【推荐1】For children, communication with older adults is important when visits with grandparents are called off because of the pandemic(流行病).

Even before COVID-19 sent older adults into hiding, grandparents and great-grandparents could often seem like strangers to kids. Contact might include gifts of toys meant for someone a little younger, forced piano performances by parents, and really bad jokes. So, coming up with what to say to those out -of-touch people through a camera can be hard. It can be a lot of pressure for kids.

Yet keeping up with older relatives has mental and physical health benefits for everyone. According to studies, older adults who participate in programming between generations show more happiness, better self-care. And a strong relationship between grandparents and grandchildren can lessen depressive tendencies(抑郁倾向) in both adults and kids.

Having an actual relationship with a grandparent can also help children develop qualities that make all-around great citizens. “Children are born to be me, me, me,” says Tina-Anne Praas of SKIP, an Ontario-based organization. “But seeing a person who has experienced life stages pulls them away from that thinking. They can gain some worldly points of view.”

Being close with a grandparent can also help children develop communication skills, especially when they’re able to learn about and compare their experiences with a grandparent’s. And it doesn’t carry the pressure of talking to a parent.

Tina-Anne Praas adds that students who were worried about life after graduation eagerly listen to older adults sharing their own experiences from the same time of life, 50-plus years ago. One student says, “My interactions(互动) with my grandparents encouraged me to become a physician.”

1. What causes much stress for kids?

A．Playing the piano in public.

B．Communicating with grandparents online.

C．Buying gifts for other younger children.

D．Being out of touch with parents for a long time.

2. What does the underlined phrase “that thinking” refer to in paragraph 4?

A．Seeing an experienced person.

B．Kids’ own ideas about the world.

C．Children’s care of themselves only.

D．Keeping contact with grandparents.

3. What is Tina-Anne Praas’ attitude towards communication between generations?

A．Supportive.	B．Doubtful.
C．Uncertain.	D．Worried.

4. Grandchildren benefit from older relatives by____.

A．listening to stories online

B．watching what they do daily

C．forming new ideas about themselves

D．communicating and interacting with them

【推荐2】Effective communication is a sign of strong and stable families while poor communication often causes families difficulties and conflicts, according to Virginia Tech. Understanding the features and the benefits of good family communication helps ensure positive and healthy relationships among family members.

Virginia Tech sees the clear family communication as clear direct and clear indirect communication. The former, the healthiest form of family communication, occurs when you clearly express a message to the correct family member. The latter refers to a message stated understandably but without a good indication of whom the message refers to.

Good listening is of great importance in family communication and it shows that you care and that you are concerned with the message being conveyed. At the same time, you should make constant eye contact and provide verbal feedback, such as “I see”. Rephrasing improves understanding and reduces confusion. To rephrase a message, you must listen carefully to the message, restate the message without adding extra information and check with the speaker to ensure the correct understanding. Probing refers to asking questions or making statements to identify the aspects of the message and reflect on the feelings it conveys. Positive speaking requires you to focus on positive things and be willing to share more information related to the topic. This gives you the chance to express yourself, helps family members build positive self-images, and encourages cooperation.

Good family communication develops good relationships and leads to a better understanding, which help reduce anger and stress. Additionally, according to the University of Delaware, good family communication helps resolve conflicts within the family. Good communication also helps families stay strong by recognizing the need for compromise.

There are some practical tips on improving the communication between the family members.

In order to increase availability, set aside a few minutes every day to connect with your family members and discuss your days and anything disturbing you.

Being empathetic (感情移入的) means listening to the feelings of family members and showing your understanding.

Let the communication in the family be more than just verbal expression. Even the presence of family members can communicate a lot. For example, the presence of parents conveys the messages of safety, love and concern for the children. Use body language and gestures of affection generously in the communication. Even when you criticize or correct a child, holding him and talking to him in the most pleasing manner may help the messages to be accepted in the desired manner. Remember a kiss or a hug can tell more than words can do.

Theme	1    effectively with family members helps build a strong and stable family.
Types	Clear direct communication	A message is conveyed clearly to the correct family member.
	Clear indirect communication	A message comes across well, but you don’t     2     whom the message is for.
Methods	Listening	* It gives evidence that you are     3     in the message. * Do make eye contact     4     and give feedback.
	Rephrasing	Use different words to describe the message, but keep it in mind that you mustn’t change the     5     meaning.
	6	Try to understand the feelings the message conveys through asking questions.
	Positive thinking	Focus on positive things. Provide more related information     7    .
Advantages	* Improving understanding and removing negative emotion * Resolving family conflicts *     8     the links between family members
Tips	Being available	9     some time every day to talk with your family members.
	Being empathetic	Try to understand their problems and feeling.
	Letting it be more than just verbal	The presence of family members matters a lot. Use     10     to express your love.

【推荐3】I grew up in San Pedro. My dad was a fisherman, and he loved the sea. He had his own boat, but it was hard making a living on the sea. He worked hard and would stay out until he caught enough to feed the family. Not just enough for our family, but also for his mom and dad and the other kids that were still at home.

Dad was a big man, and he was strong from pulling the nets and fighting the sea for his catch. When you got close to him, you smelled the ocean.

When the weather was bad, he would drive me to school. He would pull right up in front, and it seemed like everybody would be standing around and watching. Then he would lean over and give me a big kiss on the cheek and tell me to be a good boy. It was so embarrassing for me. Here I was twelve years old, and my dad would lean over and kiss me goodbye!

I remembered the day I thought I was too old for a goodbye kiss. When we got to the school and came to a stop, he had his usual big smile. He started to lean toward me, but I put my hand up and said, “No, Dad.” It was the first time I had ever talked to him that way, and he had this surprised look on his face.

I said, “Dad, I’m too old for a goodbye kiss. I’m too old for any kind of kiss.” My dad looked at me for the longest time, and his eyes started to tear up. I had never seen him cry. He turned and looked at the windshield(挡风玻璃).“You’re right,” he said.“You are a big boy...a man. I won’t kiss you any more.”

It wasn’t long after that when my dad went to sea and never came back.

Guys, you don’t know what I would give to have my dad give me just one more kiss on the cheek...to feel his rough old face...to smell the ocean on him...to feel his arm around my neck. I wish I had been a man then. If I had been a man, I would be a man. I would never have told my dad I was too old for a goodbye kiss.

1. What does the first paragraph mainly talk about?

A．The writer’s father was a tall man.

B．Making a living on the sea was hard.

C．The writer’s father liked being a fisherman.

D．The writer’s father had a big family to support.

2. From the passage, we know that the writer’s father　　　.

A．was a successful businessman

B．had an accident and died at sea

C．was good at driving cars

D．drove the writer to school every day

3. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that the writer　　　.

A．wished his father to come back home soon

B．would give up what he had to look for his father

C．regretted having refused his father’s kiss

D．hoped to see his father and asked for another kiss

4. The writer wrote the passage in order to　　　.

A．tell readers about his father’s love for him

B．attract readers to visit his father

C．give a brief introduction to himself

D．ask readers to love their fathers before it is too late.

【推荐2】Learning a second language is tricky at any age (and it only gets tougher the longer you wait to open that dusty French book). Now, in a new study, scientists have pinpointed the exact age at which your chances of reading fluency in a second language seems to plummet: 10.

The study, published in the journal Cognition, found that it’s “nearly impossible” for language learners to reach native - level fluency if they start learning a second tongue after 10. But that doesn’t seem to be because language skills go downhill. “It turns out you’re still learning fast. It’s just that you run out of time, because your ability to learn starts dropping at around 17 or 18 years old,” says study co-author Joshua Hartshorne, an assistant professor of psychology at Boston College.

Kids may be better than adults at learning new languages for many reasons. Children’s brains are more plastic than those of adults, meaning they’re better able to adapt and respond to new information. “All learning involves the brain changing,” Hartshorne says, “and children’s brains seem to be a lot more skilled at changing.”

Kids may also be more willing to try new things (and to potentially look foolish in the process) than adults are. Their comparatively new grasp on their native tongue may also be advantageous. Unlike adults, who tend to default（默认）to the rules and patterns of their first language, kids may be able to approach a new one with a blank slate（石板）.

These findings may seems discouraging, but it was heartening for scientists to learn that the critical period for fluent language acquisition might be longer than they previously thought. Some scientists believed that the brief window closes shortly after birth, while others stretched it only to early adolescence. Compared to those estimates, 17 or 18 -- when language learning ability starts to drop off -- seems relatively old. “People fared better when they learned by immersion（沉浸）, rather than simply in a classroom. And moving to a place where our desired language is spoken is the best way to learn as an adult. If that’s not an option, you can mimic   an   immersive   environment   by   finding   ways   to   have   conversations   with   native   speakers   in   their own communities,” Hartshorne says. By doing so, it’s possible to become conversationally proficient -- even without the advantage of a child’s brain.

1. The word “plummet” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to “____”.

A．plunge

B．rise

C．end

D．vary

2. What can be inferred from Joshua Hartshorne’s words?

A．Age 10 -18 is the best time to learn a second language.

B．Children are too young to grasp a second language.

C．Communicating with native speakers enables you to master all the language skills.

D．Adults go beyond the critical period for learning a second language.

3. What might be the reason why adults can’t reach native - level fluency in a second language?

A．Adults are less influenced by their mother tongues

B．Adults are only too willing to experience something awkward in the process.

C．Adults spend more time responding to new information.

D．Adults prefer an immersive environment to a classroom in learning a second language.

4. The passage is mainly about____.

A．the approaches to learning a second language

B．the best age to learn a second language.

C．why kids learn a second language more easily than adults

D．whether adults can learn a second language like their younger selves

【推荐3】At the end of August this year I moved from London，UK，to a small town in Quebec， Canada，called Matane to work as an English language assistant.Patience is a word that has appeared in many forms over the past two months.

I don't see myself as being the most patient person in the world but there was something that struck me on my first week of work.I had just finished a session with two students and just as they were leaving the classroom，one of the students turned back and said，"Thank you for your patience." That was an early reminder of the importance of being patient as a teacher. It also made me reflect on the language teachers that I have had over the years， ones that demonstrated a high level of patience and understanding that has shaped my language learning path. Moreover， it helped me to realize the importance of demonstrating patience in the classroom as it can be the difference between building someone's confidence in a language or breaking down their confidence entirely.

Living my life constantly in French is not easy but the people of Quebec are very patient.They repeat things several times and they are more than happy to wait while I find the correct words to express myself and find the correct word order.It's a learning process but with the patience of others， the process is slightly less nervous.At the end of the day， making mistakes shows you are trying and I think that is greatly appreciated by Quebecers.

When I first arrived in Matane I kept getting headaches from having to concentrate all the time due to the language and even overhearing other people's conversations was hard work! I had to keep reminding myself that it would take time， and two months later the headaches are a distant memory and my ears have become more tuned to their accent.The key is to be patient with yourself.

1. According to Paragraph 2， what does the writer think is important as a teacher？ ______

A．Understanding.

B．Patience.

C．Confidence.

D．Help.

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage？ ______

A．The writer went to Matane to learn the importance of patience.

B．Doctors in Quebec are good at treating headaches.

C．Practice makes perfect for learning a foreign language.

D．The writer first noticed the importance of patience on hearing a student's appreciation.

3. In the small town called Matane，which language do the local people speak？ ______

A．English.

B．Spanish.

C．French.

D．Italian.

4. What is the best title for the passage？ ______

A．Patience Brings a Surprise

B．Attractions of Quebec

C．My Work Experience in Quebec

D．Learn a Foreign Language with Patience

【推荐1】Last summer, Katie Steller pulled off the freeway on her way to work. She stopped at a traffic light, where a man was sitting with a sign asking for help. She rolled down her window and shouted, “I’m driving around giving free haircuts. Do you want one right now?” The man looked to be in his 60s. He was heavyset, balding, and missing a few teeth. He laughed, then paused. “Actually,” he said, “I have a funeral to go. I was really hoping to get a haircut.”

Few minutes later, the man, named Edward, took a seat on a red chair moved down from Steller’s car, and she trimmed his curly graying hair. He told her about growing up in Mississippi, about moving to Minnesota to be closer to his children, and how he still often phoned his mom. After Steller was done, Edward looked in a mirror. “Wow, I look good!” he grinned.

To date, Steller has given 30 or so such haircuts to people around the city. She is keenly aware of the power of her cleanup job. “It’s more than a haircut,” she says.

Steller knows that a haircut can change a life. One changed hers. As a teen, she suffered from a severe bowel disease and her hair thinned drastically. Seeing this, her mother arranged for Steller’s first professional haircut.

“To sit down and have somebody look at me and talk to me like a person and not just an illness, it helped me feel cared about and less alone,” she says. After that, Steller knew she wanted to have her own salon. Soon after finishing cosmetology (美容) school in 2009, she began what she now calls her Red Chair Project, reaching out to people on the streets.

“Part of what broke my heart was just how lonely people looked,” she says. “I thought maybe I can’t fix their problems, but I can help them feel less alone sometimes.”

1. Which of the following best describes Edward?

A．He related everything to Steller.

B．He lived with his mom in Mississippi.

C．He was satisfied with his new haircut.

D．He sat by the roadside asking for a haircut.

2. What do we know about the free haircuts?

A．They made people full of power.

B．They helped people solve their problems.

C．They conveyed care and love to people in need.

D．They made Steller’s salon obtain good reputation.

3. What inspired Stellar to start her Red Chair Project?

A．Her wish to talk to people.

B．Her personal experience in her teens.

C．Her mother’s encouragement.

D．Her ambition to start a unique salon.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A．A Special Hair-dresser	B．Edward’s Free Haircut
C．An Amazing Encounter	D．More Than a Free Haircut

【推荐2】Cassandra Warren, a baby-sitter, was in a rush and feeling a little overcome with work and planning her 200-person wedding. As she was getting invitations for her weddings in the mail one day last year, she hurriedly addressed one to her aunt and uncle in Oregon.

A week later, the invitation came back, with a handwritten note on the return envelope: “I wish I knew you. Congratulations! I’ve been married for 40 years—it gets better with age.” A $ 20 bill was inside.

Cassandra was at a professional crossroads and had been having a tough day. In fact, she nearly broke down, telling her husband-to-be, Jesse Jones, about her depression just as she opened the misdirected envelope. And the magic envelope wasn’t finished with its surprises. Cassandra looked closer and saw that on the envelope were “Live long and prosper”, a nod to space-based film Star Trek (《星际迷航》).

Casandra and Jesse have no idea who the anonymous note writer is. But they figure the Star Trek reference was because the person noticed the “fandom” corner of their invitation, which had both a Star Wars light-saber (光剑) and a Harry Potter wand (魔杖). “She assumed we’d understand her message,” Cassandra says. “Which we did.”

The following night Casandra and Jesse went out o dinner with a friend who was going overseas with the military. They happily put the $20 toward their bill. Then Casandra stopped by a store and bought another card—a thank-you card. She wrote her aunt and uncle’s incorrect address on the envelope again to “Kind Stranger.” Inside, she wrote, “Thank you for the note and taking the time to send it. Not many people would have done that. It was a big blessing after the day I was having. I am thankful for people like you still being in the world.”

1. What is the best title for the text?

A．Welcome to Cassandra’s wedding.	B．What if you invite a kind stranger.
C．Take your time to write a right letter.	D．Wedding invitation to the wrong address

2. Why did Cassandra make the mistake?

A．She suffered a disease.	B．She was in bad mood.
C．She quarreled with Jesse.	D．She lost her job as a baby-sitter.

3. What does the underlined word anonymous mean?

A．Nameless.

B．Warm-hearted.

C．Peace-loving.

D．Doubtful.

4. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．Cassandra made the same mistake the second time.

B．The return letter might be from the military friend.

C．The second letter was wrongly addressed on purpose.

D．Cassandra doesn’t know her uncle and aunt’s address.

【推荐3】The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and study music. My parents, although sympathetic, and sharing my love of music, disapproved of it as a profession. This was understandable in view of the family background. My grandfather had taught music for nearly forty years. Though much beloved and respected in the community, he earned barely enough to provide for his large family. As a consequence of this example in the family, the very mention of music as a profession carried with it a picture of a risky existence with uncertain financial rewards. My parents insisted on college instead of a music school, and to college I went-quite happily, as I remember, for although I loved my violin and spent most of my spare time practicing, I had many other interests.

Before my graduation from college, the family met with severe financial reverses and I felt it my duty to leave college and take a job. Thus was I launched upon a business career—which I always think of as the wasted years. Now I do not for a moment mean to disparage (贬低) business. My whole point is that it was not for me. I went into it for money, and aside from the satisfaction of being able to help the family, money is all I got out of it. It was not enough. I felt that life was passing me by.

I continued to make money, and finally, bit by bit, accumulated enough to enable me to go abroad to study music. I resigned from my position and, feeling like a man released from jail, sailed for Europe. I stayed four years, worked harder than I had ever dreamed of working before and enjoyed every minute of it. “Enjoyed” is too mild a word. I walked on air. I really lived. I was a free man and I was doing what I loved to do and what I was meant to do.

If I had stayed in business, I might be a comparatively wealthy man today, but I do not believe I would have made a success of living. I would have given up all those inner satisfactions that money can never buy.

1. The writer’s parents didn’t want him to take a music career mainly because       .

A．the writer didn’t show much talent in playing music

B．college was a much better option than a music school

C．it seemed an unstable and financially-challenged profession

D．the living conditions of the writer’s parents weren’t good enough

2. What can be learned about the writer’s experience of college?

A．The writer enjoyed the fruitful college life

B．The writer dropped out before graduation.

C．The writer kept playing the violin every day.

D．The writer went to college unwillingly.

3. What was the most important thing the writer achieved from his business career?

A．A sense of belonging

B．A considerable fortune

C．The satisfaction of helping others

D．The pride of being a wealthy man.

4. What does the underlined sentence I walked on air. in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．I was interviewed by a broadcaster.	B．My music was alive on broadcast.
C．I felt very relaxed indeed	D．I was extremely excited

5. What message does the passage mainly convey?

A．Being able to do what one loves is the best kind of life.

B．A success of living depends on one’s adaption to life.

C．One should think twice before he/she makes a decision.

D．Ups and downs make one even stronger.

【推荐1】A four-year-old girl sees three biscuits divided between a stuffed crocodile and a teddy bear. The crocodile gets two; the bear one. “Is that fair?” asks the experimenter. The girl judges that it is not. “How about now?” asks the experimenter, breaking the bear’s single biscuit in half. The girl cheers up: “Oh yes, now it’s fair. They both have two.” Strangely, children feel very strongly about fairness, even when they hardly understand it.

Adults care about fairness too---but how much? One way to find out is by using the ultimatum（最后通牒）game, created by economist Werner Guth. Jack is given a pile of money and proposes how it should be divided with Jill. Jill can accept Jack’s “ultimatum”, otherwise the deal is off, and neither gets anything.

Suppose Jack and Jill don’t care about fairness, just about accumulating cash. Then Jack can offer Jill as little as he likes and Jill will still accept. After all, a little money is more than no money. But imagine, instead, that Jack and Jill both care only about fairness and that the fairest outcome is equality. Then Jack would offer Jill half the money; and Jill wouldn’t accept otherwise.

What happens when we ask people to play this game for real? It turns out that people value fairness a lot. Anyone offered less than 20-30% of the money is likely to reject it. Receiving an unfair offers makes us feel sick. Happily, most offers are pretty equitable; indeed, by far the most common is a 50-50 split.

But children, and adults, also care about a very different sort of （un）fairness, namely cheating. Think how many games of snakes and ladders have ended in arguments when one child “accidentally” miscounts her moves and another child objects. But this sense of fairness isn’t about equality of outcome: games inevitably have winners and losers. Here, fairness is about playing by the rules.

Both fairness-as-equality and fairness-as-no-cheating matter. Which is more important: equality or no-cheating? I think the answer is neither. The national lottery（彩票）, like other lotteries, certainly doesn’t make the world more equal: a few people get rich and most people get nothing. Nevertheless, we hope, it is fair---but what does this mean? The fairness-as-no-cheating viewpoint has a ready answer: a lottery is fair if it is conducted according to the “rules”. But which rules? None of us has the slightest idea, I suspect. Suppose that buried in the small print at lottery HQ is a rule that forbids people with a particular surname （let’s say, Moriarty）. So a Ms Moriarty could buy a ticket each week for years without any chance of success.

How would she react if she found out? Surely with anger: how dare the organizers let her play, week after week, without mentioning that she couldn’t possibly win! She’d reasonably feel unfairly treated because ___________________.

To protest（抗议）against unfairness, then, is to make an accusation of bad faith. From this viewpoint, an equal split between the crocodile and the bear seems fair because （normally, at least）, it is the only split they would both agree to. But were the girl to learn that the crocodile doesn’t like biscuits or that the bear isn’t hungry, I suspect she’d think it perfectly fair for one toy to take the whole. Inequality of biscuits （or anything else） isn’t necessarily unfair, if both parties are happy. And the unfairness of cheating comes from the same source: we’d never accept that someone else can unilaterally（单方面地）violate agreements that we have all signed up to.

So perhaps the four-year-old’s intuitions（直觉）about fairness is the beginnings of an understanding of negotiation. With a sense of fairness, people will have to make us acceptable offers（or we’ll reject their ultimatums） and stick by the（reasonable）rules, or we’ll be on the warpath. So a sense of fairness is crucial to effective negotiation; and negotiation, over toys, treats etc, is part of life.

1. From Paragraph 2 to 4, we can conclude______.

A．a 30-70 split is acceptable to the majority

B．fairness means as much to adults as to children

C．something is better than nothing after all

D．people will sacrifice money to avoid unfairness

2. Which of the following does fairness-as-no-cheating apply to?

A．divisions of housework	B．favoritism between children
C．banned drugs in sport	D．schooling opportunities

3. Which of the following best fits in the blank in Paragraph7?

A．the lottery didn’t follow the rules	B．she was cheated out of the money
C．the lottery wasn’t equal at all	D．she would never have agreed to those rules

4. The chief factor in preventing unfairness is to ______.

A．establish rules	B．observe agreements
C．strengthen morality	D．understand negotiation

【推荐2】Many electronic parts are made of hard materials that break easily. That makes them tough to use in products that need to bend. Now, Sam Yoon and his team have developed a thin mesh (网状物) that can both bend and conduct electricity.

His team started out with something called acrylonitrile, a clear liquid often used to make thin plastic fibers. Yoon and his team mixed this material with another liquid, which acted as a solvent. A solvent is something that can make other substances into liquids. Then, they squeezed the mix through a very tiny pipe: As the mixture was sprayed through the air, the solvent evaporated(挥发)and the acrylonitrile molecules linked up to make long chains, creating a type of plastic known as PAN. The researchers continually squeezed the mixture through the pipe. A single long PAN fiber was created. The scientists moved the pipe back and forth as the PAN was squeezed out. It ended up creating a layer that looked something like a spider’s web.

PAN, like most plastics, doesn’t conduct electricity. So the team’s next step would normally be to add a coating of metal so that electricity could flow through it. But it could be tough sticking such coatings on PAN. So the researchers added an extra step. They sprayed a thin coating of an inert metal onto the PAN. Inert metals, like gold, typically don’t react with other materials. The researchers then added another layer of PAN fiber at the top of the first, web-like layer. They provide temporary support, helping the metal-sprayed base resist sinking during the next step.

The researchers connected the fiber-covered frame to a negatively changed electrode. Then they dipped the fiber-covered frame into a solution that included the liquid copper. The team turned on the electric current for about one minute to make it run through the solution. The copper in the solution was attached to all of the fibers. But it stuck only to those that wore a metal jacket. Besides adding a thin layer of copper that conducts electricity, this process helped bond the PAN strands together at places, where they touched each other, Yoon notes.

The researchers then attached all of the fibers to a thin, clear layer of plastic, which had sticky backing, like a Band-Aid. Finally, the team dipped all of these into a liquid that made any of the PAN fibers that lacked a copper jacket into liquids. Only those that can be used to conduct electricity were left. Because the fibers were very thin and widely separated, light waves easily travel through the mesh. The copper coating acted just like a wire, permitting electricity to flow freely across it.

1. The team used another liquid in the process to .

A．make acrylonitrile evaporate	B．turn acrylonitrile into plastic fibers
C．make acrylonitrile conduct electricity	D．conduct electricity instead of acrylonitrile

2. What should the team do first when using PAN?

A．Make it easy to break.	B．Make it react with other materials.
C．Make it conduct electricity.	D．Find a way to make it into a liquid.

3. What does the underlined word those in the last paragraph refer to?

A．The thin plastics.	B．Just the copper coatings.
C．All the PAN fibers.	D．All the copper-coated fibers.

【推荐3】Sales of Apple’s new iPhone 11 in China began on Friday, but were met with a cooler welcome from customers than in previous years. Unlike in previous years, no long lines were seen outside Chinese shops on Friday for the new iPhone, and the product release (发布) only made the headlines in a few media.

Huawei released its Mate 30 smartphone series on Thursday night. Its new devices(设备) have won consumers’ hearts at home and abroad. Many compared it with Apple’s new iPhone 11, saying that beats the new iPhone because of innovation and quality. One customer named Zhao Kai, an IT specialist who pre-ordered a Mate 30 Pro on Friday, said that he chose Mate 30 without hesitation. Zhao said, “It’s clear that Huawei’s new phone with its advanced 5G mode would lead the future global telecommunications market, too.”

In contrast with iPhone 11’s poor sales, Chinese netizens (网民) have joined in discussions on Mate 30 and iPhone 11. An online poll on the Mate 30 and iPhone 11 on Weibo on Friday showed that more than 60 percent of netizens chose the Mate 30, while less than 20 percent chose the iPhone 11. Many chose Huawei as a result of its technology.

Overseas customers also joined in the heated discussions on Huawei’s new flagship devices on sites. On Twitter, many netizens said “nice”, “best phone ever” and “my favorite one” on Huawei’s Twitter account. Some netizens in countries like the UK, the Netherlands and Argentina asked when Huawei’s new devices would be released in their countries.

1. How did customers react to Apple’s new product?

A．They thought it was cool to use it.

B．They stood in long lines to purchase it.

C．They thought its quality was worse than before.

D．They were less interested in it than former years.

2. In what aspect is Mate 30 better than iPhone 11 according to Paragraph 2?

A．The price and the weight.	B．The appearance and the speed.
C．The quality and innovation.	D．The service life and function.

3. What does the underlined word “poll” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Store.

B．Survey.

C．Market.

D．Exam.

4. What could be the best title for the text?

A．New Technology - 5G	B．Huawei Is Better than Apple
C．Apple’s New iPhone 11	D．Huawei’s Mate 30 Defeats iPhone 11