1 . AI（人工智能）makes our lives easier and better. Let’s see the amazing AI.

Cool driverless bus A bus door opens and you get on. Wait, where is the driver? Here is a new kind of driverless bus called Apolong.    It can seat 14 people and doesn’t need a driver. The bus follows traffic rules. It stops every time it sees a stop light.	Your close friend    Hi, everyone. I’m Xiaoice, a chatbot(聊天机 器人). I speak like a 17-year-old-girl. If you feel lonely, you can talk with me. I’m good at singing, writing poems and telling stories. I want to be your friend!
World’s first AI anchor Hey, look! The famous Chinese anchor( 主播) Qiu Hao is reporting the news for us. But, is “he” really Qiu Hao? The answer is “no”. This is the world’s first AI anchor. It looks and speaks just like a real person. It speaks both Chinese and English. It can work 24 hours without any mistakes. The AI anchor joins Inhuman reporting team. You might see it on TV soon.	Popular AI artist This beautiful painting was at an auction(拍卖) in 2018. It sold for about 3,000,000 yuan! But it is not a work by a famous painter, such as Vincent van Gogh. It was painted by an AI artist. Three Frenchmen created the AI. The AI artist studied over 15,000 paintings. In this way, it learned to paint. Now it is among the most popular artists in the world.

1. The fact about Apolong is that _____.

A．There is a driver in it	B．the door is opened by the passenger
C．there are 24 seats in it	D．it stops every time it sees a stop light

2. Xiaoice CAN’T _____.

A．go out to play with you	B．talk with you if you feel lonely
C．be your friend	D．sing, write poems or tell stories

3. The painting is ______.

A．a work painted by Vincent Van Gogh

B．worth about 3,000,000 yuan at an auction

C．studied by three French artists over 15,000 times

D．among the most beautiful paintings in the world

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Xianice is a 17-year-old girl.

B．The AI anchor can only speak English.

C．The AI anchor can work 24 hours without mistakes.

D．The AI artist is one of the most popular artists in China.

5. We can probably see the passage in _____.

A．a guidebook

B．a notice

C．a novel

D．a newspaper

2 . Phil is a scientist for NASA. Scientists are always asking questions. One question Phil has is:”Are Rocks on the Earth l    1     rocks on Mars?” The first step was to collect rocks from around the world. I    2     of collecting the rocks himself, Phil thought of a good idea. He would ask kids everywhere to s    3     him rocks. Soon children from all over the world have sent in over 8,000 rocks. Phil and other scientists study each rock to d    4     what minerals(矿物质) are in it. Studying rocks from the Earth is the easier part of Phil’s project. Learning about rocks on Mars is more c    5    . To do this, Phil helped c    6     a special camera that was sent into space. It c    7     around Mars and takes pictures of rocks there. Scientists learn a lot by c    8     rocks from the Earth and Mars. They learn how the Earth and Mars are d    9    , and they learn how the planets are alike, too.

        Mars is the planet most like Earth. “ Studying Mars can tell us a lot about the planet and what humans have to be p    10     for when they get there,” Phil said.

3 . There have been many great inventions that change the way we live. The first great ___ was one that is still very important today—the wheel. This made it easy for man __ heavy things and to travel long distances. For hundreds of years after that, there were ___ great inventions like the wheel. Then in the early 1800’s the world started to change ____. There was little unknown land left in the world. People did not have to search much any more. In the second half of the 19th century many great inventions were made. ___ them were the camera, the electric light and the radio. These have all become a big part of our life today.

The first part of the 20th century saw more great inventions. The helicopter (直升机) in 1909. Movies _____ sound in 1926. The computer in 1928. This was also a time when a new ___ was first made. Nylon (尼龙) came out in 1935. It changed the kind of clothes people wear. Of course new inventions continued to be made. Man began looking __ ways to go into space. Russia made the first step. Then the United States took another. Since then other countries, including China and Japan, ___ their steps into space. In 1969 man took his biggest step away from earth. __ first walked on the moon. This was certainly just a beginning. New inventions will someday allow us to do things we have never yet dreamed of.

1.

A．scientist

B．artist

C．musician

D．invention

2.

A．carry

B．carrying

C．to carry

D．carried

3.

A．few

B．a few

C．little

D．a little

4.

A．largely

B．differently

C．greatly

D．freely

5.

A．Between

B．Among

C．Before

D．After

6.

A．in

B．of

C．on

D．with

7.

A．mistake

B．product

C．world

D．material (材料)

8.

A．for

B．out

C．after

D．around

9.

A．made

B．were made

C．have made

D．had made

10.

A．Chinese

B．Japanese

C．Americans

D．Russians

4 . The police find most criminals because somebody tells them who the criminals are. They find other criminals by using science and their computers. When there is a bank robbery, the police first look t    1     their computers for the names of the bank robbers that they know about. Then they go and talk to any of these robbers who are not in p    2    . They ask them where they were when the robbery happened. If any of these people cannot give a good a    3    , the police will often use science to find out if one of them is the robber.

Many criminals leave something of themselves at the places of the c    4     like a fingerprint or a hair. Or they take something away on their s    5     or clothes, like dirt or animal hair. If they leave behind some of their b    6     or their hair or a piece of skin, it will have their DNA inside it.

Everyone’s DNA is different and their f    7     are also different. So, if a criminal cuts himself during a robbery or leaves his hair, or e    8     a small piece of skin, scientists can find out what his DNA is. The police can then ask the s    9     to give them his hair or some blood and see w    10     it has the same DNA. Many criminals are in prison today because of this kind of evidences.

5 . In many places, if you do not take your wallet with you, you'll be in trouble. This is especially true in overseas airports when you want to pay for food or gifts. Luckily you can now pay without your wallet in some overseas airports.
It's announced on Sept 26 that Chinese tourists can use the third party payment Alipay at ten airports across the world. The 10 airports are in Germany, Singapore, South Korea, New Zealand, Thailand and China's Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao.
Digital wallets like Alipay, WeChat and Apple Pay have brought big changes to our lives.
In April, CNN reporter Will Ripley spent a day in Beijing without his wallet. "In China's largest cities, you can definitely (肯定地) survive without carrying a pocket full of money and credit cards — as long as you've got your smart-phone," he wrote. "From small shops to large stores, a huge number of businesses in Beijing accept mobile payments."
He paid for breakfast by scanning (扫描) a QR code on the window of a restaurant. All he had to do was enter a password.
Then he also used his phone to pay for movie tickets, buy takeout food, order goods for delivery and hail a taxi.
But, there is also concern about the safety of the digital wallets. "Don't think the largest payment technology has solved all of its security problems." commented Fox News.
1. Maybe Chinese tourists can buy things at the airport in          without wallets or credit cards.

A．England

B．France

C．Japan

D．Germany

2. The underlined word in paragraph 4 means         

A．accept

B．buy

C．live

D．suffer

3. According to Will Ripley's description, he used his phone to do many things like         
①buying gifts       ② paying for his meal       ③taking a taxi       ④sell a digital camera

A．①②③

B．①②④

C．②③④

D．①②③④

4. According to this passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．It's difficult for us to use digital wallets.

B．It's very safe for us to use digital wallets.

C．In many airports across the world Chinese tourists can use digital wallets.

D．In China's largest cities, people can use digital wallets to do many things.

5. Which is the best title of this passage?

A．Surviving Without Money	B．Surviving in the oversea airport
C．Paying Without digital wallet	D．Will Ripley’s day in Beijing

6 . In your school bags, you may have a pencil, some kinds of pens, a ruler, and some books. None of these things grow in the fields. They were all made in factories. And, of course, they were invented by some people. There have not always been pencils or pens, a ruler and books. Thousands of years ago no one knew about these things.
Who invented them first? How did they have such clever ideas? We always don’t know. There have been many thousands of inventions, large and small, in the human history. Some of these inventions have changed the world. Such as paper, printing, radio, telephone and computer, and we know the inventors. But we have forgotten most of the other inventors.
Who invented the clock, for example, or the lock to the door? We don’t know. There have been thousands of inventors and we should grateful to them for their clever ideas. Will you be one of them when you grow up?
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1. Most things in your school bags are made of _________.

A．paper

B．wood

C．metal

D．nylon

2. The inventors invented these things because _________.

A．their children were at school	B．they hoped to save some money
C．they have a lot of clever ideas	D．they have good machines

3. The history books tell us _________.

A．who invented paper and printing	B．who invented clocks and doors
C．when the first key was invented	D．how much the silk cost

4. We don’t know ________.

A．the names of the inventors of paper	B．the names of the inventors of telephone
C．the names of the inventors of lamp	D．the names of most inventors

5. The writer wonders _________.

A．if you are an inventor	B．if you want to be an inventor
C．what’s invented by you	D．how many inventors you know

7 .
A science fiction flying car looks like a normal car, but it is an aircraft (飞行器) that anybody can fly directly from any place to another without using roads or runways. Science fiction writers have written about flying cars for a long time. But now flying cars will soon fly out of the world of science fiction into our real world. And the dream of the science fiction writers will soon come true.
The first-known sky car is the FSC-1. The FSC-1 looks like an expensive sports car. You can drive the FSC-1 on the road like a normal car. If you touch a button, its wings and propeller (螺旋桨) fold out and then it can take off, fly and land as an airplane. The owners of the FSC-1 can choose if they want to drive or fly.
Another flying car or sky car is the Moller Skycar M400. Although you can’t drive it on the roads, it is small and easy to fly and can take off and land like a helicopter (直升飞机). Urban Aeronautics’ X-Hawk is another type of sky car. It is expected to be available for about $3 million.
Just like any new technology, flying cars have taken a long time to be developed. But some experts think the technology is far from what people imagine when they are sitting in traffic. It still needs to be improved.
1. ______ kinds of flying cars are mentioned in the passage.

A．Two

B．Three

C．Four

D．Five

2. The writer thinks that flying cars will be no longer a dream because ______.

A．science fiction writers’ ideas are stupid

B．they are too expensive to make

C．they will soon be available

D．they are only in science fiction

3. The FSC-1 can ______.

A．change itself into a robot

B．move on water like a ship

C．be flown only like an airplane

D．be driven like a car and flown like an airplane

4. The Moller Skycar is different from the FSC-1 because ______.

A．it can’t fly

B．it can’t be driven like a car

C．it is difficult to land

D．it is much more expensive

5. Some experts think the technology of flying cars is ______.

A．normal	B．traditional
C．not good enough	D．strange

8 . What’s going to happen in the future? Will robots control our planet? Will computers become smarter than us? Not likely. But here are some things that scientists say are most likely to happen in 10 to 30 years from now, according to the BBC.

Digital money

We used to pay with cash(现金) for everything we bought. Now when we use a credit card(信用卡) to shop online, money is spent without us seeing it. That means we are already using digital money. Using a card is much easier than searching our pockets for change. It is also safer than carrying a lot of cash.

When ATM cards were first introduced, they were not accepted everywhere. But now it’s hard to live without them. It’s reported that people in Sweden completely stopped using cash last year, and the US might be next.

Bionic(仿生的) eye

It’s no longer something only in a science fiction movie. People who are blind may have a chance to get their sight back—by wearing bionic eyes.

A blind eye can no longer sense light, but a bionic eye can use a camera to “see” the environment and send data(数据) to the mind. Now the bionic eye only allows patients to see lights and unclear shapes. A high resolution(高清的) image could be just a few years away.

Self-driving cars

Unlike a human driver, a self-driving car won’t get distracted(分神) by a phone call, the radio or something outside the window. Sensors(探测器) and cameras on the car would allow it to stick strictly to the rules of the road and keep a safe distance from other cars. This would greatly reduce the number of road accidents. You could even take a nap while the car drives itself. In the future, driver-less cars would be widely accepted.

1. ______ has stopped using cash completely.

A．Sweden

B．ATM

C．BBC

D．America

2. What does the writer mainly tell us about digital money?

A．We use digital money to shop online without paying money.

B．Digital money is most likely to be used instead of cash.

C．Using cash is easier and safer than a credit card.

D．ATM cards are always popular.

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．Bionic eyes only appear in the science fiction film.

B．Human drivers won’t get distracted by something outside.

C．The blind wearing bionic eyes may see clearly in the future.

D．There will be no road accident at all if self-driving cars are used.

4. From the report, we can learn some information about ______.

A．culture and Art	B．industry and farming
C．science and technology	D．traffic and journey

5. Which of the following can be predicted(预测) from the passage?

A．There would be a number of self-driving cars on the road.

B．The blind could use cameras to see things around.

C．We would live a hard life with digital money.

D．Robots would control the world.