1 . One day, Jack’s parents told him that his grandpa would retire(退休) after working for forty years. Jack said in surprise，“I’m only seven, so it means grandpa has been…er... a really long time!”
His parents said，“Yes. That’s why we are going to have a surprise party for him. ”
Jack loved his grandpa and wanted to do something special for him. He remembered the business card his grandpa had given him two years before. He knew that his grandpa would no longer have the position(职位) on that card, so he decided to build a new one for his grandpa.
When the big day came, Jack was ready. But he didn’t want to put his gift together with others’. He carried it around with him the whole evening.
When all the other people left，he took his grandpa’s hand and brought him over to a chair and gave him the gift. His grandpa smiled, “Well，it must be a beautiful gift. May I open it now?” “Sure! ”Jack said excitedly.
As his grandpa opened the gift, tears came into his eyes. Jack gave him the greatest gift he had ever got! They were business cards with his new position FULL-TIME GRANDPA! Jack said, “Now your full-time(全职的) job is my grandpa!”
“Well，how much do I get paid?”his grandpa asked，smiling. “As many hugs(拥抱) as you want!” With these words，Jack gave his grandpa a hug. “Well, I guess that means I’m the richest man in the world! ” said his grandpa.
1. Who was going to retire?| A．Jack’s grandma. | B．Jack’s grandpa. |
| C．Jack’s mother. | D．Jack’s father. |
| A．明信片 | B．纸牌 | C．名片 | D．信用卡 |
| A．To build a new position for him on the card. |
| B．To draw a picture for him. |
| C．To sing a song to him. |
| D．To buy a gift for him. |
| A．Because he would lose his position. |
| B．Because he was not loved. |
| C．Because he was moved by Jack’s gift. |
| D．Because he was unhappy. |
2 . An immigrant is a person living in country that is not their own, often in a culture with which they are not familiar. There are, of course, translation and interpretation services available to recently arrived minority groups in most host countries. However, it is more important to provide motivations for language learning for immigrants to accelerate their integration.
The language barrier increases intercultural misunderstandings. Those seeking work are at a disadvantage due to subjective factors such as employers fearing migrants are unable to learn a trade because of language problems. In workplaces where the majority of employees are from the same linguistic background, which is other than the host language, there is the danger of apathy setting in and it is therefore necessary to encourage immigrants to take advantage of whatever language tuition not only to help integration but to achieve self-improvement.
The general tendency is to acknowledge that the government should provide money for the teaching of the language. The British Advisory Board on Naturalization and Integration stated that some of the pressure for English language classes could be reduced by employers taking responsibility for the language needs of migrant workers. As for their children, a high percentage speak languages at home other than that of their country of adoption which increases the burden on schools to provide an adequate standard of linguistic education.
The goal is for immigrants to become “anonymous”. For example, many Turks in Germany have lost their “visibility” as poor workers to become “invisible”---thus not immediately recognized as foreigners--- but as professionals (doctors, engineers, etc.).
Apart from the responsibility of governments and education authorities, the duty also lies with the individual migrant families. Of course they should not lose sight of their own cultural identity and cross-cultural exchanges should be promoted to improve the understanding between immigrants and the host population. At the same time, parents must be ready to adapt to their new situation and not influence their children who, through the host country education system, will learn the language quicker and wish to integrate into the local society.
1. What’s the second paragraph mainly about?| A．The disadvantages of immigration |
| B．The advantages of receiving tuition |
| C．The harmful effects of language barriers |
| D．The importance of understanding each other |
| A．Schools provide various language classes |
| B．Government shoulders the responsibility of language training |
| C．Immigrant children should speak their mother tongue at home |
| D．Employers should pay for their employees’ English language classes |
| A．Educated | B．Responsible |
| C．Unidentified | D．Unacceptable |
| A．Don’t speak their native language |
| B．Learn English from their children |
| C．Don’t practice the customs of their homeland |
| D．Help their children integrate into the new environment |
3 . What thing in your home is most germy? If you said the toilet seat, your answer is fallacious. Kitchen cleaning brushes top the list. But cell phones are pretty dirty too. They contain around 10 times as many germs as toilet seats. People touch their phones, laptops, and other digital devices all day long, yet rarely clean them.
In one incident, a thief paid a terrible price for stealing a germy cell phone. He stole it from a hospital in Uganda during an epidemic of the deadly disease Ebola. The phone’s owner reported the stealing before dying from the disease. Soon, the thief began showing symptoms and admitted his crime.
In that unusual case, a cell phone carried dangerous bacteria. But not all germs are bad. Most cause no harm. In fact, they could provide helpful information. Look at the surface of your phone carefully. Do you see some greasy smudges? “That’s all you,” says microbial ecologist Jarrad Hampton-Marcell. “That’s biological information. It turns out that the types of germs (also known as microbes) that you smudge all over your phone are different from those of your friends and family. They’re like a fingerprint that could identify you. Some day in the future, police may use these microbial fingerprints to solve crimes. Phones and digital devices may be one of the best places to look for evidence.”
In a 2017 study, researchers sampled a range of surfaces in 22 participants’ homes, from beds and floors to computer mice. Then they tried to match the microbial fingerprints on each object to its owner. The office equipment was easiest to match to its owner. In an earlier study, a different group of researchers found that they could use microbial fingerprints to identify the person who had used a computer keyboard even after the keyboard sat untouched for two weeks at room temperature.
One day, microbial signatures might show where people have gone and what they have touched. They could prove that an unmarked device is yours. So, sure, your phone is pretty germy. Does that inspire you, or does it frighten you?
1. What does the underlined word “fallacious” in paragraph1 mean?| A．Wrong. | B．Quick. |
| C．Direct. | D．Honest. |
| A．Ebola is a very serious disease. |
| B．Cell phones are heaven to germs. |
| C．Crimes in hospitals are easy to solve. |
| D．Using others’ cell phones may give you a disease. |
| A．Everyone carries a unique set of germs. |
| B．Digital technology helps a lot in crime-solving. |
| C．People can be identified from their fingerprints. |
| D．People may become sick after using phones a lot. |
| A．The mouse owner was identified most quickly. |
| B．Computer keyboards carried most germs. |
| C．Germs live well at room temperature. |
| D．Our homes are also homes to germs. |
4 . It is natural that young people are often uncomfortable(不自在) when they are with their parents. They say that their parents don’t understand them. They often think that their parents are out of touch with modern ways; that they are too serious and too strict with their children; and that they seldom give their children a free hand.
It is true that parents often find it difficult to win their children’s trust and they tend to forget how they themselves felt when young. They show that they have grown up and they can face any difficult situation. Older people worry more easily. Most of them plan things ahead, at least in the back of their minds, and do not like their plans to be upset(扰乱) by something unexpected.
When you want your parents to let you do something, you will have better success if you ask before you really start doing it.
Young people often make their parents angry with their choices in clothes, in entertainment and in music. But they do not mean to cause any trouble; it is just that they feel cut off from the older people’s world, into which they have not yet been accepted. That’s why young people want to make a new culture(文化) of their own. And if their parents do not like their music or entertainment or clothes or their way of speech, this will make the young people extremely happy.
Sometimes you are so proud of yourself that you do not want your parents to say “yes” to what you do. All you want is to be left alone and do what you like. It is natural enough, after being a child for so many years, when you were completely under your parents’ control.
If you plan to control your life, you’d better win your parents over and try to get them to understand you. If your parents see that you have a high sense of responsibility(责任), they will certainly give you the right to do what you want to do.
1. This article is particularly written for_____ .| A．parents | B．both parents and their children |
| C．young people | D．teachers |
| A．ask for advice before they really start to do anything |
| B．do things without thinking carefully ahead |
| C．be very strict with themselves |
| D．think in the same way as their parents do |
| A．they want to show they have grown up |
| B．they do not want to get into trouble |
| C．they feel they are cleverer than the older people |
| D．they don’t feel they belong to the world of the older people |
| A．do everything according to his own wish |
| B．do everything the way his parents do |
| C．do everything under his parents’ control |
| D．do everything with a high sense of responsibility |
5 . Those who are concerned that robots are taking over the world can rest easy—for now. Though the androids have proved useful at performing ordinary tasks, they are not ready for the greatest time. At least that appears to be the case at Japan’s Henn-na Hotel chain where over half of the robot staff are being replaced by humans.
The first location of the unique hotel opened in July 2015 was at Nagasaki’s Huis Ten Bosch Theme Park. The hotel’s owner, Hideo Sawada, promised the hotel to be managed primarily by robots. Guests were greeted and checked-in by a dinosaur robot, while a cute android called Churi, placed inside each room, provided information about attractions. Not surprisingly, the lodging, recognized in 2016 as the world’s first robot-staffed hotel by Guinness World Records, drew in curious visitors from all around the world.
But as the years have passed, the hotel’s main draw is becoming less novel and more unsatisfactory. Also as the robots are “aging”, they are costing more to repair. Among the 283 androids being replaced are the chain’s two dinosaur receptionists. In addition to scaring young guests, they are also unable to photocopy guests’ passports, forcing human employees to step in each time. Also out are the cute Churi robots, which annoyed guests by interrupting their conversations. For example, one guest told The Wall Street Journal that Churi mistook his snoring for a command and kept asking him to repeat his request all night.
Sawada told The Wall Street Journal, “When you actually use robots you realize there are places where they aren’t needed—or just annoy people.” While Sawada may be cutting back on his use of androids, the recently-opened Smart LYZ Hotel and the Fly Zoo Hotel in China, are run entirely by robots, with not a human in sight. Whether the employees have more competence than those “hired” by the Henn-na Hotel chain remains to be seen.
1. What makes Japan’s Henn-na Hotel unique?| A．Its robot employees. | B．Its advanced equipment. |
| C．Its convenient location. | D．Its successful management. |
| A．To entertain readers. | B．To prove Churi’s drawback. |
| C．To introduce Churi’s functions. | D．To persuade people not to book the hotel. |
| A．Attractive. | B．Costly. |
| C．Pioneering. | D．Disappointing. |
| A．Robots Are Taking Over the World. |
| B．The Boom of Robots-staffed Hotel. |
| C．Robot Staff Are Fired For No Competence. |
| D．The First Robots-staffed Hotel Won Guinness World Record. |
6 . There is an old saying in English: “Laughter is the best medicine”. Until recently, few people took the saying very seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to investigate laughter and the effects it has on the human body. They have found evidence that laughter really can improve people’s health.
Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films, while doctors checked their heart rate, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart rate and the rate of breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.
Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be capable of reducing the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group, which tolerated the pain for the longest time, was the group, which listened to a funny program. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce endorphins（内啡肽）in the brain. These are natural chemicals that diminish both stress and pain.
There is also some evidence to suggest that laughter helps the body’s immune system, that is, the system which fights infection. In an experiment, one group of students watched a funny video while another group served as the control group-in other words, a group with which to compare the first group. Doctors checked the blood of the students in both groups and found that the people in the group that watched the video had an increase in the activity of their blood cells, that is, the cells which fight infection.
As a result of these discoveries, some doctors and psychiatrists（精神病学家）in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they try to improve their patients’ conditions by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.
1. We learn from the first paragraph that laughter .| A．is good for one’s health. | B．is related to some illness. |
| C．has been investigated long since. | D．has no effect on the body. |
| A．keeps down blood pressure. | B．has similar effects to physical exercise. |
| C．decreases the heart rate. | D．increases stress. |
| A．It reduces pain. | B．It exercises the body. |
| C．It improves the body’s immune(免疫的)system. | D．It can cure cancer. |
| A．laugh at their patients. | B．encourage their patients to laugh. |
| C．smile when they don’t feel like laughing. | D．never stop laughing. |
