There are great changes (变化) in Nongyong, a poor place in Guangxi. Many people's lives have changed, too. Meng Lidan is one of them, 1 life was quite different because of education (教育). Meng's 2 is to become a teacher in her village. She wants to 3 the children and help them know how education can make their lives different.
In 2012, when Meng and her classmates at Nongyong were 4 dangerous ladders (梯子) in a mountain on their way home from school, a reporter took some 5 of them and put them on a newspaper. People felt so 6 to see such pictures and wanted to give some help.
With the help of the government (政府) and people, more than 1,500 roads have been built in every village in the mountains to help children go to school 7 in the past few years. The villagers' living places are 8 becoming better.
Now Meng and her former classmates are high school students, they 9 to get higher education in the future. Many villagers have taken jobs in big cities 10 some want to go back to the village. Their lives are surely different now.
Summer vacation is coming soon! What are you doing during the vacation? It is a good time to practice English instead of sitting in front of computers! Look at the following two activities at our school.
Come and join us! English Corner Program Date: Saturday, July 15th, 2023 Time: 1:30p. m. -3:40p. m. Place: Room 207, Greenriver School Activities: Play guessing games; learn English songs; talk about English books. Things must do: Arrive five minutes earlier; bring a pen and a notebook. |
English Summer Camp ◆July 16th-22nd,2023 ◆Learn English through lots of fun activities, like watching English movies, having outdoor parties and so on. ◆Our teachers are native English speakers from the US and the UK. ◆No more than 20 students each time! |
Payment: All for FREE! Please register (登记) at the teachers' office in Greenriver School from July 11th to July 13th Email us at: Campactivities@summercamp. com for more information (信息). |
In the final match of this year's World Chess Championship (冠军赛),China's Ding Liren beat Russian-born Lan Nepomniachtchi. He is now the world chess champion. In China, chess is not very popular. So, how did Ding be a star in this sport?
Ding was born in Wenzhou in 1992. He learned to play chess when he was just four years old. At that time, Wenzhou was China's "chess city". It was a good place for learning and playing the game. At the age of five, he got his first junior champion in China. But it wasn't an easy way to be a big star in the chess world. The boy practiced the game for many hours every day. After twelve years' hard work, he did it! He was the youngest person ever to win this title.
Ding is very famous now in the chess world, but he keeps humble. He never says no when chess fans ask for his autograph (签名). He never regards (视作) himself as a superstar and he is always ready to talk about his problems in chess with his friends.
Now, Ding hopes more young people in China will start to know about chess. Would you like to learn this game? Ding asks beginners to buy good-looking pieces. In this way, you will enjoy the game more, and you are more likely to fall in love with it.
James and Thomas Lindesay are British brothers in Beijing. Last year, it took them months to visit the Great Wall in China on foot. The two started from the Jiayuguan in Gansu on July 15th. Their Great Wall trip is 3,263 kilometers.
The brothers' interest in traveling the Wall came from their father, William Lindesay. William was born in 1956 in the UK and had a dream of visiting the Great Wall from an early age. In 1987, he went on a trip there. After that, William married a Chinese woman and lived in Beijing. From then on, villagers living at the foot of the Wall often saw him picking up rubbish (垃圾) along the Wall. He loved the Great Wall a lot, so he tried to help clean and protect (保护) it. William also wrote ten books about the Great Wall.
William's works influenced (影响) his two sons. In 2016, the Lindesay brothers started to make short videos to protect the Wall. But they thought that was not enough (足够的). They wanted to follow in their father's footsteps and experience the Wall themselves, so their trip along the Wall started.
The brothers said the trip was not as easy as they thought before. But the experience made them know more about the Wall and the history behind it.
Do you think backpacks are important for students? Do you think backpacks are useful? You may say yes. But a lot of schools in America are banning (禁止) backpacks in class now. Here are some reasons (理由).
Students may bring something unnecessary or dangerous to school. They may put phones into their backpacks and they may carry foods. To do with these problems, some schools make a rule -No backpacks in classrooms.
Students' backpacks take up too much space in the classroom. Because of them, the hallways are always full of backpacks. Without them, the classroom will be clean and tidy.
▲ Backpacks=Bad Backs! Some backpacks are big. If a student takes a heavy backpack, he or she may have problems in the neck, back and shoulders (肩膀). Many schools ban the use of backpacks to help students keep healthy.
With the rule, students don't have to take backpacks during school hours. They must keep them in lockers (储物柜). Do students like such a rule?
Some of them think the rule is good. They are happy to put their backpacks into the lockers before walking into the classroom. But some of them don't like it. "Without a backpack, it's hard for me to take so many things with my hands," Amelia said. "I keep losing things, like my cards," a seventh grader Nikitha said. "I'd like to keep my backpack because my locker isn't near my classroom," said Kemezis.
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There was one small thing that I still remember now. In the past, all the kids in my neighborhood waited for one thing on summer evenings - the Ice Cream Truck. When we (听到) the song The Piano Man from the truck's loudspeaker (喇叭), kids up and down the (大街) would cry, "The Ice Cream Truck is coming!"
If the Ice Cream man didn't see any kids, he would drive away. So we'd run (快速) to our moms for coins (硬币). We also asked younger brothers and sisters to (停止) the truck.
For most of us, ice cream is the first thing we like to (花费) our money on. It is our first time to know the value (价值) of a coin and our first (/ˈriːəl/) love.
Shadow Puppet (皮影) shows started in the Han Dynasty. It is old Chinese art and it has a long history. One day, a man saw (children) shadows (影子) under the sun. He got a great idea. He made a show like that.
During a shadow puppet show, (actor) stand behind a white screen (屏幕) with lights behind it. They hold the puppets very close to the screen so the people can see the puppets (easy).
Last week, we talked with Wang Weifang who is quite good playing in shadow puppet shows. He told us that was hard to hold a puppet. "You must keep it high for the whole show. You also need (keep) your wrist (手腕) at 90 degrees (度) to make the puppet face the people. " He also taught us how to do a puppet show.
These days, people often watch TV or (go) to the movies. Shadow puppet shows are not so (popular) that young people even know nothing about it. Wang and his friends work hard they want to make more people know about the art. What great players!
Do you know what the animals are in the picture? They are Pere David's deer (大卫神父鹿). They are also known as milu deer (麋鹿). This is because it looks like four different animals. Read on and learn more about the cute animal!
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The milu deer is about 1. 9-2. 2 meters long and stands about 1. 2 meters tall. Its weight (重量) is between 135 and 200 kilograms. Its coat is red in summer and turns grey in winter.
•Back to nature.
These animals were in danger and went back in the wild in China in the mid-1980s. Today, the number of these animals got about 10,000 in the country. In May 2022, nine milu babies were born in the Daqing Mountain nature reserve (保护区).
•Living places.
Milu deer usually live in wet places. This is the first time for them to live in the Daqing
Mountain nature reserve. At first, the workers there were very worried. But they found that milu deer have warm coats to keep warm.
A. Funny name. B. Special looks. C. The winter is very cold there. D. Many Chinese call it Sibuxiang. E. It's big news for animal lovers. |
What do you think of milu deer?(回答不多于 5个单词)
My Life of Grade 7 |
My feelings |
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A new friend (Mike) |
. of medium height . like painting |
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New habits |
. read more books . eat healthy food |
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School activities |
climb mountains . . . . |
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Dear Alice,
How's it going? Let me share something about my life of Grade 7 with you.
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Best wishes.
Li Ming