1 . When traditional Chinese food baozi and the pizza meet together, what will probably happen?
These days a kind of new food called “Baozza” is getting popular online. In Beijing, many local people and a number of foreigners are the fans of the food. Why?
The new food has the features (特点) of Chinese baozi and western pizza. It has included the tastes of the two kinds of food. The restaurant, located in Beijing, serves all kinds of tastes of Baozza such as margherita and BBQ chicken.
The inventors of the food are a few American businessmen. They used to travel to southern China for business meetings. After they saw and ate baozi made of pork or vegetables many times, they came up with the great idea of creating Baozza.
Alex Cree, one of the inventors, said, “We were talking about the idea of making a kind of special baozi with more traditional western tastes like that of hamburgers and pizza. And then we called it ‘pizza baozi’.”
“There are a lot of people who only order one or two Baozza for the first time. They worry that the food doesn't taste so good,” Loren Heinold, another inventor, said. However, they will ask immediately for more when they turn around.”
1. What is Baozza according to the passage?| A．A kind of traditional Chinese food. | B．A kind of traditional western food. |
| C．A new invention of food. | D．A new restaurant in Beijing. |
| A．Some local people in Beijing. | B．A few Americans in Beijing. |
| C．Some Chinese people in America. | D．A few businessmen in South China. |
| A．Because they don’t have enough money. | B．Because they don’t like the special taste. |
| C．Because they worry that it isn’t healthy. | D．Because they worry that it isn’t delicious. |
| A．It’s exactly a kind of pizza. | B．It’s sold only in South China. |
| C．It’s loved by more and more customers. | D．It’s made of pork or vegetables. |
| A．A kind of new food called Baozza. | B．American businessmen in Beijing. |
| C．The differences between baozi and pizza | D．Delicious traditional Chinese food. |
2 . Teens want structure in their lives, which means they want their lives well-planned. To begin building structure, teens need love and trust. They need to know their parents are there to give them needed love and support (支持). Teens want to be sure that nothing can prevent parents from shouldering their responsibility for them — not their growing maturity (成熟), misbehavior, nor anger at something they have done. Teens want parents to keep control while allowing them to make some decisions.
There are some ways you can help your teens create reasonable structure and remain close. One way is to spend time together. Parents often mistake their teens’ increased interest in friends for a disinterest in the family.
Teens would like to spend more time doing things with their parents, but watching TV is not counted as spending time together. As your teens mature, it is important for you and your teens spend time alone together, one to one. Your teens need time to talk to you alone without any other family member present. Talk with your teens about their interests and concerns. Make sure you really show interest in what is happening. When talking with your teens, give full attention and do not stop them.
The way to help your teens become adults is to let your teens into your world. Sharing your emotions and concerns with your teens is important. Avoid causing needless worry. Trust your teens. Don’t expect the worst. Hope for the best. Telling your teens you don’t like their friends will cause the teens not to bring their friends home. If something should go wrong, believe that your teens didn’t do it on purpose.
It is very important that you treat your teens with respect. Teens need the same respect adults show for total strangers. Don’t talk down to your teens.
You need to be supportive of your teens. What may be a small problem to you may be troubling to your teens. Teens don’t have the experiences that adults have had. Let the teens know that you understand how much it hurts when something happens that is upsetting or hurtful to them. As they mature, they can look back at some problems they had and laugh at having been upset by something that now seems unimportant.
The most important things to remember are: talk with your teens, listen to their worries and offer suggestions when needed. This will help your teens to live a well-organized life.
1. According to Paragraph 1, teens ______.| A．can control themselves | B．expect direction and freedom |
| C．don’t know how to make decision | D．don’t have responsibility for the family |
| A．compared with | B．used as |
| C．connected with | D．regarded as |
| A．give suggestions | B．spend time alone together |
| C．trust their teens | D．worry about the worst |
| A．invite their teens’ friends home | B．leave their teens’ problems alone |
| C．share their feelings with their teens | D．pay little attention to their teens’ daily lives |
| A．Training Teens to Become Responsible Adults. |
| B．Helping Teens to Build Reasonable Structure. |
| C．Improving the Relationship with Your Teens. |
| D．Stepping into Your Teens’ Secret World. |
3 . We have been used to wearing masks(口罩)in public since February. About 300 million masks are used and then thrown away every day in China. Where do these masks go? You might think they just go in a rubbish bin. But that's just the first stop on the masks' journey.
After the masks are thrown into the bins, rubbish trucks empty the bins and take the rubbish to landfills(垃圾场). Next, the masks will be taken to rubbish incinerators(焚化炉)and burned. Burning masks might not seem to be very good for the environment. Won't it cause pollution?
The answer is "no", according to China Daily. The main material of most masks is polypropylene(聚丙烯). It's non-toxic(无毒的). After burning, it changes into water and CO2.
In fact, burning the masks can bring some benefits(益处). The process of burning the rubbish can produce electricity. Burning one ton of rubbish can produce more than 400 kilowatt hours(度)of electricity. Some people make a prediction that there will be 162,000 tons of used masks in China this year. Burning all of them can produce more than 64 million kilowatt hours of electricity. This is enough to make an electric car drive about 370 million km, which is 9,250 times as long as the earth's equator.
At last, the slag(残渣)from burning masks can be recycled to make bricks(砖块)or fill the roads.
1. How many masks are used and then thrown away every day in China?| A．More than 64 million. | B．About 300 million. | C．About 370 million. | D．About 9,250 million. |
| A．electricity factories | B．landfills | C．rubbish trucks | D．rubbish bins |
| A．plastic | B．polypropylene | C．water | D．CO2 |
| A．Burning masks won't cause pollution. |
| B．People are not used to wearing masks in public. |
| C．There are 162,000 tons of used masks every month in China. |
| D．The process of burning the masks can produce electricity and bricks. |
| A．How do We Burn Used Masks? | B．How do People Produce Electricity? |
| C．Where do the Used Masks Go? | D．Why do We Throw Away Used Masks? |
4 . Once upon a time, a king dressed up and went to a local village. He placed a large stone in the middle of the main road and hid gold coins under the stone. Then he hid behind a huge tree and watched.
The first person down the street was a milkman with his car (小车). He crashed into the stone and the milk spread all over the ground. “What fool put this stone here? “he shouted. He picked himself up and angrily went away.
After a while, a group of women came along, each balancing a pot of water on her head. One woman tripped over (绊倒) the stone and her water pot went crashing to the ground. She picked herself up and walked away in tears. Neither she nor her friends thought about moving the stone out of the road.
The king watched all day as many people complained about the stone, but he found nobody was willing to move it. The king wondered, “Is there no one in this village who feels any responsibility to keep their neighbors from harm?”
Just then, the king saw a young girl coming along. She was the daughter of a local farmer. She had been working all day and was very tired. But when she saw the stone, she said to herself. “This stone is a danger to anyone who comes down the road after dark. I’ll move it out of the way.”
After a great deal of effort, the girl finally succeeded in moving the stone to the side of the road. Imagine her surprise when she saw the gold coins where the stone had been!
Just then, the king stepped out from behind the tree. “Oh sir,” the girl said, “Is this gold yours? If not, we surely must find the owner, for he will certainly miss it.”
The king said, “My dear, the gold is mine, but now the gold is yours, because you are the only person who has learnt the lesson I want to teach my people. Nothing good can come to a nation whose people only complain and expect others to solve their problems.”
1. How did the milkman feel when he crashed into the stone?| A．Angry. | B．Sad. | C．Curious. | D．Worried. |
| A．欲望 | B．兴趣 | C．责任 | D．能力 |
| A．He wanted to give the girl a reward. | B．He wanted to hide gold coins under it |
| C．He wanted to play a trick on his people. | D．He wanted to see if anyone would move it. |
| A．All the people complained about the stone. |
| B．It was not easy for the girl to move the stone. |
| C．One of the women in the group tried to move the stone. |
| D．The girl was excited when seeing the gold coins under the stone. |
| A．A wise king | B．A kind girl |
| C．A stone on the road | D．Gold coins under the stone |
