1 .     1     Jenny has to do the homework after work. She is so busy that she seldom has time to take care of her 2-year-old son, so she needs an app for him to learn to speak and count.

    2     Sam was given a list of books to read by his teacher, but he has just had an eye operation and needs some apps that can store the books and read them aloud to him.

    3     Bob find it difficult to remember all the new words from the English textbook. He wants to make progress in a relaxing way for he thinks it boring to do a lot of word exercises.

    4     Cathy is fun of traveling, she needs an app that can make it easier for her to buy train or airline tickets.

    5     John is going to have a long railway trip. During this trip, he needs something like games to kill the time.

2 . Greeting people can be confusing (令人困惑的) during cross cultural (跨文化) communications.

Will a simple handshake do? Should you give a hug or offer a kiss on the cheek (脸颊)? People in different countries have their own greetings.

The COVID 19 (2019冠状病毒病) has challenged traditional greetings such as shaking hands, kissing and hugging. After all, close physical contact will increase the chance of spreading the virus (病毒). People have realized the risk and stopped using some traditional greetings.

Shaking hands is a common greeting. Now in the US, the elbow bump (碰肘) is the new handshake. US Surgeon General Jerome Adams introduced the elbow bump, which has been used by political (政治的) leaders, health officials and professional athletes (运动员). Brad Hazzard, a health minister in New South Wales, Australia, advised people to pat (拍) each other on the back in place of a handshake.

French Health Minister Olivier Veran has advised the public not to kiss on the cheek. Italian authorities (官方) have made the same suggestion. French lifestyle expert Philippe Lichtfus said simply looking into a person’s eyes is enough.

In the face of such changes, how should you go about changing the way you greet people? Australian etiquette expert (礼仪专家) Susan Wilson has suggested simply greeting people by looking them in the eye, smiling and saying hello.

Choose the best choice from A, B or C according to the passage.

4 . Oct.16 is World Food Day. The UN started the day in 1979 to tell people not to waste (浪费) food and fight hunger (饥饿).

According to the UN, there are more than 1,000 million hungry people in the world.

Many children go to sleep hungry, and 15 million of them die of (死于) hunger each year.

There are some reasons for this. First, there are droughts (干旱) and floods (洪水). Also, there are more and more people in the world. Another big reason is food waste. Most people don’t realize how much food they throw away (扔) every day. Sometimes we cook too much, or we don’t use it before it goes bad. On average (平均来看), a person throws away 510 kg of food every year. Too much food is wasted.

So think twice next time you want to throw away food. By cutting down on food waste, we could help put food on the empty plates of some hungry children. Only order (订餐) as much food as you can eat at a restaurant. If you can’t eat all you order, take it home. Think of what food you have at home. Don’t buy too much. Don’t cook too much.

5 . Hello, I’m Lin Tao. This is my school. It’s a big and beautiful school. There is a big playground. The gym (体育馆) is next to the playground. In front of the gym, there are science labs. Behind the gym, there is a library. So we can see the gym is between (在……之间）the science labs and the library. In the library, there are many books. Look! This is our teaching building, and there are 48 classrooms in it. In my class, there are 56 students. On the right (在……右边) of the teaching building, there is a dining hall, and we often have lunch there. Teachers offices are in front of our teaching building.

6 . Some parents think children should do chores. But some don’t agree with them.

According to a report, 18-month-old children can help with chores. When people say to those children, “Just look at the paper”, they will pick it up. Some parents think childhood (童年) is just for playing: so they don’t ask their children to do chores. Other parents have a different opinion, but they still give their children no chores. They say, “I know it’s not right, but I do chores more quickly by myself!”

Most parents believe that chores are a way of giving children responsibility (责任), anyway. Children learn to help, share and care about others by doing chores.

Well, I think there are some other very good reasons for children to do chores.

★To feel good: Doing chores helps children understand that they’re part of the team. They feel happier when they do something meaningful for the family.

★To learn skills: Children will learn how to cook, clean and do other things in the house. These life skills will serve them well throughout their lives.

All in all, it’s good for children to grow up by doing chores. So start to help your parents with chores.

7 . Robots seem to be getting cleverer and cleverer. Here are four examples.

8 . Your schooldays can be the best and happiest (最快乐的) days of your life (生活). How can you be happy in your school life?

Be active (积极的) at school

Don’t say things are difficult or boring. Be interested (感兴趣的) in school life and your school subjects. Join some activities (活动). Put up (举起) your hands (手) in class.

Keep healthy

If you don’t eat a good breakfast, you may (可能) think about food in class. If you go to bed late at night (夜晚), you want to sleep in class next day. Do you want to be healthy? You can play soccer, play basketball and run (跑步) every day.

Make friends

Friends are important (重要的) in the school life. After class, you play with your friends. At noon (正午), you have lunch with your friends. A right friend makes your school life nice. And you can ask your friends for help if you meet difficult things.

Note-taking is a skill that can help you do well in all your schoolwork. It can make you confident when you are studying. But unluckily, .most students don’t know how to take notes.

If your teacher writes notes on the blackboard, that’s great. You can copy them or write down the most important facts of all in class. Different teachers do things differently. For example, some teachers may focus on (关注) lots of dates and facts in class, but they only write the important ones on the blackboard. Other teachers may not write anything down, but they may repeat them.

Don’t try to write down every word in class, or you might miss some important points. Some students really learn better with the help of these notes.

Don’t be afraid to ask your teacher to repeat what you’ve missed. If your teacher speaks too fast and you can’t follow what he is saying, you can ask him after class.

Comparing your notes with your classmates can be good for your learning. It can also help you and your classmates correct some mistakes.

Note-taking also needs organization. Keep notes for each subject in one place, so that you can find everything easily when a test comes.

Good note-taking takes time. If you decide to recopy your notes every evening, you’ll surely have less time to watch TV. But you’ll save time in the coming test.

10 . Ted, my little brother, is in Grade One. Last Friday he came back from school with a letter. The letter was from his teacher. “I got a red flower today. Could you please sign this note?” he said to mum. The note showed that he had been talking in class.

Ted hardly gets top scores in his school work. The best he gets is “OK”, but he often gets “You can do better than this.” Mum knows what it means. She tells me “You can do better than this” means “Extremely bad” in China.

In the USA, teachers never say anything too bad about their students, even if the students are making trouble in class or not working hard enough. The worst they might say is “Please be nicer tomorrow”. Many parents are satisfied with a B-grade for each subject.

But things in Chinese schools are quite different. Parents have high expectations for their children. I sometimes felt that my second-grade cousin spend more time on homework than I did when I was 6th grade in the US! Yet his parents and teachers didn’t think he worked hard enough.

Is it too strict in China? Or is it not strict enough in the USA? Maybe both are true.