People in the office usually sit for most of the day when they work. But this is bad for a person’s health. When people sit for too long every day, they don’t move very much. So it is easy to start getting fat. Sitting too long is also bad for their work because it makes them want to sleep. When this happens, people may make more mistakes in their work or spend more time finishing their work. Companies need workers to be healthy, so how do they fix the problem?
Some companies have different types of desks to help their workers. The first type of desk is the standing desk. The desk can be taller when a person wants to stand. It can also be shorter when the person wants to sit. Another type of desk is the walking desk. This desk is made so that a person can work while walking at the same time.
Workers in the companies like the different types of desks very much. They think these desks are quite useful.
1. What do people usually do when they in the office work?| A．Sit. | B．Move. | C．Run. | D．Sing. |
| A．Two. | B．Three. | C．Four. | D．Five. |
| A．They are cheap. | B．They are traditional. |
| C．They are useful. | D．They are expensive. |
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When you’re having fun in the park and see a bird, why not take a picture of it? If you do that, you could be helping scientists!
The Shanghai Natural History Museum has an app called “Find Nature”. People can upload (上传) photos, sounds and places of animals if they see them around their city. Scientists can use the information (信息) to study city animals and better protect (保护) them.
In fact, people just like you can help out with many scientific studies. For example, it would take scientists many years to find every kind of ladybug (瓢虫) in the world. But if we share our own photos of ladybugs with scientists, they can find them much faster. As one old saying goes, “Many hands make light work”.
Of course, there is more to study than just animals. There are many other fun things, such as watching stars and clouds, counting penguins (数企鹅) and even listening to laughs. You’ll find that science is fun and it’s for everyone!
1. How can people help scientists with Find Nature?| A．They can look for pictures of animals. |
| B．They can study animal photos and videos. |
| C．They can upload information about animals they see. |
| D．They can find and protect animals. |
| A．scientific studies will be hard with people’s help |
| B．it will take years for scientists to study the information from the app |
| C．people can share their stories with scientists in the app |
| D．with the app, people can help scientists |
| A．People. | B．Scientists. | C．Ladybugs. | D．Photos. |
| A．How to study animals with the app. |
| B．How to watch stars and count penguins. |
| C．Where to find new things. |
| D．Other fun things about science. |
Look! Here comes a new bus. It looks like a panda with black ears and big eyes. It can carry 22 people and it is about 12 meters long. It was made in China.
The panda bus looks cute, and it’s also quite smart. It uses AI technology（科技）. There are no drivers on the bus. It can find its way. When you get on the bus, you can swipe（刷）your hand. The bus can read your handprint and know who you are. There are also many clever and helpful robots（机器人）on the bus. If you are in danger, the bus will call 110 right away. Inside the bus, there is a vending machine（自动售货机）. You can buy breakfast and dinner on the bus. When you get off the bus, and need to take another bus, you can also get the transfer information（换乘信息）from the bus.
People in the cities, like Changzhou in Jiangsu Province, Jinan in Shandong Province and Xiamen in Fujian Province, can take the bus. Do you want to take it?
1. Which is TRUE about the panda bus?| A．It is about 22m long |
| B．The bus driver is just a panda. |
| C．It can carry 22 people at a time. |
| A．see a driver |
| B．swipe your hand |
| C．buy breakfast and dinner |
| A．上车 | B．到达 | C．下车 |
| A．Jinan. | B．Guilin. | C．Changzhou. |
| A．Panda bus on the streets |
| B．AI technology in China |
| C．Panda robots in the city |
【推荐3】Best English Learning Apps
If you’re reading this, you already understand some English. We’re here to help you get even better. Here are the best apps for you!
 Hello English | Price: $8.99 per month / $29.99 per year Hello English is a popular app for learning English. It lets you learn the language from 22 other languages. That should work for most people. The app offers 475 lessons, offline support, a 10,000-word dictionary, and over 150 teachers to assist you. People seem to really like this one and it worked well during our testing. |
 Google Translate | Price: Free Google Translate is an excellent app for language scholars and travelers. The app has three main characters that make it really useful. The first is your standard(标准的) text-to-text translation. It also translates speaking in real-time. This is an excellent tool for practicing your vocabulary and pronunciation. Finally, you can point the camera at objects. |
 Busuu | Price: $69.99 per year Busuu is a popular language-learning app. It supports English from a variety of other languages. It uses somewhat traditional methods. You learn grammar, spelling, words, phrases, and conversational English. The app also includes accent(口音) training and it’s one of the few good offline English learning apps. |
 Duolingo | Price: $9.99 per month Duolingo supports well over two dozen languages in total and English is one of them. Duolingo uses a fun method for teaching. You do a bunch of grammar and vocabulary lessons disguised(伪装) as games. Thus, it’s a little more colorful than the more serious apps like Mondly, Memrise, and others. |
| A．22. | B．150. | C．475. | D．10,000. |
| A．Hello English. | B．Google Translate. | C．Busuu. | D．Duolingo. |
| A．serious | B．colorful | C．important | D．popular |
【推荐1】In the 13th century, Marco Polo, the world known Italian traveler, saw many wonderful things in China. One of the things he discovered was money made of paper.
People in the West did not have such kind of money until the 15th century. However, the Chinese began to use it in the 7th century.
Paper was invented by a Chinese man called Cai Lun almost 2,000 years ago. But it was not made in Europe until the year 1100. Four hundred years later, a German discovered that he could make the best paper from trees. After that countries rich in forests, such as Canada, Sweden, America, Finland became the most important ones in paper making.
Paper can be used in many ways. The common uses include newspapers, magazines and books. But do you know that paper can be used for keeping warm? In Finland, the farmers wear paper boots to keep their feet warm in the snow. And even houses can be insulated（使绝缘）from heat or cold with paper.
However, we have to understand that paper still comes from trees now. If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not be any trees left on the earth some day in the near future. Every day people throw away about 2,800 tons of paper in our city. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. This means that we are cutting down nearly 48,000 trees every day. The fact is that it takes more than 10 years for a tree to grow.
So we must start saving paper right now. We can use both sides of every piece of paper. We can make useful things out of used paper. We can use china cups instead of paper ones. When shopping, we can use fewer paper bags and reuse them if we have some.
In short, we should keep a balance（平衡）between using paper and protecting trees, and do it now before it is too late.
1. Paper money was used in China _________.| A．in the 7th century | B．until the 15th century | C．in the 13th century |
| A．they were rich countries |
| B．they were large countries |
| C．they had lots of forests |
| A．Europeans didn’t use paper until the year 1100. |
| B．Paper is only used for keeping warm in Finland. |
| C．Wasting more paper means cutting down more trees. |
| A．the invention of paper |
| B．the use of paper |
| C．the importance of saving paper |
【推荐2】Tim, Bob, Frank and Linda lost some things.
| Tim: I lost my yellow pencil box this afternoon. There are three pencils, a pen and a ruler in the pencil box. |
| Bob: I lost my schoolbag this afternoon. There is a Chinese dictionary, an English book and two notebooks in my blue schoolbag. |
| Frank: My bag is green. I couldn’t find it this morning. There are two CDs and three picture books in it. My English book is in it, too. |
| Linda: I couldn’t find my schoolbag this afternoon. It is red. There is a pencil box, a map and a notebook in my schoolbag. Oh, a set of keys is in it, too. |
| A．Tim and Bob | B．Frank and Linda | C．Tim and Linda | D．Bob and Frank |
| A．Yellow. | B．Red. | C．Green. | D．Blue. |
| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
 | Football player Wang Shuang was born in 1995. She played an important role in winning South Korea’s national football team, helping China get a ticket to Tokyo 2020 Olympics. |  | Volleyball player Zhu Ting is famous in Chinese sport right now. The 28-year-old player is the captain of China’s women’s volleyball team and became MVP at Rio 2016 Olympics. |
 | Tennis player Li Na, now in her forties, used to be a Chinese tennis player. During her career, Li won nine WTA Tour Singles titles including two Grand Slam singles titles in 2011 and 2014. |  | Free skier Gu Ailing was born in 2003 in San Francisco. Two years ago, as a Chinese player, she made free skiing history. Within two days, she won two gold medals for China at the same world championship. |
| A．Zhu Ting. | B．Li Na. | C．Gu Ailing. |
| A．Wang Shuang has helped China enter the Olympics |
| B．Zhu Ting is the captain of China’s women’s basketball team |
| C．Gu Ailing won two gold medals on the same day at the age of 17 |
| A．four sports events | B．four excellent women players | C．exciting sports moments |
