【题目】 From a live music festival that champions Mother Nature to the sporting artistry of the HSBC Women’s World Championship, Singapore’s dynamic line-up of events in February will have you at the edge of your seat. Here are the concerts, festivals and celebrations that await you in the Lion City.

Chinatown CNY Celebrations

Immerse yourself in the rich culture and tradition of the Lunar New Year at the Chinatown CNY Celebrations. The seven-week long festivities include a slew of activities for the young and old alike, with nightly street shows, a festive bazaar (街市), and an international Lion Dance competition.

For two months, the streets of Chinatown will be decorated with lanterns and interesting motifs (图案), from gold coins to the mythical zodiac animals of the Chinese lunar calendar.

Date: 2 Jan - 22 Feb Venue: Chinatown

Dahlia Dreams

Inspired by the Lunar New Year, this enchanting floral showcase tells the mythological story of the Chinese zodiac animals. Weave your way through the Flower Dome’s elaborate topiary like sculptures, amidst more than 70 dahlia cultivars (品种) and indulge in an unforgettable visual feast. Date: 17 Jan - 23 Feb

Venue: Gardens by the Bay, Flower Dome

Have a Squeaky New Year!

Animal lovers can take a walk on the wild side at this Chinese New Year-themed event, happening across the Singapore Zoo, Jurong Bird Bark and Night Safari.

Keeping in theme with this year’s Chinese zodiac animal, visitors can check out the gambian pouched rat, clouded rat, speckled mousebird and more.

The event will be accompanied by lion dance performances, themed mascots and a special Zoo-diac trail to reveal your fortune forecast.

Date: 25 Jan - 8 Feb

Venue: Singapore Zoo, River Safari, Jurong Bird Bark and Night Safari

Chingay Parade Singapore 2020

Join Singaporeans as they celebrate the largest street performance and float parade in Asia. An annual celebration of Singapore’s multicultural tapestry (织锦), this year’s entertainment is themed ‘Colours in Harmony’, and will feature a mix of dazzling spectacle and dynamic performances.

Grab some street food and participate in games at the carnival along the parade route, and don’t forget to drop by NS Square for River Hongbao to marvel at the lanterns and fireworks.

Date: 31 Jan – 1 Feb Venue: F1 Pit Building

1At the Chinatown CNY Celebrations, people could ______.

A.buy the lanterns and interesting motifs

B.enjoy an international Lion Dance competition

C.hear the mythological story of the Chinese zodiac animals

D.check out the gambian pouched rat and speckled mousebird

2Where can visitors see the street performance and float parade?

A.Chinatown.B.Singapore Zoo.

C.Flower Dome.D.F1 Pit Building.

3What is the main purpose of the writing?

A.To attract visitors.

B.To describe events.

C.To compare festivals.

D.To evaluate activities.

【题目】 Curiosity is what drives us to keep learning, keep trying, keep pushing forward. But how does one generate (产生) curiosity, in oneself or others? George Loewenstein, a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, offered an answer in the classic1994 paper, “The Psychology of Curiosity.”

Curiosity arises, Loewenstein wrote, “when attention becomes focused on a gap in one's knowledge. Such information gaps produce the feeling of deprivation (匮乏) labeled curiosity. The curious individual is motivated to obtain the missing information to reduce the feeling of deprivation.” Loewenstein's theory helps explain why curiosity is such a force: it's not only a mental state but also an emotion, a powerful feeling that drives us forward.

Scientist Daniel Willingham notes that teachers are often “so eager to get to the answer that we do not devote enough time to developing the question.” Yet it's the question that stimulates (刺激) curiosity; being told an answer stops curiosity before it can even get going.

In his 1994 paper, George Loewenstein noted that curiosity requires some basic knowledge. We're not curious about something we know absolutely nothing about. But as soon as we know even a little bit, our curiosity is aroused and we want to learn more. In fact, research shows that curiosity increases with knowledge: the more we know, the more we want to know. To get this process started, Loewenstein suggests, take steps with some interesting but incomplete information.

Language teachers have long used communication in exercises that open an information gap and then require learners to communicate with each other in order to fill it. For example, one student might be given a series of pictures for the beginning of the story, while the student's partner is given a series of pictures showing how that same story ends. Only by speaking with each other (in the foreign language they are learning, of course) can the students fill in each others' information gaps.

1When one notices a gap in his knowledge, he .

A.desires to fill it

B.tends to be afraid

C.might get tired and sad

D.will become focused on his learning

2What does Daniel Willingham imply in the article?

A.Answers are more important than questions.

B.Teachers should be eager to get to the answer.

C.Teachers know how to stimulate students’ curiosity.

D.Teachers are partly to blame for students’ hating school.

3According to George Loewenstein’s paper, curiosity about something occurs only when you .

A.have read a lot of booksB.know little about something

C.have some related informationD.are given incomplete information

4What is the article mainly about?

A.Why students hate school.

B.Why curiosity is important.

C.How to stimulate curiosity.

D.What makes people hungry for knowledge.

【题目】DirectionsComplete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Tributes(致哀)poured in last week to the world-famous British physicist Stephen Hawking, whose insights 1 modern cosmology(宇宙学)and inspired global audiences in the millions. He died at the age of 76 on March 14.

Hawking was given only a few years to live after being diagnosed with ALS(肌萎缩性脊髓侧索硬化症)at the age of 21. The illness left him in a wheelchair and largely 2 to speak expect through a voice synthesizer(合成器). Nevertheless, Hawking completed his doctorate(博士学位)on the origins of the universe three years later and became a research fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Caius College.

Hawking’s first major 3 came in 1970. With mathematician Roger Penrose, Hawking used Einstein’s theory of relativity(相对论)to 4 the origins of time and space to singularity(奇点),a single point of zero size and infinite density(无限大的密度)where all the laws of physics would have broken down. Their work gave mathematical expression to the Big Bang theory(创世大爆炸理论). Hawking was the first to try to 5 relativity with quantum mechanics(量子力学). In 1974, he put forward that black holes leaked radiation, now known as“Hawking radiation,”and would eventually disappear with a tremendous explosion. The proposal 6 to one of the most passionate debates in modern cosmology—before Hawking, it was widely accepted that black holes were completely black and would 7 forever.

In 1982, Hawking was among the first to show how tiny changes in the distribution(分布)of matter might give rise to the 8 of galaxies(银河系)in the universe and lay the seeds of stars, planets and life as we know it.

For 30 years, Hawking was Cambridge’s Lucasian professor of mathematics(卢卡斯数学教授席位),arguably Britain’s most distinguished chair(席位)and a post once held by Sir Isaac Newton. He received 12 honorary degrees and was awarded a Companion of Honor(英国荣誉勋位)by Queen Elizabeth in 1989. The 1988 publication of A Brief History of Time won Hawking international 9. The book, through which the professor brought complex science to a10 audience, has sold at least ten million books in 40 languages.

【题目】阅读理解

Gypsies
According to the linguistic and genetic researches, ancestors of the Gypsies left the land of India in the amount that did not go beyond 1,000 people. Today there are about 10 million Gypsies in the world. Some scientists believe that Gypsies were Egyptians.

Sumerians
Sumerians must be the mysterious people in the ancient world. We know nothing about their origin and nothing about the origin of their language. The Sumerians were rather advanced—they became the first in the Near East to use a wheel, to create an irrigation system and their unique writing. And besides, they were impressively good at maths and astronomy.

Maya
Some scientists believe that they are connected to legendary atlantes (男像柱), others suppose their ancestors were Egyptians. It's thought that the Maya created an efficient agricultural system and had deep astronomy knowledge. Their calendar was used by other people of Central America. Maya applied the hieroglyphic writing (象形文字) system. Now it seems that the Maya came from nowhere and disappeared nowhere.


(1)Whose ancestors do some scientists believe were Egyptians?
A.Gypsies and Maya.
B.Maya and Sumerians.
C.Gypsies and Sumerians.
D.Europeans and Sumerians.
(2)The Maya are thought to .
A.exist on the earth now
B.have 10 million people
C.have no writing system
D.be creative in some fields
(3)What can we learn from the text?
A.The origion of the Maya has been discovered by scientists.
B.The ancestors of the Gypsies left the land of India in the middle ages.
C.The Europeans were thought to be the most mysterious people in the ancient world.
D.The Sumerians were the first to use a wheel in the irrigation system in the Near East.

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