Chinese are very generous in educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their chi...

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    Chinese are very generous in educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States and Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities such as musical instrument learning or ballet classes, or other classes. They think these will give them a good future. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend much unreasonable money on education. Even poor parents will buy a computer for their son or daughter.
    However, most parents don't understand that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.
Parents can see that their children are very good in some areas while poor in others. Parents can also see some children are good at these skills and others do well in others. Most parents don't realize that today's children lack self-respect and self-confidence.
    The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills that they need are to be confident, happy and clever.
    Parents can achieve this by teaching skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework. Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking needs patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and lots of self-confidence.
    Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with, will make him curious(好奇的) and improve his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them. Your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.

（1）、We know from this passage parents in China .

A、are too strict with their children B、are too rich to educate their children C、are too poor to educate their children D、have some problems in educating their children correctly

（2）、We learn from the passage that .

A、the cheaper an education is, the better it is B、children today should learn difficult skills C、practical skills are helpful to children's growth D、school education can't meet parents' expectations

（3）、Doing some cooking at home helps children .

A、benefit (有益于) from it and prepare themselves for the future B、learn how to serve their parents C、learn how to become strong and fat D、make their parents believe that they are clever

（4）、What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A、Broken things are useful for children B、Interest is necessary for everything C、Learning to think is very important. D、Using hands helps improve thinking ability

举一反三

   The seasons in Australia are not like ours. When it is winter in China, it is summer there. Australia is a southern country. It is in the south of the world. June, July and August are the winter months; September, October and November are spring; the summer is in December, January and February; and March, April and May are the autumn months. The north of the country is hotter than the south.
   A very large part of this country has no rain at all. The east coast has rain all year, and there are no dry months. The southeast winds blow the whole year. They bring rain from the sea. There is not much rain on the west side. The southeastern part of Australia has summer rain from the southeast winds. They only blow here in summer.
   The southwestern part of Australia has winter rain. The west winds blow over the southwest in winter only. In summer, the southwest of the country has no rain. In the north of Australia, there is no rain in winter. The rain comes in summer. The northwest winds bring it.

Read the passage and finish the exercises.

People in Firenze are talking happily about the new shopping mall. The new shopping mall is just outside the city, next to the city's train station. And over 70 stores are open in the mall.

People like going shopping there because there are two big supermarkets.There are also many clothes stores for them. There's a bookshop, and there are two glasses stores. There are two toy stores, and there are seven restaurants.There's even a large cinema.

Almost everyone in Firenze is excited because the new shopping mall is now open. But some people are unhappy. Do you know who they are? They are the owners(店主) of the stores in the center of the city. Many people aren't shopping in their stores but at the new mall.

A. Choose the best answers.
B. Answer the questions.

阅读理解

Sometimes, a terrible tragedy (悲剧) can encourage us to do important things. Dashrath Manjhi was born into a poor family in Gehlaur village, India in 1934. He ran away from home when he was young and began working in the coal mines (煤矿) in Dhanbad. Later he returned to his home village and got married.

One terrible day in 1959, his wife, Falguni Devi, fell from the village mountain and was badly hurt. The nearest town with a doctor was close but a mountain stood in the way. The path (小路) around the mountain made the journey 90 kilometers. Falguni died before they could see the doctor.

Manjhi wanted to do something. He decided to cut a path through the mountain so that the village could reach medical care faster.

He took a hammer (锤子) and chisel (凿子) and began hammering through the mountain. People thought he was mad but he continued. He made a path 110 meters long, 7.7 meters deep and 9.1 meters wide. It took 22 years but Manjhi completed the road in 1982. It cut the distance between the village and the neighboring areas from 55 to 15 km. For his work, Manjhi became known as the Mountain Man.

After his death in 2007 at the age of 73, an official road was built through the mountain. Manjhi was given a state funeral (葬礼) and his face was put on a stamp in 2016. He has had films and documentaries made about him. He used his terrible personal tragedy to do something that would hopefully stop others from experiencing such tragedy in their own lives.

阅读理解

Good morning, everyone! Nice to meet you in China. I'm an American girl(美国女孩).My first name Gina and Smith is my last name. My telephone number is eight five eight six seven eight eight. This is my good friend. She is a Chinese girl. Her name is Sun Mei. Her telephone number is eight six seven four zero two nine.

What's that in English? Oh, yes, it's a CD. It's Sun Mei's CD. She likes (喜欢)music very much.

What's your name, my friend? Please tell me.

阅读短文，从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

Dear Mary,

Thanks for your email. I am happy to be your friend. I had a very busy weekend. Now let me tell you something about it. On Saturday morning, I got up early. At eleven o' clock, I went shopping in the supermarket. Then I went swimming in the swimming pool(泳池). After that, I had lunch at home and then cleaned the house. In the evening, I went out to ride bikes with my friends in the park. We like riding bikes. On Sunday morning, I also got up early. After breakfast, I read English books. English is my favourite subject(科目). I am good at it. In the afternoon, I visited my grandparents. They live far from my home, so I often go there by bus. This is my weekend. What do you think of it? Write to me and tell me about your weekend!

Yours,

Lucy

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中选出最佳选项。

Shadow play, known as"Ying zi xi"in Chinese, is a kind of ancient shadow art. It has a history of about 2, 000 years in China, India and Southeast Asia. The moving shadows on a screen are used to tell history and folk stories. And hand shadow is one of the simplest ways to make shadow play. With a bit of practice, most people can change the shape of hands to make animals, like dogs and birds, on the wall.

Today, shadow art has developed into one more creative style. In the spring of 2016, Vincent Bal, an artist in Europe, turned the shadows into a clever art form—shadow drawing. He named this special drawing "Shadowology". In the Shadowology, a little drawing is added into the shadows of everyday things to create wonderful pictures.

Like most good things in life, Shadowology came by accident. One day, during a break from work, Bal noticed that the shadow of his teacup looked like a little elephant. He drew eyes, legs and a smile for the shadow, and took a photo of that. After sharing the photo on the Internet, Bal surprisingly found people's love for it, which encouraged him to continue.

Since then, Bal has got 600, 000 fans on the Internet. He keeps producing as many different shadow works as possible. For example, he made a pair of sunglasses look like the wings of a butterfly, and a bottle become a lamp. All his works are interesting and playful. In 2023, Bal finished Shadowology films and a museum exhibition.

Nowadays, Shadowology has won the hearts of people around the world. With the wonderful drawing, people have got a chance to see the beauty in everyday things and discover the joy all around in such a busy world.

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