Jane, a reporter, is collecting information for the local newspaper. She is interested in the following things introduced in a magazine.
 Smart Schoolbag A schoolboy aged 11 has invented a schoolbag. It tells you which books to pack. A small computer and a scanner (扫描装置) are fixed in the bag. As each book is put into the bag, it is checked by the scanner. If any book is missing, a message will be shown on the computer screen to remind you. |
 Weather Sweets A university uses a 3D printer to create sweets according to the weather information of a certain day. The shapes of the sweets are influenced by wind speed. The colors of the sweets are decided by temperature. The sweets act as a weather record of the day. |
 Sunrise Bed It’s hard for you to get up in the morning, isn’t it? To help you get up, a company has created a sunrise bed. It wakes you up gently as a sunrise does. Lights built into the bed turn on and start to get brighter and brighter. When the lights are fully on, soft music will begin to play. It will be louder and louder until you turn it off. The company explains, “The gentle light tells your body that it is morning, so it’s easier for you to get up.” |
1. The smart schoolbag can ________.
| A．help you repair computers |
| B．tell you when to pack books |
| C．record the weather of the day |
| D．remind you of the missing books |
| A．pack the books easily into the bag |
| B．find the missing book by a scanner |
| C．create sweets according to the weather |
| D．wake up quickly in the morning |
| A．lights on → music on → lights brighter → music louder |
| B．music on → music louder → lights on → lights brighter |
| C．lights on → lights brighter → music on → music louder |
| D．music on → lights on → music louder → lights brighter |
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【推荐1】Are you troubled by housework, such as cleaning tables or tidying your room? A new robot is here to help! Recently, the robot Mobile Aloha made by scientists at Stanford University in the US became popular online. In the video posted, we can see the robot preparing dishes on its own. It’s also good at watering plants, petting cats and washing clothes. It even knows to shake the pillow (枕头); Sounds good? Well, another video posted by researchers may disappoint some people. Mobile Aloha isn’t good at doing housework on its own. Instead, it learns from human actions before doing each kind of housework. When the situation changes, it can’t work well without a human “teaching” it. So it may break dishes, or even burn a pot.
“The robot can successfully move chairs 80 percent of the time,” said the team after they did more research on it. For cooking dishes, it’s only 40 percent. In short, it’s far from perfect. In fact, AI robots are good at tasks such as math and playing chess, but they face challenges when it comes to simpler actions like cleaning. And it’s the same for Mobile Aloha. For example, if its body doesn’t move correctly even just with a small deviation (偏差), its arm may move too far to pick up a glass.
“Robots are not ready to take over the world,” the team posted on Twitter.
1. What does Mobile Aloha do in the first video?| A．It shakes the pillow. | B．It burns a pot. | C．It breaks dishes. | D．It cleans tables. |
| A．Its ability has improved a lot. | B．Its main task is to pick up a glass. |
| C．Its actions become much simpler. | D．Its weakness may disappoint people. |
| A．Endless Housework | B．Disappointing Research |
| C．A New Kind of Robot | D．A Small Deviation |
Tablets are really useful devices, but their big screens always make them as a burden to carry around without a bag. Wouldn't it be great if there were a phone with the powers of a tablet that could be folded up and fit into the hand?
Now something like a tablet-shaped but foldable phone is about to become available. In February, South Korean electronics company Samsung and China's Huawei both showed foldable phones, The Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X respectively. Mobile phone use has entered the "foldable future", The Verge noted. 
The technology could change our lives in unusual ways. These devices, due to their foldable screens, give us the larger screens we want. At the same time, they still fit easily into the pocket. As USA Today noted, they're "the combination of a small tablet and smartphone, all in a single device".
The technology could change other devices too. For example, we could make TVs that stick to walls like posters, or fold up easily to hide away in drawers. In crowded modern cities, they will help us to make full use of available space.
In a keynote speech, Samsung's senior vice president of mobile product marketing, Justin Denison, called the foldable screen "the foundation for the smartphone of tomorrow". "It's a piece of white paper for us to paint something beautiful on together," he said.
So is there nothing to stand in the way of the foldable future?
According to technology news website Android Authority, the necessary displays* were difficult to produce. At present, these foldable devices cost too much. For example, the price of Huawei Mate X is 17,500 RMB. That's a price that few people will be able to afford.
But if the foldable device isn't going to change the world overnight, there is no doubt that it is coming.
Patrick Moorhead, an industry expert told The Verge, "Few are debating if foldable mobile displays are the future of smartphones; the only question is when and by whom."
1. Paragraphs 3 and 4 are mainly about _________.| A．arguments on the foldable screen. | B．shapes of foldable screens in the future. |
| C．possible advantages of the foldable screen. | D．popular foldable screen devices on the market. |
| A．The foldable screen has great future. |
| B．The Galaxy Fold still has many problems. |
| C．The production of foldable phones will soon increase. |
| D．Companies need to work together to develop foldable phones. |
| A．the screens may fail to work properly. | B．they are not as useful as people thought. |
| C．they are too expensive for most people. | D．they break more easily than ordinary phones. |
| A．worried | B．positive | C．negative | D．uncertain |
Compared with smartphones, smartwatches are more convenient. They work like smartphones, but they free your hands. If you want to send a message or email, just tell your watch to send it and it’s done! However, smartwatches also have some problems. Some people don’t think they look very fashionable. If people don’t know you are wearing them, they might think you are crazy for talking to your wrist (手腕). Let’s take a look at another one of the most popular wearables. It is not a watch but a pair of glasses.
Battery life: about five hours on one charge Weight: lighter than a normal pair of sunglasses Price: $ 1,500 Main features: *Users can know the present events such as weather, the past events such as phone calls, and photos by touching the touchpad. *Users can take photos, record 720 p HD videos and broadcast them live (现场直播) on the Internet. *There is a GPS system in the glasses. If you get lost, you can ask “Where am I?” Then it will tell your current location. And it can also give you directions right in front of you. *You can control the glasses hands-free by using voice control. |
Wearable gadgets (可穿戴设备) are high-tech products. They are small and can be worn on your body, just like a normal fashion accessory (首饰).The smartwatch is one of them.
Google Glass (Google, US) | A．Smartphones | B．Smart Cars | C．Google Glasses | D．Smartwatches |
| A．smarter | B．more fashionable | C．lighter | D．more convenient |
| A．3 | B．4 | C．5 | D．6 |
| A．You can use it to record clear videos. | B．It is easy to get lost by using the glasses. |
| C．It is as heavy as a normal pair of glasses. | D．You must use your hand to control glasses. |
| A．story | B．cartoon | C．science magazine | D．sports show |
【推荐1】Wang Xiaojun is twelve years old. He lives in the countryside in Hubei. Today is April twenty fourth. It’s his birthday. His parents make a nice dinner for him, but the boy says, “I will not have dinner because after dinner, today is over, and my parents are going to Shenzhen tomorrow. I don’t want to let them go”.
His parents went to Shenzhen to work three years ago. They only come back this time for their son’s 12th birthday. Tomorrow they have to go back to Shenzhen.
Wang is not the only stay-at-home child(留守儿童). In China there are many children staying at home without their parents. Stay-at-home children have a lot of problems. Most of them stay with their grandparents. Some of them don’t study well because their parents cannot help them with their study.
The Chinese government(政府) now is trying to solve their problems.
Judge the following sentences True(T) or False(F) according to the passage.1. Today is Wang Xiaojun’s first birthday.
2. Wang Xiaojun won’t have the birthday dinner because he isn’t hungry at all.
3. There are many stay-at-home children in China.
4. Some stay-at-home children don’t study well.
5. The Chinese government is doing something to solve the problems of the stay-at-home children.
【推荐2】Yuan Longping, a great scientist, is the first person to develop a kind of hybrid rice(杂交水稻) which helps fight hunger in China.
Food was a big problem in China in the past. This was because China had 22 percent of the world’s population, but only 7 percent of its farmland. In the 1960s, China suffered(遭受) serious hunger. Millions of people died because they had no food. As an agronomy(农学) teacher, Yuan was very sad to see this. “How can I help them have enough food?” he thought. He decided to work on a kind of hybrid rice. It has a high output(产量).
At that time, other scientists didn’t think hybrid rice was worth studying. But Yuan and his team worked on it every day. They took very good care of their rice seeds. At last, in 1973, they grew a new kind of hybrid rice. This rice is strong. Farmers can grow it in many different kinds of farmland and also in bad weather. It can also fight disease. Its output was much greater than common kinds of rice. With the new kind, about 70, 000, 000 people could have food every year!
Yuan solved the food problem in China. But he is still working on rice. Before he retires, he hopes to grow rice in the sea!
1. Food was a big problem in China in the past because ______.| A．farmers didn’t grow rice |
| B．farmers didn’t have rice seeds |
| C．China had no money to buy plenty of food |
| D．China had a large population but a little farmland |
| A．discovered another kind of food |
| B．borrowed enough food from other countries |
| C．developed a kind of hybrid rice with his team |
| D．started being an agronomy teacher to study rice |
| A．grow rice in the sea | B．have a good rest |
| C．keep several pet cats | D．help people in Africa |
| A．the new kind of hybrid rice is worth studying |
| B．the new kind of hybrid rice was invented in China |
| C．Yuan Longping grew the new kind of hybrid rice for many years |
| D．Yuan Longping has played an important role in solving China’s food problem |
【推荐3】I often eat three meals (餐) a day. But in Guangdong, many people eat four meals a day. They have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning. They often have different food for breakfast, like eggs, bread and tea (茶). They eat lunch at about 1:00 p.m. Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon and dinner is at about half past seven. Dinner is important (重要的). They often drink soup and they have meat or fish with vegetables. They eat some fruit, like bananas, apples and oranges, too. But not all people in Guangdong eat like that. Some of them like having a big meal at eleven thirty in the morning.
1. Many people in Guangdong have ________ meals a day.| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
| A．tea and eggs | B．hamburgers and tea | C．milk and bread | D．eggs and fish |
| A．At 11:15 a.m. | B．At about 11:00 a.m. | C．At about 1:30 p.m. | D．At about 1:00 p.m. |
| A．甜饼 | B．牛排 | C．骨头 | D．汤 |
| A．at 11:00 a.m. | B．at 11:30 a.m. | C．in the afternoon | D．in the evening |
