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广东省深圳市高级中学2024-2025学年九年级上学期开学考试英语试卷
It was reported in May 2024 that the China Wildlife Conservation Association(CWCA. 中国野生动物保护协 会 )will sound giant pandas Yun Chuan and Xin Bao to the San Diego Zoo in the United States. which is a symbol of a new 10-vear period of international conservation partnership. The CWCA has organized experienced caretakers and doctors to go with the pandas to the US. The zoo is getting ready to provide the pandas with a largerandunore comfortable living environment. It has also formed a team with special skills related with panda. Ming and scientific research
The cooperation(合作)between the CWCA and the San Diego Zoo dates back to 1996 when Bai Yun and Shi Shi became the first pair of pandas to live in the zoo. Giant pandas Hua Mei, born in 1999, and Mei Sheng,born in 2003,who used to live there,are the result of China-US giant panda research cooperation. Over the past twenty years the two sides have cooperated and solved many technical problems,including important discoveries in key areas like panda raising.
Since the 1990s, China has cooperated on giant panda conservation with 20 countries. "International cooperation in fields such as disease prevention and control,treatment,and wild training and reintroduction to the wild,has achieved good results. Giant pandas will facilitate communication between peoples and let people around the world know China better,"said Li,the leader of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda
"Scientific and educational outreach(延伸服务)also serves as a key role in international giant panda exchanges,allowing more people to understand giant pandas,which provides very good support for our efforts in protecting wild giant pandas,"Li said.
Children's games in ancient China | |
Flying kites | Kites have quite a long history. The earliest kites were made of wood. Now in China, the three most famous kites are the Beijing kite, Tianjin kite and Weifang kite, each of which has its own characteristic (特征). |
Playing diabolo | Diabolo is always made of wood or bamboo and is hollow (空心的) in the center. When juggled (抛接) on ropes, the high-speed rotating (旋转的) diabolo will make a sound. Playing diabolo is a very interesting game. |
Watching shadow plays | The closest thing to watch a film or television during ancient times was watching a shadow play. People control puppets (木偶) behind the screen while singing with music to tell a story. Shadow play was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage (非物质文化遗产) in 2006. |
Setting off firecracker | Firecrackers have a history of more than 2,000 years. It is said that people burnt bamboo joints (节) to make it blast (爆炸) to drive away the beast named Nian in ancient China. Firecrackers are still set off during Spring Festival to symbolize hope and luck. |
School years around the world
I live in Alaska. Classes start in August. We have two breaks-a winter break and a spring break. The winter break is in December. The spring break is in March. Classes end in May. We don't go to school in the summer. Our summer vacation is very long! --Lauren | |
I'm from France. Classes start in September and end in July for summer vacation. We have breaks in October, December, February and April. I'm in middle school and I go to school five days a week. Elementary school students go to school four days a week. They don't go to school on Wednesdays! --Louis | |
I live in Australia. In my country, classes start in February and end in December. We don't have a long summer vacation, but we have three breaks! We have a fall break in April, a winter break in July and a spring break in September-October. --Oliver | |
I live in Spain. Our school year starts in September and ends in June. We have a long summer break from June to September. We also have two main breaks during the school year: a winter break in December and a spring break around Easter. We go to school five days a week, but we usually have a longer lunch break in the middle of the day. --Sofia |
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