Question

【題目】

Do you like playing xiangqi(Chinese chess)? Yan Zixi likes it and plays it very well. She is a 12-year-old girl, from Ningbo Foreign Language School, Zhejiang. She is the youngest xiangqi master of China. She is among the top five of the Chinese National Xiangqi Championship(錦標(biāo)賽).

How does she become so good at xiangqi? Yan plays xiangqi for four years. Her parents make her play xiangqi because they want her to learn some Chinese characters from it. She then enjoys playing it very much and it becomes part of her life.

Later，she begins to take part in lots of competitions(比賽，競(jìng)賽).The competition next week in Shanghai is the most important one for her. She prepares well for it. For three months, she practices from 7 am to 11 pm every day. “Playing xiangqi makes me more open-minded(思維開闊的),” she says, “it’s also good for my math”.

“In the future, I want to start a xiangqi club at school,” she says, “I want to be the president(社長(zhǎng)) of it.”

【1】How old is Yan Zixi?

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【2】Why do Yan’s parents make her play xiangqi?

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【3】Where is the competition next week?

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【4】Is playing xiangqi good for Yan’s English?

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【5】What does Yan want to do in the future?

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Answer 1

【答案】

【1】She is 12 years old.

【2】Because they want her to learn some Chinese characters from it.

【3】In Shanghai.

【4】No.

【5】She wants to start a xiangqi club at school and be the president of it.

【解析】

本文向我們介紹了中國(guó)最年輕的象棋大師——嚴(yán)子熙。

【1】根據(jù)第一段中“She is a 12-year-old girl”可知，嚴(yán)子熙12歲。故填She is 12 years old.

【2】根據(jù)第二段中“Her parents make her play xiangqi because they want her to learn some Chinese characters from it.”可知，她的父母讓她下象棋，因?yàn)樗麄兿胱屗龔闹袑W(xué)習(xí)一些漢字。故填Because they want her to learn some Chinese characters from it.

【3】根據(jù)第三段中“The competition next week in Shanghai is the most important one for her.”可知，下周的比賽在上海舉行。故填In Shanghai.

【4】根據(jù)第三段中“‘Playing xiangqi makes me more open-minded(思維開闊的),’ she says, ‘it’s also good for my math’.”可知，下象棋使她思維開闊并對(duì)數(shù)學(xué)有好處，對(duì)學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)沒有好處。故填No.

【5】根據(jù)第四段中“‘In the future, I want to start a xiangqi club at school,’ she says, ‘I want to be the president(社長(zhǎng)) of it’.”可知，她想創(chuàng)建一個(gè)象棋俱樂部并做俱樂部的社長(zhǎng)。故填She wants to start a xiangqi club at school and be the president of it.