1 . When you travel in the forest, you should stay with your friends. If you walk around only by yourself, you might get lost.
When you lose the way, the most important thing to do is to stay in one place. ___________ Let them find you. You can shout or whistle three times. Then shout or whistle three times. Then shout or whistle three times again. Any signal for three times shows someone may be lost and need your help.
When people hear you, they will give you two shouts or two whistles. When a signal is given twice, it shows someone gets your calling and he is coming to help you.
When you need some water, you have to leave the place to look for it. Don’t just walk away. You can get small branches and drop them as you walk. It will help you go back again easily.
1. When you get lost in the forest, you ____________.| A．should walk away quickly | B．shouldn’t get any branches |
| C．shouldn’t go to other places | D．should shout or whistle two times |
| A．Don’t call the police | B．Your friends are afraid |
| C．You friends are lost too | D．Don’t try to find your friends |
| A．Because it is fun. |
| B．Because it is a signal for others’ help. |
| C．Because it can help others to find you easily. |
| D．Because it can help you go back to the first place. |
| A．Lost in the Forest | B．Shouts and Whistles |
| C．The Dangerous Forest | D．Water in the Forest |
2 . People all over the world celebrate birthdays. Some ways to celebrate birthdays are the same from country to country: candles, cakes and birthday wishes. But there are also different ways to celebrate birthdays. Here are a few:
| India | Usually Indian children wear white to school. However, on their birthdays, children wear colored clothes to school and give out chocolates to everyone in the class. Their best friend helps them to do this. |
| Japan | Children wear new clothes to celebrate the special day. Certain* birthdays are more important, such as the third and seventh birthdays for girls, the fifth birthday for boys. |
| Holland | The child receive* some large presents on his birthday. The family also put flowers on the child’s chair to make it beautiful. |
| A．white | B．colored | C．new | D．old |
| A．2 | B．3 | C．4 | D．5 |
| A．many birthday presents from family in some countries |
| B．different children’s clothes on birthdays in some countries |
| C．the same ways of celebrating birthdays in some countries |
| D．the different ways of celebrating birthdays in some countries |
3 . Many families have plastic chairs. Many small restaurants also have these chairs. Plastic chairs are light and easy to use. Most plastic chairs have small holes on their faces. But why do chairs have these holes?
Protect the chairs. The holes are very important. It can help them release pressure, with the hole, the chair do not break when you sit on it.
Easy stacking. When you don’t use your chairs, you can stack them together. One chair goes on top of another. The hole makes it easy to do that.
Easy taking. Look at the hole. It is just big to put your finger inside. You can easily take a chair by putting your finger in the hole.
1. Many people use plastic chairs because ___________.| A．they’re easy to use | B．they have holes |
| C．they’re big | D．they look strong |
| A．搬运 | B．抬高 | C．堆放 | D．修补 |
| A．plastic chairs have small holes everywhere |
| B．the holes are important to the plastic chairs |
| C．the holes can help people release pressure |
| D．plastic chairs are very useful in people’s life |
4 . China sent a satellite on Oct 24 to carry out technological tests for space debris management. The satellite is going to use technologies to reduce space debris.
Since the beginning of the space age in the 1950s, thousands of rockets and satellites have gone to space. There are more than 500,000 pieces of debris around the Earth. Although your chance of getting hit is extremely small, we are still facing an ever-increasing risk of space junk.
More than 27,000 pieces of debris, or “space junk”, are tracked in space, according to NASA. Much more debris is too small to be tracked but large enough to threaten human spaceflight and robotic tasks. Since a piece of debris can move like a speeding bullet, getting hit by these tiny pieces often leaves huge holes in many satellites, telescopes and other objects around our planet.
Space junk is also a huge danger to spacemen. “This is particularly important. Careful consideration needs to be made about the space junk before we do spacewalk exercises.” Joon Wayn Cheong, a satellite systems expert said.
Scientists are fully aware of the problem, and they are solving it in different ways.
In 2018, the UK's Survey Space Center used a net to catch space junk in an experiment. It was the first successful tryout of space cleanup technology. It included finding debris and catching it with a net and a harpoon.
Another solution is to use robotic arms. Clear Space 1, the European Space Agency’s task to remove space junk, is expected to be sent in 2025, which will use robotic arms to catch the debris, BBC Science Focus Magazine reported. It plans to locate, catch and throw debris into the atmosphere, where it will be burnt up by the strong pressure and friction of reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
1. The underlined word “threaten” in Paragraph 3 most probably means “__________”.| A．speed up | B．do harm to | C．slow down | D．catch up with |
| A．Thousands of rockets and satellites have been sent to space. |
| B．People walking on the street get hit by the flying space junk. |
| C．A space telescope gets damaged seriously by a flying satellite. |
| D．Astronauts who are working in space get hurt badly by the junk. |
| A．The scientists successfully caught the debris in the space with nets. |
| B．The space junk flies so rapidly that it can't be tracked by scientists. |
| C．Robotic arms may catch the space junk and send it back to the earth. |
| D．Chinese have taken some steps to deal with the space junk problems. |
| A．Space Age is Coming! | B．Protect the Environment! |
| C．It’s Time to Clean up! | D．Space Travel is Terrible! |
The 19th Asian Games are around the corner. Let’s check out what our favorite Hangzhou Asian Games topics of the year are. The top 3 most popular Hangzhou Asian Games 2022 topics of the year are based on the votes done on Facebook and Twitter.
1. Hangzhou 2022
The 2022 Asian Games will be an important event held in Hangzhou, from September 10 to 25, 2022. Hangzhou will be the third Chinese city to host the Asian Games, after Beijing 1990 and Guangzhou 2010. It will feature 40 major sports, 61 events, and 482 sub-events.
2. E-sports
E-sports, to be featured at the 2022 Asian Games as an official medal event, has been a hot topic all over the world throughout the year. It is of great significance to add e-sports to the Asian Games. We take the advantage of hosting the Asian Games to encourage the development of the e-sports, digital and animation industries in Hangzhou.
Adding these events will make more young people pay attention to and enjoy the Asian Games, further increase the general effect of the Games and drive more people to take part in sports activities.
3. Volunteers
From November, 2021 to April, 2022, the volunteers are selected through online tests, face to face or online interviews, psychological tests, and English level tests. A total of 52,000 volunteers will be sent to the main venue of Hangzhou as well as other cities like Ningbo, Wenzhou, Huzhou, Shaoxing and Jinhua.
1. Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games will start in about ________ months.| A．5 | B．7 | C．9 | D．11 |
| A．To attract more people to join in. |
| B．To make more money through the event. |
| C．To develop a policy for Asian Games. |
| D．To encourage more old people to do sports. |
| A．E-sports is quite common in the history of Asian Games. |
| B．Beijing is the second city that held the Asian Games in China. |
| C．To be a volunteer in the Games needs to meet many standards. |
| D．The three hot topics are selected by volunteers of Asian Games. |
Do you often carry maps when you travel to other countries? Maps can show you the right ways. But if you don’t bring maps with you, what should you do? I’m afraid that you need to ask the way. Here are some tips(建议) for you, because there are different ways to give ways in the world.
In Japan, most streets don’t have their street names. The Japanese use landmarks(路标) to give ways. So when you ask, “Excuse me, could you tell me how to get to the nearest post office?” They often say, “Go along the road, turn left on the second street and go past a supermarket. The post office is opposite the hospital.”
In the countryside of the American midwest. The land is very flat(平坦的). So if you have the same question, people will say to you, “Go east 3 kilometers, turn north and then walk another kilometer.” But in Los Angeles and California, people measure distance(测量距离) by time, not meters. So when you ask, “How far is the nearest post office?”, they will tell you, “It’s about 10 minutes’ walk from here”.
People in Greece often use body language to help you. They will use their hands to show the right or left ways, or they will simply say, “follow me.” Because they can’t speak English and the tourists couldn’t understand the language there.
1. If you are in Japan, __________.| A．the street name will help you find the way easily |
| B．the Japanese use landmarks to help you find the ways |
| C．you need to use body language to ask the way |
| D．you can see some street names in Japanese |
| A．Northwest. | B．Southwest. | C．Northeast. | D．Midwest. |
| A．They use the landmarks. | B．They use body language. |
| C．They measure distance by time. | D．They usually say “follow me”. |
| A．指示路牌 | B．当地方言 | C．肢体语言 | D．翻译机器 |
| A．Asking the way | B．Different ways of giving way |
| C．Funny things in the world | D．The important language—English |
7 . Your brain controls everything you do. It makes it possible for you to think, learn, create and feel; to blink and breathe and for your heart to beat—this fantastic control center is your brain. It is so amazing that a famous scientist once called it “the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe”.
Can this small grey organ, which weighs less than one and a half kilos, really do so much? Amazingly, your brain contains about 100 billion neurons, it would take you over 3000 years to count them all. Believe it or not, the activity in your brain never stops. Your neurons create and send more messages than all the phones in the world. And although one neuron creates only a little electricity, all your neurons together can produce enough electricity to power a light bulb.
So exactly how fast does your brain work? Well, imagine this: a bee lands on your foot. Neurons in your skin send this information to your brain at a speed of more than 240 kilometers per hour. Your brain then uses other neurons to send the message back to your foot to shake the bee off quickly. These neurons can send this information at more than 320 kilometers per hour. No computer has your brain’s unbelievable ability to deal with the amount of information coming from your eyes, ears and other sensory organs.
But how does your brain allow you to learn things that you will use in the future? The structure of your brain changes every time you have a new thought, remember or learn something. For example, riding a bike seems impossible at first, but soon you are able to do it. How? As you practice, your brain sends “bike riding” messages again and again. Soon, the actions are learnt and you are able to ride a bike easily from then on.
1. From the passage we know that neurons ________.| A．receive messages very slowly | B．are only found in your skin |
| C．send messages to your brain | D．need electricity to work |
| A．compare them with the human brain | B．show how fast they have become |
| C．say that computers have no abilities | D．ask people to use computers more |
| A．your brain will power a light bulb | B．your heart beats faster |
| C．you remember something | D．the structure of your brain changes |
| A．all the steps when your brain learns things | B．what an unbelievable organ the human brain is |
| C．how the brain makes people smarter than computers | D．the things you can do to make your brain work faster |
8 . On Thursday, scientists in Indonesia told the public that they found a special frog without lungs and takes breath through its skin. Researchers believe that the little animal could tell us how environment can cause some animals to change so greatly overtime.
The frog was found by a scientific research team in Indonesia last summer. And the team was led by David Bickford, a biologist at the National University of Singapore. The special animal is the world’s first known lungless frog species. Only a few amphibians have been found lungless. “These are about the most ancient and bizarre frog you can get on the earth.” Bickford says.
Frogs’ living environment has been polluted by chemicals from farming. And the team believes it’s possible that the frog may have changed in order to move fast and stay alive in the cold rivers. The team adds that this “extreme change” was probably necessary to make the frog lose the ability to float. That way, it could avoid being swept down the mountain rivers.
Scientists say it’s more important to protect the frog’s river living environment. In the last few years, illegal tree cutting and gold mining have caused the once clean waters to turn brown with pollution.
“The gold mining is completely illegal and small size,” Bickford says. “But when there are thousands of them on the river, it really has a great effect. The frog might be out of the river then.”
1. The frog is special because ________.| A．it doesn’t need to take breath with its skin | B．it’s the first lungless species in the world |
| C．it can take breath with its lungs or its skin | D．it’s lungless and takes breath with its skin |
| A．perfect | B．unusual | C．expensive | D．modern |
| A．the special animal is the first known frog species in the world | B．the change of the frog makes it possible to stay alive out of the river |
| C．the frog may have changed partly because of chemicals from farming | D．the frog’s ability to float probably helps it avoid being swept down |
| A．It’s high time to protect the frog’s living environment. | B．The frog will have to live on land in the near future. |
| C．The importance of frogs should be known by the public. | D．Gold mining is the main cause of water pollution. |
9 . The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our life a lot since 2020, such as the way we travel. Recently Airbnb has done a research on it and here is the result.
Nearby travel
With many travel rules during pandemic, people preferred traveling to nearby places in 2021, for they mind a lot about the public safety. According to the research, 62 percent of people are interested in taking a vacation nearby with an increase of 80 percent. People who live in large cities want to get back in touch with nature. Travelers are looking for places different from their everyday flats, such as farm stay.
Pod travel
During the pandemic,we found people want to be more connected. So “pod travel”, getting together with loved ones in safe places, is growing rapidly. According to Airbnb, 85 percent of people choose to travel with family or close friends in quiet villages. It has increased 90 percent.
Pod travel can not only improve the relationship among relatives and friends, but also reduce the risk of suffering the pandemic.
Cloud travel
To stay safe, many people worked and learned at home in 2021 because of the pandemic. In order to get the balance of working and relaxing, cloud travel resulted. It is a kind of travel online. According to Airbnb, there was a 128 percent increase in it. “People actively took part in the new kind of travel. It could free themselves from the rush work, and also open their mind to the wonders of the world.”
1. According to the research, which kind of travel increased most in 2021?| A．Nearby travel. | B．Pod travel. | C．Cloud travel. | D．Home stay. |
| A．hobby | B．wealth | C．family | D．safety |
| A．Paul would like to stay at home to enjoy the fantastic movies with his sister. |
| B．Lee will spend the coming New Year with his parents in a peaceful countryside. |
| C．Louis had a wonderful trip with her new friends from different countries last month. |
| D．Karen plans a long trip to Xinjiang with her pen friends during the summer vacation. |
In English, feeling “blue” makes people think of feeling sad. But in 2021, the word “blue” could be connected to something more hopeful.
The Pantone Color Research Center in the US leads color trends every year. For 2021, it has chosen “classic blue”, a color that reminds people of the sky before night. The reason is that it brings “calm, confidence and connection,” according to Pantone.
In 2020, people all over the world face big challenges, weather change, COVID-19, homelessness.... all of these problems make us feel nervous and worried. But as Pantone President Laurie Pressman said, “The color of classic blue always brings something relaxing.”
Imagine that you are lying down on the ground and looking at the evening sky. Looking at the dark blue sky will make you feel calm and relaxed, as well as make you think on a deeper level.
Pantone said that classic blue connects people everywhere as we all look up at our shared sky. This is a color we can be connected to around the world, no matter where we live. We look outside the door and we see this color, Pressman said.
Classic blue also plays into the sustainability movement, as people think of times when things were simpler and more comfortable.
“Like blue jeans, it’s always there and you’re comfortable with it,” said Pressman, who thinks classic blue is timeless and never out of style. If the color is always in style, people won’t throw “classic blue” things away. We can buy fewer products and save more resources.
So if you want to add some new things, choose something blue to keep up with the latest trend.
1. Pantone chose “classic blue” as the color of 2021 because ________.| A．it is the color of their website | B．it connects with problems in our life |
| C．more people are feeling sad these days | D．it makes people feel calm and confident |
| A．why people love wearing blue jeans | B．when classic blue will be out of style |
| C．why classic blue makes people comfortable | D．how classic blue can protect the environment |
| A．People will face more challenges in 2021. |
| B．People will feel nervous with blue things around. |
| C．There might be many new classic blue products in 2021. |
| D．Classic blue makes it hard for people to feel connected with others. |
| A．Blue Jeans in 2021 | B．Feel “Blue” in 2020 |
| C．Try Feeling “Blue” in 2021 | D．the Blue Sky before Night |
