1 . Every one of us, rich or poor, should at least have one or two good friends. Your friends will listen to you when you speak, will take care of you when you are sick, and will be together with you during your life journey.

Everyone needs friends. Friendship can make us happier. How can we find a good friend and get on well with each other? Here is some advice.

◎Make friends with a person who is easy to get along with.

◎You should make friends with a person who has something in common with you.

◎Give your friend a hand when he or she is in trouble. Friends should always be ready to help each other.

◎Believe in each other. This is the most important thing in a friendship.

◎Even the best friends may fight sometimes. If this happens, don’t let your fight last too long. Try to make up with your friends soon.

Friendship is a kind of treasure (财富) in our life. It is like a bottle of wine (酒). The longer it is kept, the better it will be.

根据短文内容判断正（T）误（F）。
1. Rich people don’t need friends.
2. If your friends are in trouble, you should help them.
3. If a person is kind and helpful, he is easy to get along with.
4. Don’t believe in your friends.
5. Best friends don’t fight.

2 . Have you ever tried to find something in your cupboard but the inside was a complete mess? You may need a decluttering consultant (整理收纳师).

Li Jiaxin, 30, started her own business two years ago, forming a team in Beijing. “I wasn’t satisfied with my old job, so I chose to be a decluttering consultant as most of my friends have said that I’m good at tidying things up.”

Li finds joy in decluttering. “One of my customers, in her 20s, once came to me and said that her messy room was giving her a sense of bad feeling,” Li recalled. After we discussed the decluttering plan, it took the team three days to finish the work.

They started by emptying all the cupboards, finding the objects the customer really needed and clearing out the rest. They also added more boxes to better classify (分类) things. “There were so many clothes that we had to sit on the floor during our lunch break as this was the only free space,” Li said.

After the work was done, the customer was surprised to see that there was more space in her house. “It was then that I realized our work wasn't only about organizing things-we bring brighter feelings to customers and let them wake up every morning with a better view,” Li added.

These days there is no recognized certificate (资格证) for decluttering consultants. Although some may believe that this job has a low requirement, Li argues that understanding design and art is necessary. This knowledge helps the decluttering consultant quickly come up with a plan. Being able to deal with unexpected situations is also important for decluttering consultants.

根据短文内容，判断句子正(T)、误(F) 。
1. Li chose to be a decluttering consultant because her friends believed she did well in tidying things up.
2. Li’s team helped the young customer with her messy house by adding more cupboards.
3. After the work of Lis team, the customer surprisingly found her house had more free space.
4. It’s necessary to get a recognized certificate as a decluttering consultant.
5. Li agrees that being a decluttering consultant is a low-skill job that is easy to do.

3 .

It’s common that we take the subway with our subway cards or by scanning QR codes on our smartphones. In May 2023, Weixin’s Palm Scan (刷掌) Payments system was introduced in China. Palm Scan is like waving at a friend. Now people traveling on the Beijing Daxing Airport Express subway have a different way to take a ride. They can scan their palms.

To enjoy the service, people need to register (注册) their palm prints on machines in subway stations along the Daxing Airport Express subway line. Next, they need to activate (激活) the palm-scanning function (功能) on their smartphones. Then, they can scan their palms at ticket gates to pass through. After they finish their travels, the payment service on their smartphones will pay the money for their rides. Many people welcome the new technology. They think it helps them to travel faster and more easily. They don’t have to take out their subway cards or smartphones when they pass through the ticket gates. And they no longer feel worried when they forget their subway cards or when their smartphones run out of battery. What’s more, the palm-scanning technology is very friendly to old people and those who have special needs. Those people may not use smartphones well. The technology makes it possible for them to take the subway without using smartphones.

Besides Beijing, the palm-scanning technology is also in service in the subway stations of Shenzhen. And there are hopes that it can be used in more places like stores and restaurants in the future.

根据短文内容，判断句子正 (T)、误 (F)。
1. In May 2022, Weixin’s Palm Scan Payments system was introduced in China.
2. The palm-scanning technology is used in Beijing Daxing Airport Express subway.
3. Passengers can scan their palms on their smartphones to pass through the ticket gates.
4. The people may not use smartphones and the old quite welcome the palm-scanning technology.
5. The palm-scanning technology will be used in more places like stores and restaurants in the future.

4 .

What do you do with clothes you don’t want to wear anymore? You may give them away to other people. What happens next? Where do these clothes end up? They are thrown on the beaches.

Sadly, the beaches of Ghana are among these places. Ghana is a country in West Africa. People from all over the world give clothes to some shops to sell. But only 20% of given clothes can be sold. The unsold clothes are then put in large bags and travel to other countries to be sold again or be dealt with as waste.

The Kantamanto Market in the capital of Ghan a is one of the world’s largest secondhand clothing markets. Every week, 20 million pieces of clothes arrive at Kantamanto. However, about 40 percent of them leave the market as waste. Workers either burn the waste or put it underground. However, the city is near the sea, so there’s not enough space for it. This is why much clothing waste is thrown on the beaches.

As the waste goes into the sea, it has bad influences on both sea lives and humans. On the one hand, some sea animals can’t get to the land to lay eggs. And fish can’t grow because they may get caught in the clothes. On the other hand, fishermen can’t catch as many fish as before, since most of the things they catch are clothes.

It is wise to deal with secondhand clothing properly. For example, create something like quilts or pets’ clothes, or recycle them. By reusing, we can reduce waste and protect the environment.

根据短文内容，判断句子正(T)、误(F)。
1. The beaches of Ghan are covered with clothing waste.
2. The Kantamanto Market is one of the world’s largest secondhand clothing markets.
3. 20 percent of the unsold secondhand clothing is thrown on the beaches.
4. Fish can’t grow because they can’t lay eggs.
5. Secondhand clothing can be dealt with by creating something useful.

5 . Chores were not popular at my house. My children didn’t like to do chores. They always saw me do chores, but they hardly ever helped me do them.

A year ago, I made a game called “The Endless Chore Game”. It is really great. Here’s how the game works.

I make a card with forty squares (方框), and I write a different chore on each square. These chores can be easy and interesting like making dessert. Then my family rolls the dice (骰子) to decide what chores we have to do. The card also has a few squares with fun things, like watching TV and singing. If you are lucky, you can watch TV when the others are doing the chores.

My son likes the game very much. He goes to the kitchen happily every morning to do the game. It is really a good way to make my children do chores. You can have a try if you have the same problem with me.

根据短文内容，判断下列各句正 (T)、误 (F)。
1. Everyone in the writer’s family used to like doing the chores very much.
2. The writer’s family began to do the game one year ago.
3. According to the passage, the chores written in the squares are difficult and boring.
4. The writer made this game to make her children do chores happily.
5. The writer wrote this passage to the parents.

6 . The female (雌) giant panda Yaya was born in the Beijing Zoo in 2000, and the male (雄) giant panda Lele was born in the Shanghai Zoo in 1998. In 2003, they were sent to the Memphis Zoo and would live there for ten years as part of a giant panda protection and research program between China and the US.

According to the program, the giant pandas Yaya and Lele should have come back to China in December 2013. However, the US refused to give them back to China and managed to get a chance to keep them for another ten years. Sadly, Lele passed away on February 3rd, 2023 instead of returning home.

Lele’s death suddenly caught people’s attention to these two pandas in the US.

It’s said that Lele died because of the poor care he got when he was alive. He lost his weight and appeared to have a toothache that the zoo wasn’t able to treat. Before he died, his health was getting even worse, but no health care was offered to help him. He was only 24 years old when he died, but pandas can live well for more than 30 years.

Yaya, the other panda, also shows her bad condition and sleeps the whole day. Besides, she has suffered (遭受) a lot from the stomach disease for a long time.

Though the zoo wanted to cover its carelessness from the public, their poor condition was noticed by visitors’ cameras. Many people point out that one of the worst problems is the low quality and small amount of bamboo. However, the Memphis Zoo didn’t agree with the saying.

Now, we are calling to honor Lele and make sure of Yaya’s safe return. On Thursday afternoon 27th April 2023, Lele’s body and Yaya arrived at Shanghai Pudong International Airport from Memphis.

根据短文内容，判断句子正(T)、误(F)。
1. In 2003, Yaya and Lele were sent to the Memphis Zoo and then lived there forever.
2. China refused the US when the US decided to give two pandas back in 2013.
3. Lele died at the age of 24 although pandas can live well for up to 30 years.
4. Visitors’ cameras showed that Yaya lived a terrible life in the Memphis Zoo.
5. The passage mainly tells us that we should protect pandas because they are in danger.

7 . Would you like to be volunteers? Many people think volunteering is not easy. However, when I became a volunteer, I thought it was great fun.

During the summer camp, there were many parents joining in. They wanted to spend time with their kids and hoped to take a rest from the busy life.

You could see these parents everywhere from the time they arrived. They worked hard in the camp by doing the dishes, buying things, cleaning rooms, taking kids to see the doctor. They know how to take care of kids. I learned a lot from them.

For example, if the kid’s face looks a bit red and his head feels very hot, maybe he has a fever. We should take his temperature. If the kid has a cough and a sore throat, he should drink some hot tea with honey. If the kid has a stomachache, he should lie down and rest. If the kid cut himself by accident, he should put some medicine on it.

All the people had a good time during the summer camp. At the end of the camp, it was so difficult to say goodbye to each other. I really thanked them.

根据短文内容，判断句子正(T)、误(F)。
1. The writer thought it was fun to become a volunteer.
2. Many parents wanted to spend time with their kids during the summer camp.
3. The teachers had to work hard to take care of those parents.
4. If you have a stomachache, you should drink some tea with honey according to the passage.
5. The kids and the parents were getting along well with each other during the summer camp.

8 . Do you have a pet? Many children like pets and even treat them like humans sometimes. They may like to kiss or hug their pets. But this can make them sick. “Kissing or hugging pets such as dogs and cats can cause people to take in drug-resistant bacteria (耐药细菌),” British scientists said.

Many pet owners give their pets antibiotics (抗生素) when they get sick. But taking antibiotics too often can affect the bacteria inside your pet. The bacteria can become drug resistant. When people kiss or hug their pets, this kind of bacteria can move to them and make them sick.

Close relationships between pet owners and their pets are important. But if pet owners follow the rules below they will not get sick.

Rules for playing:

●Do not kiss your pets on the mouth.

●Do not let your pets lick (舔) your mouth or nose.

●Wash your hands after touching and playing with your pets.

●If you have a wound, cover it. This way, bacteria cannot pass on to you from your pets.

根据短文内容，判断句子正(T)、误(F)。
1. Many children like pets and even treat them like humans sometimes.
2. People never feel sick after kissing or hugging pet s according to the passage.
3. It is not dangerous to take in drug-resistant bacteria from pets.
4. Many pet owners like to kiss or hug their pets to make their pets feel important.
5. There are four rules to teach us to play with our pets safely.

9 . Have you tasted one snack as well as the traditional Chinese form of art known as sugar painting?

Sugar painting can be found in southeastern areas of China, but it is especially found around Sichuan Province along the streets or in the parks. Sugar painting could date back to the Ming Dynasty when sugar animals and figures were made in molds (模具). In the Qing Dynasty, sugar painting became more popular. At that time, many people made a living by sugar painting.

The artists normally sit before a shining marble (大理石) in the front. On the side there is a wooden plate with a movable bamboo stick on it. The plate is painted with different patterns in a circle such as a bird, a dog, a flower, a basketball and so on. After paying, the customers, normally kids, turn the stick and wait till it stops. Then the artist is supposed to make the pattern pointed by the stick with sugar. To get syrup (糖浆), the artist has to cook the sugar in a pot before painting. Since the hot liquid (液体) sugar could freeze hard if it cools, the artist has to produce his work very quickly.

Using a small spoon to hold the syrup which looks like silk and thread (线), the painter puts his strength (力量) on the wrist (手腕) and takes the spoon as a brush pen, up and down, left and right. Soon a sugar painting of an animal, flower or a bike is finished.

根据短文内容，判断句子正（T）、误（F）。
1. According to the passage, sugar painting is especially popular in Sichuan Province.
2. Sugar painting became more popular in the Qing Dynasty.
3. Sugar painting can be made for the customers for free.
4. The artist has to produce his work quickly because the hot liquid sugar could hurt his hands.
5. This passage is probably taken from a magazine about science and technology.