Many scientists find that colors can change people’s feelings. It’s very interesting. Some colors can make people feel relaxed, and some colors can make people feel nervous.
Now, this kind of knowledge (知识) is being used in many places. For example, school walls are always painted green because green makes students feel relaxed. It is also good for the students’ eyes. Some books are also green or light blue for the same reason. Restaurant owners not only have to know how to make food, but also have to know how to make money. Here are some things they’ve learned from scientific (科学的) studies. The colour red makes people hungry. Many fast food restaurants have red furniture or walls. Soft colors like pink and light blue make people feel relaxed, so they spend more time eating. Loud music may be nice at first, but it soon makes people want to leave. Hard seats also make customers want to eat quickly and leave. Many restaurants, especially fast food restaurants, use this knowledge to make customers eat faster.
1. Few scientist find that colors can change people’s feelings.2. The colour green is good for the students’ eyes.
3. The colour red makes most people feel worried.
4. Loud music is nice because it always makes people want to stay.
5. The passage is mainly about using colors to change feelings.
2 . What color of wearing do you like? Do you know “dopamine dressing (多巴胺穿搭)”? It’s one of the most talked about fashion trends (趋势) for 2023. However, is there any science behind this?
“Dopamine dressing” came out from the book Dress Your Best Life. American fashion psychologist (心理学家), Dawnn Karen wrote this book in 2020. In the book, dopamine dressing is about wearing colorful clothing to get more dopamine.
Dopamine is a chemical in our brain. This kind of chemical makes people feel good. Our brain gives it out when we eat delicious food, play with our pets, listen to our favorite songs, after we exercise or when we win a game.
According to Science Focus Magazine, there are studies that show a relationship between the colors of the clothes we wear and how we act and feel. One study found that wearing red can bring better physical performance. It also showed bright colors can make people feel active. One more study showed that wearing green can help people relax because it is the color of nature. Yellow, the color of summer and warmth, can bring people happiness. But there are some problems with these studies, as people from different cultures have different ideas about dressing and colors.
In a word, “dopamine dressing” shows that we can wear colorful clothes to get more dopamine and feel good. Dressing is more than just a trend. It’s also a way of showing ourselves. So, next time you’re getting dressed, think about which colors will bring out yourself best.
1. What is dopamine dressing according to the text?| A．A way of dressing. | B．A kind of chemical. |
| C．A book about dressing, | D．A fashion trend for 2020. |
| A．eat terrible food | B．hear the bad news |
| C．lose a football game | D．read our favorite books |
| A．Dressing is just a trend. | B．Dopamine can’t make people feel good. |
| C．Wearing green can help people relax. | D．Bright colors can make people feel upset. |
| A．In a storybook. | B．In a newspaper. |
| C．In a guidebook. | D．In an advisement. |
| A．Delicious food and feelings. | B．The importance of dopamine. |
| C．Dopamine dressing and feelings. | D．The way of choosing colourful clothes. |
3 . Do your parents check your short massages? Answer your phone? Read your diary? If so, you must be sad. How to solves these problems. Here are three ways that may help you.
Get Their Trust (信任)
Trust is the key to getting more space from your parents. If you don’t tell them the truth and break their rules, they won’t trust you anymore. For example, if you tell your dad you are reading books in the library but then he finds that you and your friends are playing computer games instead. He won’t trust you next time.
Share More Things with Them
The reason why many parents check their children’s massages is that they want to know more about their children. They choose the wrong ways, so result may be terrible. The best way to solve this problem is to share more things with them. When you have dinner with your parents, you can share something interesting that happened in school or ask them for some advice about friendship. All of you may feel better.
Use the Right Way to Speak out your Mind
If you follow the above suggestions, but your parents still check your massages or read your diary, it’s time for a heart to heart talk. Say something like this, “Mom, dad, you taught me to be respectful to others, and I think I’m old enough to make decisions by myself.”
1. How many ways does the writer give us?| A．Two | B．Three | C．Four | D．Five |
| A．Love | B．time | C．pressure | D．trust |
| A．Because they want to have dinner with their children. |
| B．Because they want to know something interesting about their children. |
| C．Because they want to know more about their children. |
| D．Because they want to give their children some advice. |
| A．尊敬的 | B．和平的 | C．敌意的 | D．高尚的 |
| A．how to get their parents’ trust |
| B．share something interesting with their parents |
| C．the way to avoid parents checking their short messages |
| D．use the right way to speak out their mind |
4 . To most people in the Netherlands (荷兰), bicycle riding is part of everyday life. It’s their first choice to school and work. In cities like Amsterdam, people take almost 70% of all the trips by bike. Why does cycling become popular in the Netherlands?
In the 1970s, the Dutch government (荷兰政府) began to improve its cycling facilities (设施) because many people wanted a much safer cycling condition for children. To make cycling safer, the Dutch built the widest cycling network in the world. The country marked over 40,000 kilometer lines just for bicycles. They have traffic signs and signal lights for cyclists.
Even when both bikes and cars have to share the same road of little space, you can always see a large board saying “Bike Street. Cars are guests”. It means that riders have priority (优先) over drivers. For example, cars must slow down and let bikes pass first if they run face to face.
Bicycle parking facilities are quite common in the country. The central train station in Groningen, a city in the north eastern part Netherlands, has underground space for parking 10,000 bikes.
正确“T”，错误“F”1. People in Amsterdam take all the trips by bike.
2. The Dutch built the widest cycling network in the world.
3. In the Netherlands, if a car and a bike run face to face, the bike must let the car pass first.
4. It’s easy to park bikes in the Netherlands.
5. This passage mainly talks about why cycling becomes popular in the Netherlands.
5 . Holidays with friends can be great fun and a good way of getting to know each other better. Planning the trip well will help you have a good time. Also it will help you to save money if you start planning earlier.
Going abroad will cost more but be a more exciting experience. Don’t go abroad if this is the first trip you help to organize. Going to a different place in your own country can also be fun and will be cheaper.
Work out how many people you will be able to plan the trip for. Find out how much interest there is for people to go on the trip, and then invite people who you think will enjoy themselves and who you get on well with.
Everyone will have their own idea of what they want the trip to be like, so you should have a meeting. Keep a notebook and write down things to do. If you share ideas with others, you will take a happier trip.
After you decide on your hotel, you’ll know the dates of your stay and be able to book transport, such as bus, train and airplane. Booking transport earlier can save some money, so you‘d better book as soon as possible.
1. If you plan a trip earlier, you will ________.| A．spend more money | B．make more friends |
| C．spend less money | D．save much time |
| A．使用 | B．开发 | C．宣传 | D．组织 |
| A．You should invite someone rich to take the trip with you. |
| B．Think about others’ ideas, and you will take a happier trip. |
| C．It’ good to take your first trip to a foreign country. |
| D．It is best to take a trip by plane. |
| A．To have more fun. | B．To get more information. |
| C．To go to more places. | D．To save some money. |
| A．How to Book Hotels | B．Preparations for a Trip |
| C．A Special Trip | D．The Fun during the Trip |
6 . What will humans look like in the future? It sounds like a cool question, but the answer may not be that fun.
A team from Toll Free Forwarding, a US company, built a 3D model of what a human might look like in the year 3000. Her name is Mindy. She looks a little bit scary. The company said the model showed how technology (科技) will change human bodies in less than 800 years.
For example, Mindy’s hands look like she is always holding a cellphone. That’s called “text claw”, according to the team. Mindy also has a much wider neck. It’s called “tech neck”. It’s from looking down at the phone for too long. Muscles (肌肉) in our necks need to be stronger to hold our heads.
Mindy also has another eyelid (眼皮). It can protect the eyes from the blue light of the screens. Her skull (头骨) is thicker. It protects the brain from the radiation (辐射) of computers and phones. Technology is so helpful that humans think less. That’s why humans may also have smaller brains in the future.
Will you spend less time on your computer and cellphone after seeing this scary model?
1. What do we know about the 3D model in Paragraph 2?| A．It is made for a girl named Mindy. |
| B．It comes from the year 3000. |
| C．People might feel afraid after seeing it. |
| D．People will need it to live longer. |
| A．have no fingers | B．have a text claw |
| C．have bigger heads | D．have no muscles |
| A．To better support her head. |
| B．To protect her eyes from blue light. |
| C．To help her grow another eyelid. |
| D．To protect her brain from radiation. |
| A．smaller | B．bigger | C．stronger | D．thicker |
| A．Finding answers to some cool questions. |
| B．What humans may look like in the future. |
| C．Making 3D models for different people. |
| D．How Mindy will live her life in the future. |
7 . Tech company has made a powerful robot that can write stories. When you type in “A cat wants to go to space” and ask the robot to write a bedtime story. Just one second later, you’ll get the story of a cat called Max. He goes through many difficulties to sing among the stars.
This robot writer is real. It’s called ChatGPT. US company OpenAI made it. It can talk with people, write songs, poems and even jokes. It’s one of the most powerful AI writers.
ChatGPT can write things really fast. We may spend hours researching, understanding and writing a long passage. But ChatGPT can write a good one in seconds. But if you ask bad questions, such as how to make weapons (武器), it will not give you a answer.
ChatGPT comes along at a time when AI can do many creative tasks. The things they create are difficult to tell from those made by humans. This brings many problems, such as the definition (定义) of art. The robot uses words from the Internet, so it can also pick up wrong ideas about certain groups. These are all the things that humans need to solve.
1. The writer used the cat story in Paragraph 1 to ________.| A．show what a robot cat can do |
| B．tell what bedtime story Max likes |
| C．show why cats can go to space |
| D．show that robots can write stories |
| A．修理 | B．选拔 | C．输入 | D．冒险 |
| A．A UK company made it. |
| B．It can sing different kinds of songs. |
| C．It is the biggest kind of AI. |
| D．It writes faster than human writers. |
| A．It will tell a joke. |
| B．It won’t give you an answer. |
| C．It will spend hours understanding them. |
| D．It will write an article about them in seconds. |
| A．How people feel about robot writing. |
| B．The problems that ChatGPT may bring. |
| C．How a robot learns to write like humans. |
| D．Why AI can help people solve problems. |
8 . Nobody likes a bully (恶霸). But bullying is a big problem around the world. According to the US National Bullying Prevention Center, one fifth students in the US have been bullied.
Nathan Fellars is an eighth grade student at Centennial Middle School in Utah, US. When he saw classmates being bullied, he knew he had to do something. “People often deal with bullying after the bullying has happened. I wanted to see if there was a way to reduce (减少) bullying before it happens at all,” Fellars told the Society for Science.
After studying more about the causes (起因) of bullying, he had an idea to make the app Bully Block. On the app, students can share their lives, whether good or bad. Others can then post responses (回复). But before the responses are posted, an AI program reads all of them. Only positive (积极的) words will be shown. Fellars believes that this will naturally stop bullying both online and in schools.
“I would love to see my app be used by teachers and students,” said Fellars. “I love knowing that it can help somebody else in the world.” Do you think Fellars’ dream can come true? Do you want to be a person like Fellars?
1. What do we know about bullying from Paragraph 1?| A．It is the biggest problem in US schools. |
| B．About 20 percent of US students have been bullied. |
| C．Students all over the world know nothing about it. |
| D．It mainly happens to kids under the age of 5. |
| A．Find out who bullied his classmates. | B．Learn how to protect himself. |
| C．Find out how bullying happens. | D．Stop bullying from happening. |
| A．Join study groups. | B．Talk to an AI. |
| C．Share their lives. | D．Make kinds of apps. |
| A．is eight years old | B．wants to help people with his app |
| C．was often bullied in school | D．once bullied his classmates |
| A．To find out the causes of bullying. |
| B．To make people interested in making apps. |
| C．To tell people something about a bully. |
| D．To tell people to be helpful like Fellars. |
9 . In most parts of the world, many students help their schools make less pollution. They join “Environment Clubs”. In an environment club, people work together to protect the environment.
No-rubbish lunches. How much do you throw after lunch? Environment clubs ask students to bring their lunches in bags that can be recycled. The students try their best to make less rubbish.
No-car day. No-car day was first started by 34 cities in France on September 22nd, 1995. It was started to protect the environment. By now, more than 1,000 cities around the world have had a no-car day. In China, more and more people are taking part in the activity. The slogan for no-car day is, “If we drive for one less day, we can have one more nice day.” On a no-car day, nobody comes to school in a car—not the students and not the teachers! Cars give pollution to our air, so remember: Walk, jump, bike or run! Use your legs! It’s lots of fun!
Turn off water! Do you know that some toilets could waste twenty to forty m3 of water an hour? In a year, that will fill a small river! In the environment club, the members mend those broken toilets.
We have only one earth. Let’s work hard together to make our world cleaner and more beautiful.
1. What do the Environment Clubs ask students to do?| A．To walk to school every day. | B．To recycle their own lunch bags. |
| C．To report which class has the least pollution. | D．To mend broken toilets. |
| A．in clubs | B．at home | C．in restaurants | D．at school |
| A．both students and teachers | B．only students |
| C．neither students nor teachers | D．either students or teachers |
| A．a small river | B．a lot of water | C．a toilet | D．their own club |
| A．To ask readers to clean schools. |
| B．To invite readers to join the “Environment Clubs”. |
| C．To advise students to pick up rubbish. |
| D．To remind students to make less waste and pollution. |
10 . Tea, coffee and cocoa are three major drinks all over the world. Tea is drunk by the largest number of people in the world. Tea began to be known by the world over a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export since then. Tea has a history of over 4,000 years and China is the home of tea. In ancient China, while today people drink tea every day.
Longjing, Puer, Wulong and Tieguanyin are all famous tea. Thanks to the weather and rich soil in Fujian, tea is mainly produced in these provinces.
The word for tea in different languages came from Chinese, like “cha’i” in Russian. And the Japanese character for tea is written exactly the same as it is in Chinese.
Over the past centuries, Chinese people have developed their tea culture, which includes tea planting, tea drinking and so on. Tea is also popular in some old sayings, like “A friendship between gentlemen is like a cup of tea”.
根据短文内容，判断正（T）误（F）。
1. Tea, wine and cocoa are three major drinks all over the world.
2. Tea has a history of over 4,000 years and China is the home of tea.
3. Today people drink tea every day because it is used as a kind of medicine.
4. Tea is mainly produced in Fujian, Zhejiang and Yunnan only because of the nice weather.
5. Chinese tea culture includes tea planting, tea leaf picking, tea drinking and some old sayings like “A friendship between gentlemen is like a cup of tea”.
