1 . 阅读下面短文,按要求完成下面小题。
China Three Gorges University held an activity named “Cell Phone Ninja” (手机忍者). They would like the students not to use cell phones for 21 days. It was really a challenge for most students.
The activity started on 12 April. Each student who volunteered to take part in this activity got a bracelet (手环) . If the students did not use their cell phones, there would be a photo on the screen of the bracelet to show that. If they used their cell phones, a different photo would appear on the screen of the bracelet. After the last class of each day, the students’ photos were shown on the school’s public WeChat.
About 900 students applied (申请) to take part in this test, and 400 were chosen. Seven days later, only 103 students remained. The test was set for 21 days because some scientists believe that 21 days is long enough to help form a habit.
According to the teachers in the university, the activity was not a competition. It depended on the students themselves to make the decision. To help students form better habits, the teachers hoped more activities like this one could be held.
1,2题完成句子,3~5题简略回答问题。
1. The activity named “Cell Phone Ninja”2. The students photos were shown on the school’s public WeChat
3. When did the activity start?
2 .
Morse code (摩斯密码) is a system of communication that uses dots (short marks), dashes (long marks), and spaces to represent (代表) the letters, numbers, and punctuation. Letters used often (such as “E”) got a simple code, while those not often used (such as “Q”) got a longer and more complex code.
The very first message using Morse code was sent by Samuel Morse, one of its inventors, to Alfred Vail on May 24th, 1844. The two men were 40 miles apart at the time. From then on, the way to communicate with people in far-off places was changed.
Morse code is a highly dependable communication method, even in difficult and noisy environments. It can be sent by sounds, light, or other unexpected ways. Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. was a prisoner of war between 1965 and 1973. As a high-ranking officer, he was forced to take part in a television interview on May 2nd, 1966. During the broadcast, which went out live in the US, Denton Jr. pretended (假装) to be blinded by the camera lights in order to blink (眨眼) a Morse code message to those watching back home.
Morse code’s heyday is long gone. It was replaced first by the telephone, then the fax machine, and finally by the Internet. But isn’t it fun to send a message in Morse Code to your friends? Give it a try!
1. What does the underlined word “complex” mean?A.冗长的 | B.准确的 | C.复杂的 | D.清晰的 |
A.1840s | B.1880s | C.1960s | D.1970s |
A.how Morse code works in a difficult situation |
B.how Morse code is used in television interviews |
C.how Morse code helped catch a prisoner of war |
D.how a Morse code message was sent by sounds |
A.is still widely used nowadays |
B.was invented to replace the telephone |
C.changed long-distance communication |
D.can hardly be used in noisy environments |
A. | B. | C. | D. |
3 . Here comes the good news for Disney fans! Zootopia Land at Shanghai Disney Resort opened on December 20th, 2023.It is the world’s first Zootopia-themed (疯狂动物城主题) land. It is also the eighth themed land at Shanghai Disney Resort. The new land is a living community, with amazing food and drink, entertainment, products and more! At the land, you can walk by the Beaver Dentist and listen to patients having their teeth cleaned. You can visit the Hibernation (冬眠) Hotel, where Zootopia’s bears and other creatures hibernate. There is even an Arctic Spa for the polar bears.
You will find the newest ride, Zootopia: Hot Pursuit (疯狂追踪). You will experience everything from sliding (滑行) across the ice of Tundratown to flying off the track (轨道) onto the busy streets of Sahara Square!
You can visit the cool Mane Street and Zootopia Cepdras Station! The large subway train picks up and drops off animal passengers. You can meet your favorite characters. A new show will bring the characters from the film to life in an exciting way.
In Zootopia, you can shop for amazing things including the Disney Zootopia Cute collection. At Fashions by Fru Fru, there are over 200 products, many only created just for Zootopia. Are you excited about this new land?
1. Which of the following statements about Zootopia Land is TRUE?A.It is open for more than a year. |
B.It is the first theme park in the world. |
C.It is the eighth themed land at Shanghai Disney Resort. |
A.猎人 | B.动物 | C.乘客 |
A.Bringing the characters from films to life. |
B.Sliding across the ice and flying off the track. |
C.Watching polar bears having a spa in the Arctic. |
A.By plane. | B.By ship. | C.By subway train. |
A.Disney Zootopia Cute | B.Zootopia-themed Land | C.Shanghai Disney Land |
4 . You undoubtedly were asked, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” when you were a young child. Don’t worry! Nobody actually expected you to start career planning at the kindergarten (幼儿园) stage.
However, the timing of career planning matters a lot. While no age is ever too late to start making progress toward the career of your dreams, it is better to start today instead of tomorrow. Planning your career early enough comes with many advantages, from preparing you for challenges ahead to giving you much-needed experience.
Then___▲____? A good first step is to perform a self-evaluation. Make a list of your strongest skills and interests. Then, close your eyes and imagine your ideal day at work. Would it be peaceful or challenging? Would you like to work with young people? Animals? Computers? When you imagine your future, what does it include? These questions can help you focus and narrow down your choices. You should also consider factors beyond personal preferences. For example, what qualifications (资格) are required to enter the field? If you don’t yet have the qualifications or experience that you need, what education do you need to prepare yourself?
Regardless of where you’re at —whether you get good grades in exams or not—higher education gives you the shoes to take that next step. Because you’re equipped with practical skills and knowledge through education, and education is always something that employers (雇 主) like to see. On top of that, by gaining additional skills in communication and problem solving and achieving your goals, you can also increase your confidence. And studies have shown that greater confidence leads to greater career progress.
1. The question at the beginning of the text helps readers ________.A.think of an answer | B.be better questioners |
C.improve their thinking | D.understand the topic better |
A.as early as possible | B.before entering the workplace |
C.during high school | D.after receiving higher education |
A.when to start career planning | B.how to make a career plan |
C.what to prepare for your study | D.who to work and study with |
A.Exams and grades. | B.Skills and knowledge. |
C.Goals and progress. | D.Fashion and confidence. |
A.children at the kindergarten | B.old men with lots of work experience |
C.employers in the companies | D.teenagers at school or just finished school |
5 . In some parts of the world, children don’t have enough food to eat or enough money to buy clothes or shoes. Every year at Sunshine Middle School, we do something to raise (筹集) money for these children. This year we will have a Market Day.
The Market Day will fall on July 8. We are going to make the student center at our school look just like a big shopping center! People can come at any time from 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. and buy everything from clothes to books, cakes and flowers.
Luckily for us, many volunteers (志愿者) will help prepare for the big event. Last year, Ms. Grant and Ms. Ali made some wonderful cakes for our charity (慈善) event. They will do it again this year. Bill Thomas will visit Bookworm Bookshop and Mel’s Music Shop and ask them to give us things that we can sell at the event. Philip White will e-mail all the teachers and ask them to come to our event. Alice Brown will put a message online telling the public the event is open to everyone.
However, there is more to do, and we need your help. We want you to give us things that we can sell—books, old clothes, anything that we can sell to raise money for poor children. We also need some student volunteers to sell the things we get on Market Day.
With your help, we will certainly have a successful Market Day!
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. What do we know about the Market Day from Paragraph 2?
①When it will be. ②Where it will be.
③What it will sell. ④Who it will help.
A.①②③ | B.①②④ | C.①③④ | D.②③④ |
A.Visit shops. | B.Make cakes. |
C.Give away books. | D.Play some music. |
A.Ms. Grant. | B.Bill Thomas. | C.Philip White. | D.Alice Brown. |
A.Why the event is important. | B.How to become a volunteer. |
C.What help the event still needs. | D.How to sell things on Market Day. |
A.teach students about charity |
B.talk about an interesting market |
C.share feelings about being a volunteer |
D.ask some students to help with the event |
6 . Jane, a reporter, is collecting information for the local newspaper. She is interested in the following things introduced in a magazine.
Smart Schoolbag
Forget to pack the books you need into your schoolbag in the morning rush?
A schoolboy aged 11 has invented a schoolbag. It tells you which books to pack. A small computer and a scanner (扫描装置) are fixed in the bag. As each book is put into the bag, it is checked by the scanner. If any book is missing, a message will be shown on the computer screen to remind you.
Weather Sweets
Can you eat weather?
A university makes that happen. It uses a 3D printer to create sweets based on the weather information of a certain day.
The shapes of the sweets are affected by wind speed. The colors of the sweets are decided by temperature. The sweets act as a weather record of the day when they are made.
Sunrise Bed
It’s hard for you to get up in the morning, isn’t it?
To help you get up, a company has created a “tool”—a sunrise bed.
It wakes you up gently as a sunrise does. Lights built into the bed turn on and start to get brighter and brighter. When the lights are fully on, soft music will begin to play. It will be louder and louder until you turn it off. The company explains, “The gentle light tells your body that it is morning, so it stops producing a chemical that helps you sleep.”
1. What can the smart schoolbag do?A.Help you repair computers. | B.Tell you when to pack books. |
C.Teach you how to fix screens. | D.Remind you of the missing books. |
A.Colors | B.Wind speed | C.Temperature | D.3D printers |
A.lights on→music on→lights brighter→music louder |
B.music on→music louder→lights on→lights brighter |
C.lights on→lights brighter→music on→music louder |
D.music on→lights on→music louder→lights brighter |
7 . Technology and Books
What did people read before books and e-books? People started writing thousands of years ago. They cut pictures in stones. They wrote marks on wet clay (泥土). In Egypt, people wrote on papyrus (草纸) for other people to read. Papyrus was made from reeds (芦苇) that grew along the river. Papyrus was rolled up into a scroll (卷轴).
Hundreds of years ago, people started using parchment (羊皮纸). It was made from sheepskin. Pages of parchment were made into a book. Much later, books were made of paper. Every book had to be written out by hand. Then, in about the year 1455, Johannes Gutenberg made a printing press. It printed copies of a book more quickly.
E-books appeared around 1998. The letter “e” stands for electronic (电子的). You store and read e-books on an electronic device (设备). E-books use computer technology.
1. In Egypt, people wrote on papyrus2. Hundreds of years ago, people started to
3. Much later, every book had to be written out
4. The letter “e” in E-books stands for
5. You can
8 . All human activities create rubbish. Rubbish can be found in the middle of the ocean, in deserts, and on top of the world’s highest mountain. It can even be found in outer space, where it’s called “space junk”.
A lot of space junk is made up of satellites (卫星) that are no longer in use. It also includes tools and other things from astronauts. Scientists have discovered more than 12, 000 pieces of junk down to 10 cm in size in space. But there are hundreds of thousands of pieces that are too small to be tracked.
Space junk can cause a number of problems. For one thing, an inactive satellite may hit a useful satellite and both may break into pieces, which will create even more junk. Space junk might put other spacecraft (太空飞行器) in danger as well.
One idea for solving this problem is to go to collect the rubbish. A US company is designing a satellite that can collect space junk and move it to an orbit (轨道) where it does not bring any danger.
Space scientists have also realized that this junk is made up of parts that can be reused to build new space stations or satellites. In other words, space junk might be able to be recycled. It is clear that we must take action soon. UK researcher Hugh Lewis recently said that the risk from space junk would rise 50 percent in the next 10 years.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
1. Why are deserts and mountains mentioned in Paragraph 1? ________
A.To give reasons. |
B.To show opinions. |
C.To share experiences. |
D.To lead in the topic. |
A.Found. | B.Recycled. | C.Changed. | D.Collected. |
A.Causes of space junk. |
B.Research on space junk. |
C.Dangers from space junk. |
D.Conditions of space junk. |
A.Design some reused space stations or satellites. |
B.Bring the space junk back to the Earth and burn it. |
C.Build more new space stations or satellites to hit the useless ones. |
D.Collect the rubbish and place it in an orbit away from the spacecraft. |
A.Excited. | B.Proud. | C.Angry. | D.Worried. |
9 . China has had a lot of achievements in space science. Let’s look at some information about Shenzhou spaceships.
The Shenzhou XIV was launched (发射) on June 5, 2022. The three members Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe were sent to the Tiangong Space Station. They stayed there for half a year and had two to three spacewalks and gave science lessons to students during their stay. |
On November 29, 2022, the three astronauts, Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu took Shenzhou XV to space and stayed inside the Tiangong Space Station for 6 months. And their major tasks were to unlock and do a lot of scientific tests and so on. |
The Shenzhou XVI members Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao completed their eight-hour spacewalk and returned to the Wentian Science Module at 9:40 p. m. This was the 13th spacewalk carried out by Chinese astronauts. |
The Shenzhou XVII was launched on October 26, 2023 to transport three astronauts—Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin to the Tiangong Space Station. They will stay inside the Tiangong for about six months and return to Earth about April, 2024. |
1. The Shenzhou XIV astronauts ________ during their stay in space.
A.did a lot of scientific tests |
B.had spacewalks and gave lessons |
C.shared their stories with each other |
A.June 5, 2022 | B.November 29, 2022 | C.October26, 2023 |
A.8 | B.10 | C.13 |
A.Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu |
B.Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao |
C.Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin |
A.about 6 months | B.about a year | C.about 13 months |
10 . Chaka Salt Lake is in Qinghai Province. It sits at an altitude of about 3,100 meters and covers an area of 105 square km. It is rich in salt with a heavy salt bed close to the lake surface. That makes the lake a main source of salt in our country. When the weather is clear, the lake provides beautiful reflections (映像) of the blue sky. That is why people call it “Sky Mirror”.
Because of its amazing views, people see the lake as one of the “must-go” places in China. The best time to visit it would be from July to August. It is believed that breathing (呼吸) in the humid air with its salt content is especially good for the lungs.
If you want to go on a trip to the lake, the following tips may be helpful.
★Don’t eat the salt in the lake directly.
★Wear sunglasses and a hat because of the ultraviolet rays (紫外线).
★Prepare some medicine for the weak and the elderly to deal with altitude sickness.
Traveling to such a beautiful world of salt surrounded by snowy mountains and green grassland, you will feel like you are in a wonderland.
If you have a chance, why not go there and enjoy the amazing place?
1. Why do people call Chaka Salt Lake “Sky Mirror”?A.Because it has rich salt. |
B.Because it has a high altitude. |
C.Because the ultraviolet rays over the lake are strong. |
D.Because it provides beautiful reflections of the blue sky. |
A.The wide area of the lake. | B.The warm weather of the lake. |
C.The high altitude of the lake. | D.The heavy salt bed close to the lake surface. |
A.寒冷的 | B.肮脏的 | C.潮湿的 | D.异样的 |
A.Dangerous. | B.Beautiful. | C.Hot. | D.Common. |
A.Chaka Salt Lake has a warm winter. |
B.Chaka Salt Lake is a big lake in South China. |
C.Chaka Salt Lake is a wonderful place to visit. |
D.The best season to visit Chaka Salt Lake is spring. |