【正文】 ssage? A. People all over the world show great interest in aliens. B. Young people are deeply affected by the books about aliens. C. It’s said that alien sightings are usually followed with unusual lights. D. Aliens are harmful to people and animals living on Earth. 62. What is the best title for the passage? A. Aliens in the minds of mon people B. What do people see in alien sightings? C. Do aliens really exist in our world? D. Alien reports from different people C★★★☆☆ In 1956 Brazil’s President wanted to move the capital city from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia. He chose a skilled and experienced Brazilian architect (建筑師 ) to build Brasilia. His name was Oscar Niemeyer. Niemeyer was born in Rio de Janiero in 1907. He was a well respected architect by the time he was 30 years old. Niemeyer was a great artist. His designs were very different than other buildings at the time. Most other buildings had straight lines up and down. Niemeyer liked to build using half circles. Niemeyer was very excited to design the main buildings of Brasilia. He designed a building called The Palace of the Dawn. It was a house for Brazil’s President. This building looks like it is floating (漂浮 ) above the ground. It has half circles around it. They are very light and beautiful. A lake around the palace reflects (映出 ) these shapes. Niemeyer also designed the National Congress building. This government building has many parts. The biggest part is two tall towers that rise straight up into the air. On one side of this is a white building. It is shaped like a bowl that a person would eat out of. On the other side is a building in the opposite shape. These shapes are not the usual design of government buildings. “If you go to see Brasilia, you may or may not like the buildings, but you could never say you had seen something similar before,” Niemeyer said. “It is important that the designer think of more than design. The architect’s role is to produce an architecture that serves everyone not just a group of important people,” he said. Today, Niemeyer’s buildings do just this. Brasilia is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site (聯(lián)合國(guó)教科文組織世界遺產(chǎn) ). People from all over the world e to Brasilia to see Niemeyer’s bu ildings. Their beautiful design continues to inspire (啟示 ) people and will continue to do so for many years. 63. According to the passage, Oscar Niemeyer _____. A. liked to use straight lines B. built Brasilia at the age of 30 C. got the trust of the President D. was worried about building Brasilia at first 64. The Palace of the Dawn _____. A. is the President’s house B. has many round shapes C. can float on the lake D. was built in 1937 65. Which of the following shows the picture of the National Congress building? 66. Oscar Niemeyer’s words suggest that _____. A. he is proud to serve the President B. buildings should bring people joy C. he is sure everyone will like his designs D. architects should inspire and serve people D★★★★☆ What teaches you more about China: learning Chinese or making friends with Chinese people? Doing both would be perfect of course and maybe some people would say you cannot separate the two. As a foreigner, I arrived in China in September 2021 and have been lucky enough to teach English at a small university in a city in Zhejiang Province, about an hour’s drive from Hangzhou. In spite of starting off wi th the best of intentions (意圖 ) to learn Chinese, in each term something seemed to throw me off track. In the first term, it was a bad cold and judging some public English speaking petitions, and then the death of my father that sent me home for a while. But if I miss out on Chinese lessons again this year, I’ll meet and make friends with several of the Chinese teachers at the university who also teach English. It’s been a wonderful thing to be weled into their lives, to be taken and trusted as a friend. My Chinese friends and I have dinner together every Friday evening, do our grocery shopping together, and hang out for hours in the local Starbucks at the weekend and talk about anything and everything. And we send text messages back and forth rather a lot during each day! Over this year these friendships have removed the difference between being in China and being at “home”. It is often said, of course, that home is where the heart is. And part of my heart is forever with my Chinese friends. It has reminded me that while language is important to understand local people and cultures, opening your heart and mind is far more important. I’ve concluded that in spite of my lack (缺少 ) of progress in speaking Chinese, even the best foreign Chinese speaker will never understand anything about China if they can’t open their heart to the people they live and work