It’s known for all that China is famous for its tea culture. Here is a list of some Chinese tea.
Black Tea
In Chinese and the languages of neighboring countries, black tea is known as “red tea”. It is made from the new shoots（芽）of the tea leaves which are fermented（发酵的）and dried. It has a lovely red color. Dianhong and Yixing are popular brands of black tea.
White Tea
White tea is unfermented tea that has been quickly dried. It is lighter in color than other types of tea. Popular brands of white tea are White Peony and Silver Needle.
Wulong Tea
Wulong tea, also known as blue tea, is made from a mixture of green tea and black tea. It is said that people who drink Wulong tea can lose weight. Wenshan Baozhong Tea and Dongding Wulong Tea are two famous brands of this popular tea.
Green Tea
Green tea is the oldest and most popular type of tea. It has been enjoyed in China for several thousand years. Green tea is made from the new shoots of the tea leaves which are dried and processed. Longjing may be the most well-known brand of green tea.
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| Black Tea | It is known as “red tea” and |
| It is unfermented tea that has been quickly dried. It is lighter in color than other types of tea. | |
| Wulong Tea | It is also known as blue tea and made from a mixture of green tea and black tea. |
| Green Tea | It is It is made from the new shoots of the tea leaves which are dried and processed. Longjing may be the most well-known brand of green tea. |
2 . Many strange creatures（生物）live deep in the ocean. One of the most mysterious is the huge squid（乌贼）. Some had been caught in fishing nets or found washed up on shore（岸）. No one had ever seen a giant（巨大的） squid alive up close or had even gotten a picture of one. That all changed a few years ago. Researchers（研究者） got the first pictures of a giant squid alive and swimming in the deep ocean.
Scientists didn’t know just where to look for the squid. It lives in the ocean, about 660 to 2,300 feet deep. Then the scientists had a bright idea. They knew sperm whales（抹香鲸）like nothing better than a delicious squid dinner. Why not follow the whales? Scientists, led by Tsunemi Kubodera, followed some sperm whales off the coast of Japan. Their idea turned out to be correct. Just as they thought, the whales led them to a huge squid.
The squid wasn’t going to come to the scientist. So they used a baited（饵）fishing line to draw it in. Scientists dropped a remote-control camera into the ocean. Then they used the bait to attract（吸引）the squid. The trick worked. As the squid went after the bait, the scientists took hundreds of pictures. The squid swam away finally.
When the scientists were raising the fishing line, they discovered something amazing. The squid had left a piece of itself. It went after some bait that we had on the end of the camera and became stuck （卡住）,” said Kyoichi Mori, a researcher.
1. ______ is one of the most mysterious in the deep ocean.| A．The big fish | B．Sperm whales | C．The huge squid | D．A strange creature |
| A．less than 660 feet deep | B．more than 2,300 meters deep |
| C．about 660 to 2,300 meters deep | D．about 660 to 2,300 feet deep |
| A．using fishing nets | B．waiting on the shore |
| C．following some sperm whales | D．using a baited fishing line |
| A．swam away | B．broke the camera |
| C．was eaten by sperm whales | D．was caught in the fishing net |
| A．The living habits of squids. | B．The way to catch a squid. |
| C．The process of taking photos of a squid. | D．The skills of taking pictures in the ocean. |
3 . Inventions change how we live, work, play and think about what’s possible. Every year, LIFE magazine lists the 100 best inventions based on their creativity and influence on our life. What did the magazine choose this year? Let’s take a look.
 | Reading can be a big challenge for millions of people. They may have poor vision（视力）or reading difficulties. But OrCam Read can help them! This reading pen with a smart camera and an AI system can read the text aloud to the user after scanning（扫描）a page of text. You don’t need to connect it to the Internet. You can use it offline at home, work, school, or even in stores when you need to read any instructions. |
 | Honey is produced by bees. But bee farmers may kill them after getting honey because it’s cheaper than feeding the bees through the winter. To save bees, US company MeliBio has found a way to make the world’s first bee-free honey. They used synthetic（合成）biology to create honey directly from plants. This kind of honey tastes just like the real one, and it is healthy, too. |
 | When you feel angry or unhappy, what do you do about it? Scientists say you can try to calm others. This can help you calm down. That’s why Purrble was invented. This soft bear-like toy has 9 sensors（感应器）. It has a quick “heartbeat” and can respond to your touch. As you hold and pet it, its heartbeat slows. And it sounds like a cat, which means it really enjoys your touch! You will learn how to feel calm yourself in this way. |
| A．connecting it to the Internet | B．using it to scan pictures they can’t see |
| C．connecting it to a small camera | D．using it to scan text they need to read |
| A．no bees are needed | B．bees can do what they want |
| C．bees can be set free after working | D．spending less money feeding bees |
| A．is made from real honey | B．has the same taste as real honey |
| C．is not good for human health | D．helps beekeeping businesses richer |
| A．read loud and quickly | B．get more sweet honey |
| C．calm down yourself | D．keep a bear-like pet |
| A．OrCam Read | B．soft bear-like toy | C．Purrble | D．the new kind of honey |
4 . In Chengdu, tea culture has developed into the Chengdu-featured (特色的) tea house culture. There is a saying about Chengdu tea houses: You could see more tea houses than sunny days. The tea houses catch so much eyesight because of their many different functions (功能): for fun, relaxing and meetings.
The desks and chairs in the tea houses are often made of bamboo. The teas are usually jasmine (茉莉花) tea, Longjing, and Biluochun. They use northern Gaiwan as tea sets (larger than Gongfu Gaiwan). Gaiwan is made up of three parts: the lid (盖), the cup and the saucer (茶碟). When the tea service master pours water into the Gaiwan, you will see the water falling from the air into Gaiwan, with a lively sound. In a moment, water stops. Then look at the Gaiwan. The water in it is just right at the level of the Gaiwan’s mouth, with a simple drop on the desk.
No matter where you are in Chengdu, in a quiet park or in a busy street, you can see those featured tea houses. People can stay there for half a day, having only a cup of tea and snacks. In the talks of friends and neighbors, the colorful tea culture of Sichuan is fully expressed.
1. Why do the tea houses catch so much eyesight?2. Are the desks and the chairs in the tea houses often made of bamboo or wood?
3. How many kinds of teas are mentioned in this passage?
4. What is Gaiwan made up of?
5. What is the passage mainly about?
A mind map is a tool that connects information around a central subject. It can help you make a knowledge bank to solve problems. A student recently said, “I thought mind mapping would take a lot of time to do but in fact it saves me time. I don’t have to read my, notes over and over again.” Do you know how to make a mind map? These following steps can help you.
Start in the center
Starting in the center of the page lets your brain spread out in all directions and express itself more freely and naturally.
Use as many pictures as possible
Use a picture for your central idea. A picture is worth a thousand words and helps you use your imagination. If you have 10 pictures in your mind map, they are already worth 10,000 words of notes. It helps get your attention and makes you work excitedly!
Draw clear branches (分支)
Connect your main branches to the central picture and connect your second-level branches to the first level, etc. Why? Because brain works by connection. It likes to connect two, three, or four things together. If you connect the branches well, you will understand and remember easily.
Use key words and colors
Every single key word can make you learn more clearly and easily. Try to use more colors. Colors are as exciting to your brain as pictures. Different colors express different parts of your mind map and add great energy and fun to your creative thinking.
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| Start in the center | ◆Your brain will ◆Your brain can express itself more freely and naturally. |
| ◆A picture is worth a thousand words and helps you use your imagination. ◆It helps get your attention and makes you work excitedly. | |
| Draw clear branches | ◆Brain works by connection. ◆The better you connect the branches, |
| Use key words and colors | ◆Each single key word makes learning clear and easy. ◆The different parts of your mind map |
6 . Almost half of all shoppers say they have bought pineapple when shopping for fresh fruit. Besides the great taste and juicy body, what makes this spiky (有尖刺的) fruit so popular?
First of all, it is very healthy. Each 100g of it has only about 50 calories. So this fat-free fruit has fewer calories than both apples and bananas. And don’t throw away that skin! You can use it to make a delicious and heart-healthy tea. All you need to do is boil the skin in some hot water, let it cool, and enjoy it.
Pineapple has an interesting history. It was first found in South America, where it has been planted for centuries. We call it “pineapple” because early travelers from Europe noticed that it looked a little like the pine cone (松果). Do you know it used to be one of the most expensive fruits in the world. In the 1600s, it cost so much money that kings and queens gave it to each other as gifts to show how rich and powerful they were.
This strange-looking fruit has one more surprise for us. It has a chemical (化学成分) called bromelain, which can digest (消化) the cells in your mouth. The light burning you feel on your tongue after eating too much pineapple is, in fact, that the fruit is eating you! So be careful, and remember to enjoy this amazing and healthy fruit properly.
1. Pineapple is considered as a kind of healthy fruit because of its ________.| A．low calories | B．strange look | C．high price | D．long history |
| A．It doesn’t taste good. | B．It is good for our heart. |
| C．It is difficult for us to make. | D．It must be drunk when it is hot. |
| A．show their healthy life | B．show their love for each other |
| C．show their high social position | D．show their influence on the world |
| A．pineapple is high in fat | B．pineapple is juicy and healthy |
| C．pineapple was first grown in South Africa | D．pineapple is still expensive for common people |
| A．Bromelain can hurt our body seriously. | B．Pineapple is in fact a kind of harmful fruit. |
| C．Pineapple is popular with people of all ages. | D．We’d better not eat too much pineapple at a time. |
7 . Why is music so important to children? Here are some of my thoughts on the subject.
Music has a positive (积极地) effect on young children’s development!
New research shows that music has a good influence on young children’s cognitive (认知的) skills, such as spatial reasoning (空间推理) and memory. Research also shows that offering children an interesting environment can support children’s healthy growth and development,
Young children enjoy making music with others!
Making music with others gives children a wonderful feeling of belonging to the group. Children might have difficulty joining in activities with others because they are shy, have limited language ability or special needs, but they can freely take part in a music activity.
Music makes young children happy!
Children seem to experience much pleasure and joy when listening to music, making music and dancing to music. Whether they are singing along to a CD, playing an instrument or dancing to music around the classroom, most children seem to thoroughly (彻底地) enjoy participating in a music activity. How wonderful it is to offer children the chance to do some activities about music!
1. New research shows that music can improve young children’s ________ skills.| A．cognitive | B．reading | C．writing | D．speaking |
| A．They don’t know others. | B．They want to play games alone. |
| C．They are shy. | D．They don’t like music. |
| A．come into | B．arrive at | C．take part in | D．get used to |
| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
| A．How to Make Music with Others? | B．The Influence of Music on Children |
| C．What Wonderful Music! | D．The Importance of Music in Early Childhood |
8 . Huang Yu’s beloved cat Dasuan died. Huang was quite sad. But 66 days later, Dasuan “came back”. Huang got a new cat that looks almost the same as Dasuan thanks to cloning technology (克隆技术).
Most people are interested in cloned pets. The cat was born inside a lab owned by a company in Beijing. To clone the cat, the company’s working stuff took cells from Dasuan and created an embryo (胚胎). Then they put it into a cat mother.
________ In 2001, the world’s first cloned cat was born in the US. In 2005, the world’s first cloned dog was born in South Korea. However, there are arguments against pet cloning. Though the cloned pets copy the dead pet’s appearance, they have different personalities. Some pet lovers like Huang think a clone is a good replacement (替代品) for their dead pets. But others worry that having the same appearance but a different personality will lead to more pain in the long run. Knowing this, the company says it hopes to use AI and other technologies to move memories to cloned pets in the future.
It’s known that cloned pets aren’t as healthy as naturally born pets. They may live shorter lives. Some animal lovers think cloning pets is unacceptable because a large number of stray animals (流浪动物) still need homes. They say there is no need to clone.
1. ________ helps Huang Yu own a new cat which looks the same as Dasuan.| A．A US company | B．An AI | C．The cat’s memory | D．Cloning technology |
| A．Cat is the easiest kind of pets to clone. |
| B．In fact, cloning pets is not a new thing. |
| C．Dasuan is China’s first successful cloned cat. |
| D．Huang thought it was impossible to have his cat back. |
| A．shorter | B．more interesting | C．healthier | D．more lovely |
| A．personality | B．color | C．cell | D．size |
| A．cloning a new pet | B．stopping keeping pets |
| C．accepting stray animals | D．keeping the pet’s memory |
9 . For many years, thousands of people have gone to the North Pole (北极) in summer, but few in winter. In the winter of 1990, the French artist Jannot Derit was invited to have the opening of his exhibition (展览) in a building in the little village of Jukkasjarvi. The building, named the Arctic Hall, was made of snow. Many visitors went there. One night, a group of visitors decided to sleep in the Arctic Hall. The following morning, the brave visitors were very pleased with their experience and the idea of an ice hotel was born. Today, the ICEHOTEL is world—famous.
As soon as winter begins, a team of builders from all over the world come to Jukkasjarvi and they make the hotel for that year. As one part is completed, it opens to visitors, while the other parts are still being built. The first part is completed in December and each week after that a new part opens. The hotel isn’t usually completed until January 7th. The ICEHOTEL is built under the open sky, using the natural materials of the winter season. So the completion date depends on ______ and sometimes the plan changes. In spring, as the weather gets warmer, hotels will melt (融化).
No matter how cold it may be outside, the temperature inside the hotel is never colder than -5℃ to -8℃. Winter outer (外面的) clothes are included in the cost of visitors` stay at the hotel. If you are planning to come to the hotel, you can buy warm sweaters, socks and some other things on the ICEHOTEL website. They will be sent to your room when you check in.
1. The idea of building an ice hotel was born in ________.| A．1970 | B．1980 | C．1990 | D．2000 |
| A．The building process of the ICEHOTEL. | B．Why people build the hotel in winter. |
| C．What difficulties the builders have. | D．The weather conditions in Jukkasjarvi. |
| A．Location. | B．Staff. | C．Traffic. | D．Nature. |
| A．The artist Jannot Derit came up with the idea of building the ICEHOTE. |
| B．The cost of staying at the ICEHOTE includes sweaters and outer clothes. |
| C．Visitors can come and sleep in the ICEHOTE before it is finished each winter. |
| D．The temperature inside the ICEHOTE changes with the temperature outside. |
| A．The Arctic Hall | B．A special hotel | C．A famous town | D．A trip to the Arctic |
China’s chip industry has developed quickly in recent years. You may find it is surprising, but it’s true. China’s imports (出口) of the chips are even bigger in worth than that of oil. The former was worth up to 410 billion dollars, but while there was 250 billion in 2021. NY, Bloomberg news (澎博新闻) Being key to everything electrical, chips (芯片) are needed around the world. However, it’s not easy to make them. A chip may cross national boundaries (国界) many times during the production cycle.
China’s Taiwan and South Korea, for example, play important roles in manufacturing (制造), while other East Asian countries are working on assembling (集成), testing and packaging.
Currently, most of the world’s chips are made in China, while the US is the second biggest producer, CNBC reported. South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Germany, the Philippines, the Netherlands, and Thailand are further big manufacturers. Especially, China’s Taiwan leads the way in making the chips. Their companies, TSMC (台湾积体电路制造公司), and UMC (联华电子公司), are two of the major names in the business, producing chips for some of the biggest tech companies in the world, including Apple and AMD. As of December 2021, TSMC alone provided 54 percent of the world’s semiconductor chips.
China has already developed some influential chip companies, including Allwinners (全志科技), Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC, 中芯国际), and HiSilicon (海思) which is a subsidiary (子公司) of Huawei.
In chip designing, China has done well in the mid-and low-end market, while China’s designing of more advanced chips still fall behind some developed countries. Besides advanced technology, China is also expanding its production capacity (产能). As of now, only 30 percent of the chips China uses are produced within the country. China plans to raise the rate to 70 percent by 2025 The Chinese government has also done a lot to boost (推动) the country’s chip industry. The 14th Five-Year Plan listed semiconductors and artificial intelligence as two pillars (支柱)?
For future technology development in the next five years, China then announced (宣布) plans to invest (投资) 1.4 trillion dollars (about 9.77 trillion yuan) between 2020 and 2025 in advanced technologies including but not limited to (局限于) semiconductors.
根据短文内容，回答下列问题。
1. What has developed quickly in recent years in China?
2. Are China’s imports of the chips as big as oil in worth?
3. In chip designing, what did China has done well in?
4. How many influential chip companies of China were mentioned in the passage?
5. What do you think of Chinas chip industry in the future?
