Suzhou is my hometown. This beautiful city is in Jiangsu Province. ______ it is not as big as Beijing, everyone in China knows this beautiful place. People ______ it as “Venice of the east(東方威尼斯)”.
Suzhou has a long history. There are many ancient Chinese ______ in Suzhou. Now, they are becoming famous tourist places in Suzhou.
In the past 30 years my hometown has ______ rapidly in many ways. The biggest change I have found is the ______. On the one hand, many people here don’t live in the ______ houses any more. They have moved into the new high buildings and are enjoying the comfortable life. One the other hand, nowadays builders have ______ thousands of modern building of different styles. I think this change is ______ because it has made Suzhou become more modern and more beautiful.
To be honest,everything has changed ______ my hometown. I think you should think about ________ the beautiful city. Make sure you will love it.
When the day of a big test at school comes, some students feel nervous. They may have a stomachache or a headache. “Hey, that sounds just like me!” You may say this when you’re reading this passage. If so, you need to take steps to lessen(減輕) your test anxiety(憂慮). Here are some ways to do that.
Ask for help
Talk to your parents, your teachers, or your friends. (1)Talking to someone about test anxiety can make you feel better. Describe what happens to you when you’re taking a test and these people may help you out.
Stop bad thoughts
Don’t send yourself any bad messages about the test such as” I’m not good at taking test” or “(2)如果我考差了我會很難過”. These thoughts can make anxiety worse and make it harder for you to do well in the test.
Breathe better
Do you know that breathing exercises can help make you less nervous? Here’s how to do it: breathe in slowly and deeply through your nose, and then breathe out slowly through your mouth. Do this two to four times when you’re taking a test, and you might feel better.
Accept mistakes
Everyone makes mistakes. If you have prepared for the test and done your best, that’s enough.
1.How should we do the breathing exercises? ________________________________________
2.How many ways can learn to lessen the text anxiety from the passage? ___________________
3.Is accepting mistakes a good choice?______________________________________________
Now more than 40 million (百萬) foreigners around the world are learning Chinese, according to a report. The relationship (關(guān)系) between the United States and China is becoming 1. It has really 2 the growth of Chinese language learning in the US.
I am Chris from the US. I am one of the many people learning 3. I am studying at a Confucius institute (孔子學(xué)院) in New York. There are 10 4 in our class. Some are over 30 years old. Some are middle school students. Our Chinese teacher 5 Beijing. He often tells us some interesting things in China.
I think Chinese is 6 to learn. The biggest challenge for American learners is the writing. Chinese is 7 different from any other language in the world.
It will 8 me a lot of time to learn enough Chinese characters (漢字). But I think there are many advantages of spending time 9 the language. One big advantage is that it makes me see things from a different point of view, 10 Chinese is such a different language from English.
I think for American students the most important advantage is that learning a different language can open up their mind.
1.A. worse B. poorer C. friendlier D. politer
2.A. stopped B. practiced C. started D. influenced
3.A. English B. Chinese C. French D. Japanese
4.A. students B. workers C. teachers D. volunteers
5. 20. A. comes to B. leaves for C. goes around D. comes from