A letter to Hero School Weekly

A letter from Hero School Weekly to Cindy

November 15

Dear Cindy,

Going to a new school always means making new friends. Just be friendly with everyone. And don’t worry about your best friend. She will find new friends and you two will keep in touch. Just remember to give her a call every few days. Best friends last forever(永远). Remember the past, plan for the future, but live in the present only.

Yours truly,

Izzy

1.From the two letters, we know that Cindy is a(n) ______.

A. student   B. nurse                 C. clerk     D. editor

2.Why does Cindy write a letter to Izzy?

A. Because she wants to make friends with Izzy.

B. Because she wants to tell Izzy about her best friend.

C. Because she is going to New York.        

D. Because she worries about leaving her friends.

3.Cindy is going to leave her school ______.

A. after this term               B. in December            C. with Maria               D. with Izzy

Mrs. Black was a famous musician a few years ago. She   1  music at a school and her students did well in their lessons. They liked her very much. Now the old woman stays at home with her husband. The old man looks after his wife well and she   2  worries about anything. And she is very  3 .

Just like some old people, Mrs. Black finds that her memory(记忆) is falling. Sometimes she   4  what she did or will do. It often gets her in trouble. Her   5  noticed（注意到） it and asked her to see a famous doctor. He bought two tickets   6  London and told her he put  7  into her handbag while she was playing the piano. The next morning, they got to the  8  just on time to catch the plane. Mrs. Black said,“I wish we had the   9  with us.”

“Don’t be a fool, dear!”said Mr. Black,“We are not going to a concert, but to see a  10 .”

“I know，”she said，“but I left the tickets on it!”

1.                A．loved          B．taught          C．enjoyed D．studied

2.                A．always         B．often           C．never    D．sometimes

3.                A．sorry          B．worried         C．sad  D．happy

4.                A．forget          B．remember      C．forgets   D．remembers

5.                A．husband        B．daughter        C．son  D．student

6.                A．to             B．in             C．from D．of

7.                A．it             B．them           C．this  D．that

8.                A．airport         B．bus stop        C．station   D．hospital

9.                A．money         B．music          C．tickets    D．piano

10.A.doctor       B.film         C.play

Worries about school bus safety have drawn much attention. Now schools in some poor areas are looking   41  some other ways to go to school.
In the countryside, students are living in different places. And there isn’t enough   time for school buses to go around and pick up   42  student. So the most useful way is to let students living in the   43  village take a special school bus which is for them only. And the cost is   44  by their parents and the school.
Each bus is asked to carry only five students on the same route(路线) every day. Traffic police are also making daily checks to make sure drivers don’t carry__45  than 5 students. For a bus like this, the drivers can   46  make any money. So schools pay 300 yuan to drivers every month. The rest comes from the parents’ pockets（口袋）.
The roads to the students’ homes are rough(崎岖的) and sometimes even dangerous,   47  falling rocks and narrow（狭窄的） bridges. After spending at least an hour on the road, the students finally make it home.   48 the money for taking a bus has increased and it’s not easy for parents to make money, they are glad to know that their children will   49  home safely each day. And they feel happy to see their child enjoy their time at school. But one girl says she’s seen the big yellow school   50  on TV, and wonders when she’ll ride one of her own.

Mrs. Black was a famous musician a few years ago. She   1  music at a school and her students did well in their lessons. They liked her very much. Now the old woman stays at home with her husband. The old man looks after his wife well and she   2  worries about anything. And she is very  3 .
Just like some old people, Mrs. Black finds that her memory(记忆) is falling. Sometimes she   4  what she did or will do. It often gets her in trouble. Her   5  noticed（注意到） it and asked her to see a famous doctor. He bought two tickets   6  London and told her he put  7  into her handbag while she was playing the piano. The next morning, they got to the  8  just on time to catch the plane. Mrs. Black said,“I wish we had the   9  with us.”
“Don’t be a fool, dear!”said Mr. Black,“We are not going to a concert, but to see a  10 .”
“I know，”she said，“but I left the tickets on it!”

Have you heard of Chen Binqiang in Zhejiang Province? Over the past six years, he has taken care of his mother who got Alzheimer’s disease.
Chen’s mother, 64-year-old Chen Yueguang, has been ill since 2007. The illness became very serious quickly and she has lost the ability to speak and can not look after herself. None of Chen’s other family members, however, could take care of their sick mother. Chen’s father died in a traffic accident when he was eight, his two sisters married far away and his wife has a 92-year-old grandmother to look after. 
Chen taught Chinese in Central School of Lengshui town, which is about 30 kilometers away from his home in Pan’an. So he spent five days at school and only went home on weekends. When he said he would take his mother to work, even his wife was doubtful and worried. She really doesn’t think it is a good idea for him to take care of his mother in school. She worries what if he lost his job because of this.
But Chen has made the decision. Soon he was putting a safety hat onto his mother’s head and helping her sit on his electric bike’s back seat. He thinks that his mother used to take him around and now he should take her.
These days, things got a little easier for him. With the help of Pan’an government, Chen got a new job in Pan’an Middle School in October 2012. The new school is only five minutes’ ride from his home, which means he can take care of his mother more conveniently.
Chen feels happiest when his mother is looking at him. She must have forgotten who he is, and she even can’t call his name. But she surely knows that Chen is kind to her. He feels that is enough.
On February 19^th, 2013, Chen got the prize for Touching China, held by China Central Television to honor those whose performances have moved the people.
【小题1】 What does Chen Binqiang do? He is ___________,