How has technology made your life easier? When you go to a shopping mall, you can enjoy free WiFi there. When you want to take a taxi, you can order one with your phone. In fact, all of these things can be seen as the first step of a smart city.
The idea of a smart city was first suggested by a tech company, IBM in 2010. A smart city is a city that uses digital (电子的) technology, like 5G networks, to save money, resources (资源) and make our lives more convenient.
Cities like Boston and Amsterdam are already using smart technology to improve public services. In Boston, smart trash bins (垃圾箱) can be seen everywhere. When the trash bins are almost full, they can ring loudly to remind cleaners to clean them.
Smart cities will allow us to save resources. Computers and 5G networks help check water, gas pipes. In this way, they could easily remind workers to repair them when there is a leak (泄露) in.
Of course, it will take time to build the smart cities of the future. But since we’ve already seen successful examples, it won’t be long until more cities join in. By 2050, about 60% of people will live in smart cities.
1. What can you do if you want to order taxis according to the passage?We can order taxis
2. What are the advantages of the digital technology according to the second paragraph?
It can help us
3. How can smart trash bins remind cleaners when they are almost full?
They can remind cleaners by
4. What does the underlined word “them” refer to in the fourth paragraph?
It refers to
5. What can we learn from this passage?
Technology can make our life
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There are a lot of plants in the world. Plants are very important. This is because plants can make food for us from air, water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals can get their food by eating plants and other animals. Man gets his food by eating plants and animals, too. So animals and man need plants in order to(为了) live. This is why there are so many plants around us.
There are two kinds of plants: flowering plants and non-flowering plants. Almost all the trees around us are flowering plants. You can know some trees from their flowers and fruit. Non-flowering plants do not grow flowers. You cannot see many non-flowering plants around you.
Look carefully at the plants around you, and you can find there are many kinds of plants. Some plants are large and some are small. Most of them are green. Thanks to the plants around us, we can live on earth.
1. Why are plants very important?2. Can we make food from air, water and sunlight?
3. How many kinds of plants are there according to the passage?
4. What color are most of the plants?
5. What’s the passage mainly about?
Wukong, Tiangong, Tianwen… Do you know where the names of Chinese space programs come from?
Wukong, the Dark Matter Particle explorer satellite (暗物质粒子探测卫星), is named after Chinese superhero Monkey King. According to Journey to the West, Monkey King has a pair of sharp (敏锐的) eyes which can tell the difference between good and evil. The Wukong satellite is just as sharp-eyed as Monkey King to help scientists search for dark matter in space.
Tiangong, the name of the space station, means “Heavenly Palace”. In Chinese traditional folk stories, this is the home of Tian Di. Now Tiangong Space Station is a home for Chinese astronauts in space. And China welcomes foreign astronauts to Tiangong so that they can work together.
Tianwen, China’s Mars missions (火星任务), gets its name from the poem Tianwen by Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan is a well-known poet from ancient China. In Tianwen, he raised questions about the sky, stars, nature, myths and the real world, showing his hunger for truth. Perhaps the Tianwen missions will end up answering some of Qu Yuan’s questions. If you look into more names of Chinese space programs, you will find that they all have beautiful meanings. We, the Chinese people, have a long-cherished (珍藏已久的) space dream. So the naming of Chinese space programs is taken very seriously.
1. How many Chinese space programs are mentioned in this passage? (不超过3个单词)2. Where do Chinese astronauts live when they are in space? (不超过6个单词)
3. What are China’s Mars missions named after? (不超过10个单词)
4. 请将文中画线的句子翻译成汉语。
5. 请给短文拟一个适当的英文标题。
The hot pot(火锅) is one of the most popular meals in China. It has a long history of about 2,000 years. It used to be eaten in winter, but now it appears on tables all year round.
Apart from(除……之外) its delicious taste, there are two other important reasons for the Chinese to like the hot pot. The first one is that the hot pot is a great way to make new friends. People sit around the pot, talking, eating, drinking and having fun. The other is that the hot pot is a “healthy meal”. 吃火锅能暖身。And it can improve the blood movement in winter.
There are several kinds of hot pots in China with different soup. Two of the most popular hot pots are Sichuan hot pot and Beijing mutton hot pot.
Sichuan hot pot is famous for its numbing and spicy(又麻又辣的) taste because of Sichuan pepper. As for Beijing mutton hot pot, mutton is its main part.
When you eat a hot pot in a restaurant, there are usually two kinds of soup base(锅底): clear and spicy. A clear soup base has a quite mild(温和的) taste, which is made from seafood or meat bones. A spicy soup base usually has Sichuan pepper, which is spicy and salty.
If you have a mixed group, a double-flavor hot pot(鸳鸯锅) is a must. It has a clear soup base on one side, a spicy soup base on the other and a divider in the middle.
根据短文内容用简要答语回答下面三个问题。
1. When did the hot pot appear in Chinese history?
2. What kinds of hot pots do Chinese people love most?
3. Do you like the clear soup base or the spicy soup base? Why?
4. 将短文中划线的句子翻译成中文。
5. 将短文中划线的句子翻译成英文。
【推荐1】US company Motorola created the first cell phone in 1973. The brick-sized phone could only make calls for 30 minutes. Today, we have 5G smartphones that look very different and can do a lot more. What will the future phones be like?
Most foldable (可折叠的) phones today can only fold the screen up and down or left and right. But in the future, phones will be much more flexible (灵活的). In October 2023, Motorola put out a new phone. People can wear it like a bracelet (手环) and bend it into different shapes. Apple is also working on a way to make foldable screens with fewer creases.
Not only will the phones become flexible, but they will also be able to fix themselves. Professor Zhenan Bao from Stanford University made an electronic skin that can fix itself with heat and magnets (磁). This skin acts like human skin, stretching (拉伸) without tearing (撕破). If it is used to make phones, the technology could lead to devices that could fix scratches (划痕) by themselves.
People will also power phones in ways that are different from now. For example, using solar energy. In 2016, Kyocera Corporation from Japan and French company Sun Partner Technologies made a phone with solar panels (电池板) in the screen. It takes only three minutes to charge. But it still needs traditional batteries (电池). In the future, faster and independent solar charging could make solar-powered phones more popular.
1. When did Motorola company put out a new phone?2. How long could the first Motorola phone make calls?
3. What can an electronic skin do on a cell phone?
4. What will make solar-powered phones more popular in the future?
5. What the future phone may be like according to latest designs?
For convenience, plenty of people prefer having a takeaway to cooking at home. Now there is an app through which people can enjoy delicious and cheap takeaway food.
Too Good To Go, an app (程序) being used in the UK, allows users to order leftover (剩余的) food at a low price from restaurants. The purpose is to reduce food waste, as lots of restaurants usually throw away the food that can still be eaten at the end of the day.
Users just need to pick a restaurant and pay through the app. Then they pick up their food at planned times usually around closing time or after peak (高峰期的) meal times.
3.“Food waste is one of the biggest problems we have in this world.” one creator of the app said. “The restaurant industry is wasting about 600,000 tons of food each year.” By the end of August, Too Good To Go had helped save about 600 meals in the UK.
4.Users also have the chance to give meals to people who are in need. They usually pay one pound (英镑) or more through the app to help them. By the end of August, more than 1,100 meals had been donated (捐赠).
Too Good To Go isn’t the first app to try to deal with food waste. In Spain, the Yo No Desperdicio app allows people to exchange leftover food with each other. In the US, the Food Cowboy app allows food shops to sell “ugly vegetables” that most customers don’t buy to charities and food banks that need them.
1—2题根据短文内容回答下列问题；3—4题将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。5题请给短文拟一个适当的英文标题。
1. How many apps are mentioned in the passage? List them all.
2. Choose your favorite app and give your reason(s) why you like it.
3.
4.
5.
Many space-lovers dream of traveling into space, but it costs too much to make that dream come true. Luckily, here is a chance for people who love exploring space. An unusual new reality TV show called Space Hero is in the works.
Space Hero must be popular and attractive because it will be the world’s first reality show in space. It will send a lucky winner to the International Space Station ISS who can stay there for ten days. According to the show creators (创建者), a seat for the winner has already been booked with the NASA on spaceship.
How will the show work? The plan of the show is to first pick a group of space-lovers from around the world. The show is open to anyone who is older than 18. “We’re opening space to everyone, not only to astronauts and rich people”, one of the creators said. Twelve men and twelve women will be picked. And then the contestants (参赛者)will be taken to a “Space Village” to take part in hard space training for the final trip.
In the end, the people who watch the show can choose their favorite person to be sent to space. When the winner has been picked, the show will follow that lucky person’s journey and film during the whole time. The creators of Space Hero hope the show will encourage(鼓励)interest in space travel.
1. What is the world’s first reality show in space?2. How long can the lucky winner stay in ISS?
3. Is everyone open to the reality show?
4. Who will decide on the winner of the show finally?
5. Why do the creators of Space Hero make the reality show?
【推荐1】Car Free Day encourages drivers to give up their cars for a day to protect the environment. People from around the world get together in the streets to remind the world that we don't have to accept the society full of cars.
It was first started by 35 cities in France and September 22 is Car Free Day. The first Car Free Day in China was in Chengdu in 2001. The slogan for the day is "If we drive for one less day, we can have one more nice day. "
Organized activities are held in many cities on Car Free Day. In Brussels,Car Free Day shall be valid （有效的）for everybody except persons with a special permit （许可证） , but they have to （2） slow down to the speed of 30 kilometers per hour, The public transportation is free on that day. In London, they have special green areas" . Walking, biking, and public transportation are encouraged. The streets are open only to walkers, bicycles and buses from 7:00 a. m. to 7:00 p. m. In Beijing, it asks drivers to leave their cars at home for one day each month and walk or ride a bike to work. More and more people are joining in the activity. In the first quarter of this year, Beijing only had 52 blue sky days, and you may see haze （雾霾）almost every day! We must do more for Car Free Day as a Beijing driver said, “We may not change the weather，but we can choose not to drive. "
But we do not want just one day and then a return to "normal"life. We should go on with Car Free Day.
1. 回答问题: Where was Carr Free Day started first?2. 翻译划线句子。
3. 猜词义: The underlined phrase "slow down" means
4. 列举在Car Free Day这一天，可以采取的出行方式。（三种）:
5. 判断正（A）误（B）。
Everyone can drive except persons with a special permit.
People don't pay for the public transportation on that day.
6. The purpose of Car Free Day is
A healthy diet is not only about following strict diets or preventing yourself from the food you love. It’s more about eating right, feeling great about yourself and staying fit and healthy. You can achieve this by following some basics and including them in your daily diet as well. However, before starting a healthy diet plan to lose weight, make this clear — don’t expect an overnight success. Though a healthy diet for a healthy weight loss goal can be set in weeks, it will be more rewarding, if you can stand the changes in the long term.
The best healthy diet plan to lose weight should ensure that your body refuses lots of proteins, fats, minerals and vitamins. The healthy diet plan to lose weight fast should also include fruits and vegetables. For losing weight effectively, it’s important to focus on a diet plan that suits your lifestyle and the one you can stand for a long period of time.
A healthy diet to lose weight should ensure our well being. Following a healthy diet lowers the risk of developing diseases like cancer. A healthy diet for losing weight should include a variety (多种类) of healthy foods that provides the necessary nutrition (营养) to our body.
The best and easiest way to lose weight is to join a healthy meal plan in physical exercise. Make exercise a necessary part of your life. An hour of exercise every day will help you lose weight without having to cut down on your favorite foods. A good exercise program should include exercises like jogging, bicycling, swimming, etc. at least 4 times a week. Thus, following a healthy lifestyle in addition to a healthy diet to lose weight will help you lose it in a natural way.
1. Is losing weight an overnight success?2. What’s the best healthy diet plan to lose weight?
3. Why should we follow a healthy diet?
4. How often should we exercise a week?
5. What’s the passage mainly about?
When we eat in a restaurant, we need to place our order first. Traditionally, we are offered a printed menu by a waiter or waitress. But nowadays, a digital (数字的) way of ordering is more popular.
Use QR codes to order and pay
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Chart I
Why is it so common to use QR codes at restaurants in China now? That’s because they help to make things faster and save resources (资源). Some restaurants don’t even provide paper menus or traditional ways of paying anymore. However, not everyone is happy about this change, especially those who may not be very good with technology.
Opinions about using QR code menus
I like ordering meals this way. You don’t need to wait and you have enough time to decide what you’d like to order. —Lily |
I have used the QR code in my restaurant for some time. I think it’s a great idea. For one thing, fewer workers are needed, so it saves me some money. For another, I can make changes to my menu at any time. It’s very convenient. —Ms. Huang |
We are already in our 80s and we don’t have a phone that can scan codes. It’s hard for people like us. —Mr. &Mrs. Xia |
Chart II
There are also worries about privacy. While using these QR codes, people are often required to provide their phone numbers or WeChat information, which means their personal information could be shared with the restaurant. It’s important to be careful and think about the risks when using these digital ways.
To solve the problems, more rules should be made for restaurants to follow. As customers, while enjoying the convenience of QR codes, we should also say no to any unfair treatments and protect our rights.
1. Please fill in each blank with a proper word in chart I.①
2. Why is it so common to use QR codes at restaurant in China?
3. What does Ms. Huang probably do?
4. Who may not like the idea of using QR code menus according to Chart II?
5. How can personal information be shared with the restaurant?
6. Do you think using QR code menus is a good idea? Why or why not?
【推荐1】Amazing China(《厉害了，我的国》)is a 90-minute documentary. It records the country’s great developments over the past seven years. The film hit China’s big screen on March 2,2018 and it soon became the country’s most popular documentary.
Amazing China introduces some of the most important developments that China has made since 2012. In the documentary, we can see the world’s largest radio telescope FAST. It took China five years, from 2011 to 2016, to build the telescope in the mountains of Guizhou Province. People called it Tianyan, which means “the eye of heaven” in Chinese. The documentary also shows us the world’s largest maritime drilling rig Blue Whale 2, and the development of 5G mobile technology.
Amazing China also records the stories of normal people, such as engineers who do building work, grass-roots officials who help poor people become rich, and workers who try to make use of new technology in their factories.
“This documentary not only shows what China has achieved,but also tells us about the hard-working people who made these achievements,” said Li Jianwen, a moviegoer in Qingdao, Shandong Province.
1. What is Amazing China mainly about?| A．The changes of people’s life. |
| B．China’s great developments. |
| C．The development of documentaries. |
| D．A new film of China. |
| A．A radio telescope. | B．A maritime drilling rig. |
| C．A 5G mobile. | D．A spaceship. |
| A．Amazing China was the most popular documentary in China in2018. |
| B．Blue Whale 2 is in Guizhou Province. |
| C．The people in the film are not hard-working. |
| D．Li Jianwen is proud of our country’s achievements. |
Do you know what 5G is? It is the fifth generation of mobile network technology（第五代移动网络技术）. Each mobile network generation is faster and more powerful than the one before it. 1G let us talk to each other. 2G allowed us to send messages. 3G brought us the mobile Internet. And 4G made all of these things work faster. What’s special about 5G then?
5G shortens the time between sending and receiving information. Now, 4G takes about 100 to 200 milliseconds（毫秒）to send and receive information. But 5G will get it down to 1 millisecond or less-this is almost real-time. The big change will not only provide us with better services, but also change our lives in different fields.
5G + entertainment（娱乐）
5G networks are about 100 times faster than 4G. This means you can download（下载）a movie in seconds. Also, VR games will become much more popular because 5G will make the games more real.
5G + transportation（交通）
5G will bring us much safer self-driving cars. These cars can communicate with each other and the traffic lights. With the help of 5G technology, cars can do things even faster than human drivers.
5G + smart homes
With 5G, we can have smart homes which allow us to live in a comfortable way. For example, to make your bread maker make breakfast by itself in the morning, you just need to do a simple thing before going to bed-setting an alarm. The smart watering machine can water your plants if it feels the air becoming dry.
5G is the 5G + entertainment A VR games will be much more popular. 5G + transportation 5G will bring us much safer 5G+ smart homes We just need to set an alarm, before going to bed and the bread maker will The smart watering machine can water the plants if it feels the air becoming |
How will 5G change our lives？
If you look at the top of your phone, you will usually see a little symbols that says 3G or 4G. The G means “generation” of your mobile network. 4G is the forth generation of mobile network technology. In the past, 1G let us talk with each other. 2G let us send messages. 3G gave us the Internet. And 4G made all of these things faster. But these symbols will become things of the past after 5G networks fully arrive.
On March 30, Shanghai vice-mayor (副市长) Wu Qing made the first 5G video call on the Huawei Mate X Smart phone. Shanghai has also become the first city in our country to start testing 5G networks.
More and more people started to learn about 5G because it has many advantages. 5G will let people download and upload the data (上传数据) faster than before. People can use it for many other things as well. For example, 5G will help to make self-driving cars safer. Today’s self-driving test cars take time to send the information and the receiving instructions. They can’t react in time. With the help of 5G, this can be greatly improved.
People could also use 5G to power the Internet of Things (IOT 物联网). It’s a large online network that connects all things and people. Fast Internet speed will be the key to developing this technology.
5G is on the way. It will lead us to a new world. Are you ready?
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| Introduction | 1. 5G is the 2. On March 30, Wu Qing made the first 5G video call on a HUAWEI Mate X Smart phone. 3. Shanghai has also become the first city in our country to start testing 5G networks. |
| 1. It will let people download an uploaded data faster than before. 2. It will make self-driving cars 3. It can | |
