The Internet has changed the world, people are able to get and share information in seconds. Nowadays, people begin to wonder: Is the Internet good or bad? “It’s impossible to answer that question because the Internet means so many things,” says psychologist (心理学家) Patricia Greenfield.
Some are truly wonderful. In many ways it makes life easier and simpler. It helps us get things done more quickly. It opens up the world to us. And if a friend lives far away, the Internet makes it easy to stay in touch.
However, the issue (话题) isn’t black and white. Some can become real problems if we don’t take care. Spending too much time online is bad to people’s health. It may even cause them to be less social with family and friends. Aside from that, some people attack the web or use the Internet to steal others’ personal information, even banking information. Most of the young students think the Internet is simply an icon (图标) on the screen (屏幕). Kids won’t realize that the Internet is a network of millions of computers until about 10 years old.
The Internet can be a useful tool, but don’t let it take up all of your time. Use the Internet properly and carefully and it can make your life more colourful.
1. By saying “the Internet means so many things”, Patricia Greenfield means that________.| A．the Internet is hard for people to search | B．the Internet brings advantages as well as disadvantages |
| C．the Internet has more advantages than expected | D．the Internet has more disadvantages than expected |
| A．Accidents will happen. | B．Actions speak louder than words. |
| C．Every coin has two sides. | D．A good beginning makes a good ending. |
| A．bad | B．simple | C．difficult | D．everything |
| A．The Internet helps us get and share information quickly. | B．Not everything on the Internet is safe. |
| C．Using the Internet for a long time is not good for our health. | D．Young children should not use the Internet. |
| A．Advantages of using the Internet. | B．Disadvantages of using the Internet. |
| C．How to stop using the Internet. | D．How to use the Internet wisely. |
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Today, SMS—Short Message Service is popular, and China Mobile says that every second, there are 410 messages being sent.
Look around you! People are watching their mobiles, smiling or laughing. Thumbs (拇指) are moving quickly on mobiles, bringing happiness to their friends. Through SMS, we know the weather report, share jokes and news, express（表达）love and friendship.
SMS is becoming more and more popular. It is reported that 67% of young people like to send short messages to greet each other. Internet SMS will be more helpful to people. I am thankful for the progress because SMS saves me much money. Just on the top end of a thumb, so much joy can be found!
1. SMS can help people do the following except _______.
| A．knowing the weather report | B．sharing jokes and news |
| C．expressing love and friendship | D．spending more time travelling |
| A．SMS helps people a lot | B．young people dislikes SMS |
| C．he makes SMS more popular | D．he will buy a palace for his friend |
| A．how to search Internet | B．the joy of SMS |
| C． how to send short messages | D．ways of saving money |
【推荐2】Today, cities are getting bigger and busier. They change a lot. How can we live more easily? Smart cities(智慧城市) may help.
In 2010, the idea of smart cities came from the technology company IBM first. It says that by 2050, about 60% people around the world will live in smart cities. In fact, a smart city can be like a big and clever machine. For example, the rubbish bins “tell” workers when to clean. The buildings can “talk” to computers to help save energy. Different technologies make all these things come true. They work together to make a city smart.
| Internet of things When you are close to your home, your smartwatch tells your home to turn on the lights. Internet of things can help to do this. Almost everything connects to the Internet. It’s like having lots of little smart helpers. | Big data(数据) Big data does a lot for the city. It helps the city decide important things. For example, data about cars running in the city tells us about heavy traffic. In the weather reports, data can tell us if it is going to rain. |
| 5G 5G provides high-speed Internet. It makes the Internet of things possible. Ideally, the speed of 5G can be up to 10 GB per second. That can be 10 times faster than 4G. We can download(下载) an 8 GB film in just a few seconds. | AI AI helps to do with the data. More importantly, it learns from the data and becomes smarter. AI can work as a postman, a tour guide, or even help to design cars and make people work in a safe way. |
1. From the article, we know a smart city ________.
| A．needs no cleaners | B．connects to the Internet |
| C．is full of clever people | D．is a small smart machine |
| A．Big data can decide the change of the weather. |
| B．We can download a 10 GB film quickly and easily. |
| C．People can turn on lights before reaching home with 5G. |
| D．People work more safely in smart cities because of big data. |
| A．why life is busier now | B．how we can get ready for changes |
| C．what makes a city smart | D．when smart cities will come true |
Do you know what your friends watched on TV last night? Do your friends know what you had for breakfast today? Do you think you are using social media（社交媒体）too much?
Research shows that, worldwide, the average person spends two hours and 19 minutes on social media each day.
Social media continues to grow.
| A．What do most people do on social media? |
| B．Social media is now part of many people’s everyday lives. |
| C．People in Philippines are the most active users. |
| D．The most popular social media site is Facebook. |
| E．On Facebook, people post their news and photos. |
| F．Right now, there are 5 new Facebook users every second. |
【推荐1】Everyone in the world needs water. Water is very precious (珍贵的) to everybody. You should also know the following facts about water.
There is about the same amount of water on the earth now as there was millions of years ago. Nearly 97% of all the world’s water is salty or undrinkable. Another 2% is ice. Then there only leaves 1% for the people to use directly.
Water regulates (调节) the earth’s temperature from time to time. It also regulates the temperature of the human body!
More water is used in the bathroom than any other place at home.
A dripping faucet (水龙头) can waste up to 7,570 kilograms of water a year.
Does it sound amazing to you? ______________ You should know that whether at home or at school, you can do things like these to save water:
●Take shorter showers.
●Repair dripping faucets in time.
●Don’t keep the water running while you’re washing dishes.
●Turn off the water in your bathroom while you brush your teeth.
Why not save water from now on? Let’s take actions!
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. How does the writer start writing this passage?
| A．By raising a question. | B．By showing a fact. |
| C．By using an example. | D．By listing numbers. |
| A．1% of the world’s water. | B．2% of the world’s water. |
| C．70% of the world’s water. | D．97% of the world’s water. |
| A．In the kitchen. | B．In the bathroom. | C．On the balcony (阳台). | D．At the dining room. |
| A．Why not help to save water? | B．Do you know much about water? |
| C．Is the water in your home clean enough? | D．How much water do you drink every day? |
| A．The reason for using less water. | B．The knowledge of protecting the earth. |
| C．The things people can do to save water. | D．The importance of water and how to save it. |
【推荐2】When we touch something with our fingers, we can feel how warm or cold it is. However, most wearers of prosthetic hands (假肢) can’t feel it. To change that, a group of scientists in Switzerland have developed the “MiniTouch”.
The MiniTouch can be easily paired with a prosthetic hand. The wearer of the hand can then use it. Firstly, it collects thermal (热量) information from the index finger of the hand. The information is then sent to the nerves (神经) that were once connected to the missing hand. This can help the wearer to sense temperature in daily life.
Fabrizio was the first to try out the MiniTouch. The Italian man is 57 years old. He lost his right hand 37 years ago. For one test, the team prepared three similar bottles. They were filled with cold (12℃), cool (24℃) or hot water (40℃). With the help of the MiniTouch, Fabrizio could quickly tell the difference and didn’t make any mistakes. Without it, he only got 33% right. In another test, he sorted steel blocks according to their temperatures.
The MiniTouch helped him to get 75% right.
The scientists’ next step is to improve their device. They want it to be able to sense touch as well. This way, it will tell the user “this is soft and hot” or “this is hard and cold”. Another goal is to make the MiniTouch able to collect thermal information from four other fingers. “It’s all about giving the wearer a richer, more natural sense of the world,” said Micera, one of the scientists.
1. Why do scientists develop the MiniTouch?| A．To touch something. | B．To feel the temperature. |
| C．To help the disabled. | D．To change prosthetic hands. |
①The wearer senses the temperature. ②The Mini Touch collects information.
③The disabled person wears the Mini Touch. ④The index finger sends information.
| A．②③④① | B．②①③④ | C．③①②④ | D．③②④① |
| A．His right hand. | B．The Mini Touch. |
| C．Cold water. | D．The temperature |
| A．Fabrizio comes from Switzerland. | B．He lost his hands at the age of 20. |
| C．He had two tests about the Mini Touch. | D．He could sort steel blocks by himself. |
| A．To help the wearers to have more money. | B．To use five fingers to collect information. |
| C．To tell the sense of sight by using it. | D．To offer the users the truer sense of the world. |
【推荐3】If you feel sad or upset, remember not to watch a happy movie. A sad movie may be more suitable for you.
Some scientists at Ohio State University, the U. S., have found that sad movies can make people happier. They published their study in a magazine called Communication Research.
Scientists asked 361 college students to watch a sad movie called Atonement. The movie tells a story of two lovers who were separated. They died during World War II at the end of the movie. The 361 college students answered questions from the scientists before, after and three times during the movie to find out their different feelings, including sadness.
According to the result of the survey, scientists found out that people felt better after watching the sad movie. Scientists believed this was because the movie made them think about their own lives and relationships. Compared to those of the unlucky lovers in the movie, their lives were full of hope.
“I want to live my life to the fullest, and this movie has made me think a lot.” one student wrote.
Therefore, if you feel sad, go to see a sad movie. That will cause you to think more about your own close relationships and value them more.
根据材料内容，选择最佳答案。1. The scientists asked the college students to watch Atonement ________.
| A．to help them make more friends | B．to make them feel better about themselves |
| C．to encourage them to share their feelings | D．to find out how they felt after watching it |
| A．Three times. | B．Four times. | C．Five times. | D．Six times. |
| A．Lives. | B．Stories. | C．Friends. | D．Feelings. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．Feeling Bad? See a Happy Film | B．Feeling Sad? Watch a Sad Movie |
| C．Feeling Lonely? Find True Love | D．Feeling Down? Think about Others |
【推荐1】“My summer hols wr CWOT.B4, we usd 2 go 2 NY 2Cmy bro, his GF thr 3 :-kids FTF.ILNY, its gr8.”
Can you understand this sentence? If you can’t, don’t feel too bad: neither could the middle school teacher in England who received this as homework. This is Netspeak: the language of computerized communication found on the Internet or cellphones. To newcomers, it can look like a completely foreign language. So, what is the “translation”of the sentence above?” My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend, and their three screaming kids face to face. I love New York; it’s great.
School teachers and parents say this new form of writing is harming the English language. Increasing spelling and grammatical mistakes can be seen in students’ writing. They fear the language could become corrupted (破坏).
Everyone should just relax—linguists say so. They believe Netspeak is in fact more of a good thing. David Crystal, from the University of Wales, argues that Netspeak and the Internet create a new language use and the almost lost art of diary writing has been picked up again. Geoffrey Nunberg, from Stanford University, agrees.” People get better at writing by writing,” he says.” Kids who are now doing text messaging, e-mail, and instant messages will write at least as well as, and possibly better than, their parents.”
Linguist (语言学家) James Milroy says, for centuries, it is believed without exception that young people are harming the language. And you can bet your bottom dollar that when today’s teenagers become tomorrow’s parents, they too will think this way. Milroyargues that languages do not and cannot become “corrupted” they simply change to meet the new needs.
However, Netspeakers do agree that it is important to teach young people how to speak and write Standard English. Cynthia McVey says,” I can understand Netspeak worries teachers and it’s important that they get across to their pupils that text messaging is for fun, but that learning to write proper English is a must for their future.
Perhaps we should give teenagers a little more trust anyway. Erin, age 12, says, “I wouldn’t use text language in my homework. Text is just for fun.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. What is the main purpose of the first paragraph?
| A．To give an example of a foreign language. | B．To show an example of creative methods. |
| C．To express worries about using Netspeak. | D．To lead in the topic of Netspeak. |
| A．They like Netspeak. | B．They don’t mind Netspeak. |
| C．They are against Netspeak and fear it. | D．They are harming Netspeak. |
| A．Cynthia McVey points out teenagers can deal with Netspeak properly. |
| B．Geoffrey INunberg believes Netspeakers can write Standard English. |
| C．David Crystal thinks Netspeak helps develop the habit of writing. |
| D．James Milroy says that language is changing and improving |
| A．be fairly sure | B．be greatly surprised | C．think it a pity | D．find it interesting |
| A．Netspeak: A Widely-Used Language on the Internet |
| B．Is Netspeak Harming the English Language? |
| C．Is Netspeak Helpful in Language Learning? |
| D．Advantages for Netspeak |
Students these days are spending more free time playing computer games.
There are both good and bad things about playing computer games.
Computer games may be harmful to children. First, since they sit all day in front of the computers, they don’t have much time to take exercise.
| A．However, playing computer games may not be all that bad for children. |
| B．They may get sick easily if they don’t take any exercise. |
| C．They may also think faster and learn things more quickly. |
| D．Is it good or bad for students to play computer games? |
| E．Third, they may have no time for students and be less interested in school work. |
【推荐3】Most of us cannot imagine modern life without social media. We use it almost every day in order to keep up with what is happening in our friends’ lives or find out the latest information. Although it has a bad influence if we don’t use it properly, social media has done more good than harm.
The greatest advantage is that we can connect with people much more easily. We are still able to keep in touch with our friends if they are far away. With social media, friendship goes beyond geography. We’re able to find friends old and new. Also, it makes it easier for us to make friends, especially for those who are afraid of making friends face to face. Are you shy? If yes, social media has probably helped.
Social media is also ideal (理想的) for making yourself heard. Anyone with a voice can express it. Anyone with a talent is free to show it. Everyone is the new content (内容) creator. Moreover, anyone with a smartphone and the Internet can be a reporter. As a result, it has become much faster to cover the news than ever before.
Social media, on the other hand, can make us less confident sometimes. A study published by the Public Library of Science, found that the more a person uses social media, the sadder he feels about his own life. One reason for this is that people around us put colourful information and perfect pictures online in order to show off their best moment. So we often get a distorted sense of how wonderful their lives are compared to our own.
Social media does not cause sadness; it simply provides another tool for us to use. Is it good or bad? Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai says, “What is interesting is the power and influence of social media ... We must try to use social media in a good way.” After all, you decide how you use this powerful tool.
1. What can we learn about social media from the passage?| A．We use social media to only record our best side. |
| B．We can use social media to find out the shiest friends. |
| C．Social media can help people connect with others more easily. |
| D．Everyone can be a reporter in the Public Library of Science. |
| A．clear | B．different | C．simple | D．incorrect |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．Social Media: To Create Or Not To Create? |
| B．Social Media: Our Friend Or Enemy? |
| C．Social Media: Connecting the World |
| D．Social Media: Making Yourself Heard |
