1 . There is great excitement and argument（争论）over Artificial Intelligence（AI, 人工智能）. The argument about whether robots will replace teachers in the classroom is very heated. Some people think it is sure to happen in the next ten years. Others think that the value a good teacher brings, not only to the classroom setting. but in developing a child’s confidence and creativity outside lessons, cannot be easily replaced.
AI is not new for us and is already being used successfully in many fields, such as medicine, science and so on. So what does this mean for our future? In my view, AI will help kids to think more freely and creatively. Can AI possibly cut down the teaching work in the future, too? Of course. Our teachers are always busy preparing materials for their lessons, Just imagine how happy they would be if they don’t have to copy hundreds of paper, but instead, have this task or others done by machines.
However, most importantly, I do not believe AI will be able to imitate the human mental condition totally, especially emotional intelligence（情商）. What makes learning unforgettable is shared experience, human interaction（互相作用）, and long-lasting positive relationships. For example, experienced teachers can comfort a student if he has suffered a serious loss. But it hasn’t been proved that robots can imitate this well.
I also believe we need to continue to celebrate our kids’ personality and their ability not only to make decisions but also make the right decisions. These are skills that they can get as they get more life experience and are given the space to experiment.
To what degree can teachers use AI in their classes? You can have all the data（数据）you like with the help of AI, but great teachers will also need to depend on their own feelings.
1. The writer starts the passage by ________.| A．telling stories | B．comparing views |
| C．raising questions | D．giving suggestions |
| A．use AI as much as possible in the class teaching |
| B．help kids think more freely and creatively than AI |
| C．have high intelligence to deal with the heavy teaching work |
| D．develop a child’s confidence and creativity outside the lessons |
| A．Why teachers can be replaced in classrooms. |
| B．There is argument over Artificial Intelligence. |
| C．How helpful AI can be to both students and teachers. |
| D．AI is only being used successfully in education. |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
| A．A teacher gives lessons to students. |
| B．A teacher use modern way to teach students. |
| C．A teacher comforts a student who failed the exam. |
| D．A teacher checks hundreds of paper by himself every day. |
2 . Today, it is a big problem for young people to get fine jobs after they leave university. It is said that there are thousands of different kinds of jobs in the world. But choosing the right one itself often worries young people.
“Finding a job” is not the same as “choosing a job”. Many young people end up in jobs that they are not suitable (合适的) for. Here are a few steps to help you think about jobs which you might enjoy doing after school or university.
First, it is important to know what kind of person you are, which special qualities (品质) make you better than others and what you are interested in. There is a difference between an interest and a skill. If you like art and enjoy looking at pictures, that is an interest. But if you can draw a horse that looks like a horse not a big dog, that is a skill.
Then ask yourself a question, “Of the following three skills-skill with people, skill with information and skill with things, which is my best skill?”
After finding out your best skill, the next step is to research (调查). To find out as many different kinds of jobs as possible, go to the library and read books, magazines and newspapers for information. Ask your friends what they think of the work they do.
The last step is to trust your own ideas and your own thinking! It is your own life, just find the job you really enjoy doing.
1. Paragraph One tells us that it’s ________ to choose a right job.| A．easy | B．hard | C．necessary | D．different |
| A．You do well in computer programming. | B．You enjoy playing the guitar. |
| C．You practice swing dance quite often. | D．You collect quite a lot of CDs. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．To tell people how to choose a suitable job. | B．To describe the problems of getting fine jobs. |
| C．To show the steps of finding out your best skills. | D．To explain why choosing fine jobs worries people. |
3 . Once there was a young man who began to feel too good after he succeeded. He was so proud（自负的）that he felt he could do anything easily.
One day, the young man asked a wise man（智者）to climb the mountain together. On the way, the young man kept talking about how good he was, but the wise man just listened to him without saying a word. At the top, the wise man asked, "Look! What do you see below? " "I see trees, farms, houses and people on the firm, " the young man said. "What do you feel?, " the wise man asked the other question. ''Everything is under me. I feel I am very powerful（强大的）, " the young man answered.
After a minute, he asked the young man to look up. "What can you see this time?" the wise man asked. "There are different birds and white clouds flying around high mountains, the young man answered. Then he asked the wise man's feelings. UI feel small and powerless, " the wise man answered. "If a person knows there is always the sky over his head, he can understand where he stands. "
The young man disagreed with the wise man. At last, he left angrily and still believed that he was the best.
Just after a few months, the young man lost everything. At that time, he felt sorry for what he said. From then on, whenever he began to feel too good, he looked at the sky. Then he remembered his right place.
1. Why did the wise man ask the young man to look up?| A．To ask him to enjoy the sky. | B．To make him know he is short. |
| C．To let him understand his place. | D．To make him become angry. |
| A．Because he wasn't good at all. |
| B．Because he was too proud. |
| C．Because the wise man didn't like him. |
| D．Because he didn’t look at the sky. |
| A．There is no great man in the world. |
| B．We can look at the sky to enjoy the clouds. |
| C．There is always someone better than you. |
| D．You can’t do anything well if you feel good. |
（①=Para.（自然段）1 ②=Para. 2 ③=Para. 3 /④=Para. 4 ⑤=Para. 5）
| A．①/②/③④⑤ | B．①②/③④/⑤ | C．①/②③/④⑤ | D．①/②③④/⑤ |
4 . Coco is a small rabbit and he lives in a forest（森林）with his mother, Dabai. One morning, he can't find his mother. So he goes everywhere to look for （寻找）her.
Under the tree, he meets Wangwang, a dog. "Where is my mother? Do you know?he asks the dog. "Oh, I'm playing football and I don't see your mother, M Wangwang says.
Coco gets to the grassland（草地）. There he see Jiajia, a horse. "Do you see my mother, Jiajia? " he asks. "Sorry, I don't, " Jiajia says. 'I'm eating grass here. "
He is very sad. "Where is my mother?" he is thinking while he is walking. Then he sees Mimi, a cat, near a river. "Hi, Coco, Mimi says to Coco. "I know where your mother is. She thinks I'm her son. Look! She is looking for food for me near the river now. "
At this time, Dabai sees Coco and knows what happens.
1. Jiajia is __________ when Coco gets to the grassland.| A．playing football | B．eating grass |
| C．eating fish | D．drinking water |
| A．near the river | B．in the forest |
| C．under the tree | D．on the grassland |
| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
| A．①；②；③④⑤ | B．①；②③；④⑤ | C．①；②③④；⑤ | D．①②；③④；⑤ |
5 . ①Amy and Susan both live an average（平常的）life. They have an average house, an average job and an average family. There is really nothing special about their lives, but there is also nothing really negative（消极的）about their lives.
②However, when they are both happy, it always seems that Amy is happier than Susan. It looks like nothing can trouble Amy. She is the life of the party and always has a big smile on her face.
③ Susan can't stop thinking about this. How is Amy so happy when they both lead such similar lives? They go to the same stores, watch the same movies, even have similar schedules! How can Amy be so carefree when life is so stressful?
④Between one's daily life and personal dreams, there is no way one can be so happy and stress-free all the time. There are always a million things going on.
⑤But when Susan asks Amy about this, Amy says, " I just take life as it comes. It seems pretty easy then. "
⑥__▲ How is it that Amy's life seems so much better most of the time?
⑦The problem with Susan is that she spreads herself too thin. Not physically （身体上），but in her own head. While she tries to do everything at once and think about everything at once, Amy takes everything one step at a time. She is where she is, stays present in the moment and allows herself to focus on（关注）just one thing at a time.
⑧When you live each moment to its fullest, when you deal with where you are and are present in the now, most of your stress will go away.
1. What might be the Chinese meaning of the underlined word "carefree"?| A．粗心的 | B．关心的 | C．无忧虑的 | D．仔细的 |
| A．So Susan is always less happy than her friend Amy. |
| B．So what is the difference between these two friends? |
| C．So what is the result of these two friends' experience? |
| D．Let me give you some examples about these two friends. |
| A．①④⑤/⑥⑦⑧ | B．①②/③④⑤⑥⑦/⑧ |
| C．①②③/④⑤⑥/⑦⑧ | D．①②/③④⑤/⑥⑦⑧ |
| A．Take life one step at a time | B．How to stay healthy under stress |
| C．What we can learn from friends | D．Let's become an average person |
6 . ①From economy (经济) to technology, from sports to culture, China has made progress in many areas in the past seventy years.
②Over the past 70 years, China has achieved rapid economic growth.
③In 1978, China's GDP was 11th in the world. In 2001, China became a member of the World Trade Organization. Since then, the country has been doing more and more business with the rest of the world. Today China is the world's largest exporter（出口国）and the second largest importer (进口国). Since 2010, China has been the second largest economy in the world.
④In 2013, President Xi Jinping came up with the Belt and Road Initiative. In the past few years, more than 100 countries and international organizations have joined it. It has created more than 300,000 jobs in different countries.
⑤China has built the world's biggest high-speed rail network. The trains have attracted millions of travelers, as they are fast, comfortable and safe. And planes made in China are popular.
⑥China is also working on the development of AI (人工智能). China may become the center of AI innovation (创新) by 2030.
⑦Today, China is a sports superpower. Many Chinese athletes have become famous on the world stage, such as Yao Ming and Li Na. In 2008, Beijing held the Summer Olympic Games. It is also going to hold the 2022 Winter Olympics.
⑧More and more people around the world are becoming interested in Chinese culture. They visit China and learn Chinese. Also, China has set up 536 Confucius Institutes in more than 150 countries. A lot of foreign students are learning Chinese language and culture there.
1. Today China is ________ in the world.| A．the second largest exporter | B．the largest importer |
| C．the largest country | D．the second largest economy |
| A．two | B．three | C．four | D．five |
| A．invite visitors around the world | B．talk about Chinese culture |
| C．praise China for its great progress | D．encourage Chinese to work hard |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
7 . ①How would you feel if someone decided to take away your park? Well that's what's happening in my community. There's a park that some people want to turn into a golf course （高 尔夫球场）. Let me tell you why I think it's a bad idea.
②First, a community park should open for everyone. But not everyone likes golf, so not everyone will get to use the court.
③Second, to build the golf course, lots of playground equipment will have to be moved or knocked down, which is a waste （浪费）of time and money.It’s also a waste of good equipment.
④Third, what about giving young people something to do? Not all kids are fond of golf. At the moment, the park has a skating place and a playground, which children like a lot. If you turn the park into a golf course, these kids won't have anywhere to go and anything to do. This means that they will stay at home and turn on a video game instead of getting some exercise. It also means that they might be out on the street causing trouble. Wouldn't it be better to give them something to do at the park?
⑤Finally, golf is expensive. Building and maintaining（维护）a golf course cost a lot of money. Who is going to pay to maintain the golf course?
⑥Turning our park into a golf course is a bad idea. I suggest we have a community meeting before plans go any further.
1. Some people want to change the park into ________.| A．a golf club | B．a golf course | C．a park | D．a skating place |
| A．go to get some exercise | B．play golf with their friends |
| C．play video games at home | D．go to the street and make friends |
A．  | B．  | C．  | D．  |
| A．to make plan for building the golf course | B．to make the park more beautiful |
| C．to ask children to go skating | D．to stop building the golf course |
8 . ①Nowadays, lots of young people have problems with their minds. These problems not only hurt the students’ health but also make their parents and teachers very worried. And these problems have caught people's attention.
②Ma Qingyu, a student from Shandong, could not understand his teacher and was doing badly in his lessons. He became so worried about it so that he started to lose appetite（胃口）.
③Another student, 16-year-old Zhang Ni from Zhejiang, was afraid of exams. She got very worried in exams. And when she looked at the exam paper, she couldn't think of anything to write.
④These are just two examples. A recent report from China Daily says about 14% of Beijing teenagers have mental problems. Their troubles include（包括）being worried and very unhappy, and having problems in learning and getting on with people. Many students who have problems won't go for advice or help. Some think they will look stupid if they go to see a doctor. Others don't want to talk about their secrets.
⑤An expert（专家）on teenagers from Huashan Hospital has the following advice for teenagers.
*Talk to your parents or teachers often.
*Take part in group activities and play sports.
*Go to see a doctor if you feel unhappy or unwell.
1. Ma Qingyu lost his appetite because __________.| A．he was afraid of his teacher | B．he was so worried about his studies |
| C．his parents did badly in cooking | D．he wanted his parents to care about him |
| A．身体的 | B．心理的 | C．情感的 | D．学习的 |
| A．teachers and parents can't do anything about mental problems |
| B．some students don't think doctors can help them |
| C．only group activities and sports can help them |
| D．it's necessary for the students to be with others |
（①=Para. （自然段）1 ②=Para. 2 ③=Para. 3 ④=Para. 4 ⑤=Para. 5
| A．①;②③;④⑤ | B．①②;③④;⑤ | C．①;②③④;⑤ | D．①②③;④;⑤ |
9 . If you cannot live without your car, Zurich might be the last city you would like to visit. In Zurich, people are welcome, but cars are not! Over the past 20 years, this city has used smart ways to make traffic lighter.
One is to keep the same number of parking spaces. For example, if 50 new parking spaces are built in one part of the city, then 50 old spaces in other parts are taken away for other uses. So the total number doesn't change. Some are unhappy that there are never enough spaces. That is just what the city has in mind: If people find parking more difficult, they will drive less.
Also, the number of cars in the city is counted (数). Over 3,500 little computers are put under Zurich roads to check the number of cars that come into the city. If the number is higher than the city can deal with (处理), the traffic lights on the roads that enter the city will be kept red. So drivers who are traveling into Zurich have to stop and wait until there are fewer cars in the city.
Now, you may ask why Zurich is doing this. This is simply because the city wants to make more spaces for its people.
1. The writer tells us how to keep the same number of parking spaces by _______.| A．giving a reason | B．giving an example |
| C．sharing a story | D．drawing a picture |
1. Zurich only welcomes people with mini cars
2. Zurich is a small city with a long history
3. it's difficult to find a parking space in Zurich
4. you can't drive into Zurich at any time you want
| A．1, 3 | B．2, 3 | C．3, 4 | D．1, 4 |
| A．People will build more parking spaces under Zurich roads. |
| B．All the computers under Zurich roads will stop working. |
| C．Drivers will stop and wait before traveling into Zurich. |
| D．The lights on the roads in Zurich will be always kept red. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
10 . A group of swans flew down to a beach where a crow (乌鸦) was jumping around. The crow watched them with disdain (鄙视).
“You have no flying skills at all!” he said to the swans. “All you can do is to move your wings. Can you turn over in the air? No, that’s beyond you. Let’s have a match. I’ll show you what real flying is!”
One of the swans, a strong young male, took up the challenge. The crow flew up and began to show off his skills. He flew in circles performed other flying tricks, and then came down and looked proudly at the swan.
Now it was the swan’s turn. He flew up, and began flying over the sea. The crow flew after him, making all kinds of comments (评价) about his flying. They flew on and on till they couldn’t see the land and there was nothing but water on all sides. The crow was making fewer and fewer comments. He was now so tired that he found it hard to stay in the air, and had to struggle to keep himself from falling into the water.
The swan pretended not to notice, and said, “Why do you keep touching the water, brother? Is that another trick?”
“No,” said the crow. He knew he had lost the competition. “I’m in trouble because of my pride! If you don’t help me, I’ll lose my life ...”
The swan took pity on him, and took him on his shoulders and flew back to the beach.
1. What’s the correct order of the following events?a. The crow showed off its flying skills.
b. The swan felt pity for the crow and saved it.
c. The crow laughed at the swan’s flying.
d. The crow followed the swan and got into trouble.
e. The crow challenged the swans and a strong young swan accepted it.
| A．e, c, d, a, b | B．a, e, c, d, b | C．c, e, a, d, b | D．e, a, d, c, b |
| A．It was showing another flying skill. |
| B．It was struggling to keep itself from falling into the water. |
| C．It was thirsty and wanted to drink some water. |
| D．It was enjoying itself by doing so. |
| A．The crow didn’t know flying at all. |
| B．Flying skills were useless. |
| C．The swan saved the crow because they were good friends. |
| D．The swan was better at long-distance flying than the crow. |
| A．No pains, no gains. | B．The early bird catches the worm. |
| C．Pride goes before a fall. | D．Practice makes perfect. |
