Thanks to the ancient Silk Road, the lands of Italy and China have been connected for more than 2,000 years. Tourists from China and every corner of the world come to visit Italy every year. Here are four famous cities of Italy.
| Rome is the birthplace of science, culture and of course, art in Europe. It is the perfect combination (结合) of the modern and the classical. When one walks around the city, one can see many museums. Of course, Rome is also regarded as the fashion (时尚) centre of the world now. The Rome Coliseum is today considered one wonder (奇迹) of the modern world. |
| Pisa is a small city. It is famous for the leaning tower of Pisa. If you think that Pisa has only one leaning tower, you may just be wrong. This city has three leaning towers. Home of the famous scientist Galilec, Pisa is also known for its universities because the city is home of some of the most important universities in Europe. |
| Florence is one of the most important provinces around Italy. Shopping here, you’ll find David, the most famous statue (雕像) of Michelangelo. If you are planning to spend a couple of days in Florence, you likely will not want to lose the opportunity to see and enjoy Arnolfo Tower, it will be open on Sunday and Monday from 9 to 6 p.m. (closed in case of rain). |
| Venice is a city over a hundred islands. You can visit most interesting places of the city by walks or by the famous gondolas. Art exhibitions, film festivals and famous carnival (狂欢节) make Venice a place that can be visited any time of the year. |
Rome Coliseum
Leaning Tower
gondolas1. According to the passage, ________ is regarded as a fashion center of the world now.
| A．Rome | B．Pisa | C．Florence |
| A．science | B．universities | C．museums |
| A．at 8 a.m. on Sunday | B．at 10 a.m. on Monday | C．at 9 p.m. on Saturday |
| A．Pisa has three leaning towers. |
| B．Every year, thousands of tourists all over the world come to visit Italy. |
| C．You can visit most interesting places of Venice by walks or by bus. |
| A．Italy and China. | B．The ancient Silk Road. | C．Four famous cities of Italy. |
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【推荐1】Mega city: a city with more than ten million people
The number of mega cities is growing very quickly. In the 1950s, there were only two mega cities in the world. Today, 12% of the world’s population lives in mega cities.
It’s reported that the population of the world has reached eight billion in 2022. Nowadays, at least 35 cities in the world are mega cities. 75% of them are in Asia, South America and Africa. More and more people around the world are moving to the city.
Many mega cities have better opportunities, such as more jobs and choices of schools and universities. Mega cities are also exciting places to live—lots of different people, languages and restaurants, and many interesting things to do. They are very big while this can cause problems like pollution or poor housing.
| Tokyo, Japan (37.81 Million) Tokyo is an exciting, modern city in the east of Japan. It is an excellent place to study—20% of Japan’s universities are in the city. But the traffic in Tokyo is very busy and bad. Over 8.7 million people use the trains every day. |
| Delhi, India (25 Million) Delhi is in the north of India. There is an exciting mix of different cultures in the city, and there are four official languages: Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and English. However, there are not enough houses in some parts of Delhi. This means that many people live in large slums in the city. |
| Cairo, Egypt (18.31 Million) Cairo is the capital of Egypt and is the second largest city in Africa. Cairo has important car and film industries. The city is the center of many government offices and has many universities, one of which is over 1, 200 years old. |
1. A city is called as a mega city because of its ________.
| A．traffic | B．culture | C．industry | D．population |
| A．Tokyo’s traffic is busy and modern. |
| B．The population of Cairo is 18.31 million. |
| C．Most mega cities are in European countries. |
| D．There are fewer opportunities to study in mega cities. |
| A．富人区 | B．休闲区 | C．贫民区 | D．别墅 |
| A．They can get fresher air. |
| B．They can find jobs more easily. |
| C．They can always live in beautiful houses. |
| D．They can only communicate in one language. |
| A．Rise of the Mega cities | B．Housing of the Mega cities |
| C．Education of the Mega cities | D．Problems of the Mega cities |
【推荐2】Things to do in San Francisco Bay
Fitness
San Francisco loves health and fitness. There are many spas in the city. They can help you recover from your everyday stress. One famous spa is the Nob Hill Spa. Famous athletes, designers, CEOs, and directors come here daily. Stop by for a full day of relaxation.
Food
There are many restaurants in San Francisco.You can get a steak, crab sandwich, or pizza at Pier 39. Or, if you’re looking for dessert, there are sweet shops all around Ghirardelli Square. Want to stay in? Then get some takeout from the city’s famous Chinatown. But, watch out! The chili and garlic dishes are really spicy. Also, the lunchtime crowds are very big. Come early and come hungry.
Work
Not everyone works in technology here. There are many other opportunities for people not interested in computers. You can learn to be a pilot over at Bay Area Flying Lessons. Not interested in flying? What about the arts? You can study to be a musician or writer over at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. The sky is the limit!
1. Famous people go to the _________ to recover from everyday stress.
| A．Nob Hill Spa | B．Berkeley | C．Ghirardelli Square | D．Chinatown |
| A．Pizzas. | B．Chili dishes. | C．Steaks. | D．Crab sandwiches. |
| A．jobs | B．abilities | C．activities | D．chances |
| A．pilot | B．musician | C．writer | D．artist |
| A．Where to eat the popular spicy dishes. | B．Who lives in San Francisco. |
| C．What you can do in San Francisco. | D．Which areas you’d better avoid. |
【推荐3】When we talk about Hollywood, we will think of films and famous film stars. Today, people make films in other places, too. Not all the famous film stars live in Hollywood. But Hollywood is still a very special city in Los Angeles, California.
You can easily see where Hollywood is in Los Angeles. There is a big sign（指示牌）on the hills, and it says “HOLLYWOOD”. The white letters are fifty feet tall. You can see the sign from far away. The Hollywood sign is a landmark（地标）in Los Angeles. Many postcards show this famous Hollywood landmark.
In the hills of Hollywood, there is also an open-air theater called the Hollywood Bowl. There are seventeen thousand seats and a very special stage（舞台）. The stage was designed by the great American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. You can listen to all kinds of music at the Hollywood Bowl.
1. We can learn from the passage that ________.| A．“HOLLYWOOD” can just be seen from far away | B．Hollywood is now a place only for travelers |
| C．all the films are made in Hollywood | D．Hollywood is one part of Los Angeles |
| A．outdoor | B．indoor | C．fresh | D．comfortable |
| A．all the postcards are made |
| B．only 7,000 people can get together |
| C．people can enjoy the music |
| D．you can hardly listen to different kinds of concerts（演唱会） |
| A．film stars don’t think Hollywood is a good place to make films |
| B．some famous film stars don’t live in Hollywood |
| C．the Hollywood Bowl is larger than any other open-air theater in the world |
| D．the Hollywood Bowl is a hill in Hollywood |
| A．Hollywood | B．Famous Films and Film Stars |
| C．The History of Hollywood | D．Famous Hollywood Film Stars |
①We can see that more and more people around us run to pizza shops. But do you know why people like pizzas so much? In fact, there are many reasons.
②First, pizza has many flavors (口味). If you are a cheese lover, you can have one with only cheese topping (浇汁). Of course, you can also have vegetables and meat on it.
③Second, pizzas are also in different sizes for people to choose. They can buy an 8-inch pizza for two people, a 12-inch one for their family, or a much larger one for a party.
④Finally, it’s easy for people to buy pizzas. There are many pizza shops on the street. People can not only have it in the shop, but buy it online. Some people like eating pizzas during office lunch hours or when they don’t have enough time to prepare food themselves.
⑤In a word pizza is a kind of fast food, but different from other unhealthy food. If you like it, don’t be worried whether it’s bad for your health or not because it may be healthier than other fast food.
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1. Pizza is very ________ according to the first paragraph.
| A．terrible | B．popular | C．cheap |
| A．A 6-inch one. | B．An 8-inch one. | C．A12-inch one. |
| A．People can only have pizzas with cheese topping. |
| B．People can choose different sizes of pizzas. |
| C．People can buy pizzas on the Internet. |
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【推荐2】We’ve all had bad experiences with restaurants, stores or hotels. Maybe you’ve been to a restaurant that served terrible food. Perhaps you’ve been to a store that had high prices and bad service. Or maybe you’ve booked a hotel and found out later that the room was nothing like the advertisement（广告）.
These days, we have a better chance of stopping these unpleasant surprises. We can do this by using apps. An app is a computer program on a smartphone. You can use apps to do almost anything. App can help you play games, get directions, talk to friends, and so on.
If you want to find information about a store or a hotel, you can use a review app. Review apps help us evaluate（评价）service and products before we hand over our money. The idea is very simple. After you go to a restaurant or stay in a hotel, you can post a review with one of your apps. You can say anything you want. If you like a hotel that you stayed in, you can tell people that it was wonderful. If you think that the food in a certain restaurant was bad, then you can tell people not to eat there. Other people can use their app to read your reviews.
Plenty of people prefer not to use these review apps. Many of these people think that it’s a waste of time to look through websites and read reviews. These people prefer to go out and decide for themselves whether or not a service is good. However, review apps are getting more and more popular every day. Some apps are for exact services. For example, trip adviser gives attention to travel, and good reader pays attention to books. There are also other larger apps that provide information for just about every service that you can think of.
1. What does the article say about apps?
| A．You can use apps for many things. | B．There are very few good apps. |
| C．Apps are only useful for travel. | D．Apps are very expensive to use. |
| A．It can help you write better reviews. |
| B．It can tell you how to use a smartphone. |
| C．It can tell you about the hotel before you book it. |
| D．It can tell you about other people who post reviews. |
| A．A restaurant. | B．A hotel. | C．A review. | D．A store. |
| A．They don’t trust review apps. |
| B．They think review apps are too hard. |
| C．They prefer to make their own decisions. |
| D．They don’t know how to use review apps. |
| A．In a music magazine. | B．In a travel guide book. |
| C．In a story book. | D．In a newspaper. |
Emotions such as fear and anxiety can make the heart beat faster. Now a study in mice has found that the opposite is also true—increasing the heart rate (心率) can raise anxiety levels.
To test the fact directly, Deisseroth with his team turned to a method that uses light to control cell(细胞) activity. The team trained the animals to react quickly to light and expect a shock if they pressed a handle for a water reward. Using the system, the team raised the animals’ heart rates from their normal 660 beats per minute to 900. When their hearts started racing, mice became less willing to press the handle or to explore open areas, showing that they were more anxious. But for animals in other situations, the increased heart rate had no effect, suggesting that the brain and the heart worked together to produce anxiety.
When the researchers measured the animals’ brain activity, they found that brain became more active when the heart rate increased if the animal was acting anxiously. It means that brain is in charge of joining signals from the heart with danger from the environment before they pass on the information to higher thinking areas.
1. What is the result of the study in mice?| A．Fear and anxiety will get the heart faster. | B．Raising heart rate leads to anxious behavior. |
| C．Bad emotions result in faster heart beat. | D．Increased heart rate lower anxious level. |
| A．By using light to control cell activity. | B．By making mice have a shock. |
| C．By forcing mice to drink some water. | D．By teaching them to press a handle. |
| A．Introducing. | B．Accepting. | C．Advising. | D．Showing. |
| A．The animal became less active when the heart rate raised if it was anxious. |
| B．Brain takes charge of signals from the heart and danger from the environment. |
| C．The heart-brain circle can help animals deal with danger signals more quickly. |
| D．Animals’ heart can help pass the information on to their higher thinking areas. |
| A．Can Raising a Mouse’s Anxiety Level Help Raise Its Heart Beat? |
| B．Anxiety Can be Created by the Body, Mouse Heart Study Suggests |
| C．Emotions Can Make the Heart Beat Faster, A Heart Study Suggests |
| D．Does Deisseroth With His Team Use Light to Control Animals’ Activity? |
