1 . In England, people don’t usually talk very much. On a bus or in a train, everyone sits looking out of the window. Often they read books and newspapers. They don’t talk much. When you meet English people who are talking, they often talk about one thing—the weather. So when you meet someone in England, you can say, “Nice weather!” “But it was cold yesterday” someone may answer. “But it was warmer later!” you can say. If you talk like this, the English will think you are nice.
根据短文内容判断对错，对的选T，错的选F。1. English people often stand in a train or on a bus.
2. English people usually talk very much on a bus or in a train.
3. People in England meet together, and they often talk about the weather.
4. When you meet someone in England, you can say, “What are you going to do?”
5. If you talk about the weather with the English people, they may think you are nice and polite.
2 . It’s 2010, outside of a school somewhere in the U.S. Some teenagers are talking. One says to another. “I’m tired of chillaxin after school. We do this 24/7. Let’s go get some eats.”
Two adults are walking by. They hear what the teenagers are saying, but they don’t understand a word. What the teenager said was, “I’m tired of hanging around after school. We do this all the time. Let’s go and get some food.”
This is nothing new. Teenagers always invent new words and phrases. They create words for everyday things, such as words that mean good or parents or bad or good-looking, and so on. Look at these different ways of saying good in recent decades (十年):
1960s-groovy | 1970s-fab | 1980s-wicked | 1990s-sweet | 2000s-tight |
But, of course, the words you use depend on your interests, your friends, the music you listen to and the part of the country you live in. Different groups of teenagers have different likes and dislikes, and so they also have different expressions.
________ Many people think it’s because they don’t want adults to understand, but that probably isn’t true. The real reason is that teenagers want to feel that they’re part of a group that speaks the same language, a language that is different from the one their parents and other adults speak. And also teenagers like to be creative and play with language, so they have fun creating new words.
And what do the parents think about it all? Most of them don’t worry about it. After all, they had their own special words when they were teenagers, too. But some adults complain about “teen talk” and get very annoyed by it. But that’s all part of the fun for the teenagers!
1. The two adults can’t understand teenagers because ________.| A．they are from different countries | B．teenagers speak in their own ways |
| C．they can’t hear the words clearly | D．teenagers make mistakes while talking |
| A．wicked | B．fab | C．sweet | D．groovy |
| A．Do people like speaking new words and phrases? |
| B．How do teenagers create new words and phrases? |
| C．So why do teenagers create new words or phrases? |
| D．Do teenagers create new words and phrases for fun? |
| A．teenagers always have different likes and dislikes |
| B．parents dislike “teen talk” and got very annoyed by it |
| C．parents think it’s normal for teenagers to create special words |
| D．teenagers have fun creating new words to show their differences |
3 . Huawei gains the world’s leading position in developing 5G. Therefore, Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei, soon becomes the center of attention.
1. The first job that Ren Zhengfei chose was to be a/an ________.
| A．soldier | B．teacher | C．engineer | D．businessman |
| A．when Ren was at the age of 51 | B．before Ren worked with Chinese government |
| C．when Ren graduated from university | D．before Ren sold the equipment created by itself |
| A．Ren served in the army for ten years |
| B．Ren’s father and mother had different jobs |
| C．Ren played an important role in building the chemical factory |
| D．Ren believed Huawei could win the battle against America soon |
From tiny seeds, great discoveries grow. A mini—garden carried on China’s Chang’e 4 moon lander recently became home to the first plant to grow on another world.
This is yet another success for Chang’e 4. On January 3, the probe became the first lander to touch down on the far side of the moon. This is the unknown face of the moon that is always looking away from us, so we never see it from down here on the earth. Although it is often regarded as the dark side of the moon, the far side actually gets as much sunshine as the near side. For example, when all we can see is a silver sliver of a new moon, the far side of the moon is in full sunlight.
Part of Chang’e 4’s mission is to see how a moon base could be built for humans, including exploring whether humans could grow food and other plant products there. Chang’e 4 carried a mini—garden with air, water and soil with seeds planted in it. When plants shoot on the earth, their stems grow away from the gravity, and so they always shoot upwards. The moon’s gravity is a sixth as strong as the earth’s, so Chang’e 4’s experiment was a test: would the earth plants know which way was up on the moon? Four days after landing, a tiny cotton shoot showed that they do.
Night has now fallen on the far side of the moon; Sunlight will not return until the start of February. As a result, the cotton shoots died. Besides the darkness, the plants can’t stand the cold (it can drop to —170℃ on the moon at night). However, the experiment is a success, since it has proved that it is possible for plants to grow in space.
1. The text is mainly about ________.| A．another success for Chang’e 4 | B．Chang’e 4 moon lander |
| C．tiny seeds in the soil | D．the steps of an experiment |
| A．It landed on the near side of the moon. | B．It carried a mini—garden. |
| C．It found plants on the moon. | D．It explored the moon base. |
| A．the far side of the moon gets less sunlight |
| B．we can see the far side of the moon from the earth |
| C．the stems fail to grow away from the earth’s gravity |
| D．the earth plants know the way to grow on the moon |
| A．Plants can be grown on the moon soon. | B．It is perfect to do experiments on the moon. |
| C．The cotton shoots can last 4 days on the moon. | D．We can see a new moon at the start of February. |
A smartphone’s low battery warning is the only warning that most people take seriously. A dead battery doesn’t have to happen to you. Turning off a few features and changing some settings can extend your battery life.
1. Let there be less light
One of the biggest battery drains is your screen, especially for larger smartphones. The longer the screen is on and the brighter it is, the faster your battery goes. Try setting the screen as dark as you can stand it and still read a text. Darkening the screen, by the way, is common among teenagers. But it makes it really hard for Mom and Dad to see what’s showing on their phone.
2. Turn off the signals
Your smartphone does a lot of communicating in the background. They’re checking for things like new emails, text messages, Wi-Fi signals, Bluetooth signals, your location and more.
These activities do burn up your battery life, so you want to turn off whatever you aren’t using. Location Services is another feature that drains your battery. It uses GPS and Wi-Fi to tell apps your location. In your settings, you can find out which apps have access to Location Services and turn them off.
3.Turn off notifications
Another way to improve battery life is to stop the constant flow of notifications and updates from Facebook, email, games, sites and apps. You mobile phone will automatically pick up these notifications when it’s connected to the internet, and they can have a noticeable impact on battery life.
4. Use battery saving mode
For a quick way to extend your battery, simply put your smartphone in Airplane Mode. This shuts down unimportant functions and apps like Wi-Fi, automatic email checking, some updates and more.
If used properly, these tips will improve your battery life up to 30 percent.
1. The underlined word “drains” means ________.| A．lights up | B．burns up | C．picks up. | D．makes up |
| A．small | B．large | C．bright | D．round |
| A．email family members | B．use Location Services |
| C．darken the screen | D．brighten the screen |
| A．Putting the smartphone in Airplane Mode. | B．Turning off notifications and updates. |
| C．Shutting down all apps on smartphones. | D．Turning off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals. |
6 . Have you ever had an experience where you meet someone new, learn their name and think to yourself, “Wow, they really look just like their name!” What does this mean, exactly? Scientists are suggesting that humans tend to associate people’s names with their appearance, and can even guess someone’s name based on how they look.
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel collected thousands of photos of people faces. They labeled each photo with four names. Then, they asked volunteers to guess which of the four names was correct.
The volunteers were able to guess the right name 38 percent of the time. It seems that humans are able to recognize certain characteristics of faces that can give them clues about someone’s name, Reader’s Digest reported.
However, this only works when we’re looking at names within our own culture. In addition, the volunteers were not as good at guessing the real names of people who use nicknames more often than their real names. This shows that a person’s appearance is affected by their name only if they use it often.
“This kind of face-name matching happens “because of a process of self-fulfilling prophecy, as we become what other people expect us to become,” Ruth Mayo from the university told science news website EurekAlert.
Previous studies have shown that gender and race stereotypes can affect a person’s appearance. The researchers believe there are also similar stereotypes about names. For example, people tend to think that men named Bob should have rounder faces because the word itself looks round. People may think that women named rose are beautiful. They expect them to be delicate and feminine, just like the flower they are named for.
1. What does the passage mainly tell us?| A．People can guess others’ names base on their appearance. |
| B．A person’s appearance can be affected by three factors. |
| C．There are several ways to guess a stranger’s name. |
| D．It’s not polite to ask strangers about their names. |
| A．racial stereotypes | B．their unique culture |
| C．a self-fulfilling prophecy | D．their living environment |
| A．wear glasses | B．have big eyes | C．look beautiful | D．have round faces |
| A．Nicknames have a bigger influence on people’s appearance. |
| B．Gender and race have no influence on a person’s appearance. |
| C．The volunteers guessed nearly four names correctly out of ten. |
| D．People are good at recognizing the different characteristics of faces. |
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1. Mr. and Mrs. Brown want to take Line A with their pet dog, how much do they pay?
| A．$ 50. | B．$ 45. | C．$ 40. | D．$ 36. |
| A．7 | B．6 | C．8 | D．10 |
| A．Tickets are more expensive in the high season. |
| B．Line A requires ten more minutes than Line B. |
| C．There are 9 opening hours every day in December. |
| D．People can save 10% if they buy two tickets for the same line. |
Little was understood about earthquakes before the 20th century. However, they have been responsible for millions of deaths and a huge amount of damage to humans over centuries. Earthquakes usually happen on the edges of large sections of the Earth's plates. These plates slowly move over a long period of time. Sometimes the edges, which are called fault lines. can get stuck, but the plates keep moving. Pressure slowly starts to build up where the-edges are stuck and, once the pressure gets strong enough, the-plates will suddenly move causing an earthquake.
Generally before and after a large earthquake there will be smaller earthquakes. The ones that happen before are called foreshocks. The ones that happen after are called aftershocks. Scientists don't really know if an earthquake is a foreshock until the bigger earthquake occurs.
Shock waves from an earthquake that travel through the ground are called seismic wave*. They are most powerful at the center of the earthquake, but they travel through much of the earth and back to the surface. They move quickly at 20 times the speed of sound.
Scientists use seismic waves to measure how big an earthquake is. They use a device* called seismograph to measure the size of the waves. The size of the wave is called magnitude.
To tell the strength of an earthquake, scientists use a scale* called the Moment Magnitude Scale or MMS（it used to be called the Richter scale）. The larger the number on the MMS scale, the larger the earthquake.
You usually won't even notice an earthquake unless it measures at least a 3.5 on the MMS scale. The picture on the right shows some examples of what may happen depending on the scale.
1. In Paragraph 1, the writer explains what the earthquake is by ________.| A．listing examples | B．offering data |
| C．making a comparison | D．giving an explanation |
| A．Scientists can't measure the strength of an earthquake exactly. |
| B．It's still difficult for scientists to tell when an earthquake comes. |
| C．After a bigger earthquake happens, people may notice foreshocks. |
| D．The earthquake won't cause any damage unless it reaches 9.0 MMS. |
| A．Your house might shake badly. | B．People might feel no shaking at all. |
| C．The family photo might fall off the wall. | D．Everything might break down on the street. |
| A．present facts about the earthquake |
| B．give early warnings before an earthquake |
| C．stress the importance of earthquake scale |
| D．provide knowledge of self-protection in earthquakes |
Hi, everyone. I’m Tina. I think our life in 2060 will be different from our life at the moment. There will be many robots in my house. Because robots will be cheap. And these robots will help my family do many kinds of work every day. Every morning the clock-robot will ask me to get up. Then the clothing-robot will dress me quickly. Next the kitchen-robot will make breakfast for me. When I get out of the house with my schoolbag, a car-robot will wait for me. After I show it my school ID card, the car will go. And then the car-robot will check my homework. When we get to school, the car-robot will say to me “See you tomorrow, Tina. Good luck.”
In the morning, I will have three lessons with my classmates. We’ll study on the Internet. We’ll use the e-book. The teachers are all robots. They are in different sizes and they can answer any question about any subject. In the afternoon, we’ll go to the science lab to have two classes in a new plane. After class, we’ll play football with robots. My classmates and robots can all be my friends. Don’t you think the life with robots in the future will be fantastic?
1. The ________ will dress Tina every morning.| A．clothing-robot | B．car-robot | C．kitchen-robot | D．clock-robot |
| A．Homework. | B．School ID card. | C．Ticket | D．Schoolbag. |
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six. |
| A．Children won’t do all kinds of work in 2060. |
| B．Robots will do all kinds of work in 2060. |
| C．Tina can make friends with not only classmates but also robots. |
| D．People won’t eat anything for breakfast in 2060. |
| A．Robots will be cheap. | B．Life with robots in the future. |
| C．Students will study with robots. | D．Different kinds of robots at home. |
10 . One day, I heard an American boy said to a Chinese girl student, “You speak very good English.” But the girl answered, “No, no. My English is very poor.” The foreigner was quite surprised at the answer. Thinking he had not made himself understood or the girl had not heard him clearly, he said. “Yes, indeed, you speak very well.” But the girl still kept saying “No.” In the end, the American boy could not understand and didn’t know what to say.
What’s wrong with the girl’s answer? She didn’t accept a compliment in the same way as the American people do. She should answer, “Thank you” instead of “No”. She really understood what the American boy had said, but she thought she should be modest. In the west, people will feel proud and confident when they are praised. So if someone says the dishes you have cooked are very delicious, you should say, “Thank you.”
In our country, we think being modest is a virtue and being proud is a bad thing, but in my opinion, being confident does not mean being proud, so sometimes you should be confident instead of being modest.
If you are modest and say “No, I’m afraid I can’t do it well” when working in a western country, the others may think that you really cannot do it. If you often say “No”, you will certainly be looked down upon by others. When asking for a job, if one says something like “Yes, I can certainly do it” instead of “let me have a try”, he or she will expect to get it. So in the west, you should be brave to show your self-confidence.
1. Why did the Chinese girl say “No” when she was praised?| A．Because she thought she should be proud. |
| B．Because she thought she should be confident. |
| C．Because she thought she should be modest. |
| D．Because she thought she is a student. |
| A．you can do it well | B．you can’t do it well |
| C．you like doing it | D．you don’t like doing it |
| A．瞧不起 | B．瞧得起 | C．表扬 | D．批评 |
| A．The girl didn’t hear the boy clearly. |
| B．The American boy understood the girl’s answer. |
| C．In China, people think being modest is a virtue. |
| D．The writer thinks being modest means being proud. |
| A．We should be proud and impolite in the west. |
| B．We should be modest and confident in the west. |
| C．We should be modest and brave in the west. |
| D．We should be brave and confident in the west. |
