
The opening ceremony开幕式) of the Tokyo Summer Olympics will be on July 24, 2020. One year before the event, its medal designs(奖牌设计) were shown, CBS News reported.
However, the medals are quite different from the ones seen in other Olympics. People used old cell phones and other electronic waste to make them!
The organizing committee chose the medal designs by holding a competition. Competitors brought 400 designs. The winner was 51-year-old designer Junichi Kawanishi, the Guardian wrote.
The medals look like pebbles(鹅卵石) and are 8.5 cm in diameter(直径). The front face has a picture of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory.
The committee will make 5,000 medals for this summer's games. Japan is the first Olympic host country to make all of its medals from electronic waste.
1.The Olympics will be held in Japan this summer.
2.The medals are different mostly because it has a picture of Nike in the front face.
3.Junichi Kawanishi beat the other competitors in the competition.
4.From the passage, we are sure it's the first time for an Olympic host country to make medals from waste.
5.From the passage, we can infer(推断) that Japanese value environmental protection.
There was a class of students who were very unruly (难管教的). _________ of the teachers wanted to teach them. So the headmaster called a teacher_______ had just given up her job at a different school. He asked her if she would like to come in and teach at the school for one term. And she_______.
The headmaster decided not to tell the teacher about the class, afraid that she would be scared off. After the new teacher had been on the job for a month, the headmaster sat in the class to see how things were going. _______ , the students were well-behaved. After the class, the headmaster_______the teacher for her work. She_______him for giving her such a well-behaved class to teach. But the headmaster said he really didn't deserve (值得) any thanks.
She laughed and told him,“You see, I deserved your_______on my first day here. I looked in the desk drawer and found a list of the students' IQ scores. I knew that I had a challenging group of kids here- they're so_______that I would have to work really hard to make school interesting for them.”
She opened the drawer and the headmaster saw a_______with the students' names and the numbers 136, 145, 127, 128 and so on written next to the names.
The headmaster laughed. Those weren’t their IQ __________ , but their locker (储物柜) numbers!
1.A.Neither B.All C.None
2.A.who B.which C.what
3.A.doubted B.disagreed C.agreed
4.A.Undoubtedly B.Surprisingly C.Unluckily
5.A.questioned B.punished C.praised
6.A.thanked B.pardoned C.admired
7.A.trick B.mistake C.secret
8.A.smart B.stupid C.hard-working
9.A.test B.list C.notice
10.A.cases B.instruments C.scores
A
Do you often run outdoors to keep healthy? Have you ever thought about how running helps to clean up the earth? Sometimes a_________mind can bring us a win-win situation.
Plogging, a new way to exercise, began in Sweden(瑞典). The name “plogging” comes from two words--- the Swedish(瑞典的) word "plocka" , which means“pick up”, and the word“ jogging”,. which means“to run_________”.A Swedish man called Erik_______the movement. He saw rubbish here and there when riding to work each day .He became worried about the_______environment and decided not to go to work by bike any more. So, he began to run to work and pick up the rubbish at the same time .To his_________, more and more people followed him and soon plogging became popular.
1.A.clear B.creative C.clever
2.A.safely B.quickly C.slowly
3.A.started B.kept C.stopped
4.A.clean B.dirty C.scary
5.A.disappointment B.sadness C.joy
A: Tina and I went to Lao She Teahouse yesterday evening.
B: How was it?
A: It was great! I wanted to watch a play, so she took me there.1.
B: Wow! The play is well-known. You are so lucky! Why is the play named Teahouse?
A: The play is about a story which took place in a teahouse in old Beijing. 2.
B: Who's the writer of the play?
A: Lao She. 3..He was named “people’s Artist”.
B:He was a really great writer. Can we do anything more there?
A: Of course!4.If you like Beijing Opera,folk music or magic shows, you can enjoy them there.
B: 5.
A: We planned to watch for an hour, but in the end, we stayed for three hours.
B: Do you want to go there again?
A: Of course. I want to watch a Beijing opera next time!
A. How long did you stay?
B. He wrote many plays, novels and short stories.
C. We drank tea and watched the play Teahouse.
D.It describes the changes in Chinese society over fifty years.
E. Waiters bring tea to the customers and sell them delicious Chinese food.
—When shall we see the tea art performance in Jinli, this afternoon or this evening?
—________is OK. I'm free today.
A.Either B.Neither C.Both
In China, when your guest's cup is _______,you should fill it with wine(酒).
A.full B.broken C.empty
