【推荐1】In recent years, many schools in China have had high-tech products. They add value to student learning and life at school.

At the Tianjin Eco-City School, the high technology makes learning a fun experience. In aerospace (航天) classes, students use VR glasses to learn about what’s inside a rocket and how it is launched (发射) in a computer game. Also, in swimming classes, by wearing smart earphones, children can get real-time commands from the coach under the water. It helps improve the quality of training.

For PE classes, Yuwen School in Wuhu, Anhui, has used self-testing tools with AI technology for activities. Students can get voice reports and results on how they did right after each exercise. They can also see which parts of their exercise need improvement.

Apart from learning, students can also enjoy meals made by smart canteens (食堂). To meet the different needs of students, the canteen offers over 400 dishes, with six to seven choices for each meal. Parents and students can choose their favorite before meals online. And they use facial recognition technology to pick up their meal. It helps the school plan and prepare meals cutting down on food waste.

1. What do the students do in aerospace classes in Tianjin Eco-City School?

A．They invent high technology products.

B．They launch a rocket in a computer game.

C．They learn about the things inside a rocket.

2. What does the underlined word “commands” mean?

A．表扬

B．指令

C．安排

3. How do students in Yuwen School get results on how they did after each exercise?

A．By asking the teacher.

B．By using self-testing tools.

C．By communicating with partners.

4. Why can smart canteens cut down food waste?

A．Because they offer over 400 dishes.

B．Because they make more delicious food.

C．Because they help schools plan and prepare meals.

5. What’s the best title of this passage?

A．The High Technology in School

B．The Development of Technology

C．The Development of Colorful School Life

【推荐2】It’s reported that a high-speed railway opened on December 30th, 2019 between Beijing and Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, construction (施工) of which started in April, 2016. According to China Railway (CR), the 174-km-long railway line, an important project for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, will shorten the trip between the two host cities from over three hours to only 47 minutes.

It will be the world’s first high-speed railway on which self-driving trains can reach a speed of up to 350 kilometers per hour. “Now, the drivers only need to push button and the system will independently speed up, slow down, stop and open the passenger doors,” said Liu Chunyu, a high-speed train driver.

Known as China’s first “intelligent high-speed railway line”, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou line features not only self-driving, but also intelligent modules (模块). “We want to connect the high-speed train with different new technologies, like cloud computing, big data and AI, making passengers feel at home,” Zhang Bo, a researcher from China Academy of Railway Sciences, said. What’s more, there is a mobile news center where passengers can watch live Olympic broadcasts on the train.

The line has 10 stations, five in Beijing and the others in Hebei Province, including one at the Badaling section of the Great Wall. All the stations are equipped (配备) with smart devices, robots and 5G networks for the convenience of passengers.

“Today, the line also begins to connect some cities in Inner Mongolia and Shanxi Province to the high-speed railway loop (环线) in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei,” said Zhu Dianping, an officer from China Railway Beijing Group. The line will finally connect Beijing with most parts of northwest China together.

1. It takes people ________ to get to Beijing from Zhangjiakou by taking the high-speed train.

A．three hours	B．1 hour and 47 minutes
C．47 minutes	D．three hours and 47 minutes

2. What does the 3rd paragraph mainly tell us?

A．The new high-speed railway line is really intelligent.

B．Self-driving trains are popular with passengers.

C．Passengers can watch live Olympic games on the train.

D．There will be more intelligent high-speed railway lines in China.

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Workers spent nearly 5 years building the new railway.

B．Liu Chunyu has been a high-speed train driver for years.

C．Over five stations of the new line can be found in Hebei.

D．It’s possible for people in northwest China to take the train.

4. What can be the best title of the passage?

A．Travel by taking self-driving trains

B．Amazing new technologies on the train

C．Have a good time at high-speed train stations

D．A high-speed railway for 2022 Winter Olympics

【推荐3】In our daily life, robots are often found to do work that is too dangerous, boring, difficult or dirty. And we often see kids play with toy robots.

________ There are some important characteristics (特征) that a robot must have. These characteristics might help you to know what is and what is not a robot. It will also help you to decide what you will need to build a machine before it can be considered as a robot. A robot has these important characteristics.

First of all, your robot would have to be able to feel the environment around it. Give your robot sensors (传感器): light sensors (eyes), touch sensors (hands), hearing sensors (ears) and so on.

A robot needs to be able to move around its environment. It can move on wheels (轮子), walk on legs or be driven by small engines (发动机). A robot can move either the whole body or just parts of it.

A robot needs to be able to make itself work. Some robots might make it with sunlight, some might with electricity (电).

A robot needs some kind of “smarts”. A programmer is the person who gives the robot its “smarts”. The robot will have to have a certain way to get the program so that it knows what it is and what to do.

1. Choose the best sentence to fill in the blank “________” in Paragraph 2.

A．But what is a robot?	B．Robots are very popular with kids.
C．Let me tell you how to build a robot.	D．The robot is very useful these days.

2. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．A robot.

B．A machine.

C．A sensor.

D．An engine.

3. What may the light sensors help a robot do?

A．To catch.

B．To see.

C．To smell.

D．To hear.

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．How to Play with Toy Robots	B．The History of Robots
C．Building Your Own Robot at Home	D．Important Characteristics of Robots

5. What’s the purpose of the passage?

A．To tell people the use of robots.	B．To describe the sensors of robots.
C．To tell what a robot can do in our life.	D．To help people know what a robot is.

【推荐1】In the past 300 years, more than 130 species of animals have become extinct. One of these extinct species is the passenger pigeon(旅鸽). At one time there were millions of these birds in North America, but now there are none. The last one died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. Another extinct animal is the cape lion(西非狮). The animal has been extinct since 1860.
What cause animals to become extinct? Too much hunting is one cause; pollution is another.
Governments around the world have begun to protect wild animals in danger. In the United States, the US Fish and Wildlife Service is responsible for(承担义务)endangered animals. It has listed nearly 200 species of endangered animals in North America.
1. The underlined word “extinct” in the first sentence probably means “         ”.

A．ill	B．dying out
C．becoming	D．changing

2. There were many cape lions in North America          .

A．last century

B．in the twentieth century

C．more than one hundred years ago

D．in 1914

3.        isn’t the reason for the extinction of wild animals in North America.

A．The pollution	B．Too much killing
C．Too much hunting	D．The war

4. Three are        species of wild animals in danger listed by the US Fish and Wildlife.

A．less than 130	B．about 200
C．over 300	D．nearly 300

5. The best title of this passage should be “       ”.

A．A sad story

B．Endangered animals in North America

C．Wild animals become extinct

D．The US Fish and Wildlife Service

【推荐3】Scientists are trying to make the deserts into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts, so people can live and grow food. They are learning a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is becoming deserts all the time. Scientists may not be able to change the deserts. Scientists think that people make deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.

Some places on the earth don’t get very much rain. But they still don’t become deserts. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places. Plants don’t let the hot sun make the earth even drier. Plants don’t let the wind blow the dirt away. When a little bit of rain falls, the plants hold the water. Without plants the land can become a desert much more easily.

1. What are the scientists trying to do?

A．Scientists are trying to make the deserts into good land again.

B．Scientists are trying to grow food on the moon .

C．Scientists are trying to change the oil into water .

D．Scientists are trying to make the deserts into sea.

2. Why are small green plants important to dry places?

A．Because they don’t let the sun make the earth even drier.

B．Because they don’t let the wind blow the dirt away .

C．Because they hold the water.

D．All above.

3. What will the writer probably continue writing in next paragraph?

A．Scientists should bring water to the desert.

B．Scientists should do nothing about the deserts.

C．People should plant more green plants to stop the good land from turning into deserts.

D．People should change the forests into farmland.

【推荐1】Jackson is in the ninth grade at Lakeview Junior High School. He says he sometimes needs a place to stay alone and have a break. His classmate, Jenny, sometimes feels unhappy and is even afraid. “Things are happening in our world and they are impacting (影响) our students at school.” Sarah, the school teacher, says.

Now in one of the school’s rooms, students can find a moment to take a break. The room is called SMART lab. It helps young people with different stress (压力). Students spend about 23 minutes in the lab every day. They can talk, color, listen to music and play games. All these can help them feel better and listen carefully in class.

Every year, the lab helps 383 students in the school. “There’s always a thing you can do and there is always someone who wants to talk,” Jenny says.

“If you’re afraid, and want to talk to someone about how you feel, just go into the SMART lab,” Jackson says.

1. Jenny goes to the SMART lab when ________.

A．she is tired	B．she feels bad
C．her classmates play games	D．her parents are not at home

2. In the lab, students can ________.

A．have a short break	B．do some sports
C．finish their homework	D．sleep for a long time

3. Which can be a best title (标题) for the passage?

A．Kind Teachers, Smart Students	B．Kind Teachers, Great Schools
C．SMART Lab Helps Students with Stress	D．SMART Lab Helps Students Learn Science

【推荐3】True or False (判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用 “T” 表示，不符合的用 “F”表示)

“My family have been watching the ‘Super Girl’ singing competition TV programme. My little daughter asked me what ‘PK’ meant, but I had no idea,” said a Yangzhou father.

To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing MUD games(多用户网络游戏) online, it is impossible not to know this jargon(行话). In such Internet games, “PK” is short for “Player Kill”, in which two players fight with each other until one ends the life of the other. In the case of the “Super Girl” singing competition, “PK” was used when two singers had to compete with each other for only one chance to go up.

Like this father, Chinese teachers at high schools have also found their students’ compositions, using Internet jargon, difficult to understand. Once a high school teacher from Nanjing asked her students to write compositions, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargon that she didn’t understand. “My ‘GG’ came back this summer from college. He told me I had grown up to be a ‘PLMM’. He always took me to the ‘KPM’...,” went one composition. “GG” means Ge Ge (Chinese pinyin for “brother”). “PLMM” means Piao Liang Mei Mei (beautiful girl). “KPM” is short for KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonalds. “Gr 8”means “Great”. “LOL” has the meaning of “Laugh Out Loud”.

If you don’t even know what a “Kong Long” (a bad-looking girl) or a “Qing Wa” (a bad-looking boy) is, then you’ll perhaps be thought as a “Cai Niao” (a person who starts to use the Internet).

While some language experts agree that Internet jargon is a new development in language, many teachers and parents are worried that too much use of such language may keep the students away from the “right” usages (使用) or make them fail to do well in language exams.

1. The Yangzhou father doesn’t know the meaning of “PK”.
2. Many Chinese school students like to use Internet jargon in their speaking and writing today.
3. On the Internet, you can use “GG” and “MM” to show you are very happy.
4. We call a person “Cai Niao” if he or she is a beginner in using the Internet.
5. If you use the Internet jargon in your composition, it will be difficult to understand.
6. “PK” in the Internet games means to help the other.
7. Many teachers and parents think of Internet jargon may keep the students away from the “right” usages of language.