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上海市2018年中考英语试卷（含小段音频）
Summer is a great time to improve your child's reading! Reading over the summer can help your child keep up his reading gains during the past s chool year and also help prepare him for the next year! How to sign up: We are inviting you to sign up for free to help your child be an active reader this summer! *Go to www. readfun org *Select"Parent"(NOT"Teacher") *Click on the blue"Sign Up" What we provide: We provide you with thousands of free, high-quality articles with questions and activities. To make summer reading easy, we have selected interes ting and knowledge-filled articles of different levels. You can go to www. Readfun.org/summer-reading to download and print the articles for free. How to use: TIP 1: Articles for summer reading should be accessible, so be sure to choose articles at your child's reading level. Don't be afraid to star with articles of lower grade levels. The important thing is that he reads, reads, reads! TIP 2: It's also important to help your kid develop good reading habits Help him keep a good record of his summer reading. Besides, encourage him to discuss what he has read with family members. That way, you will all have a good time. We wish you and your family a great summer! |
{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Candy is a fan of Beijing Opera. She wants to know more about its beginning and development. She wants to take a class about Beijing Opera. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Julie is interested in paper cutting. She wants to know how to use the scissors to cut beautiful animals. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}Tom loves Chinese clay art. He thinks the clay pieces are so small but they look very real. He wants to know how to make them. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}has learned a lot about sky lanterns, now he wants to learn how to use bamboo and paper to make beautiful sky lanterns. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Jenny wants to know more about Chinese knots. She thinks it is a kind of elegant and colorful arts and crafts. People can either give them as gifts to friends or hang them in their houses. | A.Sky lanterns are used at festivals and other celebrations. They are seen as bright symbols of happiness and good wishes. It is a course to learn how to use bamboo and paper to make sky lanterns. B.Cantonese Opera is a traditional art in China. In this course, you can learn basic Cantonese Opera language so that you can learn to speak Cantonese well. You can also learn the beginning and development of Cantonese Opera. C.This course is a study of how to use scissors to cut beautiful things. Paper cutting has been around for over 1,500 years. It sounds easy but it can be difficult to do, but through this course, you will be able to cut different kinds of things. D.It is a course about Chinese clay art. You can learn how to use a special kind of clay to make cute children or lively characters from Chinese fairy tales or historical stories. E. It is a course that gives you a complete introduction of the development of Beijing Opera. You will know when it began and how it was developed through centuries. F. Chinese knots mean love, marriage and reunion in Chinese culture. They are often used for praying for good luck and warding off evil spirits. People make them with red silk threads(线), cloth and other materials. If you want to know more about Chinese knots, you can choose our course. G. According to Chinese history, sky lanterns were first used by Zhuge Kongming. He sent them to ask for help when in trouble. In this course, you can learn about the history and the development of sky lanterns. |
What should mobile phone buttons(按键) look like? What are Shakespeare's artistic achievements? {#blank#}1{#/blank#}
As new technologies continue to develop, many students are choosing to study STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and math) so they can get good jobs later. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}They need ideas from artists, historians and sociologists(社会学家)— in other words, people who major in liberal arts(主修文科).
Learning how to program is not enough. The US writer Scott Hartley mentioned it in his book. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} He points out that soft skills, including communication, collaboration(合作) and understandings of social problems, are of equal importance.
One possible solution is to put liberal arts and STEM studies together. In fact, Lewis University in the US has started to offer a set of courses called " CS + X".{#blank#}4{#/blank#} At the University of Vermont, a program called Engineering Management connects engineering with business. Engineers need to understand markets while business people need to learn engineering.
{#blank#}5{#/blank#}Only when we know this, can we create the greatest technology with humanity.
A. Perhaps liberal arts and science should never be separated. B. Students had better study both STEM subjects and liberal arts majors. C. If a driverless car is forced to run into someone, should it have a choice? D. But questions like the ones above are hard for STEM students to answer. E. Some students prefer STEM subjects while others prefer liberal arts majors. F. He argues against the idea that liberal arts are no longer useful in today's world. G. These courses connect computer science with a liberal arts major. |
There are many books for children in America this year. Let's have a look at some of them.
Book | What the Book Is About | Who Likes the Book Most |
| There is a big koala in Fun Jungle. Unluckily, the koala goes missing and fingers point to Teddy! Teddy wants to catch the real bad guy. Will Teddy find him? | If someone thinks family or summer time is important, he or she will enjoy the book. |
| 12-year-old Adam spends summer with his grandma in Minnesota. He has a new neighbor, Alice. As time goes by, their friendship（友谊）develops. Throughout this unusual summer, Adam begins to find Alice's family's secrets. | If someone thinks family or summer time is important, he or she will enjoy the book. |
| This summer, Quinny moves to Whisper Valley. It's boring until she meets Hopper. Quinny thinks their friendship will never end. But school begins. There is a new rule for the third grade students. It says boys and girls can't play together. What will happen to their friendship? | Kids in the third and fourth grades will enjoy the book. |
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