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Which animals are smart? Your answer may be dogs, monkeys or elephants. Now there is one more animal that can be added to the list: sheep.
Scientists from Cambridge University said that sheep could be trained to identify human faces. Before testing, scientists let the sheep take a look at pictures of four famous people, including Barack Obama. Then the sheep went into a room with two computer screens. One screen showed a famous person. The sheep always walked toward the screen with the correct faces.
After discovering the sheep’s ability to recognize famous people, researchers gave them a new task. They wanted to see whether these farm animals could correctly identify the same people from different angles (角度). To their surprise, the sheep were still able to identify them, though they were a bit slower than before. Finally, the researchers wanted to know if the sheep could identify their trainers from a photo. As a result, the sheep could do this without any training.
The results show that the sheep’s face-recognition abilities are similar to those of monkeys and humans.
Face recognition is very difficult, but sheep have big brains. The researchers said it might be interesting in the future to find out whether sheep can identify different facial expressions made by humans.
1. According to the passage, sheep could ________ after being trained.| A．sing and dance to music | B．become smart like monkeys |
| C．look for farm animals | D．work on computer screens |
| A．识别 | B．模仿 | C．了解 | D．逃避 |
| A．faster | B．easier | C．slower | D．nicer |
2 . There are all kinds of festivals and holidays in the world. But do you know there is a festival that people celebrate once a month? It’s Bonza Bottler Day.
People celebrate Bonza Bottler Day when the number of the day is the same as that of the month (January 1st, February 2nd... ). When the number of the year also matches the number of the day and month (August 8th, 2008), people usually have a bigger celebration. A baby born on a Bonza Bottler Day is called a “Bonza Bottler Baby”.
Elaine Fremont from America created Bonza Bottler Day on August 8th, 1985. She did so to give herself a reason to have a party and some fun with her friends on the special day of every month.
Bonza Bottler Day has no tradition. People can celebrate it in the ways they like. The day can be Candy Day, Pienic Day, No Homework Day and so on.
How do you celebrate the day? Do you have any great ideas?
1. How many times do people celebrate Bonza Bottler Day in a year?| A．Nine times | B．Ten times. | C．Eleven times. | D．Twelve times. |
| A．创造 | B．删除 | C．庆祝 | D．增加 |
| A．having a big party | B．doing the things they like |
| C．enjoying delicious food | D．going to the movies |
3 . Sun Jiarui, a 10-year-old girl from a primary school in Jiangsu province, recently was famous online for her cooking skills. Now she can cook more than fifty dishes.
Jiarui would go to the restaurant with her parents and liked watching her father cook food when she was four or five years old. She first learned cooking for fun and wanted to try her father’s work. In the beginning, the father, Sun Yadong, began teaching his daughter carefully to do some simple cooking. She found cooking difficult at first, but along the way, she found it enjoyable. “Cooking improves my labor (劳动) ability and makes me experience life,” she said happily.
In the past two years, Jiarui has learned a lot of home cooking. Now her cooking is also famous in the school. The school has opened a studio for the father and daughter, and students can learn some simple cooking from them once a week.
In future, the students in China will find a new “practical activities” course with at least one class every week.
1. Why was Sun Jiarui famous?| A．Because she is good at schoolwork. |
| B．Because she is good at cooking. |
| C．Because she likes going to the restaurant. |
| D．Because she helps her parents cook. |
| A．The experience of Jiarui’s learning cooking. |
| B．The reasons for improving Jiarui’s labor ability. |
| C．The time when Jiarui began to learn cooking. |
| D．The ways on how to cook fifty dishes. |
| A．Students will have a new kind of labor class. |
| B．Jiarui will teach students to learn home cooking in school. |
| C．Jiarui’s father will work for the teachers as a cook. |
| D．There will be more nice food on the table. |
As we all know, pandas are cute animals and many people like them. On March 3, 2021, the first panda museum opened in Chengdu, China. It combines (结合) with high technology and allows visitors to have a deeper communication experience. These will offer visitors a greater visiting experience.
The museum has an area of 7, 179 square meters with seven parts to visit. There are many huge walls with touch-sensitive screens (触摸屏) and amazing settings (装置) in Chengdu Giant Panda Museum. In the museum, visitors can learn about interesting facts about pandas and their history, habits and what our country has done to protect them. There is also a cartoon panda in the museum. It provides visitors with different information about pandas as long as visitors touch the screen.
The museum is a great place for panda lovers. Setting up the museum is to let people have a better understanding of animals. This is what the panda museum is for. Because human beings have made terrible pollution to the environment, many wild animals do not have enough food to eat and good environment to live in. We should protect them.
1. Where did the first panda museum open? (不超过5个词)2. How many parts are there in the first panda museum? (不超过5个词)
3. What’s the purpose (目的) of setting up the first panda museum? (不超过10个词)
5 . “Books have a secret influence on understanding,” according to English writer Samuel Johnson. Here are some good books Time for Kids picked out. Which one is your cup of tea?
| Crenshaw (2015) Katherine Applegate, US Can you imagine losing everything? That’s what happens to Jackson and his family in the book. While the family faces trouble, Jackson’s imaginary friend, a silly cat named Crenshaw, tries to help him deal with everything. This book talks about the importance of family and friends. |
| This Side of Wild (2015) Gary Paulsen, US If you’re interested in nature and animals, this book is for you! It tells the true stories of animals which the writer had and loved. Dogs, horses and birds are some of the animals in the book. You’ll also be surprised to find out that one animal even saved his life. These are true stories which will make you laugh and maybe even cry. |
| A Tale of Highly Unusual Magic (2015) Lisa Papademetriou, US Kai and Leila have never met before. Kai is on holiday in Texas with her family, and Leila is visiting Pakistan. They both find copies of a book called The Exquisite Corpse. There’s nothing in the book, but when they write in it, it starts to write a whole story on its own. What a great book! |
1. In the book Crenshaw, Jackson and his family ________.
| A．keep lots of lovely animals | B．lose everything |
| C．love the stories of nature | D．write a great book |
| A．silly cat | B．cute dog | C．fat bird | D．fast horse |
| A．Crenshaw | B．A Tale of Highly Unusual Magic |
| C．This Side of Wild | D．The Exquisite Corpse |
| A．make them laugh or even cry | B．help them deal with everything |
| C．save their lives in an accident | D．write a whole story on its own |
6 . What do black holes look like? Human beings have wanted to know about it for a long time. In 2019, we finally got the answer. They look like dark circles with a bright ring around the outside.
Scientists took the world’s first photo of a black hole. Scientists didn’t use a camera to take the picture. They used eight radio telescopes in different places around the world. Telescopes got signals (信号) from the black hole. Scientists used computers to process (处理) the signals. It took them two years to get the final picture.
The black hole is very far from Earth—about 55 million light years away. One light year is the journey that light travels in one year. One light year is about 9 trillion (万亿) kilometers.
This isn’t the only black hole in the universe. In fact, scientists believe every large galaxy (星系) has a big black hole at its center. The one in our galaxy is called Sagittarius A.
Black holes are some of the most mysterious (神秘的) things in the universe. This photo can help us learn more about them.
1. What do we know about black holes?| A．They are dark holes with a bright center. |
| B．They are many black circles inside each other. |
| C．They are black holes with colorful rings in the center. |
| D．They are dark circles with a bright ring around the outside. |
| A．Scientists took the picture of the black hole with a camera. |
| B．The black holes aren’t very far from the Earth. |
| C．The picture of the black hole can help us learn a lot about them. |
| D．Sagittarius A is the only black hole in the universe. |
| A．In a science magazine. | B．In a storybook. |
| C．In a travel guidebook. | D．In a physics exercise. |
7 . In the Kubuqi Desert (沙漠) of Inner Mongolia, there stands a large power station called the Junma Solar Power Station. Walking around it, visitors will find it hard to imagine that the area, now covered with blue photovoltaic panels (光伏电池板) and green plants, was once called the “sea of death”.
Covering an area of around 1.4 million square meters, the Junma Station has over 196,000 photovoltaic panels to form the picture of a running horse. That’s where its name comes from. It’s not only the largest desert photovoltaic power station in China, but also the largest in the world.
By September 2022, the project had produced over 2,312 billion (十亿) kwh of green electricity. It helped save 760,000 tons of standard coal (煤) and cut CO2 emissions by 1.85 million tons. Besides bringing green energy to local people and industries, the project also helps control desertification (沙漠化) and improve local people’s lives. Plants grow well under the photovoltaic panels and provide enough food for sheep.
The success of this project explains how a huge solar farm has played an important role in protecting the environment. It also offers valuable experience to both China and the world, encouraging them to use the clean energy to turn more “dead” deserts into oases (绿洲).
1. Which of the following questions is answered in the second paragraph?| A．Where is the Junma Station? |
| B．Why was the Junma Station built? |
| C．How did the Junma Station get its name? |
| D．When can visitors go to the Junma Station? |
| A．排放 | B．吸收 | C．净化 | D．利用 |
| A．Opinions on the solar farm. | B．Reasons to use clean energy. |
| C．The development of the project. | D．The importance of the project. |
| A．A trip to the desert | B．Clean energy in China |
| C．A “green horse” in the Kubuqi Desert | D．Valuable experience in saving energy |
8 . Most people walk between 4 and 6.5 kilometers per hour. But with the Moonwalkers, a pair of walking devices (装置), you can increase your speed by up to 250 percent. The amazing devices can allow you to walk up to 11 kilometers per hour!
The Moonwalkers were invented by an American company called Shift Robotics. A pair of the Moonwalkers looks like the lower part of a pair of roller skates (旱冰鞋). The walking devices can be fixed to the bottoms of usual shoes. But you can’t skate with the Moonwalkers. You can just walk with them the way you do with usual shoes.
Each Moonwalker weighs about 1. 9 kilograms. The machine in it makes eight wheels go. There’s also a gearbox (变速箱) and a few sensors (传感器) in each Moonwalker. These sensors collect information about the wearer’s walking. The gearbox then uses the information to help change the speed of the Moonwalkers. When it’s necessary, the gearbox will slow down the shoes to prevent accidents. And when the wearer has to take the stairs (楼梯), he or she can lock the wheels to go up and down the stairs safely.
1. How much can the Moonwalkers increase the wearer’s walking speed by up to?| A．110%. | B．190%. | C．250%. | D．350%. |
| A．A pair of roller skates. | B．A pair of usual shoes. |
| C．The bottom of usual shoes. | D．The lower part of roller skates. |
| A．He should skate with the Moonwalkers. |
| B．He should take off the Moonwalkers. |
| C．He should lock the wheels of the Moonwalkers. |
| D．He should increase his walking speed. |
9 . Do you actually love yourself? In fact, self-love is a very important thing you can do for yourself. When you truly love yourself, you can be happier and more confident (自信的). Here are some ways on how to love yourself.
※Stop comparing yourself with others. Everyone is special, so you don’t need to be like anyone else. Comparing with others will make you feel bad about yourself. Everyone is talented in their own way.
※Stop trying to be perfect. No one is perfect, so you don’t have to be hard on yourself. You need to give yourself a break from time to time.
※Have fun by yourself. It’s always good to have a few days just for you to do something fun. This could be going to the cinema, visiting a place and so on. You can learn to enjoy being alone by doing this.
1. How many ways about how to love yourself are mentioned (提及到)?2. Why should people love themselves?
3. What can people learn from having fun by themselves?
10 . Most American families are smaller than those in other countries. Usually there is one or two parents and one or two children in each American family.
Children in the USA will leave their parents when they grow up. They want to find better jobs, so they usually live far away from their parents. They often write to their parents or call them. And they go to visit their parents during their holidays.
Parents will ask their children to do some work around their house. In many families, children will get money for doing some housework so that they can learn to make money for their own. Parents usually let their children choose their own jobs. Americans think that for young people it is important to decide on their lives by themselves.
1. In most families in the USA there are usually ________.| A．no parents | B．no children | C．over 5 people | D．less than 5 people |
| A．go to other countries | B．decide on their lives by themselves |
| C．find jobs for their parents | D．do better jobs around their house |
| A．They are old enough to live all by themselves. |
| B．The parents are too busy to look after their children. |
| C．They want to have more chances to look for better jobs. |
| D．They can keep in touch (联系) with their parents by telephoning. |
| A．Useful. | B．Strange. | C．Dangerous. | D．Funny. |
