The year 2022 will be a big year for sports in China. That’s because it holds not only the 24th Winter Olympic in Beijing, but also will hold the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, Hangzhou will be the third Chinese city to hold the Asian Games after Beijing and Guangzhou in 1990 and 2010.
The Asian Games means a lot to China, so Chinese people are working hard to make it a great success. There will be many kinds of 5G robots, such as the cleaning robots, the cooking robots and robots which can keep everyone safe and far away from COVID-19.
Disinfecting robots
The robots have long necks and they will spray special water through their heads. So they will be good at disinfecting the stadium. A robot can spray 100 playgrounds a day easily. The robot is also very clever because it can guide itself to a new place.
Inspection robots
“Hello friend, please wear a mask,” says a robot named Xiaobai. The fat robot can find people quickly. If a person is not wearing a mask, it will walk to the person and ask him or her to wear one. The robot can walk 6 to 10 kilometers every hour. And it is able to work for 10 hours every day.
That’s not all. We are looking forward to seeing more robots for Hangzhou Asian Games on TV in the near future.
1. Which city will hold the 19th Asian Games?| A．Hangzhou. | B．Beijing. | C．Guangzhou. | D．Suzhou. |
| A．The Winter Olympic | B．the Asian Games |
| C．the 5G robots | D．the cooking robots |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．6 | B．10 | C．70 | D．120 |
| A．Hangzhou will hold Asian Games in 2022. | B．Inspection robot is very clever. |
| C．New robots will help people on Asian Games. | D．Disinfecting robot can keep us safe. |
2 . “I don’t like my school, and I want to go home!” Do you have that idea? A lot of children do. Now let’s talk about it.
If you don’t like your school, the first thing is to know why. You may not like your teachers. You may not have many friends at school. You may have problems with your subjects or homework.
But what can you do with it? You can make some new friends. Going to school can be very interesting, if you have many friends. You can make friends after school or when doing sports. Then you can talk with them and do the same thing with them. You can also make school easy. If you don’t like your teachers, you can talk with them. If you think your subjects are boring and difficult, you can ask others for help.
School is not a prison (监狱). You can learn to make your school life easy and interesting.
1. According to the passage one may not like school because of them EXCEPT (除了) ________.| A．classmates | B．teachers | C．subjects | D．homework |
| A．In the library. | B．In the class. | C．In the playground. | D．In the office. |
| A．not learn English | B．go back home | C．ask others for help | D．talk with him or her |
| A．Finish your homework. | B．Have many- classes. |
| C．Make many friends. | D．Listen to your teachers |
3 . Why do most Japanese people live longer than the rest of us? One reason might be soybean products (豆制品) like tofu and miso (日本豆酱). Scientists from Japan’s National Institute of Health and Nutrition did a study into the health benefits of soybean products. They said people who regularly ate tofu and miso were 10 percent less likely to die from diseases than people who ate no soybean products. Eating soybean-based food cut the risk(风险) of death from heart attacks, stroke and other cardiovascular problems. Eating fermented soy products (发酵豆制品) lowered the risk of death.
Soybeans are super food. They are rich in protein, fibre, minerals and unsaturated fats. Soy fibre helps to lower cholesterol (胆固醇) and reduce weight. Soy is an important part of the cuisine (烹饪) of Asia, especially in Japan. People in Asia have eaten soy since ancient times. The most common types of soy products are tofu(soybean curd), natto( fermented soybeans), miso(a fermented soybean paste added to soups) and soy sauce. Miso is high in salt. Researchers said salt in miso does not put people at risk of high blood pressure. Soybean products are becoming popular around the world.
1. Where is the National Institute of Health and Nutrition?| A．In China. | B．In Japan. | C．In France. | D．In England. |
| A．Problems. | B．Reasons. |
| C．Something harmful. | D．Something good and helpful. |
| A．Fast food. | B．Fresh food. | C．Healthy food. | D．Super food. |
| A．Soybean products may help you live longer. |
| B．An institute in Beijing did the research into soybeans. |
| C．Researchers said the miso in salt leads to high blood pressure. |
| D．People who ate natto were 20 percent less likely to die from diseases. |
4 . People already know a lot about animals. However, there are still some things about animals that may surprise you. Here are some facts about animals you probably didn’t know.
Cows do have best friends and they will feel nervous when they are separated. Scientists have found that cows are very social animals and a cow always makes friends with other cows. When a cow is with its friends, it feels relaxed, compared with when it lives with nobody.
During breeding season, a man penguin will offer a small stone to a woman penguin as a gift. If she takes it, they will become partners. When the woman penguin lays an egg, she and her partner may carry it on their feet, because some penguins don’t build their own nests.
Crocodiles swallow stones. Crocodiles always swallow their food instead of eating it like other animals. They swallow stones which break the food into very small pieces in their stomachs. In fact, these stones can belp them with digestion and they may stay in their stomachs all their lives.
Elephants use plants to treat pain or other illnesses. Scientists once found a pregnant elephant in Africa. It ate a kind of plant which was not part of her usual food. Four days later, she gave birth to a baby elephant. Some in Africa also use the same plant.
1. How many kinds of animals are there in the passage?| A．Two | B．Three | C．Four | D．Five |
| A．alone | B．safe | C．lost | D．dangerous |
| A．Penguins always put the babies in their nests. |
| B．Elephants eat plants only when they are hungry. |
| C．Swallowing stones is not good for Crocodiles. |
| D．It’s more comfortable for cows to stay with their friends. |
Hello, I’m Martin. My birthday is coming. And I have a party at my house this Sunday. I really want all of you to come to my birthday party. Let me tell you how to get to my house.
First, get off the bus stop and go past the traffic lights, and then turn left. Next, go along Guangming Road and turn right at the second crossing, you will see a post office on your right and a cinema on your left. Walk on, you will see a school near the cinema. Go along the street for a few minutes and you will find a bank at the second crossing! Turn left and my house is on your right!
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Do you dream of being Iron Man? Do you watch him in some famous films? Just put on a new kind of clothes and you will become very strong like him!
In fact, scientists developed the new clothes for people to wear in real life. They are called exoskeletons. People can wear them on different parts of their bodies. They will help people a lot.
How can exoskeletons help? First, they can help people carry most heavy things. Second, they will help the disabled people stand up and walk. And then, they will be warm when people are cold, and cool when people are hot. If someone gets lost, they can help too! Scientist Glenda says the exoskeletons will help him or her find a way and get out fast. It’s also a very important advantage.
“The cost of a full-body exoskeletons is about $45,000” says Accenture’s Mr Spragg. But the price will come down. Maybe people won’t spend lots of money on them in the future. “I think people can buy them in every shop.” one Scientist -California’s Suit X says.
▲ How do people clean the clothes at home? How do people take care of the clothes? What’s the final price of the clothes? Will there be any other problems? It may take scientists a long time to find them out.
1. According to the first paragraph, the writer wants to tell us ________.| A．a strong Iron Man | B．a new kind of clothes |
| C．an interesting dream | D．a famous film |
| A．2 | B．3 | C．4 | D．5 |
| A．People can be actors by wearing exoskeletons. |
| B．People can carry all heavy things with exoskeletons. |
| C．People can find a way out fast with exoskeletons. |
| D．People can spend little money buying exoskeletons. |
| A．people still need to work on the new clothes |
| B．people learn more about advantages of the new clothes |
| C．people can’t have the clothes because of its price |
| D．people can’t wear the new clothes for long time |
| A．story book | B．guide book | C．geography book | D．science newspaper |
7 . On a clear night, you can look in the sky and see the moon and stars. You might even see the blinking light of a working satellite as it flies past, on its way around the earth. And, even though you can’t see it, you are also looking at the largest junkyard in the solar system.
Higher than the highest clouds but much closer than the moon, the junkyard stretches from the earth’s surface to 20,000 miles overhead. There are tens of millions of pieces of trash there. Some of the pieces are rocks and dust from passing comets, but most of them are manmade, from large satellites and rockets that fell apart after they stopped working. Together, all the space junk would weigh about 11 million pounds on Earth, or more than 3,000 cars. In the last 50 years, human beings have sent thousands of artificial satellites into space. When a satellite stops working, it usually falls back towards the earth and burns up in the atmosphere. Satellites are at high altitudes, however, fragments remain in earth’s orbit.
________ Nobu Okada, Chief Executive of Astroscale, a company working on ways to clean up space junk says hitting “even a small piece… has enough power to blow up other satellites.” To keep track of the junk, the scientists have to know two things: where the junk is now, and where it is going to be in the future. What can be done about the problem of space junk? The large pieces of junk can’t be brought back to earth because the technology is too expensive. If countries work together to control the amount of trash we send into space, we can keep the problem under control. In the future, perhaps we can even clean up the mess.
1. According to the passage, the junkyard ________.| A．is higher than the highest clouds but much closer than the earth |
| B．stretches from the earth’s surface to two thousand miles in space |
| C．is hard to burn up because of the expensive technology |
| D．has a large number of pieces of trash from comets, satellites and rockets |
| A．How is the junkyard in the solar system overhead. |
| B．What causes so much trash in the junkyard. |
| C．how many satellites human beings have sent into space. |
| D．How satellites fall back to the earth and burn up. |
| A．The junkyard is a serious problem for the future of space flight. |
| B．It is not easy to clean up the junkyard in the solar system. |
| C．The amount of trash is still under control for the scientists. |
| D．Scientists are developing the ways to bring the trash to the earth. |
| A．To tell us where and how large the junkyard is in the solar system. |
| B．To tell us how satellites and rockets stop working and cause the trash in space. |
| C．To tell us the problem of the junk in space and the importance of controlling it． |
| D．To tell the scientists have known the ways to control the amount of the trash. |
These days, anyone who use WeChat or QQ also uses memes. Memes, or biaoqingbao in pinyin, have become an important part of online chatting among Chinese. Here are some ideas about memes from middle schools’ students.
 | Hi, my name is Zhuo Yueqian. I like memes of cartoon characters and animals. They are often used to show our different moods such as happiness and sadness. At the same time, using funny memes can make our friends closer. I also find that sometimes memes can better comfort a sad person than words. |
 | Hello, I’m Wang Jiaming. It’s good to use memes, but we should be careful when using memes to communicate with the elderly as they may not understand them. Besides, if we depend on memes too much, it will weaken our ability to use language in the future. |
 | I’m Lin Xinrong. Using memes can stop people from feeling worried, as some memes are quite interesting. We may feel happy and comfortable. However, if we are talking about something formal and important, it may be impolite to use memes. |
| A．hobbies | B．feelings | C．health | D．sports |
| A．a doctor in a hospital | B．a grandmother at home |
| C．a student in a middle school | D．a manager of a company |
| A．life | B．hero | C．movie | D．news |
Feeling sweaty from a summer heat wave? Don’t worry—not all your sweat* has to go to waste. Researchers from University of California, San Diego have developed a new device* that produces energy from the sweat on your fingertips.
The device is called a biofuel cell (BFC). From the outside, it looks like a simple piece of film connected to electrodes. So how does the device work? When you stick the biofuel cell to your finger, it takes in sweat. The enzymes* on the electrodes then help to produce electricity. Besides using the sweat, the device also produces small amounts of energy when it is pressed, so daily activities like typing, texting, or playing the piano are all good ways to generate electricity.
Some people may think it queer to choose fingertips as the source of sweat, but in fact, they are the sweatiest part of the body. Each finger produces between 100 and 1,000 times more sweat than most other areas.
To date, the device is the most effective on—body energy producer. Before it is invented, most power producing wearable devices require wearers to perform exercise or depend on other sources, such as sunlight or large changes in temperature. But the new device uses a passive system to produce electricity from sweat in your fingertips.even if you are sleeping or sitting completely still. One of the researchers Lu Yin said, “Uniike other sweat—powered wearables this one requires no exercise, no physical input from the wearer in order to be useful. This work is a step forward to making wearables more practical, convenient and accessible.”
It’s also quite comfortable to wear the device. The size of the device is about 1cm². Its material is flexible as well. “So you don’t need to worry about it being too rigid or feeling strange. You can comfortably wear it for a long period of time,” said Yin.
However, at the moment, the device can only store up a little bit power, and would take about three weeks of constant wear to power a smartphone, but the researchers hope to increase its power in the future.
1. A biofuel cell can ________.| A．protect fingertips | B．cause a heat wave |
| C．make use of sweat | D．develop new devices |
| A．strange | B．unsafe | C．dirty | D．traditional |
① Edward has a good sleep in his bed. ② Betty sends a text message to her mom.③ Nick plays basketball with his classmates④ Lily dries the sweat on her hands with a fan.
| A．②③④ | B．①③④ | C．①②④ | D．①②③ |
| A．It can influence the temperature greatly. |
| B．It can power a smartphone in a day. |
| C．It makes you comfortable when you’re in pain. |
| D．It works for nearly 24 hours a day when you wear it. |
People love walking through a giant puzzle. In a corn maze, they can follow miles of paths and run into lots of dead ends before they finally find their way out. The corn maze has been growing for almost 30 years.
Simple corn mazes began appearing in the 1980s. In 1993, the first big corn maze created for the public to enjoy was made in Annville Pennsylvania, by Don Frantz. Then, in a cornfield as big as two and a half football fields, Mr. Frantz cut “The Amazing Maize Maze” with the help of his family and friends. When it was done, almost two miles of pathways snaked through the cornfield. Since then, thousands of corn mazes have been created around the world.
For many farmers, a corn maze means a boost of extra income. During the opening weekend, 6,000 visitors came to get lost in Mr. Frantz’s maze. Charging only $5 per person, he earned almost $ 32,000 in two weeks.
Brett Herbst is also a maze designer. In 1999 he set a world record for the world’s largest corn maze, an image of the solar system with nine planets in it. He now has a business called The MAiZE, which has designed more than 4,000 mazes around the world. “Corn mazes help people connect with their roots,” he says. “People are so far removed from farm life that they are drawn to something real, something organic.”
Today, a great number of people enjoy seeking fun in a corn maze. Mr. Herbst says, “When we see families at the farm having fun, we know that they are making memories that will last a lifetime.”
1. The first big corn maze for the public appeared in ________.| A．1980 | B．1985 | C．1993 | D．1999 |
| A．was smaller than a football field | B．allowed visitors to have fun for free |
| C．was created by Don Frantz alone | D．attracted many visitors at the beginning |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．Corn Maze—A True Story of Puzzles |
| B．Corn Maze—Designing Your Puzzle |
| C．Corn Maze—The Puzzle on the Farm |
| D．Corn Maze—Connecting Your Roots |
