If you have a chance to go to Taiwan, there’s one place you should not miss— the Taipei Palace Museum. The museum has around 650,000 pieces of ancient Chinese treasures. These treasures were originally in the Palace Museum in Beijing. But how did they get to Taiwan?
In 1931, the Japanese invaded the northeast part of China. To protect the national treasures from the Japanese, the government of the Republic of China decided to move some important pieces to Nanjing.
However, they did not stay long in Nanjing. In 1949, the people’s Liberation Army won in the Liberation War. The Guomindang government went from Nanjing to Taiwan. Along with them they took the art pieces. The Taipei Palace Museum was set up in 1965 to hold the national treasures.
Taiwan people are very proud of the Taipei Palace Museum. Some of the collections are world famous. One of the most visited art pieces in the museum is the “Jade Cabbage”. It is made from a single piece of jade(绿玉). If you take a close look, you can see two grasshoppers on the leaves, a large one and a small one, which were the symbol of many children in a family.
If you are interested in the treasures, you could take a look at a TV programme called Taipei Palace Museum. It gives a picture of the treasures of the Taipei Palace Museum. There are also interviews with over a hundred experts about the stories behind some of the pieces.
1.The treasures stayed in Nanjing for about _______ years.
A. 10 B. 16 C. 18 D. 34
2.Why did the Guomindang government take these treasures to Taiwan?
A. Because the Japanese invaded the northeast part of China.
B. Because they wanted to protect the treasures from the Japanese.
C. Because they wanted to show them to Taiwan people.
D. Because they were defeated by the People’s Liberation Army.
3.From the last two paragraphs we can learn _______.
A. Taiwan people are proud of the Taipei Palace Museum because of its world famous collections.
B. the most famous art piece in the museum is the “Jade cabbage”.
C. two grasshoppers on the leaves stand for two sons in a family.
D. you can learn about these treasures by visiting the Taipei Palace Museum.
4.What’s the best title for the passage?
A. The most famous art piece—Jade Cabbage
B. The Beijing Palace Museum
C. A place of interest—Taiwan
D. The Taipei Palace Museum
I am a Chinese. I’ve always been making drams from time to time. Those dreams made by each average Chinese like me are certainly Chinese dreams. Dreams vary from person to person, an d also from time to time. But in a certain time, people share the similar dreams here I’d like to share my Chinese dreams with you.
When I was a child in 1970s, poverty kept hovering (盘旋) over my family, just as it did with other average families in the countryside. The unfit(不合身的) second-hand clothes, rain leaking roof of old adobe(土坯) house became part of my memory. However, the worse impression is that I was feeling hungry all the time. Sometimes hunger bit me so severely that I regarded dried sweet potato slices as a delicious snack. The sharp cracks of chewing are still echoing (回响) in my dream. At that time, my dram was getting enough to fill my cooing empty belly.
In the early years of 1980s, as the reform and opening-up policy was carried out, the child dream came true. And then another dream became clearer and clearer in my mind. I must try my best to escape out of my poor and backward hometown. I worked harder at my study than most of my classmates, and, after luckily succeeding in the national college entrance examination, my dream became reality again: after graduation, I became a citizen working in a city. As the first college graduate out of a remote (偏远的) village, my success set an example for my folks. They came to realize that schooling is a good way to change one’s fate(命运). In the following years, there were less drop-outs and more college graduates in my village, of which I am proud even today.
Afterwards, I got accustomed to the life of citizens and I began to dream the same things as other peers: a comfortable home, my own car and a big house. Based on my hard-work, more than ten years passed, all of these dreams have been fulfilled. Of course, new dreams will come true sooner or later only if my motherland keeps advancing with current(当前的，现在的)pace.
My Chinese dreams are also ones of other Chinese people. If every individual’s dreams come true, the dream of the great rejuvenation(复兴) of the Chinese nation will be sure to come true. “The Chinese dream, after all, is the dream of the people,” as the Chairman Xi Jingping said.
1.What is it that made the author’s child dream come true?
A. Selling the dried sweet potato slices.
B. The country’s reform and opening-up policy.
C. Escaping from his poor hometown.
D. Working harder than any other classmates.
2.When the author was young, his family ______.
A. was as poor as many other families
B. was richer than other average families
C. didn’t like the second-hand clothes
D. never get the author’s belly cooing
3.Which of the following statements about the author is WRONG?
A. The author has many dreams in his life.
B. The author accepted his college education.
C. there are more drop-outs in the author’s village.
D. The author realized all of his dreams by hard-working.
4.What can be inferred from the passage?
A. The author’s dreams are different from other Chinese people’s dreams.
B. The Chinese dream is based on every Chinese individual’s dreams.
C. Only if the Chinese dream comes true, can the author’s dreams come true.
D. The author and his family live a happy life in the countryside.
Chocolate is good for your heart, skin and brain. Usually, people think that chocolate is bad for their health. They describe chocolate as “something to die for” or say “death by chocolate”. Now they should bite their tongues! Evidence is showing that some kinds of chocolate are actually good for you in the following ways:
A happier heart
Scientists at Harvard University recently examined 136 studies on cocoa— the main ingredient in chocolate— and found that it does seem to strengthen the heart. Studies have shown heart benefits from increased blood flow. These benefits are the result of cocoa’s chemicals, which seem to prevent both cell damage and inflammation(炎症)。
Better blood pressure
If yours is high, chocolate may help. Jeffrey Blumberg from Tufts University recently found that people with high blood pressure who ate 3.5ounces of dark chocolate per day for two weeks saw their blood pressure drop quickly.
Muscle magic
Chocolate milk may help you recover after a hard workout(锻炼). In a small study at Indiana University, people who drank chocolate milk between workouts did better on a tiredness test than those who had some sports drinks.
Better for your skin
German researchers gave 24 women a half-cup of special cocoa every day. After three months, the women’s skin was moister(润滑的) and smoother. The research shows that chocolate helps protect and increase blood flow to the skin, improving its appearance.
Brain gains.
It sounds almost too good to be true, but research suggests that chocolate may improve your memory, attention span, reaction time, and problem-solving skills by increasing blood flow to the brain.
1.What’s the meaning of “bite their tongues” in the first paragraph?
A. Stop talking. B. Speak up.
C. Think of it. D. Listen to it.
2.What’s the meaning of the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph?
A. Sports drinks are better than chocolate milk.
B. sports drinks can make people easy to be tired.
C. Drinking milk can keep you energetic at work.
D. we should drink chocolate milk between times when we work hard.
3.What’s the best title for this passage?
A. Chocolate, a Healthy Food
B. More Chocolate, Less Health
C. Chocolate and Blood Pressure
D. Advice on Eating Chocolate
一个英文网站面向中学生征稿。请你写一篇英文稿件，介绍“中秋节”及这个节日里的主要活动。
写作要点：
1.它是中国传统节日之一；
2.家人团聚；
3.赏月、吃月饼、
4.还有旅游、访友等其他活动。
5.……
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使用文连贯；
3开头语已您写好，不讲总词数。
参考词汇：中秋节:the Mid-Autumn Festival 农历: lunar calendar
赏月: enjoy the full moon 月饼: moon cake
The Mid- Autumn Fetival
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th of the eighth month of Our Chinese lunar calendar.
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I passed all the other course that I took at my university, but I could never pass botany. This was why all botany students had to spend several hours a week in a lab look through a microscope at plant cells, and I could never see through a microscope. This was used to make my professor angry. “I can’t see everything, ” I said. Then he began patient enough to explain how to see through it, but I still couldn’t make it. At last we tried it with every adjustment of the microscope known to men. With my pleasure, I saw something and drew it quickly on the paper. “What’s that?” my professor asked. “That’s what I saw.” I answered. “No, you don’t!” he shouted, and he bent over and looking into the microscope. “That’s your eyes! You’ve fixed the lens so that it reflects! You’ve drawn your eyes!”
On October 31, Americans celebrate Halloween.
Halloween means “holy” (hallow) “evening” (een). This is the evening before the Christian holy day of All Saints Day. On All Saints Day, Christians remember the Saints but Halloween is even older than Christianity.
Before Christianity, people 1. Europe believed that on October 31, ghosts of dead people came back. To scare the ghosts, people 2. (dress) like devils and were very noisy. They also made big fires 3. keep the ghosts away. Later, people did not believe in ghosts, 4. they kept the day of Halloween for fun.
Immigrants came from Europe to America and 5. （bring） with them the custom of Halloween. Halloween has some strange symbols. One symbol is the jack-o’-lantern in the window. 6. jack-o’-lantern is to scare the ghosts. People cut the pumpkin, throw away all of the inside, and cut a face in 7. . Then they put a candle inside of it.
Jack-o’-lantern usually looks 8. （fright）, too!
Today, in the United States, Halloween is very popular 9. the children. They wear masks and special costumes. They want to look like skeletons and ghosts.
Then they go from house to house and say “ Trick or treat!”. People give them 10. （candy）, cookies or fruit. When people give nothing, the children sometimes play tricks on them.
