Cold air swept across the north part of China in the first week of November. At the same time, a global (全球的) meeting on climate (气候) change was held in Scotland. There, leaders around the world tried to control global warming.
Why are we experiencing such a cold winter on a warming planet? The cold winter and global warming, two opposite facts, are not contradictory (对立的).
Global warming has changed Earth’s air condition and the weather. For example, in October, Li Nina affected China. It was caused by strong winds from the Pacific Ocean.
Another reason for the cold weather is the warming Arctic. It’s warming almost three times as fast as any other places on Earth.
Will the earth be much colder? It’s reported that a cold winter is likely. Northern China will probably see more snow, and southern China will see less rain.
1. Why did leaders hold a global meeting on climate change in Scotland?2. What caused Li Nina according to Paragraph 3?
3. What can you do to stop the global warming?
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This week we did a project on the history of London.
My grandfather said that London in the 1950s was a terrible place to live because the air pollution was so bad, There were many factories and they caused（引起） a lot of smoke . This smoke caused heavy black fog in the sky. The people of London called this “smog”.
Sometimes the smog was so thick that people could not see at all. Taxis and buses could not go anywhere as it was too dangerous to drive .The smog was also harmful to people’s health, and some people found that it was difficult to breathe(呼吸).
In 1956, the government made new laws about the pollution ,and the air got much cleaner. Today it is clean and we never see smog in London. Since the 1950s, people from all over the world have come to live in London .My grandfather says that this is one of the best changes -----now he can eat food from India, China ,Italy and Germany in his neighbourhood .
I like living in London today, and I am happy to have friends from all over the world.
根据上面短文回答问题：
1. Was London a terrible place to live in the 1950s?
2. Were many farms caused（引起） a lot of smoke?
3. What do the people of London called the black smoke?
4. Why taxis and buses could not go anywhere?
5. Can my grandfather eat food from China?
A group of scientists discovered a gas called phosphine(磷化氢) on Venus(金星). That means there may be living things on the planet, which made many people start to imagine the talk between aliens and humans. A reporter from Washington Post wrote a letter to people of Earth on behalf of(代表) the citizens on Venus.
| Attention, People of Earth Fine. The big secret is out. Many of your finest scientists have discovered there is life tens of millions of miles away-here, on the beautiful planet of Venus. Congratulations! However, we have a polite request: Please stay away. We're serious. No spacecrafts to Venus, no tasks, no visits. If we wake up one morning and see so many of you people wandering around in spacesuits, we're going to be really upset. We don't want to be impolite. It's just that we're shocked by what you've got going on down there. Earth looks like a mess. You've got health problems, environmental pollution, traffic jams, political fights, etc. No wonder so many of you want to leave Earth for another planet. We know you'd like it here. That's what frightens us. you'd all move to Venus at once. If we start having you all up here, pretty soon, the Martians(火星人)and Jupiterians(木星人) are going to come, too. But we can't handle so much. Venus is not Earth 2. We suggest _______________________ because _____________________. God bless you! Sincerely, Venusians(金星人) |
1. Is it possible that there are living things on Venus according to the scientific discovery?
2. What do the Venusians ask Earth people to do?
3. How will the Venusians feel when seeing many Earth people on Venus?
4. Why do Earth people want to leave for another planet?
5. What can be filled in the blanks?
6. Who actually wrote the letter?
Nowadays, bike-sharing has been very popular in China. Mobike（摩拜单车）is one of the market leaders in the bike-sharing business.
What is Mobike?
Mobike was founded（成立）in January, 2015. People in many cities, such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Ji’nan as well as Shanghai, have a chance of using the app. The whole number of Mobike app users is larger than that of any other bike-sharing app users.
Who uses Mobike?
According to a survey, 53.23% of the Mobike users are men, while 46.77% are women. Mobike is not only popular with young people, but also wins the hearts of the old. It shows that retired（退休的）men traveled the longest distances（距离）by shared bikes.
Why do people use Mobike?
Chinese people use Mobike for different reasons. Users can rent（租借）a bike at a low price, usually about one yuan an hour. It also offers people a better choice for short journeys in cities, especially when people can’t find a bus or the underground to take. What’s more, it’s helpful in traffic. And the most important is that it can help improve the environment.
1. When was Mobike founded?2. According to the passage, who traveled the longest distances by shared bikes?
3. What’s the most important reason that people use Mobike?
4. 把短文中划线句子译成汉语。
5. 给短文拟一个恰当的英文标题。
【推荐1】 Do you always feel lonely? When do you feel lonely? Is loneliness a good feeling? Nowadays more and more people are having this kind of feeling in their daily life. When someone feels lonely, he or she will have an experience of being alone because of low levels of social contact and relationships.
There are two kinds of loneliness: emotional loneliness and social loneliness. Emotional loneliness is about the relationship between parents and their children. When children leave their parents for a while, they usually show the pain, such as crying and trying to search for their parents. Therefore, emotional loneliness is caused by leaving a person that someone is close to, such as a parent. On the other hand, social loneliness is the loneliness that one experiences when he or she leaves a wide social network. One doesn’t feel that he or she is a member of a group, or one doesn’t have friends to talk to when he or she is sad.Besides, loneliness is different from being alone. Being alone is about not having contact with people. But loneliness is a subjective experience: if people think they are lonely, then they are lonely. People can be lonely when they are alone, or in a group. What makes people lonely is the fact that they want more social interaction. People can be in a group and feel lonely because they don’t get to talk to enough people. On the other hand, one can be alone and not feel lonely, though there is no one around him or her. That person is not lonely because maybe he or she doesn’t want to have social interaction at that time.
So, what about you? Will you feel lonely if you stay alone? Or you just enjoy the time being with yourself.
1. Why did the writer start the passage with questions?
| A．To let readers answer these questions. |
| B．To ask for more ideas about loneliness. |
| C．To make readers interested in the passage. |
| D．To check students’ understanding of loneliness. |
| A．They have no friends to talk to. |
| B．They have a small social network. |
| C．They have a feeling of being lonely. |
| D．They don’t get on well with their parents. |
| A．A hot subject. |
| B．A person’s own feeling. |
| C．A pain in the body. |
| D．A person’s special plan. |
Developed by US company OpenAI, ChatGPT is getting popular, winning 100 million users since it came out in November 2022. People can use the robot to write stories and emails, answer questions and so on. In its own words, it is “a language model trained in a lot of Internet text to help users get human-like text.”
Compared with Siri or other chatbots (聊天机器人), ChatGPT uses a much bigger database (数据库) for training. It uses stronger software (软件) and hardware (硬件) to learn things by itself. For example, if it provides a wrong answer to your question, you can tell it the right one and it will correct. “It’s a totally different product,” computer scientist Liu Xiaoguang from Nankai University said. “Its knowledge level is similar to a university student. That’s why it surprises the world.”
But the big problems with ChatGPT are that it makes mistakes and even gives false information. When Rezza, a 28-year-old from Indonesia, used the robot to write an article, “it gave out wrong information,” he said. Since the robot is trained using words from the Internet, it can also pick up on the Internet’s biases (偏见) about certain groups. These are all things that need to be dealt with.
1. When did ChatGPT come out?2. What can people use the robot to do?
3. How does ChatGPT learn things by itself?
4. Why does ChatGPT surprise the world?
5. Does ChatGPT make mistakes and give false information?
Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is a special a day to honor our mothers and make them feel special. It is an important day all around the world, even though it started in North America and Europe. Mother’s Day is a time for us to show that we are grateful for what our mothers do for us.
Not all countries celebrate Mother’s Day on the same day, but the most popular day is the second Sunday of May. Most countries choose to use “Mother’s Day”, not “Mothers’ Day”, to show that each family honors their mother, rather than all of the world’s mothers.
Young children get especially excited about Mother’s Day and put a lot of effort into making cards and presents for their mothers. For mothers, it is like having a second birthday.
Mother’s Day in the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, etc. means mothers usually get the day off from housework. It is common for children to cook for their mother so she can have breakfast in bed. She also receives presents, flowers and cards. In America, Mother’s Day is the busiest day of the year for restaurants, as children take their mothers to lunch or dinner.
1. Where did Mother’s Day start?2. When do people celebrate Mother’s Day in most countries?
3. Do most countries choose to use “Mother’s Day” or “Mothers’ Day”?
4. Who get especially excited about Mother’s Day?
5. What do children do for their mothers on Mother’s Day?
