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I received pictures of my daughter floating (漂浮) on a lake in California. Right there under the sun during the hottest time of the day, she has only her swimsuit to cover her.
When I showed it to my students, it was as if I had shown them scenes from a horror (恐怖) movie.
“But she will get dark,” they said.
“That’s what she wants,” I told them. “We think darker skin (肤色) is beautiful.”
They looked at me in disbelief. It was as if I came from the moon.
For years, American girls spend their summer trying to get as tanned (晒黑) as possible. In China, on the other hand, girls use umbrellas all year round.
What in the world is going on?
The pale skin we think looks unattractive (不漂亮) is what Asian women want. Both groups want to meet their culture’s standard (标准) of beauty.
In the US, if you can afford to go on vacation in the summer, you head for a river, a lake or a beach, where you try to get as much sun as possible. If you are rich you take a winter vacation in some sunny spot. Your winter tan shows your wealth.
In China, once upon a time, the few wealthy were the ones who didn’t have to work out in the hot sun. So the whiter the skin, the richer the woman. The folk opera performers who play these ladies wore lots of white makeup (妆容). The tradition survives to this day.
So it comes naturally that none of my students wishes to follow the Western ways in this regard.
But now I am noticing that a new business – the tanning booth (美黑店) – started up in China. I admire those brave enough to define（给…下定义）their own idea of beauty, but I do wonder what their grandmothers would have to say to them about it!
【小题1】The students were shocked at the picture the writer showed them because ______.
| A．they thought it shameful for a girl only to wear a swimsuit |
| B．the writer’s daughter was wearing very little while out in the sun |
| C．it is dangerous for a girl to be out on a lake alone |
| D．with the powerful sunlight the writer’s daughter would have got a suntan |
| A．Women with blond hair. | B．Women w ith a slim figure. |
| C．Women with tanned skin. | D．Women with pale skin. |
| A．is hard-working | B．doesn’t have to work |
C．has a  lot of money and spare time | D．is from a very poor family |
| A．is not interested in | B．doesn’t understand |
| C．doesn’t like | D．has mixed feelings about |
Can you imagine what life would be like if there is no telephone? You could not call your friends 1 the phone and talk to them. If fire 2 out in your house, you could not 3 the fire department. If somebody were 4 , you could not call a doctor.
In our 5 life, we need to communicate with one another. We do this 6 by speaking to other people and listening to 7 they have to say to us, and as we are 8 to them we can do this very 9 . However, our voices will not travel very far even when we 10 . It is thanks to the 11 of the telephone that we are 12 able to communicate with each other 13 hold conversations when we are far 14 . We can hear each other clearly 15 we were in the same room.
The man who 16 this possible was Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman. Bell, a teacher of visible speech 17 later moved to Canada, 18 all his spare time experimenting. He was 19 active in his research for a means of sending speech by electricity that he left 20 time for his day-to-day work and at one time was almost penniless.
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of a young migrant worker (民工) carrying 60,000 yuan on a train packed with thieves. But while the image
( 形象) of a warm-hearted but somewhat naive migrant worker may have made film fans chuckle ( 偷着乐),
it's a sure bet that most of China's migrant workers are yet to step into a cinema to admire it.
"Forty yuan a ticket? I can't afford it," said Shen Jie, a migrant worker at a construction site in
Dongzhimen, east Beijing.
Shen found it hard to remember when he last watched a film, or what it was about."It must be
ago," he said.
Though they are the builders of the nation's theaters and cinemas, a limited cultural life is common among
China's
Shen arrived from East China's Zhejiang Province in
easily."Now, as more and more workers are rushing to the capital, it's too hard to earn money, and none of us
dare think about watching films," he said.
For many like Shen, the dream is earning enough to pay for their children's education so they can find jobs
in the cities and say goodbye to the hardships of rural life forever. This drives them to work hard and save as
much as possible.
With a monthly salary of less than 500 yuan, Shen has to send money home to his little son and silver-haired parents.
In Shen's small dormitory, which he shares with seven other co-workers, there is a well-thumbed copy of
a magazine published in
A recent survey by local media revealed (显示) that 80 percent of migrant workers spent their spare time
sleeping and chatting because of exhaust and a lack of income. The same survey found that 47 percent of
migrant workers have to work for more than
and nearly 60 percent say they are dissatisfied with their cultural life.
Like many of Shen's co-workers, reading newspapers and hanging out in Beijing's streets provide evening
entertainment. From China Daily
B. deals with the life of migrant workers
C. explains how to catch thieves on trains
D. attracts many migrant workers
B. he enjoyed a lot of films ten years ago
C. his wish was to pay for his son's education
D. the capital is too hard a place for him to make any money
B. the workers have so little to read that they often read the same magazine again and again
C. the workers enjoy magazines because they are easy to understand
D. the workers think highly of the copy of the magazine published in
B. are not very well-paid in Beijing
C. are looked down upon by city people
D. need the government's attention
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