1 . Searching for parking spaces has long been a headache for many office workers in many big cities of China. Parking near their companies for five days a week could cost them a lot of money. At the same time, prising, most of parking lots(停车场) in residential areas(居民区) remain idle during workdays. Now a new form of sharing has appeared in China—the shared parking space. It has become a huge market in some big cities.
In Qingdao, a coastal(海岸的) city in Shangdong, up to 10,000 personal parking spaces have been turned into shared ones with the help of “Airparking”, an online shared parking platform developed by a network company from Guangzhou.
Through a special app, users can either share or order a parking place. Owners who have idle parking spaces can share some information, including the parking position, license number and time limit(限制) on the platform. With the information, users can easily find the nearest place to park. The average(平均的) parking cost for shared parking is 4 yuan each hour, almost the same as the service cost in traditional parking spaces.
Qingdao is one of the Chinese cities that encourage shared parking. Some other big cites, including Beijing, Shanghai and Hefei, have also begun to try this idea. The Shanghai government, for example, has set up more than 6,500 shared parking spaces to encourage the public to use. Shared parking will be more and more helpful to the drivers.
1. In the first paragraph, the writer points out that ________.| A．we should set up more parking spaces in big cities |
| B．prices of parking spaces are rising quickly in China |
| C．it’s difficult to find parking space in big cities. |
| D．many people want to find parking spaces in residential areas during workdays |
| A．无所事事的 | B．停顿的 | C．闲置的 | D．懒惰的 |
| A．love the city | B．use a special app |
| C．pay more | D．share your personal information |
| A．15 yuan. | B．20 yuan. | C．25 yuan. | D．30 yuan. |
| A．it’s hard to find parking spaces in residential areas during workdays |
| B．Qingdao has fewer shared parking spaces than Shanghai |
| C．shared parking will probably become more and more popular |
| D．shared parking is more expensive than traditional parking service |
2 . Happiness is important to everyone. Most people want to be happy but few know how to find happiness. Money and success alone do not bring lasting happiness. Happiness depends on ourselves. In other words, we make our own happiness.
Some people believe that if they are wealthy, they will be able to do anything they want. which means happiness. On the other hand, some people believe that holding a high position in the government is happiness. In this way, you have not only money, but also many other things which can't be bought by money. However, other people believe that having lots of money is not happiness, nor is holding a high position in the government. These people value their beliefs, or their intelligence, or their health. They think these can make them happy.
Here are a few ways to help you be happier.
The first secret of happiness is to enjoy the simple things in life. Too often, we spend so, much time thinking about the future, for example, getting into college or getting a good job, that we don't enjoy the present. You should enjoy life's simple pleasures, such as reading a good book, listening to your favorite music, or spending time with close friends. People who have, close friends usually enjoy happier and healthier lives.
The second secret of happiness is to be active. Many people go dancing or play sports. People can forget about their problems and only think about the activity.
Finally, many people find happiness in helping others. According to studies, people feel good when they volunteer their time to do many meaningful things for other people. If you want to feel happier, do something nice for someone. You can help a friend with his or her studies, go shopping to get food for an old neighbor, or simply help around the house.
Now maybe you know how to find happiness!
1. The underlined word “wealthy” means “________”in the article| A．pleased | B．healthy | C．excited | D．rich |
| A．get money and something they can't buy with money |
| B．do what they want to do at any time |
| C．enjoy health which makes them work hard |
| D．take an active part in all kinds of activities every day |
| A．think about getting a good job | B．think of the present they don't like |
| C．often spend time with close friends | D．think about entering the college |
| A．remember the old days and troubles | B．do some meaningful things for others |
| C．go shopping to buy some food | D．make much money and little success |
| A．how to find happiness | B．how to save happiness |
| C．to do something good for other | D．to value our beliefs or health |
3 . You Can Be a World Memory Champion!
Every year, people with amazing memory skills compete in an event called the World Memory Championships. The tasks require huge powers of memory retention: remembering the order of 52 cards in a deck (副); memorizing the names of 110 people after looking at their pictures; and other tasks. Completing any of these tasks may not seem easy for the normal person, but scientific proof seems to show that even someone with normal skills can, through training, improve his or her memory skills and become a memory champion.
One memory champion explained his methods of recalling the order of the cards in a deck. Firstly, he connected a person, an action and a thing with each card. For example, the king of hearts is Elvis Presley, eating, a chocolate sandwich. The three of spades (黑桃) is Rocky Balboa, boxing, Madison Square Garden. The ten of hearts is William Shakespeare, writing Hamlet, a broken pen. Take a person from the first card, an action from the second card, and a thing from the third card so that any group of three cards creates a vivid (生动的) image that is easier to recall. For example: king-ten-three becomes Elvis Presley writing Hamlet in Madison Square Garden – a memorable image.
Still, even having created images for each group of three cards, it is difficult to keep them in order. This is done using the loci method, or what some call a “Memory Palace” – a term created by Frances Yates in his 1966 book The Art of Memory – which is a simple but effective method discovered by the ancient Greeks.
But are there people with naturally amazing memories? The winner of the 2011 World Memory Championships was 21-year-old Chinese Wang Feng. He said he had a “normal memory as a child,” and no special talent except for the hard work and attention to detail.
Although many still think that people have either good or bad memories from birth, that need not be true. By using the methods of grouping, connecting with vivid images, and the loci method, we can all improve our memories. Who knows – you might even become the next World Memory Champion!
1. According to Paragraph 2, ten-king-three can create an image of ________.| A．William Shakespeare eating in Madison Square Garden |
| B．Hamlet eating a chocolate sandwich with a broken pen |
| C．Rocky Balboa writing Hamlet with a broken pen |
| D．Elvis Presley boxing in Madison Square Garden |
| A．It connects the images with their time order. |
| B．It reorganizes the cards to build a vivid palace. |
| C．It uses the terms from a book to create a new image. |
| D．It helps memorize the order of the three-card groups. |
| A．To praise the winners of the World Memory Championship. |
| B．To help people win the World Memory Championship. |
| C．To show a good memory is more a matter of training. |
| D．To explain methods of remembering a deck of cards. |
4 . At night, look up at the sky. How many stars do you see? If you live in the country, bright stars will fill the sky. If you live in the city, on the other hand, you might not see any stars. What’s happening? Bright lights from the city are lighting the sky, making the stars unseen. This is light pollution.
Light can also come into city homes, like an uninvited guest. Sometimes, a visitor to a big city can’t sleep because of the bright sign outside his or her window. Darkness helps us sleep. Without darkness, we lie awake and lose sleep, which may lead to serious health problems.
Living things need darkness. It’s part of the natural 24-hour cycle. Trees and plants that are too close to artificial light grow in strange ways and die quickly. Animals become puzzled（困惑的）when light and dark are changed. For example, night animals might think it’s day when it’s actually night.
Finally, using too many lights wastes energy and money. The huge lights for all-night parking lots are too bright and unnecessary. Every city spends millions of dollars to light its thousands of buildings and streets, and much of this lighting is just to make the city look beautiful, rather than to serve a certain purpose.
True, we feel safer in the light, but our eyes are able to see a little in darkness. And we don’t need to light the whole city just to create a beautiful night view. We should try to turn the lights off to save the earth and all the living things from its pollution.
1. What’s the main idea of the passage?| A．Living things need darkness. | B．Light pollution is around us. |
| C．How to avoid light pollution. | D．Lights are uninvited guests. |
| A．real | B．natural | C．weak | D．man-made |
| A．It’s unnecessary to use huge light for all-night parking lots. |
| B．We can’t see any stars in the sky in the city at night. |
| C．Visitors to a big city lie awake and lose sleep because of darkness. |
| D．Trees and plants grow strangely and die quickly in the day. |
5 . When Shanghai introduced a new rubbish sorting policy(政策) in July last year, the people in this city took some time to get used to it. They joked that every time they took out their litter, the aunt standing by the bins would ask, "What kind of litter are you?"
Starting on May 1, Beijing joined many Chinese cities by introducing a new rubbish sorting policy. People should sort their litter into four groups: kitchen, recyclable, harmful and other waste. These groups are represented(代表) by four different colors of rubbish bins-green, blue, red and gray. Those who fail to sort their litter correctly may face fines of up to 200 yuan.
The way Beijing sorts its rubbish sounds different from cities like Shanghai and Qingdao. These cities use four different groups: wet, recyclable, harmful and dry. Although their names are different, the groups are actually the same. Wet rubbish in Shanghai is, in fact, kitchen rubbish. And dry rubbish is the same as other waste.
Many people don't know how to sort their litter correctly, so Beijing government is offering online guidelines. If people don’t know how to throw away rubbish, they can search for it on the WeChat account Guanchenglishi(管城理市) to find out. By searching a key word or taking a photo, people can find out which group their waste belongs to at once.
1. Kitchen rubbish is called ________ in Shanghai.| A．Wet rubbish | B．Dry rubbish |
| C．Recyclable rubbish | D．Harmful rubbish |
| A．Rubbish sorting is being carried out all over the country. |
| B．Rubbish sorting started in Beijing on May 1. |
| C．In Qingdao, people who don't sort their litter correctly may be fined 200 yuan. |
| D．People in Beijing dislike rubbish sorting policy. |
| A．They will be made to learn the policy. | B．They won't be allowed to throw rubbish away. |
| C．They won't be noticed. | D．They may be fined. |
| A．the government's advice about rubbish sorting policy. |
| B．problems with Beijing's rubbish sorting policy. |
| C．how Beijing government help people sort their rubbish. |
| D．actions we can take to protect the environment. |
| A．People are made to sort their litter and they are unhappy. |
| B．Four cities are using the new rubbish sorting policy in China. |
| C．Many people had some problems with rubbish sorting at first. |
| D．People should sort their litter into four groups. |
6 . Plastic is all around us. It's in the TVs we watch at home, the desks we use at work, and the pens we write with at school. It's even wrapped around the food we buy. Some people have had enough of plastic, though, and have chosen a new lifestyle. These people have become plasticarians, meaning they try to live life without buying or using plastic.
British student Thomas Smith decided to go plastic-free, telling reporters, "A bit of plastic you had for a second lasts longer than your lifetime," Smith tried to avoid buying anything that had plastic in it, which made getting even the simplest items, like toilet paper, difficult. Over a period of six months, he lost five kilograms in weight and finally gave up.
Beth Terry, a woman in California, has lived mostly plastic-free for more than six years. For Beth, choosing a plasticarian lifestyle came out of concern for the planet and her health. Studies have linked some kinds of plastic to cancer and heart disease, and chemicals in these plastics can influence a baby's development. That's why some doctors say it is important that women who are having babies in their bodies avoid eating food stored in plastic containers.
It's never too late to start reducing the amount of plastic. You can start by giving up bottled water and teas. Instead, buy a reusable stainless-steel bottle and boring drinks from home. You can also buy food from farmers' markets, where fresh produce and meat are not packaged in plastic. Finally, it's better to use soap and shampoo bars that are wrapped in paper than liquid soaps and shampoos that come in plastic bottles.
While cutting plastic out of your life all at once may be too much to manage, every journey begins with one step. Choose one plastic item to live without today, and you will be on your way to a healthier life and a cleaner planet.
1. How does the writer show the fact that plastic is all around us?| A．By telling a story. | B．By describing a picture. | C．By giving examples. | D．By using numbers. |
| A．He wanted to experience how to live without plastic in his life. |
| B．He thought that plastic could help him lose weight. |
| C．He wanted to be healthier. |
| D．He wanted to help the environment. |
| A．You should use a plastic bottle and fill it with water over and over again. |
| B．You can start to bring drinks from home rather than buy bottled teas at a store. |
| C．It's better to buy soap and shampoo bars wrapped in paper. |
| D．Studies have shown that chemicals in the plastics can be harmful to a baby's development. |
| A．showing a prediction of using plastic in our daily life | B．introducing the results of cutting plastic out of life at once |
| C．expressing a feeling about stopping using plastic things | D．giving advice on cutting down plastic use |
7 . Artificial intelligence (人工智能) is set to benefit mankind in many ways. It will make everyday tasks easier and bring efficiency to many industries. It might be one of man's greatest inventions.
And yet, like any other technology, AI will also bring risks. In February 2018, a group of AI experts got together to discuss the possible disadvantages of AI. What they found was that "Every AI developed by the good guys is also helpful for the bad guys, too." according to Quartz.
Their biggest worry was that the bad guys could use AI for bad things. One of the areas they looked at was the use of AI to create websites that could be used to steal people's personal information. Another possibility is that AI programs could be used to hack software and break into computer secure systems (安全系统).
There are some other worries as well. It is possible that AI could be used to create fake imagines and videos. Baidu, in fact, has developed a program called Deep Voice that can "clone (克隆)" anyone's voice by studying a 3.7-second audio sample (音频样本).
Many leading people have expressed worries about AI. People like Bill Gates and Elon Musk have called for the industry to be more strictly controlled, as there are few laws right now on the use of AI.
However, this is set to change. In March 2018, the European Union plans to set up a group that will discuss the moral and ethical (伦理道德的) dangers of AI, which will help to keep it safe for mankind.
1. ________ might be one of man's greatest inventions according to the passage.| A．Many industries | B．AI | C．Baidu | D．Clone tech |
| A．保护 | B．对比 | C．入侵 | D．学习 |
| A．protecting computer secure systems | B．stealing people's personal information |
| C．controlling all the industry | D．cloning people's voice |
| A．Bill Gates and Elon Musk | B．The European Union |
| C．A group of AI experts | D．All of the mankind |
| A．The benefits of artificial intelligence. | B．How to use artificial intelligence. |
| C．People's worries about artificial intelligence. | D．The future of artificial intelligence. |
8 . April 22 is Earth Day. Everyone on the earth should care about and protect the earth!
The earth has warmed by about 1°F (华氏度) over the past 100 years, but why and how? Well, scientists are not quite sure. Maybe the earth gets warmer and warmer on its own. But many scientists say that people are doing many things which make the earth warmer.
First, the greenhouse effect (温室效应) is a very important reason for the change of the earth. People give out too much energy into the air every year. It makes the earth warmer. Climate (气候) change is another important reason. Sometimes it becomes too hot and sometimes too cold. Sometimes there is too much rain and sometimes too little. The change of the climate makes the earth warmer. In turn, the warmth of the earth changes the climate, too.
People can affect the earth’s air, land and water. As for us, we can do many things to protect the earth. For example, we can use fridges less. We can tell more people about protecting the earth.
1. Earth Day is probably created for people to ________.| A．learn more about the earth | B．make full use of the earth |
| C．take better care of the earth | D．study the warmth of the earth |
| A．not very clear | B．completely secret | C．well known | D．not given |
| A．sea rising | B．climate change | C．nature’s unbalance | D．people’s activity |
| A．animals and islands | B．climate and the warmth of the earth |
| C．fridges and animals | D．sea level and the growth of plants |
| A．there is more rain now | B．we should protect the earth |
| C．we must stop pollution | D．sea level is getting higher |
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1. According to the ad, these three books are for ________.
| A．men | B．parents | C．women | D．children |
| A．make children draw beautifully |
| B．make the book beautiful |
| C．make children understand the book easily |
| D．make the book sell well |
| A．Learning How to Learn |
| B．Study Skills for Life |
| C．Basic Study Manual |
| D．How to Use a Dictionary Picture Book for Children |
| A．$98.49 | B．$80.99 | C．$79.24 | D．$49.25 |
| A．help children learn English |
| B．sell the three books to children |
| C．help children learn about nature |
| D．use a dictionary to pronounce correctly |
10 . Thanks to better health care, most people are living healthier and longer lives. Someone who is born today can expect to live about thirty-five years longer than someone who was born in the nineteenth century. It is even thought that in the future more and more people will celebrate their hundredth birthdays. Here are some rules for a healthy life.
Get off the sofa!
Sure, it is comfortable to sit on the sofa and watch TV. But doctors say you should get off the sofa. To keep fit, you have to walk at least 10,000 steps every day. In the past, people’s jobs required more physical effort. They often had to walk for miles every day. When farmers were working in the fields, they were keeping fit at the same time. Think about it: Do you get the same amount of exercise today as they did in the past?
Eat healthy food!
It is important to eat food that is fresh and natural, for example, fruit and vegetables. Fast food is not healthy. You should only have it once in a while. Eating too much of the wrong food will harm your health.
Rest while you can!
When we were babies, we slept for much of the night. Teenagers do not need as much sleep as babies, but it is important for you to get about eight hours’ sleep a night. At weekends, you have got more time, so use it not just for your friends, but for rest too.
Do not worry. Be happy!
Many people believe that happiness is important for our general health. Sometimes it is not easy to be a teenager because of the difficulties of school, exams or friendships. If you are worried about something, talk to your parents or your teacher.
1. In the passage, “Get off the sofa!” means ________.| A．we should take some exercise | B．we shouldn’t watch TV on the sofa |
| C．we should get off the sofa to keep fit | D．we shouldn’t stay at home for a long time |
| A．healthy food | B．fast food | C．natural food | D．fresh food |
| A．The best rest is to spend more time with friends. |
| B．It is necessary for teenagers to get enough sleep. |
| C．Teenagers also need as much sleep as babies at night. |
| D．Sleeping for much of the night will do harm to your health. |
| A．how to be a happy teenager | B．the importance of a healthy life |
| C．the ways of leading a healthy life | D．teenagers’ common healthy problems |
