【推荐1】Is your TV connected to the Internet? What about your chair or your fridge? It is possible that they are not. But in the future, most things in your home may be connected, as the so-called “Internet of things” is developing.

The Internet of things may be coming sooner than you think. It is reported that during his speech earlier this year, Samsung CEO(首席执行官) BK Yoon spent a lot of time talking about the Internet of things. He said that five years from now, every Samsung product will be part of the Internet of things, whether it's a washing machine or a vacuum cleaner(吸尘器).

So, how do household(家用) objects that are part of Internet of things work? Well, think of a usual chair. When connected to the Internet, the chair warms up when it knows that the user has just walked into the room and is feeling cold. 

An Internet-connected camera, like a smart-home camera, could help people feel safer in their homes. It can recognize(识别) people’s faces, and even can see when someone passes by in the dark. Then it can send you a message on your smartphone to let you know who's there. If the person is someone you don't know, it can tell you that, too.

But according to MIT Technology Review, whether companies are connecting dog food bowls or security(安全) systems to the Internet, there may be problems. For example, many early connected-home devices(装置) don't have much built-in security, which means they could be hacked(被黑客攻击). In addition, it could be difficult to get these devices to work together because they are made by different companies. To fight this, many companies have joined the Open Interconnect Consortium, which had 45 members by late 2014.

So, picture this: you walk in through the front door of your home. The temperature changes to make you feel comfortable after a long day at school. Your favorite music starts playing for you. Do you think that this would be a good thing? It may happen sooner than you think.

1. The Samsung CEO's speech is mentioned to prove that _____.

A．the Internet of things will appear in our daily life sooner

B．Samsung has produced the Internet of things recently

C．Samsung products have been part of the Internet of things

D．he spent a lot of time talking about the Internet of things

2. We can infer(推断)from paragraphs 3 and 4 that ______.

A．the chair can know whether the user feels cold or not

B．a usual chair can warm up when it knows the user comes in

C．an Internet-connected camera can be used to take photos in the house

D．an Internet-connected camera can be connected to the user's smartphone

3. According to the passage, it is mentioned that _____.
① the temperature inside is neither too high nor too low
②your fridge provides the drinks for you
③ the chair warms up if you feel cold
④your favourite music starts playing
⑤your washing machine starts working

A．①②⑤

B．②③④

C．①③④

D．①④⑤

【推荐2】Dear Sarah in 2018，

This is a letter from the year 2050. I want to talk about the life in our age.

Life seems to go easy in 2050. Robots do most things for people, like working, cooking and cleaning. Toys teach and play with children. In such a way, parents will be able to spend more time with the kids and enjoy their own life.

However, that’s not everything. The weather is quite changeable. Sometimes, when you go outside on the street, it is raining hard. And all of sudden, it stops and the sun comes out. People easily get different diseases (疾病)in 2050, We can’t breathe（呼吸）in fresh air on the street because of the air pollution. Forests die because the water gets polluted. Animals die because they lost their homes, food and water. The whole environment is in great danger. Everyone has to pay to see real plants and animals in museums.

How does the world become like this? Well; technologies (科技)have developed too fast in the past 50 years. Some are bad for the earth and people. This is really a good lesson for people in your time. What are we going to do with the money and technologies if we don’t have our home? Please slow down and take time to think about technologies.

Yours truly,

Sarah in 2050

1. We can learn from the letter that in 2050_______________.

A．people will work for robots	B．people can’t cook any more
C．parents will have more free time

2. The weather in 2050______________.

A．is always rainy	B．hardly ever changes
C．can change a lot in a short time

3. What does the underlined word “age” mean according to the letter?

A．年龄

B．世界

C．时代

4. The writer hopes people in 2018 can_________________

A．slow down and think about technologies	B．make more money
C．stop using technologies

5. What is the letter mainly about? ____________________

A．What the weather will be like.	B．What life in 2050 will be like.
C．What people will do in 2050.

【推荐3】The future is coming! All over the world there are many new ideas for new places to live and work in. Some of them will be in the sea! They will be very big and lots of people will live and work in them. The Americans are planning to build a town called Atlantis City. It will be in the sea, about five miles away from the land. But the most exciting idea comes from Japan. It is Aeropolis. Aeropolis will be a____ sea city, with parks, schools, a hospital and an airport(飞机场)... And it will move(移动)! It will travel slowly around the world. There are just two problems. Aeropolis will cost a lot of money to make. And for people who get seasick, it won’t be much fun.
1. Which country will plan to build a town in the sea?

A．America.

B．England.

C．China.

D．Japan.

2. What’s the name of Japanese sea city?

A．Atlantis.

B．Aeropolis.

C．Tokyo.

D．Osaka.

3. What does the underlined word “huge” mean?

A．Very small.

B．Very long.

C．Very big.

D．Very short.

4. “Aeropolis will cost a lot of money to make” means “                ”.

A．Aeropolis will be very cheap to build

B．People will spend much money building Aeropolis

C．It will take little money to build Aeropolis

D．To build Aeropolis will cost little money