In the field of educational technology, some apps might be getting too smart. There are more and more apps providing help for students.
Photomath
The new, seemingly magic app allows users to take pictures of a math problem, and then receive a step-by-step solution. A Photomath spokeswoman says educators have welcomed the app with positive reviews, but the app causes a lot of angry public discussion and disagreement. Why? It is because students can use it to cheat when doing their math homework.
Price: Free
iHomework 2
Whether you’re a high school student or a college student, there’s one thing you’ve got for sure: a lot of schoolwork. iHomework 2 can hep you keep track of all your homework. It can help you arrange it in a particular order according to types, or based on deadlines.
Price: Free
WolframAlpha
WolframAlpha is similar to Photomath, but it focuses on older students studying high levels of math. The service also produces step-by-step solutions to advanced topics, making it a popular tool for college students.
Price: ¥18.00
Homework Helper
Chinese Internet search company Baidu has launched an app called Homework Helper with which students can get answers to homework. Users post a picture or type their homework questions onto online forums, and those who answer the questions can win e-coins that can be used to buy some products. The app has more than 800 million users, much to the concern of many parents who argue that the students spend less time thinking about challenging problems.
Price: Free
1. How does iHomework 2 benefit students?| A．By organizing homework in some order. | B．By offering answers to homework. |
| C．By keeping track of exam results. | D．By setting the deadline for homework. |
| A．Photomath. | B．iHomework 2. |
| C．WolframAlpha. | D．Homework Helper. |
| A．It is free of charge. | B．It has online forums. |
| C．It can recognize pictures. | D．It raises some concern. |
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【推荐1】After entering high school, you must wonder how to study well. Here are some good skills for you.
Go to class.
If you want to do well at school, going to class is the first step in studying well. If you miss classes, you will miss what the teacher thinks is important; as a result, you’ll miss what is the most likely to end up on the test.
Take good notes.
Try not to write down everything.
If you are struggling in class, talk to your teacher. He or she may be able to give you more help or tutor you before or after class. Most teachers have little sympathy(同情)for students who just become worried about failing during the last few weeks of the grading period.
Take part in class discussions.
In order to learn more in class, it is helpful to take part in class discussions. Asking questions and having eye contact with your teachers and classmates can increase your participation and your focus during the class discussion.
Form study groups.
| A．If the material is difficult, you’d better read it before class. |
| B．All you need is to put the main points in your own words. |
| C．Get students together who want to do well in class. |
| D．So if you want to study well, go to every class. |
| E．You should write down all the new terms. |
| F．Talk to your teacher if you need help. |
| G．Don’t be late for your class. |
Class participation is a valuable part of learning. Many students are unwilling to participate in class.
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•Try to sit close to the front of the class.
•Don’t be afraid to be wrong.
Don’t waste the time of the teacher and other students by going off way. Don’t take it in person if others disagree with what you say.
| A．Creating a personal connection helps you feel more comfortable about participating in class. |
| B．Be confident that your opinions will be valued by your teacher and other students. |
| C．It’s hard to stay unconcerned when you are near to the teacher. |
| D．Be sure that you are well prepared before coming to class. |
| E．This may be because they are shy or fearful of being judged and criticized (批评). |
| F．Your class should be a good place for giving opinions and taking advice. |
| G．Learning is a change in behavior based on experience. |
【推荐3】How to Become a Lifelong Learner
Learning doesn’t stop just because school does. Making a commitment to yourself to learn something new every day, you will not only enjoy what you discover, but also be able to apply your knowledge and become a teacher of future generations. Here are some steps to become a lifelong learner.
Learn how you learn.
Try many different things so that you don’t trap yourself into believing you’re only good at a few things. It’s probable that you’re good at many things, but you won’t know until you’ve tried.
Look on learning as an exploration and opportunity, not a chore (令人讨厌的工作).
Don’t just force yourself to learn things because they’re important or necessary.
Read, read, and read.
| A．Learn where your talents and interests lie. |
| B．It was a chore then, but it makes sense now. |
| C．Determine your own preferable learning style or styles. |
| D．Recognize the educational value of whatever you read. |
| E．Make friends with your local library operators and new and used book sellers. |
| F．Their ways of learning might help you to improve your own. |
| G．Instead, learn things that you need to learn alongside things you love to learn. |
【推荐1】Keep it secure
All apps collect data as you use them. Following these four steps will help ensure you’re not oversharing.
For starters, download apps only from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, not from random websites.
Before you accept an app’s terms and conditions, look at what information it’s planning to collect and think twice if it’s asking for too many permissions.
Sign up using an e-mail address you’ve set up just for things like app permissions and e-mail newsletters.
| A．And, of course, use a secure password. |
| B．How will you ever remember them all? |
| C．Just be sure to choose your teams’ official apps |
| D．These apps meet the major companies’ quality standards. |
| E．Do you have an old smartphone you’re not using anymore? |
| F．Don’t use your main e-mail address or social media account. |
| G．For example, why would a gaming app need access to your text messages? |
【推荐2】TikTok is an app for making and sharing short videos. The videos are tall, not square, like on Snapchat or Instagram’s stories, but you navigate through（浏览)videos by scrolling up and down, like a feed, not by tapping or swiping side to side. Video creators have all sorts of tools at their disposal: filters as on Snapchat (and later, everyone else); the ability to search for sounds to score your video. Users are also strongly encouraged to engage with other users, through “response” videos or by means of “duets” — users can duplicate videos and add themselves alongside.
Hashtags play a surprisingly large role on TikTok. In more innocent times, Twitter hoped its users might congregate around hashtags in a never-ending series of productive pop-up mini-discourses. On TikTok, hashtags(话题标签)actually exist as a real, functional organizing principle: not for news, or even really anything trending anywhere else than TikTok, but for various “challenges,” or jokes, or repeating formats, or other discernible blobs of activity.
TikTok is, however, a free-for-all. It’s easy to make a video on TikTok, not just because of the tools it gives users, but because of extensive reasons and prompts it provides for you. You can select from an enormous range of sounds, from popular song clips to short moments from TV shows, YouTube videos or other TikToks. You can join a dare-like challenge, or participate in a dance meme, or make a joke. Or you can make fun of all of these things.
TikTok assertively answers anyone’s what should I watch with a flood. In the same way, the app provides plenty of answers for the paralyzing what should I post? The result is an endless unspooling of material that people, many very young, might be too self-conscious to post on Instagram, or that they never would have come up with in the first place without a nudge. It can be hard to watch. It can be charming. It can be very, very funny. It is frequently, in the language widely applied outside the platform, from people on other platforms, extremely “cringe”.
1. What does the word “cringe” in the last paragraph means?| A．be afraid of something | B．be satisfied with completely new things |
| C．interesting | D．boring |
Ⅰ. imitate interesting dance actions Ⅱ. editing your favourite TV programme period
Ⅲ. creating your own challenges Ⅳ. making a joke
| A．Ⅰ,Ⅲ and Ⅳ | B．Ⅰ,Ⅱ and Ⅲ | C．Ⅱ,Ⅲ and Ⅳ | D．Ⅰ,Ⅱ and Ⅳ |
| A．By asking continuous questions. | B．By introducing what is TikTok. |
| C．By introducing TikTok videos. | D．By giving examples of usage of TikTok in life. |
| A．Positive. | B．Worried. |
| C．No attitude since it is an argumentation. | D．Boring. |
【推荐3】Cellphone users in the United States have contributed more than $11 million to Haitian earthquake relief through text messages in what is being called as an unexpected mobile response to a natural disaster.
The Mobile Giving Foundation called it a “mobile-giving record” for funds raised for a single cause. Donations are rising swiftly, as former President Bill Clinton and other politicians urge the American people to give.
Jim Manis, chief officer of the organization helping to manage cellphone donations, said it was receiving up to 10,000 text messages per second. The foundation said more than $11 million has been donated.
Cellphone users can donate $5 to Haiti-born hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund by texting the word “Yele” to 501501, or they can donate $10 to other nonprofit organizations, such as the American Red Cross, by texting the word “Haiti” to a specified number, like 90999.
The donation is charged to a user’s cellphone bill.
The American Red Cross said it has received more than $ 9 million in donations from more than 900,000 mobile phone users.
“It’s beyond our imagination that we’ve received this amount,” said spokeswoman Nadia Pontif.
Jean’s fund had raised $2 million via text messages, according to Give on the Go, Yele’s mobile application service provider.
The giving is also being fueled by the popularity of websites like Facebook and Twitter, where users are urging one another to make donations using cellphones.
Wireless carriers Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc., Sprint and T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG, have waived fees for customers wishing to send mobile donations. Carriers are also letting users know they are not taking a cut of the donations.
“There are no text messaging fees and 100% of the $10 donation goes to the American Red Cross, and every carrier is working through a solution to push those funds out faster.” Verizon said in a statement.
1. A mobile phone user can donate some money to Haiti by texting the word _____ .| A．“Yele” to 501501 to donate $10 | B．“Haiti” to 90999 to donate $10 |
| C．“Yele” or “Haiti” to 501501 to donate $ 5 | D．“Haiti” to the American Red Cross to donate $ 5 |
| A．protected | B．discouraged | C．inspired | D．reflected |
| A．Facebook and Twitter are two relief organizations from the USA. |
| B．Many American politicians force Americans to give donations to Haiti. |
| C．The American Red Cross expected to receive much more donations. |
| D．Carriers have promised not to take a share from the donation. |
| A．U.S. Texting Raises $11 Million for Haiti Earthquake |
| B．An Unexpected Terrible Earthquake Hit Haiti |
| C．The American Red Cross Offers Help to Haiti |
| D．Wireless Carriers Donate $11 Million to Haiti |
【推荐1】Washington Square Park, Manhattan
Its central fountain (喷泉) and Washington Arch (拱门) are immediately recognizable because they’re often seen in films and on television, and the park serves as the center of the famous Manhattan neighborhood. People of all ages cool themselves off here, while musicians from around the globe play for a crowd. The park, rich in history, remains one of the jewels in the park system, serving local residents, chess players, students, performers and tourists.
Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx
The park gets visitors from the Bronx seeking a bit of calm, and a place with real nature. It’s home to the country’s oldest golf course as well as the oldest building in the Bronx, the Van Cortlandt House Museum, which hosted George Washington on a few occasions during the Revolutionary War. Facilities include a pool, tennis courts and plenty of spots for baseball, soccer, and music.
Maria Hernandez Park, Bushwick, Brooklyn
The park was renamed after Maria Hernandez. Today it feels like a big party, with shopping, a mix of food and music performances in the central courtyard. It’s a park with a lot of personality, but it’s important to say it’s about the Latinx community first. You’ll find the majority of people here speak Spanish and come from Latin America.
Astoria Park, Queens
It works hard for the people of Queens, offering, as many parks do, a calm, green place. Its location is close to a river. Its facilities strengthen the community feel, with a large public pool, a soccer field and a big piece of grassland that serves as a site for regular events, including movie nights, concerts and fireworks shows. There’s also an annual festival.
1. Why is Washington Square Park well-known?| A．It has valuable jewels. | B．It has a place to play movies. |
| C．It has various activities. | D．It has special landmarks. |
| A．Washington Square Park | B．Van Cortlandt Park. |
| C．Mara Herandez Park. | D．Astoria Park. |
| A．They are friendly to music lovers. | B．They hold a festival every year. |
| C．They’re used to honor Washington. | D．They’re located in the same district. |
【推荐2】Four Best Films of the Year
Soul
In the first Pixar cartoon to have an African-American lead character, Jamie Foxx provides the voice of a music teacher who dreams of making it as a jazz pianist in New York. But just after a successful audition, he falls into a hole in the street, and finds himself in a spiritual world where human spirits are given their personalities.
Nomadland
Fern packs her few belongings and drives off into the Nevada desert. She soon discovers that she isn’t alone: there is a large community of senior citizens forced to live on the road, supporting themselves with short-term jobs along the way. What makes Nomadland unique is that while Fern is played by an Oscar-winning actress, Frances McDormand, nearly all of the people she meets are nomads(游牧民).
Wolfwalkers
The year’s finest animated film doesn’t come from Dreamworks or Pixar, but from Cartoon Saloon. Their latest fairy tale is set in the mid-17th century, when English soldiers were trying to control the wild woods near Kilkenny. One hunter’s daughter named Robin learns that there aren’t just wolves in the forest, but wolfwalkers, who can change into wolves at night.
The Croods: A New Age
The prehistoric family from the cartoon of 2013, The Croods, makes a welcome return. In the sequel(续集), they meet another family, the Bettermans, whose advanced lifestyle and technology make the Croods look even more primitive. “The Croods lead with their heart while the other with their brain,” says Joel Crawford, the film’s director. “Of course, there’s conflict, but they learn to appreciate each other’s differences. There are some deep and powerful themes, but it’s a comedy too.”
1. What is special about Nomadland?| A．It is the year’s best animated film. |
| B．It has an African-American lead character. |
| C．The leading lady is played by a famous actress. |
| D．Nearly all the other people in the movie are indeed homeless. |
| A．Soul. | B．Nomadland. |
| C．Wolfwalkers. | D．The Croods: A New Age. |
| A．Robin. | B．Jamie Foxx. |
| C．Joel Crawford. | D．Frances McDormand. |
【推荐3】When you grow up in Voss, outdoor adventures become a way of living. This is why visitors will find outdoor activities for all ages and levels. Many people get the impression that such activities as river sports, air sports and other extreme sports are only for the experts. Actually, you will find many outdoor adventures for those who simply want a taste of these elements in Voss.
◆ River Kayaking
The river in Voss are great for river kayaking. If you are a beginner, we advise you to try an introduction course of 3 hours. A course of 2 days can be tested out if you really want to learn the sport of kayaking. Get a totally new experience with one of the best kayak centers in Norway.
Prices From NOK 850 per person
◆ Rafting
The most popular summer activity in Voss. Thrilling, fun and suitable for beginners as well as those with experience! Includes transportation, safety instruction, swim test and about 8km of breathtaking rafting starting off in softer steams before getting on to the more exciting streams.
Season Daily May—October
Prices From NOK 1,120
Info All necessary equipment is provided. Please bring your own swimwear and towel.
◆ Bavallsekspressen Chair Lift
Explore the mountain by riding the Bavallsekpressen chair lift all the way to the top to get immediate access to a great variety of hiking trails in beautiful scenery. The lift is also open for those who want to bring their bike or paraglider. Start and end: From Bavallen to Hangurstoppen.
Season: Sat/Sun 24 June—06 August 12:00-16:00
Prices Single trip: NOK 100 Day pass: NOK 250
◆ Husdyrparken
At Husdyrparken, visitors get to experience Norwegian farm animals. You can participate in animal feeding and farm competitions, or simply relax with an organic ice cream in the café. You can also visit a small museum with old farming equipment.
Season: Daily 18 June—21 August
Prices: Adults NOK 120 Children NOK 60 Senior NOK 60
Family Pass NOK 200 (For up to two adults and two kids)
1. Who are the intended readers of the passage?| A．Local residents. | B．Professional athletes. |
| C．Travel experts. | D．Common Tourists. |
| A．River Kayaking and Rafting. | B．Husdyrparken and River Kayaking. |
| C．Rafting and Bavallsekspressen Chair Lift. | D．Bavallsekspressen Chair Lift and Husdyrparken. |
| A．NOK 240. | B．NOK 200. | C．NOK 180. | D．NOK 120. |
