Imagine the world without bridges. How would people get across rivers? How about visiting someone in another city? Life without bridges would not be easy, as we know. Bridges are an important part of our transportation (交通) ways.
The first bridges were built as a result of a need to make life and travel easier. The first bridges were built in the form of trees falling across small rivers. The wood was strong enough to hold the weight of a person or two at a time.
Later, people made bridges by putting rope (绳子) lines across an open area. In China and other places, rope bridges are still used.
Then, people built arch bridges (拱桥) with large blocks of stones. Arch bridges are among the strongest and longest lasting. Some built more than 1,500 years ago are still used. Even today, people build arch bridges, but usually with wood or other things.
Another kind is the cantilever bridge (悬臂桥). Canada’s Quebec Bridge is one of the world’s longest, about 1,800 feet (549m) across the St. Lawrence River.
A suspension bridge (悬索桥) is over even more space. Probably the most famous suspension bridge is California’s Golden Gate, about 4,200 feet (1,280m) long. When finished in 1937, it was the world’s longest, but in 1964, New York’s Verrazano-Narrows Bridge beat that with about 4,260 feet (1,298m) long. Then in 1981, England’s Humber Bridge beat that with about 4,626 feet (1,410m) long. And since 1998, Japan’s Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge has held the record, about 6,532 feet (1,991m) long.
1. How many kinds of bridges are mentioned in the passage?| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six. |
| A．they could make life and travel easier | B．people visited someone in another city |
| C．trees fell across small rivers | D．the wood was strong enough to hold the persons |
①England’s Humber Bridge②Japan’s Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge
③California’s Golden Gate ④New York’s Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
| A．①-④-②-③ | B．③-④-②-① | C．③-④-①-② | D．③-②-④-① |
| A．Ways of Transportation | B．How to build bridges |
| C．The First Bridges | D．The History of Bridges |
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【推荐1】Welcome to the Oxford Shopping Village, the most exciting shopping centre in the south of England. It is a great place to relax and enjoy a day out for the whole family.
Getting there
You can go there by car. The Oxford Shopping Village is only 3 kms from Junction 8 of the M17 motorway (高速公路). With over 13,000 free car parking places and just 3 kms from the motorway.
You can go there by bus. Over 60 buses visit there every hour. Buses to and from London run every ten minutes.
You can also go there by train. There is a good train service from London to the Oxford Shopping Village. Trains arrive every 15 minutes from London.
Opening times
The Oxford Shopping Village is open from Monday to Saturday between 10:00 and 23:00. On Sunday, it is open from 11:00 to 19:00.
根据短文内容，判断下列句子正误。正确的填“T”，错误的填“F”。1. You need to wait about fifteen minutes to go to the Oxford Shopping Village from London by bus.
2. It is fun for your family to have a day out in the Oxford Shopping Village.
3. You can’t get to the Oxford Shopping Village by plane.
4. Trains from London arrive at the Oxford Shopping Village every 15 minutes.
5. The Oxford Shopping Village is open for thirteen hours every day.
【推荐2】How do you go to school? By car or by bike? For the students who live far away from school, most of them take the bus. It's quick and students can do many things with their classmates on the bus. But the buses are often crowded and they don't run very late at night. Now a school in Panzhihua, Sichuan has new buses. They start from February 25th, 2019, and they are just for students. Students can take them after school, even in the late evening.
Parents and students welcome this new kind of buses a lot. Cao Yangrui, a student in Grade Eight, now takes a bus home every day. "There is no bus after 9:00 so we have to walk home after school. Most of us are afraid. So we always go with one or more friends. For me, it takes me 20 minutes or 25 minutes every night," he says. "It's not safe." Now things are different. Every day at school and after school, there are buses going into the schools on time. The buses run over 20 kilometers. Most students can take them home. It's convenient and safe. A father says when he is free, he has to drive his daughter home. It usually takes him twenty or thirty minutes. But now he only needs to wait at the bus stop. It saves parents’ time and hundreds of money for gas（汽油）a month.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. Most students like to go to school ____________ if they live far away from school.
| A．by bus | B．by car | C．by bike | D．on foot |
| A．Because he is lazy and he walks home for too long time. |
| B．Because it's too late after school and he is afraid to walk home. |
| C．Because his father asks him to take the bus home. |
| D．Because it can save his parents' money for gas. |
| A．their home | B．her school | C．the bus stop | D．the classroom |
| A．Quick. | B．Crowded | C．Unsafe | D．Convenient |
| A．Students and parents can take this kind of buses. |
| B．There are no buses after 9:00 in the evening. |
| C．They can go into the schools on time after school. |
| D．It starts from January 25th last year. |
【推荐3】How do you go to school? By bus? By train? On foot? For some children, the answer is “I swim”. 14-year-old Mosa tells us about how he gets to school.
 I live in a small village in South Africa. I can see my school from my bedroom window. But there is a big problem — there is a river between my home and my school. There is a small boat, but poor children do not have money to use it. Every morning, my friends and I take off our school uniforms near the river. We put our clothes and school books in a bucket (木桶). Then we swim to school. On rainy days, the water runs quickly. This is very dangerous. Another problem is the crocodiles (鳄鱼). They live in the river and want to eat us. It is very scary! After swimming, we are tired at school. Then we must swim again to get home. |
Mosa says that the people in his village want to build a bridge across the river. But this needs a lot of money. I hope one day Mosa and his friends can have a safe way to go to school.
1. Why is Mosa tired at school?| A．It is a very long way from his home. | B．He must stay at school for a long time. |
| C．School starts very early in the morning. | D．He has to swim across the river to school. |
| A．It often rains hard in his small village. | B．The river often runs very quickly. |
| C．There’re some crocodiles in the river. | D．The small boat isn’t working now. |
| A．To build a bridge. | B．To build a new school. |
| C．To buy some boats. | D．To buy new uniforms. |
Round eyes, round head, round ears, round body! What is this lovely little animal?
He looks like a bear. But he is not a bear. He’s a KOALA.
People in Australia love koala and take care of them. They have set up places for them to live safely. No one can kill them for their pretty fur （毛片）. When a koala is born, he has no fur. And he is not as big as your little toe （脚趾）! The mother koala has a pocket in the front of her body. The baby goes into this warm pocket. There he stays for six months.
When the baby leaves the pocket, he has much fur. And he is about as big as your shoe. He climbs to his mother’s back. He rides there while she teaches him how to find food. Mrs. Koala is a loving mother. She takes good care of her baby. But when he is bad, she beats him! The baby cries just as a small child does. If he keeps on crying, his mother beats him again. When he stops crying, she takes him in her arms. And then they both go to sleep for a while.
The koala could not live without a special kind of tree. The tree gives him both his home and his food. For most of the day the koala sleeps in the tree.
At night the koala looks for food. He may go miles to find it. He likes only the bark（树皮） and the leaves of the tree. He eats nothing else. And he eats more than two pounds each night!
How lovely the koalas really are!
1. People in Australia ________.| A．keep koalas in their home | B．put koala in the tree |
| C．set up places for koalas to live safely | D．raise baby koalas in their pockets |
| A．for six weeks | B．for half a year | C．for a night | D．all his life |
| A．stay in the tree all the time | B．eat the fruit on the tree |
| C．have to keep cool under the tree | D．live in the tree and get food from it |
| A．A baby koala is smaller than your little toe. | B．The koala could live with a special kind of tree. |
| C．The koala lives on all the things. | D．Mrs.koala is very loving and often looks after her baby. |
| A．Lovely koalas in Australia. | B．What food koalas eat. |
| C．How people in Australia protect koalas. | D．The way mother koalas look after their babies. |
No one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon(外科医生) and part of it is taken out. Today, however, we needn't worry about feeling pain during the operation. The sick person falls into a kind of sleep, and when he awakes, the operation is finished. But these happy conditions are fairly new. It is not many years since a man who had to have an operation felt all its pain.
Long ago, operations had usually to be done while the sick man could feel everything. The sick man had to be held down on a table by force while the doctors did their best for him. He could feel all the pain if his leg or arm was being cut off, and his fearful cries filled the room and the hearts of those who watched.
Soon after 1770, Josept Priestley discovered a gas which is now called "laughing gas". Laughing gas became known in America. Young men and women went to parties to try it. Most of them spent their time laughing, but one man at a party, Horace Wells, noticed that people didn't seem to feel pain when they were using this gas. He decided to make an experiment on himself. He asked a friend to help him.
Wells took some of the gas, and his friend pulled out one of Well's teeth. Wells felt no pain at all. As he didn't know enough about laughing gas, he gave a man less gas than he should have. The man cried out with pain when his tooth was being pulled out.
Wells tried again, but this time he gave too much of the gas, and the man died. Wells never forgot this terrible event.
1. It is ____ since a man being operated felt all the pain.
| A．a few more years | B．not very long |
| C．few years | D．two thousand years |
| A．could feel nothing | B．could not want anything |
| C．could feel all the pain | D．could do anything |
| A．be afraid of anything | B．feel pain |
| C．want to go to the parties | D．be ill |
| A．felt nothing | B．felt very comfortable |
| C．still felt pain | D．would die |
| A．would laugh all the time | B．would die |
| C．would never feel again | D．would be very calm |
In the last passage we’ve already talked about some dangerous plants, but we don’t want to give anyone the wrong idea. The truth is that some plants can hurt you, but most are completely harmless. In fact, there are many plants that are actually very useful to humans.
That is why plants are so popular in Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine has been using plants for over 4,800 years. One of the most popular plants in Chinese medicine is ginseng (人参). Doctors of Chinese medicine believe that ginseng can help your lungs (a body part used for breathing in air), clean your blood and do many other things. Ginseng also provides energy for people. In fact, many modern energy drinks have ginseng.
In some parts of US, there is a plant called lady fern (蹄盖蕨). This is the plant you need if you’ve been stung by a bee, or if you’ve got a small burn or a cut. Lady ferns are great for making your skin feel better. All you have to do is to roll one of its leaves and make it into pieces in your hands. The juice inside the leaf will help your skin feel more comfortable.
Sage (鼠尾草) is one of the most useful plants in the world. Human beings have been using sage for a very long time, because it has so many uses and it’s also quite valuable. In Europe before fridges appeared, people used sage to keep food. Over the years, people have used sage to fight all kinds of health problems. Sage has been used to treat colds, stop muscle problems and reduce swelling (肿胀). In fact, sage comes from the Latin word “salvere”, which means “to be saved”.
1. How many kinds of useful plants are mentioned in the passage?| A．2. | B．3. | C．4. | D．5. |
| A．It has been used in China for over 4,800 years. |
| B．It is the most popular plants in Chinese medicine. |
| C．It can be found in the water we drink every day. |
| D．It is good for people’s health in many ways. |
| A．By making the leaves of lady fern into small pieces. |
| B．By putting the juice from lady fern leaves on the burn. |
| C．By eating some sage to reduce swelling of your skin. |
| D．By rolling the leaves of lady fern on the ground. |
| A．Fashion. | B．Sports. | C．Medicine. | D．Language. |
Wearing armor（盔甲）and holding weapons, they look like ancient soldiers on door posters. But if you look closer—they are actually two cats instead of Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong.
These posters were designed（设计）by Liu Shuning and Lin Chen from Hangzhou, Zhejiang. They wanted to mix modern art and youth culture with traditional culture.
The posters use the style of woodblock New Year paintings, which are a form of intangible cultural heritage（非物质文化遗产）in China. Called “nianhua” in Chinese, this style of art dates back to the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC—8 AD).
“We think woodblock New Year paintings are treasures—their colors and patterns are beautiful,” Liu said. “We want to show that young people are still interested in traditional culture. Protecting the cultural heritage requires to breathe new life into it. So I tried to add something that young people like. People love little cute animals, so Lin and I keep two cats.”
They used these cats as models. They designed a carpet（地毯）using the traditional “six children pattern”—six children making up a circle and sharing three heads, but the children were replaced with dogs and cats.
Their designs got hundreds of “likes” on the website LOFTER. “Their creative designs will help more young people become interested in traditional culture.” China Daily said. But Liu and Lin aren’t stopping there. They are now planning another project that will include things borrowed from pictures in Dunhuang.
1. What can we know about traditional Chinese nianhua?| A．It has a long history. |
| B．It usually uses cats as models. |
| C．It’s the world intangible cultural heritage. |
| A．To get “likes” from Internet users. |
| B．To let more people care about animals |
| C．To make young people love traditional culture. |
| A．How the girls protected the cultural heritage |
| B．How the girls got the idea of creating such posters. |
| C．What the girls prepared before creating such posters. |
| A．代替 | B．凸显 | C．复原 |
| A．Nianhua Gets Popular Again |
| B．Old Art Gets a Modern Touch |
| C．Pass on the Cultural Heritage Online |
With our already busy lives, finding time to exercise can be impossible. So maybe it would help if there was “a best time” to exercise.
There are clear benefits to exercising in the morning. Many of us have more free time than later in the day, and it may be easier for us to keep a morning plan. A study found that people could sleep better when they exercised in the morning or had the physical activity during the whole day. Exercising on an empty stomach (空腹) before breakfast could also have less fat (脂肪) and keep healthier.
So, good news for early birds, but what if you’re not a morning person? Working out in the afternoon or evening is also good, but different. For example, your body’s ability reaches the highest level in the afternoon, according to a 2010 study. Also, in the afternoon and evening, your mind is the quickest, and your heart rate and blood (血) pressure are lowest, and you aren’t getting hurt (受伤) easily when exercising.
But can this happen? Deciding on if you are a man or a woman? Our bodies are different, after all, so the best time to exercise may be different too. Want to reduce (降低) your blood pressure and you are a woman? Exercise in the morning. Want to improve your heart health and you are a man? Evening is better for you. But, a 2022 study found that it’s both OK for them to exercise at either time of day.
So what time is best? It seems the answer is: whatever time is best for you!
1. Paragraph 2 mainly tells us ________ of exercising in the morning.| A．good points | B．the steps | C．some advice | D．the experience |
| A．stop people talking clearly | B．make people act quickly |
| C．lead to have high blood pressure | D．get the legs broken easily |
| A．in the morning | B．in the afternoon |
| C．in the evening | D．at noon |
| A．exercising in the daytime is the best | B．people can exercise whenever they want |
| C．everyone should exercise every day | D．exercising is the most important |
| A．culture | B．history | C．education | D．health |
【推荐3】Hardship comes in different shapes and sizes. Losing a job, illness, injuries or the death of a love done. But few things in life areas heartbreaking as feeling cutoff from the people we love. Recently, while "sheltering in place" against Covid-19, I've started reading to my grand kids with Face Time.
Mostly, I read to them because I love doing it. But I also do it for their parents' mental health. Besides having to stay indoors, they have to home school the kids, who can't go to school or to the park or play with their friends.
As am other, I didn't do everything right. Far from it. But when my three children were small, most nights before bed, I would read to them. There is something important-something comforting and healing-about reading to each other. Sometimes the words we read are so powerful that they will never be forgotten. But hearing them read is a different experience.
When we read to ourselves, we see the words with our eyes. But when someone reads to us, we just need to be still and listen. Sometimes, the voice and the love it conveys (传播) mean far more than the words.
Today, I read a tale book my kids loved long ago. Randy, 9 and Wiley, 7, thought it was funny. Elle, who's 5, usually prefers to read to me, but this time she just wanted to talk. Next, Randy played a song for us on his guitar, the very first song he has written. Finally, I Face Timed with Jonah, who is almost a year old. I read a little poem. He liked it so much that he gave me kisses over the phone, then we said goodbye. Now, more than ever, while keeping a safe distance, we all need to hold on to each other.
1. As a grandmother, she started to read to her grand kids without using apps (软件) during the period of "sheltering in place" against Covid-19.2. The author reads to her grandchildren because she loves reading and wants to lower their parents' pressure of taking care of them.
3. The author thinks reading to each other is comforting and healing.
4. There are five grand kids mentioned in the article.
5. The author kept in touch and kept company of her family by reading.
