Open an App, place your order,and wait for your food to be delivered（递送）to your home— this is how many people eat in China these days. According to the latest data from the China Internet Network Information Center, 421 million Chinese people use online food delivery services. That’s equal to half of the total number of Internet users in China.
Which group of people is ordering food online the most? Unsurprisingly, its mainly young people. A recent report that was jointly（联合）published by the China Hospitality Association and Meituan, a food delivery service, showed that 86.3 percent of the service’s users are between 20 and 34 years old. These people, who are more likely to live in small families are the major force driving the development of the food delivery industry.
Small families depend greatly on food delivery services. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, Chinese families have changed in size over the past decade. In 2002, only 7.7 percent of families were single-person households. But this number increased to 15. 6 percent in 2017.The percentage of two-person families rose from 18.4 in 2002 to 27.2 in 2017. For small families, cooking is relatively more time and resource-consuming（耗时耗材）, so ordering food online has become more popular.
The improvement of China’s food delivery services has also attracted more customers. According to Meituan’s report, the average time it takes to make a food delivery dropped from 38 minutes in 2016 to 29 minutes in 2019. Many delivery platforms are also offering more services, and delivering products such as fruit, vegetables, medicine and flowers. As its services continue to improve, it’s likely that the food delivery industry will keep growing.
1. People in which age group use food delivery services the most in China?| A．Younger than 20. | B．Between 10 and 34. | C．Between 20 and 34. | D．Older than 30. |
| A．How Chinese families have changed. |
| B．How delivery services have improved. |
| C．What kinds of products can be delivered. |
| D．Why the food delivery industry has developed so quickly. |
| A．most Chinese people don’t cook at home |
| B．food delivery services need to be further improved |
| C．57.2 percent of Chinese families had less than three people in 2017 |
| D．one in two Chinese Internet users use food delivery services |
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【推荐1】My favourite restaurant is called “Annabella’s Café”. It is a small restaurant serving(供应) Western food. It is in a city called Bristol. It is difficult to find because it is behind a very tall building. Only local people eat at this restaurant.
Tourists(旅游者) can never find it! I think that this restaurant’s food is the best in the whole country. I like to go to this restaurant every two weeks. The waiters know me very well now. They are my friends. They know what my favourite drink is, so when I arrive, there is always a bottle of Coke on the table. The menu changes every week so there is always something different to eat. My favourite meat is chicken, so I always order something with chicken in it. For dessert(甜食), I often have apple pie with custard(蛋奶沙司) or chocolate cake. Delicious!
Sometimes I go to this restaurant for breakfast. For breakfast, I have a typical(典型的) English breakfast: еggѕ, bасоn(腊肉), ѕаuѕаgеѕ(腊肠), tоmаtоеѕ аnd tоаѕt(烤面包). The breakfast is delicious but I prefer(更喜欢) to eat at this restaurant at dinner time.
1. There are no tourists at this restaurant because __________.| A．they don’t like the food | B．the restaurant is too small |
| C．the restaurant is difficult to find | D．they don’t like Western food |
| A．Once a month. | B．Twice a month. | C．Three times a month. | D．Eight times a month. |
| A．Orange juice. | B．Apple juice. | C．Coke. | D．Coffee. |
| A．week | B．month | C．day | D．year |
| A．In the morning. | B．At noon. | C．In the afternoon. | D．In the evening. |
【推荐2】Fast food chains (连锁)，American—style, are now on the increase all over the world. Most of these places work in a similar way. There is a long counter (柜台）. Above the counter hangs a list (often with pictures) of the food and drink they sell, and behind the counter several people are working. You stand in front of the counter and order your meal. You receive what you order and take it on a tray to a table. You can find straws (吸管）in the straw machine and you have to push the bottom of the machine to get a straw. When you’ve finished your meal, you yourself throw away everything except the tray.
Many fast-food places have drive-in facilities (设施).You order your meal in your car through a microphone and then drive round to a special window to pay and pick your food up. In some places a waiter brings your meal out, and you sit and eat it in the car.
1. According to the passage, these fast food shops are usually quite .| A．similar | B．different |
| C．cheap | D．expensive |
| A．Use knives and forks to eat the fast food. |
| B．Get a menu and write down the fast food. |
| C．Carry the fast food on the tray to the table. |
| D．Sit at the table and wait for the fast food. |
| A．Something you can eat. |
| B．Something you can drink. |
| C．Something you throw away. |
| D．Something you use for carrying things. |
| A．Stop the car and go to the restaurant. |
| B．Order a meal in the restaurant. |
| C．Take the food to the office. |
| D．Go to the drive-in facilities. |
| A．Why fast food is popular. |
| B．Where to buy fast food. |
| C．How fast food chains work. |
| D．How to buy food. |
【推荐3】When it comes to Chinese and Western restaurants, the differences are big. One difference is in the menus.
In Western restaurants, the menus are usually very descriptive（描述的）. They tell you what is in each dish. They also tell you how those dishes are cooked. For example, the menu might tell you that a burger has cheese and ketchup（苦番茄）. You can also know if a dish is fried or steamed.
Chinese menus don’t usually tell you these things. But you can see a lot of pictures in them. Most Western restaurant menus do not have as many pictures as Chinese ones. In some good Western restaurants, the menus might not have any pictures at all.
The names of Chinese dishes are usually not very descriptive. Disanxian is a pretty-sounding（好听的）name. However, it doesn’t tell you anything about this dish. But with a picture, you can tell what’s in this dish. This dish has potatoes, green peppers and eggplant.
Having more photos also makes the menus more attractive to people. It can make you feel good about eating in the restaurant.
1. You can’t know ________ from a Western menu.| A．what is in the dishes | B．how the dishes are cooked |
| C．when your dishes will be ready | D．whether a burger has ketchup |
| A．Information about the dishes. | B．A lot of pictures. |
| C．Descriptive names of the dishes. | D．Detailed descriptions of the dishes. |
| A．useful | B．useless | C．beautiful | D．real |
| A．menus in Chinese and Western restaurants |
| B．eating habits in China and Western countries |
| C．table manners in China and Western countries |
| D．names of dishes in Chinese and Western restaurants |
【推荐1】As an Englishman, I can speak three languages—English, German and French, so do you think the British people are very good language learners? The fact is that they aren’t.
Some statistics from the survey done by the European Commission showed that 62% of the British people only speak English. 38 % speak at least one foreign language and 18 % speak two or more. Compared with the British people, 56% of the people in other European countries speak at least one foreign language and 28 % speak two or more. From this you can see that the British people are famous for not speaking foreign languages and that they are not good language learners in Europe.
And the survey also showed that English is the most widely-spoken foreign language. Many European people can have a conversation in English. That’s why many people don’t think there is need to learn a foreign language.
In Britain, students are not required to learn a foreign language. That means learning a foreign language is only a choice at school. In UK schools it is common for children to start learning a foreign language at 11 and many of them give up at 14. So why don’t students continue learning foreign languages at school? Because they think it is more difficult to get good marks in languages than in other subjects such as science or history.
To solve this situation, the British government is looking for different ways to improve language learning at school. One way is to start learning it at a much younger age. Another one is to give school children more choices.
Changing the British attitude(态度)to learning foreign languages may be a hard task but the government decides to try!
1. From the survey, we know that ________.| A．The British people are not good language learners in the world |
| B．28 % of the British people speak two or more foreign languages |
| C．Most of the British people speak at least one foreign language |
| D．Over half of the British people don’t speak foreign languages |
| A．无意识的 | B．常见的 | C．罕有的 | D．可理解的 |
| A．science and French | B．history and German |
| C．biology and history | D．French and German |
| A．Everyone can be very good language learners. |
| B．British students are good at language learning. |
| C．English is the most widely-used foreign language. |
| D．Foreign language learning is a problem in Britain. |
【推荐2】We often realize we should change and unlock(开启) our self-improvement power, but we don’t take action. The only time we think of changing and unlocking our self-improvement power is when everything gets worst.
When do we realize that we need to change diets? When none of our shirts and jeans would fit us. When do we stop eating candies and chocolates? When all of our teeth have fallen off. When do we realize that we need to stop smoking? When our lungs(肺) have gone bad. We see the warning signs and signals when things get difficult. As we know, it is not easy to change, but change becomes more painful when we ignore(忽视) it.
Change will happen, like it or hate it. At one point or another, we are all going to finally unlock our self-improvement power not because the world says so, but because we realize it’s good for us.
Happy people don’t just accept change, they embrace(拥抱) it. Unlocking our self-improvement power means unlocking ourselves out of the box of thought that is just the way we are.
Self-improvement may not be easy. ① However, if we look at things in different ways, we might have greater chances of enjoying the whole process (过程)instead of counting the days until we are fully improved. ② So please take action right now. Three times in a week at the gym(健身房)would result in a healthier life. ③ Smiling every day would make us happier. When we are enjoying the whole process of unlocking our self-improvement power, we’re beginning to change and become happy. ④
1. The writer asks the three questions in Paragraph 2 to show that ________.| A．we decide to change when we experience pain | B．we often meet many problems in our daily life |
| C．life is hard when we get into the wrong way | D．life is a long journey full of ups and downs |
| A．If you do not like change, change won’t happen, | B．The world tells us how to improve ourselves. |
| C．Welcoming change can make people feel happy. | D．Change usually makes our life harder. |
| A．①. | B．② | C．③ | D．④ |
| A．It is important to take action. | B．It is necessary to live a healthy life. |
| C．Hold on to the last moment. | D．Unlock ourselves out of the box. |
【推荐3】Robbie looks out of the window. It’s still snowing heavily and there is ice on the window. It is another day. Robbie is told to do the cleaning. And he does it. The family are getting home. So after he turns the heat on, he begins to cook supper for the family. All of the housework is easy for Robbie, but a hard one for its master, Helen. Robbie really saves the family a lot of work.
ASIMO is a clever robot created by the Honda Motor Company. He is about 120 centimeters tall and looks like a kid in a spacesuit. Tiny computers are used to control the things ASIMO can do. He can shake hands with people, give and receive objects. He can walk and run forward or backward on two legs. Besides, he can also talk and understand many voice commands (指令). When something is in his way, he can change directions.
Mr. Green is a fourth grade robot teacher. He never forgets details and he makes no mistakes. He even knows each child’s pets and hobbies. He has his lessons in an orderly way, and he never feels tired. The children like Mr. Green very much. They feel happy and relaxed in his class. When they make a mistake, they don’t feel upset. They have a lot of fun with a robot teacher.
Robots are smart because they have computer brains. Some of them have explored other planets. These machines also do many jobs in factories and other places. For example, robots are used to make cars. People also use robots to do dangerous work such as exploring volcanoes (火山) or the ocean floor. Robots are also used to give directions in shopping centers and amusement parks (游乐园). Scientists keep finding more ways for robots to help us.
1. What’s Robbie?| A．A cook. | B．A teacher. | C．A cleaner. | D．A robot. |
| A．Looking out of the window. | B．Doing the cleaning. |
| C．Turning the heat on. | D．Cooking for the family. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
①Explore other planets.
②Feel upset when making mistakes.
③Walk and run on two legs.
④Talk and understand voice commands.
⑤Explore the ocean floor.
| A．①②③④ | B．②③④⑤ | C．①②④⑤ | D．①③④⑤ |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
