1 . Online classes in space got lots of attention among Chinese students. The “classroom” in space station is about 400 kilometers away from the earth. The space classes make the young be proud of our country. As a special “teacher”, Wang Yaping is regarded as “the most beautiful astronaut”.
Wang Yaping, 43 years old now, was born in a small village in Shandong. She studied hard all those years. She was good at all subjects, especially sports. Luckily, in 1997, she was accepted by the Air Force, Changchun Flight Academy.
Wang’s space dream started in 2003, when China sent its first astronaut Yang Liwei into space. She told herself, “China now has a male astronaut. When will there be a female one?” At that time, Wang was a pilot in the Chinese army. After having safe flights for 1,600 hours during nine years in the training center, Wang was a strong candidate (候选人) to become an astronaut in 2010. In 2013, Wang realized her space dream. She was sent to space by Shenzhou-10. She joined the team of Shenzhou-13 in 2021 and flew into the space for the second time.
However, it is difficult to be an astronaut. She has to experience a lot of pain that most people can’t stand and keep training all the time. Wang Yaping told Xinhua, “The space environment won’t change because you are a woman.” She pushed herself hard, getting the same training as men, including the pull-ups and barbells (杠铃). That finally made her dream come true.
“You are on the way to success as long as you stick to your dreams.” Wang Yaping said. She set a good example to the young. Millions of students are encouraged and inspired by the most beautiful astronaut.
1. When was Wang Yaping born?| A．In 1977. | B．In 1980. | C．In 1990. | D．In 2013. |
| A．Wang did well in all subjects except sports. |
| B．Wang took part in Shenzhou-10 tasks in 2003. |
| C．Wang flew into the space for the second time in 2021. |
| D．Wang’s training was different from men astronauts. |
| A．Beautiful look. | B．Good luck. |
| C．Nice family. | D．Strong spirit. |
| A．The Most Beautiful Astronaut. |
| B．The Special Space Classes. |
| C．The Introduction to Science. |
| D．The Life in Space Station. |
2 . What do you think of the “double reduction” policy (双减政策)? Do you have more time to do your favorite things after school? Some students talk about it. Let’s have a look.
| Alice 14, Beijing | The “double reduction” policy really helps me. I don’t have to do lots of homework. I don’t need to stay up late for it. I join the chess club and I go there after school. I make some friends there. It’s relaxing and exciting. |
| Laura, 13, Shanghai | The best thing about my school life is that I have more time to do after-school activities like singing, cooking and playing badminton. I learn a lot. I want to be an artist like my mother. |
| Peter, 14, Guangzhou | This term, I have free time to read books and play sports on school days. I exercise for half an hour every day. It’s good for my health. On weekends, I always help my mother make dinner. |
| Steve, 13, Kunming | I don’t have much homework to do. But I have to take tutoring classes (辅导班) from Monday to Friday. I often feel tired. But I can have happy weekends. |
| A．play ping-pong | B．go swimming | C．go to a chess club | D．play the piano |
| A．Playing badminton. | B．Cooking. | C．Dancing. | D．Singing. |
| A．The four students are in the same middle school. |
| B．The four students all like playing sports. |
| C．The four students don’t have homework. |
| D．The four students have more time to do their favorite things after school. |
One day a famous teacher was walking with his student. On the way, they saw a lake. They stopped and the teacher told the student, “I’m thirsty. Get me some water from that lake.”
Just when the student reached the lake, a cow was walking in the lake. So the water became very dirty. He thought, “I can’t give the dirty water to my teacher!”
He came back and told the teacher, “The water is very dirty. We can’t drink it.” After about half an hour, the teacher asked the student to get some water again. So he went back to the lake.
But the lake was still dirty. So he told the teacher the same thing. After some time, the teacher asked him to go back again. But this time, he found the water was clear. The mud (泥) in the water came to the bottom. So he got some water.
The teacher looked at the water and said to him, “You did nothing to make the water clear. You just let it be... Your mind is also like that! When it is bothered (被打扰), just let it be. Give it some time.”
1. One day the teacher asked his student to get some water to drink.2. The water in the lake became very dirty because the cow was walking in the lake.
3. The student only went to the lake twice.
4. The teacher made the dirty water clear.
5. The story tells us that we should do nothing when our mind is bothered.
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| A．trainer | B．judge | C．fan | D．player |
| A．chance | B．talent | C．ability | D．courage |
| A．call | B．hand | C．ride | D．gift |
| A．rarely | B．almost | C．always | D．occasionally |
| A．replied | B．recalled | C．shouted | D．whispered |
| A．afford | B．attempt | C．gather | D．head |
| A．strength | B．position | C．determination | D．message |
| A．study | B．sleep | C．wander | D．recover |
| A．practice | B．match | C．performance | D．season |
| A．disappointed | B．embarrassed | C．amused | D．moved |
| A．curiosity | B．expectation | C．thought | D．discussion |
| A．appointed | B．received | C．appreciated | D．imagined |
| A．delighted | B．attracted | C．inspired | D．supported |
| A．credit | B．patience | C．possibility | D．aid |
| A．team | B．neighbours | C．classmates | D．family |
8 . Kyra Peralte thought keeping a diary during the pandemic (流行病) might help her sort out her feelings. In April 2020, the mother of two in Montclair, New Jersey, now 46, started writing about the challenges of work, marriage and motherhood during a global crisis. She invited women from near and far to fill the notebook with their own pandemic tales.She named the project The Traveling Diary.
Peralte created a website for people to add their names to the queue. Each person gets to keep the diary for three days and fill as many pages as she wishes. Then she is responsible for mailing it to the next person, whose address Peralte provides. So far, more than 2, 000 women from 30 countries have joined in.
The diary reached Colleen Martin in Florham Park, New Jersey, in November 2020. “I had just recently lost my brother. By the time I actually got it and wrote in it, it was much more of a relief,” she says. Adding to the diary, she says, helped her look for meaning and “the growth and development that occurs in terrible times.”
Martin shipped off the diary to the next person, and Dior Sarr, 35, received it at her home in Toronto just before the new year. “I wrote about my ambitions(抱负), my goals and how I wanted to step into the new year, ” she says, “It felt meaningful to pass on something so personal. It felt like these were women that I had known even though I didn’t know them at all.”
Like many of the women who wrote in her diary, Peralte feels a strong bond with the people who filled its pages, none of whom she would have otherwise known. Her idea, Peralte says, has had a great effect on her and, she hopes, the other women who were part of it.
1. Why did Peralte start the project “The Traveling Diary”?| A．To become famous online. |
| B．To offer women an emotion outlet. |
| C．To meet more people on the Internet. |
| D．To popularize medical knowledge of pandemic. |
| A．Achieving her goals. |
| B．Receiving timely help. |
| C．Promoting personal growth. |
| D．Improving her writing skills. |
| A．Connection. | B．Competition. |
| C．Impression. | D．Need. |
| A．The Power of Unity |
| B．Warmth in a Global Crisis |
| C．The Sisterhood of the Traveling Diary |
| D．Friendship on the Internet |
9 . A new smartwatch app warns users who are deaf or hard of hearing about nearby sounds, such as microwave beeps or car horns.
“The main motivation came from my own experience, and conversations that my colleagues and I have had with deaf and hard of hearing people over several years,” says Dhruv Jain, who presented the system, called SoundWatch, at the virtual ASSETS conference on October 28.
Jain, who is hard of hearing, uses SoundWatch at home to avoid sleeping through a smoke alarm. “On a nature walk, it’ll tell me that there’s birds chirping (吱喳叫), or there might be a waterfall nearby,” he says. “Those sounds make me feel more present and connected to the world.”
Sound awareness apps for smartphones exist. But Jain prefers the immediate sound notifications (提示) on his wrist, rather than in his pocket — and surveys of people who are deaf or hard of hearing show he’s not alone.
The SoundWatch app pairs an Android smartwatch and phone. The watch records surrounding noises and sends that data to the phone for processing. When the phone detects a sound of interest, the smartwatch vibrates and displays a notification.
Jain, a computer scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues designed the app to identify 20 noises. In experiments, SoundWatch correctly identified those 20 sounds 81.2 percent of the time. When set to listen only for urgent noises — a fire alarm, door knock or alarm clock — the app was 97.6 percent accurate. Eight deaf and hard of hearing people who used SoundWatch around a university campus gave the app broadly favorable reviews, but noted that the app misclassified some sounds in noisy outdoor settings.
Jain and colleagues are now working on a version of SoundWatch that users can train to recognize new sounds, such as their own house alarm, using just a few recordings.
1. From which section of a website is the text most probably taken?| A．Tech. | B．Health. | C．Environment. | D．Culture. |
| A．It came from real-life experiences. | B．It was the first sound awareness app. |
| C．It will vibrate when noises are recorded. | D．It can make users hear the real sounds. |
| A．To tell the convenience of the app. | B．To illustrate how the app works. |
| C．To state the importance of the app. | D．To show when the app detects sounds |
| A．It can distinguish all sounds. | B．It is sensitive to urgent noises. |
| C．University students praise it highly. | D．A new version has replaced the previous one. |
10 . Wherever we go, we are surrounded by history. Across the globe, cultural heritage is passed down through generations. It is in the buildings and structures around us. It is in the arts and artifacts (手工艺品 ) we treasure. It lives in the languages we speak and the stories we tell. But today, it is under attack as never before. Not only is the damage of time intimidating our cultural heritage, but wars, climate change, globalization and tourism are all exacting a heavy price. Technology is now the most important weapon in the battle. Here’s how technology is preserving our cultural heritage.
As you can imagine, creating the replicas (复制品 ) via crowdsourced 2D images is extremely time-consuming. Increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to do all the required sourcing, allowing millions of images to be stored in a matter of hours. AI will also make restoration-and-preservation of existing cultural heritage far easier and much better than former methods.
Virtual reality (VR) technology will play a leading role in preserving our cultural heritage in the coming years. Many of the most important sites and architecture are easily damaged. Human interaction with these locations is doing a great deal of harm. Wastes left could be seen everywhere, causing many problems. As more cultural heritage sites and objects are digitally mapped and recorded, VR technology will increasingly become the way that people experience them. We’ll all eventually be able to walk through places, look at and touch artifacts and works of art without ever seeing them with our own eyes.
Finally, our cultural heritage will be preserved via technology. Efforts in research, innovation (创新), data sharing and project work will help promote and preserve the cultural heritage of countries all across the world.
1. What does the underlined word “intimidating” in paragraph 1 probably mean?| A．Fading. | B．Preserving. | C．Recording. | D．Threatening. |
| A．By recycling huge amounts of waste. |
| B．By stopping visitors touching artifacts. |
| C．By reducing human effects on the sites. |
| D．By educating people about the sites’ importance. |
| A．Positive. | B．Unclear. | C．Doubtful. | D．Unsupportive. |
| A．How Technology Changes Arts |
| B．What Cultural Heritage Means to Us |
| C．Prepare for an Innovation in Technology |
| D．Preserve the Ancient with the Advanced |
