1 . What kind of hotel do you look for when you are on holiday? Someone may want a comfortable bed or a convenient place. The following hotels may offer you an unforgettable and different experience.
If you are truly brave, you can spend the night in the world’s deepest bedroom in a hotel called Silvermine in Sweden. A guide will take you to the mine（矿井）which is 155 meters underground with enough food in a room. The next morning, the guide returns with a delicious breakfast before you return to the ground. | If you are interested in the ocean, the Poseidon Undersea Resort in Japan would be your choice. It has the world’s first seafloor rooms, 1 2 meters below the surface of the ocean. During the daytime, you can enjoy golf, tennis and all kinds of water sports or learn to explore（探索）the depth of the ocean. |
For nature lovers, a stay at the Ariau Towers Hotel in Brazil would be enjoyable. It has rooms built in the air, 30 meters above the ground in the rainforest. From the rooms among the treetops, guests can see beautiful birds and flowers. After having a delicious meal in the restaurant, they can enjoy fishing by the river. | Canada’s Hotel de Glace could be a great place to experience the cold winter. It’s built each year by using nearly 7,000 kilograms of snow and 300 kilograms of ice. It has over 30 guest rooms. Inside the hotel, it’s always -3°C to -5℃. Only the bathrooms are heated. It’s only open during the coldest month of the year and accepts booking（预定）online. |
| A．12 | B．30 | C．155 | D．7,000 |
| A．Silvermine in Sweden | B．Canada’s Hotel de Glace |
| C．the Ariau Towers Hotel in Brazil | D．the Poseidon Undersea Resort in Japan |
| A．tourists who love nature | B．tourists who have planes. |
| C．tourists who are brave | D．tourists who enjoy winter |
| A．It’s open all year round. | B．It’s made of snow and ice. |
| C．It’s warm inside the hotel. | D．It has over 300 guest rooms. |
| A．They are all below the surface of the earth. | B．They all have comfortable beds. |
| C．They are all unforgettable and different. | D．They all need to book online. |
You may have watched flying cars in a science fiction film, but can you imagine traveling in a flying car in your real life? In October this year, a Chinese car company named XPENG AEROHT（小鹏汇天） made the first public flight of its electric flying car, Traveler X2, in Dubai, and it drew the attention of the world.
As the largest flying car company in Asia, XPENG AEROHT highly values the safety of each product. Since 2013, it has organized more than 15,000 safely manned flights. What’s more, on the latest product Traveler X2, there is a 24 hour monitoring system（系统） which helps to make sure of its safety.
This intelligent flying car Traveler X2 is independently developed and made by XPENG AEROHT. It uses a closed cockpit（驾驶舱） and is in a smooth drop shape which has a sci-fi appearance. It weighs only 560 kg with batteries because the whole body is made of a carbon fiber structure（碳纤维结构）. And as it runs on electricity, it is in line with the goal of green transportation. X2 is designed to fly within a height of 1,000 meters which is suitable for outdoor flight in the future cities. It can carry two passengers and travel for 35 minutes with a top speed of 130 km per hour, which meets the needs of short distance travel in the city.
The company promises to put the car on the market by 2024. Taking such a flying car to school or work will be a dream come true soon.
1. What do we know about XPENG AEROHT?| A．It made the first public flight of its electric flying car in Beijing. |
| B．It is the smallest flying car company in Asia with some products. |
| C．It has organized more than 1,500 safely manned flights since 2013. |
| D．It has independently developed and made an intelligent flying car. |
| A．监控 | B．充电 | C．驾驶 | D．导航 |
| A．it has a sci-fi appearance | B．it weighs only 560 kg |
| C．it runs on electricity | D．it is made in China |
| A．It is made of a carbon fiber structure. | B．It flies within a height of 1,000 meters. |
| C．It can travel for over 130 km per hour. | D．It will be put on the market by 2024. |
| A．A Science Fiction Film | B．Dubai, A Place to Visit |
| C．A Chinese Car Company | D．A Flying Car, Traveler X2 |
3 . 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. |
4 . 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”.
The most unusual museum in London is the Science Museum. In most museums, there’s no shouting and no running, and you aren’t allowed to touch the things on show. But the Science Museum is different, because it’s noisy! People talk about what they can see and do there, and some of the machines are noisy as well. Visiting the Science Museum is fun and it’s a great way to learn about science because you can work things out and try out ideas.
There are rooms on different themes there. You can go to the Launch Pad (发射台), the Human and Nature room. There are also rooms on transport, the environment and space technology, as well as maths, physics and chemistry.
You can do a lot of things in this museum, but you have to obey some rules as well. For example, you mustn’t take photos of the exhibits in the museum. But you can buy postcards of them in the museum shops.
Especially, the Science Museum is free. That means you can drop in for a few minutes or you can stay as long as you like - it’s open every day, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. So if you ever go to London, make sure you visit the Science Museum.
1. People should keep quiet in the Science Museum in London.2. The second paragraph talks about the different theme rooms.
3. You are not allowed to take photos of exhibits in the museum.
4. People need to pay for the tickets to visit the museum.
5. The Science Museum is open for 6 hours every day.
6 . When Shanghai introduced a new rubbish sorting policy(垃圾分类政策) in July last year, the people in this city took some time to get used to it.They joked that every time they took out their litter, the aunt standing by the bins would ask, “What kind of litter are you?”
Starting on May 1, Beijing joined many Chinese cities by introducing a new rubbish sorting policy. People should sort their litter into four groups：kitchen, recyclable, harmful and other waste.These groups are represented(代表) by four different colors of rubbish bins—green, blue, red and gray. Those who fail to sort their litter correctly in those cities may face fines(罚款) of up to 200 yuan.
The way Beijing sorts its rubbish sounds different from cities like Shanghai and Qingdao. These cities use four different groups: wet, recyclable, harmful and dry. Although their names are different, the groups are actually the same.Wet rubbish in Shanghai is, in fact, kitchen rubbish. And dry rubbish is the same as other waste.
Many people don’t know how to sort their litter correctly, so Beijing government is offering online guidelines. If people don’t know how to throw away rubbish, they can search for it on the WeChat account Guanchenglishi (管城理市) to find out. By searching a key word or taking a photo, people can find out which group their litter belongs to at once.
1. Kitchen rubbish is called ________ in Shanghai.| A．Wet rubbish | B．Dry rubbish | C．Recyclable rubbish | D．Harmful rubbish |
| A．Rubbish sorting is being carried out all over the country. |
| B．Rubbish sorting started in Beijing on May 1. |
| C．In Qingdao, people who don’t sort their litter correctly may be fined 200 yuan. |
| D．People in Beijing dislike rubbish sorting policy. |
| A．Green bins | B．Blue bins | C．Gray bins | D．Red bins |
| A．the government’s advice about rubbish sorting policy. |
| B．problems with Beijing’s rubbish sorting policy. |
| C．how Beijing government help people sort their rubbish. |
| D．actions we can take to protect the environment. |
| A．People are made to sort their litter and they are unhappy. |
| B．Four cities are using the new rubbish sorting policy in China. |
| C．Many people had some problems with rubbish sorting at first. |
| D．People should sort their litter into four groups. |
7 . In the 13th century, Marco Polo saw many wonderful things in China. One of the things he discovered was money made of paper. People in the West did not have such kind of money until the 15th century. However the Chinese began to use it in the 7th century.
Paper was invented by a Chinese man called Cai Lun almost 2,000 years ago. But it was not made in Europe until the year 1100. Four hundred years later, a German discovered that he could make the best paper from trees. After that countries rich in forests, such as Canada, Sweden, America, Finland became the most important ones in paper making.
Paper can be used in many ways. The common uses include newspapers, magazines and books. But do you know that paper can be used for keeping warm? In Finland, the farmers wear paper boots to keep their feet warm in the snow. And even houses can be insulated (使绝缘) from heat or cold with paper.
However, we have to understand that paper still comes from trees now. If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not be any trees left on the earth someday in the near future. Every day people throw away about 2,800 tons of paper in our city. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. This means that we are cutting down nearly 48,000 trees every day. The fact is that it takes more than 10 years for a tree to grow.
So we must start saving paper right now. We can use both sides of every piece of paper. We can make useful things out of used paper. We can use china cups instead of paper ones. When shopping, we can use fewer paper bags and reuse them if we have some.
In short, we should keep a balance between using paper and protecting trees, and do it now before it is too late.
1. When did people in the West have paper money?| A．In the 5th century. | B．In the 13th century. |
| C．In the 7th century. | D．In the 15th century. |
| A．Because it had a large population. | B．Because it was a large country. |
| C．Because it had lots of forests. | D．Because it was a rich country. |
| A．Keeping warm. | B．Making newspaper. |
| C．Reducing waste. | D．Making books. |
| A．Seventy trees are needed to make one ton of paper. |
| B．Marco Polo found money made of paper in China. |
| C．Used paper can not be used again. |
| D．It takes five years for a tree to grow. |
| A．Save Paper | B．History of Making Paper |
| C．Information of Paper | D．The Use of Paper |
8 . When you think of the sea, you may not think of Xinjiang or Inner Mongolia. But recently, the “seafood” produced in these places has become popular, especially after Japan put nuclear-contaminated water（核污染水）into the sea, reported China Daily.
In Nilka county in Xinjiang, about 6, 000 tons of rainbow trout（虹鳟鱼）will be produced this year. Rainbow trout belongs to the same family as salmon（鲑鱼）, which is a kind of well-known seafood. It tastes like salmon too.
Why do farmers there choose to grow fish? The weather in some parts of Xinjiang is seldom hot, and the rivers are fed by meltwater（融水）from the Tianshan Mountains. Water deeper than 6 meters always stays at 10 C. As the meltwater is very clean and cold, it's a “comfortable” home for fish, Li Chunyu, a worker at a fish company in Xinjiang, told China Daily.
To make sure the river stays clean, the company uses machines to clean fish waste in the water. They also use net cages that are good for the environment. The nets are about 51 meters wide and lie 25 meters deep in the river.
Meanwhile, in Inner Mongolia, whiteleg shrimp（南美白对虾）grows well. Saline soil（盐碱土）covers a large part of the desert where few plants are able to grow. Farmers used to put water from the Yellow River onto the farmland to wash away the salt. This was a waste of salty water. Scientists then decided to create “seawater” with the salty water by adding in some other components（成分）. Whiteleg shrimps can live well in this kind of water. They taste no different from the same kind of shrimp that grows in the sea.
1. Rainbow trout comfortably live in_____________.| A．any open water area | B．warm and clean rivers |
| C．salty and warm oceans | D．cold and clean rivers |
| A．Xinjiang’s seafood is much tastier | B．the ocean environment is polluted |
| C．people find a new ocean in Xinjiang | D．Xinjiang produces all kinds of seafood |
①cleans the water with machines ②grows fish in fixed water areas
③grows one kind of fish once a year ④cuts down the fish production
| A．①② | B．③④ | C．①②③ | D．②③④ |
| A．To show the importance of rivers to a country. |
| B．To introduce the safety of eating seafood. |
| C．To compare it with common whiteleg shrimp. |
| D．To show another “seafood” grown without using the sea. |
| A．Life will not be different without seafood. |
| B．Japan shouldn’t let out nuclear-contaminated water. |
| C．China won’t be short of fishery products. |
| D．Xinjiang is rich in natural resources. |
9 . If you put your history notes under your pillow and sleep on them the night before an exam, will you do any better in the exam? Most of us have hoped this might help. However, knowledge（知识）can’t go through the pillow into your brain. But that doesn’t mean you can’t learn while you are asleep.
Scientists aren’t exactly sure how it works, but they have discovered that the brain can learn things during sleeping hours.
In one experiment（实验）, scientists gave English speakers some Chinese words to learn. Then, they divide them into three groups. The scientists played（播放）the Chinese words for people in Group I while they were asleeep, without telling these English speakers what they were doing. The sound was low. So it didn’t wake them up, and only the newly learned words were used.
Another group listened to the same words while they were awake. The scientists found the people in Group I were better able to identify and speak out the words later. This was true only for the words that were played while they slept. The third group listened to words when they walked. The walkers didn’t have the same success remembering the words as the sleeping group.
The scientists later found that people had more slow wave（慢波的）brain activity all over the night. They said that more slow waves made people have a better memory for the new words.
1. When did the scientists play Chinese words for people in Group I in the experiment?| A．Before they went for a walk. | B．Before they went to bed. |
| C．When they were asleep. | D．When they were having dinner. |
| A．share | B．tell | C．hide | D．reach |
| A．results | B．reasons | C．data（数据） | D．purpose（目的） |
| A．Scientists think people can’t learn during sleeping hours. |
| B．English speakers enjoy learning Chinese words. |
| C．Slow-wave brain activity can help people have a good sleep. |
| D．People in Group 3 didn’t remember the words as well as those in Group 1. |
| A．A history textbook. | B．A science magazine. | C．A travel newspaper. | D．A modern novel. |
10 . English names and Chinese names are very different (不同的), but its easy (容易) for us to know. Many English people have three names — a first name (or a given name), a middle name and a last name (or a family name). My name is James Allen Green. James is my first name. Allen is my middle name. Green is my last name. We don’t use (使用) Mr., Mrs., Ms. or Miss before (在……之前) the first names. We use them before the family names. We can call James Allan Green Mr. Green, but we can’t call him Mr. James or Mr. Allan. People always call James Jim. Jim is short for James, because it’s easy to call.
But in China, the names are different. My name is Han Mei. “Han” is my family name, and “Mei” is my given name. We can use Mr., Mrs., Ms. or Miss before “Han”. We don’t use them before “Mei”.
1. Many English people usually have ________ names.| A．3 | B．2 | C．1 | D．4 |
| A．before the given name | B．before the family name | C．before the middle name | D．before the first name |
| A．George | B．Walker | C．Bush | D．Mr. Bush |
| A．first | B．last | C．easy | D．different |
| A．English names | B．Chinese names | C．English names and Chinese names | D．The family names |
