高一英语报刊阅读每日5分钟 5Star talkTAIWAN singer Angela Chang (张韶涵) attempts to revive her career after disputes (争端) with her mother over money issues tarnished (玷污) her image. She will hold her first Beijing concert on May 15.Chang calls the concert The Moon of Pandora (潘多拉星球) because she claims to be a fan of the hit movie Avatar (《阿凡达》). She claims she is greatly inspired by the movie.She wants her concert to have magical stage effects. “I hope my concert can be an ‘Avatar’ among concerts,” reports Beijing Evening News.Revive 意为“重振、复兴、再生” (become strong, healthy, or active again)。

例如：The family is trying to revive an old custom。

Let's sit down and chat, seriouslySMALL talk may be common, but it doesn’t do much to make you happy. Compared with people who rated themselves as unhappy, people who were happiest spent 70 percent more time talking, had one-third as much small talk and twice as many deep conversations.Researchers came to their conclusions by having a group of 79 college students wear a tape recorder for four days. They eavesdropped (偷听) on their conversations. The students were also given tests to measure happiness and personality.The findings suggest that “the happy life is social rather than solitary (孤独的), and conversationally deep rather than superficial (肤浅的),” the authors, from the University of Arizona and Washington University in St. Louis, wrote.It’s not clear, however, whether happy people attract others for deep conversations or whether deep conversations make people happier. Further research should be done, they said, to see if having deeper conversations helps unhappy people become happier.We should honor culture that can't be touchedTHOSE well-loved sites, the Summer Palace in Beijing, the Potala Palace in Tibet, Jiuzhaigou Valley in Sichuan and Mount Wutai in Shanxi are among the 38 in China to feature on the World Cultural Heritage List. They are places we can visit, touch and feel – they are tangible, in other words.But there is another kind of heritage, the “intangible” (无形的) kind –languages, music, dance, mythology (神话), rituals (仪式) and traditional craftsmanship (手工艺) all belong to this category.Intangible heritage, also called “living cultural heritage”, is passed on from generation to generation. UNESCO believes intangible heritage provides people with a sense of identity and continuity (连贯性). The idea of supporting it is to “promote respect for cultural di versity and human creativity”.Of all the items on the World Intangible Heritage List, 29 belong to China. Kunqu Opera, one of the earliest forms of traditional Chinese drama, became the first in 2001.Many of these items we grew up with. When we were very young, many of us tried our hand at Chinese paper cutting. Most of us practiced Chinese calligraphy (书法). Modern people may not go so far as to master the “Four Treasures of the Study” (文房四宝) – ink brush, ink, paper and inkstone, but we have all wanted to write in a beautiful hand. Our experience of these traditional things means that we are passing something on – our cultural heritage – whether we know it or not.Number in the news622 millionTHIS was the number of Chinese living in cities and townships in 2009. China’s urbanization (城市化) rate had reached percent by the end of last year. Nearly half of China’s populatio n lives in urban areas. China has 655 cities in total, of which 122 are hyper-cities (超级城市) with populations of over 1 million. There are 19,234 townships in the country.高一英语报刊阅读每日5分钟 6Hu and Obama proposal means number of US students is set to rise over next four years US students in China are set to become one of the largest overseas groups. Beijing and Washington are working together to bring 100,000 students to China in the next four years, the Ministry of Education (MOE) officials told China Daily on April 2.MOE is working with the US to implement (实施) a four-year education program put forward by President Hu Jintao and US president Barack Obama.According to MOE figures, the number of US students studying in China has been rising steadily, hitting a high of 19,194 in 2008. It means that the group is the second largest among international students. The number was 18,650 last year, compared to 64,232 South Korean students, the largest group.The Little Mermaid is on her way to ShanghaiFOR nearly 100 years, the heartbroken Little Mermaid has sat on a rock looking out over Copenhagen’s port. The 165cm tall bronze (青铜) statue was inspired by the tale by Hans Christian Andersen and unveiled (揭幕) in 1913.Last Monday, the Little Mermaid left her native land for the first time in her life. She was lifted from the harbor, boxed, and shipped to Shanghai where she is the star guest in the Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, which runs from May 1 until October 31.“I am convinced that she will be an excelle nt ambassador of Denmark, particularly since the Chinese are already very fond of Hans Christian Andersen and his fairy tales (童话),” said Copenhagen mayor Frank JensenWise wordsPrevention is better than cure. 防胜于治。