1 . What is 5G? It is the fifth generation of mobile network technology. In the past, 1G let us talk with each other. 2G let us send messages. 3G gave us the Internet. And 4G made all of these things faster. What's special about 5G?
5G + entertainment
5G networks are about 10 times faster than 4G. This means you can download a movie in seconds using 5G. Also, VR games will become more popular with 5G. 5G will make the VR games even more real.
5G + smart home
5G also makes the Internet of Things（物联网）possible. Smart home is part of it. For example, your bread maker could make breakfast by itself after your alarm rings. And if the air in your room is too dry, a smart sprinkler could water your plants by itself when you are not at home.
So you just need to buy a new mobile phone to use 5G. But a 5G phone costs about 8,000 yuan right now. It is said that about one year from now, the price could go down to around 2,000 yuan.
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2 . Have you ever heard of Iceland? Iceland is a European country. It used to be one of the richest countries in the world. Its total area is 103 thousand square kilometers. Summer in Iceland is very short, which lasts from June to August. Its winter starts from September and ends next May.
In 1980, Iceland started to develop its tourist industry. Forty years has passed since then. In summer, plenty of tourists from all over the world come here to have a visit. In winter, people in Iceland have to spend the long dark night. They usually have a lot of special activities, such as skating, riding snow motorbikes and having parties to have an exciting night.
Because of a long cold winter, Iceland has a short growing season. Food problem was always a headache for Iceland in the past. Now the problem is being solved.
Iceland — a Country in | |
| Its total area | 103,000 |
| When Iceland started to develop its tourist industry | Forty years |
| What people do to have an exciting night in winter | They |
| Why Iceland has a short | Because of a long cold winter |
3 . Students generally find it difficult to prepare for a speaking test because they have nobody to practise with or correct their mistakes. But that doesn't mean you can't test yourself.
Whether you're taking an end-of-course test or an official(官方的)exam like PET or IELTS, there's one great tool you can use: your mobile phone. (A). Nearly every smart phone(智能手机)these days has an inbuilt recording feature(内置录音功能)which you can use to test your speaking skills. You can record yourself speaking, play the recording back, and correct your own mistakes.
I practised this way in Italian. I chose some speaking questions from PET and did the exercise three times. The first time, I made a few grammar mistakes and didn't speak for long enough. The second time was a bit better, and the third time was nearly perfect.
(B). All in all, I made a real improvement with my grammar, pronunciation and how long I spoke. Also, recording myself put me under the pressure(压力)I would experience during an important speaking test.
Many students found this method useful. Nelia, from Brazil, said that she could hear her mistakes when she listened to her voice. She was mainly using the wrong verb tense and using prepositions incorrectly. When she tried the exercise a-gain, she got its right!
Donghyeon, from South Korea, said that the exercise helped him to improve his English skills in general.
1. 根据短文内容回答问题。How to test your speaking skills with a smart phone?2. 根据短文内容回答问题。Are the questions the writer chose from an end-of-course test or an official exam?
3. 将短文中A划线的句子译成汉语。
4. 将短文中B划线的句子译成汉语。
5. 请给短文拟一个适当的标题。
4 . Bike-sharing is new for short journeys in cities. It is a good choice for the big cities to develop healthily.
A report found that shared bikes started the nation's love for bikes again. The love is not only among young people born in the 1980s and 2000s, but also among people over sixty. Now they are choosing bikes instead of cars to make short journeys in cities. If you have a smart phone, the nearest bike equipped with GPS will be easily found through a certain app on your phone. It can also be unlocked through the app and left anywhere in public for the next user. The cost of riding depends on the time that you spend. Normally, every hour you ride, you just need to pay one yuan.
It is said that bike-sharing will help improve the cities' environment. It not only helps solve the traffic problems, but also will help to make more use of space in cities. Take Beijing as an example. If more people choose shared bikes, an area of five Bird's Nest Stadiums(体育场)will be saved.
At the same time, there are some problems with shared bikes that people need to solve properly. For example, some people park the bikes in their home; some break up the bikes on purpose; and others even throw them into the river. Facing all these problems, everyone should raise their own awareness of protecting the bikes. We should not only enjoy them, but also value them and put them to good use.
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| The people who love shared bikes besides the young | |
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| The cost of a one-hour riding on shared bikes | |
| The place that you can leave shared bikes | |
| The number of problems mentioned in the passage |
I'm sure you all know how important recycling is. Recycling is that you take old things and turn them into new things. It sounds like magic. But it's actually very scientific.
Material | The first thing you have to do is to collect items(物品) that can be recycled. Only certain materials can be recycled. These include things made out of paper, metal, glass and plastic. |
Daily things | Can you think of everyday items made of these materials? Soda cans are good example. They are made out of metal. Magazines and newspaper are made out of paper. So are milk boxes. Some bottles of juice are made out of glass. Bags and yogurt containers are made out of plastic. There are many things that can be recycled. |
Loop(循环) | These things are usually stamped with the recycling loop. It has 3 arrows that go in a triangular(三角形)circle. This shows that cycle(循环)continues. Items are thrown away but continue their lives as something else. |
Process(过程) | Let's go back to the process of recycling. ①The items are put in a recycling bin. ②A truck carries the items to a recycling plant. ③The materials are separated and squashed (被压扁成)into square cubes. ④Companies buy and turn them into new products. |
1. What is "recycling" according to the passage?
| A．It's a scientific research. |
| B．It's a way of burning old things. |
| C．It's a way to make old things useful. |
| A．Rubber. | B．Glass. | C．Plastic. |
| A．soda cans | B．magazines | C．all bottles |
| A．have some valuable stamps | B．are recycled and reused | C．are in a triangle circle |
| A．recyclable materials | B．recyclable daily things | C．recycling in a scientific way |
Tofu history in China
Tofu is very popular in the East today, and tofu was first used in China over 2, 000 years ago. There is an ancient picture. It shows a kitchen scene which proves that soymilk (豆浆) and tofu were being made in China. The oldest history of tofu also appeared in China around 1,500 AD, in a poem Ode to Tofu by Su Ping.
Tofu history in Japan
Kento priests ( 教 士 ), who went to China, brought tofu back to Japan during the Nara Era (奈良时代)（710-794）. The word tofu was first mentioned in Japan in the diary of another priest called Nakaomi. In 1489, the word tofu was first written in the actual Japanese characters. Tofu gradually became popular in Japan. The cooking book Tofu Hyakuchin came out in 1782 and sold very well.
Tofu history in Western world
In 1603, The Spanish Dictionary was the first European document (文献) with the word tofu. The first English reference (参考书目) to tofu was in 1704. And tofu was first produced in France by Paillieux in 1880. Hirata & Co started to make tofu in San Francisco in 1895.
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3. 简略回答问题When was the poem Ode to Tofu made?
4. 按要求归纳The passage mainly talks about
5. 将画线句子译成汉语。
7 . What Does a Lifelong Learner Look Like?
Lifelong learners never think of themselves as the greatest expert in anything. They continue to learn and bring a great deal to the groups they belong to. What does a lifelong learner look like? Here are some of their main characteristics (特征).
● They are knowledge seekers. They are always searching for much information on a topic they’re interested in and looking for new chances to improve their knowledge or skills.
● They are social and self-directed learners. They like taking different courses and joining in discussions about subjects they are interested in. __________ They also know their own learning styles, and their strengths and weaknesses. They can plan and organize their own learning.
● They are critical (批判性的) thinkers. They always use a lot of ways to analyze (分析) and synthesize (合成) information. From their research they judge the information to see if it is useful for the question at hand.
● They are problem solves. They will meet different problems while learning. However, they usually see problems as challenges (挑战) and life experiences and try to stand above them.
1. What does the underlined “knowledge seekers” mean?| A．Persons who are looking for knowledge. | B．Persons who are teaching knowledge. |
| C．Persons whose jobs are inventing knowledge. | D．Persons who are testing knowledge. |
| A．They don’t like learning on society. | B．They learn both from and with others. |
| C．They learn from plants and animals. | D．They invite each other to parties. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．To describe the height, clothes and hairstyle of a lifelong learner. |
| B．To explain the relationship between common people and lifelong learners. |
| C．To suggest lifelong learners become experts. |
| D．To introduce some of the main characteristics lifelong learners have. |
8 . In the 13th century, Marco Polo, the world known Italian traveller, saw many wonderful things in China. One of the things he discovered was money made of paper. People in the West did not have such kind of money until the 15th century: However, the Chinese began to use it in the 7th century.
Paper was invented by a Chinese man called Cai Lun almost 2, 000 years ago. But it was not made in Europe until the year 1, 100. Four hundred years later, a German discovered that he could make the best paper from trees. After that countries rich in forests, such as Canada, Sweden, America, Finland became the most important ones in paper making.
Paper can be used in many ways. The common uses include newspapers, magazines and books. But do you know that paper can be used for keeping warm? In Finland, the farmers wear paper boots to keep their feet warm in the snow. And even houses can be insulated (使绝缘) from heat or cold with paper.
However, we have to understand that paper still comes from trees now. If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not be any trees left on the earth some day in the near future. Every day people throw away about 2,800 tons. of paper in our city. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. This means that we are cutting down nearly 48,000 trees every day. The fact is that it takes more than 10 years for a tree to grow.
So we must start saving paper right now. We can use both sides of every piece of paper. We can make useful things out of used paper. We can use china cups instead of paper ones. When shopping, we can use fewer paper bags and reuse them if we have some.
In short, we should keep a balance between using paper and protecting trees, and do it now before it is too late.
1. Why did Canada become an important country in paper making?| A．Because it was a large country. | B．Because it had lots of forests. |
| C．Because it was a very rich country. | D．Because the inventor was from Canada. |
| A．making beds | B．reducing waste | C．making umbrellas | D．keeping warm |
| A．how paper boots are made | B．how paper was invented |
| C．how we can save paper | D．how we can make useful things |
9 . You may know the English letters A, B and C, but do you know there are people called “ABC”? You may like eating bananas, but do you know there are people called “banana persons”? If you don’t know, I will tell you about it. They are some Chinese people like you and me, but they aren’t in China. Why do people call them like that?
If we call somebody an ABC person, we mean he or she is a Chinese but was born（出生）in America. Sometimes, people also call them “banana persons”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So if somebody is a “banana person”, he or she is “white” inside and “yellow” outside. By saying that, we mean he or she has yellow skin（皮肤）but does things in an American way. “Banana persons” were born in America and they live in America for a long time, so they think like Americans and do things like Americans. However, these people still have Chinese blood（血统）.Their parents, grandparents or even great-grandparents are from China. They all have black eyes and black hair, so they look like us, Chinese people.
There are many famous “banana persons” in America. They do very well in America and they are really great in their own fields.
1. From the passage, we can learn “ABC” means ______.| A．English letters | B．People’s names |
| C．“banana persons” | D．American bananas |
| A．An American. | B．A Chinese. | C．An Australian. | D．An Englishman |
| A．Because they have white skins. |
| B．Because they have American blood. |
| C．Because they were born in America and live there for a long time. |
| D．Because their parents are Americans. |
| A．What Is a “Banana Person” | B．A Great Person’s Name Is ABC |
| C．Great “Banana Persons” | D．Great Chinese People in America |
As we all know, there are all kinds of clubs in the US middle schools,（A）such as music club, sports club, chess club, dancing club... But do you know homework club? It is a popular club in many US middle schools. More and more students spend their afternoons at these clubs. The US middle school students need a quiet place to study. But games, computers and TV are all round kids at home. So the homework club is just for them to do their homework. The club is quiet and it's good for students to study. Some teachers are there, too.（B）They are good with the students' questions and help with their homework.
After the students finish their homework, they can go home. Then they can play games or watch TV happily.
1. 请根据短文，猜测（A）处划线词such as的中文意思。2. 列举两个美国作业社团的好处。
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3. 回答问题。When can students go to homework clubs？
4. 将（B）处划线句子译为汉语。
5. 选择文章的最佳标题，将字母代号填写在横线上。______
| A．Clubs in US Middle Schools |
| B．Students and homework |
| C．Homework Clubs in US Middle Schools |
