1 . 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 |
2 . 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 |
3 . 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.
4 . 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. |
5 . 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. |
6 . 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. |
7 . If you want to be a better reader, what should you know about the speed of reading? Some people read very quickly, while others read very slowly. But which one is better? The quick reader may be a good reader when he reads a story—book for fun. But he may not be able to slow down to read instructions (说明书) carefully. The slow reader may be a good reader. But he may spend too much time reading a story for fun. So the reader who reads everything quickly or the one who reads everything slowly isn’t really a good reader. Here are four things to remember about the speed of reading.
Knowing why you are reading will help you to know whether to read quickly or slowly.
Some things should be read slowly throughout. Examples are instructions for making or doing something. Math books, science books and story books are full of important information. You must read these things slowly to understand and remember every important idea.
Some things should be read quickly throughout. Examples are stories for enjoyment, letters from friends, and some news from newspapers.
In some of your reading, you must change your speed.You will need to read some pages quickly and then slow down and do more careful reading when you come to important ideas.
1. Which of the following is TRUE?| A．Reading instructions must be careful. |
| B．A slow reader is a good reader. |
| C．You must not change your speed. |
| D．Reading everything quickly is a good reader. |
| A．穿过 | B．开始 | C．结束 | D．始终 |
| A．Letters from friends. |
| B．Important information from storybooks. |
| C．News from newspapers. |
| D．Picture books for fun. |
| A．read it at any speed you like | B．read it slowly for important ideas |
| C．change your speed from time to time | D．read it quickly for enjoyment |
| A．How to Read Quickly? | B．Reading Slowly Is Better. |
| C．How to Be a Good Reader? | D．Reading Is a Good Hobby. |
8 . Everyone has a family name. But do you know where family names come from? The English writer David McKee tells us in his new book—What is in a family name?
Some family names come from the places of their homes. If a man lives on or next to a hill, his family name may be Hill. In England, people’s name s may be Wood, Lake, because they live next to the wood or lake.
Family name s may come from people’s jobs. If a man is a cook, he may be “Cook”. “Butcher” (屠户) is a man to sell meat. “Farmer” is a man who works on a farm.
Many people get their family names from their fathers’ given names. From the name “Jackson”, we can know that he is the son of Jack. So, when you meet a man with a strange (奇怪的) family name, don’t be surprised.
1. English people often have ________ ways to get their family names.| A．one | B．two | C．four | D．three |
| A．cooks in a restaurant | B．works on a farm | C．lives next to the lake | D．sells meat |
| A．Hill. | B．Butcher. | C．Wood. | D．Lake. |
| A．害怕的 | B．高兴的 | C．惊慌的 | D．惊讶的 |
| A．How do People Get the Baby Name? |
| B．Where do Family Names Come from? |
| C．Who is David McKee? |
| D．How M any Family Names do English People Have? |
9 . It’s hard to make friends if you stay at home all the time. Get out of the house and do things that will put you in touch with other people. It’s easier to make friends when you have similar interests.
Don’t be afraid to show people what you are good at. Talk about things you like and do best. People will be interested in you if there is something interesting about you.
Look at people in the eyes when you talk to them. That way, they’ll find it easier to talk to you.
Be a good listener. Let people talk about themselves before talking about “me, me, me”.
Try to make friends with the kind of people you really like, not just with those who are easy to meet. Be friendly with a lot of people. That way, you will have a bigger group to choose from and have more chances for making friends.
1. We should _________ if we want to have more friends.| A．stay at home | B．surf the Internet |
| C．make telephone calls | D．get in touch with other people |
| A．in front of them | B．at the floor |
| C．at the sky | D．at them in the eyes |
| A．talk about “me, me, me” |
| B．only show people what you are good at |
| C．be friendly with a lot of people |
| D．just make friends with who are easy to meet |
| A．People should talk about themselves when they talk to other people. |
| B．It’s hard to make friends if you stay at home all the time. |
| C．Don’t be afraid to show people what you are really good at. |
| D．Please look at people in the eyes when you talk to them. |
| A．how to study better | B．how to make more friends |
| C．how to show yourself | D．how to be a good listener |
10 . In ancient China, willow branches (柳枝) were often used as a gift to friends and family members who would leave. Do you know why willow branches are a symbol of saying goodbye?
One reason is that willow trees are strong. They can live in any soil, wet or dry, north or south.
Because of this special feature, when saying goodbye to loved ones, giving a willow branch is a way to tell them you hope they will easily get used to their new living environment.
Another reason is that, in Chinese, the pronunciation for the willow tree “柳” is similar to the character “留”. So giving a willow branch in ancient China was like asking the others to stay, even though you know that they must leave.
It’s said that this custom became popular during the Han Dynasty. At that time, Baqiao, a bridge in Chang’an, today’s Xi’an, was a common place to say goodbye. People often stopped there and handed willow branches to people who were going to depart.
Willow branches, as a symbol of saying goodbye, were often mentioned in poems, especially at the time of the Tang and Song dynasties.
1. Who were willow branches often used as a gift to in ancient China?| A．One’s parents who would stay. |
| B．One’s friends and family members who would leave. |
| C．One’s love who would come back after being away for a long time. |
| D．One’s friends who would get married. |
| A．magic | B．beautiful | C．strong | D．special |
| A．asking the others to stay | B．asking the others for help |
| C．wishing the others to leave | D．wishing the others can be successful |
| A．返回 | B．离开 | C．相遇 | D．分手 |
| A．A kind of strong tree—Willow trees. | B．A common place to say goodbye—Baqiao. |
| C．A symbol of saying goodbye—Willow branches. | D．A meaningful custom—plant Willow trees. |
