新活力英语初一报刊阅读

1、Obama meets China 新活力初一英语报纸阅读Improve Your English By Reading主讲：Peter Wang2009. 海口博客：百度搜索“新活力英语课题交流”网站：地址：海南省海口市龙华路贵州大厦16楼Obama has a good time at the Great Wall. REUTERSHE who has never been to the Great Wall is not a true man. US President Barack Obama is a true man. Obama had a four-day visit to C

2、hina last week. He had a very busy schedule (日程). But he still spent some time visiting the Forbidden City (故宫) and the Great Wall.When a leader visits another country, he or she sometimes goes to the countrys most famous places. It is to show respect to the local culture. For the leaders, its also

3、a good time to relax during a tiring foreign trip.Obama spent 50 minutes in the Forbidden City on Tuesday. He thinks the Forbidden City is a magnificent (华丽的) place to visit. He said: I will come back with my girls and my wife.On Wednesday afternoon, he took a quick tour of the Great Wall at Badalin

4、g. There, he enjoyed a moment of peace.Its magical (不可思议的). It reminds (使想到) you of the sweep (进程) of history, Obama said about the Great Wall. Its snowing! It snowed heavily last week in northern China. Big snows fell on Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Ningxia and Xinjiang. For many cities, it was the bigg

5、est snowfall in 50 years. The snow made traveling hard. Many schools had to close for days. Jia Aizhen, 14, lives in Taiyuan, Shanxi. She should have a mid-term (期中的) test on Wednesday. Because of the snow, they had the test on Sunday instead. It was good because we had more time to review (复习) our

6、lessons, said Jia. She enjoyed the snow. It was as deep as 15cm and came to halfway up her leg. I felt peaceful (平和的) and relaxed (放松的) to see the white snowy world. Kang Xinyi, 13, and Wang Danyang, 13, are classmates at Shijiazhuang No 43 Middle School in Hebei. Their school stopped on Wednesday.

7、Kang said the snow in the yard was as deep as 40cm. It was so good we didnt have to go to school! said Kang. Kang, Wang and another friend had a snowball fight (打雪仗) and made snowmen. They also helped clear snow off the roads. I never saw such a big snow, said Wang. Last year we only made a small sn

8、ow panda, but this year our snowman is as tall as 1 meter! If the snow didnt make trouble for traffic (交通), we would hope it would never stop! said the girls. About Ariel Name: Ariel LinBirth date: October 29, 1982Birth place: TaiwanHeight: 160cmFavorite colors: black, silver, and whiteAriel can sin

9、g!As an actor, Ariel Lin (林依晨) is very successful. At the age of 27, she has won the Best Female (女性的) Lead Actor award at the Taiwan Golden Bell Awards.Now Lin takes on a new challenge (挑战) she becomes a singer. Last week, Lin came to Beijing to promote (宣传) her first album, Meeting With Happiness

10、(遇见幸福). It came out in July. For her first album, Lin was in a recording studio (录音棚) for a month. She worked seven to eight hours a day. I had to eat a lot so that I could keep going, said Lin. Lin hopes she will sing better and better as time goes on. People say singers should sing with both emoti

11、on (感情) and skill (技巧), she said. Its an amazing (奇妙的) thing to express yourself just with your voice.Its a good week for Kobe!Kobe Bryant (R) had a good performance at the first match of this NBA season. REUTERSIT was October 28, the first day of the NBAs 2009-2010 season. Kobe Bryant of the Los An

12、geles Lakers had a big smile on his face.Bryant, 31, had a good reason (理由) to be happy. He scored 33 points and 8 rebounds (篮板球) at the game against the Los Angeles Clippers (洛杉矶快船队). He brought his team the first win of the new season!And on the day before the game, Bryant got his fourth champion

13、(冠军) ring (戒指). The 15-diamond (钻石) ring is an award for the Lakers 15th NBA championship.“Its so much fun to get the ring,” Bryant said. “Now Im on the way to the next one.” Flu, stay away!This Beijing girl is taking an A/H1N1 flu vaccine shot (甲型流感疫苗注射) on October 21. Beijing prepared about 1.7 million vaccine shots. They were all free. Middle and primary school (小学) s