1 . ①Think of these scenes. A girl is walking alone in the street and watching a short video on her mobile phone without noticing a car just stop beside her. Or she is walking in an empty street in the dark night without any adults with her. What if something unsafe happens? Being street smart is an important skill to have and a good way to take care of yourself if something unsafe happens.
②Always carry your cell phone with you, but do not look at it while you are walking. Being able to communicate or call for help is important, so keep a list of useful numbers. But put your cell phone away while you are walking so that you can keep your head up and see what’s going on around. If you do need to check your cell phone, stop and look at it quickly.
③Don’t wear earphones (耳机) while you are out. If you have to listen to something when you’re out, use only one earphone or play it at a very low volume.
④Travel with friends or family members when possible and never go anywhere with a stranger. It’s important to be careful with strangers. Remember not to get into a stranger’s car if they call you over.
⑤ Avoid dark and out-of-the-way places. Do not take short cuts through dark areas, even if it will make your trip much faster. If you have to go to unsafe places, go with someone you know or speak to someone over the cell phone while you are there.
⑥Run and shout if you feel unsafe. Run away as fast as you can towards a police station, hospital, on nearby business for help. Shout as loudly as you can to get the attention of people nearby.
⑦As you see, being street smart can help us avoid some possible problems. The smarter we are in the street, the safer we will be. So watch out!
1. The writer begins the passage by ________.| A．listing numbers | B．telling a story |
| C．giving an example | D．describing different situations |
| A．水平 | B．质量 | C．音量 | D．节奏 |
| A．It’s sometimes dangerous to travel alone without parents around. |
| B．If you need to check your cell phone in the street, look at it quickly. |
| C．We mustn’t listen to music with earphones in the street. |
| D．It we meet something dangerous in the street, stay calm and run home fast. |
| A．①/②③④/⑤⑥⑦ | B．①②/③④⑤⑥/⑦ |
| C．①/②③④⑤⑥/⑦ | D．①②③④/⑤⑥/⑦ |
No.3 Middle School asked the students to take part in a survey. The question was “What is your dream job?” There were 900 students taking part in the survey. Here are the results.
The teachers may feel bad to know that only 5% of the students hope to teach in the future. But they will still try their best to help the students make their dreams come true. And here is the teachers’ advice:
First. you should understand yourself. What do you like to do?
Then, think about what is more important to you, money or happiness? There’s no right or wrong answer. So be honest with yourself.
Finally, before you try to get your dream job, you should study hard and make yourself better and better.
1. How many students want to be scientists?2. Why may the teachers feel bad?
3. What should the students do before getting their dream jobs according to the passage?
4. What is your dream job? How are you going to do that? Write 30 words or more.
Weeks before Tomb-Sweeping Day on April 4 this year, hundreds of qingtuan were sold each day. The snack was still a must-have for many people. In the southern part of China, eating qingtuan at the beginning of spring is a kind of tradition. Chinese people started to eat it more than 2,000 years ago. It is made of sticky rice (糯米) and red bean paste (红豆沙), and is famous for its softness, freshness and sweetness. The secret behind its mouth-watering taste is one of its materials—mugwort leaves (艾蒿叶). The plant is mainly found in the Yangtze River Delta (长江三角洲) where it has perfect conditions to grow.
People in this area usually put qingtuan on the tombs (墓) of their dead family members to cherish (怀念) the past memory. Making qingtuan is also a chance for family members to get together at home. It really takes time and effort to make the snack.
Now, qingtuan has already spread its special taste to the northern part of China. Li Yuan, a 30-year-old engineer who grew up in Zhejiang Province, brought qingtuan back to Beijing where he works. “It tastes different in and out of my hometown,” he said. “There’s no place like home.”
Qingtuan has many different tastes inside it, such as apples and bean milk, to meet customers’ tastes. The difference of the taste shows that it’s getting more and more popular across the whole country.
Even though there is warm weather and green leaves in spring, the season wouldn’t be complete without a taste of qingtuan.
1. Tomb-Sweeping Day is in ________.| A．spring | B．summer | C．autumn | D．winter |
| A．sticky rice | B．green color | C．red bean paste | D．mugwort leaves |
| A．loves no place | B．sells qingtuan | C．works in Beijing | D．works as a cook |
| A．How to grow up in Beijing. | B．What to mark the start of spring. |
| C．When to plant rice in Zhejiang. | D．Why to meet customers’ tastes. |
Do you know mint(薄荷)? It may be added into summer drinks to let us feel cool. Mint plays an important role in our daily life. It keeps our breath fresh and gives food and drinks a kind of fresh smell. But why is this little plant so popular with people?
Mint is found almost everywhere in the world, except in South America and Antarctica. There are 600 varieties of the plant, but a lot of them are so similar that even scientists have trouble telling the differences among them. What we have known for thousands of years, however, is that eating mint is good for our body health.
For starters, if people’s stomachs are not very comfortable, mint can be used to relieve(缓解) that uncomfortable feeling in people’s stomachs. That’s because of the acid(酸) that it contains. What’s more, if you have a common cold, drinking mint tea can reduce your sore throat.
While mint is safe to eat and used to treat people, it has its disadvantages. First of all, eating too much mint can be harmful. If you’re taking it for any health condition, don’t use it too much. Also, mint oil should not be used on the faces of children. This could cause breathing problems.
1. The writer starts the passage by ________.| A．listing numbers | B．asking a question | C．giving an example | D．comparing things |
| A．special smell | B．long history | C．similar look | D．strange taste |
| A．Because it contains acid. | B．Because it has a long history. |
| C．Because it is easy to find. | D．Because it keeps our breath fresh. |
| A．To encourage people to use mint more. | B．To explain how to rightly plant mint. |
| C．To tell us where to find mint easily. | D．To introduce why to be popular and how to use mint. |
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We can see more and more driver-less cars in the streets and our homes can be controlled by voice. AI (人工智能) has developed so fast recently. “AI is going to change the world more than anything in the history of mankind (人类), more than electricity.” said AI expert Dr. Kai Fu Lee. That’s true. According to a research by scientists at the University of Oxford, AI will be better than humans at translating languages by 2024, writing school essays by 2026, selling things by 2031, writing a bestselling book by 2049, and treating diseases by 2053. In the next few years, AI will become an important part in our lives.
These are just a few examples of how AI will change the future. What about jobs? Will they take our jobs in the future?
“AI will take our jobs!” is the most common fear. In fact with AI automating (自动操作) all kinds of work, we can think of a more comfortable future for ourselves with millions of new job chances. According to a report on the Future of Jobs by World Economic Forum (世界经济论坛), AI will create 58 million new AI jobs by 2022. There is an excellent chance that AI will replace humans in most of the mental (脑力) tasks by 2030. However, that does not mean it will take away jobs. Taking India as an example, the Indian AI industry doubled in size in 2019 compared to the year before. In just one year, three times more companies are working on AI-based projects and this may continue. India almost doubled its AI engineers in 2019 (from 40. 000 in 2018 to 72. 000 in 2019), but still faces a talent shortage (人才短缺). Top technology companies are racing to implement (实施) AI in our daily lives, which will lead us to a really exciting AI future.
AI Future is coming soon! And there will be more new jobs in the AI industry. Do you want to be a part of this fourth industrial revolution (革命)? Will you upgrade (升级) your skills to stay ahead or will you remain still and slow in the industry? The choice remains with you. With the progress of education and training, now is the time to prepare for the age of AI.
1. From the first paragraph, we can know that AI will ________.| A．replace humans in many ways | B．be more powerful than electricity |
| C．change the long history of electricity | D．change the world greatly |
| A．writing books | B．translating languages |
| C．inventing new robots | D．treating patients |
| A．job shortage | B．job chances | C．losing jobs | D．taking away jobs |
| A．We should improve our skills for AI future. |
| B．AI gets more jobs than people do in India. |
| C．The fourth industrial revolution is a part of AI Future. |
| D．AI will take all our jobs away in the future. |
China Daily’s digital employee (员工) Yuanxi and Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes’ official virtual carto on character (敦煌莫高窟官方虚拟卡通人物) Jiayao together introduced an interactive digital platform (数字化互动平台) that hosts a virtual copy of the Mogao Grottoes’ Library Cave to the world.
The platform was developed together by the Dunhuang Academy (研究院) and the Chinese tech company Tencent. It uses gaming technologies to show the historical scenes of the Library Cave in the digital world.
The Library Cave in Mogao Grottoes was discovered in 1900, with more than 60,000 cultural relics (文物) from the 4th century to the 11th century undearthed (出土). It was one of the most important discoveries in the 20th century.
On the platform, visitors can role-play and “time travel” to ancient dynasties and talk with eight historical figures (人物). The public can enter the platform through the Digital Dunhuang website and its WeChat program.
In the digital age, the model of “culture + technology” is used to promote (促进) the development of Chinese culture. The digitalization rate (数字化率) of China’s valuable cultural relics has been more than 70 percent, according to the 2022 China Digital Collection Industry Research Report reported by iResearch.
Institutions (机构) such as the Palace Museum have also set up online digital services of their own.—Artificial intelligence (AI) technology allows the public to see the inside of the buildings through the Palace Museum’s WeChat program.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has also encouraged the development and transformation (转型) of cultural relics by digital ways. China Central Television has created a series of digital collections with different Dunhuang themes, such as the Dunhuang divine deer (神鹿) Youyou. It was created according to the image (形象) of the nine-colored deer from Dunhuang murals (壁画). The public can see the divine deer on CCTV’s own digital platform.
Digital collections cater to (迎合) the habits of young people. They not only protect the cultural relics but also bring the public closer to China’s “excellent traditional culture”, reported Dunhuang Art Institute.
Su Bomin, director of the Dunhuang Academy, told Xinhua that more efforts will be made to discover new forms for showing cultural relics and offer the public cultural experiences to develop Dunhuang culture.
1. On the interactive digital platform for the Mogao Grottoes’ Library Cave, visitors can ________.| A．talk to the designer of the digital Library Cave |
| B．play video games named historical characters |
| C．play role-playing games set in ancient times |
| D．design digital caves showing historical culture |
| A．To show the latest gaming technologies. |
| B．To help cultural institutions make money. |
| C．To encourage people to explore new forms of digital collections. |
| D．To promote the development of Chinese culture. |
| A．Worried. | B．Hopeful. | C．Excited. | D．Serious. |
| A．Experiencing History Online | B．Showing Digital Collections |
| C．Creating Mini Programs | D．Introducing Gaming Technologies |
Have you ever imagined how people eat in space? It’s not easy. In a word, it is different from that on Earth. The food that astronauts carry with them doesn’t look like the food you eat.
Some food is carried in closed bags. It is cooked and frozen before the astronauts get it. All the water is removed (去掉) from the food. In the space capsule (太空舱), the astronaut puts the water back. He “shoots” hot or cold water into the food bag with a special gun (枪). He eats the food through a small hole in the bag.
Other foods come in bite-size (一口大小的). The astronaut puts a whole piece in his mouth each time. There can’t be crumbs (食物碎屑). Crumbs would float around the capsule and get in the way. Meat, cakes and cereal (麦片) often come in bite-size pieces.
Astronauts can’t drink water from open cups. The water would float in drops in the air. The water is put in the special gun. The astronaut shoots the water into his month.
Do you think it difficult to eat in space? Astronauts must learn to eat this way.
1. What is the food the astronauts get like?2. Why do some foods come in bite-size?
3. What will happen if crumbs float around the capsule?
4. If you are in space, how will you eat or drink? (Write 30 words or more)
8 . Health problems which are related to climate change are getting worse, say two research reports.
The reports followed 44 health problems that are related to climate change around the world. They include heat deaths, infectious diseases (传染病) and hunger. “All of them are getting worse,” said Marina Remanello. She is research director of the Lancet Countdown project. “With globalwarming getting worse, doing nothing on climate and health will cost more than acting now,” one of the reports says.
The reports are called “code red for a healthy future”. One report is centred (集中) on the US and the other is centred on the whole world. The reports found some dangerous facts. At-risk populationslike older people and the very young are more easily influenced by high temperatures. For people over 65, the researchers found they stayed living in warm places where it is easier for some diseases to spread. For example, coast areas are warm enough for dangerous bacteria (细菌) to grow. In some poor nations the season for disease-spreading mosquitoes (蚊子) has got longer since the 1950s.
The research also found that 72 percent of countries saw an increase in wildfires. And in 2020, up to 10 percent of the world’s land surface was influenced by extreme(极端的) drought. In the US, the heat, fire and drought caused the biggest problems. The Pacific Northwest and Canada saw extreme heatwaves. An earlier study found that the heatwaves would not have happened if there were no human-caused climate change.
1. The underlined word “related” in Paragraph 1 probably means “________”.| A．connected | B．spread | C．accepted | D．considered |
| A．A 15-year-old boy is more easily influenced by high temperatures. |
| B．Climate change doesn't influence people who are under 65. |
| C．It’s easier for some diseases to spread in warm places. |
| D．In the US, the season for mosquitoes becomes longer. |
| A．The results of climate change. |
| B．The reasons why climate changes. |
| C．Health problems caused by climate change. |
| D．Deaths caused by human-caused climate change. |
( ①=Paragraph 1, ②=Paragraph 2, …)
A． | B． | C． | D． |
9 . Imagine a perfect day: the weather is good and everything seems fine. When, suddenly, your mobile phone loses its signal, the television has no programmes, and you can’t get online with your computer.
What has happened? These are just the types of problems a solar storm (太阳风暴) might cause. You may not think of storms as putting our society in danger. But today, a solar storm is as serious as other bad events, such as earthquakes.
A solar storm is caused by solar flares (太阳耀斑): large explosions (爆炸) near the Sun that can give off lots of energy. The strong energy can stop the satellite systems (卫星系统) that control our computers, telecom networks and so on. These storms can even cause the power to go out for weeks or months.
Scientists have recorded some of the strongest sun flares in years. One happened around Valentine’s Day, 2011. It caused radio and satellite signals to go down in some northern cities in China.
“Solar flare activity is going to be much worse than what we’ve seen in the past. We’re not talking about a few cities losing power, it could be half of the country, may be more,” SolarStormWarning.com, a US website about space weather, warned.
Scientists say that little can be done to predict such a storm. Governments around the world are trying to work together before the next storm, although they are not sure when that may happen.
1. From the first two paragraphs we can know solar storms are ________ our society.| A．good for | B．far from | C．seldom in | D．harmful to |
a. Solar flares give off lots of energy. b. People cannot get online with their computers.
c. Solar storms happen. d. Satellite systems are stopped.
| A．a-b-c-d | B．a-c-d-b | C．c-a-b-d | D．c-b-a-d |
| A．a solar storm stopped | B．an earthquake happened |
| C．a strong sun flare happened | D．the satellite systems didn’t work |
| A．To introduce what solar storms are to people. |
| B．To ask people to prevent the solar storm from happening. |
| C．To tell people how to solve the problems caused by solar storms. |
| D．To call for scientists to predict when the next solar storm will happen. |
Imagine you are a great basketball player. You are returning home after a big game. As you enter the airport, you are suddenly stopped by many strangers. Some of them are taking pictures of you. “We’re your fans!” one shouts. “We love you!” How do you feel now?
Chinese basketball player Yang Shuyu (杨舒予) recently found herself in this situation (处境). So did table tennis player Wang Chuqin (王楚钦) and some other athletes. None of them welcomed the sudden attention. “Don’t meet me at the airport. I don’t like that. Meet me at the stadium. Thank you,” Yang said.
Many of us have favorite athletes. We get excited when they have a great performance. But some people have gone too far. These “superfans” think about their heroes all the time: What are they doing now? Where are they going next? Why do they look tired today?
Are you one of these “superfans”? If so, you may ask yourself two questions. First, why do you love this person? Some so-called “fans” only care about the looks of their heroes. They know little about their careers (职业). In a recent diving (跳水) competition, Quan Hongchan (全红婵) won the silver (银牌). During the interview, one of her fans shouted angrily from the stands (看台), “The judges were unfair! They gave Quan a low score on purpose (故意地)!” In sports, nobody can win them all. But that person didn’t seem to know that.
The other question is: How do your heroes influence you? A middle school student once wrote to us about his hero, Kobe Bryant. The boy decided to work harder in school after learning how hard the basketball player had worked. If you love your heroes, do not wait for them at the airport. Instead, try to make improvements along with them.
1. What problem did Wang Chuqin and Yang Shuyu have at the airport?2. What does the writer think of the “superfans”?
3. Why did the writer mention Kobe Bryant?
4. How do you support your sport hero? (Write 30 words or more)
