1 . In the past, editing your photography needed professional(专业的) tools and might be difficult. But now thanks to thousands of apps online, you can edit your photos easily. Here are four good apps that you can use to edit your photos.
| Snapspeed (for iOS and Android) Snapspeed was first developed by Google for Android users, but it became so popular that a version for iPhone was added to the App Store too. It can make your photos become beautiful. It also offers all of its features(功能) for free. |
| Manual (for iOS) Manual is a little expensive. You need to pay nearly 4 dollars for it. But its users say that it deserves(值得) the price. The in-app camera is one of the best things on the market. You can edit the lighting by yourself and make your photos look like they are from a professional camera. |
| PicsArt Photo Studio (for Android) It is free for its users. PicsArt has thousands of ways to make your photos look the way you want. You can also use it to put two photos together and blend them into one wonderful picture. |
| Google Photos (for iOS and Android) Google Photos is another popular photo app. Although there are some advertisements in it, it is free for all the features. Google Photos offers a large space for you to store your photos. There is also a feature called Google Assistant that can help create albums(相册). |
| A．is offered to both iOS and Android users |
| B．is not free |
| C．is a little cheap |
| D．offers a large space to store photos |
| A．Providing a professional in-app camera | B．Changing the lighting according to the environment |
| C．Blending two photos into one picture | D．Making it possible to store a lot of photos |
| A．添加 | B．融合成 | C．搅拌 | D．拆卸 |
| A．Snapspeed was offered to iOS users only at first. | B．PicsArt Photo Studio can be used on an iPhone. |
| C．PicsArt has a very clean environment. | D．Google Photos helps create many kinds of albums. |
| A．a newspaper about business |
| B．a magazine about the mobile phone |
| C．an article about photo-editing apps |
| D．a diary from a student |
2 . Cities around the world are racing to become “smart”. It’s just like a classroom full of hard-working students. Take Toronto, Canada, for example. Tech company Google has made public a 1,500-page plan. It is going to remake two neighborhoods with things like snow-melting roads.
To build smart cities, we need lots of new technologies, such as robots and artificial intelligence (AI). These technologies will lead to safer and more efficient (效率高的) cities. However, they will also raise questions about privacy.
But there is a more serious problem: Smart cities will be difficult to manage.
As we know, tech products are sometimes unreliable (不可靠的). The Internet and our computers break down regularly.
Tech products also age quickly. Only a few years into their lives, problems may become commoner and commoner.
In smart cities, many basic systems and services, such as water services, are based on such tech products. What if they break down regularly? Can you imagine the result?
New technologies in 2020 will be outdated before 2025. If we use smart technologies widely in cities, we will need to be prepared to replace them every few years. But who would want to pay this bill?
The most important problem is whether having a smart city will make us better at solving urban problems. Smart technologies can’t solve problems on their own. Suppose AI programs discover a road that needs to be repaired. It still requires people to show up with asphalt (沥青) and a steamroller (蒸汽压路机), doesn’t it?
As an engineer, I think smart technologies should have a place in cities. However, that place is not everywhere. For many of our urban problems, we don’t really need the latest technologies. The best of the old ideas works better.
1. The underlined word “students” refers to ________.| A．cities in Canada | B．advanced technologies | C．cities around the world | D．people living in the cities |
| A．Invent snow-melting roads. |
| B．Make the company more efficient. |
| C．Remake two neighborhoods in Toronto. |
| D．Make public a plan for rebuilding Toronto. |
| A．The best of old ideas. | B．Lots of new technologies. |
| C．Asphalt and steamrollers. | D．The internet and computers. |
| A．safe and convenient | B．easier to manage |
| C．not as efficient as imagined | D．harmful to the environment |
| A．tech products break down regularly in smart cities |
| B．it is difficult and expensive to manage a smart city |
| C．many new technologies become outdated within five years |
| D．smart technologies can’t solve problems on their own |
3 . 北京冬奥会是科技的盛会，各种高科技频繁亮相，无论是智慧餐厅还是“猎豹”摄像机，让外国媒体大呼惊艳。不仅如此，科技给我们的生活也带来了巨变。假如你是九年级一班学生王华，学校正在举办科技节，你应邀参加以“科技改变生活”为主题的演讲比赛。请你根据以下思维导图的提示，用英语写一篇短文，介绍身边的科技及其优点。
要求：
1. 要点齐全，适当发挥；
2. 句子及篇章准确、连贯，书写规范；
3. 词数：80～100词左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
4. 文中不得出现考生的真实姓名、学校及其它任何个人相关信息。
Hello, everyone!
I am Wang Hua in Class One, Grade 9. It’s a great honor for me to speak here.
The rapid development of science and technology has brought great changes to our life. Smart phones, robots, high—speed trains and electric cars are
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Many people love sports — they love to play them, to watch them on television, and to talk about them. But this hobby sometimes has serious results — at least to the players. For example, when people play tennis, sometimes they hurt their elbow (肘部) and in this way they develop “tennis elbow”. Also it is easy to hurt a knee in a football game. These injuries (损伤) happen while the player is having fun, but they still hurt.
A few months ago, Kathleen Simmons, who loves playing volleyball, hurt her knee in a volleyball game. Her doctor told her that she needed a very difficult operation or she might not be able to play again. She felt very sad and didn’t know what to do.
Then Simmons learned about “video operation”. With the help of this new science in medicine, doctors can now repair many injuries and get people back on the playing field and back to their jobs much faster. Simmons found a hospital that was using this new science and went to see the doctor there. The doctors told her the operation could help.
For this operation, her doctor didn’t have to open her knee. Instead, he put a very small camera lens (镜头) inside her knee. The lens sent back pictures, which appeared on a television screen. As he worked, he could see the inside of her knee on the TV. With the help of the large pictures on the screen, the doctor knew exactly what to do when he was making the repairs.
Simmons started walking five days after her operation. “My knee hurt a lot the first few days,” she said. “But I felt better very quickly.” Now, six months after her operation, Simmons can do everything she did before her injury. “It feels like a new knee,” she said. “I can even play volleyball again.”
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Do you want to know more about the stars and planets? Would you like to make a model space station? Or would you like to visit the science museum to discover more about space? You would? Then join our school’s new Space Club.
At our first meeting we are going to learn about the moon and the planets. We have learnt something about them in our science lessons, but at the Space Club we are going to find out a lot more. We know that scientists have recently made new discoveries about several of the planets. Mr. Lu, our science teacher, has invited a famous scientist to come and talk to us about the latest space news.
Our first meeting will be in the Science Lab on the first floor of the Science Building. The meeting is on Thursday at 5:00 p.m. First, Mr. Lu will tell us about the different things that we going to do at the club, and then 5:30 p.m. the talk will begin. There will be time for you to ask questions, so please think about what you would like to ask before you come.
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If you want to take a look at the famous painting Mona Lisa, you’d have to fly to France, stand in a long line for a ticket, and walk with the crowded people in the museum. But thanks to the VR Museum of Fine Art, things will be much easier.
The VR Museum of Fine Art is a free app in Steam, an online gaming platform（平台）. With a special headset（头戴式装置）, you don’t need to buy the tickets or wait in line. You can easily enjoy art at home.
Virtual Reality（VR，虚拟现实）makes a virtual world for you. You can see and even interact（互动）with everything in the virtual world by wearing a special headset. The headset connects to your computer and lets you see a lot of things without going out of your room.
In the VR Museum of Fine Art, for example, you can touch the old Greek sculptures（雕塑）or look carefully on the Mona Lisa. You can also read about each piece of art.
By 2016, there were four “show rooms” with 15 sculptures and two paintings in the VR Museum of Fine Art. They are famous works of art from around the world, such as the Chinese Qin Dynasty’s Terra Cotta Army（兵马俑）, the Great Buddha of Kamakura（镰仓大佛）from Japan and Shiva the Lord of Dance（湿婆舞王）from India. All of them are to scale（按比例绘制的）.
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8 . The AI（人工智能） has changed our lives. There are four useful AI inventions here.
| Jiuge The AI can remember 300, 000 Chinese poems clearly. What’s more, it can write a poem in a very short time. In a CCTV show, Jiuge beat three great poem fans from a famous college. | Forpheus The ping-pong robot can play in an easy way with a beginner and a difficult way with a better player. What’s more, it not only encourages players with words like “Good job!” but also gives some good advice to improve their skills. |
| Self-driving AI It can drive the car more safely than humans. It doesn’t drink wine and never feels tired. It can do what we humans do. For example, if a car with this AI has passed a bus, it will flash（闪）two white lights side to side to show thanks to the bus. | Facial Recognition（人脸识别） It is used a lot in the world such as ACS. ACS won’t let a stranger in without the house owner’s permission（允许）. Paying by facial recognition is common now. The police in Hangzhou even caught a criminal （罪犯）at a concert with its help. |
| A．Because it can play the violin. | B．Because it’s good at poems. |
| C．Because it can drive cars safely. | D．Because it was on CCTV. |
| A．It will guess what job the player is. |
| B．It will be angry if the player is a beginner. |
| C．It will say “What a shame!” to the player. |
| D．It will change its way of playing according to different players. |
| A．When the car has to stop. | B．When the car wants to slow down. |
| C．When the car is ready to speed up. | D．When it has passed other vehicles. |
| A．电子商务 | B．门禁控制 | C．社会福利 | D．公共卫生 |
| A．No one can beat Forpheus. |
| B．Jiuge has written 300, 000 poems. |
| C．Facial Recognition helped the police catch a criminal. |
| D．Self-driving AI can make subway trains safer. |
9 . Have you ever been to a professional sports game? If you have, you will know how quickly the ball flies around a court（球场）.
Often a player will become upset（沮丧的）by a referee’s decision. The Argentinian tennis player David Nalbandian was fined $ 8,000 at the Australian Open in 2012 for throwing water over a referee. The worst thing is that it turned out the referee was wrong.
We know the referee was wrong because of technology. In tennis, this is called Hawk-Eye because a hawk（鹰）is famous for its sharp（锋利的）eyes. Even when flying high above in the air, a hawk can see a little mouse running around on the ground below. Like the hawk watching down from the sky, Hawk-Eye technology misses nothing. It has a video camera which tracks（跟踪）the ball. The camera sends the data to a computer. Then the computer can work out exactly where the ball will land.
Some tennis fans think the problem with this kind of technology is that it can slow the game down. Some soccer fans say they are glad that the technology will now be used in soccer. They think it will help solve a lot of arguments（争议）.
1. What does the underlined word “referee” mean in Paragraph 2?| A．对手 | B．裁判 | C．教练 | D．观众 |
| A．he broke the rule | B．he hit the referee |
| C．the referee was wrong | D．he threw water over the referee |
| A．Hawks only eat mice. | B．Hawks can fly for a long time. |
| C．Hawks can catch little mice from high above the sky. | D．Hawks’ eyes are large and sharp in shape. |
| A．Hawk-Eye technology misses nothing. |
| B．Hawk-Eye technology has video camera which tracks the ball. |
| C．Hawk-Eye technology can work out where the ball lands. |
| D．Hawk-Eye technology is liked by all the tennis fans. |
| A．Because it will help solve a lot of arguments. |
| B．Because the soccer players often disagree with the referee. |
| C．Because it is popular. |
| D．Because it is amazing. |
10 . Astronauts have already visited the moon and lived on space stations. They’ve never been to another planet, but they might visit Mars soon. Astronauts will spend about six months getting to the planet, then about two years on the planet and about six months traveling back to the earth. They’ll be away from the earth for about three years, so they’ll need much food.
It’s very expensive to take food into space. It costs about 120, 000 dollars to carry something that weighs one kilo, so an apple on Mars could cost 20, 000 dollars!
Of course, they will need to take much food with them to feed the astronauts for three years. This amount of fresh food can’t stay fresh, and it is very expensive to take, so they need to find food that is not very heavy.
At the moment, astronauts in space stations eat dried food. It’s very light, so it doesn’t cost much money to carry it into space.
However, astronauts will stay healthier and happier if they eat fresh food. In the future, astronauts on Mars may grow vegetables like carrots and lettuce.
Astronauts on Mars will probably have special machines. They’ll use these machines to change beans into food that tastes like meat or cheese. They probably won’t eat real meat or cheese because it won’t be possible to keep animals in space.
1. Which planet do the astronauts plan to go to next?| A．Mars. | B．Space. | C．The moon. | D．The sun. |
| A．About three years. | B．About two years. | C．About six months. | D．About thirty months. |
| A．Because it is cheap to carry. | B．Because it is cheap to buy. |
| C．Because it is very healthy. | D．Because it is easy to buy. |
| A．Eat only dried food. | B．Grow some fresh vegetables on Mars. |
| C．Grow food in their spacecraft. | D．Spend much money to carry food. |
| A．Apples. | B．Food that tastes like meat or cheese. |
| C．Real meat and cheese. | D．Animals. |
