More and more people are using mobile phones now. Smartphones are used as televisions, cameras and music players. They are also used for sending e—mails or surfing the Internet. If someone talks about mobile phones, many Chinese will think of Huawei.
In China, even in the world, Huawei is a wonder. Ren Zhengfei set up Huawei Company in 1987. After more than 30 years of development, the company has become the world’s second largest maker of smartphones behind Korea’s Samsung. It has also become the world’s largest supplier(供应商)of 5G.
But recently, Huawei faced some difficulties. The U.S. government ordered a ban(禁令)on its sales in America. American officials said Huawei gave information that it collected to the Chinese government. At the same time, the U.S. government planned to stop selling parts and services to Huawei, which was believed that Huawei’s business would be hurt.
“We have never received such a request from the Chinese government and we have never tried to get into other systems to collect information.” Ren Zhengfei, Huawei’s founder and president said. “The ban from the U. S. would have little effect on our company. Huawei has enough ability to deal with the problems.” Ren added.
In an interview several years ago, Ren Zhengfei said, “I started Huawei with only ￡400 at the beginning but now it has become a $100 billion company. The experience was not as romantic(浪漫的) as you imagine.”
Facing the ban of the U.S., Huawei is growing. Huawei’s smartphone sales around the world rose 50 percent compared to a year earlier in the first three months of 2019. It may beat Samsung as the largest smartphone maker in the near future.
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2、3题简略回答问题；
4题找出并写下第三段的主题句；
5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. Smartphones are used for sending e— mails or
2. When did Ren Zhengfei start Huawei Company?
3. Why did the U. S. government order a ban on Huawei’ sales in America?
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Nowadays, WeChat is becoming more and more popular among young people. It plays an important role in people’s life. But different people have different opinions about it. Here are three persons’ ideas.
I am Tony from Shenzhen. Without WeChat, I can’t live even a day. Every day, I keep in touch with my friends on it. I order my meals on it. What’s more, I buy what I like on WeChat. It makes my life colorful and convenient. I like WeChat. It’s all my life.
I am Jim. I am 60 years old. As for me, I don’t like WeChat. Now many people, especially young people, lose themselves in WeChat. They pay no attention to the things around them. For example, last Sunday my kids went back home to have a family meal with us, but they didn’t chat with us, or did any housework. Instead, they kept their eyes on their mobile phones and did what they like on WeChat. I felt angry with this. So I have to say it again. I don’t like WeChat.
My name is Alice. I think WeChat is an important tool for us. But we have to use it properly. When we want to talk with our friends, who are not in the same city, it can help us to make it. When we drive our cars, we can’t use it because it is too dangerous. Using it or not depends on different situations. Answer the following questions.
1. Where is Tony from?2. How old is Jim?
3. Who went to visit Jim last Sunday?
4. Which situation is mentioned here to tell people not to use WeChat?
5. How many people give out their opinions above?
【推荐2】We live in the “computer age(时代)”. People like scientists, teachers and students use computers to do all kinds of work. But more than 30 years ago, computers couldn’t do much. They were very big and expensive. Very few people were interested in them and knew how to use them. Today computers are smaller and cheaper. Since they can do a lot of work, many people like to use them. Some people even have them at home.
Computers become very important because they can work fasterthan men and make fewer mistakes. Computers can help people do a lot of work. Writers now use computers to write. Teachers use them to help teaching. Students use them to study and children use them to play games . Computers can also remember what you put into them.
Computers are very useful and helpful. They are our good friends. Do you want to have a computer?
1. Who use computers to do all kinds of works?2. Could computers do much work 30 years ago?
3. Why do people like to use computers now?
4. What do children use computers to do?
5. Why do computers become very important now?
| Recent years , with the development of the computer and the Internet, many students often use computers to surf the Internet . Should students be allowed to surf the Internet? Here are some people’s opinions . | |
| Tracy | I study in a junior high school . I think students shouldn’t be allowed to surf the Internet . Surfing the Internet wastes a lot of time , so the students spend less time doing their homework . Also many students lose themselves in playing the computer games . In their minds , games are everything and they keep on playing the games for hours . That’s too bad for their study and their health . |
| Jimmy | I don’t agree with Tracy . In my opinion , surfing the Internet can help us a lot . For example , I often get help from the Internet . I’m weak in learning English . When I have trouble in learning English, I can get on line to ask for help . Always I can get the answers soon . In this way , I have made great progress .Thanks to the Internet . |
| Jeff | Yes , I have the same opinion as Jimmy . My son , Bob studies very hard . After hours of working hard , he usually feels tired . If he goes on with his study , he will feel stressed out . So I often ask him to surf the Internet to listen to some light music . It can help him relax and he will study better later on . |
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【推荐1】Ludwick Marishane, a young man from South Africa, was with his friends in Limpopo when they started talking about inventing(发明) something to put on your skin so you don’t have to take a bath. He used his mobile phone to do a lot of research(研究) online.
Millions of people around the world haven’t got clean water. This is a huge problem because dirty water causes terrible illnesses. One of them is trachoma(沙眼). Thousands of people all over the world get it every year. They wash their faces with dirty water, get an infection(传染病) and sometimes become blind.
Ludwick started thinking. He wanted to make something to help people in parts of the world where it’s difficult to find clean water. He did more research on his mobile. Ludwick had a plan. He wanted to make a gel(凝胶) for people to put on their skin so they don’t have to take a bath. He wrote the formula(配方) for the gel on his mobile phone. When he was at university, he never stopped thinking about his invention. Three years later the dream came true. He made the gel and called it “DryBath”. It looks like any other gel, but it isn’t! It saves lives and it also helps save water!
Ludwick Marishane is the winner of lots of prizes. People call him “one of the brightest young men in the world”. He is very happy about the success. That’s important in many parts of the world where it’s difficult to find clean water. Now he wants to invent other things, and he wants to help other young people become inventors, too.
回答下面5个问题，每题答案不超过6个词。1. Where does Ludwick Marishane come from?
2. What does dirty water cause?
3. How do people use the gel “Drybath”?
4. What does DryBath help do?
5. What do you think of Ludwick Marishane?
Compass, Paper-making skill, Gunpowder and Typography, are the Four Great Inventions in ancient China. They had great influence on the development of Chinese and the world civilization (文明).
Compass The idea of inventing the compass first came from the ancient Chinese labor people. They found the magnet (磁铁) could point to direction when they worked. The compass played an important role in the navigation (航海) after it was introduced to Europe.
Paper-making skill The invention of Paper-making skill is China’s contribution to the civilization of the world. It was first invented by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty(105AD). He made the vegetable fiber paper with the coveting of a tree, broken fishing network, cloth, and so on. From then on, paper has become the main material that is generally used to write.
Gunpowder It was first invented by accident while masters were trying to make medicine that made people live for long. In the end of Tang Dynasty, the gunpowder began to be used in the military (军队).
Typography Before printing was invented, people had to depend on handwriting to reproduce a book. It was very slow and had many mistakes. Wood-block printing first appeared in the early Tang Dynasty. Later in about the 4th century, the method of rubbing a piece of paper on an engraved(被雕刻的) stone covered with ink was used to make copies. Block printing was not very convenient. To change this disadvantage, Bi Sheng invented the movable type.
注：每题答案不超过7个单词。
1. Who first came up with the idea of the Compass?
2. When did Paper-making skill appear first?
3. How did the Gunpowder be invented, on purpose or by accident?
4. What contribution did Bi Sheng make in the development of printing?
5. Please write a proper title for this passage.
【推荐3】Dublin High School’s robot team has come up with a creative solution to help clean parts of the school during the COVID-19—a sanitizing drone (无人机).
They call it the TERSUS Project—tersus meaning “clean”. The team has ten students to design, build and fly the sanitizing drone.
The team got the idea when they learned it was taking five to six hours to disinfect (消毒) the school’s football gym. “We decided to challenge ourselves to build the drone to not only keep our students safe, but try to find a cheap way to do it.” said Niharika, the team’s leader.
The drone will be used to clean the football gym. It will spread disinfectant (喷洒消毒剂) over the football gym of the school in California, US. A pilot can fly it on the ground using an app on the phone. The students plan on developing autonomous (自动的) flying and even AI for the drone so that it can discover things, like disease on its own. The team hopes the drone can be used in places beyond a football gym, such as city playgrounds or indoors.
The team researched similar industry drones. The drone that the Atlanta Falcons used for their football gym was one of them. The students found that these models would cost up to $15,000. “We can do a little better than this.” Niharika said. They raised money online with a goal of $4,000 and have already received more than their goal. When built, their drone will also have twice the amount of flight time of other industry drones at 22 minutes without needing to be charged.
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1. The TERSUS Project is a
2. The students decided to
3. How can the pilot fly this sanitizing drone?
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【推荐1】Scientists are not alone in the fight against the virus, as various products and apps are giving them a hand. Here are some examples.
Drones（无人机）
Drones have played a major role in disinfection（消毒）. Police officers also use them to spread the latest information. What’s more, they use drones to remind people to wear masks or warn them not to gather in large groups.
Robots
Robots are good helpers on the frontlines. They do many tasks in hospitals, including sending medicine or meals, doing disinfection and measuring patients’ body temperature. This not only greatly reduces the burden for medical workers, but also prevents the cross-infection（交叉感染）.
Mini-programs
Different mini-programs, or apps that you don’t need to download but can use on Wechat, have also come to help. For example, you can check whether you have unknowingly travelled alongside infected patients. Community workers can collect information about people more easily with the help of mini-programs.
Health QR codes（健康码）
People in more than 100 cities can get their own health QR codes by applying through Ali pay or Wechat. This way, they don’t have to fill in information like their names, ages and living addresses over and over again when they enter public places.
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| Drones | They play a major They are used by police officers to |
| Robots | They help medical workers do much work. They also |
| Mini-programs | They are used to check if there are any infected patients near you. They make it |
| Health QR codes | By applying health QR codes, people don’t have to fill in their |
What do you use the Internet for? According to a recent national report, the top three purposes of using the Internet for Chinese children are “learning”, “listening to music” and “playing games”. As many as 88.9 percent of children said they often use the Internet to study.
How are today’s young people using online resources (资源)? We talked with some teenagers and found the young people are really good at improving themselves by looking up the online world.
“I love using Duolingo to learn different languages,” said 14-year-old Zhang Enqi from Tianjin. Duolingo is an App where users can learn foreign languages in a fun way. “The teachers are very cute cartoon figures (人物), which makes the learning process fun. They encourage me to learn and compete with friends, just like playing a game,” Zhang said.
Li Shuhe, a 14-year-old from Shanxi, used wikiHow a lot. “The website has over 160,000 articles that teach you how to solve all kinds of problems. It even teaches you how to have fun by yourself, which I find quite creative and useful,” Li said.
In the face of the rich learning materials (材料), you could be easily distracted (注意力分散的)when you study online. So self-control is really important. At the same time, the school and parents need to pay attention to developing the children’s digital literacy (数字素养). That will stop the young people from being misled (误导) by wrong or harmful information.
1题完成句子；2、3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下全文的主题句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. About 88.9 percent of children often use the Internet to
2. What does Zhang Engi use Duolingo to do?
3. What does Li Shuhe think of wikiHow?
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【推荐3】Can you imagine an AI chatbot (聊天机器人) competing with you in an examination? Do you think you could get higher scores than it? A new AI chatbot called ChatGPT recently got a passing grade in a law school exam. Sounds crazy? The use of ChatGPT has raised heated discussions in the education world. Please check out the discussion in the story.
Type in “A cat wants to go to space’’ and ask ChatGPT to write a bedtime story. Just one second later, you’ll get the story of Max, who went his way past many difficulties to sing among the stars.
Developed by US company OpenAI, ChatGPT has taken the Internet by storm, winning 100 million users since it came out in November 2022. People can ask the robot to write stories and emails, translate languages, and answer all kinds of questions.
Compared with Siri or other chatbots, ChatGPT uses a much bigger database (数据库) for training. It also learns things by itself. For example, if it provides a wrong answer to your question, you can tell it the right one and it will make it right. The knowledge level of ChatGPT is similar to a college student. That’s why it surprised the world.
But one big problem with ChatGPT is that it makes mistakes or even gives wrong information. These are things that need to be dealt with.
根据上面短文的内容，回答问题。（每题答案不超过六个单词）
1. What is this new AI chatbot called?
2. Where has the use of ChatGPT raised heated discussions?
3. How many users has ChatGPT won since it came out in November 2022?
4. Does Siri use a much bigger database for training?
5. What will you do if ChatGPT provides a wrong answer to your question?
As traditional Chinese art, paper cutting has a long history. The first and earliest paper cutting was found in China 1,500 years ago. But this traditional art is at risk of disappearing now. Luckily, a Chinese immigrant (移民) in America, is trying to bring this art back to life.
One Saturday in 2014, Ms. Woo held a paper cutting show at a shopping center near Washington. She got much fun and peace doing it. She hoped more people would enjoy it.
Ms. Woo began to study the art of paper cutting as a 14-year-old girl in her hometown in China. She said all the students at school had to learn paper cutting. But she had a deep love for paper cutting. So her teacher spent more time teaching her after class. Woo went to America after she finished college in 2008. Soon after that, she took part in an activity to promote (宣传) Chinese paper cutting. And then she was invited to show the art in many important activities. “It is important to promote this art to Americans or anyone who is interested in it. Maybe it will make this art more popular.” Woo said.
From the art of paper cutting, people can know about Chinese cultural values, history and stories of life. Ms. Woo uses the art as a tool to show Chinese culture to people who know little about it. Chinese art is not only for Chinese, but also for people all over the world.
1. When was the first and earliest paper cutting found in China?2. What did Ms. Woo do in 2014?
3. When did Ms. Woo begin to study the art of paper cutting?
4. 请将文中划线部分翻译成汉语。
5. 给文章一个恰当的标题。
【推荐2】Every year, wildfires destroy much forest land. Homes are broken down, and thousands of people die. Smokejumpers are helping to stop this.
Smokejumpers are a special kind of firefight. They jump from planes into areas that difficult to reach by car or on foot, such as the middle of a mountain forest. They race to put out fires as fast as they can.
At a fire site, smokejumpers first examine the land and decide how to fight the fire. Their main goal is to stop fire from spreading. Using basic tools such as shovels and axes, smokejumpers clear land of burnable material like plants and other dry material. They carry water with them too, but only a limited amount.
Although most smokejumpers are men, more women are joining. Most important are your weight and height. Smokejumpers employed in the U. S. For example, must be 54 to 91 kilograms, so they don't get blown by the strong winds or get hurt when they land.
Smokejumpers must own necessary qualities to survive in the wilderness. In Russia, many smokejumpers know how to find food in the forest and even make simple furniture from trees.
The work is dangerous, the hours are long. But for these firefighters, smokejumpers isn't just a job. They love being able to jump out of planes, fight fires and live in the forest. As 28-year-old Russian smokejumpers Alexi Tishin says, “This is the best job for tough guys.”
回答下面5个问题，每题答案不超过5个词。
1. What are smokejumpers?
2. Where do they jump from?
3. What's their main goal?
4. Why should they have proper weight?
5. What do you think of working as a smokejumpers?
Now many young people enjoy travelling around the world on their own. It’s not because they have no one to travel with, but because they think traveling alone is exciting and challenging. With no one to help you read a map, look after you if you get ill, or lend you money if you lose your wallet, it is a big challenge. This is what drives young people to travel alone. It is seen as character-building and a chance to prove that they can make it on their own. It’s exciting and special to travel alone. But it’s also dangerous to travel alone sometimes. So here is some advice for traveling alone.
Don’t choose a hotel if you’re not sure whether it’s safe. If you do, ask for a room near the elevator (电梯), so you won’t need to walk down long in the hallway (走廊). Besides, make sure the clerk writes down your room number.
Don’t arrive at night. Sometimes, areas around bus or train stations can be scary (使人惊慌的) at night, and some small towns may shut down early.
Keep your documents safe. Put your passport, extra money and other important documents in safe places, and use a bag or wallet to carry daily spending money.
Know some common sense. It is very important to stay safe and have an enjoyable time while you are traveling alone. For example, don’t walk around late at night, don’t drink with strangers and don’t take a free car for saving money.
1. Why is travelling alone challenging?2. Why do many young people prefer to travel alone?
3. If you want to travel alone, how do you choose a hotel and a room according to the passage?
4. What should you do to keep your money safe?
5. List some advice when you travel alone. (at least two)
