A.help yourself | B.enjoy yourself | C.teach yourself | D.be yourself |
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What season is it in October? If you ask people from the UK, they will tell you it’s “autumn”. But if you go to the US, you will find that people use both “autumn” and “fall”, why does this season have two names in English?
According to Dictionary.com, both words have been around for a long time, but neither of them was the first to describe this season. During this season, crops would become ripe (成熟) and farmers would have a big harvest. So in Old English, this season was simply called “harvest”.
Then, in the 1600s, more people left their farms and moved to cities. With fewer people farming, the word “harvest” became less useful. English speakers needed a different name for the season. They knew leaves fell from trees during the season, so people started calling it “the fall of the leaf”, or “fall” for short.
But at the end of the 1600s, autumn, from the French word “autompne” and the Latin “autumnus”, came to England. It gradually replaced (替代) “fall” as the word for this season.
At the same time, British people were making their first trips to North America. They brought both the words “fall” and “autumn” with them. That’s why today’s Americans have two names for one season.
1.What was the season in October called in Old English?A.Autumn. | B.Fall. | C.Harvest. | D.Autompne. |
A.Because leaves fell from trees. | B.Because crops would be ripe. |
C.Because more people farmed. | D.Because it was more useful. |
A.Chinese and Japanese. | B.French and Latin. |
C.English and Indian. | D.Old English. |
A.Four Seasons in a Year | B.Americans’ Favourite Season |
C.One Season with Two Names | D.Differences between the UK and the US |
A.In a storybook. | B.In a diary. | C.In a travel guide. | D.In a newspaper. |
Dear parents, Class 6C will have a picnic in Hangzhou Bay on Thursday, the 4 of March. We would like to invite you to this picnic. Please come to school with your child at seven forty-five on Thursday morning. You need to bring some food but don't bring any drinks. We will a Miss Luo |
An accident report form | |
Time | 4:30 p.m. |
Date | May |
Place | Zhongshan Street. |
Accident | Michael was hit by a |
A.22nd | B.21st | C.23rd |
A.car | B.truck | C.taxi |
A.right leg | B.left arm | C.left leg |
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Could the students from less developed areas in central and western China get the same educational chances as those in big cities in the east? Could the children in poor rural (农村) areas develop as well as those in rich cities? Maybe the answers were “No” in the past. But now, China is trying to change the situation.
In order to help rural students grow taller and stronger, China’s Nutrition (营养) Improvement Program started in 2011. According to the program, a lot more money was spent improving students’ meals. More than 36 million students from 134,000 primary and junior high schools in poor rural areas have benefited from the program. They are provided with healthy food like eggs and milk from Monday to Friday at school. And the result of a survey shows that the students in those areas are much taller and stronger than before.
It is true that there were differences between less developed areas and developed areas in education before. Recently, The Guideline for Popularizing High School Education (2017-2020) has come out. According to the guideline, above 90% students from all over the country will go to high schools by 2020. What’s more, the schools in central and western areas will get more support to improve their education.
Students from rural and poor areas also get more chances to receive higher education. A special college program makes it possible for more students from those areas to go to key (重点的) colleges and universities. The number will be increased by 10% in 2017.
With the guideline and the programs, we can expect a fairer and more balanced (均衡的) education in the future.
1.The number of 134,000 in Paragraph 2 is the number of _______ in poor rural areas.A.the key schools | B.the poor students |
C.the key colleges and universities | D.the primary and junior high schools |
A.逃离 | B.获益 | C.受害 | D.赚钱 |
A.;; | B.;; | C.;; | D.;; |
A.Liu Xi, a student from Chongqing, can go to any high school if she wants to |
B.Li Mei, a student from a western rural school, can get a bag of milk every day |
C.Hu Jia, a 12-year-old rural student, will more easily receive high school education |
D.Han Lei, a student from Beijing, will have few chances to go to key universities |