The opening of the Beijing—Zhangjiakou high-speed railway took place in December, 2019. The railway is a milestone in China’s railway development because it has used the latest technologies in railway building.
The railway is 174 kilometers long, with 10 stations. The stations are managed by one control center, which is described by China Railway Beijing Group — also known as CR Bejing — as an “intelligent (智能的) brain”. The center collects and shares the stations’ real-time information. “With the information, the workers in the center can control the stations’ lighting and temperature, monitor (监测) trains’ operation and deal with emergencies(紧急情况).” said Zhu Dianping, from CR Beiing.
Zhu said some trains on the Bejing—Zhangjiakou line are “smart” as they provide 5G signals and wireless charging (无线充电) for passengers, as well as intelligent lighting. These trains can start and stop, open and close doors, and deal with emergencies themselves.
All the ten stations provide e-ticket services. Travelers who have bought tickets online can use their ID cards instead of waiting in line for paper tickets.
At Qinghe Railway Station in Beijing, China’s first visual remote ticket vending machine (远程可视售票机) has been installed (安装) to help passengers who are not able to afford tickets online. Passengers keep in touch with the conductor through the machine and buy tickets according to video instructions.
In addition, the Badaling Great Wall Station, the deepest underground railway station in China, is another great example of the country’s achievements in railway building.
1. What does the word “milestone” mean in Chinese?| A．英石(重量单位) | B．垫脚石 | C．里程碑 | D．里程表 |
| A．CR Beijing | B．Railway Beijing Group | C．a railway station | D．an “intelligent brain” |
| A．Each station has a control center. |
| B．All the trains can start and stop themselves. |
| C．All the stations have visual remote ticket vending machines. |
| D．The Badaling Great Wall Station is the deepest underground railway station in China. |
| A．can buy cheaper tickets | B．needn’t wait in line for paper tickets |
| C．can only buy tickets online | D．can buy paper tickets |
| A．Fast and cheap. | B．Long and deep. | C．Smart and intelligent. | D．Expensive and steady. |
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【推荐1】In North America, most students usually go to school by school bus or subway. In small towns and cities, walking is still popular. The yellow school bus is very convenient (便利的) because it takes students right to the entrance (入口) to the school. Students can also talk with their friends on it. But the bus is slow and is not always on time. The subway runs quickly. However, it is expensive and can be very crowded sometimes. And the stops may be far away from the school, so students often have to walk or take a bus from the subway stop to the school. Walking is good exercise for those who live close to school. But it’s no fun if you have a large backpack full of books to carry. It’s also unpleasant if (如果) the weather is either too hot or cold or wet.
1. In North America, most students usually go to school by ________.| A．school bus or subway | B．car or bicycle |
| C．taxi or car | D．boat or car |
| A．too expensive | B．slow and sometimes late |
| C．crowded and dirty | D．fast and big |
| A．close to | B．busy for | C．far away from | D．across from |
| A．令人不讨厌的 | B．令人不愉快的 | C．不健康的 | D．令人不忧郁的 |
| A．transportation (交通) | B．students | C．schools | D．subway |
【推荐2】More and more people like bicycling and it is no surprise. It is fun, healthy and good for the environment.
Get on a bicycle and ride around your neighbourhood.
Health Advantages of Bicycling:
It helps people prevent heart diseases.
Bicycling helps you control your weight.
A 15-minute bike ride to and from work three times a week burns off five kilos of fat in a year.
Bicycling can improve your mood.
Exercise like bicycling makes people feel better and more relaxed.
However, in developed countries, most people don’t go to work by bike. It’s not because bicycles are expensive or people feel tired when they ride to work. It’s because there’s more and more cars on the roads. It certainly becomes more dangerous to ride a bicycle.
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| A．But be sure to look for information by getting on airline websites. |
| B．As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work in their cars instead. |
| C．Maybe that’s why the bicycles are much more than the cars on roads all over the world today. |
| D．You can do the same on a plane. |
| E．You may find something new all around you. |
Guiyang is a very big city with more than 6,200,000 people by the end of 2023. How do so many people go to work or school? Let me tell you something about their transportation.
In Guiyang, you can travel around the city by bus, taxi, car and subway. The subway runs on the railways under the ground.
The second way to travel around the city is by bus.
| A．It is a beautiful city. |
| B．People here like taking it. |
| C．It is a slow way to travel. |
| D．This way needs much money. |
| E．The last way to get around Guiyang is by car. |
| F．There are not many cars in the street at this time. |
【推荐1】Are you worried if you go out without bringing some cash (现金)?
People in China use epayment services (服务) from Alipay, WeChat Pay and Apple Pay.
根据短文内容，从下列选项中选出能填入文中空白处的最佳选项，选项中有一项为多余选项。
| A．Among them, WeChat Pay is the most popular. |
| B．The most common way of epayment is by using QR codes (二维码). |
| C．It is very useful to the Chinese tourists in these places. |
| D．WeChat Pay rival Alipay has also made recent moves in Europe. |
| E．In the past, you might answer yes. |
| F．WeChat Pay has even gone to foreign countries. |
【推荐2】Here is a useful computer game. Let me tell you how to play it. The game is called Draw Something. It needs two players to work together. One draws a picture and the other guesses what it is.
The game gives you three words each time. Then you choose one to draw. Some are easy and others are difficult. For example, it is much easier to draw a moon than a cat. If your partner guesses the word correctly, you will get one to three “coins”. Coins are very useful. The more you guess the pictures, the more coins you will get. If you can’t draw any of the words, you can use a “bomb” (炸弹) to get three new words. Of course, the bombs are not free. You need to buy them with the coins.
This game can help you remember English words and practice drawing pictures. But you’d better not spend too much time on it. It will be bad for your eyes.
1. The computer game Draw Something needs ________ players to work together.| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
| A．pictures | B．coins | C．English words | D．bombs |
| A．guess the number of coins | B．remember English words |
| C．practice talking about pictures | D．spend too much time on it |
【推荐3】The World Wide Web has so much great stuff to see. So how do you discover the best place to visit on your Web travels?
One solution is to take an E-Tour. On this handy site, you simply register your interests, and the fun begins. It's a lot like channel surfing with the remote control on your TV. Each click of the“next site” button brings a new site, matched to your interests.
New sites are added every day—ones you probably never knew existed—so no two guided tours are the same. And of course, E-Tour is free.
It's been called one of the most useful websites on the Internet. But be careful. It's also been called one of the most addictive(易上瘾的)!
For your personal Web tour, go to www.E-Tour.com.
1. The passage is talking about ________.| A．channel surfing on the Net | B．solution | C．E-Tour | D．remote control |
| A．The World Web Wide. | B．The World Wide Web. |
| C．The Web World Wide. | D．The Wide Web World. |
| A．It's to take an E-Tour. | B．It's to control TV. |
| C．It's to add new sites. | D．It's to travel. |
| A．It brings a new site, matched to your interests. |
| B．It brings nothing. |
| C．It brings an old site. |
| D．It brings some interesting things. |
| A．E-Tour is free. | B．E-Tour is useful. |
| C．E-Tour is addictive. | D．E-Tour is not interesting. |
【推荐1】Nowadays, school buses are popular in China. Many students take a school bus to school. It looks like a tourist bus. The undergrounds and common (普通的) buses often take much time. But school buses can save a lot of time. How do children go to school in other countries?
In the US, yellow school buses are a common way for children to go to school. There are about 480,000 school buses in the country. But why are the school buses all yellow? Yellow became the color of school buses in 1939. American educator (教育家) Frank W. Cyr first suggested (建议) it. The color on the buses helped warn other cars: be careful. Black letters on a yellow bus are also easy to see in the early morning.
However, there are not many school buses in the UK. Students from public schools usually take buses or the underground to school. In Japan, schools are not far in cities. So there is no need to use school buses. Children usually walk to school.
1. According to the passage, a lot of students in China take ________ to school.| A．undergrounds | B．common buses | C．school buses | D．special cars |
| A．bus | B．school | C．black | D．yellow |
| A．Japanese | B．Chinese | C．American | D．English |
| A．School buses are popular in Japan. |
| B．Letters on a yellow bus are black and easy to see. |
| C．A school bus in the US looks like an underground. |
| D．Many students in the UK take school buses to school. |
【推荐2】When we hear the word shark, many people think of the great white shark. However, there is another shark I find interesting.
This shark is the hammerhead shark (锤头鲨). The hammerhead sharks are a group of sharks with flat (扁平的) hammer-shaped heads. It makes them so interesting, so they are called the hammerhead sharks. Actually there are nine different kinds of hammerhead sharks. The smallest is about three feet long. The largest hammerhead shark can grow to nearly 20 feet. They have an eye on each end of the “hammer”. It is good for them to look for food. Like all sharks, the hammerhead sharks have a great sense of smell. When a shark picks up the smell of its food, it can follow the smell for many miles until it finds its meal.
Most fish lay eggs, but sharks’ young ones are born alive. Mother hammerhead sharks give birth to as many as 40 or 50 young ones.
During the day, hammerhead sharks swim in the sea. At night, they usually look for food alone. Of the nine known types of hammerheads, only three can be dangerous to humans. The great hammerhead shark is among the most terrible fishes in the ocean. Even though they can be very dangerous animals, there have been less than 50 known hammerhead attacks (攻击) on humans. Still, I wouldn’t want to swim with one!
Care has grown these years about the number of some types of hammerhead sharks. One reason why they have become fewer is overfishing.
1. The writer thinks the hammerhead sharks are interesting because of ________.| A．the flat hammer-shaped heads | B．the great sense of smell |
| C．a large number of births | D．the length of bodies |
| A．Seven. | B．Eight. | C．Nine. | D．Ten. |
| A．In the morning. | B．At noon. | C．In the afternoon. | D．At night. |
| A．to show the reason of writing the passage |
| B．to encourage us to protect the sharks |
| C．to show the reason for hammerhead sharks’ becoming fewer |
| D．to show the number of hammerhead sharks |
| A．The terrible sharks—the white sharks |
| B．Different kinds of sharks |
| C．The differences between the white sharks and hammerhead sharks |
| D．Interesting sharks—the hammerhead sharks |
| Finally, you finish all your schoolwork and sit back in your chair. Suddenly you feel a headache and realize your eyes are painful. What’s going on? Doctors say that many students are spending too much time in front of screens, especially during online classes. The following might be of some help to you. | |
| THE 20-20-20 RULE This gives your eyes a break from long screen time. It suggests looking at something at least 20 feet away for 20 seconds after 20 minutes of work on the screen. You can then continue working pain-free. | Studies show that people blink (眨眼睛) less often when looking at a screen. Keep your eyes wet by blinking often or using eye drops. |
| Sit up straight about an arm’s length (长度) away from the screen. Make sure you’re looking down at your screen. Stand up and exercise often to avoid (避免) neck and shoulder pain. | |
| What about blue light blocking glasses (防蓝光眼镜)? They may look cool, but research shows that blue light isn’t the biggest cause of eye tiredness. So ask doctors about computer glasses before putting them on. | |
1. What are the key words in the 20-20-20 rule?
| A．20 minutes, 20 feet, 20 times. |
| B．20 feet, 20 seconds, 20 minutes. |
| C．20 seconds, 20 times, 20 feet. |
| D．20 times, 20 minutes, 20 seconds. |
| A．The reasons for keeping one’s eyes wet. |
| B．The ways to avoid neck and shoulder pain. |
| C．The importance of computer glasses. |
| D．The suggestions about eye protection. |
| A．Sports. | B．Culture. | C．Health. | D．Travel. |
I just moved into a new house last month. The thing I like best about it is that it’s mine! But because it’s on the first floor, days ago I saw a mouse in my house. What should I do? I don’t want to live with a mouse.
I don’t like my house at all. It’s too small for my family. What’s worse, my neighbors often make a loud noise in the neighborhood (四邻). There are lots of kids here but they aren’t at my age.
My house is clean and bright. My family live in it comfortably. There are three bedrooms in my house. What I don’t like is that all the houses in the neighborhood look the same.
I love my house because I designed(设计) it myself. I planned everything to fit my needs. For example, my kitchen is big enough to cook a big dinner. What’s the worst thing? Well, the house is not a new one.
1. There’s a _________ in Amy’s new house.| A．bird | B．cat | C．mouse |
| A．it’s too old | B．his neighbors are noisy | C．there are no kids |
| A．comfortable | B．common | C．expensive |
| A．cooking | B．reading | C．running |
| A．when they moved to the houses |
| B．how much they spent on the houses |
| C．what they don’t like about their houses |
【推荐2】China is a country with many colorful days and festivals. The Dragon Head Raising Day (龙抬头) is one of them.
This special day is on the second day of the second month in the Chinese lunar calendar (农历). It is the start of spring and farming. This year, the day fell on March 8th.
The dragon is important in Chinese culture. We Chinese people call ourselves the “descend-ants (传人) of the dragon”. Therefor, people celebrate the Dragon Head Raising Day with many customs about dragons.
On the day in ancient times, people put ashes (灰) in the kitchen. This was “to lead the dragon into the house”. People believed that with the help of the dragon, they could have a good harvest (收获) in autumn.
Also, people eat special foods on that day. The foods are usually named after dragons. For example, people eat “dragon whisker (细须)” noodles and dumplings
Today many customs have been dead. But one that has remained is the cutting of hair. It was said that a haircut during the first lunar month may bring bad luck to the mother’s brothers.
根据短文内容，判断下列各句正（T）误（F）。
1. The Dragon Head Raising Day is one of the Chinese festivals.
2. February 2nd was the Dragon Head Raising Day this year.
3. On the day in ancient times, people put ashes (灰) in the kitchen.
4. One custom that has remained is to eat moon-cakes.
5. You’d better not cut your hair before the Dragon Head Raising Day if you have uncle(s).
【推荐3】A good way to pass an exam is to work hard every day in a year. You may fail in an exam if you are lazy for most of the year and then work hard for only a few days before the exam. If you want to be good at English, you have to read stories in English, and speak English as much as possible. A few days before the exam, you should go to bed early. Don't go to bed late at night. Before you start answering in the exam, read carefully over the question papers, and try to understand the meaning of each question. When you finish your exam, read over your answers. Correct(改正)the mistakes if there are some and be sure that you don't miss anything out.
1. If people want to do well in an exam, they have to work hard ________.| A．late at night |
| B．for most of the month |
| C．for only a few days |
| D．every day in a year |
| A．stand up and leave at once |
| B．answer a few more questions |
| C．make sure that they don't miss anything out |
| D．leave some mistakes on the question papers |
| A．An Important Exam |
| B．An Easy Exam |
| C．The Importance of English |
| D．Get Ready for an Exam |
