, what CANNOT they do?
A.Make a phone call. B.Send a fax.
C.Visit their website. D.Send an e-mail.
3.What can we infer from the given information?
A.You can join the tours of Glasgow in any month you like.
B.Only Children can have discount (折扣).
C.Some tours leave from George Square.
D.Ghosts and Ghouls are only available on weekdays.
Zhang Dingyu, the director of Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, leads over 600 doctors and nurses fighting against the novel coronavirus pneumonia（新型冠状病毒肺炎）,which has caused hundreds of deaths in central China's Hubei Province.
As Zhang led over 600 doctors and nurses fighting the disease, his strange way of walking shocked his colleagues(同事). He finally admitted(承认)that he had fallen ill with ALS since October 2018. ALS is a disease that gradually blocks(阻断)the connection between brain and body. ALS can make people become partially paralyzed（瘫痪的）and finally hard to breathe.
While Zhang was working with handicapped（瘸的）legs, his wife got infected with the virus after working in another hospital. The bad news made him cry for the first time after the virus broke out. Zhang could only find time to visit his wife until three days after she came into the hospital for treatment. Even then he could only stay for 30 minutes. Fortunately, the good news came that his wife had recovered ten days after treatment.
Zhang, 57, has offered medical services along with Chinese medical teams to Algeria and Pakistan. Three days after the earthquake hit central Sichuan Province in 2008, Zhang entered the city with his medical team members to offer help.
"Life is always short. I need to do more to finish the things that I might leave behind, then I would leave without too many regrets, "Zhang said." We are at the center of a storm, so we need to give all we have to protect our city, and our Wuhan people," Zhang said.
1.What is TRUE about Zhang Dingyu?
A.His colleagues didn't mind his health condition.
B.His wife has handicapped legs like him.
C.He treated people injured in earthquakes in Algeria.
D.He has ever been to Pakistan, offering medical services along with Chinese medical teams.
2.According to the passage, what's true about "ALS"?
A.ALS is a psychological (心理的) illness.
B.ALS can make people unable to think.
C.ALS can make people feel it difficult to breathe.
D.People with ALS are easier to get infected with the coronavirus.
3.What does Zhang Dingyu mean in the last paragraph?
A.His life will go to an end soon.
B.He regrets not being able to do more for his patients.
C.He makes up his mind to fight the disease.
D.He will soon leave his position.
4.We can learn from the passage that Zhang Dingyu is a ____________man.
A.terrible B.serious C.thoughtful D.responsible
At my primary school, I was one of the smartest kids there. I never studied after class, but always got nearly perfect scores on all my ____.I was a child genius（天才）,at least ____ my mind. I was also ____ music and sports.
I was pretty sure that when I got to seventh grade, everyone ____my teachers would be amazed by me.
But____, they weren't.
When I arrived at my new class, it seemed that there was always someone else who could do ____than I. My grades got worse and I needed to be actually studying for my tests. I believed I wasn't smart. I believed I wasn't talented. I believed I_____.
Over the next two years, I had to work very hard for everything I did. Grades were still very low but gradually _____. I worked really hard but was still never the best at everything.
____ do I really have to be the best at everything? All the pressure I was feeling, all that embarrassment when I did wrong, that was me! I was being too hard on myself. In fact, when I did badly on a test, my classmates would never ____ me.
No one is perfect. There will probably always be someone better than me at something. I will never be the number one at everything, and it's really okay.
1.A.roles B.tests C.activities
2.A.in B.at C.with
3.A.late for B.tired of C.good at
4.A.inviting B.including C.greeting
5.A.probably B.gradually C.actually
6.A.worse B.less C.better
7.A.passed B.relaxed C.failed
8.A.improving B.fighting C.reporting
9.A.But B.Or C.If
10.A.learn from B.laugh at C.wait for
