【推荐2】阅读下面文章，然后从文后所给的A—E五个选项中选择正确的句子完成短文 (其中一项是多余选项)，将其序号填入1—4题，并回答5题。

For many people, life is much better now than before. People have more ways to create wealth. They have more spare time to enjoy themselves. 1. ________ But there were only candles in the past. Medicine and diet are improving, and people are getting healthier and living longer. 2. ________ They can have a good education like men. And they can go to work even after getting married. But communication is changing fastest of all. Today, with the Internet, people can communicate easily with their friends all over the world. But in the past, people wrote to each other, so many postmen often worked very long hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat.

3. ________ Although transport and travel are easier today—more people drive cars instead of riding bikes, they seldom take exercise every day. 4. ________ Increasing traffic makes the roads more crowded than ever, and the air is badly polluted. We must work harder to reduce pollution. Let’s take action!

A．So they are not as fit as they were.

B．They can afford to use lights.

C．As a result, they are as healthy as they were.

D．The role of women has changed too.

E．Not all the changes are good ones.

1. ________
2. ________
3. ________
4. ________
5. According to the text, how did people communicate with each other in the past?(不多于5个词)
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【推荐3】阅读短文，然后根据内容回答所提问题。

Do you like walking? Jenny likes walking very much. She likes walking because she thinks walking is good for her health. “My home is six kilometers from my school. I get up at 6:00 every morning. Then I have a good breakfast. I think breakfast is very important to us. If we don’t eat breakfast in the morning, we can’t do well in our studies. After breakfast, I walk to school. I can see many interesting things and people on my way to the school. I can also think about what to do or how to do things at school,” says Jenny.

My father buys a new car and he wants to take me to school every morning. But I think I need to exercise and I ask my father to exercise, too. Now he walks to work. After dinner, my father, my mother and I usually take a walk in the park near our house. I have a happy family. And we have a healthy life.

How do you go to school every day? Walk to school now. It’s good exercise. It’s also good for the environment (环境). Do you think so?

1. Why does Jenny like walking?
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2. Does Jenny eat breakfast in the morning?
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3. How far is it from Jenny’s home to school?
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4. Does Jenny’s father go to work by car or on foot now?
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5. What do Jenny and her parents usually do after dinner?
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【推荐1】For many years scientists have said that the earth is getting warmer. Now they have found something new-hot cities! In the southern US, they have found that cities become very hot in summer.

China also has the same kind of problems. Every year more farming land is used for factories or offices. More housing is needed too. As people become richer, they buy more cars. New roads are needed and new car parks are built in the city centres. This all makes the cities hotter.

It is not easy to change the situation(情形). City planners say that we should plant more trees in the middle of cities. ‘Every new street should have trees on both sides,’ they say. Trees make the temperature(温度) lower, so we should have more trees in our parks and squares. Also we should paint our roofs(屋顶) white. If we do this, they do not become so hot. Every roof in a hot and sunny country should have solar（太阳的）roof panels（板）. The electricity from these can be used to run the air conditioners in the building.

People continue(继续) to cut down forests around the cities. This makes the problem worse. Cities are growing faster and faster. By the year 2050, 80% of the world’s population will be living in cities. If we go on like this, there will not be enough farmland to feed everyone in the world.

1. What has happened to the earth?
The earth _____________________________________.
2. What can we do to make the city cooler?
We can _______________________________________.
3. What makes the problem worse?
People continue to ______________________________.
4. How many people of the world will be living in cities according to the passage?
_________________________________ will be living in cities then.
5. What may happen in the future if cities are growing faster and faster?
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6. What should we do in cities to make the temperature lower?
We should ____________________________________.

【推荐2】Someone is singing next door, but you feel unhappy because her singing is terrible. So you think she is just making noise. We know that too much noise makes people feel terrible.

Scientists are still trying to find out more about noise, but already it is known that a noise of over 85 decibels(分贝) can make some people tried and anxious(焦虑的).

In the past we thought only workers in very noisy places became deaf easily. Today, scientists believe that 10% of all workers in Britain become deaf in their work.

There are also new dangers from noise. Pop music, for example, can reach 120 decibels when it is played loudly five feet away! Only a plane can make such loud noise when it takes off.

There was an experiment in the United States. Some people would be given a lot of money if they stood below a jet when it was taking off over their heads. No one got the money after the jet flew past because all of them died in the noise.

People can’t pay their attention on what they are doing when there is much noise. Workers in noisy offices, for example, do their work more slowly than workers in quiet offices. Another study shows that workers in factories can do dull(枯燥的) jobs better when lively music is played for them.

Topic	Too much noise makes people feel     1
Sources(源) of noise	. terrible singing . pop music when it is played     2     nearby . loud noise made by a plane taking off overhead.
Harm of noise	. A noise of over 85 decibels can make people feel tired and anxious. . 10%of all workers in Britain become     3     in their work. . Some people lose their    4    in the noise of a plane taking off over their heads. . Workers in noisy places do their work more     5    than those in quiet places.

【推荐3】Does your family buy the week’s groceries (杂货) including many bottled drinks into your home? Because after having sports or hanging out under the sun, it’s so cool to get a cold one right out of the fridge, right?

        But all those plastic (塑料) bottles use a lot of oil and pollute the environment. Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world with 29 billion water bottles a year. To make all these bottles, 17 million barrels (桶) of oil will be used up. That’s enough oil to keep million cars going for twelve months.
        Most people choose to throw the bottles away after having the bottled drinks. In fact, instead of going out with the trash, plastic bottles can be turned into carpeting or clothing. Remember this: Recycling one plastic bottle can save enough energy to power a 60-watt (瓦特) light bulb (灯泡) for six hours.
        Unfortunately, for every six water bottles we use, only one is made recycling. The rest are sent as garbage. Or, even worse, they end up as trash on the land or in rivers, lakes, and oceans. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate (分解).
        So why don’t more people drink water from the kitchen? Some people drink bottled water because they think it is better for them, but that’s not true. The chemicals in the bottles themselves may get into the water which can do harm to people.

So next time when you have drinks or water, please try to use a glass at home or carry water in a steel bottle. And if you want to do something more, try to collect plastic bottles and send them for recycling.

Answer the questions according to the passage.
1. What are plastic bottles made from?
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2. How many bottles of water do Americans buy every year?
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3. What can recycling a plastic bottle do?
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4. How long does it take to disintegrate plastic bottles?
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5. Is bottled water better for us?
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【推荐1】阅读下面短文，按要求完成下列各题。

Robot scientists say that one-year-old human babies have better movement (动作) skills than robots do. Let’s take a look at some tasks that are easy for kids but not easy for them.

Picking things up is not easy for robots. If we drop our pencil on the floor, our brains work hard. First, we must find the pencil and see where it is. We move our hands to it. A robot cannot always move its “hand” to the right place. A robot doesn’t know how far it is. When we touch the pencil, it might roll (滚动) a little bit. Robots cannot easily understand this, either. So, if you drop a pencil on the floor, a robot will probably roll it around the room.

If someone drops you in a new building, you might feel a little lost. But you can look around, find a door and get out quickly. You will not get stuck (困住的) in a corner. But a robot will look everywhere for a door, even on floors. This is because it’s hard for them to understand spaces, such as walls. Scientists need to train them with lots of data to learn this.

“Common sense (常识)” is what we don’t need to think or talk about. Because of it, we do not look for doors on the ceiling. We feel whether it has coffee inside, and whether it is hot. A robot may turn the cup upside down and hold the hot part of the cup. Scientists tried to teach robots common-sense rules. Maybe they just need more time to learn.

1题完成句子；2、3题简略回答问题；4题找出第二段的主题句；5题翻译划线的句子。
1. One-year-old human babies can take actions better than a ________.
2. Can the robot move its hand to the right place every time?
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3. What is “common sense” in the passage?
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4. _________________________________________________________________________
5. _________________________________________________________________________

【推荐3】阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容回答问题和翻译句子。
        Walking around the city, you will see girls wearing hanfu on the underground or people wearing T-shirt with Chinese characters in the streets. A new trend is getting popular in China. It’s guochao or China-Chic. Guochao adds traditional Chinese culture into products, and ①它代表着中国本土文化的兴起. Guochao got people’s attention in 2018. Before that, the market was controlled by foreign companies. There were few Chinese-brands. To win the market share, many Chinese brands followed the footsteps of these Western brands. In 2018, Chinese sportswear brand Li-Ning made changes to the situation. It introduced its Wu Dao collection (悟道系列) to the world. The collection not only looked fashionable, but also included elements of traditional Chinese culture. It quickly caught people’s attention at home and abroad. And it created amazing sales.
        Later, many Chinese brands, from food, drinks and clothing to mobile phones and cars, started to add Chinese culture into their products. Even the film and music industries made every effort to create Chinese styles. “We want our products to be the ones that young people would like to share”, they said. These brands got what they wanted. Young people gradually changed their attention from Western culture to guochao. They accepted it with pleasure. What’s more, they started to develop interest in traditional Chinese art and literature. Now they wear traditional clothes, practice Chinese calligraphy and play Chinese musical instruments. Some of them are working together to spread Chinese culture to people around the world.
        At the same time, people of different ages start to choose products “made in China”. According to a survey, 68% Chinese people prefer Chinese brands. Among them, 62% say they are open to international brands, but Chinese brands remain the first choice. No matter how the guochao trend develops, there is one thing that won’t change: ②Behind the guochao is people’s confidence in the country’s development and national culture.
1. What is a new trend?
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2. Who ruled the market before 2018?
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3. Did Li-Ning introduce its Wu Dao collection to the world?
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4. 将画线句子①翻译成英文。
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5. 将画线句子②翻译成中文。
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