1 . 世界在发展,生活在变化。社会的进步让我们的生活越来越好。请通过以下四组图片,从信息来源、购物方式、居住环境、联系方式等方面,以"How Life Changes!"为题写一篇短文。

要求:
1.词数100左右;
2.请先简要介绍表格中的四组图片,再根据生活实际列举至少一个方面,作适当发挥;
3.文稿中不得出现真实的人名、校名和地名;
4.字迹工整,语言流畅,表达正确,逻辑清晰。

	In the past	Now
①	newspaper radio　television	mobile phone　　computer
②	shop	online shop
③	old and dirty house	new and clean house
④	letter　　　postcard	email　　WeChat　 QQ

How Life Changes!

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2 . I am Mike Smith, a doctor from London. I really feel that life in China is changing so quickly. Recently I had a business trip to Tianjin. I left my Beijing apartment and walked half a street to the subway station. About twelve stops later, I reached the high-speed rail station. After two minutes of security (安检), I picked up my ticket, which I had bought on my phone while on the subway. Then I walked to the terminal (终点站) and got on the train. Twenty-eight minutes later, I was in the center of a beautiful city—Tianjin. I could enjoy a nice walk along the riverside towards my hotel. It is amazing that the whole experience took no more than a few hours, with no cars, no airports, no credit cards (信用卡) and no long lines, just my smart phone, only a few US dollars and comfortable walking shoes. In most places in the developed world, there is no experience like this. But China is different.

So in my opinion, if we think highly of China’s modern wonders, I believe its high-speed rail system must be one of them. And it's one symbol of a new China and a sign of China’s strength (实力) as well.

1. Mike Smith is from ________.

A．America

B．the UK

C．Australia

D．Canada

2. Mike bought his ticket to Tianjin ________.

A．on his phone	B．from the high-speed rail ticket office
C．from the subway ticket office	D．with the help of his friend

3. How many traffic tools did Mike use from his apartment to his hotel in Tianjin?

A．One.

B．Two.

C．Three.

D．Four.

4. According to the passage, which of the following isn’t Mike’s ideas about his trip?

A．Comfortable.

B．Fast.

C．Cheap.

D．Boring.

5. What is Mike’s attitude (态度) to Chinese high-speed rail train?

A．He looks down upon it.

B．He dislikes it.

C．He thinks highly of it.

D．He hates it.

3 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。

Robots have built a big house in Switzerland using 3D-printed materials. It is the first house made by robots for people to live       1    . It is environmentally friendlier and       2     (safe) than man-made houses.

The creators say the future of building will     3     (influence) by the big house. “This is a new way of seeing architecture（建筑）,” said one of the creators. “How you build is important.”

The big house was built     4     (complete) from robot-made materials. It used 60% less cement（水泥）than a man-made house. There are 35 parts in the house, but some     5       (wise) robots built each one in 60 to 90 minutes. It means     6     the robots built the full house in just 48 hours.

It is not the first time for robots     7     (build) houses. The Chinese used 3D printers to build 10 houses in a day in 2014. And also     8     created a building the next year. Last year,     9     (Italian) built a house in just 48 hours.

Scientists say one day they could send robots to build houses on     10     moon. We are curious about how we're building for the future.

4 . Technology is developing fast and it has become an important part of our life. Then what will the world be like in the future?

3-D food will be both delicious and nutritious (有营养的). We can use 3-D printers to print some basic materials. _____ And we can go further. Scientists believe that we just need to turn on a printer in the kitchen and then we can enjoy our favourite food whenever we like.

_____ 5G network will allow many more people to get information. Big companies like China Mobile and China Unicom will start to offer 5G. It is said that 5G promises download speeds 10 to 20 times faster than 4G. For example, we can download a film within just 1 second. But with a 4G network, it takes a few minutes. There will be much bandwidth (带宽) and we can get unlimited (无限的) information.

Underwater cities will provide more space. The earth is becoming more and more crowded. We may turn to underwater homes, which will be built as low as 15 kilometers below the sea. And the different temperatures at the different depths (深度) of the sea can be used to provide power for the homes.

_____ For us common people on the earth, the dream of travelling around space will come true. In the coming years, spacecraft will be as popular as buses, trains and planes. We can leave our home and enter space to take an adventure (冒险). And even we will get used to living there.

A robot will be a part of life. Robots can do many of the same things as we humans do like driving cars. But they will be used in other areas as well. They will be able to think. They can tell the difference between right and wrong. They can feel sadness or joy. When we are lonely, they can have a talk with us like real friends.

_____ In a word, just as Jules Verne said, "Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real."

1. According to the passage, which of the following statements about the future world is TRUE?

A．3-D food will be easy to make but won't taste good.

B．With 5G, users will get only a little information.

C．Underwater cities will provide more living space.

D．A robot will do everything for us as human beings.

2. Where can the sentence "Space tour will be a piece of cake." be put?

A．①

B．②

C．③

D．④

3. What can we infer (推断) from the passage?

A．People will live a hard life in the future.

B．Technology will make our future better.

C．People will have no real friends in the future.

D．Technology will make no difference to our future.

4. Where does the passage probably come from?

A．A storybook.

B．A film poster.

C．A travel guide.

D．A science magazine.

5 . Artificial intelligence(人工智能), or AI in short, is the science of giving computers and machines ability to think and work like humans. AI scientists and engineers have made a lot of cool technologies.

AI is rapidly catching up with the human ability to read faces. As a result, facial recognition(识别) is used a lot in the world. Chinese police use this technology to identify criminals(罪犯). Once they caught a criminal when he attended a concert. It also checks the ID of ride-hailing(网约车) drivers and lets people pay for things with a smile.

AI is also used in self-driving cars, which are believed to be the future of driving. Most drivers may wave or nod at passers-by to let them cross the street, but self-driving cars don't have this ability. Carmakers are testing a light signal system to help them "speak" to humans. The system can show what self-driving cars will do. For example, if a driverless car is yielding(让路), it will flash two white lights side to side. A rapidly flashing light tells passers-by that the car is about to speed up.

Service Robots also show you how powerful AI is. Imagine this—you come back home from school and your robot housekeeper is waiting for you at the door. After dinner, he teaches you to play the piano, just like a real music teacher. Such thoughts will soon happen in the real world. In the future, more and more service robots will become good home helpers.

AI is so powerful that it can help human beings and even replace us in many jobs.

1. What does the underlined word "identify" in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．To let somebody know his mistakes.	B．To come to realize and tell who is who.
C．To take somebody to the police station.	D．To inform somebody of something important.

2. According to the passage, what is facial recognition used for?

A．Driving cars.	B．Making people smile.
C．Calling the police.	D．Checking people's information.

3. Which technology has been used in real life according to the passage?

A．Service Robots at school.	B．Robots as ride-hailing drivers.
C．Facial recognition for payment.	D．Light signals for self-driving cars.

4. What can we learn from the passage?

A．People use AI in many different ways.	B．AI will take the place of human beings in all jobs.
C．Self-driving cars will be able to talk like humans.	D．A criminal was caught for inventing facial recognition.

6 . What if you had the chance to meet with a dead loved one in virtual reality (VR) (虚拟现实)?

Recently, a South Korean video recording a special meeting between a mother and a daughter has touched the hearts of many people. The video is from a TV show called Meeting You.     1     Jang Ji-sung, a mother of four, meets her dead daughter Nayeon in this way. Nayeon is Jang’s third daughter and she died of an illness at the age of seven.

In the video, Jang wears a VR headset (头戴式耳机) and gloves.     2     Jang and the virtual Nayeon meet in a virtual park and have a birthday party. They blow out the candles on the cake and Nayeon makes a wish.     3     Then she goes to sleep. Jang replies “me too” and reaches out to touch Nayeon again as she falls asleep. “Even though it was very short, I was really happy at that time. I think I had the dream I’ve always wanted,” Jang said.

The video has been watched more than 13 million times in a week on YouTube.     4     “My mother passed away two years ago and I wish I could meet her through virtual reality,” said one of the viewers. “When I watch the video, I am full of hope and the world looks better,” another viewer added.

The maker of the show spent eight months processing the virtual Nayeon. “People often think technology is something cold, but I’d like to say it can also warm your heart,” said the maker of the show.

A．They allow Jang to see, hear and touch the virtual Nayeon.

B．Later, Nayeon says, “Goodbye, Mom, I love you.”

C．It is unrealistic for most people who lost their family members.

D．Many viewers offered their support for the technology.

E．It mainly wants to help people meet with their lost family members by VR technology.

7 . The invention of the camera goes far into the past. In the 1500s, men were experimenting with cameras that made images. But it was not until the early 1800s that man found a way to make the pictures permanent. Even then, photography was a new field. Most families had their pictures taken by a photographer. People did not own cameras because taking pictures and developing the film were too difficult.

In 1884, George Eastman changed photography by inventing a kind of film that fit into a small camera. Because the new film was easy to use, many people began to buy cameras. When they had used up their film, people returned their cameras to the factory. There, the film was developed, and pictures were printed. Then more film was put into the cameras, which was sent back to the owners, along with their pictures.

Eastman’s camera made it easy to take pictures. Today’s cameras are even easier to use, and people can put in their own film. Photography has become a growing hobby.

There are also many new jobs in the field of photography. One of the most important kinds of work is in news reporting. Newspapers, magazines, and television all need pictures to tell their stories. Photographers aid scientists by taking pictures through microscopes and telescopes. Deep-sea divers take pictures of ocean plants and animals, while astronauts take cameras into space. Man finds new uses for the cameras every day.

1. In 1884, George Eastman changed photography by inventing a new kind of ________.

A．image

B．factory

C．film

D．camera

2. Long ago, people sent their cameras to a factory because _________.

A．they wanted to have the cameras cleaned.

B．they wanted their film developed.

C．they broke their cameras when taking pictures.

D．they wanted to have their pictures taken by a photographer.

3. On the whole, this passage is about ___________ .

A．the field of photography	B．the life of George Eastman
C．how photographers aid scientists	D．George Eastman invented the first camera

4. Why did people begin to buy their own cameras?

A．Taking and developing pictures became easier.

B．They did not like to go to photographers.

C．They wanted to see what a camera looked like.

D．They wanted to find a way to make their pictures permanent.

5. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．Deep-sea divers do not use cameras.

B．Photographers cannot find jobs today.

C．There are different kinds of cameras.

D．Early man found a way to make photographers aid scientists.

8 . Take a piece of hair from your head. Ouch! It may be long, but it’s not wide. Three scientists spent over 30 years _______ a kind of machine. This kind of machine is about a thousand times _______ than the width of one piece of your hair. These machines are _______ small that they can only be seen under a microscope(显微镜)! They _______ nanomachines(纳米机器).

Because of their hard work, the three scientists _______ the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They are all Europeans. Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, one of the scientists, told reporters that he thanked hundreds of other scientists from 24 different countries for helping make this prize _______. He said he once brought a chocolate Nobel Prize to his daughter from a trip to Stockholm. He expected _______ a real one someday.

What are nanomachines good for? Scientists believe that _______ the future, nanomachines can help deliver(传送) medicines inside a person’s body, or take away things that are making us sick. Mr. Feringa compared _______ work to that of the Wright Brothers. When the Wright Brothers flew their airplane for the first time, some people questioned what airplanes _ good for. Now airplanes help us travel fast and we use them all the time.

1.

A．inventing

B．invent

C．to inventing

D．invented

2.

A．the smallest

B．smaller

C．small

D．smallest

3.

A．very

B．so

C．such

D．quite

4.

A．are calling

B．is called

C．called

D．are called

5.

A．will win

B．won

C．wins

D．has won

6.

A．possibility

B．possibly

C．possible

D．impossible

7.

A．have

B．to have

C．having

D．to having

8.

A．in

B．for

C．at

D．on

9.

A．their

B．them

C．they

D．theirs

10.

A．is

B．were

C．was

D．are

9 . A British supermarket became the first in the world to let customers pay by using just the veins(静脉) in their fingers in September, 2017.

Customers at the Costcutter store, at Brunel University in London, can now pay by using their vein map.

The company behind the technology, Sthaler, said it was in “serious talks” with other big British supermarkets to use high－technology finger vein scanners(扫描器)．

It works by using infrared(红外线) to scan people's finger veins and then connects this map with their bank cards.Customers' bank details are then stored with payment provider Worldpay, in the same way you can store your card details when shopping online.Shoppers can then go to the supermarket with nothing on them but their own hands and use it to make payments in just three seconds.It requires the person to be alive.It means that if a criminal cuts off someone's finger, it would not work.

It's reported that fingerprint recognition(指纹识别)，used widely on mobile phones now，is unsafe and can be copied even from finger smears(指纹残留) left on phone screens.But vein technology is safer as it cannot be copied or stolen.

Sthaler said nearly fifty students were already using the system and it expected 3,000 students out of 13, 000 to have signed up by November.

Simon Binns, commercial director of Sthaler, told The Daily Telegraph, “This makes payments so much easier for customers.This is the safest form.”

Information Card

The time to take to make a payment by using the vein technology		1
The number of the students already using the system by Sthaler		2
The company which invented the vein technology		3
The advantages of the vein technology		4
The person who is the commercial director of Sthaler		5

10 . George Devol who came from the USA designed the first programmable robot in 1969. It meant that the robot age had started from then on. However, in about 989 BC, during western Zhou Dynasty, a Chinese man whose name was Yan Shi made a wood robot. It looked like a real man and it was able to do many actions. It was good at dancing and it has a heart, a stomach and other things in its body. It also had teeth and hair. It could express its feelings by using its eyes. Its eyes could move and could show love to women, but it couldn't laugh. It was probably the earliest robot in the world.

Not all robots always look like humans. They have various shapes. They are clever and they can do all kinds of jobs, especially difficult and dangerous jobs. They are widely used in factories, banks, hospitals and other places. In the future, robots will make fewer mistakes, even can correct themselves and they will be smarter. It's possible that we will have a robot in our own home. They will do more things for us. We will have more free time to have a rest, to relax ourselves with the help of robots. I believe that we can have a better life.

1. What started the robot age?

A．The first programmable robot.	B．The Chinese robot.
C．The wood robot.	D．The small robot.

2. What couldn't Yan Shi's robot do?

A．Dance.	B．Tempt women with eyes.
C．Express its feelings with eyes.	D．laugh.

3. How old was the earliest robot in the world?

A．About 50 years old.	B．About 100 years old.
C．About 2,000 years old.	D．About 3,000 years old.

4. Which is NOT true about the robots now?

A．Now robots are in all kinds of shapes.

B．Now robots can do kind of difficult jobs.

C．Now robots can help people do most of jobs.

D．Now robots can help doctors in some ways.

5. What does the passage mainly tell us?

A．Robots.	B．The history of robots.
C．The robots' usage and start.	D．People and robots.