France is in Western Europe. It is a country with many beautiful places.
Paris is the capital of France. Here you will find many famous places of interest such as the Eiffel Tower. You can go to the Louvre Museum if you like art. The most famous street in Paris is the Champs-Elysees. This is the place to go if you want to visit some shops and department stores.
France is very famous for its wine. There are many vineyards in the centre of France and farmers grow grapes to make excellent French wine.
The south of France lies on the coast, and it is famous for its wonderful beaches. A French town by the sea is the fantastic place for a summer holiday, but if you want to visit France in winter, you can try skiing on the mountains in the French Alps.
France has something for everyone, so why not visit France this year?
1. We can learn about ________ in France from the passage.| A．languages | B．people | C．places | D．food |
①enjoy art
②go shopping
③eat grapes
④go swimming
| A．①②③ | B．①②④ | C．①③④ | D．②③④ |
| A．let people know about France | B．ask people to visit France |
| C．teach students about France | D．show the importance of France |
We all know memory is necessary to success in studying. How to improve memory? One way might be walking backwards.
Walking backwards, whether doing it really or imagining it, can improve the brainpower in the short term. Researchers did an interesting memory test. 114 volunteers watched a video in which a woman had her bag stolen. Then they answered 20 questions about the information in the video. Ten minutes after watching the video, then they asked the volunteers to divide into three groups. The first two groups moved forwards or backwards 10 meters while the third group stayed still on the same point. The researchers found that the backwards-walking group got two more correct answers on average than the other two groups.
When we walk backwards, everything we learn becomes strange to us. “This forces the brain to think in a different way.” Christine Weber, the researcher from US, told Forbes. It almost always means that our brain needs to be more active and able to think quickly in the short time. Naturally, our short-term memory will improve a lot.
Not only improving our memory, walking backwards also help us keep fit. Compared to walking forward, backward walking puts less pressure and needs smaller movements from the knee joints so that there will be less pain in the knees. What’s more, it is more challenging. You should use muscles and movements that you probably hardly use, making it a perfect way to change your daily exercise for greater fitness. By making people put in more effort, it burns more fat and calories. However, be careful, it will let you get hurt if you have a sore neck.
1. From the memory test, we can know ________.| A．there are three groups of volunteers before watching the video |
| B．the first two groups got more right answers than the third group |
| C．the third group didn’t move but other groups move 20 meters |
| D．the backwards-walking group did the best in the test |
| A．It can improve our memory in the long term. |
| B．It can help us pay more attention to important things. |
| C．It can force our brain work faster and better. |
| D．It can help us use less muscles when we exercise. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．ways to improve memory |
| B．advantages of walking backwards |
| C．ways to protect knees |
| D．advice for keeping fit |
3 . The Simpsons
When does The Simpsons come to an end? It is 34 seasons in and it shows no signs of slowing down. “I mentioned that there might be an ending where the last episode, the Simpsons would go back to the first episode, so that the whole series was a continuous loop. “The good thing is that the show runner Mr. Al Jean does not foresee this stress to end the show in the near future.
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C. However, there are many different voices about it.
D. The Simpsons is a world-famous American cartoon.
E. Especially the language in the show becomes very popular.
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NASA is ready to send six little satellites into space, but it will take about three years to reach space. Those satellites can be able to help scientists keep a closer eye on heavy storms, and they develop a task called TROPICS to send the satellites to space. Importantly, the satellites will help us make a big difference in watching coming heavy storms.
At the moment, NASA’s weather satellites can only check in on a storm every four to six hours. “So we’re missing a lot of what’s happening in the storm,” Bill Blackwell, at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, said. However, the new set of six satellites will allow researchers to check in on a storm about every hour.
After sending the satellites, scientists will put them in a perfect place to watch the areas where most storms are born, from the center of America to the south of Australia. Each satellite is just under 0. 3 meters long with a powerful machine that’s about as big as a cup of coffee. The small machine can measure heat and light produced from O₂ and H₂O in the air, then the data will be sent to the Earth.
It will bring many advantages. First, the data measured by the TROPICS satellites will help researchers study better how a storm grows. They can even build a 3 D model of a storm developing with the help of satellites. Also, scientists will know when the storm will come and get people to safety as soon as possible. Just like last year, hundreds of people died because of Storm Ida coming overnight. It won’t happen anymore.
That makes it all more important to have more eyes over the sky. “The TROPICS team is super excited to send these satellites and get them running,” Bill Blackwell said in NASA statement.
1. The new satellites can ________.
| A．watch the coming storms |
| B．reach space in a short time |
| C．check in on a storm every minute |
| D．find a perfect place for themselves |
| A．producing O₂ and H₂O in the air |
| B．collecting different kinds of storms |
| C．measuring the heat and light of the air |
| D．making a 3 D model of a storm growing |
| A．storms will not come any more |
| B．the new six satellites are important |
| C．it’s hard to stay away from the storm |
| D．scientists do much research on satellites |
| A．The Coming Great Future Life |
| B．TROPICS—A Wonderful Task |
| C．Little Satellites, Big Difference |
| D．Say Goodbye to Dangerous Storms |
5 . What do you usually do when you feel bad? Is there anything you can do to get over the feelings? Here are some steps you can follow.
| 1. Take deep breaths or count down numbers. Accept your feelings first. Taking deep breaths or slowly counting to 10 will help you calm down in a short time. | 2. Speak out how you feel and what you wish for. Tell your true feelings and wishes. Just speak them out. People will know what you want then, which is important for solving problems together. |
| 3. Ask for help. It is okay to ask for help when you don’t feel that you can solve the problem alone. Ask your parents or teachers for advice to find better ways. | |
| 4. Take the time to calm down. Sometimes you may still feel bad, even having tried each of the above steps. If so, it is better to walk away to do with those feelings. Several days later, you may not feel as strongly about what happened. | |
| 5. Look back before you look forward. After getting over the feelings, you can learn something from it. Think about the reasons and the ways you use. Next time, when you have the bad feeling again, you’ll do better. |
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1. The passage mainly introduces what to do with ________.| A．time | B．feelings | C．study | D．mistakes |
| A．David who hardly asks for help. |
| B．Linda who hides her true feelings. |
| C．Amy who always worries a lot. |
| D．Peter who can calm down quickly. |
| A．To have experience. | B．To know the facts. |
| C．To speak out wishes. | D．To take a good rest. |
Recently, many people around the world have tried ChatGPT.
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ChatGPT is a conversational AI language model. You can chat with ChatGPT by asking it questions and it will quickly answer them in human-like natural language based on its training.
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The model was trained on many different Internet texts, allowing it to have knowledge on a wide range of topics, including history, sports, and much more.
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According to Andreas Schleicher, an official from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD), the chatbot will become a very powerful tool in the development of education. As a device, ChatGPT is going to make learning much more interesting and powerful.
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However, New York City’s Department of Education announced a ban (禁令) on the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT—which may help more students cheat (作弊)—from its schools’ devices and networks.
＞What do professors and students think of ChatGPT?
A latest survey among educators and students shows as following:
72% of college professors are worried about its impact on cheating.
Over a third (34%) of all educators believe that ChatGPT should be banned in schools and universities.
66% support students to use it.
Over 89% of students have used ChatGPT to help with a homework assignment.
53% had it to write an essay.
A. What problems may ChatGPT cause?
B. Why can ChatGPT answer different questions?
C. What is ChatGPT?
D. Who developed ChatGPT?
E. What may it bring to education?
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5. Do you think students should use ChatGPT for learning? Why or why not?
7 . Education is not just about going to school. it’s also about what you learn from your experiences outside of school. So family and community (社会) play a great role, too.
On January 13, the government gave a guideline (指导方针) to improve school-family-community cooperative (合作的) education mechanism (学校家庭社会协同育人机制). It clarifies the roles and responsibilities of school, family and community and how they work together to educate children.
“School-family-community cooperative education asks the three parts to well work together to help the all-round development of students,” Zhang Zhiyong, a teacher at Beijing Normal University, told China Education Daily.
According to the guideline, schools should play a leading role in cooperative education. They should deeply close communicate with parents to let them know about the student’s performance at school. They should also organize at least two activities each term to offer family education guidance to parents. Also, head teachers need to organize a home visit to each student at least once every year.
Parents also play a key role in family education. They should be encouraged to lead their kids to take part in different activities like volunteering, doing sports or getting job experience in their free time. The community, on the other hand, for example, should be free to school students.
Gao Wei, a 43-year-old mother of a 14-year-old from Beijing, was excited about the new guideline. “Improving cooperative education” between the school and parents is not a new thing. But the guideline brings clear advice to make it happen. With such support, they can learn more from real life.”
1. Why did the government give the guideline according to the passage?| A．To improve students to get better grades at school. |
| B．To guide teachers to give more interesting classes. |
| C．To teach parents to educate their children better. |
| D．To ask different parts to educate children together. |
| A．Ask their children to join in different activities out of school. |
| B．Provide children with more social experiencing chances. |
| C．Invite teachers to visit the students’ homes every year. |
| D．Communicate with their children and teachers deeply close. |
| A．Cooperative education is important. | B．The guideline works out well. |
| C．Schools give clear advice on education. | D．Children learn more from communities. |
| A．New guideline supports the healthy development of students. |
| B．Family plays the most important role in children’s education. |
| C．Children’s good performance at school depends on 3 parts. |
| D．Students need to learn more about real life in community. |
When you meet a strange Chinese character (汉字) what will you do? Surely, the most reliable way is to look it up in Xinhua Dictionary.
Since its birth in 1953, Xinhua Dictionary has been a must-have book in schools across China. More than 567 million copies had been sold by 2016. So it was even recognized by the Guinness World Records as the “most popular dictionary” that year.
Small as the dictionary is, it means a lot to China. The dictionary was given the name Xinhua by the chief editor Wei Jiangong, and it carried the hope of a country reborn. In 1949, around 80% of China’s population wasn’t able to get education (教育). It was Xinhua Dictionary that had reduced the number to 52% by 1964. To make it easier for illiterate people to understand, the earliest copies had many pictures.
Thanks to Xinhua Dictionary, many Chinese got new chances in their life. Mo Yan, the 69-year-old Nobel Laureate, once mentioned the dictionary in his speech. He said that he was lucky to have a copy of the dictionary after dropping out from school. He learned most of Chinese characters from it, and that helped him write novels and enter a college later.
This important dictionary has also recorded the development of the language and society. It is revised (修订) every five to ten years. Recent copies have included many new explanations. The character “晒” (to dry something in the sun), for example, now has a second meaning: to share. In a way, the dictionary hasn’t just explained characters; it has reflected (反映) the way Chinese people think.
1. When did Xinhua Dictionary first come out?| A．In 1949. | B．In 1953. | C．In 1964. | D．In 2016. |
| A．People who are bad at maths. | B．People who can’t draw or sing. |
| C．People who are too old to see. | D．People who can’t read or write. |
| A．To share a speech about the dictionary. | B．To offer advice on using the dictionary. |
| C．To show the influence of the dictionary. | D．To explain the development of the dictionary. |
| A．Nature. | B．People. | C．Culture. | D．Business. |
In a noisy restaurant, you can still hear your friend’s voice clearly. You talk happily without paying attention to others’ conversations. That’s because selective (选择性的) attention is helping you.
Selective attention is an amazing ability in our brain. It allows people to choose and focus on (专注于) something in the environment. At the same time, it can filter out (过滤) unnecessary information, so people can focus on one conversation in a crowded place. But how does selective attention work? Researchers from Columbia University did an experiment to study it. The result shows that the brain is selective about the sounds it hears. When a person listens to someone talking, their brain waves (波) change to pick out the features of the speaker’s voice and filter out other voices.
To further understand how selective attention works, the researchers studied two parts of the brain’s listening centre: Heschl’s gyrus (HG) and the superior temporal gyrus (STG). Information from the ears reaches HG first, passes through it and arrives at STG later. In the study, they found the following facts: in HG area, every voice is treated the same way. That is to say, HG doesn’t prefer one voice or another. But in STG area, it’s possible to choose one speaker’s voice and make it louder. The whole process (过程) only takes 150 milliseconds and it happens immediately to a listener. As a result, people can focus on one voice when there are many other conversations around.
“Today’s study is quite important. We want to better understand how the brain helps us to hear so well, as well as create technologies that help people,” said Dr. Mesgarani, the leader of the researchers. With the help of the finding, speech recognition technologies have been improved. The researchers have already developed a new kind of hearing aid that can help collect information more correctly. It could make one speaker’s voice louder over another. They also plan to study more about HG and STG activity in situations that have more speakers.
1. What can selective attention help people do according to the passage?| A．Choose where to talk. | B．Hear more in a conversation |
| C．Forget unnecessary information. | D．Focus on one voice in a noisy place. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．How to improve listening | B．How the listening centre works. |
| C．How to make a better hearing aid. | D．How HG and STG protect each other. |
| A．A Great Ability in Brain | B．A New Study on Technologies |
| C．A Key to Reducing Noise | D．A Way to Make Conversation |
Nobody can say no to a flower world in the real life. That’s why more and more people come to the Huazhao Festival to enjoy the beautiful and busy party in spring.
The Huazhao Festival is the birthday of all flowers and it happens on the 2nd, 12th or 15th day of February of the Chinese lunar calendar (农历). People started to celebrate the birthday of flowers before the Qin Dynasty and it became a festival during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, it was one of the three important celebrations all over China.
The Huazhao Festival is rich in customs (习俗). Young people wear Hanfu, a kind of traditional Chinese clothes and have outings. The festival is in early spring, so it’s such a great time to have an outing to enjoy the spring time. Girls put colorful paper-cuts on the flower stems (花茎). They hope they can be as young and beautiful as flowers. Also, people in different places of China plant flowers. They think that flowers planted on that day can grow well. At the festival, the flower fair (集市) is the most popular. There are lots of fun activities in the fair, such as making flower cakes and playing music.
The Huazhao Festival is an exciting party to see the beautiful spring and it also helps people learn more about Chinese traditions. It’s really a wonderful celebration that you can’t miss.
1. What can we learn about the Huazhao Festival from the passage?| A．It started in the Qin Dynasty. | B．It’s on the same day every year. |
| C．It’s a celebration for flowers. | D．It becomes important in the world. |
| A．They cut flower stems. | B．They make traditional clothes Hanfu. |
| C．They put paper-cuts on flower cakes. | D．They join in activities of the flower fair. |
| A．To tell the long history of the festival. | B．To show a special Chinese festival in spring. |
| C．To show different flowers at the festival. | D．To tell the meaning of celebrating the festival. |
