The Notre Dame (巴黎圣母院) fire has been put out, but its wooden roof has been largely damaged. The terrible accident caused a sudden sharp pain to people around the world, “What a pity that we cannot see the damaged parts of the wonder anymore.”
But the good news is that there is at least one way of seeing them, namely via a video game called Assassin’s Creed: Unity. In this game, the player can travel to one city after another and enter the buildings exactly like what they are in reality, and see Notre Dame as it was before the fire.
What’s more, with VR technology, which is already quite mature, one can even look around the undamaged Notre Dame as if it is still there. Maybe digital technology could help to better protect architectural cultural heritage (建筑文化遗产).
The idea of digitizing ancient buildings, making digital models of them so their data can be saved, dates back to the 1990s and the necessary technology has continued to advance since then. By scanning the ancient buildings with lasers, building 3D models with hundreds of images, as well as measuring (测量) everything exactly, engineers can make a copy as “same” as the real one.
As computers and smartphones are hugely popular, the digital replica or digital copy has great practical value. First, it allows tourists to feel the cultural relics (文物) without touching them, which helps protect them. The virtual tour of Dunhuang Grottoes in Gansu Province is a good example of this as tourists can view the paintings without standing near them. Furthermore, it can make the digitized cultural relics more famous by spreading awareness about them via the Internet. In 2000, a virtual tour of the Great Wall became very popular at the Hannover World Expo, which increased the number of foreign tourists visiting it in the following years. Above all, it saves all the information of the cultural relics. Even if the original ones are damaged one day, people can still know what they were like and can build a replica if desired.
Time is the biggest problem to architectural heritage. Maybe we will have better technologies in the future, but the digital technology offers a practical way to protect architectural cultural heritage at the moment.
1. What can we see about Notre Dame in the video game?| A．The big fire. | B．Its original look. |
| C．The damaged parts. | D．Its wooden shape. |
| A．Make digital models. | B．Build 3D models of full size. |
| C．Improve the cultural heritage. | D．Measure all the parts exactly. |
| A．By giving examples. | B．By comparison. |
| C．By reasoning things out. | D．By showing methods. |
| A．The Damage of Notre Dame |
| B．The Value of Digital Replica |
| C．Digital Technology Helps Protect Cultural Relics |
| D．VR Technology Helps Repair the Ancient Buildings |
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【推荐1】One American university uses a robot as a teacher to help students with their problems. And none of the students knew that was a robot at first.
Jill Watson, a robot made in that university helps the students a lot. When answering the questions, Jill seems to be an excellent teacher. She can give wonderful answers quickly. She sounds natural and usually says good words.
When someone told the students that their "teacher" was a robot, they all got very surprised. How was it possible? I was talking to a robot! said Bailey. "She sounds like a common teacher."
Another student Jennifer told the newspaper, "We are thinking about choosing Jill Watson to be our best teacher. She is really helpful."
Now many students like to ask questions on their school website. It usually takes teachers too much time to answer them. So the university had such an idea of making Jill Watson. It's a faster way to help the students with the problems.
Jill can quickly find possible answers in her own computer to the questions and make sure they are all right. After that, she tells the students in an electronic(电子的) voice that sounds like a famous actress.
1. Jill Watson answers students' questions by ________.| A．sending e-mails | B．speaking to them | C．leaving notes | D．talking on the phone |
| A．she sounded like a robot teacher | B．she could only answer some easy questions |
| C．she seemed to be natural and wonderful | D．they didn't believe the university made her |
| A．Wonderful University Teachers | B．Students and Their Problems |
| C．Robots and Future Life | D．An amazing Robot Teacher |
【推荐2】“Turn left! Turn right!” In the information technology (IT) class, Zhang Ruixuan was controlling a robot to move around.
“This is part of our artificial intelligence (AI) courses,” said the 10th grader from Beijing 101 Middle School. The school provides AI classes for both junior and senior high school students. Apart from compulsory (必修的) courses that teach basic knowledge, there are also optional (选修的) courses if students want to learn more.
“This semester in our compulsory class, we have learned coding (编程) through a programming language called Python,” said Zhang. Using Python to code is a basic skill for training AI models. AI courses are starting to appear in high schools. In recent years, Python has been tested in high school graduation exams in places like Beijing, Jiangsu and Anhui.
In fact, having AI education in schools has become a growing in many places, with Zhejiang province being a typical example. In 2020, Zhejiang added AI education into textbooks from Grade 5 in primary school all the way to senior high. In the city of Wenzhou, the government is planning to build 1,000 AI experimental schools by 2025.
“With the development of technology, our textbooks have been changing all the time,” said Shang Yin, an IT teacher from Beijing 101 Middle School. “From typing to using Word and Excel, and then today’s coding and AI, the courses are keeping up with the times and teaching students necessary skills.” In the future, there will be more jobs where AI knowledge is required. Even in daily life, people may need to understand things like ChatGPT and the internet of things. AI education will become increasingly important, Shang added.
1. How did the writer start the passage?| A．By quote a saying. | B．By describing a scene. |
| C．By telling a story. | D．By explaining the truth. |
| A．It is the most important course. | B．It only teaches basic knowledge. |
| C．It often makes students feel stressed. | D．It teaches students to code with Python. |
| A．praise Zhejiang for its development of science and technology. |
| B．introduce the government’s plan for AI education. |
| C．show AI education is getting popular in many places of China. |
| D．compare the AI education in Zhejiang with that in Beijing. |
| A．Because AI is included in all high school graduation exams. |
| B．Because understanding AI is becoming a necessary skill. |
| C．Because AI is going to take over school education. |
| D．Because AI is students’ most powerful competitor. |
Have you ever seen a solar panel（太阳能电池板）in your neighborhood? Solar panels take energy from the sun and turn it into electricity. Over the past ten years, the price of solar panels has gone down greatly. In many parts of the world, solar energy is now the cheapest form of electricity. More and more people have started using solar energy to power（给……供电）their homes.
However, solar panels also have their problems. They stop working at night and on rainy days. Is it possible to make them produce electricity all of the time?
Scientists at Suzhou University, China, have invented a new solar panel now. It can produce electricity not only from solar energy but also from falling rain. When a raindrop falls on the solar panel and then rolls（滚动）down, it creates friction（摩擦力）on the surface of the panel, which can then be turned into electricity.
Sun Baoquan is one of the inventors. “Our new invention can produce electricity in any weather during the day,” he says. “It can even provide electricity at night if there is rain.”
The solar panel, however, does not make much electricity from falling rain. So Sun Baoquan is still working hard to improve it. The scientist also wants to make solar panels more flexible, which are as soft as clothing.
The field of solar energy is developing fast. Scientists around the world have been improving solar panels. Some have been working on ways to join solar panels and wind power together. Some have been trying to use sunlight to produce liquid and gas fuels（液体和气体燃料）.
1. Which energy is now the cheapest form of electricity in many parts of the world?| A．Solar energy. | B．Water energy. | C．Wind energy. |
| A．The price of them is rising. |
| B．They can’t work all of the time. |
| C．They can hardly power people’s homes. |
| A．It has a larger size than a common one. |
| B．It produces more electricity from falling rain than solar energy. |
| C．It can produce electricity day and night and even in rainy conditions. |
| A．柔软的 | B．光滑的 | C．坚硬的 |
| A．there is no room for developing solar energy |
| B．there is no end to the research in the field of solar energy |
| C．solar energy has completely taken the place of other kinds of energy |
【推荐1】Song of Tomorrow
Tomorrow and Tomorrow again
O How many tomorrows are then?
If we wait always for another day,
In vain (徒劳) our life will pass away.
①Song of Tomorrow is very famous in China, especially the first four lines. Many people, even children know them. However, no one knows who wrote the poem. Some say it came out during the Ming Dynasty (朝代). Others say the poem was popular during the Qing Dynasty (1644—1911). But the most important thing is not the time, but the main idea: Do not waste (浪费) time or life.
②The language is easy in this poem. The writer uses the word “tomorrow” many times to pass on the poem’s message: Better do it today than tomorrow.
③Many people thought they are procrastinators (有拖延症的人). They comfort (安慰) themselves with the words from Gone with the Wind: “Tomorrow is another day!” But these people would do well if they remember the poem Song of Tomorrow.
1. What’s the main idea of Paragraph①?| A．The experience of the writer. |
| B．The history of Ming Dynasty. |
| C．More information of the poem. |
| A．To comfort us to do our work tomorrow. |
| B．To tell us to do our work today, not tomorrow. |
| C．To make people think nothing is important than tomorrow. |
| A．Procrastinators. | B．Poems. | C．Messages. |
| A．Procrastinators comfort themselves with Song of Tomorrow. |
| B．Procrastinators enjoy the movie Gone with the Wind very much. |
| C．Procrastinators could do well with remembering the Song of Tomorrow. |
| A．Sports. | B．Medicine. | C．Culture. |
Samuel Johnson was one of the greatest English writers of the 18th century. He said “a pun(双关语) is the lowest form of wisdom.” Chinese media regulators(监管机构) seem to agree with him. They have ordered a ban(禁止) on the use of puns on television and in advertising. They say the use of puns in the media is harmful to the Chinese language and Chinese culture.
A pun is often meant to be: a joke. The word or phrase can have two different meanings. For example, “Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher? He couldn’t control his pupils.” Here, the word “pupils” has two meanings: students and the black parts in the center of your eyes.
All languages make use of puns. Chinese, however, is better suited to this form of humor than most. Chinese has many homophones. They are words that sound the same but have different meanings. Too many Chinese words have lots of meanings. And chengyu — Chinese idioms — are often changed to make a joke. Take “ke bu rong huan” as an example. The idiom means “there’s no time for delay.” But it was once changed by a cough medicine company. In an advertisement, the idiom reads, “Coughing must not hang around.”
Chinese media regulators say this playfulness may cause trouble. Children, they explain, may learn the wrong meaning of idioms. This may affect their learning of proper Chinese.
The regulators may mean well to stop the use of puns, but I’m afraid puns will always be used. They are the lowest form of wisdom, as Johnson said. However, these words and phrases are interesting. They have always filled people’s lives with a lot of pleasure.
1. Which of the following is a pair of homophones?| A．Son/Sun | B．Some/Same | C．Head/Mind | D．Advice/Advise |
| A．what a pun was like |
| B．what kind of idioms can be changed into puns |
| C．how Chinese idioms can be changed to make a joke |
| D．why puns may influence Chinese language and culture |
| A．bring a lot of fun into our life | B．make television programs less interesting |
| C．stop children from learning proper Chinese | D．change the meaning of the idioms |
| A．Chinese media regulators said a pun is the lowest form of wisdom. |
| B．The word “pupils” is a good example of pun because it has two meanings. |
| C．All Chinese idioms are changed into puns in advertisements. |
| D．Medicine companies fill the people’s lives with a lot of pleasure. |
| A．Chinese media regulators shouldn’t ban the use of puns. |
| B．People will still use puns though there is a ban now. |
| C．The use of puns will make people become wiser. |
| D．We shouldn’t keep using puns. |
【推荐3】“I check my e-mail almost forty times a day.”
“I seldom spend less than three hours each time on the net.”
“I spend more time in chat rooms than with my ‘real-time’ friends.”
“I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning to surf the Internet.”
Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction（瘾）, called Internet addiction. According to experts, Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. They lose control of the time they spend on the Internet.
For example, one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried and looked for him everywhere but couldn’t find him. They called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the Internet for seven days without taking a rest!
A study shows that about six to ten percent of Internet users become addicted. The teenagers spend more time on the Internet than with friends and families. That’s why some experts worry most about young people.
Is “surfing the Internet” a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have one of the following:
★ You go out with your friends less and less.
★ You can’t wait to get online again.
★ You’ve decided to spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours.
★ You do not go to important family events or you do not do school projects because you like to spend hours on the Internet.
What should we do with the problem? Some experts suggest that people set strict rules on their time for Internet use. You have to learn to control it, or the Internet would control you.
1. What does the underlined phrase “Internet addicts” mean in the passage?| A．网络精英 | B．网络爱好者 | C．网瘾人士 | D．网络先锋 |
| A．At least 13—14 hours. | B．At least 13—40 hours. |
| C．At least 30—40 hours. | D．At least 13—30 hours. |
| A．Because about six to ten percent of young people became addicted. |
| B．Because young people spend more time on the Internet than with friends and families. |
| C．Because young people sometimes get up at three or four in the morning to surf the Internet. |
| D．Because young people seldom spend less than three hours each time on the net. |
| A．You get more and more friends because you spend less time on the Internet. |
| B．You’ve decided to spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours. |
| C．You don’t go to important family events because you spend hours on the Internet. |
| D．You do not do school projects because you like to spend hours on the Internet. |
| Names | Things(物品)in the bag |
| Liu Jun | two books, a pen, three pencils and a white eraser |
| Zhang Yuanyuan | two pencils, three books, a yellow ruler and a blue knife:Zxxk.Com] |
| Chen Xiaofeng | a toy car, a pen, a map and five pencils |
| Meng Yi | a cake, two eggs and a big red apples |
根据表格内容，选择最佳答案。
1. We can see ________ pencils in Liu Jun’s bag.
| A．one | B．two | C．three |
| A．pink | B．blue | C．white |
| A．Chen Xiaofeng | B．Liu Jun | C．Meng Yi |
| A．a pen | B．a ruler | C．a cake |
| A．Liu Jun, Zhang Yuanyuan |
| B．Zhang Yuanyuan, Meng Yi |
| C．Liu Jun ,Chen Xiaofeng |
In China, there are many special bookstores. Sanlian Taofen Bookstore became the first 24-hour bookstore in Beijing at the beginning of April. Popular Holdings in Shanghai is a film-themed bookstore. It has film books and posters. Eslite Bookstore in Taiwan often has activities like talks with famous writers.
At the same time, bookstores outside China can be very colorful, too. Scarthin Books is a small bookstore in the UK. It sells new and second-hand books. There are more than 100,000 books lying on the shelves of the store's 12 rooms. Bart's Books in the US is a good place to enjoy the sunshine (阳光) while reading books. It's an outdoor bookstore. Bookshelves are on the street. When the store is closed, people can still buy books. They just put money into the door's coin box. Where can you find a café, bar and bookstore in just one place? The answer is probably El Pendulo in Mexico. Books line (排列成行) the walls of the store. On the second floor, visitors can order everyday meals in the café and drinks from the bar. In order to keep cool, there are green plants and trees inside. Does it look like a park?
1. _____ special bookstores inside China are mentioned (提到) in the passage.
| A．2 | B．3 | C．5 | D．6 |
| A．a 24-hour bookstore | B．an outdoor bookstore |
| C．in the US | D．small |
| A．Bart's Books | B．Popular Holdings |
| C．Eslite Bookstore | D．El Pendulo |
| A．talk with famous writers | B．order meals |
| C．enjoy the sunshine | D．buy film posters |
| A．12 rooms | B．bookshelves |
| C．green plants and trees | D．coin boxes |
| Sports Club Sports club provides you with many different sports to keep healthy. You'll never get bored. Our programme is always working on new ways to keep you strong and happy. For more information, visit www.my sportsclub. com Location: First Level, West Wing Building, Beijing World Trade Center Opening Hours: 14:00 to 21: 30 hours |
| Model Time If you like models, then Model Time will be the right place for you. From model trains, planes and cars to boats and ships, we have them all! To get more information, please call 8856321 Location: Basement 1, Beijing World Trade Center Opening Hours: 19:00 to 21: 00 hours |
| Kids Art Club Kids Art Club gives drawing classes to children aged 7 to 14. Classes are small with only 6 students each. Jim Rodd teaches all classes. He has worked in the art field for over 23 years. For more information,please call 8867621 Location: Ground Level, West Wing Building, Beijing World Trade Center Opening Hours: 19: 00 to 01: 00 hours |
| Keypals International Club KIC is a fun club started by kids, for kids aged 8 to 16. KIC tries to help kids understand different cultures through emails and other activities. KIC has members from 40 different countries. For more of it, visit www worldkids net. Location: Ground Level, West Wing Building, Beijing World Trade Center Opening Hours: 12:00 to 03: 00 hours. |
| A．call8856321 | B．visit www.worldkids.net |
| C．call 8857621 | D．visit ww mysportsclub, com |
| A．Sports Club | B．Model Time |
| C．Kids Art Club | D．Keypals Interrnational Club |
| A．Model Time | B．Sports Club |
| C．Kids Art Club | D．Keypals International Club |
| A．Six | B．seven | C．eight | D．fourteen |
| A．Model Time is a good place for us to take a train, plane, boat, etc |
| B．We can do different kinds of sports at Sports Club. |
| C．Keypals International Club is mainly for kids aged 7 to 18 |
| D．Jim Todd has worked in the art field for less than 23 years. |
【推荐1】There's much to see under the sea, but you need to remember that light behaves differently in water than in air. The objects appear closer to you than they exactly are. You might find yourself reaching out to touch something and completely missing it.
Objects under water will appear larger than they would on the surface, too. Be careful not to tell any stories about the big fish that got away. That fish might not be so big after all! It's just because sometimes things can seem to be as much as about 33 percent bigger in water!
What's more, in deeper water, colors just don't seem as bright. In fact, it looks as if some colors are missing. Remember the color of an object results from the wavelengths（波长）of light that are reflected（反射）from its surface. And light is taken in as it moves down through the water.
Swimmers wear wet suits to keep warm underwater. Let's take a bright red, yellow, and blue wet suit as an example. These colors are hard to miss on the surface of water. Watch carefully the changes in color as you descend in the water. The red part now looks almost black because the red light wavelengths, the longest among these three colors, are missing. As you go down deeper, the same thing will happen to the yellow part and in the end to the blue part. Even at a place of about 6 to 9 meters underwater, you will look terrible, like a ghost! And you have to wait for your return to the surface to enjoy the bright colors again!
1. You miss the object underwater when you want to touch it because__________.| A．your eyesight is quite poor |
| B．you are not quick enough |
| C．it is not as close as it seems |
| D．it disappears very quickly |
| A．the size | B．the color | C．the position | D．the weight |
| A．A four-meter-long fish looks three meters long underwater. |
| B．The wavelengths of red light are longer than those of blue light. |
| C．Much water will be taken in by the swimmer deep in the water. |
| D．You will see a ghost if you go as deep as 6 to 9 meters into the sea. |
| A．The Standard of Color Underwater. |
| B．The Direction of Light Underwater. |
| C．The Rightness of Color Underwater. |
| D．The Behavior of Light Underwater. |
【推荐2】Senior high is a beginning of your great adventure. It is a time to challenge yourself to improve. Here are three seniors to share their secrets and advice with you.
| Wang Zanduo, 17, Hebei Independence is the most important. If you’re in a boarding school, you’ll need to quickly get used to living with other persons. We all know nobody is perfect. Getting along with others takes patience and understanding. Make new friends with common interests. It’s also a process of learning to manage your temper(脾气). Patience can help many problems. |
| Sun Xiuyuan, 16, Shandong To enjoy your high school life, I would say that you don’t want to stress yourself out. Senior years provide you with more chances to discover who you are and what you want to do in the future. I really enjoy after-school activities and community service. My experience of joining a computer programming club, as well as volunteering, has encouraged me to discover new areas and find more fun and w |
| Zhao Yuebei, 18, Hainan Senior year means a lot more work. Don’t worry! A very useful and important study method is the mind map, which helps organize information. It plays a key role especially in the review work. You can start by writing down a key point in the center, then related(相关的) points and ideas around it. I benefited a lot since this method forced me to review and organize all my knowledge. |
1. What is the most helpful in a boarding school according to Wang Zanduo?
| A．Being independent. | B．Being understanding. | C．Being perfect. |
| A．waste | B．warmth | C．wars |
| A．欣赏 | B．获益 | C．提到 |
| A．if you want to discover what job suits you in the future, just study harder |
| B．three seniors share their secrets and advice about the same topic |
| C．Zhao Yuebei is quite good at making mind maps |
| A．Social life. | B．Future job. | C．Student life. |
【推荐3】One thing my father did when I was young still remains fresh in my memory today.
My father was a carpenter, and he often helped others build houses. Every time he finished building a house, he would pick up the broken bricks and tiles that others didn’t need, either one or two. Sometimes when walking on the road and seeing bricks or stones on the side of the road, he would pick them up and put them in a basket to take them home. Over time, a mess of bricks appeared in our yard. I can’t figure out the usefulness of the things. I just felt that the small courtyard was left with no room for playing.
Until one day my father started to use these things to build a square room in a corner of the yard. Then my father drove the pigs and sheep that were raised in the open into the small house, and the yard was clean. Our house became the only one with a pig house in the yard in my village.
At that time, I just thought my father was great, and he built a house by himself. Because my family was so poor that it was almost a problem to eat, but my father did not give up, picking up bricks day after day, and finally one day he had enough bricks to build the house in his heart.
In the following days, the spirit of this thing has been inspiring me. When I do something, I usually ask myself two questions: One is what the goal of doing this thing is and the other is how much effort is needed to make this thing happen. After that, I must have enough patience, because I can’t pick up enough bricks in a day.
Word Bank carpenter木匠 brick 砖块 tile瓦片 inspire 激励 |
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. What’s the thing that remains fresh in the writer’s memory?
| A．The yard was in a mess. |
| B．His father enjoyed collecting waste. |
| C．His father often helped others build houses. |
| D．His father picked up lots of bricks to build a room. |
| A．Sad. | B．Happy. | C．Hopeful. | D．Tired. |
| A．算出 | B．断定 | C．谋取 | D．评估 |
| A．Because he could get money by selling them. | B．Because he was an example of his children. |
| C．Because other people wanted him to get them. | D．Because he wanted to build a pig room. |
| A．Better late than never. | B．Use is a second nature. |
| C．Rome was not built in a day. | D．A bird may be known by its song. |
