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[2020·沈阳市高三教学质量监测]Various cultural activities always take place on campus in springy March. This year, the Office of Student Affairs is going to organize the South and Southeast Asian Cultural Festival to present cultures of these two regions across the board—the opening ceremony, food and cultural booths, talks and workshops, and many others. Don't be spoilt for choice!
Local South and Southeast Asian Market
The Cultural Square will be transformed into a local market where diverse South and Southeast Asian cultures meet. Visitors can taste local food, meet the locals and experience some local ways of life, so remember to drop into this wonderful marketplace!
Date：6 & 7 March 2019(Wednesday & Thursday) Time: 12：00－14：30
Venue: Cultural Square, Main Campus Tofu Making Workshop
Soft or firm, salty or sweet, steamed or fried, tofu is well-known for its nice taste and good nutrition. It plays an important role in East Asian and Southeast Asian food culture, so we may well have eaten it, but do you know how it is made? Here comes a chance for you to try your hand at making this widely enjoyed food!
Date: 10 March 2019(Sunday) Time: 15：00－16：30
Venue: Room 201B, 2/F WS Centre Fee: $ 100
An Introduction to Dandiya Raas
Dandiya Raas, a traditional folk dance of India, is associated with scenes of Holi, which is a famous spring festival known as the festival of colors. At this workshop, our Indian students will introduce the dance to the participants by dancing together and feel the soul of their unique music culture.
Date: 13 March 2019(Wednesday) Time: 18：30－20：30
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Venue: Room 502, WFY Building Quota: 20(First come, first served) Thai Loy Krathong Festival
Loy Krathong, or Water Lantern Festival, is a widely celebrated occasion in Thailand where people pray for good things for the year ahead. In this workshop, participants can try their hand at making their own krathong under the guidance of Thai students!
Date: 14 March 2019(Thursday) Time: 18：30－20：30 Venue: I-LOUNGE, 3/F YIA Quota: 20(First come, first served)
1．These activities above are aimed to ________. A．introduce several traditional festivals B．pray for good things for the coming year C．spread cultures of some Asian countries D．promote exchanges of some local dances
2．If you are free after 3 pm every Wednesday, you can go to ________. A．Tofu Making Workshop B．Thai Loy Krathong Festival C．An Introduction to Dandiya Raas D．Local South and Southeast Asian Market 3．What can we know from the text?
A．All the cultural activities are accessible free of charge. B．All the activities don't limit the number of participants. C．Loy Krathong is held to express thanks to the ancestors.
D．Dandiya Raas is linked with scenes of the well-known festival Holi.
B
[2019·成都第二次诊断]Author Walter Dean Myers died at the age of 76 after a brief illness. Walter Dean Myers was the author of more than 100 books for children and young adults and received many top awards.
The prolific author was loved for his vivid description of the lives of African American children, and for writing books for young people that covered different subjects. “Myers has written about all those subjects with deep understanding and a hard-won, qualified sense of hope，” said Leonard S. Marcus in
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2008.
He was born in 1937 and was adopted by Florence Dean and Herbert after his mother died while giving birth to his younger sister. They loved him very much and his mother read to him from a very young age. Reading pushed him to discover worlds beyond his landscape.
He began writing at an early age. He wrote well in high school and an English teacher recognized this and advised him to keep on writing no matter what happened to him. “It's what you do，” she said.
He dropped out of high school at 17 and joined the army. After finishing his service, he entered a dark period in his life. Myers began writing at night to pull himself through that miserable time.
In an essay published in The New York Times earlier this year, Myers described how a short story by James Arthur Baldwin helped change the course of his life. “I didn't love the story, but I was lifted by it，” he wrote, “for it took place in Harlem, and it was a story concerned with black people like those I knew. By humanizing the people who were like me, Baldwin's story also humanized me. The story gave me a permission that I didn't know I needed, the permission to write about my own landscape, my own map.”
“I write books or the troubled boy I once was，” he wrote, “and for the boy who lives within me still.”
4．What does the second paragraph mainly talk about? A．How popular Myers was. B．How Myers became successful. C．What makes Myers' works popular. D．What people think of Myers' works. 5．Who discovered Myers' writing talent? A．James Arthur Baldwin. B．His mother.
C．Leonard S. Marcus. D．One of his teachers.
6．What does the underlined word “prolific” in Paragraph 2 probably mean? A．Productive. B．Unfortunate. C．Conservative. D．Humorous.
7．Why was the short story by James Arthur Baldwin so important for Myers? A．It helped him survive the dark period. B．It inspired him to pursue his writing career.
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C．He learned many writing techniques from it. D．The author of the story permitted him to write.
C
[2020·辽宁省五校联考]In a long-sleeved shirt and jeans, Dieudonne Twahirwa looks nothing like the traditional African farmer. The 30-year-old owner of Gashora Farm knows what a difference that makes.
“You need more role models，”he said, standing among knee-high rows of chilli(辣椒) plants. “If you have young farmers, they have land and they drive to the farm, others may think, ‘Why can't I do that？’”
Mr.Twahirwa, a university graduate, bought a friend's tomato farm six years ago for $150. He made $1,500 back in two months. “You have to link farming with entrepreneurship and real numbers，” he said.
Many young Africans are abandoning areas in the countryside, choosing not to work hard and for a long time in the fields — a job made tougher by climate change.
But Twahirwa is one of the growing band of successful farmers working to make agriculture's image on the continent more attractive. Some 1,000 farmers now produce chillies for him. He is starting a fourth farm of his own, and exports fresh and dried chillies and oil to Britain, the United States, India, and Kenya.
Africa has the world's youngest population and 65 percent of its uncultivated arable land(耕地后备资源). Yet accessing land and loans is difficult, and African productivity is low with crop yields just 56 percent of the international average.
“Agriculture is mainly associated with suffering and no young person wants to suffer，” said Tamara Kaunda. She believes African agriculture needs a change to get rid of its old-fashioned image of very hard and tiring work with a hoe. “Show young people tractors, green fields, nice irrigation systems and smartphones，” she said.
Getting young people involved in agriculture does not mean they have to work on a farm. For example, in coffee production, the beans go from the farm to the washing station, then to be separated from the husks(外壳)．
8．What does “Why can't I do that？” in Paragraph 2 mean? A．Why can't I drive to the farm? B．Why can't they farm?
C．They follow the example of those farmers.
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