1 . Autism (自闭症) is disorder of the brain that happens in the first three years of life. It affects the brain’s normal development. Most autistic patients have difficulty talking with other people or doing things. However, some of the autistic people have amazing abilities. For example, some can memorize many things and some can do calculations (计算) really fast.
Raymond Babbitt in the 1988 film Rain Man is an example. The character in the film was based on Kim Peek, a man from the USA. Peek couldn’t switch on a light or put his clothes on by himself. But his memory was so amazing that he could remember almost anything. He could memorize every road, place and distance on maps. He could even remember almost every word in thousands of books. His way of reading was more amazing. Peek could read two pages at the same time in just eight to ten seconds. He read the left page with his left eye and the right page with his right eye.
Scientists still don’t know for sure why some autistic people have a special talent after they have done a lot of research. There is one possible explanation. When certain parts of the brain are damaged (毁坏) by autism, other parts of the brain might get stronger. Therefore, special abilities were born.
But not all people with autism have amazing abilities. In fact, autistic people with amazing abilities are rare and the abilities cannot be trained. According to research, only ten percent of autistic people show signs of a special talent.
1. What do we know about autism?| A．It is a disorder of the bones. | B．It happens all through one’s life. |
| C．It helps people memorize things better. | D．It affects the brain’s normal development. |
| A．He is a good friend of Raymond Babbitt. | B．He is a character in the film Rain Man. |
| C．He is an autistic patient from the USA. | D．He is scientist working on autism. |
| A．He can do some basic things like dressing himself. | B．He has a special talent in calculation. |
| C．He has difficulty reading books. | D．He has a very good memory. |
| A．Health. | B．Culture. | C．Sports. | D．Education. |
| A．Ways of dealing with autism. | B．Relationship between autism and talent. |
| C．Ways of training autistic people’s abilities. | D．Reasons for autistic people’s special talent. |
2 . Bi Sheng was born in Song Dynasty. He lived in a small village which lies in Huanggang today.He invented the printing around 600 AD (公元)。He was the world’s first inventor of the printing. It is about 400 years earlier than the printing in Germany.
The printing is also called the movable type printing (活字印刷).But how did it work in the past?
First of all, the clay was made into movable types. Then words were engraved (雕刻) carefully onto the types. After that the words were chosen and put in right order in a box according to the text. Next, the workers brushed ink onto the movable types. Finally the types could be used for printing. They could be used again and again for different books.
The movable type printing plays an important role in Chinese culture. With the help of it, Chinese culture spread around the world more quickly. At the same time, the movable type printing was widely used in the world at that time. As a result, more and more culture communication among countries took place.
The movable type printing, the compass (指南针)，gun powder and the paper-making are called four great inventions of China. They make China own an important and even top position in the history of human civilization (文明).
1. When was the movable type printing invented?| A．About 600 years ago. | B．Around 600 AD. | C．Before Song Dynasty. | D．About 400 years ago. |
| A．Brush ink onto the types. | B．Make the clay into movable types. |
| C．Print by using the types. | D．Engrave words onto the types. |
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six. |
| A．the compass | B．gun-powder | C．the paper making | D．the movable type printing |
| A．Four great inventions and their position in the history of human civilization. |
| B．Bi Sheng invented the movable type printing after trying many times. |
| C．The movable type printing and the importance for the culture communication. |
| D．How Bi Sheng invented the movable type printing in Song Dynasty. |
3 . "What? You too? I thought I was the only one. " Have you ever said this to someone? If so, you may have ended up becoming friends.
It seems that similarity often helps form（形成） a friendship. Aristotle once said, "Some define（给……下定义）it (the friendship) as a matter of similarity(相似点); they say that we love those who are like ourselves. "
Now, there are some scientific explanations for this idea. The scientists from the University of California said friends have similar brains, Scientific American reported.
The scientists invited 42 university students to take part in a scientific test. Each student watched the same set of videos. At the same time, the scientists scanned（扫描）their brains and recorded their brain activities.
According to their study, friends who watched the same videos reacted（作出反应）in similar ways. Similar parts of their brains lit up while watching the videos, especially the parts that were connected with motivation, learning and memory. However, people who weren't friends had different reactions to the same videos.
"Having close friends whose brains react like ours may be rewarding because it reinforces（加强）one's own values, opinions and interests," lead scientist Carolyn Parkinson told Business Insider.
But brain similarity is not the only thing that can result in a friendship. Scientists from the University of Leipzig, Germany, found that a friendship is also based on how physically close you are to someone.
They did a scientific test on first-year college students who met in class for the first time. In this test, students who sat next to each other were more likely to become friends.
1. People who have similarties are more likely to become _________.| A．scientists | B．colleges students | C．friends | D．classmates |
| A．To sit together | B．To talk with each other |
| C．To watch the same set of videos | D．To scan their brains |
| A．Aristotle | B．Scientists from the University of Leipzig |
| C．Scientists from the University of California | D．First-year college students |
| A．物以类聚，人以群分 | B．患难见真友 |
| C．友谊无价 | D．近朱者赤，近墨者黑 |
| A．People like to be different from each other | B．Usually friends shares the similar intersts. |
| C．Friends like to help each other | D．First-year college students like to sit close to each other. |
4 . A city child’s summer is spent in the street in front of his home, and all through the long summer vacations I sat on the edge of the street and watched enviously the other boys on the block play baseball. I was never asked to take part even when one team had a member missing—not out of special cruelty, but because they took it for granted I would be no good at it. They were right, of course.
I would never forget the wonderful evening when something changed. The baseball ended about eight or eight thirty when it grew dark. Then it was the custom of the boys to retire to a little stoop(门廊) that stuck out from the candy store on the corner and that somehow had become theirs. No grownup ever sat there or attempted to. There the boys would sit, mostly talking about the games played during the day and of the game to be played tomorrow. Then long silences would fall and the boys would wander off one by one. It was just after one of those long silences that my life as an outsider changed. I can no longer remember which boy it was that summer evening who broke the silence with a question: but whoever he was, I nod to him gratefully now. “What’s in those books you’re always reading?” he asked casually. “Stories,” I answered. “What kind?” asked somebody else without much interest.
Nor do I know what drove me to behave as I did, for usually I just sat there in silence, glad enough to be allowed to read among them; but instead of answering his question, I told them for two hours the story I was reading at the moment. The book was Sister Carrie. They listened bug-eyed and breathless. I must have told it well, but I think there was another and deeper reason that made them to keep an audience. Listening to a tale being told in the dark is one of the most ancient of man’s entertainments, but I was offering them as well, without being aware of doing it, a new and exciting experience.
The books they themselves read were the Rover Boys or Tom Swift or G.A.Henty. I had read them too, but at thirteen I had long since left them behind. Since I was much alone I had become an enthusiastic reader and I had gone through the books-for-boys series. In those days there was no reading material between children’s and grownups’ books or I could find none. I had gone right from Tome Swift and His Flying Machine to Theodore Dreiser and Sister Carrie. Dreiser had hit my young mind, and they listened to me tell the story with some of the wonder that I had had in reading it.
The next night and many nights thereafter, a kind of unspoken ritual (仪式) took place. As it grew dark, I would take my place in the center of the stoop and begin the evening’s tale. Some nights, in order to taste my victory more completely, I cheated. I would stop at the most exciting part of a story by Jack London or Bret Harte, and without warning tell them that that was as far as I had gone in the book and it would have to be continued the following evening. It was not true, of course; but I had to make certain of my new-found power and position. I enjoyed the long summer evenings until school began in the fall. Other words of mine have been listened to by larger and more fashionable audiences, but for that tough and athletic one that sat close on the stoop outside the candy store, I have an unreasoning love that will last forever.
1. Watching the boys playing baseball, the writer must have felt ________.| A．bitter and lonely | B．special and different |
| C．pleased and excited | D．disturbed and annoyed |
| A．invited him to join in their game | B．liked the book that he was reading |
| C．broke the long silence of that summer evening | D．offered him a chance that changed his life |
| A．the story was from a children’s book | B．listening to tales was an age-old practice |
| C．the boys had few entertainments after dark | D．the boys didn’t read books by themselves |
| A．Reading is more important than playing games. | B．Friendship is built upon respect for each other. |
| C．One can find his position in life in his own way. | D．Adult habits are developed from childhood. |
5 . How’s your relationship with your dad? It can be easy to let walls build up between you during the teen years. But by taking several simple steps, you can help improve the relationship between the two of you—even without great efforts. Here are a few quick tips.
Talk it out. Communication is the key to any friendship. Open your mouth and let your dad know what’s on your mind. Give him a chance to get to know you.
Listen up. Your dad’s lived more life than you have. Believe it or not, he’s probably been there and can help you get through the pressures and struggles. Ask how he dealt with school, girls or temptations (诱惑). Then pay attention.
Take some time. It can be hard for us kids to talk about what really matters. But spending time together can build the relationship, and create chances to talk. Go for a hike or a game. Work on the car. Whatever you’re into, ask your dad to do it together.
Fight fair. Family disagreements are unavoidable. When temperatures rise, keep your mouth respectful and cool off before you say something bad. Talk it out when you can do so calmly.
Realize respect. Face it: your dad’s been given authority (权威) to help guide you as you know. He’s going to make mistakes, but so are you. Forgive him when he blows it, and honor his decisions—even if you don’t agree.
1. The main purpose of the passage is to advise teenagers on how to ________.| A．respect and obey their fathers | B．communicate with their fathers |
| C．ask their fathers for advice | D．get along well with their fathers |
| A．fathers have the right to guide teenagers | B．respect means never fighting with fathers |
| C．disagreements can be avoided through efforts | D．always keeping your mouth closed really matters |
| A．when it is too hot | B．when teenagers have a fever |
| C．when fathers fall ill | D．when disagreements get worse |
| A．communication can prevent all the disagreements |
| B．fathers play an important role in teenagers’ growth |
| C．talking everything out at once always helps |
| D．teenagers should never get angry with their fathers |
6 . “Life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell.”
This may sound like something someone would say today. But in fact, an unknown citizen who lives in Rome in AD53 wrote it.
We all love new inventions. They are exciting, amazing and can even change our lives. But have all these developments really improved the quality of our lives?
Picture this: You’re rushing to finish your homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings, a QQ message from your friend appears on the screen, the noise from the television is getting louder and louder. Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up all night to get it done. Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, who have no telephones, no cars, not even any electricity often seem to be happier? Perhaps because they lead simpler lives.
One family in the UK went back in time to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today. They had no washing machine, microwave, computer or mobile phones.
The grandmother, Lyn, said: “It was hard physically. But not mentally.” She believed life was less materialistic (重物质享受的). “The more things you have, the more difficult life becomes,” she said. The boys said they fought less. Probably, they said, because there was less to fight over, such as their computer.
Here are some simple ways to beat the stress often caused by our inventions!
Don’t be available all the time. Turn off your mobile phone at certain times of the day. Don’t check your e-mails every day.
Don’t reply to somebody as soon as they leave a text message just because you can. It may be fun at first, but it soon gets annoying.
With the Internet and so much information available, we are expected to know everything all the time, but don’t be afraid to say sometimes: “I don’t know”.
Make sure you spend some time talking to your family. Set aside one evening a week when you don’t turn on the television. Play cards and chat instead.
1. The passage is mainly about ________.| A．problems with technology |
| B．improvements of our life with technology |
| C．the important roles technology plays in our everyday life |
| D．main changes which will be likely to happen to technology |
| A．make the passage interesting | B．tell us what life was like long time ago |
| C．introduce the topic | D．point out that everyone is experiencing some serious problems |
| A．Because they loved to live simple lives. |
| B．Because they were curious about how people lived without modern inventions. |
| C．Because they were troubled by modern inventions. |
| D．Because living in a different time would be a lot of fun for them. |
| A．busy on line. | B．able to be used. |
| C．free | D．able to be found by others. |
7 . Once while being prepared for a television interview, I was chatting with the host about stay-at-home fathers. Why are we seeing more stay-at-home dads? I thought maybe it’s because a man doesn’t make more money than his wife. Many families now take earning power into consideration when deciding which parent will stay at home.
At that point, one of the members expressed his opinion, “It should be the better parent who stays at home”. A lot of guys say things like that. I was a stay-at-home father for eight years, so what he said made me excited. It showed that our family’s choice could only have been correct if I was a “better” parent than my wife.
I suppose an argument could have been made that when I began staying at home my wife was the “better” parent: she had spent more time with our son, could read him better and calm him more quickly. And if he had had a choice, he’d have picked her over me. But as she was the more employable one, my wife went out to work and I looked after our son.
Because of the increased time I spent with him, I soon knew him well, understood what he needed and could look after him more or less as my wife could. Actually, the experience helped me unlock one of the world’s great secrets: Women are good at looking after the children because they do it. It’s not because of a mother’s instinct(本能)－which I think is mostly learned anyway. It’s because they put in the time and attention required to become good at the job.
Women are able to give birth and nurse, but over the long term experience is more important. When I got the experience myself, I was good, too. As good? I don’t know. Who cares? Children are not made of glass. Other people are able to look after them besides Mom.
1. Which of the following does the first paragraph imply?| A．Actually more and more men like staying at home. |
| B．the wife earns more in more and more families. |
| C．The writer found a job at a TV station. |
| D．the husband proves to be the better parent. |
| A．it was easier for his wife to find a job | B．he thought he was the better father |
| C．their son liked him a little bit better | D．he was earning more than his wife did |
| A．they were born with the ability | B．they love children and enjoy it |
| C．they have learned it at school | D．they spend more time doing it |
| A．He is better than his wife at taking care of children. |
| B．He isn’t as good as his wife at taking care of children. |
| C．Either fathers or mothers can take care of children. |
| D．Both fathers and mothers cannot take care of children. |
8 . What can we do whenever Earth faces a disaster? Is the only solution running away from the planet in spaceships? The latest Chinese sci-fi (科幻) movie, The Wandering Earth, offers a different and more ambitious (有雄心的) idea.
The film is based on a short story by Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin. In the film, Earth is in danger of being destroyed by the dying sun. Humans around the world work together to build a giant engine system that will push Earth away from the sun. We're taking the Earth with us to run away.
What makes The Wandering Earth different from Hollywood-style space films? It’s probably the special cultural background (背景). For many years, “homeland” has rooted (生根) in the hearts and minds of Chinese people. One old saying is luoyeguigen. It means returning to one’s homeland in old age, like fallen leaves returning to the roots of their tree. There are also many ancient poems about homeland. “The season called the White Dew begins tonight / Nowhere as in our native place is the moon so bright”. These all show that Chinese people have the tight bond (情感纽带) with their homeland.
What is Chinese sci-fi? Guo Fan, the film’s director said, “Chinese sci-fi is a way to express our cultural and spiritual core (精神内核). Otherwise (否则), we’re just imitating (模仿) others and telling the same American stories.” And the film was released on February 5, 2019, the first day of Chinese New Year. It was a time when many people had just made the hard journey back to their hometowns. It seems the best time to tell this Chinese sci-fi story. Anyway, to us Chinese, Earth goes wherever humans go, because it’s our home.
1. Why do people consider the film so ambitious?| A．Because humans work together to build a giant engine system. |
| B．Because humans are trying to take the Earth to run away together. |
| C．Because the film story is written by the famous writer Liu Cixin. |
| D．Because people have managed to run away from Earth in spaceships. |
| A．To tell the difference between Chinese and American. |
| B．To remind us of China’s many years of history. |
| C．To teach some Chinese traditional cultures and spirits. |
| D．To express Chinese people’s love of their homeland. |
| A．明月几时有,把酒问青天 | B．露从今夜白,月是故乡明 |
| C．举杯邀明月,对影成三人 | D．床前明月光,疑是地上霜 |
| A．Its fantastic pictures and settings. | B．Imitating foreign sci-fi films. |
| C．Its Chinese cultures and spirits. | D．Its creative and brave idea. |
| A．The Latest Chinese Sci-fi Film | B．What is Chinese Sci-fi? |
| C．Chinese Sci-fi Sets a New Path | D．Chinese Sci-fi VS Hollywood-style |
On Sept 13.2017,for the first time in history, the International Olympic Committee (IOC奥组委) has decided to host cities at the same time.Paris will host the Olympic Games in 2024 and Los Angeles in 2028.
“This is a win-win-win situation(情况) for Paris, Los Angeles and the IOC,” said IOC President(主席) Thomas Bach."These are two great cities from two great countries with a great Olympic history.”
Both cities are excited in bringing home the Games. It comes back to the US for the first time since(自从) the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and will be the third time that Los Angeles has hosted.
For Paris, the wait is longer.As the city that has hosted two Olympics before, it will host the event 100 years after its last Olympic Games.H also means Paris will become the second city to hold three Summer Olympic Games, after London and before Los Angeles.
However, the reason for the decision is that there were no other competitors (竞争对手) for the 2024 or 2028 Games In July, three of the five cities bidding for (申办)the 2024 Olympics gave up because they think the Olympics cost much.They were Hamburg, Rome and Budapest.
But it seems Paris and Los Angeles have less problem with that.The cities have more than 90% of the facilities (设施) for the Games, which will cut the cost.
1. The Olympic Games in 2028 will be held in________.| A．Hamburg | B．Atlanta | C．Los Angeles | D．Paris |
| A．1924 | B．1996 | C．1824 | D．1896 |
| A．they put in more money | B．they have the facilities for the Games |
| C．there were no other competitors | D．they are both good at holding the Games |
| A．It's the second time for the US to host the Olympics. |
| B．London is the third city to hold three Summer Olympics. |
| C．The IOC president was sorry about the result of the bidding. |
| D．Paris doesn't have to build many facilities for the Olympics. |
| A．Paris and Los Angeles, Competitors and Friends | B．Paris, Los Angeles to Host Olympic Games |
| C．The History of Olympics in Los Angeles | D．Hamburg Rome and Budapest Lost |
10 . One day, a farmer took a bag of wheat to town. He didn’t know what to do when the bag fell off his horse. The bag was too heavy for him to lift. He hoped that someone would come and help him.
Before long a man came over. But the farmer’s heart sank when he saw the man, because he was the famous judge(法官)in town. The farmer was afraid to ask him for help.
As soon as he came up to the farmer, the judge got off his horse and said, “You need my help, don’t you? Let me help you. ”Then he took one end of the bag, the farmer took the other. They lifted the bag of wheat onto the horse.
“Sir, ”asked the farmer, “how can I pay you? ”
“Well, ”the judge replied, “if you see anyone in need of help, do the same for him. ”
1. The farmer did not know what to do because______.| A．his horse fell down | B．his bag was very heavy |
| C．he could not lift the bag himself | D．his horse ran away |
| A．someone | B．the famous judge |
| C．one of his friends | D．the other farmer |
| A．asked the farmer to get on the horse |
| B．helped the farmer lift the bag onto the horse |
| C．refused to help the farmer |
| D．got off his horse |
| A．helps you, do the same for him | B．needs help, help him |
| C．is in need of help, tell him the same | D．helps you, help him |
| A．A Bag of Wheat | B．Heavy Bag |
| C．Do the Same For Him | D．The Farmer |
