One day，when Sunee reached her house，she saw a brown package（包裹）．She ran inside the house with her package and showed it to her grandmother．Sunee opened the package．As she did，she noticed there was Thai writing on the box．This package had come from her aunt in Thailand．
Inside the box，Sunee saw something uncommon．It was a red silk umbrella． She had never seen anything like it! Next to the umbrella she found a silk purse（钱包）．They were both beautiful．
"Shipping a package overseas used to take a lot of time，" said Grandmother "Packages traveled by train and ship．It could take many months to get a package from across the ocean． How long did your package take to arrive？"
Sunee and her grandmother looked at the postmark（邮戳）．It showed that the package had been sent eight days ago "That's fast!" said Sunee．
Her grandmother agreed．"We have resources （资源）now that we didn't have years ago．Now，packages are flown across the ocean．Because airplanes travel so fast，packages arrive very quickly． Now our economy（经济）depends on fast delivery（快递）!"
1. How did Sunee know that the package had come from Thailand?2. What did Sunee's aunt send her?
3. Why did it use to take many months to get a package from across the ocean?
4. How long did Sunee's package take to arrive?
5. Did Sunee's package travel by airplane?
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Over the past few years, technology has played an very important role in culture protection in China. One of the beneficiaries (受益者) of this trend is the Xi’an City Wall, China’s largest and best-preserved (保存最完好的) ancient city wall.
Located at the heart of Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi province, the city wall was built as a military defense (军事防御) system over 600 years ago. The wall is up to 14 meters wide at the top.
Bearing witness to history, the city wall is also the part of modern city life. A lot of tourists go on top of it, while streams of cars and buses pass through the city gates daily.
However, the city wall has experienced some damage over the years. This produced the challenge of protecting the ancient treasure without influencing its modern functions. Some experts tried to deal with this challenge by using high technologies.
Last year, Muon Imaging Technology (μ介子成像技术) was used in the wall. This technology was developed by a research team of Lanzhou University. It can scan the inside of the thick body of the wall to discover damage, without any harm to the wall itself. With such technology, the preservation of the city wall has changed from repairing to damage checking and prevention.
“In recent years, China has made a national cultural digitization strategy to encourage the cultural industries. The Xi’an City Wall will develop in line with this strategy to make culture preservation and cultural tourism stronger,” said Zhao Bin, director of the Xi’an City Wall Digital Industry Innovation Center.
1. How long is the history of the Xi’an City Wall?It has a history of
2. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
It refers to “
3. How has the preservation of the city wall changed from repairing to damage checking and prevention?
The preservation of the city wall has changed from repairing to damage checking and prevention with the use of
4. Which English word in the passage means “损坏”?
It is “
5. What does this passage mainly talk about?
It mainly talks about
ChatGPT
There’s a new AI robot: ChatGPT, and you’d better read carefully, even if you don’t know artificial intelligence (人工智能). ChatGPT is a tool made by the company OpenAI in November 2022. They wanted to show everyone what a very large, powerful AI system can achieve.
ChatGPT remembers your conversations, using the questions you asked and its answers to prepare its next sentences. It makes its answers from lots of information on the Internet. It can do many other things, such as writing papers, describing art very well, creating AI art ideas, having thoughtful conversations and even writing computer codes (密码) for you!
Perhaps it’s not smart enough to replace (替代) all humans yet, but it can be creative. A few days after its launch (上市), more than 1 million people were trying out ChatGPT. It was said that about 100 million people used ChatGPT in February 2023.
However, ChatGPT cannot replace Baidu. ChatGPT is an AI robot that gives answers to your questions, but Baidu is a website that helps you look for information.
ChatGPT is still new and has a lot of problems. Here are 5 big problems that experts have noticed:
ChatGPT is a fun and exciting new technology for everyone to use and experiment with. We can make the best use of ChatGPT for learning. But be careful with it!
1. When was ChatGPT made?2. What can ChatGPT do? List 2—3 points.
3. What’s the difference between ChatGPT and Baidu?
4. Will you use ChatGPT? Why or why not?
【推荐3】When you want to buy a new T-shirt, will you pick Nike or Li-Ning? It’s a choice between local and foreign brands(品牌). In fact, Chinese brands are now winning the hearts of people in China and abroad(国外).
Time magazine shows a list of the 100 greatest companies in the world. Some Chinese companies are on the list, such as Huawei, DJI and TikTok.
For a long time, “made in China” made people think of ugly or poor things. Now, more and more people have different ideas because things “made in China” are fashionable, well-made and cheap. And some of them are making the world different from what it once was. Here are some examples.
Technology
Huawei is the world’s second-biggest mobile phone company. Its mobile phones are used in more than 170 countries. Huawei is also a leader in 5G technology.
DJI has more than 70 percent of the world’s drone(无人机) market. It makes all kinds of drones.
Entertainment
What’s one of the most popular apps in the US? It’s TikTok. It’s said that about 50 million US users spend 45 minutes on it every day. People know it because its videos seem to be endless. It can recommend videos based on your likes. But it’s not just a time-killer. People can buy things on it, too.
Fashion
Li-Ning, a Chinese fashion brand, got into the world market a few years ago. Its sportswear like hoodies(帽衫) and jackets sells well all over the world. However, Nike once said no to the cotton from Xinjiang, its market in China is becoming smaller and smaller.
The Chinese brands will keep growing in a quick way. “The best time for the development of local brands is coming,” Ma Yun once said.
Introduction | ●Chinese brands are ●Some Chinese companies are among the 100 greatest ones in the world. ●People can buy fashionable and well-made things which are made in China ●Some of the Chinese brands are | |
Technology | ●Huawei’s mobile phones are used in ●DJI has most of the world’s drone market. | |
Entertainment | ● ●Its videos never come to an ●People can watch them both for fun and for shopping. | |
Fashion | ●Li-Ning ●Li-Ning’s sportswear sells well now while Nike is | |
Conclusion | ● The Chinese brands will keep growing ● The best time for the development of local brands is coming. | |
Talking is how you spread your thoughts, ideas, and experiences to people around you. It’s not always ①_______ to talk about other people. But when you say bad things, tell stories that you’re not sure are true, or spread others’ secret information, you’re spreading gossip（流言蜚语）. For example, you saw your classmate Jake go into the head teacher’s office, so you started telling others you thought Jake’s in big ②_______. Then everyone was talking about how Jake was in trouble. But in fact, he went to the head teacher’s office just because his mum was there to take him to see a doctor.
That’s how gossip works. It starts small and often blows up into something different from the truth. Even if it was true that Jake was in big trouble, it was wrong to tell everyone about it. Try to avoid talking about things that will make another person feel uncomfortable.
Of course, sometimes it’s OK to talk about another person, especially if it is about dangerous actions. What if a classmate brings a pocketknife to school or your friend tells you she’s not eating anything, she loses 10 pounds? In cases like that, you need to tell a parent or your teacher. Telling a grown-up who can help is not gossiping.
The best way to avoid being a member of the gossip group in your school is to stay away from kids who gossip. If you happen to hear a gossip, don’t repeat it, and don’t listen to it, either. When someone trusts you with a personal secret, keep it to yourself.
1. ①任务二：从文中找出与下列句子意思相近的句子。
2. If someone believes in you and tells you about a private information, you should keep it secret.
任务三：请把上文中画线的句子翻译成汉语。
3.
任务四：请根据短文内容回答下列问题。
4. Why did Jake enter the teacher’s office?
5. Have you ever spreaded gossip? How to avoid being a member of the gossip group?
【推荐2】Not only adults but also teenagers have problems in their life.Here is a survey showing the main problems of teenagers.
They feel stressed because they have too much homework to do both at school and at home.They have lots of exams to take.And parents usually send them to different classes at weekends.(A)They don't have their own time to do what they are interested in.
Now more and more teenagers are getting shortsighted.They often read in bed or keep reading for a long time without having a rest.Some of them are crazy about playing computer games.Some spend too much time watching TV.(B)Another serious problem among teenagers is that many of them are becoming fat.They eat too much junk food,but they take little exercise.
I think teenagers should think of ways to deal with the problems.They should make a plan for study and hobbies and find time to relax as much as possible.
根据短文内容,完成下列任务。
任务一:根据短文内容,回答下列问题。
1. Why do teenagers feel stressed?
2. How can teenagers relax themselves?
任务二:改写句子。
3. Not only adults but also teenagers have problems in their life.(改为同义句)
任务三:把文中画线(A)、(B)句翻译成汉语。
4.
5.
【推荐3】You may have heard the saying, women are from Venus(金星) and men are from Mars (火星). It's a nice way of saying how men and women are quite different from each other in many ways.
These differences can be seen everywhere, even in how we communicate with friends. A recent study by the University of Oxford suggested that men and women keep relationships with friends far away in different ways.
Researchers questioned 30 students about their friendships just before they left for college. They followed up the questions nine months, and then 18 months later Robin Dunbar, who headed the research, told that how long friendships among women last depended on whether they made an effort to talk more to each other on the phone. Men, on the other hand, tended to (倾向于) do things differently. They went through months of not being with friends by planning meet-ups (见面) sometimes. This was the biggest difference between men and women.
Of course, gender (性别)isn't the only thing that influences how we stay in touch. The way we keep our friendships also depends on the preference(偏好) of each person, and it can take a while to find your own way of making your friendships work. One thing that is pretty clear though is that friends who make the effort to keep in touch, even if it's only through Wechat(微信)once a week, do tend to stay friends, no matter how far it is.
1. Did researchers question 30 high school students about their friendships?2. How did women keep their friendships according to the research?
3. What's the passage mainly about?
4. Do you think it's a good way for teenagers to keep friendships by planning meet-ups often? Why or why not?
