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2．　　Five young girl students at Shanghai Theatre Academy have become famous online by singing pop songs to the tunes (曲调) of Beijing Opera.
　　Li Wei, a young man, likes to watch the students' videos. He said, "Thanks to them, I have got a better understanding of my parents' deep love for Beijing Opera."
　　The students, mainly roommates from Room 416 at the academy, are known on the Internet as the "416 girls". They have put their singing on short-video platforms (平台) since 2019.
　　Over the past three years, the students have gradually won a large number of fans. In one of their videos, which has been watched more than 50 million times and received 2.5 million "likes", they sing the pop song Tan Chuang to a Beijing Opera tune.
　　Young people such as the "416 girls" have increased audience (观众) numbers for Beijing Opera, which has a history of more than 200 years.
　　Guo Jing, 27, a primary school teacher, has about 2.5 million followers on the Douyin short-video platform. In her videos, she performs ancient songs while dancing to Beijing Opera movements, or discusses interesting stories about the art form.
　　"I want to be one of the best art vloggers, and I see it as my task to shorten the distance between art and life," Guo said.
　　Pan Yan, a leader of the China Performance Industry Association, said, "Beijing Opera has a special charm (魅力) that people can sense without having to understand it. Audience experience the art form's beauty by watching short videos, and they also spread news and knowledge about Beijing Opera after watching videos."

3．　　The music band Coldplay is taking actions to protect the environment. This includes using their fans' energy to help provide electricity for their performances. In this way, they use electricity without adding carbon gases (碳气体) to the air. The band hopes to cut the amount of CO₂ given out by its business activities by 50 percent.
　　The Coldplay stars have added special dance floors and energy-storing bicycles to their latest world tour performance. The purpose is to get fans to help produce electricity by dancing and riding. Each dance floor can support many people. It creates electricity when people move on it. Each of the bikes can create an average of 200 watts (瓦特) of electricity. In order to encourage fans to dance or ride more during the performance, they even have competitions to find out which group of fans can create the most electricity.
　　"Being green is a good business model. That's what we'd like to show," said Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin. "The changes will bring a sense of belonging to the fans. Everything in our show is planned to bring everyone into the same group, singing together. It makes us feel part of a community."
　　Coldplay has taken other steps to protect the environment. One of its tour stages (舞台) uses recycled steel. The band also hopes to set up the world's first tour battery (电池) system, made from 40 recycled electric car batteries. The hope is to power the whole show with batteries.
　　"It's very expensive to try these things for the first time," said Martin, "but we are very happy that we are changing."
　　Coldplay is just one music group working to help the environment. Some other famous bands are also taking such steps.

4．　　For the first time, scientists have grown plants in moon soil (土壤) collected by NASA's Apollo astronauts.
　　The scientists had no idea if anything would grow in moon soil. They wanted to see if it could be used to grow plants. Robert Ferl of the University of Florida was surprised with the results. "Plants actually grow in moon soil," he said.
　　Ferl and other researchers planted thale cress, a small flowering plant, in moon soil. The good news was that all of the seeds (种子) grew. The bad news was that after the first week, they grew slowly. Most of the plants ended up small and not fully developed.
　　Scientists found that the longer the soil was on the moon, the worse the plants seemed to grow. The soil collected by the Apollo 11 was the least helpful for growth. It was a couple billion years longer. One solution might be to use younger soil on the moon, like lava (火山岩浆), or put in some special nutrient (营养物) mixtures.
　　Only 382 kilograms of moon rocks and soil were brought back by the six Apollo groups that landed on the moon. Early last year, NASA finally gave out 12 grams of soil for the planting experiment (实验).
　　The Florida scientists hope to reuse their moon soil later this year, planting more thale cress before possibly moving on to other plants.
　　A scientist said, "Growing plants is a big step forward. The real next step is to go and do it on the surface of the moon."

5．　　To live better in the fast-developing new world, we need to develop many kinds of skills. Some, like ICT (信息通讯技术) skills and knowledge of the digital (数字的) world, are well taught in schools. But some other basic skills are not paid much attention to. These skills are also important because employers (雇主) may ask you questions about them in interviews. (1)      
　　Imagination
　　In the age of technology that we are living in now, it is no longer enough to keep on making the same products. (2)       They may ask you to think of an object you use every day. Can you use it in new ways or can you think of three improvements?
　　Problem solving
　　Employers need workers with abilities to see problems before they happen. More importantly, they should come up with creative solutions. Imagine you are organizing a social event. (3)       Can you think of the best ways to solve them?
　　Communication skills
　　Workers will have to be good communicators. They will have to be able to discuss key problems with other workers. (4)       After all, people need to communicate with each other in quite different ways in the new world.
　　Critical analysis (批判性分析)'
　　(5)       Imagine you are asked to use the Internet to find out some information about a famous person. Can you check the information by searching different websites?
　　Decision making
　　Workers need to have a growing amount of responsibility. It is important to make decisions on what to do and not to do in different situations.

A. Think of some problems that you could probably face.
B. It's important to know how to get on with famous people.
C. Also they need to write in a clear way without too many words.
D. Workers should be able to tell if some information is true or false.
E. So it's a good idea to think about how good you are in these skills.
F. Employers need people who can come up with new ways and new ideas.

6．　　What does the power of role models mean to the young? Superstar Su Yiming may be one of the best persons to give a(n) (1)      . During the Beijing Winter Olympics, Su became a young idol (偶像) because he made (2)       in men's snowboard Big Air before his 18th birthday. He not only won two medals (奖牌), but also beat his own idol in the same competition.
　　Su (3)       young people to try their best to achieve their dreams. "I became interested in snowboarding when I was a kid. And I kept (4)       it. After I knew Beijing would host the 2022 Winter Olympics, I made the Olympics my (5)      . I wanted to show the best of myself at the Games," said Su Yiming.
　　Su only became a professional player about four years ago. But he kept his dream and trained hard for it. "Before the Beijing Winter Games, I had (6)       if I could win, but I achieved my dream of winning a gold medal, so I want to tell the kids that they need to find out the things they (7)       and give them their best efforts. In this way, I believe their dreams will (8)       come true."
　　Su knew many young people looked up to him as a role model, so he said he couldn't (9)       his progress. "I will try my best to be (10)       for myself and other young people and I will do as much as I can to set a good example for them," Su said.

7．　　Huang Qiang is the owner of a cube (魔方) store in Changsha. Recently, using 560 cubes, he spent eight hours (1)      (make) a portrait (肖像) of Wang Yaping, one of the three astronauts on the Shenzhou XIII.
　　"I want to show (2)      (I) respect for the three astronauts, especially Wang, the first woman Chinese astronaut to enter the space station," Huang Qiang said.
　　Before leaving, Wang promised her daughter (3)      (pick) stars for her. So now Wang (4)      (call) the "star-picking mother" by Chinese people.
　　Huang has also used cubes to make portraits of some famous medical workers who have fought (5)      (brave) against COVID-19 across China.
　　He started to play with cube puzzles during high school. Because (6)       his love for them, he joined the cube society while attending college. He practiced with cubes on buses, in school dining hall — basically whenever he (7)      (have) spare time.
　　His record for solving a cube puzzle is 8 seconds, which is the (8)      (high) speed in his college.
　　Although he majored in chemistry, Huang opened a cube store in Changsha after his (9)      (graduate). In his store he teaches people to solve cube puzzles.
　　"I have strong support from my parents, who always tell me that I won't know what is possible (10)       I have a try," Huang said.

8．　　Chen Gang and his son, Chen Lihao, were honored as heroes recently at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). The father and son reached the top of Mount Qomolangma at about 10:30 a.m. on April 30, 2022.
　　During their journey to the top of the world, 8,849 meters above the sea level, they carried out scientific research and collected a large number of samples of ice, snow, plants and rocks.
　　Chen Gang is a professor of surveying and mapping at the university. In 2020, he won the title "Good teacher in Hubei province". Chen Lihao, who is in his 20s, is a student at China University of Geosciences (Beijing). He is a national first-class mountain climber and a national second-class rock climber.
　　Huang Xiaomei, Party secretary of the university in Wuhan, and Wang Yanxin, the school's president, called on teachers and students to learn from the father and son. They said all teachers and students should closely connect their personal futures with national needs and climb their new peaks (山峰) in scientific research and daily life.
　　Cheng Jun, Party secretary of another university, said, "As a scientist, Chen's successful climb of Qomolangma has great meaning for the study of the mountain."
　　The father said he would closely connect love with his job, go on carrying out scientific research in the areas where the country needs it and write papers about his motherland in the future.

9．假设你是李华，你校为弘扬中华优秀传统文化，于5月16日在礼堂(school hall)举办了一年一度的中华传统文化展评活动，有剪纸、绘画、诗词大赛(poetry competition)等。你的英国朋友John对活动很感兴趣，请你给他写一封邮件，主要内容包括：
1. 展评的时间及地点；
2. 展评的内容及你的感受；
3. 邀请John明年来参加。
要求：
1. 词数100左右(开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数)；
2. 须包含所有要点提示，并可适当补充，以使语句通顺，行文连贯；
3. 邮件中不得出现个人真实姓名和校名。
Dear John,
　　How is everything going? I'm writing to introduce our school's annual Chinese Traditional Art Exhibition to you. ______________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Hua