Look at the picture on the right. What is it? Yeah, it’s a special(特殊的) robot car, ROPITS. Japan made it this year. It’s a new kind of car. The car can drive itself(它自己). It is very easy for people to use it.
ROPITS is short for Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System (个人智能交通系统机器人). ROPITS has only one seat. The Japanese made it for old and disabled (残疾的) people in Japan.
What makes the ROPITS special? One can ask it to pick him or her up from a computer or a smart-phone(智能手机). After he or she gets in the car and tells the ROPITS where to go, it will begin to drive itself and let the driver enjoy the ride.
The ROPITS will not have traffic accidents (事故) because it drives very slowly, not more than 7 kilometers an hour.
1. This passage(文章) is about a new kind of ________.| A．car | B．bicycle | C．smart-phone | D．computer |
| A．it is only for people in Japan | B．it can drive itself all the way |
| C．it can drive fast on the road | D．it is for the old and disabled people |
| A．All the people in Japan | B．Young people in Japan |
| C．Children in Japan | D．Old and disabled people in Japan |
| A．more than 7 kilometers | B．7 kilometers |
| C．not more than 7 kilometers | D．over 7 kilometers |
| A．ROPITS is big and smart |
| B．ROPITS doesn’t drive fast |
| C．people must learn to drive ROPITS |
| D．The old and the disabled people drive ROPITS |
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【推荐1】You're welcomed to board China Air Flight（航班）. We will do our best to make your trip comfortable and enjoyable.
To begin the trip, we would like to draw your attention to safety. Seat belts must remain fastened while the "fasten seat belts" sign is on. It is advisable to keep them fastened at all times while sitting. All lights are non-smoking. The use of mobile telephones is now allowed when the airplane is on the ground and the “fasten seat belts" sign is turned off. During the flight the use of CD and DVD players is not allowed.
To help you enjoy your trip, we provide newspapers and magazines. On our MD-11 and Boeing aircraft, we are also pleased to provide music and video programs. On Air-bus A321/320/319, aircraft route maps and short videos are shown.
Special reading material is provided for children on longer flights, and there are also video programs for them. On long-distance flights, first-time fliers between the ages of 2 and 15 can join our Kids Club.
During most flights we serve you a tasty meal with drinks. Beer, wine and other drinks are served free of charge. Coffee, tea and juice are served free of charge on all fights of over 35 minutes.
In this magazine you'll find a special form for your comments about our service. Kindly return the form to our crew or any Air-China office. You can also fax it（+35（0）89819-7729）or send your comments by e-mail to feedback @air china.com. We are pleased to answer your questions during the flight whenever possible.
| A．We value your opinion |
| B．For your children |
| C．For your pleasure time |
| D．For your safety and convenience |
| E．Meals and drinks |
| F．History and culture |
【推荐2】Traveling is one of the most important activities and people have been interested in it for many years. Modern traffic develops fast，so traveling to different places has become much easier than before.
Staying healthy while traveling can make your trip happier. But do you know how to keep healthy during a trip？The following information may be useful for you.
Before traveling：
●Wear comfortable shoes，a hat and sunglasses.
●Take some necessary medicine with you. They can be used when you get sick or have other problems.
●If you do lots of sports like walking or climbing during your trip，you should do some exercise for weeks or months before you leave.
While traveling：
●Be sure not to eat dirty food or bad fruit.
●Have enough time to take a rest during your trip.
●Tap water is not safe，so drink bottled water and always clean the cover on the bottle.
1. Traveling has become much easier because of the ______.| A．modern technology |
| B．modern traffic development |
| C．travel agencies |
| D．development of people's lives |
| A．take some medicine with you |
| B．clean the cover |
| C．drink much water |
| D．wear warm clothes |
| A．wear glasses | B．be too tired |
| C．wear a hat | D．take a rest |
| A．walk fast | B．eat too much |
| C．keep healthy | D．climb a mountain |
| A．traveling development |
| B．how to keep healthy during a trip |
| C．activities before traveling |
| D．activities while traveling |
【推荐3】Many people travel to different places in the world by air. Usually it takes a long time, perhaps half a day, for passengers to stay in the plane. So airlines(航空公司) offer passengers food. But it is common that they feel bad about food taste. Do you agree?
To solve this problem, airlines try hard to improve their food. They would like to do so because they don't want to lose customers.
However, according to scientific research, part of the reason why plane food tastes bad is that at high altitude(海拔) we cannot taste things as well as we do on the ground. Also scientists have found that our noses become very dry even before a plane takes off. As the plane moves up, the air pressure(气压) reduces one third of the sensibility(感觉) of our taste buds(味蕾)。 So our taste become senseless. The sad fact, however, is that our noses don't know it.
All of these help explain why food on the plane tastes so bad. They also help explain why airlines choose to offer passengers salty and spicy(辛辣的)food. Without doing so, the food would be tasteless.
Now there are many researches on this. According to one of them. some volunteers are asked to lie with their feet higher than their heads for weeks. And scientists write down their feelings about food taste.
Though scientists try their best, it is not as easy as they thought. Because they couldn’t deal with the special environment successfully, such as the change in air pressure, making food taste good is still hard for them.
1. In Paragraph 2,"this problem” means _____.
| A．passengers stay long in the plane | B．food on the plane tastes bad |
| C．passengers have no food to eat | D．food on the plane is expensive |
| A．half | B．one third | C．one fourth | D．one fifth |
| A．The volunteers don't know about food taste |
| B．The volunteers don’t understand them |
| C．They can't find enough volunteers |
| D．They can't deal with the special environment successfully |
| A．Taste of Airplane Food | B．Airplane Travel |
| C．Scientific Research on Noses | D．The Change in Air Pressure |
| A. Super Mario Run offers you an unforgettable experience on playing Mario games. New adventures, new settings, new tasks with our old heroes. Come and join us now! B. With Great Photo you will start learning photography by practicing with the help of interactive lessons, you will gradually gain understanding of the art of photography. C. Discover the world with Google Maps. It is a great helper when you are traveling. Experience Street View, 3D Mapping, turn by turn directions, indoor maps and more through your devices. D. Hello English is used by more than 30,000,000 English learners. This app focuses on helping you master reading, writing, speaking and listening skills besides building your vocabulary. E. Vista is an app for you to learn about the latest news around the world. It also has a weekly review of important events, so you can’t miss anything important! F. Map My Walk is a fitness tracking application that makes you able to use the built-n GPS of your mobile device to track all of your fitness activities. G. It’s very convenient for you to use our Photos Go. Just click one button when you can add funny icons to your photo. |
【推荐2】I am Garrison. I live on a small farm in Kenya. As a child, I enjoyed trying new ideas. Sometimes I could make my own inventions, such as electronic toys from car parts and peach-picking sticks. I also made other useful daily things for my neighbours.
At the age of 13, I invented something that changed my life. One night, a lion came into my family’s farm and killed one of our cows. I was angry. So I decided to “invent” a solution.
The first idea I got was to use fire, because I thought the lion was scared of fire. But I came to know that didn’t help, because it was even helping the lion to see through the cowshed (牛棚).
And a second idea was to use a scarecrow (稻草人). I was trying to trick the lion into thinking that I was standing near the cowshed. But the lion was very clever. It came the first day, saw the scarecrow, and went back. But the second day, it came and found that the scarecrow didn’t move. It was always there! So the lion jumped in and killed another cow.
However, one night, I was walking around the cowshed with a flashlight. To my surprise, the lion didn’t show up. Then I realized that the lion was afraid of a moving light. So I had an idea…
1. What was Garrison interested in when he was a child?| A．Tricking neighbors. | B．Looking after cows. |
| C．Making car parts. | D．Trying new ideas. |
| A．1. | B．2. | C．3. | D．4. |
| A．Using a stick. | B．Using a moving light. |
| C．Using fire. | D．Using a scarecrow. |
| A．Creative. | B．Thankful. | C．Honest. | D．outgoing. |
| A．No pains, no gains. | B．Love animals, love life. |
| C．It is never too old to learn. | D．Using your brain makes a difference. |
【推荐3】Some people learn a foreign language because they want to communicate with the local people. Some other people are just curious about foreign cultures. Whatever your reason may be, the best foreign language software will certainly help you pick up the language in a few weeks. You will be able to speak fluently and understand the language clearly as well.
Tell Me More
This app is used in U. S. schools, and it is believed to be the best foreign language learning app all over the world. It offers instructions for learning Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish. However, the app does not come cheap as it costs around $250.
Now Talk
If you are looking for a cheaper language learning app, then this is just the suitable choice for you. This app will cost you about $40, and even though it is not as useful as Tell Me More, it is still a very good app for the purpose. The disadvantages are that there is very little focus on grammar and there is a clear lack of interactive(互动性的)activities for users so it does not result in fluency.
Instant Immersion
This app provides learning materials for up to 33 different languages, and it is considered as the best app for learning Spanish as well. It will cost you about $30, and this is a very reasonable price for such a highly recommended language learning app. The learning courses are highly interactive, and the ever-present speech recognition feature ensures that you are getting the pronunciation right while speaking.
Kids Talk
This is a foreign language translation app that you can make use of, and it will cost you about $30. So, it is said that the level of performance will be similar to that of Now Talk. This app is designed more for the use of children for its interesting videos.
1. What is the disadvantage of Tell Me More?| A．It lacks language learning methods. | B．It offers no interactive activities. |
| C．It provides no interesting videos for children. | D．It costs much more than the others. |
| A．Tell Me More | B．Now Talk | C．Instant Immersion | D．Kids Talk |
| A．introduce some language learning apps to us |
| B．encourage us to use apps to learn foreign languages |
| C．tell us the importance of learning a foreign language |
| D．tell us the advantages and disadvantages of some apps |
【推荐1】Now a lot of families keep pets in their houses. Most pets are small animals, such as cats, dogs, fish, snakes, birds and so on.
Dogs are the favorite pets. The second favorite are cats and the third favorite are birds. These small animals are very cute and friendly. People usually have them as their family members. They look after them very well, they let them wear beautiful clothes and their pets have nice names. They also give their pets nice food to have. They buy food for their pets in pet shops. They keep them clean every day.
Pets are all very happy. Many pets have their houses and beds. They often go out to relax and take a walk with people in the park in the morning.
Some children like pets because they need friend to play with at home. Many old people don’t live with their children, and they keep pets at home just because they often feel lonely. The pets are like their children and they love them very much. So pets are very important. I think every family needs pets.
1. People give their pets ________ and ________.| A．nice clothes; nice parks | B．nice names; nice food |
| C．nice houses; nice friends | D．pet shops; nice beds |
| A．take a shower | B．buy food | C．go to the park | D．listen to music |
| A．孤独的 | B．快乐的 | C．紧张的 | D．有趣的 |
| A．people need to keep big pets | B．children need to have friends |
| C．old people need to live with their children | D．pets are very important |
【推荐2】Baking a Honeycake
To bake(烤) a honeycake, you will need these things: flour(面粉), baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, brown sugar, eggs, honey, and oil. You will need two large bowls and a baking pan.
Start making the honeycake by mixing together these things in a large bowl: 2 and 1/2 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, and 2 teaspoons of cinnamon.
Then in a second large bowl, mix 3/4 cup of brown sugar with 3 eggs. Next, add a cup of honey and 3/4 cup of oil to the second bowl.
Pour the contents of the first bowl into the second. Mix until blended (混合的).
Pour the batter (面糊) into a 10-inch pan.
Bake at about 120°C for 1 hour. After an hour, remove the pan from the oven and let it cool. Then remove the cake from the pan.
1. You need ________ at the first step of making a honeycake.| A．sugar | B．eggs | C．oil | D．cinnamon |
| A．1 teaspoon | B．2 teaspoons | C．3/4 cup | D．21/2 cup |
| A．add oil and honey | B．pour it into a pan | C．add eggs and sugar | D．bake at about 120°C |
【推荐3】Nobody knows how many different languages there are in the world. The most widely used language is English. It’s used by business people, airline pilots all over the world. It’s also the first language of sports and science. So it’s very important for us to learn English.
English is most widely spoken in the world, while Chinese has the largest number of speakers. There are not only over one billion people living in China, but also many Chinese people living outside of China. You can find large or small groups of Chinese people living in almost every country in the world.
There are some other important languages in the world, too. Chinese is of course very important, especially in Asia. Arabic is widely spoken in many parts of Asia and Africa. Russian is spoken both in Europe and Asia. French is widely understood, not only in Europe, but also in parts of Canada, Africa and Asia. Spanish has a growing number of speakers all over the world, especially in Central and South Africa.
What language do people speak in the United Nations? There are so many different languages in the world, but they decide to use only six of them. There are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. Everything spoken or written in one language is translated into the other five.
1. What’s the first language of sports and science?| A．Chinese. | B．French. | C．Russian. | D．English. |
| A．English is spoken by the most people | B．Chinese is spoken by the most people |
| C．English is spoken in most parts of the world | D．Chinese is spoken in some parts of the world |
| A．The Importance of English | B．Different Countries, Different Languages |
| C．Some Important Languages in the World | D．Languages Used in the United Nations |
