Can you write down a Chinese word being read to you? Sometimes it can be difficult when you find the word is not included in most dictionaries.
Lu Jialei, 14, from Hangzhou Foreign Language School, won the CCTV Chinese Character (汉字) Spelling Contest（竞赛） on Oct 18th, 2013. About 160 people competed. The host read a word to the contestant(选手), explained its meaning and gave sample sentences. The contestant was needed to write down the word.
Winning the contest was a “surprise” to Lu. “I was not the smartest one,” she said. “But I paid attention to details.” To prepare for the contest, she and her teammates studied the Modern Chinese Dictionary for 10 days. There are more than 56,000 entries (词条) including characters, words and phrases in it. She also had a secret weapon(武器). She studied how Chinese characters were formed.
“When others paid attention to the plot of a story, she looked at how writers use words and sentences to express themselves,” said Su Yunsheng, Lu’s Chinese teacher. Su is happy to see students like Lu find the beauty of Chinese language.
“Besides using something Chinese and having Chinese traditional festivals, learning to write Chinese characters is also an important part of inheriting (传承) Chinese culture,” said Su.
1.Lu Jialei was born in ________.
A. 1997 B. 1999 C. 2001 D. 2002
2. Lu Jialei studied the Modern Chinese Dictionary ________ for the contest.
A. for more than one week B. as long as one week
C. for more than half a month D. as long as half a month
3.The contestant was needed to write down the word ________.
A. after the contestant read the word to the host
B. before the host read the word to the contestant
C. after the host explained its meaning and gave sample sentences
D. before the contestant explained its meaning and gave sample sentences
4. Lu Jialei’s secret weapon was that ________.
A. she paid attention to details
B. she was the smartest contestant
C. she found the beauty of Chinese language
D. she studied how Chinese characters were formed
Perhaps you’ve seen the English letters “WC” in your city. They show public toilets. But do you know it is far from elegant (优雅的) English? In fact, foreigners from English-speaking countries rarely use the letters.
Workers in our city are changing “WC” signs all over the city. The government is spending much money changing all the bad English on signs and restaurant menus. Many other places in China are following our steps.
“WC, or water closet, is old-fashioned English. It sounds dirty to me,” says Charlie Shifflet, a young man from the US. The old sign will become “Gents/Men” and “Ladies/Women”.
“I see lots of poor English in everyday life, and not only on signs,” he says. “I know what they mean. But they are Chinglish(中式英语), not real English. For example, when someone says to me ‘My hometown is Henan Province’, I know he should say: ‘My hometown is in Henan Province’. ‘Hometown’ is a smaller place in a province.” The common mistakes he picked up include “Not Entry”, which should be “No Entry”, “Direction of Airport” should be changed to “To the Airport”. And it is “room rate”, not “room price”. And remember to “Keep off the grass”, rather than “Care of the green”.
1.What does the writer think of the use of “WC”?
A. He doesn’t think it means water closet.
B. He doesn’t think it old-fashioned English.
C. He doesn’t think it proper（正确的）for a sign.
D. He thinks it elegant English.
2.Charlie Shifflet ____________.
A. is a Chinese living in America
B. thinks Chinese people are sometimes using incorrect English
C. likes to hear or see Chinglish
D. sometimes uses Chinglish
3.The last paragraph is about ____________.
A. why there are so many Chinglish signs
B. examples of Chinglish
C. where Chinglish signs are
D. who uses Chinglish signs
Gladys Holm was a secretary (秘书). She worked in an office all her life. Gladys made about $15,000 a year. She died when she was 86 years old. And she left a big surprise—$18 million! She gave the money to a children’s hospital.
Gladys Holm never got married or had any children. But she always liked children, and she wanted to help them. When her friend’s daughter was ill in hospital, Gladys brought her a toy bear. After that, she visited the hospital many times. Every time she visited, she brought toy bears for those children. After that, people started to call Gladys the “Toy Bear Lady”.
Gladys always gave toys and other presents to her friends but no one knew she had a lot of money. She lived in a small house outside Chicago. Everyone was very surprised when they learned that she was a millionaire. One of her friends said, “She always gave us nice presents and things, but we didn’t know she was rich.”
How did Gladys get so much money? She asked her boss how to make more money, and she listened to what he said. She bought the stocks (股票) that he told her to buy, and she got very rich. Before she died, she talked to her friends about “giving something to the children’s hospital”. No one knew that the “something” was $18 million!
1. Gladys Holm often visited the hospital and gave children toy bears because .
A. she had too much money
B. she had a lot of toy bears
C. she had never got married and had no children
D. she liked children very much
2. , so she got rich.
A. Gladys made $15,000 a year as a secretary
B. Gladys did what the boss told her to do
C. Gladys got the money from the boss
D. Gladys did another job in the hospital
3.When Gladys Holm became a millionaire, .
A. she spent most of the money on nice presents and things
B. she stopped working
C. she still lived in the same way
D. she could hardly wait to tell her friends and family
完形填空
The world is divided into two parts. One half of the world is rich and the _______ half is poor. In the poor part, a lot of people _______ get enough to eat. When they are ill, none of the hospitals can _______ them because they have no money. In the rich part, a lot of people eat too much. For example, a dog _______ a cat in North America eats better than a child in the poorer countries. The poor countries have some _______ problems. Sometimes the land is too poor to grow _______ on. People there have neither rich land nor enough water. The land can be made better, _______ a lot of things must be done. The people must be taught and water must be found.
But rich countries have _______ too. There are not always good places to live in. Sometimes the air is not clean and the rivers are too _______ to swim in or to drink. The roads and streets are full of people and buses. Cars and buses have to move _______ . There is too much noise. Something must be done about these problems. The air and the rivers must be cleaned and be kept clean. More houses have to be built. But these can’t be done easily.
1.A. other B. another C. others D. rest
2.A. usually B. always C. often D. never
3.A. worry B. receive C. show D. protect
4.A. like B. as C. or D. and
5.A. difficult B. interesting C. important D. different
6.A. everything B. something C. nothing D. anything
7.A. until B. and C. but D. since
8.A. problems B. pollution C. population D. production
9.A. public B. narrow C. dirty D. waste
10.A. slowly B. against C. carefully D. dangerous
---Let's go and listen to Mr Smith's speech on Western culture, shall we?
---_______ .It's getting to the end.
A. Why not? B. That's all right.
C. Never mind D. I'm afraid not.
Miss Zhang _____ in Suzhou, but now she ______ in Beijing.
A. used to living , used to live
B. is used to living, is used to live
C. used to live, is used to living
D. is used to live , used to live
