A guide to making a summer diary
| Imagine summer full of adventures and discoveries. Now imagine collecting all of that excitement in a correct place just for you. Sounds exciting, right? |
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| Why keep a summer diary? A summer diary is like a treasure box, filled with memories and experiences from your summer days. It’s a way to remember all your adventures, big and small, and all the things that make summer such a wonderful time. It is also a great place to show your ideas, and let your imagination (想象力) run wild! | |
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| Choose your favourite diary notebook Every great adventure begins with the right tools. For your summer diary, the first step is to find the perfect notebook. It could be a simple pocket notebook or a diary with a lock and key. Look for something that catches your eye, and don’t forget that it should have pages to last you the whole summer. | Ideas to get more creative Here are some ideas to get you started: ◇Daily Activities: Every day is an adventure! Write about what you did, saw or felt ◇ Nature Observations ( 观 察 ): You could write about a tiny insect you saw or the way the leaves rustle (make soft sounds when they move) in the wind. ◇Simple Doodles (涂鸦): A diary doesn’t have to be all about words. Paint something you saw, or draw a picture about your summer holiday. ◇Goals: What are your hopes for this summer or the new school year? Write them down and make a plan on how to achieve them. |
| The reward (回报) of your summer diary By the end of the summer, you’ll have a collection of memories and experiences. It will remind you of all the fun you had and show how much you’ve grown and learned. It’s a gift you can keep and share with your family and friends. | |
1. A summer diary is made NOT for ________.
| A．showing ideas | B．remembering summer adventures |
| C．doing as homework | D．keeping a record of summer days |
| A．It’s necessary to choose a right notebook for summer diaries. |
| B．We can write some daily simple things and our feelings in summer diaries. |
| C．Summer diaries are all about words. Drawing is not advised in them. |
| D．It’s good to make a plan for the next term in summer diaries. |
| A．Worries and pains. | B．Progress and growing up. |
| C．Gifts from families. | D．Love from best friends. |
| A．teach students to keep a diary in summer holidays |
| B．call on teenagers to care more about themselves |
| C．attract parents to buy a notebook as a gift |
| D．encourage students to make a plan for the future |
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【推荐1】People all over the world eat eggs. Most of the eggs we eat come from hens. Eggs are easy to cook. They can be cooked in lots of ways such as fried or hard-boiled. Eggs can be used with other things to make cakes and ice-cream.
The fresh test Put your egg in a pan of water and use the guide below to find out how old your egg is. |
| Sinks（下沉）to the bottom of the pan and stays there 3-6 days old Sinks, but floats at an angle（角度） Just over 1 week old Sinks, and then stands on end About 2 weeks old Floats on top or just under the surface Over 2 weeks old Eggs last a long time. You can keep them for about four weeks in your fridge. |
1. According to Paragraph 1, cakes and ice-cream are mentioned to describe ____________.
| A．the birth of chickens | B．the difference between them |
| C．the use of eggs | D．the way of keeping them |
| A．The hen's food. | B．The colour of the shell. |
| C．The age of the egg. | D．The vitamins in the egg. |
| A．How heavy an egg can be. | B．How long to cook an egg in a pan. |
| C．How to make an egg sink. | D．How to check the age of an egg. |
【推荐2】Never try to work when you are very hungry. If you decide to do your homework right after school, you’d better get something to eat before getting to work.
If you have more than one hour’s work, give yourself a break after an hour. But don’t break up so much that you can’t get anything done.
Don’t put it off(推迟) until the last minute. If you put off doing your homework, you won’t enjoy your free time so much. If you put it off until the end of the week or until right before a test, you will have too much to do.
Do your home work at the same time every evening.
| A．This will help you make it a habit |
| B．Always do your homework before you get too tired |
| C．You should work at least half an hour at a time without stopping |
| D．You should do a little bit each time |
| E．Then you won’t be afraid of tests and you will succeed |
| F．You should do it at once |
But some people can’t hear any sound at all. Some are born deaf. Others can hear well in their childhood, but too many loud sounds hurt their ears later on.
Many people in China can’t hear ordinary sounds clearly. Lots of them are children. Most of them are born with good hearing. But six children of every 1,000 have hearing problems when they are born. And if a child has hearing problems, he or she usually will also have some learning problems at school.
A lot of things can cause hearing problems, like, too much earwax is not good for our hearing. And noise louder than 85 decibels (分贝) can hurt our ears and make us lose our hearing for a short time or even for ever.
Hearing is important for all of us. So we should do our best to give our ears special care. Don’t forget to do the following:
◎ Try to stay away from places with too much noise. If you have to go, wear earplugs.
◎ When swimming, remember to put earplugs into your ears to stop water from getting in.
◎ Never put anything sharp into your ears. If you think you have too much earwax, ask your parents to help you clean it out.
Keep these things in mind.
1. What does the underlined word “earwax” mean in the passage?
| A．耳膜 | B．耳鸣 | C．耳垢 | D．耳疾 |
| A．Illness and hearing problems. |
| B．people with hearing problems. |
| C．Ways to protect our ears. |
| D．Danger of loud noise. |
| A．A little earwax |
| B．Earplugs |
| C．All noise |
| D．Noise louder than 85 decibels |
| A．When you get older, you know it’s not polite to ask “What?”. |
| B．When you get older, you still have good hearing. |
| C．When you get older, you won’t ask questions. |
| D．When you get older, you will have fewer questions. |
【推荐1】Building a country is never easy. But how about destroying it? A new report said long time of climate change can do that. The report said Tuvalu will be the first country to be completely lost because of climate change.
Tuvalu is a Pacific island nation with nine islands and 12, 000 people. It has long been at risk from rising sea levels. Now, 40 percent of the area in its capital is underwater at high tide(涨潮). By the end of the century, it is believed that all the islands will be underwater.
To help with the problem, the country plans to build its country in the metaverse(虚拟世界). The digital country will recreate the same landscape(景观) and keep its cultural and historical records. No matter where they live in the real world, the people in this country will have their identity(身份) and “live” in its online communities.
This news made many people in Tuvalu excited. But Li Zuxi, director of the metaverse lab of Qingbo Intelligent Technology, said it may not be the best solution.
“Though the digital nation belongs to Tuvalu, it’s still built on a metaverse platform , ” said Li. “Now, the metaverse is not mature(成熟), which may bring some problems. ” He gave us an example. If people from other countries enter the space of the digital country but just show their names, how do people know if they do or do not truly belong to that country?
Li added that instead of trying our best to build digital nations, it’s better to pay attention to saving the real world now.
1. What problem does Tuvalu face?| A．Rising sea levels. | B．A dropping population. | C．The low levels of high tide. | D．There is not enough water to use. |
| A．break the country into several parts |
| B．fight against climate change |
| C．move the country to another island |
| D．build a digital country online |
| A．The “new” Tuvalu is larger than the real one. |
| B．It has no records of culture and history. |
| C．People can find the same buildings as they are now. |
| D．People of the “new” Tuvalu have no identity. |
| A．The metaverse world is safe. |
| B．He fully supports the rebuilding of Tuvalu. |
| C．He calls for more countries to enter the metaverse. |
| D．It’s hard to manage a digital country. |
| A．The metaverse will take the place of the real world. |
| B．The metaverse can help to protect culture. |
| C．The metaverse has a bright future. |
| D．Climate change happens more slowly than before. |
Can humans and machines “talk” to each other? We often see this in movies and on TV shows. In the 1960s, in the TV series Star Trek, spaceships could reply to human voice orders. In 1968, in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000 is a computer that human can talk to, it can play chess with humans and fix their spaceship. This type of technology, which help machines understand human speech and act accordingly, is known as voice control, or voice recognition.
Today, voice recognition is not just shown on the screen, but is widely used for everyday tasks. Siri and Alexa, the voice recognition software made by Apple and Amazon, are two examples. You can ask it to do many things, from setting alarms to turning on the television and placing online shopping order.
One of the nice things about voice recognition is that it can be used when we’re on the go. When you’re driving a car or walking down the sidewalk, it can be not easy or even dangerous to pick up your smartphone and type away on the keyboard. With voice recognition, you can focus on whatever you’re doing at the moment while still finishing other tasks.
People with hearing problems can also benefit. Speech recognition can be used to listen to spoken words and turn them into text that deaf people can read. Advanced speech recognition software can even hear words spoken in one language and then translate it into another language.
As voice recognition software becomes more advanced, it will be able to help us in even more ways. So far, most voice recognition technology is not able to recognize specific voices. That is to say, your voice “sounds” the same to the software as your friend’s voice. However, Apple and other companies are already working to develop voice recognition software that replies only to specific voices.
How would this be useful? It could make your things safer. You could set your phone, computer or even other things like your car or home to open only when they hear your voice.
1. Voice recognition is a kind of technology which helps machines ________.| A．protect and fix spaceships | B．play chess controlled by humans |
| C．develop films and shows on TV | D．reply to humans’ voice orders |
| A．deaf people are able to hear spoken words | B．you can do another task while driving cars |
| C．a TV can be asked to show your favorite program | D．your computer can only be opened with your own voice |
| A．The software helping to renew computers. | B．The software used to recognize particular voices. |
| C．The technology used to drive cars for humans. | D．The technology helping to improve software. |
| A．Machines Know Your Voice | B．How to Help Deaf People? |
| C．Is Technology Safe or Not? | D．Technology Creates a Better Life |
The same goes for mobile phones. Young people are always asking me when to change my mobile phones. Mobile phone companies are always putting new functions on their phones but do we really need all these extra functions? I use my phone to call people and to send messages to my friends. I don’t need a camera, Internet surfing or a calendar on my phone. Again, if you buy the latest phone, it will only be the latest phone for a month or so. Then something new will come out and you’ll be unfashionable again. You can’t keep up with fashion all the time, so you don’t need to follow the fashion.
1. The underlined word “sheep” means”________.”
| A．a kind of animal which is white |
| B．people who always follow the fashion |
| C．honest people who want to be fashionable |
| D．black sheep which break laws |
| A．they want to design fashion clothes |
| B．they like your clothes |
| C．they want to buy the clothes you wear |
| D．your clothes are ugly |
| A．are sure to be beautiful | B．will become a model |
| C．will be smarter | D．may not look perfect |
| A．explain what sheep are |
| B．tell us to buy new mobile phones |
| C．tell us not to be “sheep” |
| D．tell students not to care about the clothes |
| A．Sheep which are out of date have been killed. |
| B．The writer is a person who always follows the fashion. |
| C．Fashion only exists among those fashion models. |
| D．Fashion changes so quickly that we can hardly keep up with it. |
