①Memory is the ability (能力) to remember things. A good memory can help us do better in school, such as language-learning. A few people are born with amazing memories, but most people need to improve their memories by practising. Here are some secrets (秘密) about memories.
②We can still remember things happened in our childhood (童年) but not those last week. In fact, if the things have strong connections with our feelings in our mind, we can remember them longer. When things happen for the first time, children often have strong feelings. Also, parents tell us the interesting or funny stories from our childhood again and again. As a result, we remember them much better.
③It’s natural for common people to forget the new words which they learnt yesterday. Hermann Ebbinghaus wrote a book called Memory and showed a famous forgetting carve. According to him, the quickest loss (失去) of memory happens during the first two days after learning. That means going over what we’ve learned during this time can help us very well to remember the information.
④A 15-year-old sometimes forgets things, but that doesn’t mean his or her memory is getting worse. Our memory gets the top at the age of 25. At that point, we can remember over 12,000 pieces of information in a minute. But after this age, the brain (大脑) starts to get smaller. By middle age, our memory is much worse than when we were young.
1. Why is it easier to remember things in our childhood?a. Because they were special. b. Because we got strong feelings from them.
c. Because they were helpful. d. Because we heard them many times.
| A．ad | B．bd | C．ac | D．bc |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
| A．A person has his or her best memory at the age of 25. |
| B．A fifteen-year-old’s memory is worse than a middle-aged man’s. |
| C．A person’s memory gets worse only because the brain gets smaller. |
| D．A child usually remembers over 12,000 pieces of information in a minute. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
Imagine a large open space with two teams running, throwing, passing and catching a disc, a thin flat round dish. It is called flying disc, the newest popular sport in young people in China. A research shows about 60% of people saying they like to make new friends through the sport. The Chinese Flying Disc Administrative Committee says about 500,000 people in China played flying disc last year, producing over 8,000,000 yuan.
How did flying disc get such great popularity in China in a short time? First, it is a team sport. It helps everyone quickly get to know each other. Second, it is played with a flying disc, thrown by hand. It needs little or no body-touching so it helps avoid being angry and fighting. What’s more, this sport allows people to enjoy it without spending a lot of time learning about the rules or skills.
The growing popularity has drawn attention of the Chinese government. In 2019, the Asia Oceanic Ultimate and Guts Championships was held in Shanghai. It is the first world match in this sport held in China. In July 2022, the General Administration of Sport decided China’s first flying disc tournament starting in August and the final match to be held in May next year. The sport will certainly have a bigger home market going forward.
1. How does the writer show the popularity of flying disc?| A．By asking questions. | B．By using numbers. |
| C．By telling a short story. | D．By giving an example. |
| A．stop from | B．take away | C．think about | D．warm up |
| A．Someone who wants to do sports alone. |
| B．Someone who wants to do sports inside. |
| C．Someone who wants to do sports easily. |
| D．Someone who wants to do sports slowly. |
| A．The great future of flying disc. |
| B．China’s first flying disc tournament. |
| C．The government’s help for flying disc. |
| D．The bigger world market of flying disc. |
Sometimes the easiest way to get somewhere is on the back of a bike.
More and more people are using cars in many places in Africa today. However, things are different in Malawi. Bikes are the most popular in this African country.
Bike riding is a way of life in Malawi. People use them to carry heavy things. They also use bikes to carry people, especially tourists. These years, taking a “bicycle taxi” to travel around Malawi has become quite popular among tourists from all over the world.
If you go to Malawi, you will find a lot of bike taxis waiting on the sides of the roads. The riders make the bikes comfortable for passengers to sit on. You can jump on a bike taxi and get around at a very low cost.
Alice is a 21-year-old student from Canada. She enjoys the special bike riding a lot. “I really like the bike taxi,” she says. “It’s easy and cheap.” Alice usually pays 1 dollar for going shopping in town.
28-year-old Panjira Khombe began to ride a bike taxi two years ago. The young man enjoys this job. “I make boats in the past, but that’s a hard job. Being a bike taxi rider is easy for me and I don’t mind carrying heavy people,” he says.
1. What is the most popular way for people to get somewhere in Malawi?| A．Cars. | B．Buses. | C．Bikes. | D．Trains. |
| A．Because it’s on the road. | B．Because it’s cheap and easy. |
| C．Because it’s popular and heavy. | D．Because it’s all over the country. |
| A．Tourists can take a “bicycle taxi” with much money. |
| B．It’s comfortable to sit on the “bicycle taxi” in Malawi. |
| C．Tourists can take a “bicycle taxi” to travel some places in Malawi. |
| D．Bikes can carry heavy things and people, especially tourists. |
| A．Bike Taxis | B．Bike Riders | C．A Cheap Journey | D．A Special Country |
All aboard! Let’s take a ride on the world’s highest railway—the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. Sit back and enjoy the journey. Get ready for the trip of a lifetime.
We’re leaving Qinghai Station. The scenery along the way is some of the wildest in all of China. You’re your eyes open as we go through this beautiful land. You may see some Tibetan antelopes (藏羚羊) from your window.
Before we begin our journey, let’s learn about this fantastic railway. It’s truly one of the great engineering buildings of the 21st century. When it was completed on July 1st, 2006, the Tibet Railway set nine world records (纪录), like the world’s highest railway at 5, 072 metres above sea level, the world’s highest tunnel at 4, 905 metres, and the longest tunnel ever built on permafrost (冻土).
As we travel higher, the air gets thinner and thinner. Soon there will only be 50% to 60% of the oxygen (氧气), but don’t be afraid, Each railcar has two oxygen systems (系统). One system gives oxygen in the train all the time. And each passenger can also get a personal oxygen mask just like those used in planes.
Here are a few more things to think about as our train leaves the station. The workers solved three main problems when building this great railway. First, the high altitude (海拔) made the building difficult because there was no enough oxygen. Then, much of the railway runs across permafrost. It’s a kind of ground and keeps changing when the weather warms and cools. Finally, the railway goes through some of the most sensitive ecology (敏感的生态环境) in China. Great care was a must to make sure of the smallest influence on nature.
All three problems were met, making our trip come true. All aboard! The train to Tibet is leaving in fifteen minutes.
1. How does the writers how the railway is fantastic in Paragraph 3?| A．He tells a story. | B．He uses a worker’s words. |
| C．He shows the world records. | D．He compare snow with the past. |
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. | D．Four. |
| A．The dirty air. | B．The hot weather. |
| C．The dangerous animals. | D．The changing ground. |
| A．A Magic Railway to Tibet | B．A Beautiful Land in Tibet |
| C．A Comfortable Trip to Tibet | D．The Hardest Building in the World |
The United Nations has 6 official (官方的) languages. Each of them has their own days with the aim to show the rich history and culture (文化) of each language. UNESCO first created (创造) Chinese Language Day in 2010 to celebrate Chinese as one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
The first Chinese Language Day was on November 12th. But since 2011, it has been on the April 20th. The date was chosen from Guyu to remember Cangjie. Cangjie is very important in Chinese culture. People believed he created Chinese words 5,000 years ago. In old stories, it’s said that Cangjie had 4 eyes and he was good at observing (观察). He often watched the sun and the moon with his upper 2 eyes, and mountains and rivers with the lower 2 eyes. His long-time observation made him create the earliest written words according to the shape of things.
On Chinese Language Day, there are different activities to celebrate the Chinese language and the theme (主题) is different each year. In 2022, “China Chic” was chosen as the theme. Chen Xu, an officer said, “Choosing this theme, we hope to spread what most of Chinese people like today so that foreigners can know more about Chinese culture and have a better understanding of China.” A video festival called “Foreigners look at China Chic” was held. In the videos, foreigners showed their love of Chinese fashion.
Chinese Language Day is an important carrier for Chinese learners, lovers, and users from all over the world to get close to Chinese. Nowadays, more than one sixth of world’s population speak Chinese as their first language—that’s more than any other population in the world! Learning Chinese is more like a key to knowing China and feeling the beauty of Chinese culture.
1. The Chinese Language Day was first created _______.| A．in 2011 | B．13 years ago | C．to celebrate Guyu | D．to remember Cangjie |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．Make something cheap. | B．Make something beautiful. |
| C．Make something popular. | D．Make something traditional. |
| A．To tell some facts about a language day. |
| B．To make foreign people love to visit China. |
| C．To tell stories about a famous man Cangjie. |
| D．To show the history of the language of Chinese. |
①A Turkish proverb says. “The more languages you know, the more people you are!” There are about 35 languages spoken in Turkey, but 90% of the people speak Turkish.
②Turkish uses an alphabet that is not strange to many English speakers, but when you look at Turkish spelling, you may find it so difficult. There are 29 letters in the Turkish alphabet and six of them—c, g. t, ō, s and ü—aren’t in the English alphabet. For example, all those marks in a word like gūnes gōzlügü (“sunglasses”) can really daunt you!
③But luckily, Turkish pronunciation isn’t always as hard as it seems. In Turkish, each letter is pronounced only one way. So it can become quite easy to pronounce a new Turkish word.
④Turkish is an agglutinative language. That means it puts pieces together to make words. In Turkish, this practice can make some very long words. You can add suffixes to most Turkish root words. For example, the word ev means “house”. Add the ending ler to make evler, “houses”. Then add den, meaning “from”, to make evlerden, “from the houses”. Or add li, meaning “having” and you get evli, “having a house”. The suffix ci can mean “one who does something”. Gazete is “newspaper”; gazeteci means “a newspaper writer”.
⑤There are more facts about Turkish for you to learn. You’ll find that learning about it helps open up door to a different culture.
1. What does the underlined word “daunt” probably mean?| A．make people more excited | B．make people more tired |
| C．make people less confident | D．make people less afraid |
| A．Turkish people can speak more than one language. |
| B．Turkish uses an alphabet the same as English. |
| C．A Turkish letter can have different pronunciations. |
| D．Turkish words can get long by adding suffixes to root words. |
| A．sarkiler | B．sarkici | C．sarkili | D．sarkilerden |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．To help people learn about Turkish. | B．To ask people to visit Turkey. |
| C．To teach people how to speak Turkish. | D．To advise people to save Turkish. |
7 . Earth is home to lots of wonderful wildlife, but sadly, some animals don’t live on the earth any more today. These are called extinct animals.
 The sabre-toothed cat | This dangerous cat lived thousands of years ago in America. It had two very big teeth that it used to kill animals. You could see these teeth even when its mouth was closed. People think that this cat could kill very big animals. It was extinct around 10, 000 BCE because there wasn’t enough food for it. |
 The woolly rhinoceros | This big animal lived in the middle of Europe and Asia until about 8, 000 BCE. It had two horns—the big one could be one metre long. It had a thick woolly coat to keep warm in the cold winters. But then the weather changed a lot and the woolly rhinoceros couldn’t live in the warm weather. Also, many people killed them for food. So they died out. |
 The dodo | The dodo was a bird. It lived on the island of Mauritius. Once there were thousands of them on the island. Then people from Europe arrived and started to eat them. The Europeans took animals such as dogs and cats to the island, and the animals ate the dodo eggs. Why didn’t the dodo fly away from the people? Because it couldn’t fly. In 1681, it became extinct. |
1. The woolly rhinoceros was a kind of animal that ________.
| A．lived in the middle of America | B．died out before 8000 BCE |
| C．had two one-metre-long horns | D．had to live in cold weather |
| A．other animals ate them | B．it had no place to live |
| C．people caught them for food | D．there wasn’t enough food |
| A．nature | B．travel | C．sports | D．study |
La’eeb, the mascot of the 2022 Qatar World Cup in Doha, with its special look, is popular all over the world. La’eeb may be an idea born in the Middle East, but it grows up in Dongguan, Guangdong.
The design of La’eeb is a kind of traditional clothing of Arab, with a snow-white body, traditional headgear, and red printed Qatari patterns at the corner of the cloth. When it runs after a football, it looks like a jumping dumpling.
La’eeb’s special shape made the toy design slow and hard. The production of La’eeb faced two challenges: one was to make La’eeb, a mascot with no arms and legs, stand up. And the other was to make the toy fly freely. Double Train Culture, a company from Dongguan took the order. They designed decided the shape of La’eeb, then 3D printed the toy and improved it, and finally made a model.
The first toy was made in 2020, and the company improved it many times. Finally, La’eeb was accepted by Qatar 2022 Local Organizing Committee and FIFA after eight changes. “Winning the chance of producing the soccer match’s mascot feels like winning the chance of holding the FIFA World Cup,” Chen Leigang, the CEO of the company said.
With La’eeb’s popularity, the Chinese town Dongguan is successful in getting a place in World Cup history.
1. The toys of La’eeb are made by people in ________.| A．Qatar | B．Doha | C．Arab | D．Dongguan |
| A．what La’eeb can do | B．what color La’eeb is |
| C．what La’eeb looks like | D．what sport La’eeb likes |
| A．difficulties | B．choices | C．differences | D．situations |
| A．The Success of La’eeb’s Special Shape | B．Meet La’eeb and Know the Story Behind |
| C．Improve La’eeb and Hold the World Cup | D．The Meaning of La’eeb You Need to Know |
9 . Lately, the capybara, a cute animal, has become popular online. People love it for its friendly nature and relaxing lifestyle. Many people use its picture as their profile photo to show their love for it.
Capybaras live in South America and they are strong swimmers. Their small eyes, and hairless ears are located high on their heads to keep them alert when most of their body is underwater. Their pig-shaped bodies and short necks are adapted for life in bodies of water found in forests. They have dark brown fur, allowing them to quickly dry when on land.
Capybaras are social animals. They are known to build relationships with other animals. They like to stay on their own, but if human or other animals try to get close to them, they will never run away and will communicate with them, even with large and strong animals such as crocodiles and gorillas. Sometimes capybaras become “________” while moving. They take small animals like birds, ducks, and even monkeys for a free ride.
They eat plants for a living and they won’t hurt other animals. Capybaras usually eat water plants in the morning and evening, spending the rest of the day bathing in water and resting on the shore. As the largest rodent animal in the world, Capybaras have only a few enemies. Living by water, it is easy for them to hide in the water to stay away from danger. They live such a comfortable life that nothing seems to make them worry.
Nowadays, Capybaras are getting popular as friends of humans. More and more people around the world want to raise a capybara as a pet. After all, no one can say no to such a cute and kind friend.
1. Mary uses the capybara as her profile photo, the photo may be ________A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．lonely swimmers | B．forest cleaners | C．animal buses | D．human friends |
| A．It’s easy for them to live in the water. | B．They are the largest rodent animals. |
| C．They don’t have many natural enemies. | D．They don’t like hurting small animals. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
10 . The scientific method is used for simple experiments that students may do in the classroom or very difficult experiments that scientists are doing all over the world. It is a way of thinking that helps you to avoid drawing incorrect conclusions.
There are usually four steps in the scientific method, including observation (观察), hypothesis (假设), experiment, and conclusion. The steps may not always be completed in the same order, but the first step is usually observation and asking a question about your observation. For example, you had a sick stomach, and ate a candy bar. An hour later, you observed that you felt much better. Here, you can ask a question, such as, “What makes a sick stomach feel better?”
The second step is to state a possible answer to the question, or a hypothesis, such as “A candy bar makes a sick stomach feel better” . A good hypothesis includes three things: The explanation for the observations, it is able to be tested, and it will usually predict new outcomes or conclusions.
The third step is the experiment, to test the hypothesis. An experiment is a test which will either challenge or support the hypothesis. The hypothesis will then be true or false.
The final step is to think about what happened when you tested the hypothesis and draw a conclusion. The conclusion will either clearly support the hypothesis or it will not. If the results support the hypothesis, a conclusion can be written and you can share it with the rest of the world. If it does not support the hypothesis, you may choose to change the hypothesis or write a new one based on what was learned during the experiment.
1. What are the usual steps in the scientific method?| A．Observation, hypothesis, experiment and prediction. |
| B．Hypothesis, experiment, conclusion and observation. |
| C．Experiment, conclusion, observation and hypothesis. |
| D．Observation, hypothesis, experiment and conclusion. |
| A．“I think candy bars are delicious.” |
| B．“A candy bar makes a sick stomach feel better.” |
| C．“Observing candy bars makes me happy.” |
| D．“Candy bars are a popular treat.” |
| A．The question | B．The hypothesis |
| C．The conclusion | D．The observation |
| A．The importance of conducting difficult experiments. |
| B．The steps and importance of the scientific method. |
| C．The challenges of forming a good hypothesis. |
| D．The role of candy bars in scientific experiments. |
