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牛津版(深圳·广州)2018-2019学年初中英语八年级下册Module2 Unit 3第4课时Listening & Speaking

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    More than 2,000 years ago, a favourite wife of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty died of illness. The emperor missed her so much that he didn't want to do anything. One day, a minister (大臣) saw children playing with dolls. The shadows on the floor were interesting. The smart minister had an idea.  He made a puppet of the favourite wife and painted it. As night fell, he asked the emperor to watch a puppet show behind a curtain. The emperor was very happy and became interested in it. In this way, puppet shows began.

    Shadow puppets were first made of paper, later from the hides of donkeys (驴皮). That's why their Chinese name is "pi ying". Shadow puppet plays were very popular during the Tang and Song Dynasties in many parts of China.

    Today, shadow puppet plays face extinction like other traditional art forms such as Nuo Drama. We should do something to protect them. Shadow puppet plays in Shaanxi are the most famous. The Academy Gate Cultural Street in Xi'an is a wonderful place for you to choose shadow puppets. Here you can choose from hundreds of figures (人物) in different sizes and poses(姿势).

(1)、What helped the minister have the idea of shadow puppets?
A、His wife's painting. B、A movie behind a curtain. C、The shadows of some trees. D、Children playing with dolls.
(2)、Why did the minister make a puppet show?
A、To make the emperor happy. B、To remember Emperor Wu. C、To celebrate New Year. D、To make his life interesting.
(3)、What do the underlined words "face extinction" mean?
A、Will save. B、Will disappear. C、Will begin. D、Will be popular.
(4)、What can visitors do in the Academy Gate Cultural Street in Xi'an?
A、Make their own shadow puppets. B、Enjoy the delicious traditional food. C、Choose shadow puppets. D、Know more traditional art forms.
(5)、Why did the writer write the passage?
A、To let us enjoy shadow puppet plays. B、To show what shadow puppets were made of. C、To show how shadow puppets were made. D、To introduce an ancient Chinese art form.
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    Life is full of surprises and you never know how things will turn out.

    Sir John Gurdon is a good example of this. As a boy, he was told he was hopeless at science and was at bottom of his class. Now, aged 79,the very same Gurdon shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Japanese stem cell (干细胞) researcher Shinya Yamanaka.

    Like so many scientists, Gurdon shows us where the power of curiosity and perseverance(坚持) can lead.

    When he was 15 in 1948,Gurdon ranked last out of the 250 boys at his high school in biology and every other science subject. Gurdon's high school science teacher even said that his dream of becoming a scientist was "quite ridiculous".

In spite of his teacher's criticisms(批评), Gurdon followed his curiosity and kept working hard. He went to the lab early and left later than anyone else. He experienced thousands of failures.

     "My own belief is that we will, in the end,understand everything about how cells actually work,"Gurdon said.

    In 1962, Gurdon took a cell from an adult frog and moved its genetic (基因的) information into an egg cell. The egg cell then grew into a clone of the adult frog. This technique later helped to create the sheep Dolly in 1996,the first cloned mammal(哺乳动物) in the world.In 2006,Gurdon's work was developed by Yamanaka to show that a sample(样本) of a person's skin can be used to create stem cells. Using this technique, doctors can repair a patient's heart after a heart attack."Luck favors the prepared mind," Gurdon told the Nobel Prize Organization. "Ninety percent of the time things don't work, but when they do, you have to seize(抓住) the chance.

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