Confucius was born into a middle class family in Lu State, an area with the modern city of Qufu, in China’s Shandong Province. Now, he
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One afternoon after school, Mary and her brother, Keith, were eating at a cafe near their home. That afternoon, they had to share their table with another person. That person was a young lady in her twenties. After eating, she went to the restroom. Without realizing, she had left her cellphone on the table. Five minutes later, she came out and walked out of the cafe without looking back.
Mary saw the cellphone on the table. She quickly told Keith, “Keith, the girl left behind her cellphone.”Keith looked at the cellphone. It took his breath away. It was one of the latest models on the market. Keith had always wanted a cellphone. But his parents had told him, “You don’t need one. You can always use the house phone.” He stared at it for some minutes. Then, he said slowly, pausing on every word, “I want to take the cellphone.” Mary could not believe her ears. She only stared at her brother, “You can’t! What if the owner comes to look for it?”
After making the decision, Keith quickly got the cellphone and put it in his schoolbag. Then, he took Mary’s hand and led her out of the cafe quickly.
Once back home, Keith locked his room door with trembling (颤抖的) hands. Inside his room, he took out the piece of beauty. Oh, he liked it so much. He had his own cellphone. Soon, he was polishing it happily. But Mary told him, “Keith, you cannot keep the cellphone. What will you tell our father about this? He will ask you how you got the cellphone.” Keith said quickly, “I will say a friend lent it to me.” Mary said, “Now you are lying too. Oh dear! When had Keith turned so dishonest?”
Then, Mary saw a house phone number on the cover of the cellphone. “This is the girl’s phone number. Why don’t we just call this number? We will talk to her and ask her to come and take back her cellphone,” she was trying to talk some sense into him.
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That night, Keith turned over in bed from time to time.
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___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3 . As a popular tour operator, Travel China Guide designs a lot of China tour packages (旅游套餐) for foreigners with the best-selling travel deals to wonderful must see destinations and offers the best quality services. We warmly invite you to join us on an exciting vacation. Today we will offer you a three days’ private Zhangjiajie in-depth tour.
Day 1 Arrival in ZhangjiajieWelcome to this charming city, Zhangjiajie. Your guide and driver will pick you up at the airport and drive you to the hotel we booked for you ahead of time. The rest time of the day remains free for you to relax.
Day 2 Glass Bridge in ZhangjiajieToday, your private Zhangjiajie tour will start with a visit to the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon, where you will have a chance to experience the world’s longest and highest glass bridge, Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge. In addition to an unforgettable experience, it will also give you a special angle to enjoy the beauty of the Grand Valley
Afterwards, your guide will lead you to the Baofeng Lake where you will take a scenic boat ride. When you finish visiting the scenic area, the driver will send you back to the hotel.
Day 3 Away From ZhangjiajieToday your Zhangjiajie tour will continue to go to the Tianmen Mountain, known as the most beautiful “Hanging Garden” in the world. Tianmen Mountain is named after a natural wonder, Tianmen Cave, which is a naturally formed hole among thousand-metre high cliffs. In addition to this wonder, you may also see different old trees, green vines and rare animals there.
Your three-day Zhangjiajie tour package will come to an end here. You will then be driven to the airport and we will say goodbye there. If you want to have your China tour schedule further, we will be glad to provide detailed information.
1. What will the visitors do on Day 1?A.Book a hotel. | B.Drive to a hotel. |
C.Start with a visit. | D.Spend time relaxing freely. |
A.The Grand Valley. | B.The Baofeng Lake. |
C.The Tianmen Mountain. | D.Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge. |
A.It can book the hotel for free. |
B.It offers no pick-up services. |
C.It is designed for Chinese visitors. |
D.It provides travelling services for foreign tourists. |
4 . How clever can a computer be? Maybe you can get the answer after reading the following passage about a newly-developed US computer program called Smarter Child.
If you ran into Smarter Child online, you would be surprised at this kid’s huge memory. It can remember many facts. For example, Smarter Child knows every baseball player in every team this season and the weather in every city across the US. He also knows every word in the dictionary. However, if you ask Smarter Child other private questions, you will get strange answers. A question about Smarter Child’s age returns, “I’ll be older than you after further study!”, and asking where he lives, you will get, “In a clean room in a high-tech building in California.”
Smarter Child uses the huge information on the World Wide Web as his memory bank. To answer questions about spelling, for example, Smarter Child goes to www.ahdictionary.com. For the weather, he visits www.intellicast.com. He turns to www.the-scientist.com for scientists and www.moviefone.com for a fantastic movie.
Some scientists believe that by joining many systems of the Internet, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the combined (结合的) knowledge of, say, Albert Einstein, Richard Nixon and Britney Spears could be born. However, Smarter Child has difficulty in discerning whether a behavior is right or wrong, which is obvious to any young child. If he wants to think and learn without any help from the programmers like boy-computer David in the movie Artificial Intelligence (AI), he must solve two problems.
The first is that computers find it difficult to read web pages because the files are sorted in different ways. That’s why programmers need to tell Smarter Child where to look for the weather. It would be a much more difficult task to let him find it by himself. Another problem is that while Smarter Child can deal with information more exactly and faster than any human, he needs programmers to make better systems that allow machines to solve problems of common sense, which is a huge challenge.
1. What may be unknown to Smarter Child?A.His age. | B.The weather in New York. |
C.A word in the dictionary. | D.A player’s name of the Boston Redsox. |
A.www.moviefone.com | B.www.intellicast.com |
C.www.the-scientist.com | D.www.ahdictionary.com |
A.Preventing. | B.Copying. | C.Inventing. | D.Telling. |
A.He has a huge memory. | B.He can think and learn independently. |
C.He can make a weather forecast. | D.He deals with information fast. |
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6 . Students at West Side Elementary School in California, with the help of their art teacher, created a telephone hotline to offer cheerful advice during difficult times. In just days, the hotline began getting thousands of calls an hour. The hotline, available in English and Spanish, offers the happy voices of children of different ages sharing positive messages.
Most people agree that with concerns like Covid-19, extreme weather, and the climate crisis, the last years have been stressful.
“To hear the pure joy from kids is extremely comforting in these difficult times,” art teacher Jessica Martin says.
Ms. Martin called the project “Pep Talk”, which later changed to “PepToc” to draw an ad for the hotline. The project had two parts, one the hotline, and the other creating encouraging posters. Along with artist Asherah, she worked with students from kindergarten to sixth grade. Students working on the hotline thought of what they would like to say. When they were ready, Ms. Martin recorded each one. Later, she sorted out the recordings into the different parts of the telephone hotline. For example, pressing 2 results in words of encouragement and life advice. This includes messages like: “The world is a better place with you in it.” and “You are okay!” Pressing 4, you hear the sounds of children laughing — a sound certain to bring a smile to anyone’s face. Other students took part in making encouraging posters to hang up around the town. Many posters had strips of paper that people passing by could tear off and take with them.
Ms. Martin thought the project would attract interest from people near the school. But word of the hotline spread quickly on social media. The hotline has become popular with stressed adults, patients in hospitals, older people in homes, and others to beat stress by hearing the happy voices of children.
1. What’s the purpose of the telephone hotline?A.To get people to express themselves. |
B.To provide a way for people to cheer up. |
C.To inspire children to face difficulties. |
D.To have children learn foreign cultures. |
A.To satisfy the need of an advertisement. |
B.To make it attractive to people of all ages. |
C.To add to the humorous effect of the hotline. |
D.To show the work value of Ms. Martin. |
A.She sorted out the most cheerful information. |
B.She advertised them in the local radio station. |
C.She put them into different parts for the hotline. |
D.She added children’s laughter as the background. |
A.It will grow popular all over the city. |
B.It greatly reduces people’s loneliness. |
C.It puts ads in media for its existence. |
D.It can help people deal with stress. |
7 . Returning from an early-morning walk with my dog, I dug in my pockets for the keys to the front door but failed. I decided to return to find them.
I spent an hour looking for the keys, but the keys remained lost. At home again, I pulled the backup key from its hiding place, let myself in the house, and fell on the couch thinking. The house key wasn’t that important as I had an extra. I had a spare car key, but the iron heart made by my grandson was precious. For some reason, thinking of it being gone forever made tears come to my eyes. I blamed myself for not being more careful. In my head, I reflected on my steps but finally gave up. Life is too short to get worried over these things.
For some reason, I continued the day without beginning the various tasks of getting replacements. That night, it began to snow. I settled into a peaceful evening. It was peaceful until I heard the scream of my car alarm. I rushed to the car, opened it, and stopped the alarm. I felt red-faced as I imagined my next-door neighbors being annoyed.
I went back in the house, and the next sound was the front doorbell. Assuming it was a neighbor ready to complain, I opened the door with apologies ready.
In the light snow stood three neighbors from several streets away. One of them held out my keys with a smile! I wanted to hug her, but in a COVID world, all I could do was say. “Oh, my goodness! Thank you!” She said, “Sorry about the alarm. We had to press it to find your home!” Pressing the alarm until I heard a car alarm wouldn’t have occurred to me. I was astonished by her clever kindness and wished I could have hugged her. Instead, I hugged the keys.
1. What made the author cry?A.Failing to enter her house. | B.Losing the spare house key. |
C.Losing the heart-shaped iron. | D.Feeling tired after the search. |
A.It began to snow before she replaced her keys. |
B.The alarm of her car might annoy the neighbors. |
C.She wasted her life worrying over small things. |
D.Her neighbor noticed her crying over the lost keys. |
A.To demand an apology from her. | B.To offer to check and repair her car. |
C.To share COVID information with her. | D.To return her lost keys that they found. |
A.The neighbor pressed the author’s car alarm to find her. |
B.People like to keep social distance because of COVID. |
C.The author’s neighbor refused the author’s hug politely. |
D.The author planned to sound the alarm to find people. |
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9 . Life has not been easy for veteran (退伍老兵) John Jolly, who once stayed in Kingwood Park Houston. He has been homeless for decades. Thanks to a group of caring high school seniors, he now has a real home to call his own.
Students at Summer Creek and Kingwood Park High schools worked together on a project called “Students Helping Veterans” over the past school year. The students and teachers partnered together to create muster-planned tiny homes in the Houston area for homeless veterans. Generous local community donations helped fund the project.
In cooperation with local architects, engineers, and other community partners, the schools design and build homes expected to be 200 to 300 square feet in size. In the end, they want to build a community where veterans can be surrounded by other veteran neighbors who understand their difficulties and issues.
Senior student Sarah Dalby said that when she started the project, she hardly knew how to use a saw (锯) but now she is a fast learner loves the work. “We have to appreciate the veterans for protecting us and giving us the freedom and rights that we enjoy,” she added when explaining her own purpose to take part in the project.
“This is unbelievable,” remarked Barbara Lang, a friend of the veteran who was there to provide support. A tiny home is invaluable to those who have nothing. John was clearly excited with his new, clean and fully furnished home.
The students don’t view this as a one-time effort. Their admirable plan in to grow the project, and have it spread to other schools and cities that can repeal this model.
1. Where does the money of building homes for veterans come from?A.Contributions from rich businessmen. |
B.Contributions from the local people. |
C.Donations from the students and teachers of the high schools. |
D.Donations from people all over the USA. |
A.To help veterans find new friends. |
B.To create a home for all the homeless. |
C.To form a community made up of veterans. |
D.To build homes for veterans and their families. |
A.To learn new skills. | B.To learn from the veterans. |
C.To realize one of her dreams. | D.To show respect to the veterans. |
A.It didn’t attract the veterans. |
B.It is likely to benefit more veterans. |
C.It has inspired other schools and cities. |
D.It slops when all the houses are finished. |
10 . If your pilot calls “Mayday” on the communication system, you’re in big trouble. In May 2020, the pilot of Pakistan International Airlines Flight PK 8303 gave the horrible “Mayday” signal. “We have lost two engines “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday,” were the pilots’ last words, according to “Business Insider” Ninety-seven people died. “Mayday” is an international distress (遇险) signal used by airplane pilots and boat captains.
The signal arose just after World War, as air traffic between Britain and Europe increased greatly. All nearby nations needed an internationally understood signal that would warn authorities of urgent aircraft problems. Ships communicated through telegraph (电报) using Morse code (摩斯密码), and this technology made “SOS” unmistakable. However, aircraft pilots used radio calls, and “SOS” owing to its consonants (辅音) could be misheard as other letters, like “F”.
So Frederick Mock ford, a senior radio officer in London, was put in charge of finding a proper code word. He reasoned that because so much of the air traffic flew between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris. It might make sense to use a word that has been developed from a French word. He came up with “Mayday”, the French pronunciation of “m’aider” (help me) which itself is a clear version (版本) of “venez m’aider,” (come help me). The U. S. formally adopted “Mayday” as a distress signal in 1927.
Given its importance, most people respect the “Mayday” signal and use it only when completely necessary. Sadly, the Coast Guard occasionally deals with hoax calls. As a result a lot of dollars and countless man-hours may be wasted trying to rescue people who were never in danger. People who misuse this system can be put in prison for up to 10 years.
1. What does the author use the example of the Pakistan pilot to show?A.“Mayday” is used for distress calls. | B.Flying may become a terrible air crash. |
C.“Mayday” has to be used sometimes. | D.“Mayday” is mainly used by the pilot. |
A.It is difficult to understand. |
B.It is only used among bout captains. |
C.It may be misunderstood in radio calls. |
D.It is only understood by certain countries. |
A.It is a French word. | B.It means a day in May. |
C.It has different versions. | D.It was created by Frederick. |
A.To use “Mayday” cautiously. | B.To learn the importance of “Mayday”. |
C.To understand the origin of “Mayday”. | D.To know how to use “Mayday”. |