Do you love street food? I’m sure you do! What makes the food sweet? Sugar, of course! Do you know anything about sugar? Most sugar comes from sugar cane (甘蔗). This kind of plant is very tall.
How do we make sugar from sugar cane?
First, farmers cut the top of the plant and put part of the plant in the earth. This will grow into more sugar cane.
Next, workers make the sugar cane into big machines. One machine washes the cane. One machine cuts and turns the cane over and over. And one machine gets the sweet juice from the cane.
Then, workers make the juice hot and it becomes thick (浓稠的). The thick juice is called syrup (糖浆). Workers put the syrup into the crystallization tank (结晶罐). It turns to crystals (晶体). We need one more machine to dry the crystals. Now we have sugar.
Sugar can be brown or white. It can also be in different sizes. Then the sugar can go to the sweet factory (工厂). There workers use it to make sweets.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。（每小题答案不超过六个单词）
1. Where do most sugar come from?
2. What is the thick juice called?
3. How many machines do workers need to make sugar?
4. Is sugar in the same size?
5. Why do people send the sugar to the sweet factory?
2 . It’s December in the north of China. It’s snowy and really cold. You can see many children playing with snow. Look! Some of them are making snowmen. Some are skating on the river, because the water in the river freezes（结冰）. It’s a white world. How beautiful! But in Australia, the weather is hot in December. Jane and her family are swimming in the sea. They are having a good time. Jim and his friends are playing soccer near the sea. The wind near the sea is really cool to them. But in December we can’t do that in China. That’s because the seasons（季节）in China and Australia are opposite（相反的）in a year.
根据短文内容, 回答下列问题。
1. How is the weather in the north of China in December?
2. Why can some Chinese children skate on the river?
3. Where is the weather hot in December?
4. Who are swimming in the sea?
5. What are Jim and his friends doing near the sea?
3 . Beep! Beep! Barcode (条形码) makes it faster and easier to buy things in stores. This year, it is 50 years old!
On a Sunday afternoon in 1971, IBM engineer George Laurer thought of a code that could be printed on food labels(商标). Later it developed into the Universal Product Code, which was used by many grocery companies starting in 1973, according to The New York Times. Before this, cashiers (收银员) had to ring up prices by hand.
Today, barcodes are scanned over 6 billion times every day and used by 2 million companies worldwide. What information does a barcode hold? Where the product comes from, where it has been, its price... you name it. It can also help stores keep track of(追踪) their products. For example, if there are 10 boxes of milk and a customer buys one, it will be recorded so that the store owner knows there are nine boxes left. In the 1980s, libraries started using barcodes to keep track of books in this way.
The next generation of barcodes, such as QRcodes, can hold more information. They can tell customers if product has allergens (过敏原) or if it is organic (有机的). This provides customers with a greater level of trust in the products they buy.
1. How old is the barcode?2. How did the cashiers ring up prices before 1973?
3. Why did libraries start using barcodes?
4. What can the next generation of barcodes tell customers?
5. What does the passage mainly tell us?
There are many kinds of pollution on the earth: such as air pollution, land (土地) pollution and ①w________ pollution. What should we do to save the earth?
First, everyone should help to keep the air clean. Polluted air is bad for our physical health. So we must stop people and factories from polluting the air.
Second, we should not make too much rubbish. It needs more areas, so there will not be enough space for people to live. The land will then be polluted and fewer plants can grow.
Third, we should keep the sea and rivers clean. 鱼不能在污染的水里存活, and it may be ②i________ for us to enjoy so much seafood or swim happily in the sea in the future.
To make the earth a better place, everyone should learn to love our planet from now on. And everyone should play a part in saving the earth.
1. 根据首字母提示填单词，完成短文。①
2. 把文中画线句子翻译成英语。
3. What will happen if the land is polluted?
4. Why should we keep the air clean?
5. 给文章拟一个合适的英文标题。
5 . Why do people cry? Scientists say the body produces（产生）tears（眼泪）because it needs them. One kind of tears is for the eye, and the other is for the heart. They both work as cleaners. If something else like dust（灰尘）gets into your eye, tears also come into the eye to clean it out. If you are hurt by something, your strong feelings produce some poisonous chemicals（毒素）in your body, and at the same time, tears come out with them. If tears don’t help clean out these poisonous chemicals, they will do harm to the heart.
In the United States, men have heart problems more often than women do. Doctors say heart problems have something to do with the pressure（压力）of living and working now. Perhaps men have more of these illnesses because they do not cry enough. They need to cry more.
In fact, you can find many ways of reducing（减少）the pressure to keep fit. Crying is a natural（自然的）and physical（身体的）one.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
1. How many kinds of tears does the body usually produce?
2. What do tears do when dust gets into your eye?
3. Who has more heart problems, men or women?
4. Why do men have more heart illnesses?
5. Will you cry if you fail the exam? Why or why not?
If you are travelling in Hong Kong, I think you can eat in a Chinese restaurant or go to McDonald’s or Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) to have fast food. When you come into a Chinese restaurant, you first sit down at the table. The waiters will bring you a menu soon. They usually ask, “What would you like to have?” You give your order. Then they begin to cook. It often takes some time to cook the dishes. After you have all your food, you will find your meal is always dear.
But to eat in a fast food restaurant, things are quite different. You just stand in a line in front of a counter (柜台). On the counter you will see pictures of a lot of food and drinks such as rice, hamburger, potato, cabbage, meat, hot dog, cake. You can choose any of them right away. After you give your order, people behind the counter get your food for you quickly, usually in less than three minutes. They give you your food on a plate, or in a paper bag or a box. You pay for it before you eat. And you can eat just there or take it away.
Now people like to go to fast food restaurant because to eat there is cheap and can save time. This is why fast food is becoming more and more popular in Hong Kong.
1. Can you eat in a Chinese restaurant if you travel in Hongkong?2. What will the waiter bring you when you at a Chinese restaurant?
3. When do we pay for our food in a fast food restaurant?
4. Why do people like to eat in fast food restaurant in Hong Kong?
5. Which do you like to eat, in a fast food restaurant or in a Chinese restaurant? Why?
What’s the most enjoyable school activity among American students? The answer is the school dance. Most American high schools have two dances during the year, one in winter and the other in spring. The students like the school dance because it is a good chance for them to meet new friends and learn from each other. At the dance, most schools make some strict rules to help create a healthy and enjoyable evening for all students. Only the students under 21 years are allowed in most schools. Some schools will even give the students a safety check before they come into the dance area. Some schools ask their students to keep a standing position (姿势) when they are dancing. That means the students can’t lean. You’d better not break the rules and enjoy yourself at the dance.
1. What’s the most enjoyable school activity in America?2. Most American schools have dances all year long, don’t they?
3. Why do most schools make some strict rules?
4. What will some schools do before the students come into the dance area?
5. Do you like school dance? Why?
Have you ever seen snow? Many people in the world have not. Some countries never have snow, and some have only a little on the tops of very high mountains. In the north of England, there is quite a lot of snow every winter. But in the south of England, there is usually little.
When a student from a warm country comes to England in autumn for the first time, he feels cold at first. There are often dark clouds grey sky and cold rain in England in autumn, and students from warm countries do not like this.
But snow is different. Though it’s cold, it is also beautiful. Perhaps after several dark mornings, the student wakes up one day, and there is a lot of light in his room. He thinks “Is it so late?” and jumps out of his bed. But no, it is not very late. He looks out of the window and there is the snow everywhere. The light of his room comes from clean, beautiful snow.
1. There is much snow ________ of England in winter.| A．in the east | B．in the west | C．in the south | D．in the north |
| A．strong winds | B．dark clouds | C．grey sky | D．cold rain |
| A．beautiful | B．cold | C．clean | D．heavy |
| A．it’s really late | B．he has some work to do |
| C．it is bright in the room | D．he usually gets up early |
| A．on the houses | B．on the ground |
| C．everywhere | D．on the top of mountains |
| A．Every country in the world has snow in winter. |
| B．Many people in the world haven’t seen snow. |
| C．It is often very warm in the autumn of England. |
| D．Foreign students like the weather in England. |
The Shanghai Expo Park is 5.28 km2. There are about 170 pavilions (展馆) in the park. Join us on our tip to some of them. We hope it will help you to find the places you are interested in.
The Chinese Pavilion
It is the largest pavilion in the park. The huge red building has three parts about China’s history, China’s ancient architecture (建筑) and China’s future. You can see an 8-minute movie about the changes in Chinese cities over the past 30 years.
The Germany Pavilion
Want to see what life is like in a German city? Go to the city tunnel! The scent of flowers and the singing of birds will make you feel like you are in a German park. If you visit “Energy Source” show, you’ll see a magic metal ball. The louder you shout, the more the ball will swing!
The Belgium(比利时) Pavilion
Almost everything in the pavilion will move. The walls are moving. Moving pictures show different parts of Belgium. There is also a Chinese shadow(皮影戏) center. A small chocolate factory at the pavilion will make free chocolate for visitors.
The Russian Pavilion
Here you’ll find a spaceship. The roof is a window of the spaceship. We can see the dream space cities of the future. We can also find new inventions(发明) made by Russian youth in every corner.
1. How many pavilions are there in the park?2. Which pavilion is the largest in the park?
3. Why do people think a metal ball is magic in the Germany Pavilion?
4. There isn’t a Chinese shadow(皮影戏) center in the Belgium(比利时) Pavilion, is there?
5. What can we find in the Russian Pavilion?
6. What do you think of these pavilions?
All around the world, people drink tea. But tea doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone. In different countries people have very different ideas about drinking tea.
In China, for example, tea is always served when people get together. The Chinese drink it at any time of the day at homes or in tea houses. They prefer their tea plain, with nothing else in it.
Another tea-drinking country is England. In England, the late afternoon is “tea time”. Almost everyone has a cup of tea then. The English usually make tea in a teapot and drink it with cream and sugar. They also eat cakes, cookies and little sandwiches at tea time.
In the United States people drink tea mostly for breakfast or after meals. Americans usually use tea bags to make their tea. Tea bags are faster and easier than making tea in teapot. Sometimes they drink tea from cans, like soda.
1. Do people in different countries have the same idea about drinking tea?2. When and where do the Chinese drink tea?
3. What does the sentence “The Chinese prefer their tea plain” mean?
4. What else do the English eat at tea time?
5. What do American use tea bags to do?
6. Why do people usually use tea bags instead of making tea in teapot?
