Jane, a reporter, is collecting information for the local newspaper. She is interested in the following things introduced in a magazine.
Smart Schoolbag
Forget to pack the books you need into your schoolbag in the morning rush?
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
Can you eat weather?
A university makes that happen. It uses a 3D printer to create sweets based on the weather information of a certain day.
The shapes of the sweets are affected by wind speed. The colors of the sweets are decided by temperature. The sweets act as a weather record of the day when they are made.
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 “tool”—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 stops producing a chemical that helps you sleep.”
1. What can the smart schoolbag do?| A．Help you repair computers. | B．Tell you when to pack books. |
| C．Teach you how to fix screens. | D．Remind you of the missing books. |
| A．Colors | B．Wind speed | C．Temperature | D．3D printers |
| 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】Video calls are very common and popular in our daily life. But have you imagined being able to touch the person on the other end of the line? Scientists are making this come true.
Researchers at the University of New South Wales, Australia, have invented a new device called SSD, which can recreate the sense of touch. Its haptic technology imitates the experience of touch by stimulating some areas of the skin. People can get the same feelings with the technology as the skin is stimulated through force, shake or move.
The new technology succeeds in solving some problems with existing haptic devices. The research team introduced a new method to recreate the sense of touch through soft, man-made “muscles”.
4tOur three-way directional SSD is built into the fingertips of a special glove. Wearing it is just like wearing a second skin - it's soft, stretchable and imitates the sense of touch - and will help new forms of haptic communication to further improve everyday activities,M said Thanh Nho Do, main author of the study.
______________ Imagine you are at home and you call your friend who is in Australia. You wear a haptic glove with the SSDs and your friend also wears a glove with 3D force sensors. If your friend picks up an object, it will physically press against your friend’s fingers. And their glove with 3D force sensors will measure these senses. The signals can be sent to your glove so your device will produce the same 3D forces, making you experience the same sense of touch as your friend.
The haptic devices could be used in varied situations, allowing users to feel objects at a distance or inside a virtual world —a world created on the Internet. This could be particularly helpful during such times like the COVID-19 when people depend on video calls to stay connected with loved ones. Or it could be used in medical practices. Doctors can feel patients without touching them.
1. The haptic technology is based on the sense of ____________.| A．smell | B．taste | C．touch | D．hearing |
| A．It is a man-made skin for beauty. |
| B．It can produce the same 3D forces. |
| C．It is successfully put into a man's finger. |
| D．It causes new problems on video calls. |
| A．It works like this. | B．It has a new method. |
| C．It is used in many ways. | D．It has some advantages. |
| A．hug his children abroad | B．teach his students in class |
| C．pick up his friend at the airport | D．cook dinner alone at his kitchen |
【推荐2】The connection between people and plants has long been the subject of scientific research. Recent studies have found positive effects. A study conducted in Youngstown, Ohio, for example, discovered that greener areas of the city experienced less crime. In another, employees were shown to be 15% more productive when their workplaces were decorated with houseplants.
The engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have taken it a step further—changing the actual composition (构成) of plants in order to get them to perform different, even unusual functions. These include plants that have sensors (传感器) printed onto their leaves to show when they’re short of water and a plant that can detect chemicals in groundwater. “We’re thinking about how we can engineer plants to change the functions of the things that we use every day,” explained Michale Strano, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT.
One of his latest projects has been to make plants glow (发光) in experiments using some common vegetables. Strano’s team found that they could create a weak light for 3.5 hours. The light, about 1000th of the amount needed to read by, is just a start. “The technology,” Strano said, “could one day be used to light the rooms or even to turn trees into self-powered street lamps.”
In the future, the team hopes to develop a kind of the technology that can be sprayed onto plant leaves only once but would last the plant’s lifetime. The engineers are also trying to develop an on and off “switch” where the glow would slowly disappear when the day breaks.
Lighting accounts for about 7% of the total electricity used in the US. Since lighting is often far removed from the power source—such as the distance from a power plant to street lamps on a remote highway—a lot of energy is lost during transmission (传输). Glowing plants could reduce this distance and therefore help save energy.
1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?| A．A new study of different plants. | B．Benefits from green plants. |
| C．A big fall in crime rates. | D．Employees from various workplaces. |
| A．put up | B．give out | C．find out | D．slow down |
| A．They might help reduce energy use. |
| B．They will speed up energy production. |
| C．They may transmit electricity to the home. |
| D．They could take the place of power plants. |
| A．Can we grow more glowing plants? |
| B．How do we live with glowing plants? |
| C．How are glowing plants made pollution-free? |
| D．Could glowing plants take the place of lamps? |
【推荐3】Have you ever seen the movie. Big Hero 6 ? Baymax(大白) is a main character in the movie. He’s a friendly big robot that looks After people’s health. If there is a robot like Baymax in our real life, people will get more benefits. The robot will be especially helpful in caring for the old. The health of old people needs greater monitoring and care;.
Scientists in America are now working to make Baymax a really(实现)- Actually. they have already produced some health care robots. These robots provide brain video games to improve people’s memory. The garner can help the old remember things for longer. Besides, these provide special app (应用程序）to help the old manage their health at home. The apps can check the old people’s heart rate (心率) and tell them to take their medicine on lime. The apps can also record their daily activities. Such collected information helps doctors discover the cause of an illness faster and more correctly. But the health care robots aren’t as clever as Baymax yet.
Nowadays, scientists are working on improving the health care robots. They Hope the robots can produce electricity by walking across the floor. If they succeed. batteries will not be needed. They also hope the robots communicate with humans in the daily life so to make people happier and healthier.
Scientists are trying to realize these dreams. Like Baymax, these health care robots may save people’s lives in the future. We are looking forward to them.
选择最佳答案。
1. The underlined word “monitoring” in the passage means “_____” in Chinese.
| A．监测 | B．娱乐 | C．危害 |
| A．a friendly small robot that looks after people’s health |
| B．as clever as the health care robots in real life |
| C．a main character in the movie Big Hero 6 |
| A．can’t improve people’s memory |
| B．can communicate with humane in the daily life |
| C．can help the old manage their health at home |
| A．Nowadays the health care robots ran product electricity by walking across the floor. |
| B．Both the doctors and the old who use the health care robots can get help from them. |
| C．The health earn robots can provide video games to check a person’s heart rate. |
| A．It’s mainly about the movie Big Hero 6. |
| B．It’s mainly about the health care robots. |
| C．It’s mainly about the importance of health. |
【推荐1】How do you study every day? You may answer it in one second: have classes at school, take notes and do homework. Feeling a little bored? There are other ways that can make learning interesting and varied(各式各样的). It's called digital learning.
Digital learning is a way to help students learn by using the Internet. There are three important kinds of digital learning. Apps are computer software applications(应用). People can download them on their mobiles. The other two kinds are social networking services, including Weibo and WeChat and websites. Each one of them is like your teacher. They help you understand what you learn at school.
Compared with traditional learning ways, digital learning has its advantages. Digital learning is varied. It covers almost every school subject. More importantly, it always offers students the newest resources(资源) to learn from.
Digital learning is also personalized. You can choose what you like to learn. If you don't understand what you have learned at school, you can learn again through digital ways.
However, digital learning also has disadvantages. When you use digital ways to learn, you've got little chance of talking with teachers and classmates. As digital learning uses computers or smart phones, watching the screen too long may be bad for your eyes. It is better to take a rest every 20 minutes.
1. The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 2 refers to the __________.| A．ways of digital learning | B．computers | C．social networking services | D．Apps |
| A．复杂的 | B．先进的 | C．个性化的 | D．重要的 |
| A．We can only learn English by digital learning. |
| B．We can get newer resources by using digital ways than traditional ways. |
| C．We should try to use digital ways to learn as often as possible. |
| D．When we use digital ways to learn, we have no chance to talk with teachers and classmates. |
| A．The advantages of digital learning | B．The disadvantages of digital learning |
| C．Digital learning | D．Traditional learning |
Xu Wei, a 13-year-old Chinese boy, has too many activities. His father takes him away from school four afternoons a week and drives him across town to practice. “I do most of my homework when my father is driving after school, and I have to do the rest when I get home. I am too tired and I just want to sleep,” he says.
“More and more kids become unhappy because they have too many activities to do,” says Mr. Wang, an expert of Children Development. “41% of them say they feel worried most of the time, and more than 75% of them say that they wish they had more free time to play.”
“It is a growing problem for Chinese families,” says Mr Wang. It is not good for both kids and their parents. More families eat dinner quickly or often eat fast food on their way to drawing or music lessons. Kids need time to relax. Parents should think about what is right for kids.
1. Xu Wei and his father go to practice by bus.2. Xu Wei doesn’t do any homework at home.
3. Xu Wei always feels very tired when he gets home after school.
4. Many kids are unhappy to have a lot of activities to do.
5. Many kids have to eat some junk food when they go to the after-school classes.
Food
British people like good food, and more than half of them go to a restaurant every month . Fast food is also very popular— 30% of all adults have a hamburger every three months, but 46% have fish and chips!
Cinema and TV
Films are very popular in Britain, and about 60% of people between 15 and 24 go to the cinema every month. At home, men watch TV for about three hours every day — two hours more than women.
Holidays
British people love going on holiday, and have 56 holidays every year. Most of these holidays aren't in the UK—27% are in Spain,10% are in the USA, and 9% are in France , 15% are in China. Maybe this is because the weather in Britain isn't very good!
1. Which food could be more popular among British adults, a hamburger or fish and chips?
| A．A hamburger. | B．Fish and chips. | C．Both. | D．Neither. |
| A．Three hours. | B．Four hours | C．Two hours | D．One hour |
| A．Spain | B．France | C．America | D．China |
