The Internet is changing the way we see the world — from news to shopping. Will the Internet give everyone the same chance to get the messages, or further divide those who know from those who don't?
The Internet has taken much business from traditional markets. People can go online and find out what has happened in the last few hours, and for free, too! They can buy almost everything at a lower price on the Internet. So some people worry that the Internet will take away their jobs.
The Internet opens interesting possibilities for more choices. People can start their own business through Vlog (video blog). Li Ziqi, a famous Internet celebrity (名人), recorded her cooking and posted the videos on the Internet. Her story is so well-received in the West that foreigners even buy knives of the same model from Taobao.com.
Though the Internet brings chances, sometimes it can hurt people. Whether the Internet is right or wrong, it is here to stay. We should make use of the Internet in a proper way. This will provide a healthy environment for Internet safety.
1. The Internet has taken little business from traditional markets.2. The Internet can't tell people what has happened in the last few hours.
3. The Internet brings more choices.
4. Li Ziqi' story is popular in the West.
5. Using the Internet properly will promise Internet safety.
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【推荐1】My name is Li Ming. I m a junior high school student in Guangzhou. I am glad to see some great changes in Guangzhou in recent years.
Firstly, the Internet makes people’s lives easier. If we need to buy our own class uniforms for some activities at school, we can not only have many choices from the Internet, but also order the fashionable and cheap ones from it. Sometimes my parents are very busy with their jobs, so they don’t have the mobile phone to help me order lunch on the App Meituan. I can enjoy my delicious lunch as soon as I get home.
Besides, more and more people pay attention to the environment. The river near my house used to be dirty and smelly. But last year, it was cleaned up and trees were planted on either side.
Lastly, the high technology (科技) makes people’s lives more enjoyable. For example, at the weekend, my family always go to some places that we like by underground or shared bike. It’s much easier for us to go outside now. It becomes less polluted in this way.
All in all, we live a happy life in Guangzhou.
1. Li Ming is a ______ student in Guangzhou.| A．primary school | B．junior high school |
| C．senior high school | D．university |
| A．the job | B．the river | C．the school | D．the Internet |
| A．One | B．Two | C．Three | D．Four |
| A．The river near Li Ming’s house was dirty and smelly in the past. |
| B．Students in Li Ming’s class can buy class uniforms from the Internet. |
| C．Li Ming’s family always go outside by underground or shared bike at the weekend. |
| D．If Li Ming’s parents are very busy with their jobs, Li Ming cooks lunch himself. |
| A．Li Ming’s School Life |
| B．Great Changes in Guangzhou |
| C．Internet Makes Life Easier |
| D．High Technology in Daily Life |
【推荐2】Bill is only fifteen years old, but he’s already very rich. Two years ago, Bill began a football website called"Football OK!" for young people and now more than 20,000 people visit it every day. "I became interested in computers when I was 8 years old because my father's job is with computers. As a little boy, I also loved football and so I decided to make a website, especially for people of my age.”
Bill is a schoolboy and a businessman as well. He usually gets up at six o’clock and looks at his e-mails. Then he goes to school from nine in the morning to four in the afternoon in the evenings, he always works for about four hours on his website.
Bill's next plan is a new website. "At the moment I am thinking about a new website on American football, maybe for next year.”
And is Bill the same person that he was three years ago? "No, I am very different now. I have met a lot of interesting people on the website and I have traveled all over the world. " Bill doesn't know about the future."Maybe I will sell the websites. I really don't know. I'll just wait and see.” When he is 21, Bill will be a millionaire(百万富翁). He always says, “Anything is possible!”
1. Bill became interested in computers at the age of .| A．six | B．eight | C．thirteen | D．fifteen |
| A．a website | B．a computer game |
| C．a millionaire | D．a young businessman |
| A．reading the e-mails | B．talking with the visitors |
| C．studying at school | D．planning his new website |
| A．Bill will stop travelling | B．Bill is smart and rich |
| C．Bill will play American football | D．Bill is sure of his future |
| A．Bill’s School Life | B．How to Make a Website |
| C．Bill’s Future Work | D．A Schoolboy and Businessman |
【推荐3】Q and A Today：the Internet
We asked two teenagers from the U.S. about what they think of the Internet. Here are their answers.
| Question 1：How often do you use the Internet, and what for? | |
Linda | I use it every day. I have a lot of online friends. I have my own blog. It's exciting. If we didn't have the Internet, life would be really boring. |
Brett | I use it a lot, too. I surf the Internet about twice a day. I have my own web page. I write about my hobbies and interests on it. And I love getting mail from other people. |
| Question 2：What website do you think is the best? | |
Linda | Agirlsworld.com! I like it because it gives girls advice on what to do in different situations, and there's also something interesting to read. I can find new books every week. |
Brett | Honestly, I don't know what to say. I have visited so many websites. There surely isn't just one website that I would recommend. |
| Question 3：If you were offered a job in computing, would you take it? | |
Linda | I'm not sure. You can meet lots of people on the web, and there are cool games, but I'd like to meet real people in my job. So maybe I will be the manager of a big Internet company. |
Brett | Sure. If I had the chance, I'd like to work as a web designer. I love designing and I like creating my own things. |
| A．Every day. | B．Twice a day. | C．Once a week. | D．Four times a week. |
| A．make friends | B．play games | C．send mail | D．get advice |
| A．a manager | B．a teacher | C．a web designer | D．a computer programmer |
www.e-tutor.co.uk/forum
| Hi! I’m E-tutor, or Emma. I’m here to help with any study problems, whether big or small. |
9:42 am | What should I say to my sister? Hi, E-tutor. Unluckily, I share a bedroom and a desk with my elder sister. She’s noisy and disorganized. I will have exams next week and I really need to review. I can’t concentrate when she’s studying too. And she puts her things everywhere on the desk so I can’t find anything. If I try to talk with my sister, she gets mad. Can you help? |
| Re: What should I say to my sister? Hi, Meg. That’s a common problem between sisters. Why don’t you set up a time so that you can use the desk at different times? Make sure each of you has space for your things. If everything has its own place, it will be easier to keep orderly. It might even be enjoyable to do this together. It’s easier to write instead of talking face to face, try messaging her and explain how awful you feel. |
| Disaster My problem is silly and a bit embarrassing. I just find it hard to study. I always stop and start and I keep thinking that I’m learning the wrong things. I’m a disaster. |
| Re: Disaster Hayley, your problem isn’t silly at all! It’s very real and lots of people experience the same thing. Things might improve if you set up a group to study together. Take turns to teach others what you know. It’s called “peer teaching” and is a useful practice for lots of students. |
1. Meg thinks her sister is ________.
| A．unlucky | B．noisy | C．mad |
| A．her sister puts them away |
| B．her sister refuses to talk with her |
| C．her sister’s things are everywhere |
| A．study with her sister |
| B．talk with her sister face to face |
| C．write to her sister and explain her feeling |
| A．studying with a group |
| B．working with lots of people |
| C．learning from experienced people |
| A．tidying the room |
| B．solving the problem of study |
| C．improving relationships between sisters |
【推荐2】Day Zero is a topic you might hear in a Hollywood disaster film, but in Australian towns influenced by drought (干旱), Day Zero comes when the government finally shut down the local water supply after years of drought. To some Australian towns under The Big Dry, that day arrived earlier in the last year.
Australia is not the only country that has such water problems. More water is used all over the world and drought happens more often and lasts for longer time. Australia, South Africa and India are all influenced seriously. According to the UN, more than four billion people don't have enough water for at least one month a year because of the world's rising population in cities and a warmer climate. And the problem will be even worse in the coming years.
There are too many dry rivers in Australian towns now. In New South Wales, the 32 months from January 2017 to August 2019 were the driest on record. The situation is so serious that in August 2019, the government prepared to spend ten million dollars saving fish. The year before that they had relaxed rules for shooting kangaroos because increasing numbers of kangaroos came to farmland to look for water and food.
It happened on Monday 13 January 2020. The water ran out in Stanthorpe. To satisfy the water needs in town, trucks carried water from another dam (水坝) near Warwick every day, which cost $800,000 a month. But this couldn't solve the problem.
"This is the worst drought on record," said Tracy Dobie, who has been Mayor of the Southern Downs Region since 2016. "When you see a blue sky without clouds, dry land, and dead plants, it is hard to be positive."
Scientists are trying to find ways to solve the problem, developing new technologies that could get drinking water from even the world's driest water taps.
1. Drought happened mainly because ____________.| A．the government shut down water supply |
| B．the government didn't store enough water in dams |
| C．serious pollution leads to drought all over the world |
| D．increasing population and warmer climate costs more water |
① Protect kangaroos from being killed.
② Carry water in trucks to places in need.
③ Help to save fish in rivers from dying.
④ Look for more water in farmland.
| A．②③ | B．②④ | C．①②③ | D．②③④ |
| A．scientists have found ways to solve the problem |
| B．the water problem will be less serious next year |
| C．Australia has the most serious water problem in the world |
| D．Stanthorpe is still in drought though much money is spent |
| A．Day Zero | B．Saving water |
| C．Drought in Australia | D．Why drought happened |
【推荐3】“I’m worried that one day, we won’t have any food,” a boy said in a video. This boy is in poverty (贫穷), but he lives in London, UK, and there are 700,000 children in the city just like him, said The Childhood Trust, a London child poverty charity. More than 1 in 5 children live in poverty in some of the world’s richest countries, said a United Nations Children’s Fund(UNICEF) report in December.
Why is this? Over the last few years, the COVID-19 pandemic (疫情) and the Russia-Ukraine conflict (俄乌冲突) have led to food and energy prices rising very fast in Europe. For parents with low incomes (收入), they need to spend more money on these things. Some of them can’t even buy enough food. Children in poverty start with not having a warm place to live. They have to often move from place to place with their parents.
Also, some children are more likely to face poverty than others. According to the Big Issue magazine, about 47 percent of children in Asian families and 53 percent of children in African families are in poverty. But for children in white families in the UK, the number is just 25 percent.
Besides, according to the UNICEF report, poor children may have shorter lives. Their lives may be eight to nine years shorter than those of children born in rich areas.
Researchers also looked into children’s lives from 2014 to 2021 in 40 countries and regions. They found that there were still over 69,000,000 children living in poor families by the end of 2021. Surprisingly, the number of poor children in five of the richest countries in the world - the UK, France, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland - increased the most.
1. What does the video show?| A．The UK becomes a poor country now. | B．The rich children want to leave London. |
| C．The poor children live happily in the UK. | D．There are many poor children in the UK. |
① lower incomes of each family
② problems in food safety
③ rising food and energy prices
④ conflicts in their motherland
⑤ high housing prices
| A．①③④ | B．①④⑤ | C．②③④ | D．②③⑤ |
| A．The richer the country is, the richer the children are. |
| B．The year 2021 saw the highest number of poor children. |
| C．There were 69,000,000 poor families in the UK in 2021. |
| D．The number of poor children increased in some rich countries. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．Children in Poor Countries. | B．Children in Poverty. |
| C．Children’s Lives in the UK. | D．Rich Families around the World. |
【推荐1】In Britain, Boxing Day is usually celebrated on December 26th, which is the following day after Christmas Day.
However, strictly speaking, Boxing Day is the first weekday after Christmas. Like Christmas Day, Boxing Day is a public holiday. This means it’s a non-working day in the whole of Britain. When Boxing Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the following Monday is the public holiday.
The exact origin(起源)of the holiday is unclear. One of the thoughts is that during the Middle Ages, when great sailing ships were setting off to discover new land, a Christmas Box was placed by a priest(神父)on each ship. Those sailors who wanted to ensure a safe return would drop money into the box. It was sealed up and kept on board until the ship came home safely. Then the box was handed over to the priest in the exchange for the saying of a Mass of thanks for the success of the sailing. The priest wouldn’t open it to share the contents with the poor until Christmas.
One more thought is about the“Alms Box”placed in every church on Christmas Day. Worshippers(做礼拜的人)put gifts for the poor into it. These boxes were always opened the day after Christmas, that is why that day became known as Boxing Day.
Today, many businesses, organizations and families try to keep the traditional spirit of Boxing Day alive by donating(捐赠)their time, services and money to aid Food Banks, providing gifts for the poor, or helping families in need. Besides, spending time with family and shopping are popular Boxing Day activities now.
1. Sailors dropped money into the Christmas box in order to ________.| A．save the poor | B．pray for the priest | C．discover new land | D．pray for sailing safely |
| A．December 25th | B．December 26th | C．December 27th | D．December 28th |
| A．spending time with family | B．supporting families in need |
| C．offering gifts to the poor | D．giving money to food banks |
| A．归还 | B．悬挂 | C．密封 | D．传递 |
| A．to praise the kindness of priests |
| B．to introduce the origin of Boxing Day |
| C．to call on people to help the poor |
| D．to compare Boxing Day with Christmas Day |
【推荐2】You may know the English letters A, B and C. But do you know there are people called ABCs? Do you know there is such a thing as “a banana person”? How strange! An ABC is a Chinese, but was born in the United States. Sometimes, people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So, when a person is a banana, he or she is white inside-thinking like a Westerner and yellow outside-looking like a Chinese．
Usually, ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them don’t speak Chinese. But if ABCs cannot speak Chinese, can we still call them Chinese people? Yes, of course. They are overseas（海外的）Chinese. These people may be citizens（公民）of another country like the US, Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair.
But they are not Chinese citizens. They are people of the People’s Republic of China. For example, we all know the famous scientist C. N. Yang（杨振宁）. He got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.
1. “ABCs” in this passage means .| A．three English letters |
| B．a kind of banana |
| C．Chinese born in America |
| D．Americans born in China |
| A．洪水 | B．祖先 | C．身份 | D．血统 |
| A．different kind of bananas |
| B．the life story of C．N．Yang |
| C． the Noble Prize |
| D．overseas Chinese |
| A. Golf B. Tennis C. Football D. Basketball E. Table tennis F. Volleyball |
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. If you want to go from the Public Library to City Center, you can take Bus ________.
| A．No. 4 | B．No. 5 | C．No. 3 | D．No. 10 |
| A．south | B．east | C．north | D．west |
| A．Great Lake and the Beihai Park | B．the Football Club |
| C．the History Museum | D．the Red Star Cinema |
| A．People’ s Hospital | B．Teachers’ College |
| C．the Public Library | D．May Airport |
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
Adult（成年的）drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programs are music.
Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the money from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.
There are other kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk（民间）music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music.
1. _______ kinds of music are mentioned in this passage.
| A．Two | B．Three | C．Four | D．Five |
| A．make much money |
| B．make a CD or tape |
| C．are loved by all the young people |
| D．are wanted to sing on the radio |
| A．common life of Americans |
| B．country life and love stories |
| C．life of cowboys |
| D．school life in America |
| A．Most students in America like popular music. |
| B．Students with cars in America like to listen to music while driving. |
| C．Adult drivers in America listen to music all the time while driving. |
| D．Everyone in America wants to meet pop singers wherever they go. |
| A．American Music | B．Popular Music |
| C．History of Music | D．Western Music |
【推荐3】About thirty years ago, China was known as the “Bicycle Kingdom”. But the two-wheeled way of transportation became less and less popular later.
But these months you can see a revival(复兴) of bikes across China. More and more people choose to ride bikes instead of driving to schools, workplaces or parks. Some start-up companies（新兴公司） like Ofo and Mobike came up with the bike-sharing plans. They have brought the plans to people’s daily life and developed it to a new level.
Unlike other sharing plans around the world, China’s bicycles can be picked up and left anywhere. The bicycles are locked by the user after riding and then unlocked by the next rider by using a mobile APP and scanning(扫描)a QR code on the bike.
People can unlock the shared bikes by simply using their smartphones. The bikes have GPS and can be left anywhere in public for the next user. They’re popular among many Chinese people as they provide a good solution to the “last mile” problem, which means the final leg of a person’s journey.
China’s government praised Mobike and Ofo last month. They said that bike-sharing was a good way of cutting air pollution and traffic pressure.
根据短文内容，判断正(T)误(F)。1. China is always known as “Bicycle Kingdom”.
2. These months more and more people like to ride bikes to school or work instead of driving.
3. Just like other countries, China’s bikes can also be picked up and left anywhere.
4. The shared bikes are only popular among young people.
5. Shared bikes are helpful for solving the “last mile” problem.
