从短文后所给的五个选项中选出能填入短文空白处的最佳迄项，使短文通顺、连贯，意思完整
Our grandparents seem to have magic powers sometimes. Give them a Chinese lunar calendar, and they will know what weather will be like days or even months later.
1. They are following the 24 Solar Terms(节气), which is an important part of Chinese culture. And on Nov. 30th, 2016, the United Nations (UN）added it to the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity（人类非物质文化遗产）.
The 24 Solar terms came into being during the Qin （211-206BC） and Han （206BC-AD220） dynasties. 2. So, weather changes were important. But of course, they had no satellite, Internet or weather broadcast to help them.
3. They studied the sun’s movement with a sundial（日冕仪）.They also paid attention to other natural changes such as temperature, water and crops growth. In the end, they worked out the 24 Solar terms to mark the changes.
4. For example, the solar terms jingzhe（惊蛰）is when insects wake up from a long sleep in the cold winter. Farmers take it as a sign of warm weather and get busy working.
The 24 Solar Terms is honored as China’s fifth great invention, after papennaking, printing, the compass and gunpowder.5. For example, people will say, “Do not show your feet after Hanlu(寒露).” Why? It’s because the solar term “Hanlu” marks the coming of the cold days.
A.Now, people still use the solar terms in daily life，
B.But people found a way.
C.The terms became their guide to farming work.
D.What’s the secret?
E.At the time, most Chinese people made their living on farms.
Imagine having an ear made out of an apple. It seems like a crazy idea. But it could happen in the near future.
Canadian biophysicist Andrew Pelling used an apple to grow a human ear. He thinks fruit and vegetables can be used to cheaply repair human body parts in the future.
Scientists have been trying to grow organs in labs to replace our old ones. But it‘s a hard job. In the past, scientists have used man-made materials, animal parts and even dead people as scaffolds（支架）. But that has proved to be difficult and expensive.
Pelling and his team, however, found the apple to be a cheap and easy-to-use scaffolds.They first cut an apple into the shape of an ear. Then they used a special way to take out the apple‘s cells（细胞）and make it a scaffold. The team then added human cells to the apple, and watched it grow. “You can implant（移植）these scaffold into the body, and the body will send in cells and a blood supply and actually keep these things alive, ” Pelling said during a Ted Talk speech.
The team put the apple scaffold inside a living mouse and the mouse’s cells slowly take over the pieces of the apple.
Now Pelling is thinking of the other fruit, plants or vegetables to use.
1.Andrew Pelling is a scientist who studies
A.body and organs B.biology and organ
C.physic and body D.biology and physics
2.What did Pelling and his team use as scaffolds?
A.Fruits. B.Animals. C.dead people D.man-made
3.According to Paragraph 4, the right order is________.
①Make the apple a scaffold.
②Cut an apple into the shape of an ear.
③Implant this scaffold into the human body.
④Add human cells to the apple scaffold.
A.①④②③ B.②①④③ C.②①③④ D.④①③②
4.How will the body keep the implanted scaffolds alive?
A.By repairing the scaffolds. B.By replacing the scaffolds.
C.By taking over the scaffolds. D.By sending in cells and a blood supply
5.What‘s the best title of the passage?
A.Scaffolds and cells B.Organs and cells
C.Organs Made of Apples D.Scientists and apples
You must have read or heard of the sad love story between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. But can you imagine the two singing opera in English instead of speaking poetic Chinese?
Jia and Lin are two characters from the classic Chinese novel A Dream of Red Mansions《红楼梦》），written by Cao Xueqin （1715-1763）. Now the book has been made into an English-language opera. The opera was first performed last September in San Francisco, US. This month it comes to Beijing, Changsha and Wuhan.
Many of the opera’s creators have backgrounds （背景）in both Chinese and American cultures, including the director and playwrights. Their understanding of both cultures helped them to change a Chinese classic into a foreign-language opera.
The book, which covers the rise and fall of the Jia family, has 120 chapters and hundreds of characters. But opera writer David Henry Hwang cut down the number of characters to just seven. Huang, a Chinese-American, focused on the love story between Jia and Lin and tried to write a heartbroken tragedy （悲剧）that everyone would understand.
The art director Timmy Yip, from Hong Kong, tried to help foreign people understand the characters using costumes （服装）and stage settings （布景）.He compared Lin to water and gave her a light green costume. When Lin shows up on stage, there is usually water around her on the stage.
The creators consider it to be a meaningful job to introduce a Chinese classic to Western audiences. Hwang told China Daily he was happy to “have made a contribution to the land where my parents were born.
1.Who wrote the opera for the Chinese classic novel A Dream of Red Mansions?
A.Lin Daiyu. B.Cao Xueqin. C.Jia Baoyu. D.David Henry Hwang.
2.The opera was ________
A.sung in poetic Chinese B.performed in many languages
C.performed in China after one year D.first performed Beijing
3.Which of the following is NOT a difference between the book and the opera?
A.The sad love story. B.The whole family’s story.
C.The language used, D.The number of characters.
4.The “land” in the last paragraph refers to?
A.America B.San Francisco
C.China D.the place where David was born
5.Why did the creators make the book into an English-language opera?
A.Because they thought the book was not good enough.
B.Because they hope to help others learn English.
C.Because they wanted Westerners to know about the Chinese novel.
D.Because they have backgrounds in Western culture.
The Buzzwords of 2016 in China In 2016, Chinese people came up with some funny and confusing new phrases. Here are three examples for you. | |
Blue Thin Mushroom | Blue Thin Mushroom became very popular when a video about a young Chinese man from Guangxi Province, saying to his girlfriend in his local accent（方言）that he was upset and wanted to cry because of losing love |
Badass Word Br other Lì haile wǒde ge | You may find it strange to say "word brother". That's because the pronunciation of "word" is similar to "my" (wǒde) in Chinese. The phrase is used to show admiration. Though there is a "brother" here, women are included as well. |
Hǒng huāng zhī Lì Prehistoric Powers
| It first appeared in the Chinese TV play The journey of Flower（《花千骨》）.However, it wasn’t until last year’s Summer Olympic Games in Rio that this buzzword rose to fame（名声）.Chinese athlete Fu Yuanhui mentioned the energy helped her swim so fast. Her funny expressions made her become a famous Internet person overnight, and “Prehistoric Powers” becomes one of the most popular words in China. |
1.According to the passage, you can use________ to express your sad feelings.
A.Blue Thin Mushroom B.Badass Word Brother
C.Prehistoric Powers D.The journey of Flowers
2.According to the passage, you can use________ to express your sad feelings.
A.
B.
C.
D.
3.Where did the expression “Prehistoric Powers” first appear?
A.A video B.Local accent C.TV play D.Olympic Games in Rio
4.In the passage, we can use “________’’to replace “Buzzwords”.
A.perfect words B.funny words C.boring words D.popular words
5.Which phrase uses the similar English pronunciation to express the Chinese?
A.Blue Thin Mushroom B.Badass Word Brother
C.Prehistoric Powers D.Hǒng huāng zhī li
More than 95 percent of people in the world have phones today. Phone calls and messages help us easily keep in touch with others. It means that we seldom write letters now. But a TV show, Letters Alive is bringing back this old habit.
Letters Alive got its idea from a UK program with a similar name. Both shows invite famous actors and actresses, but there are no funny jokes or different competitions. Instead, it’s just one person walking up to microphone and read the letter.
The letters were written by people from different times in history. Guan Zhengwen, the director of the TV show, said, “Every letter opens another world for us. It seems that we can experience the real lives and feelings of the writers.”
Since its first episode（集）on December 5th, Letters alive has been widely praised. Many audiences-- the people who watched the TV show, said that it has provided a breath of fresh air to today’s TV shows.
Besides Letters Alive, some other cultural TV shows have also been well received by Chinese audiences. They include Chinese Poetry Conference, a classical Chinese poetry competition, and Readers, a program that invites people to read poems and articles they like or wrote.
“This means that our audiences are not only looking for entertainment like gossip（八卦）and eye-catching games, ” reported China Youth Daily. “Cultural values and true feeling are the keys to winning praise.”
1.According to the passage, people seldom ________to keep in touch with others today.
A.write letters B.make calls C.send messages D.send e-mails
2.We can enjoy ________ in the TV show Letters Alive.
A.funny jokes B.different competitions
C.eye-catching games D.the real lives and feelings of the writers
3.What does the underlined word “audiences” mean?
A.导演 B.作者 C.观众 D,朗读者
4.We can know that Readers is the name of________ from the passage.
A.a game B.a program C.a director D.a competition
5.Why is Chinese Poetry Conference popular with people?
A.It has the similar name as a UK program.
B.It can express the feelings of the readers.
C.Gossip and eye-catching games in it are funny.
D.There is the value of Chinese traditional culture in it.
A young rich man was traveling down a street, going a bit fast in his new sports car. There were many________-playing among the cars.
As his car passed, one child appeared, and_______a brick hit the car’s side door, The young man stopped the car and_______. He grabbed（抓住） the kid, shouting, “What is wrong with you?
That’s a new car.________you did will cost me a lot of money. Why did you do it?”
“I am sorry, sir. I didn’t know what else to do!” He said, “My brother fell out of his wheelchair. I can’t lift him up” Almost_________the boy asked the man, “ Would you please help me get him back to his wheelchair? He is hurt and he’s too________for me,”The young man was deeply moved. He lifted the kid’s brother back into the wheelchair.
“Thank you, sir.” the child said to him. The man then watched the little boy push his brother towards their home.
It was a long walk back to his car... a long, slow walk. He_______ repaired the side door. He kept it that way _______ a reminder. Don’t go through life so fast that someone_______ throw a brick at you to get your attention. Sometimes, when you don’t have the time to listen, life throw a brick at your head. It’s your _______.Listen to the sound of your sour(心灵),or wait for the brick.
1.A.men B.students C.kids
2.A.suddenly B.luckily C.importantly
3.A.took photos B.jumped out C.fell down
4.A.When B.How C.What
5.A.fighting B.shouting C.crying
6.A.heavy B.noisy C.scary
7.A.never B.sometimes C.often
8.A.with B.without C.as
9.A.may B.has to C.should
10.A.turn B.choice C.punishment
