Nowadays bike-sharing has been very popular in China. Mobike（摩拜单车）is one of the market leaders in the bike-sharing business.
What is Mobike?
Mobike was founded in January, 2015. It is supported by Tencent（腾讯）. People in many cities, such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Jinan as well as Shanghai, have a chance of using the app（软件）. The total number of Mobike app users is larger than that of any other bike-sharing app users.
Who uses Mobike?
According to a survey, 53.33% of the Mobike users are men, while 46.77% are women. Mobike is not only popular with young people, but also wins the hearts of the old. It shows that retired men traveled the longest distances（距离）by shared bikes.
Why do people use Mobike?
Chinese people use Mobike for different reasons. Users can rent（租借）a bike at a low price, usually about one yuan an hour. It also offers people a better choice for short journey in cities, especially when people can’t find a bus or the underground to take. What’s more, it’s helpful in traffic. And the most important is that it can help improve the environment.
1. What is Mobike supported by?(no more than 5 words)2. According to the passage, is the number of women users Mobike app have larger than the number of men users ? (no more than 3 words)
3. List the reasons Chinese people use Mobike ? (At least 2 reasons)
4. 请将划线的句子翻译成汉语。
5. 请给短文拟一个适当的英文题目。
2 . A Country Music Song Changed Her Life Forever
When Sarah was a teenager, she used to fight over almost everything with her family. But five years ago, while she was studying abroad in England, she heard a song full of feelings about returning home on the radio. It made Sarah think about her family and friends back in the US. She came to realize how much she actually missed all of them. Ever since then, she has been a fan of American country music.
Country is a traditional kind of music from the southern states of America. Nashville Tennessee is the home of country music. Many songs these days are just about modern life in the US, such as the importance of money and success, but not about belonging to a group. However, country music brings us back to the “good old days” when people were kind to each other and trusted one another. It reminds us that the best things in life are free ‒laughter, friends, family, and the beauty of nature and the countryside.
Sarah hasn’t been to Nashville yet, but it is her dream to go there one day. She has already read a lot about the place and done some research on it. She knows that there is a Country Music Hall of Fame Museum in Nashville. There are also always a lot of great country music concerts with famous musicians and singers, like Garth Brooks. Sarah has already listened to most of his songs. “Garth is one of the most successful musicians in American history. He’s sold more than 120 million records. I hope to see him sing live one day!”
1. Who is Sarah? Did she use to get on well with her family?2. What does she like?
3. What is country music? What is country music about?
4. What is Sarah’s dream?
5. How does Sarah feel about country music?
3 . Learning to communicate well is a skill you will use all your life. You need this skill in your personal life to express your feelings to friends and family members. You need to be able to communicate well in school, too. Your future job success may also depend on your ability to communicate.
Kinds of Communication
There are two main kinds of communication. The first kind is verbal communication(语言交流). It includes the use of words to send information. Speaking and writing are both forms of verbal communication.
Go Green—Green Technology
Have you ever considered computers to be green technology? Think about all the trees needed to make paper for books and your written activities. The ability to transfer (转移) the written tasks to a computer makes it quite an environmentally friendly invention.
Nonverbal communication(非语言交流) includes any means of sending a message that does not use words. Your appearance, body language and the way you react are all forms of nonverbal communication.
Global(全球的) Connections—Communication Differences
Western cultures value direct eye contact(交流) and train kids to "look people in the eye". But Japanese, African, and many Latin American cultures avoid eye contact to show respect.
Community Connections—Good Manners
It is easy to have good manners if you try to think of others first. If someone new joins your group of friends or moves into your neighborhood. Make a self-introduction first. Make him or her feel welcome. Help someone who needs a hand. Hold the door open for the person behind you.
Being an Active Listener
Communication is a two-way process. Sometimes you are the sender and sometimes you are the receiver. To receive the messages clearly, it helps to be an active listener. Active listening is a communication skill in which the listener shows a clear understanding of what a person is saying. You can do this in several ways.
Repeat what you think the speaker is saying.
Let the speaker know you are listening by nodding or shaking your head.
If the message you receive is not clear, ask questions.
Listen before answering.
Do not interrupt(打断). Allow the speaker to finish what he or she has to say.
1. Please translate the underlined(划线的) sentence into Chinese. (将文中划线句子译成汉语）2. Why are computers mentioned when talking about verbal communication?(根据文章内容回答问题）
3. Which good nonverbal communication behaviors are given in the passage? (列两条即可)
4. In the passage, the underlined word "this" refers to(指)
5. After reading the passage, what do you think of your communication skills? Why do you think so?
People often do the same thing regularly. These behavior patterns（模式）are called habits.
There are two kinds of habits — good ones and bad ones. We can benefit（受益）a lot from good habits. For example, getting up early to do morning exercises is a good habit which can make you healthy and build up your body. As a result, you will not have to see a doctor as often.
Bad habits do not come suddenly. They come little by little and they are formed when one is not strict on his behavior. They have bad influence on both oneself and others. For example, school boys first pick up little bad habits in schools and on streets. When they can't finish their lessons, they copy from their classmates. If they see elder boys smoking, they want to learn to smoke. If they see their friends gambling（赌博），they want to gamble. When they get elder, the habits become stronger and stronger, so that they can no longer get rid of (改掉）them.
From copying, they learn to steal. From gambling, they learn to cheat. At last, everybody distrusts them.
Bad habits do harm to our mind and body instead of good. Some students can't resist（抗拒）the temptation（诱惑）of cigarettes. They think smoking is cool. And they have formed the habit of smoking. In fact, smoking is a bad habit. Many studies have shown that those who do smoke die of lung（肺）cancer more often than those who don't. So by forming good habits and getting rid of the bad ones, people can improve their lives.
Information card
| What are habits? | The behavior patterns that people 1_ |
| The advantages (优点 ) of getting up early to do morning exercise | 2. and build up people's body. |
| The disadvantages of forming bad habits | 3. 4. |
| How can people improve their lives? | 5. _______________________________________ |
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
5 . Here is a story. A man sees a butterfly（蝴蝶）. The butterfly tries to get out of its chrysalis（蛹）. Feeling sorry for it, the man decides to help. He cuts the chrysalis and the butterfly comes out easily. Surprising enough, the butterfly is unable to fly.
If the butterfly doesn't struggle（挣扎）to get out of the chrysalis, it can't fly! The struggle develops the energy in the butterfly which makes it fly. Similarly, the challenges of life bring out the best in young people and make them fly.
[1]When people are young, meeting and overcoming challenges will make them stronger.They can be ready to face life. When we look at successful people, we see that the most successful of them are people who have had to struggle. One famous businessman, who now owns many big supermarkets, used to carry clothes on his back and sell them from door to door when he was young. Another successful man is Dennis. His father died when he was only twenty. His father's death forced him to mature（成熟）fast. He had to bring up a family of nine people. He took up the challenges and overcame them. Today his brothers and sisters are leading successful lives.
[2]Sometimes challenges do not appear to us because we keep away from them. So some parents and teachers actively encourage young people to face challenges. They might organize some activities for young people which provide them with challenges, like rock-climbing, camping, volunteer work and so on. However, just passing exams will not prepare a person for life. We must meet and overcome challenges. The young people of today will become the leaders of tomorrow. For countries to continue to become successful, it is important that the young people learn to meet challenges and overcome them.
阅读短文，根据要求完成下面各小题。
(一) 根据原文回答问题。
1. Why can’t the butterfly fly? (no more than 10 words)?
2. What is the writer trying to do in this passage?
(二) 请把划线句子(1、2) 翻译成汉语。
3.
4.
(三) 请给短文选择一个适当标题。
5.
6 . Facebook is developing an app called Lasso that lets users create fun and short videos. It's said that the app is similar to Tik Tok, a very popular 15-Second video app which is known as Douyin in China.
Lasso is Facebook's latest app to win over teenagers. In fact, Facebook has lost a lot of its young users. In 2018, only half of teens say they still use Facebook, compared to in 2014 when 71 percent of them said they did.
It's said that users can record themselves dancing and lip-syncing(对口形) to music. But to the users surprise, this is similar to what they can already do on Tik Tok. The app also lets users record short videos. This can be done on Tik Tok, too.
However, Facebook never thinks so. "Lasso is a new app for short videos," the company said. "It will be welcomed by young people. From comedies to beauty to health and more, we can help you achieve ① them. And we will collect people’s opinions on it. "
When you use Lasso, you should allow the app to look through your pages, photos, and videos. ② After that's set up, you can be free to look through millions of short videos from others. However, you are also unable to hide your personal information.
Still, people cannot use Lasso until a couple of years later. But since 2016, Tik Tok has been around. So far, Facebook hasn't explained more about Lasso on its website.
1. 回答问题:What is Lasso used to do?2. 写出文中①画线处“them”指代的内容。
3. 文中②处画线句子翻译成汉语。
4. 列举两个文中提到与Lasso类似的app 。
5. 给文章起个标题。
7 . Every year since 1996, on the last Monday of the last week in March, the National Day of Education on the Safety of Elementary and Middle School Students (全国中小学生安全日) is held. This year it falls on March 30. It offers us a chance to learn more rules about school safety.
A survey(调查)shows that the worst accidents were a result of stampedes (踩踏), fires and traffic. Experts suggest that right safety ways could avoid 80% of these accidents.
When facing an accident, the first and most important rule is to stay calm. But different accidents mean different ways of dealing with them.
A stampede happens easily in a place where a lot of people are gathered. When students around you begin to push, stand still(不动的)and hold onto something or stay in a corner.
发生火灾时，要保持冷静，听从老师的指示。Leave the classroom and use a piece of cloth to cover your mouth and nose so that you don't breathe in smoke.
If you take a school bus on your way home or to school, remember to fasten (系牢)your seat belt and don't walk around when it is moving. If you walk to school or go by bike, follow traffic rules. Wait for the green traffic light, and look left and right for cars before you cross the road.
1. 从文中找出与下面所给句子意思相同的句子。According to a study, the worst accidents were caused by stampedes, fires and traffic.
2. 回答问题：
What is the first and most important rule when facing an accident?
3. 将文中划线的英语句子译成汉语.
4. 将文中划线的汉语句子译成英语。
5. 回答问题：
What does the underlined word "it" in the last paragraph refer to?
8 . Dark clouds appear over the River Mersey and a cold wind is blowing. A few raindrops are beginning to fall. We’re in the famous city of Liverpool and we’re going to spend this rainy day in the Williamson Tunnels, which were built by a man named Joseph Williamson.
Joseph Williamson was born into a poor family in 1769. At the age of 11, he left home and went to work for a tobacco company. He began at the bottom and worked his way up to become head of the business.
Williamson spent 30 years building these tunnels. From his death to this very day, these tunnels have remained a puzzle to researchers. Nobody knows why Williamson dug tunnels under most of Liverpool, but many think it was to create jobs. It is believed that about half of Liverpool’s population worked for him.
I go on a guided tour starting close to where his empire (集团) began in Edge Hill. In the tunnels, the steps leading from rooms below ground to those buildings, which no longer exist, seem particularly ghostly (幽灵似的).
We go into the Double Tunnel. It’s just been discovered that it’s actually a triple tunnel – but nobody knows why the three tunnels were built on top of each other.
We finish the tour and decide we’ll have coffee in the Williamson Tunnels Cafe Bar. There, I notice lots of flyers (宣传单) for bands and theater groups that are coming to play there.
Apart from the obvious attractions like the football clubs, or anything to do with the Beatles, Liverpool has a lot to offer. You should definitely visit Liverpool.
1. How was the weather in Liverpool when the writer arrived there?2. Who was Joseph Williamson?
3. According to some people, why did Williamson dig tunnels under Liverpool?
4. What are Paragraphs 4 and 5 mainly about?
5. What’s the purpose of writing this passage?
White-furred animals are in danger of dying out. Climate (天气) change is causing a fall in snow cover, leaving them exposed (暴露的), a new study suggests.
Scientists in Poland have been following the worrying case of the white-coated weasel (白鼬), which sheds (褪去) its brown covering in the winter for a milky coat in order to blend easily into its icy environment.
But researchers have discovered that between 1997 and 2007 the number of days with snow cover was from 80 to 40 in Bialowieza Forest, Poland. It means that the little animals are caught out in a completely unsuitable environment, where they can be caught by foxes and crows. Scientists found that on days when there was little winter snow cover. The number of white-coated weasels they managed to catch fell to as low as 20 percent of the total. It meant that the rest had been killed.
The problem is likely to affect other white-furred animals such as the Arctic fox when the snow cover increasingly gives way to a landscape (风景) of greens and browns.
In the near future white weasels may disappear completely from many areas of Northern Europe and America. They will either be replaced by brown ones or they will evolve (进化).
Researchers also carried out tests using toys of brown and white-coated weasels to see if the colors were actually making a difference to predators (捕食者). They found lots of animals had come near to the white toys, but none had shown interest in the brown toys.
The researchers are hopeful the animals will learn to adapt (适应), but say they cannot rule out the animals disappearing completely.
1. 写出划线单词them指代的内容。2. 回答问题：Why does the weasel change its brown covering into white when winter comes?
3. 根据短文内容填空，第(1)题不超过3个词，第(2)题限填1词。
(1) White-furred animals are in danger of dying out because of
(2) In Bialowieza Forest, the number of days with snow cover reduced (减少) by
4. 选出划线短语rule out的意思。
| A．give up | B．imagine | C．control |
10 . Most people around the world are right-handed. This also seems to be true in history. In 1799, scientists studied works of art made at different times. Most of the people shown in these works were right-handed, so the scientists guessed that right-handedness had always been common through history. Today, only about 10% to 15% of the world's population are left-handed.
Why are there more right-handed people than left-handed ones? Scientists now know that a person's two hands each have their own jobs. This is because of the different work of the two sides of the brain. The right side of the brain, which makes a person's hands and eyes work together, controls the left hand. The left-side of the brain, which controls the right hand, is the centre for thinking and doing problems. These findings show that more artists should be left-handed, and studies have found that left-handedness is twice as common among artists as among people in other jobs.
No one really knows what makes a person become right-handed instead of left-handed. Scientists have found that almost 40% of the people become left-handed because their main brain is damaged when they are born. However, this doesn't happen to everyone, so scientists guess there must be another reason why people become left-handed. One idea is that people usually get right-handed from their parents. ①If a person does not receive the gene (基因) for right-handedness, he / she may become either right-handed or left-handed according to the chance and the people they work or live with.
Though right-handedness is more common than left-handedness, people no longer think left-handed people are strange or unusual. A long time ago, left-handed children were made to use their right hands like other children, but today ②they don't have to.
1. 请从文章中分别找出第2、3自然段的中心句。第2段
第3段
2. 找出①处划线句子译成汉语。
3. 找出②处划线单词they 所指代的内容。
4. 根据文章内容回答问题。Why is the left-handedness more common among artists?
