1 . We can use new way’ to fight the latest virus (病毒). Let’ meet these high—tech helpers in China!
| Drones (无人机) In public, drones are used to tell people to take nucleic acid tests (核酸检测) through the loudspeaker (扬声器) . When people have to stay at home, drones can help deliver (递送) packages to people’s home. |
| Smart Robots In some hospitals, smart robots help to send food to patients. The robots can also help to hand out medicine and show the way to people. During 2022 Winter Olympic Games, smart robots did many things. They served people, reminded people to wear mask and so on. |
| 3D “Hospitals” A company in Shanghai has produced 15 mobile rooms less than 24 hours by 3D printing technology and sent them to Hubei for patients to live in. Each room is about the size of a bedroom. |
| AI System At the Mudanyuan subway station in Beijing, an AI system can check people in crowds to see if they have fevers. About three hundred people can be checked by it in one minute. |
| A．take nucleic acid |
| B．carry packages |
| C．do nothing |
①ask people to wear masks
②serve players
③send food to patients
④give out medicine
⑤give directions
| A．①②③ |
| B．③④⑤ |
| C．①②③④⑤ |
| A．less than a day |
| B．less than 24 days |
| C．more than 24 hours |
| A．3 | B．30 | C．300 |
| A．In a novel. | B．In a diary. | C．In a magazine. |
2 . What is 5G? It is the fifth generation (代) of mobile network technology. These new networks are coming.
China issued commercial license (发放商用牌照) for 5G on June 6, 2019. This means that China’s Telecom (中国电信) companies have been able to offer 5G networks to mobile phone users.
Each mobile network generation is faster and more powerful than the one before it. 1G let us talk to each other. 2G let us send messages. 3G gave us data (数据) and the Internet. And 4G made all of these things faster. What’s special about 5G?
5G has a very short delay (延时) between sending and receiving information. Now, 4G takes about 100 to 200 milliseconds (毫秒) to send and receive data. But 5G will reduce the delay to 1 millisecond or less. This big change will not only make our mobile Internet faster, but also deeply change our lives.
Entertainment (娱乐)
5G networks are about 100 times faster than 4G. This means you can download (下载) a movie in seconds.
Transportation
5G will also bring us safer self-driving cars. These cars can send signals (信号) to each other. 5G will allow cars to react (反应) even faster than real drivers.
Smarthomes
5G also makes the Internet of Things possible. Internet of Things is a large network that connects everything to the Internet. Smarthomes are part of it. For example, if its sensor feels the air becoming dry, a smart sprinkler (洒水器) can water your plants by itself.
1. How many generations of mobile network technology have been in use in China so far?| A．2. | B．3. | C．4. | D．5. |
| A．5G was invented by Chinese. |
| B．Mobile phone users could talk to each other. |
| C．China issued commercial license for 5G. |
| D．5G was known by people home and abroad. |
| A．Plants can be watered by a smart sprinkler with 5G. |
| B．People has stopped using 4G in our life because of 5G. |
| C．5G is faster and more powerful than 4G. |
| D．We can download a movie faster with 5G. |
| A．About 2 seconds. | B．Less than 2 minutes. |
| C．About 10 minutes. | D．More than 20 minutes. |
| A．Each mobile network generation has its own advantages. |
| B．5G will bring us safer self-driving cars. |
| C．Mobile phone users can use 5G networks. |
| D．5G will change our lives in many ways. |
On Oct. 16, 2016, Chinese astronauts of the Shenzhou-11 mission (任务), Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong, met the press（新闻发布会）Sunday ahead of Monday’s launch.
Sitting under a national flag, the astronauts
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On Monday, China successfully launched (发射) manned spacecraft Shenzhou-11 carrying the two astronauts who will remain in space for 33 days. The spacecraft was sent up at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in
Three weeks before the task, the family members of Jing Haipeng and ChenDong still knew nothing. Chen Dong has been a (an)
Chen Dong described the experience as “no seeing, no
For Jing, he looks very calm. In his first space mission on Shenzhou VII, his wife was so nervous
| A．met | B．came | C．appeared | D．stood |
| A．Until | B．Although | C．Because | D．But |
| A．first | B．second | C．third | D．fourth |
| A．northwest | B．southwest | C．northeast | D．southeast |
| A．was told | B．was announced | C．was spoken | D．was said |
| A．astronaut | B．engineer | C．pilot | D．scientist |
| A．has stayed | B．left | C．has left | D．stayed |
| A．listening | B．watching | C．noticing | D．missing |
| A．one | B．it | C．this | D．that |
| A．got used to | B．used to | C．been used for | D．been used by |
4 . Someday in the future we may not need to have money in our pockets. Is life easier when people don’t need to carry any money? Maybe in the future each of us will have only one small credit card. We will use it instead of money to buy all the things.
Of course we may still have some of the same problems with cards we now have with money. For example, we lose money from time to time. Maybe we will lose the cards. Maybe someone will take the cards. Someone may even make a card that looks like our cards. Since we can’t buy anything without our cards, the credit cards may be no better than money.
Is there something easier to use than credit cards? Each of us has a thumbprint(拇指指纹). No two thumbprints are the same. Maybe someday the government will keep people’s thumbprints with a number. When you want to buy something, you will put your thumb on a machine or a computer. Each store will posses one. Everyone’s thumbprints will be in the computer. It will be difficult to lose our thumbprints! It will be difficult for someone to steal it or to make one like it.
1. The writer probably agrees that credit cards are _________ to carry than money.| A．easier | B．difficult | C．heavier | D．more difficult |
| A．明信片 | B．学生证 | C．手机卡 | D．信用卡 |
| A．We may not know where to use it. |
| B．We may not know how to use the cards. |
| C．We may lose the cards from time to time. |
| D．We won’t be able to make enough cards. |
| A．With a note. | B．With a sign. | C．With a number. | D．With a computer. |
| A．With money. | B．With thumbprints. | C．With ID card | D．With credit cards |
5 . Earlier this year, China achieved a new milestone（里程碑） in space exploration. On Jan 3, Chang'e 4 became the first space probe（探测器） in history to successfully land on the far side (dark side) of the moon. After a 26-day journey, it touched softly down on a crater. The whole process of landing lasted 12 minutes, which opened a new page in history of mankind's space exploration.
The far side of the moon is the side that we can not see. We don't know much about it. This landing is of great importance. The far side of the moon is an ideal (理想的 ) place for scientific research.It may have unique minerals (矿物质 ) and other resources. Scientists can make clearer observations of deep space from there.
Chang'e 4 has sent back photos of the far side of the moon. It is also being used to carry out experiments. The data (数据 ) collected from these experiments could be used to help us build a base on the moon in the future. The success of the Chang'e 4 mission (任务 ) is a major achievement for China's space program.
China launched its lunar (月球的 ) exploration program in 2004, naming it Chang'e. Chinese scientists set three goals—“orbiting (环绕运行 ) , landing and sample (样本 ) returning”. Chang'e 4 has realized the second goal. The third will be achieved during the Chang'e 5 mission, which is set to take place before the end of this year.
Following the success of the Chang'e missions, Chinese scientists are looking even farther into our solar system (太阳系 ) . China's first Mars mission is expected to be carried out by 2020.
1. Chang'e 4 is the first space probe in the world to land ．| A．in deep space | B．on the moon |
| C．on the near side of the moon | D．on the far side of the moon |
| A．It's far from the earth. | B．It has many resources. |
| C．It's ideal for scientific research. | D．It's dark and unknown. |
| A．学习 | B．观察 | C．描述 | D．庆祝 |
| A．Landing on the moon. | B．Bring some samples back to the earth. |
| C．Building a base on the moon. | D．Travelling around the moon. |
| A．The Space Probe. | B．Exploring the Moon. |
| C．The Three Goals. | D．Exploring the Mars. |
Do you feel like someone is watching you, even when you’re in a room alone? Well, maybe they are.
A recent article in Los Angeles Times
If you own a smartphone, the phone
In many American
In a word, in this age of technology, it’s
| A．picked up | B．looked after | C．talked about | D．gave up |
| A．losing | B．buying | C．inventing | D．collecting |
| A．never | B．always | C．sometimes | D．hardly |
| A．company | B．owner | C．maker | D．keeper |
| A．animals | B．operas | C．news | D．shows |
| A．table | B．television | C．room | D．body |
| A．museums | B．supermarkets | C．parks | D．theatres |
| A．card | B．gift | C．letter | D．prize |
| A．allowing | B．warning | C．preventing | D．encouraging |
| A．dangerous | B．exciting | C．difficult | D．possible |
7 . Nook’s arrival, Good or Bad?
Booklovers, most of them, will tell you what a pleasure it is to lend a favorite read to a friend—the novel you stayed up all night to get to the end of; the travel book that made you feel as if you yourself were on a train ride through India. For a while it seemed that e-book users were to be denied this pleasure of lending to friends. You could b
But now, with the Nook, the US book chain Barnes and Noble’s response to Amazon’s Kindle, electronic readers will be able to have their l
The Nook offers other features too. You read in black and white on the main screen, just like with Kindle. The difference is that on the lower part of the device there’s a c
Another exciting thing about the Nook is that it offers Wi-Fi, arguably a big advance on previous e-book readers. Customers in the United States can use the Internet connection to read whole e-books at Barnes and Noble’s hundreds of bookstores for free. None of Barnes and Noble’s c
But the Nook, ironically, has t
No children want to carry a big bag to school. Nobody
The company wants all the students to study
Now these new bags are used in a university. Maybe all of the students in the future can
9 . When you’re not at home, many worries may start to come into your mind. Did I lock the door? Are the kids doing their homework or watching television? With a smart home, you can quit all of these worries.
A smart home is a home with a communication network. This network connects devices（装置）, such as TV sets, and allows people to control from far away through mobile phone communication.
More and more people may start to consider owning a smart home, because it makes life much more comfortable. It can help keep your room at a certain temperature. It can record what happens inside the home and send the video to your phone. When you are on vacation abroad, you can use a smart home controller to turn on or off the power when necessary. They can even feed the cat and water the plants.
Moreover, smart homes are easy to fix. Most smart home technology and devices are wireless（无线的）and can be set up with simple tools, using only the guiding information.
However, for home-users, the smart home technology is far from perfect. It can be very expensive to own the technology and the devices. Also, because the smart home system allows its owner to get home information from anywhere, it leaves the home easy to be attacked by hackers（黑客）.
Now, many scientists are excited at the future of smart home technology. Imagine being able to get fashion advice from your mirror（镜子）, or receive food shopping suggestions from your fridge, while there are others who worry that those smart devices will make people lazier and lonelier. Whatever it is, one thing is for sure—smart home technology will change the way we live and work.
1. According to the passage, now a smart home can lock the door through .| A．mobile phones | B．shopping programmes | C．TV sets | D．mirror technology |
| A．the steps to use smart systems | B．the prices of smart programmes |
| C．the advantages of smart homes | D．the tools for fixing smart homes |
| A．Smart homes can’t help feed pets now. |
| B．Smart homes cost a little money at present. |
| C．You can’t control your smart home in other countries. |
| D．It’s easy for hackers to get information from smart homes. |
| A．Smart homes are perfect for home-users. |
| B．Smart homes will make people lazier and lonelier. |
| C．Smart homes will make people become less happy in the future. |
| D．Smart homes will change people’s life and work style in the future. |
| A．A novel. | B．A science magazine. | C．A film poster. | D．An advertisement. |
10 . We have some robots today, but people are still very busy. So I hope there will be more advanced (先进的) robots ①in the future. They will be in different shapes ②Some will come into everyone’s home. They can sweep the floor, clean the table, wash clothes and do other housework for us. They will also help care for babies or old people. They will be our best friends. If we have a robot, we will have more free time, so we can go sightseeing in many other places at that time.
Robots in the future can help people a lot. They can work on a computer today — help us study English, send and receive emails and do homework.
③Some years later robots can walk with two legs. So they can go cycling or have a walk with us. ④Do you want ________ (have) a robot in the future?
任务一：从文中找出与下句意思相近的句子。
1. Robots will do a lot of things for people.
任务二：将①处进行词组翻译
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任务三：②处的Some指的是什么？（用英文回答）
3.
任务三：将③处变为否定句
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任务四：在文中的第④处用所给词的正确形式填空。
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