From May 16 to May 23 in 2019, the Asian Cuisine Festival. Guangzhou was held to encourage communication among Asian countries.
During the festival, there were a number of activities showing Guangzhou culture and the beauty of Asian cuisine. Visitors have enjoyed all the best foods of Asia in one city, with a list of the 24 top restaurants in Guangzhou. Many famous people were invited to have morning tea, tasting the popular food like shrimp dumplings, beef or fish balls, chicken feet, etc.
Besides, “My Favorite Asian Cuisine" was held in Guangzhou to choose the best restaurants and dishes. A 1.2-meter-long hand-painted picture was published. The picture was about the cuisine choices along the Pearl River. Food and technology companies were also invited to show how to make traditional food by using modern technology. Visitors could buy other products about traditional food and culture, such as books, postcards and stamps.
The slogan (口号) of the festival is “Enjoying Asian Cuisine and Savoring the Taste of the Millennium Flower City”. Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, is well-known for its rich food and its culture. The director of the festival said that one would need a year or two, rather than a day or two, to fully enjoy the best of Guangzhou cuisine.
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| The purpose of the Asian Cuisine Festival Guangzhou | |
| The number of the top restaurants on the visit | |
| The thing that the hand-painted picture was about | |
| The way to make traditional food in this festival | |
| The things that Guangzhou is well-known for |
2 . Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence (智力) developed by our environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. In some degree, our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no education can make a talent out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in a rich environment. Therefore, the limits (极限) of a person's intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This point of view now is held by most experts.
It is easy to show that intelligence is something that we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. If we take two strangers by chance from the population, it seems that their degree of intelligence will be completely different. If, on the other hand, we compare two twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.
Imagine now that we take two twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory separately where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this shows that environment as well as birth plays an important role. This conclusion(结论) is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact(接触) with each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence.
1. How is man's intelligence given?| A．At birth. | B．Through education. |
| C．Both at birth and through education. | D．Neither at birth nor through education. |
| A．确定 | B．修理 | C．发展 | D．安排 |
| A．Become a genius. |
| B．Still become a genius if he should be given special education. |
| C．Reach his intelligence limits in rich environment. |
| D．Never reach his intelligence limits in his life. |
| A．The importance of their intelligence. | B．The role of environment on intelligence. |
| C．The importance of their jobs. | D．The part that birth plays. |
| A．No education can help make a genius. |
| B．Personality is as important as intelligence which was given to people at birth. |
| C．People who have similar degree of intelligence must be relatives. |
| D．Environment influences people in intelligence developing. |
Instead of pens and paper, students in the classrooms of the future will have headsets and rather than learning by rote (死记硬背）they will be encouraged to take a more hands—on experience to their studies.
Although in their early stages of development, schools in China are studying how they can put VR( virtual reality 虚拟现实)lessons into their classroom experience. One such lesson, by online game developer, Net dragon, uses VR to teach children fire safety. Students are put into a virtual environment where a fire has broken out. They must crawl (爬行）across the floor, avoid desks and chairs and so on, and escape carefully.
VR education tools are not just for school children, either. At the VR medical school under Sichuan University, a virtual system allows medical students to examine organs (器官）from different ways. They can even separate organs for closer examination. A virtual knife is now in development, which means students can practice their operation skills without the need for a real body.
Simon Leung, vice—chairman of Net Dragon, said the company has developed VR immersive(沉浸式的）classrooms and computers that send students to a 360 degree immersive digital world based around their curriculum. Moreover, the VR headsets can tell whether children are focused on the task at hand, Leung said.
VR School, a Beijing—based firm, developed an immersive education system, which is already being used by 10 schools. It begins offering courses to train teachers and instructors with the skills to use VR in their lessons.
Although Chinese parents are often more than willing to allow their children to use technology to help their kids, they are suspicious of VR as they are unsure if the technology will have any side effects.
Besides, the equipment comes at a price. A top—end VR headset and computer could cost upward of 10,000 yuan (1,475 U.S. dollars). “More must be done to develop the technology, which will lower the cost and improve the user’s experience,” said Huang Ronghuai, professor at the Smart Learning Institute under Beijing Normal University, “Still we are optimistic (乐观的）that we can really change the present model of education.”
1. In the future will be used by students in VR lessons.| A．pens and paper | B．VR headsets | C．online games | D．a real knife |
| A．It can be used to teach students fire safety. |
| B．It is a useful tool for children to play games. |
| C．It makes students examine organs more easily. |
| D．It can be used to practice skills in a real body. |
| A．doubtful. | B．afraid | C．proud | D．tired |
| A．The VR equipment is too expensive. |
| B．The VR education system is perfect now. |
| C．VR has changed the current model of education. |
| D．VR will make students study at home in the future. |
| A．To tell people how to build VR schools. |
| B．To show people how to use VR headsets. |
| C．To encourage more and more people to buy VR Headsets. |
| D．To show the development of VR technology in education. |
The British Broadcasting Corporation(BBC) is a public company for radio and television broadcasting in the UK. Since March, BBC journalist, Zoric King has been visiting schools across the country to teach students how to find out fake news.
The visits have included up to 1,000 middle and primary schools. They follow a year-long study by BBC. The study found that nearly half of 12 to 15-year-olds find it difficult to tell fact from fiction on social media.
Fake news refers to news stories that you see on TV or the Internet that are partly or entirely false. Some of the stories may have some true facts, but still include some lies.
Fake news is sometimes created to get clicks(点击量) and increase profits(收益). Sometimes it is written to get attention or make people think in a certain way.
For example, a nuclear(原子核的) leak at the Fukushima power plant in Japan in 2011 caused an unexpected reaction in China. Fear buying of salt happened in many countries overnight after false news stories saying that iodized salt can protect against radiation(辐射). The stories added that sea salt produced in the future might not be safe to eat, as it could be polluted by the leak.
Fake news has had a bad influence on the media industry and society. It may influence public opinion and cause fear or anger. People may also lose trust in the media and become confused(令人迷惑的) about realistic topic and events, BBC said.
Do you know if it's false? Here are some tips for finding out fake news.
Check the information that comes from. If the news has no source, or the source is not a reliable one, you should be careful. Reliable sources include main stream media like CCTV and authoritative organizations like the United Nations.
Be careful about headlines. The headlines of fake news stories are often catchy. If the headline sounds unbelievable, the news may be false.
Check the data. Make sure you know where the story's figures come from. You can probably trust it if the numbers are from a national or international office report.
1. From Paragraph 1, we can learn Zoric King _______.| A．visits a country school | B．teaches students at school |
| C．finds out some fake news | D．works for BBC in the UK |
| A．It has no influence on society. | B．It includes some true facts. |
| C．It's easy to tell fake news. | D．Most news on the Internet is fake. |
| A．To make more money than before. | B．To get clicks from the readers. |
| C．To complete in the media industry. | D．To attract people's attention. |
| A．可信的 | B．权威的 | C．虚假的 | D．迷惑的 |
| A．To introduce the company BBC to us. | B．To encourage students to work for BBC. |
| C．To teach students how to tell fake news. | D．To show us the way to check the data. |
5 . How many of your classmates wear a pair of glasses? About 60 percent of Chinese students had shortsightedness(近视) in 2013, according to the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health.
If you find that you can’t see things clearly, the first thing you should do is to go to the doctor and find out if you have shortsightedness. If you really have shortsightedness, you need to wear proper glasses to make things easier for eye to see. “Although wearing glasses can hardly help to recover (恢复) your eyesight (视力), it is helpful to make your eyes relaxed and so may slow down the progression of shortsightedness,” experts say.
On the other hand, your habit of using eyes is also important to help control the development shortsightedness. For example, doing eyes protection exercises at school, spending more time outdoors and looking farther sometimes while studying are good for your eyes.
Many children may feel embarrassed at first. But don’t be. With glasses in different shapes and styles, you can find a pair that makes you look fashionable. Also, as technology develops, life becomes easier for people with glasses. Shortsighted people can wear sunglasses. But this may not be OK for high-degree (高度数) shortsighted (greater than 600 degrees) because of the thickness of the lenses (镜片). What’s more, some shops including online ones also sell special glasses made for shortsighted people to play sports. It’s also expected that one day shortsighted people may have special 3D glasses for TV and movies.
With smart phones and pads, our lives have become more colorful. However, spending much time reading, texting and gaming through them is bad for eyes. Here are some useful tips to protect your eyesight.
1. When you use a computer, don’t get too close. Sit in your chair and extend (伸出) your arms. Your palms (手掌) should rest comfortably on the screen.
2. When you use mobile phones or pads, keep them far enough from your eyes and just below eye level (水平). Try not to use them in direct sunlight.
3. Control your time in front of them. Experts suggest that kids should spend no more than one or two hours on screens a day.
4. Remember to take a break: every 20 minutes, take a 20-second break and look at something 20 feet away.
1. How many Chinese students has shortsightedness in 2013 according to the passage?| A．About one third. | B．About two thirds. |
| C．About one six. | D．About three fifths. |
| A．it makes people look fashionable | B．it hardly helps recover the eyesight |
| C．it helps to make the eyes relaxed | D．it makes things easy for people to do |
| A．People with high-degree shortsightedness may sometimes feel inconvenient |
| B．Thanks to technology, the shortsighted now can wear special 3D glasses for TV |
| C．After wearing special glasses, shortsighted people can play sports online |
| D．Life for people with shortsightedness used to be easier before wearing glasses |
| A．When you use a mobile phone, keep your eyes below the phone. |
| B．Good habits of using eyes stop your eyesight from getting worse. |
| C．Don’t get too close to a computer screen. The farther, the better. |
| D．Spending more than 120 minutes on screens a day is safe for eyes. |
| A．find out ways to recover eyesight | B．encourage people to wear glasses |
| C．show how technology has developed | D．call on people to protect their eyes |
6 . Proverbs(谚语)are popular around the world. They are short expressions that usually pass on some type of wisdom. Many proverbs give advice about how to live. Some proverbs are hundreds of years old, but people still use them today.
The English language has a very large number of proverbs. One is “Better late than never.” This means it is better to do something late than never to do it. Another is “Two heads are better than one.” This means a second person can often help one person to do something. And “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is a common saying. It means that eating apples every day helps you to keep healthy. So the person will not get sick and won’t have to see a doctor.
In different situations, people use proverbs to express special meanings. For example, my son is just like his father in many ways. We often say the two of them prove the proverb: “The apple does not fall far from the tree.” I also tell my children “Two wrongs do not make a right.” You should not do something bad just because someone did the same to you. Some people often worry about what they will do in a situation that might happen in the future.
We could tell them “Do not cross that bridge until you come to it.”
1. There are______ proverbs mentioned(被提及) in the passage.| A．three | B．four | C．five | D．six |
| A．Better late than never | B．Old habits die hard |
| C．A good friend is like a mirror | D．An apple a day keeps the doctor away |
| A．Two wrongs do not make a right. | B．Love me, love the dog. |
| C．Doing is better than seeing. | D．Don't cross that bridge until you come to it. |
| A．A boy gets better grades than his friends. |
| B．Two boys work together and do a better job. |
| C．Two boys make the same mistake at the same time. |
| D．A boy asks his friend to do all his homework for him. |
| A．listing facts | B．giving examples |
| C．explaning reasons | D．answering questions |
7 . The science museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington in London. It was founded in 1857 and today is one of the city’s main tourist attractions. In most museums, there is no shouting and no running, and you must not touch anything. However, the Science Museum is different because it is busy and noisy. People talk about what they can see and do there, and some machines（机械）also work. It’s a good way to learn about science, because you can find the answer and try the idea.
At the Science Museum, I always visit OFF Floor that is quite crowded. This is my favorite because physical experiment（实验）can be done in it. If you want to fill a bag with sand, you have to drive a kind of truck on wheels and move it into the right place. You can also find out how people travel into space and back again.
I like to visit the rooms on the second and third floors. You can learn about communications and the environment as well as math, physics, and chemistry. For example, you can find out how people dig coal from the ground and use it to create energy（能量）. And in one room they even explain how X-rays let you see inside your body.
Then when we go to the fourth floor, Glimpses of Medical History, you can learn about what medicine（药）was like in the past, with exhibits of medical instrument and practices from old days and from many countries. If you compare the medicine of past with the medicine of today, you will feel very lucky next time you visit a doctor!
The Science Museum is interesting for people of all ages. You can always find something new and have a wonderful time there. You don’t need to spend money entering it, so you can go in for a few minutes or stay all day. It is open daily from 10 am. to 6 pm. There, you can do many things, but you have to follow some rules. For example, you can not shoot exhibits. But you can buy postcards about them in the museum shop.
So if you ever go to London, make sure you visit the Science Museum. It is one of the most attractive museums around the world!
1. According to Paragraph 1, how is the Science Museum different from most museum?| A．There is no shouting and no running. |
| B．You must not touch anything. |
| C．You cannot talk about what you see. |
| D．You can try the idea about science. |
| A．Because you can find out how people travel into space. |
| B．Because there are lots of physical experiments. |
| C．Because you compare medicine in the past with today. |
| D．Because people can find out how they dig coal. |
| A．the first floor | B．the second floor |
| C．the third floor | D．the fourth floor |
| A．Doctors are much better today than those in the past |
| B．The history of the museum is shorter than 160 years |
| C．You can buy something at the Science Museum |
| D．You have to pay for the tickets to the museum |
| A．how to see a doctor next time |
| B．how to create energy by using coal |
| C．how to dig coal by using energy |
| D．how to get an X-ray inside your body |
8 . The British development group Practical Action says the best way to prepare foods for storage(储存) is at harvest(收获) time while still in the field.
Use a sharp knife to cut the fruits and vegetables off and put them on a clean place. Do not put them on the ground. Use water to clean off dirt. Usually it is better not to pick off the leaves from fruits and vegetables before storage. Without the leaves, food can become dry.
Fruits and vegetables must be cool from field heat before they are put into storage. But cooling them in water can spread fungus(菌类) in the food. A better idea is to harvest foods either early or late in the day, then leave them to cool naturally. Some fruits and vegetables must be kept at 0℃ to 4℃. Any colder, and they might go bad. Some foods need to be kept at 4℃ to 8℃ and some need to be kept above 8 ℃ for best results.
Wet the fruits and vegetables so they do not become too dry. The best time to do this is before storage. Cover the foods in plastic(塑料) once they reach the right “critical temperature(温度)” for storage. Most fruits and vegetables need the relative humidity(湿度) in storage to be kept between 85 and 95 percent.
Finally, leave space between the foods and the walls of the cold storage area so air can go around. Keep the space clean. And try not to open the doors too often.
1. Where can you put the foods after harvest?| A．In the water. | B．On the ground. |
| C．In the sand. | D．On a clean place. |
| A．8:00 am. | B．12:00 at the noon. |
| C．4:00 pm. | D．6:00 pm. |
| A．Fruits and vegetables must be kept below 0. |
| B．We should pick off the leaves for best storage. |
| C．The food need 75% humidity for best storage. |
| D．Wet the fruits and vegetables before the storage. |
| A．容量 | B．信息 | C．空间 | D．速度 |
1. leave the foods to cool naturally
2. wet the foods
3. use a sharp knife to cut the foods off
4. store the foods in the cold area
| A．2341 | B．1342 | C．3412 | D．3124 |
9 . How do you feel when your teacher asks you to work on a group project with other students? Do you like to work together with others or work alone?
The program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which aims to evaluate education system worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students, carried out a survey of students' ability to work together in groups. They found that students who do well on tests by themselves are also likely to be better at working with other people.
This finding was true for many countries. Students in Japan, South Korea, Finland and Canada, where test scores are high, also did well in working together to solve problems. But this was not the case for every country. Chinese students, who have high scores as well, displayed just average collaborative(合作的) skills.
"One reason might be that Chinese parents and teachers focus too much on grades." said Zhao Zhongxin, former vice president of the Chinese Family Education Association. "Students have a lot of exam pressure and they see schools as places for competition."
"However, collaborative skills are very important for preparing students for today's society." he added. "Luckily, more Chinese parents and teachers are realizing the importance of this and are thinking of ways to help students improve it."
Another interesting finding from the PISA survey was that girls can be better than boys at working together. They said girls show more positive attitudes(态度) towards relationships, which means they are more willing to listen to others' opinions.
PISA also found that the classroom environment can influence how well students collaborate. In classes where there are a lot of activities that require communication such as class debates, students might have better attitudes towards collaborating.
1. From Paragraph 2, we can know PISA is ________| A．a survey system | B．a skill system | C．a program group | D．a finding result |
| A．prepare society | B．work with others | C．get good grades | D．win the competition |
| A．today's society | B．parents' realization | C．the importance | D．collaborative skill |
| A．give students high scores on tests. | B．help students reduce exam pressure. |
| C．provide more communicative activities | D．make girls work with girls instead of boys |
| A．The better grades, the better at teamwork. | B．Gender(性别) has no influence on collaboration. |
| C．Please focus as much on collaboration as on grades. | D．It's important for students to develop collaboration. |
The Intelligent Transport team at Newcastle university has turned an electric car into a mobile laboratory named "DriveLAB" in order to understand the challenges faced by older driver. So that they can discover what the old really need while driving. Research shows that giving up driving is one of the key reasons for a tall in health and happiness among older people. It may make them become more lonely.
Led by Professor Phil Blythe, the Newcastle team is developing some new technologies that are used inside cars. They want to make it possible to help older drivers to continue driving into later life. These technologies include custom-made navigation (定制导航) tools, night vision (可视) systems and intelligent speed systems. Phil Blythe explains: For many older people, particularly those living alone or in the country, driving is important for keeping their independence, giving them the freedom to get out without having to depend on others. But we all have to accept that fact: as we get older, we do everything more and more slowly. As a result, it's difficult for older people to avoid any possible dangers while they are driving. And many of them will lose confidence in their driving skills. The result is that people stop driving before they really need to."
Dr Amy Guo, the leading researcher on the older driver study, explains, "The DriveLAB is helping us to understand what the key points and difficulties are for older drivers and how we might use technology to solve these problems." For example, most of us would expect older drivers to go slower than everyone else. but surprisingly, we found that in 30mph zones (区域), they try to keep at a constant speed. Some of them even break the speed limit (限制) and face to be punished. We're going out of our way to set up systems which can control their speed as a way of preventing that.
"We hope that our work will help with technological solutions to make sure that older drivers stay safer behind the wheel."
1. What is the purpose of the DriveLAB?| A．To repair some old cars | B．To design new types of cars. |
| C．To find out older driver's problems. | D．To teach people traffic rules. |
| A．It keeps them independent. | B．It helps them save time. | C．It builds up their creativity. | D．It is good for their health. |
| A．Improve their driving skills. | B．Help them continue to drive cars. |
| C．Recycle iron from their old cars. | D．Organize a driving club for the old. |
| A．超速 | B．限速 | C．匀速 | D．极速 |
| A．A New Model Electric Car | B．A Solution To Traffic Problem |
| C．Service From DriveLAB | D．Keeping Older Drivers On The Road |
