What do you think of a “talking kitchen”?A French Digital(数码)Kitchen has been developed at Newcastle University in the UK. It teaches students how to cook French food and speak French at the same time. For the first time, students can learn the language by the following cooking steps.
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The kitchen project was started by professor Paul Seedhouse. He became interested in the idea after he visited another kind of talking kitchen. He said, “The purpose of the French Digital Kitchen is to make learning a language more interesting and more educational. ”
How does the kitchen work?There is a computer in the kitchen. With this computer, the users can first choose a French recipe that they want to follow. Using the information in the computer, the kitchen starts to guide the users how to make a French dish. If you follow the instructions on the computer, it moves on to the next. If you go wrong, the programme goes back and repeats the recipe or information. At any time, the users can ask the kitchen to repeat the recipe or any information.
The new kitchen can be used in schools, universities and even people's homes. The researchers can also be developing the European Digital Kitchen, for the next three years.
1. After reading the passage we know the French Digital Kitchen________.| A．is a “talking kitchen” |
| B．teaches students English |
| C．was developed in France |
| D．cooks food for professors |
| A．food | B．vocabulary |
| C．recipe | D．instructions |
| A．chooses another recipe |
| B．goes on to the next step |
| C．repeats the recipe or information |
| D．stops working at once |
| A．show you how computer works |
| B．introduce a French Digital Kitchen |
| C．teach you how to cook French food |
| D．tell you the importance of language learning |
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【推荐1】My family makes the best chicken salad. Dad prepares（准备）all of the ingredients and Mom makes the relish. There are a few things that make this chicken salad different from other chicken salads.
First, we use fruit jam（果酱）in the relish. You can buy any fruit jam, like banana jam or orange jam. But we have bottles of strawberry jam that my mother made, so we use the strawberry jam. Second, we put some green olives（橄榄）. Green olives give the salad an interesting taste and make a big difference. Now let me tell you how my family makes the salad.
First, mix up all of the salad ingredients in a large bowl. The ingredients are chicken, tomatoes, green olives, onions and apples. If you like lettuce, you can also put some. Next, make the relish. Please mix the jam, the juice and the salt. Finally, mix the relish with the salad ingredients.
Do you have a favorite chicken salad recipe（食谱）? Please tell us about it. You can write to us at greensalad@hotmail.com.
1. What kind of jam does the writer’s family use? ________| A．Strawberry jam. | B．Banana jam. | C．Orange jam. | D．All kinds of fruit jam. |
| A．green olives and chicken |
| B．green olives and a different relish |
| C．lettuce and a different relish |
| D．chicken and a different relish |
| A．call | B．send an e-mail to | C．visit | D．write a letter to |
| A．the writer’s favorite dish |
| B．all kinds of fruit salads |
| C．a different chicken salad |
| D．the writer’s family |
A：How do you make a banana milk shake?
B：OK, let me tell you.
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【推荐3】8-year-old Mary is being interviewed on TV about her own cooking.
Mary, when did you start cooking?
When I was four, I became interested in cooking. I started helping my mum in the kitchen when I was five. At the age of six, I could make vegetable salad. One year later, I could make a fruit pie all by myself.
What’s the best way to get good at cooking?
I don’t go to cooking classes. Sometimes I watch videos on the phone. I often read books about cooking actually. I think the best way to improve my cooking is trying it again and again. If it is no good, I’ll do it differently next time.
What do your parents think of your cooking?
They’re glad that they don’t have to make dinner every day, and they enjoy my cooking usually! But, you can’t make everyone happy all the time.
Finally, what’s it like being on TV?
It’s interesting. In fact, I really enjoy myself making the shows. They’re watched by millions, but I still find it strange when people I don’t know say hello to me in the street.
1. When could Mary make a fruit pie all by herself?| A．At the age of five. | B．At the age of six. | C．At the age of seven. |
| A．To learn by practicing. |
| B．To go to cooking classes. |
| C．To watch videos on the phone. |
| A．Her parents don’t like her to make shows. |
| B．Her parents don’t always like her cooking. |
| C．Her parents make her cook meals for everyone. |
【推荐1】Besides the subjects at school, do you have any idea of some activities for the coming term? We do a survey from students in Sunshine Middle School. Almost all students show great interest in doing sports. Their opinions are collected. Here is the graph（图表）of the results.
根据图表和文字内容，选择正确答案。
1. ________ of the seventh graders like baseball.
| A．30% | B．25% | C．20% | D．15% |
| A．Soccer | B．Baseball |
| C．Swimming | D．Basketball |
| A．soccer and baseball |
| B．soccer and basketball |
| C．baseball and swimming |
| D．swimming and basketball |
| A．Soccer is less popular than swimming. |
| B．Students like swimming more as they get older. |
| C．Basketball is more popular among seventh graders. |
| D．Eighth graders like baseball more than ninth graders do. |
| A．Choosing sports depends on the teachers’ opinions. |
| B．Most of the junior graders are not interested in sports. |
| C．The school decides to develop the two sports in the club. |
| D．The graph shows the favorite sports of the junior graders in the school. |
【推荐2】What do you do to relax? Do you watch TV? Do you read a book? Or do you listen to music? How many of you play a musical instrument（乐器）? How many of us go to concerts? How important is music in our lives? What kind of music do we like?
The survey（调查）above shows the musical habits of a few of our readers. Interestingly, fourteen people out of the twenty questioned actually play a musical instrument, and only six people don’t. Out of these, ten people practice（练习）their musical instrument between 0-3 hours a week and the other four between three and six hours a week.
The best instrument to play is the guitar. Eight people say it is their favorite instrument to play. Another four people like playing the piano and two like playing the violin. Two people, however, don’t like playing the violin or the piano as they think they are too difficult.
Pop concerts are always popular, but in this survey only eight people say they like going to concerts, six to pop concerts and two to jazz concerts.
A higher number, eighteen, say they like listening to music as they find it relaxing. Only two people don’t like listening to music at all. These results（结果）seem to suggest that we are more actively musical than we think.
1. ________ people are questioned in the survey.| A．Fourteen | B．Twenty | C．Eight | D．Ten |
| A．they think it boring | B．they think it interesting |
| C．they think it difficult | D．they think it exciting |
| A．作为 | B．当……时候 | C．因为 | D．与……一样 |
| A．different hobbies of people | B．a survey about people’s love for music |
| C．why people like music | D．people like to play instruments |
Could you spend 24 hours without the Internet? I’m not sure how I’d deal with it. These days we all depend heavily on technology, you may or may not be surprised by the results of some recent research about the effects of online and digital (数字的) technology on people’s lives. More than half of the people who were questioned said they’d feel “upset” without an Internet connection even for a brief period of time, which is, about 15-30 minutes when they were away from the Internet.
The scientists also challenged people to spend one whole day without using technology and then report back on what it was like. Some people were surprised that they could not even turn their phones to silent. Nearly fifty percent of them said they felt lonely when they weren’t using social media. According to the research, it is harder for the younger people to give up technology. They said that the modern technology has already become a part of their lives. However, there are about 25% of people actually said they felt freer without an Internet connection. It meant they found time to do something they wouldn’t usually do such as reading a novel. Some of them said they enjoyed spending more time talking to family and friends face to face.
So, what about you? As a middle school student, could you take the Internet challenge and spend 24 hours without going online? Or would it be a bad dream for you? Here we have different opinions from Chinese students aged from 12-16, maybe they’ll be able to help you with your Internet use.
1. Without an Internet connection, more than half of the questioned people felt ________.| A．happy | B．disappointed | C．surprised |
| A．贫穷的 | B．漫长的 | C．短暂的 |
| A．Scientists. | B．Older people. | C．Younger people. |
| A．About 25%. | B．Almost 75%. | C．More than 50%. |
| A．Ways to stop using the Internet. |
| B．The meaning of taking the challenge. |
| C．Different opinions from Chinese students. |
The development of AI (人工智能) is a hot topic these days. AI makes it possible for machines (机器) to learn from experience and do human-like tasks. But what is the future of AI？Will it be a good thing? Students are talking about it.
· I think AI will be more useful in our future lives. Now we use it in many things like phones and medicines. No one really knows what will happen if machines become smarter than humans. However, I’m sure AI will help us solve problems.
—Laura
· I am worried that people will create something that can be better than themselves. In the near future, AI will develop at a high speed. AI may take the place of humans because AI robots will do lots of human jobs.
—Robert
· I really think that AI will change the way we work, the way we live, and the way we think. Just think if we could put a CPU (中央处理器) into our brains (大脑)! Soon we’ll find we can improve our math and memory. How exciting!
—Susan
· Think of what’s happening right now. People use some robots to kill animals. So I think AI will be very dangerous for humans. We need to be careful about what we ask machines to do.
—Ben
1. In the passage, ________ student(s) think(s) AI is not a good thing.| A．one | B．two | C．three | D．four |
| A．Susan | B．Robert | C．Laura | D．Ben |
| A．careful | B．useful | C．exciting | D．dangerous |
【推荐2】We can use new ways to fight the novel coronavirus(新冠病毒). Let’s meet these high-tech helpers in China!
| Drones(无人机)—In some countryside, the police use drones to find people in groups. When they are found by drones, the police will warn them through the loudspeaker on the drone. |
| Smart Robots—Time to eat! In some hospitals, smart robots help to send food to patients. The robots can also help to hand out medicine and show the way to people. |
| 3D “Hospitals”—A company in Shanghai has produced 15 mobile rooms within 24 hours by 3D printing technology(科技) and sent them to Hubei for patients to live in. Each room is about the size of a bedroom. |
| AI System(系统) at the Mudanyuan subway station in Beijing, an AI system can check people in crowds to see if they have fevers. About three hundred people can be checked by it in one minute. |
| A．Call up the crowd. | B．Warn the crowd. | C．Send messages to the crowd. |
| A．Within a day. | B．More than 24 hours. | C．Within 24 days. |
| A．3 | B．30 | C．300 |
【推荐3】She wakes you up. She turns on your lights. She plays your songs. She answers your questions. She tells you jokes. She performs your task wherever your voice can be heard in your house. Who’s she? She’s a smart speaker! Gone are the days of having simple speakers that only play your favorite music throughout your home. It’s clear that smart speakers-the ones you can talk to and interact (互动) with, are the future. Here are three of them.
 Tmall Genie | Tmall Genie is a smart speaker developed by Chinese company Alibaba Group. Introduced in July 2017, the device can search the Internet, play music, control smart home devices, and order products from Tmall. com. It can have voice interaction only in Chinese at present. |
 Mi AI | The Mi Al Speaker,developed by Xiao Mi, will wake you up in the morning and tell you about the weather. It allows you to control other Mi Home devices such as the Mi Kettle, lights, and rice cooker. You can even have it serve as a teacher for your little kids, but it can only follow the voice instructions in Chinese. |
 Amazon Echo | Amazon Echo is developed by American company Amazon. It has the functions of voice interaction (in English, French, Chinese), setting alarms, and providing weather, traffic and other real-time information. But what really makes it stand out is that it has weather proof body so that you needn’t worry even if you take it to the beach on holiday. |
| A．Tmall Genie | B．Mi AI |
| C．Ding Dong | D．Amazon Echo |
| A．It can be used in an easier way. |
| B．It can be connected to smart home devices. |
| C．It can have voice interaction in more than one language. |
| D．It can be controlled by both voice and body movement. |
| A．Worried. | B．Hopeful. | C．Unlcear. | D．Doubtful. |
| A．Teens. | B．Sports Weekly. |
| C．Fashion Collection. | D．Technology and Life. |
 These were the first men on the moon. They were American. When astronauts （宇航员） come back to the earth, they will look a little different. They will have thin legs and fat faces, because there is no gravity (重力) in space. |
 This is Laika, a space dog who became one of the first animals in space. In 1957, she traveled into space alone and moved around the earth. |
 This is a sleep station. Four astronauts can sleep here. They can sleep upside down or standing up. |
 In the space kitchen, there are over a hundred kinds of food. There is a food pack(包) for every meal. The astronauts eat on trays(托盘) . Magnets(磁铁) hold the trays down on the table, or they will fly. |
| A．become taller | B．become heavier |
| C．have short legs and thin faces | D．have thin legs and fat faces |
| A．as the oldest animal | B．together with other animals |
| C．over sixty years ago | D．with five astronauts |
| A．To make the food delicious. | B．To stop the trays from flying. |
| C．To make the table look beautiful. | D．To stop the food from going bad. |
| A．The first men to go to the moon were from Russia. |
| B．Laika was the only animal to go to the moon. |
| C．Astronauts sleep in different ways in the sleep station. |
| D．Astronauts must stand up when they sleep in space. |
| A．In a science magazine. | B．In a history book. |
| C．In a book on animals. | D．In a news report. |
【推荐2】You may not have heard of “freshman fifteen” before, but they are very important for students who are entering university. A freshman is a first-year college students who are going into university (大学). A freshman is a first-year college student. “Fifteen” means fifteen pounds—the fifteen pounds added (增加) to a student’s weight in his or her first year. There are a number of reasons why first-year university students gain (增加) weight; but it’s hopeful to know that freshmen don’t have to add these harmful fifteen pounds.
University kitchens serve many kinds of food. Some students choose unhealthy food, because now their parents are not nearby to help them choose. Some students visit the kitchen many times while studying. Late at night, some students get harmful fast food such as French fries and fried chicken with soda to drink. Students also have less time for walking, running, and doing sports because of their schoolwork.
If you’re careful, you don’t have to add fifteen pounds. Here are some ideas:
Think more about what you eat.
Don’t eat desserts full of sugar; have fruit after dinner.
Try not to eat so much junk food while you study.
It’s all right to have a little fast food sometimes—but not often.
Walk, run, do sports—move and you will feel better!
Remember that the “freshman fifteen” can happen to anyone. Talk to your friends about it. Together, try to eat healthy food and not to eat junk food. Walking, running, and playing sports is always more fun with friends. Help each other and you can have a healthy and happy freshman year.
1. The “freshman fifteen” is ________.| A．weight that high school students get |
| B．fifteen pounds of food that first-year students eat |
| C．weight that first-year university students can gain |
| D．fifteen students who eat junk food |
| A．Choosing healthy food. | B．Visiting the kitchen while studying. |
| C．Doing a lot of sports. | D．Getting fast food at night. |
| A．You should never eat junk food. |
| B．Not eating unhealthy foods is easier with friends’ help. |
| C．Gaining fifteen pounds can help you study better. |
| D．Some students can eat anything they want. |
| A．get students ready to gain fifteen pounds |
| B．sell healthy food to new students |
| C．help new university students not to gain fifteen pounds |
| D．show the mistakes students make in choosing food |
| A．The “Freshman Fifteen” | B．Mistakes choosing food |
| C．Eating right | D．Talk to your friend |
【推荐3】There is a big supermarket(超市) near my home. Its name is Pricelow. It has lots of things. You can buy school things, like notebooks, pens, rulers, pencils, erasers and pencil boxes. You can buy vegetables, fruit and all kinds of food. You can also buy clothes. Some of the things there are cheap, and anybody can afford the price. But some of them are dear.
The supermarket is open every day from 7:00 a.m.to 8:00 p.m. The workers there are very good. They work hard all day. They are happy to answer your questions. They help you if you want to buy anything. There are many people on weekends. They buy lots of things. Sometimes they have breakfast, lunch or dinner there.
1. The supermarket near my home is .| A．old | B．new | C．big | D．small |
| A．Three | B．Four | C．Five | D．Six |
| A．宝贵的 | B．昂贵的 | C．时髦的 | D．精致的 |
| A．seven | B．eight | C．twelve | D．thirteen |
| A．You can’t buy clothes in the supermarket. |
| B．All of the things in the supermarket are cheap. |
| C．The workers in the supermarket are very friendly (友好的). |
| D．People can’t have breakfast in the supermarket. |
