2017考研英語拓展閱讀：彭麗媛接見澳大利亞師生

考研英語來源：中公考研 2016-04-27　

Peng Liyuan, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s wife, met with a group of students and teachers from Sydney, Australia Tuesday afternoon at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in central Beijing.

In a merry atmosphere, Peng, together with the 11 girls and 5 teachers, watched a video recalling her visit to the Ravenswood School for Girls in Sydney in November 2014 during Xi’s state visit to Australia, and listened to the girls telling their experience over the past ten days in China.

Prior to Beijing, the girls went to Shanghai and Nanjing in east China, Chengdu in the southwest and Xi’an in the northwest.

They had conversations with students in Nanjing No.1 Middle School - a sister school of Ravenswood - took a high-speed train between Shanghai and Nanjing, saw pandas in a research base in Chengdu and the terra cotta warriors in the ancient city of Xi’an.
They also visited the Great Wall and the National Stadium, or the Bird’s Nest, the main venue of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Calling their visit "fruitful and rewarding," Peng said the girls not only saw the picturesque scenery of China and had a taste of the Chinese history and culture, but
also knew quite some Chinese friends.

"I hope the visit will help deepen your understanding of China," said Peng.

She encouraged the girls to make the best of their youth to study more and travel more, and continue to learn the Chinese language and culture so as to be "young ambassadors" and contribute greater share to the friendship between Chinese and Australian peoples.
Speaking highly of the booming development of education cooperation between the two countries in recent years, Peng expressed the hope that both sides can further expand two-way education cooperation in the hope of nurturing more successors to the cause of China-Australia friendship.

"As UNESCO Special Envoy for the Advancement of Girls’ and Women’s Education, I am fully aware how important education is for all girls and the world," Peng said.

"We need to work together to ensure the equal access to education for all girls in the world so that they can enjoy a happy life," she said.

The students and teachers, headed by Deputy Principal David Garner, expressed their honor to receive Peng in 2014 and their excitement to be in China.

"There is no better way to learn the language, history and culture of a country than to visit that country, " said Garner.

Chloe Verman, a 10th grader, said she loved China more than ever through the visit.
"I have great interest in learning the Chinese language and history. I think I will come back to China one day,"she said in fluent Chinese.

During the gathering, the girls also sang the theme song of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in both Chinese and English.

Established in 1901, Ravenswood School for Girls is an independent day and boarding school for girls from kindergarten to grade 12.

As one of Australia’s leading girls’ schools, it set up a Confucius Classroom in 2014 to provide Chinese language education.

4月19日下午，中國國家主席習近平夫人彭麗媛在北京市中心的釣魚臺國賓館接見了一群來自澳大利亞悉尼的師生。

在歡快的氣氛中，彭麗媛和其它11位女孩和5位老師一起觀看了一個視頻，回憶起她在2014年11月隨習近平主席出訪澳大利亞時，訪問Ravenswood女子學校的情景，她還聽取師生們講述了在中國這10天里的所見所聞、所思所感。

在到北京之前，她們先去了中國東部的上海和南京，中國西南部的成都以及中國西北的西安。

在南京，她們還和Ravenswood學校的姐妹學校——南京第一中學的學生們交流，還乘坐了上海到南京的高鐵，在成都的研究基地親距離接觸了大熊貓，在古城西安參觀了兵馬俑。

在北京，她們登上了長城，訪問了2008年北京奧運會主場館、又被稱為鳥巢的國家體育場。
彭麗媛稱贊他們的本次訪問“成果豐碩”，她表示，姑娘們這次不僅領略了中國優美的自然風光和悠久的歷史文化，也結識了不少中國朋友。

她說，“我希望這次訪問能加深你們對中國的理解。”

她鼓勵姑娘們抓住美好的青春時光，讀萬卷書，行萬里路，繼續學習了解中文和中華文化，以成為“友好小使者”，為促進中澳兩國人民友誼作出更大的貢獻。