As we all know, bikes are mainly made of steel (钢铁). But can you imagine that they can be made of bamboo? Do you want to know how a bamboo bike is produced? Do you want to make your own bike with bamboo? You can do it at the Bamboo Bike Studio (工作室) in New York. People there can teach you how to make your own bamboo bike.
The studio is also helping build factories in Ghana, which is a country in western Africa. The factories will make cheap bamboo bikes.
Bamboo is as good as steel for building a good bike. Marty Odlin works at the studio. He says a bamboo bike is the wonderful everyday bike.
In Ghana, bikes are very popular. Few people have money to buy a car. And people like to use bikes to carry most of the country’s food and other goods.
The people of Ghana are also too poor and they can’t build factories to make traditional steel bikes. But making bamboo bikes is cheap. Odlin is planning to show the Ghanaian workers how to quickly make bamboo bikes now. He hopes that more and more Ghanaian people can have bamboo bikes.
1. What can you do at the Bamboo Bike Studio?| A．Learn to ride a bamboo bike. |
| B．Learn to make a bamboo bike. |
| C．Sell your own bamboo bikes. |
| D．Change a bamboo bike into a steel one. |
| A．Because people are too poor to buy a car. |
| B．Because bikes can carry goods like cars. |
| C．Because the studio built bike factories there. |
| D．Because riding bikes is easier than driving a car. |
| A．Bamboo bikes can be popular in the world. |
| B．Bamboo bikes can take the place of steel bikes. |
| C．More and more Ghanaian people can have bamboo bikes. |
| D．More and more Ghanaian people work in the factories. |
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【推荐1】Private car services that work only with women are becoming more popular in Brazil due to concerns about safety. One of the car services has a mobile app called Femi Taxi .It has more than 1，000 drivers giving some 20，000 rides per month.
Femi Taxi has expanded into six Brazilian cities and may go to other Latin American markets.
A competing app ,Lady Driver ,was set up in Sao Paulo in March.It has 8，000 drivers and over 100,000 users.
It plans to expand operations to Rio de Janeiro this month .The rapid growth of these apps in cities such as Sao Paulo highlights the rising concerns about public safety in Brazil .From August 2016 to August 2017,reports of crimes(犯罪)such as attempted rape rose by more than 10 percent in Sao Paulo state.
Wellknown transportation companies, such as Uber, along with Spain's Cabify and 99，have also increased efforts to improve safety for drivers and passengers in Brazil this past year.
Highprofile cases of sexual assault(袭击)on public buses have drawn attention to the issue of violence against women.
Metros in the cities of Belo Horizonte and Recife have recently started femaleonly train cars.There have been femaleonly cars in Rio de Janeiro's trains for over a decade.
Gabriela Correa is the founder and CEO of Lady Driver.
“I think the problem of sexual harassment(骚扰)in public transport always existed，but it wasn't discussed，” she said.
“Now__women__are__standing__up,taking__initiatives__like__our__own__to__seek__safety.”
Ridehailing apps for female drivers and passengers are not unique to Brazil.See Jane Go，an allwomen transportation app ,launched in the American state of California in 2016.
A rival company, Safr, launched in the American city of Boston earlier this year.
1. What does the text talk about?| A．Women's safety. |
| B．Women's travel. |
| C．Women's privacy. |
| D．Women's protection. |
| A．Uber. | B．Safr. |
| C．Lady Driver. | D．Cabify. |
| A．Lady Driver，which was set up in May，has 8，000 drivers and over 100，000 users. |
| B．Some transportation companies have also increased efforts to improve safety for drivers and passengers in Brazil this past year. |
| C．Private cars service that work only with women becomes popular because of the safety problem. |
| D．Highprofile cases of sexual assault on public buses rise concerns about violence against women. |
| A．Women should depend on the public to seek safety. |
| B．Women can be passive to protect themselves. |
| C．Women still seek safety although they are standing up. |
| D．Women can protect themselves actively and independently. |
【推荐2】Li Ming is a primary student, he is 1.35 meters tall. His parents are going to travel by high-speed train. Here is some information they have got.
Train | Departure | Arrival | Price |
D3511 | Yinchuan 09:00 | Xi’an 11:59 | ¥264 (half price: ¥122) |
D1997 | Yinchuan 14:12 | Chengdu 23:24 | ¥813 (half price: ¥406.5) |
G1907 | Yinchuan 13:14 | Jinan 22:49 | ¥1263 (half price: ¥631.5) |
G3173 | Yinchuan 07:06 | Shanghai 19:15 | ¥1362 (half price: ¥681) |
Children below 1.2 meters: free; Children between 1.2~1.5 meters: half price.
1. Which train will Li Ming take if he wants to go to Shanghai?
| A．D3511 | B．D1997 | C．G1907 | D．G3173 |
| A．At 11:59. | B．At 23:24. | C．At 22:49. | D．At 19:15. |
| A．Around 3 hours. | B．Around 10 hours. | C．Around 9 hours. | D．Around 12 hours. |
| A．¥1263 | B．¥1894.5 | C．¥2526 | D．¥3157.5 |
【推荐3】We do a survey(调查) on how students get to school in our school. Here are the results（结果）.
There are 2,616 students in our school. About 56% students live in the center of our city. So they go to school by school bus. The buses bring them to school in the morning and take them home in the afternoon. They have lunch at school.
About 18% students ride their bikes to school. Because they do not live far form school. At noon they often have lunch at school and do homework in the classrooms.
Some students live in the countryside (乡下) or in other cities (城市). They take the train to school, or their parents drive them there. They usually live in the school on school days. It’s about 16% . They can get free healthy breakfast at school.
A small number of students walk to school. They live near the school. It’s about 10%. They usually go back home for lunch.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. Over 50% students get to school ________.
| A．by car | B．by school bus | C．by bike | D．on foot |
| A．20% | B．38% | C．66 % | D．90% |
| A．getting to school by bike | B．living in the school |
| C．walking to school every day | D．taking school buses to school |
| A．3. | B．4. | C．5. | D．6. |
| A．How to Get to School | B．Why to Live at School |
| C．Where to Have Lunch | D．When to Get to School |
【推荐1】What will the future be like? There may be many new achievements (成就) in science and technology. Maybe our planet will become difficult to live on. Maybe human life will become very convenient. As for future life, everyone has his own ideas. Here are some of my ideas about the future.
I think three things can sum up my ideas. The first is clean energy. We will have more and more clean energy. The pollution will be reduced. The second is artificial intelligence (人工智能). Robots have already played an important part in our life. In the future, robots will take the place of many workers. But everything has two sides. If robots take the place of many workers, many people will be jobless (失业的). It’s not good. And the third is traffic. We will have fast transportation. The traffic will be quicker. I hope there will be more ways to deal with current traffic problems.
I have my own ideas about my future life. I think I will have a simpler life. I believe that I will live in a comfortable and quiet house with my family. What’s more, I will not need to worry about my parents’ health because everyone can live long.
1. The underlined phrase “take the place of ” probably means “________” in Chinese.| A．照顾 | B．代替 | C．关心 | D．负责 |
| A．lose their jobs | B．get new jobs | C．feel pleased | D．feel satisfied |
| A．The writer thinks four things can sum up his ideas. | B．The writer thinks he will have a busier life. |
| C．The writer believes he will live in a large house. | D．The writer thinks everyone can live long. |
【推荐2】When travelling abroad, you have to spend some time thinking about gifts. What should you buy for your family or your friend? It could be a Yankees baseball cap if you visit the U.S. in Vietnam, a straw hat called a Non La is a popular tourist gift. If you ever visit Russia, you may want to think about buying a set of Russian dolls (俄罗斯套娃).They are like no other doll.
Russian dolls were first made in 1890 and included eight dolls. These were all hand carved (雕刻) and painted. They were dressed in a traditional dress called sarafan. The word “Matryoshka” means matron—an older married woman. The idea was that it meant a family with the mother being at its head. The dolls proved to be very popular and it was not long before every woodworker was making them.
The Russian doll appeared at the Paris World’s Fair in 1900. Everyone who saw them wanted one. Soon people visiting Russia also wanted to have one. Being quite small, they could fit into tourists’ luggage (行李) very easily—unlike a Non La! The dolls were all hand carved and painted until about 1930, when factories began producing inexpensive Russian dolls.
1. As a tourist gift, where does a Non La most probably come from?| A．France | B．Russia | C．Vietnam | D．America |
| A．They were named after an old woman. | B．They were images of a big family. |
| C．They were gifts for mothers. | D．They were made by hand. |
| A．They were hugely popular. |
| B．They were produced in factories. |
| C．They were put into a small bag. |
| D．They were given to tourists as a gift. |
【推荐3】In Australia, National Tree Day is on the last Sunday in July. In China, Tree Planting Day is on 12th March. Trees are very important in our life. Trees make our city beautiful. We can get a lot of things from trees. We get fruit from trees. We also get wood from trees. We use wood to make pencils, desks and chairs. We can use wood to make paper, too. Trees can keep the air clean. They can cool the air, too. So we should love trees. We should plant more trees. On Tree Planting Day, we can plant trees with our teachers and classmates. It is interesting!
根据短文内容，判断句子正（A）误（B）。
1. In China, Tree Planting Day is on 12th March.
2. Trees can make our city beautiful.
3. We can’t use wood to make paper.
4. The trees can make us feel cool in hot days.
5. In Australia, National Tree Day is in summer.
