题型:阅读选择 题类:真题 难易度:普通
浙江省台州市2021年中考英语真题试卷(音频暂未更新)
Marianne Carus, who started Cricker (蟋蟀) magazine in1973 and served as Editor-in-Chief (总主编) until 2012, died on March 3 at the age of 92 this year.
Marianne believed that "only the best of the best is good enough for the young. "In Cicket, children would find wonderful stories with beautiful art, and be encouraged by ideas in the humanities and sciences. Marianne looked for stories from around the world to awaken admiration for different peoples and cultures. Most important, Cricker would never talk down to children.
Marianne knew that children were filled with fun, and she wanted Cricket to be, too — "humor from the heart that makes you laugh out loud. "And so. she named her literary magazines after a funny group of bugs (虫子) , such as Lady bung and Spider.
Over the years. Cricket has been read by millions of children and given many writers and artists their start Marianne kept a special box of "love letters" to the magazine. She treasured these letters from Cricket readers, including long-ago readers. They told her that their interest in reading had begun with Cricket.
▲ She considered other names, such as Troubadour or Taliesin, the singers and storytellers of old who traveled from one place to another to share their songs and stories. Then. one night, she was reading Isaac Bashevi Singer's memoir (回忆录) A Day of Pleasure. about his childhood in Warsaw. In it he wrote∶There was a stove in Shosha's apartment behind which there lived a cricket. It chirped the nights through all winter long I imagined the cricket was telling a story that would never end. "That's exactly what Marianne wanted her children's magazine to do—to tell stories that would never end! So the name Cricker became her best choice.
Thank you for everything, Marianne. May the stories, and the laughter, never end!
The four great inventions of ancient China are China's outstanding contributions to the whole world, and have had a great impact on world's scientific and cultural exchanges.
Paper-making | During the Eastern Han Dynasty around 104 A.D., a eunuch (太监) of the Imperial Court named Cai Lun invented a new type of paper. It was said that he used bark (树皮), rags (破布) and broken fishing nets as materials to make plant fiber paper suitable for writing. In 105 A.D., he presented this invention to He Di, the emperor at that time, according to Chinese history. |
Printing | In the Song Dynasty, Bi Sheng (A.D.1004﹣1048), used clay to make rectangle cubes (长方体), carved a single Chinese character on each of them, and burnt them with fire. Then according to the article content, he arranged the words, put them in an iron frame (框架) to print.The printing skill is named the movable-type printing. |
Compass | The working people of ancient China invented the compass in their long-term labor practice.They found the characteristic of magnet (磁铁) showing the direction. The earliest compass, Sinan, firstly appeared in the Warring States Period. |
Gunpowder | The invention of gunpowder began with ancient alchemy (炼丹术) in the Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty. In order to refine pills for immortality (永生), alchemists constantly update the methods of alchemy, which finally led to the invention of gunpowder. In Tang Dynasty, the gunpowder began to be applied (应用) to the military affairs (军事). |
When | Saturday, October 5th |
Where | Jinhua Library |
What I did | help organize books, make bookmarks. . . |
How I felt | a sense of pride. . . |
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A Day at the Library
During the winter break, I had a great time joining in a special social practice activity.
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