1 . Coffee Valley
Coffee Valley is a small coffee shop. While the first floor has limited seating, there are outlets for each seat. If you don’t need to charge, the second floor is much more spacious with an area that can accommodate groups of up to four people. They also have a good selection of snacks to accompany your coffee.
Date: Open daily. Time: 8 A. M.-8 P. M. (From 9 A. M. on weekends).
10° Cafe
10° Cafe is the perfect place for early birds. For some peace and quiet, work on the second floor. At 10° Cafe, each seat has power outlets while their counter seats offer a great view of the surrounding neighborhood. Their menu prices before 11 A. M.offer discounted (打折的) breakfast.
Date: Daily (Closed every third Sunday of the month). Time: 7:30 A. M.-9 P. M.
Location: A five-minute walk from Takadanobaba Station.
Good Sound Coffee
Come for the coffee, and stay for their music selection. Good Sound Coffee is a friendly neighborhood cafe close to Nakameguro Station. There are indoor and outdoor seats and plenty of outlets. It might get crowded on the weekends, and the cafe offers discounts on food items.
Date: Daily. Time:8 A. M.-1 1 P. M.
Valley Park Stand
Valley Park Stand opens from early in the morning to late in the evening. There are public tables with power outlets. It’s spacious with lots of natural light a few steps away from the Miyashita Park. There is a decently sized menu with tea, coffee and various sandwiches and bites.
Date:Daily Time:8A. M.-10 P. M.
1. What is the special part of 10° Cafe?| A．It opens to the late night. |
| B．It has one day off each month. |
| C．It offers different delicious snacks. |
| D．It’s not far from the Ikebukuro Station. |
| A．10° Cafe.. | B．Coffee Valley. | C．Valley Park Stand. | D．Good Sound Coffee. |
| A．A guide book. | B．A private diary. | C．A news report. | D．A short story. |
2 . Slow travel is about connecting deeply with your travels. Rather than rushing from one place to another, slow travelers treat each experience as an opportunity to learn and feel more deeply to the people, culture, and food they want to explore.
Relax and enjoy
Once, a vacation provided relaxation from the stress of everyday life. But over time, we began trying to put everything we want into a checklist.
Have more memorable experiences
If you’re used to jumping from one attraction after another, the idea of slow travel may feel like you’ll miss the latest Top 10. In fact, you free yourself from scratching the surface of everything without enjoying anything.
Meet people and actually get to know them
When you decide to take the slow travel route, you free yourself up to meet and spend time with others. You can meet locals at a park or restaurant and enjoy a conversation. Learn about the people on your food tour. You may even decide that you like someone enough to meet him/her later for lunch or a coffee.
Traveling by plane, train, and bus has a bad effect on the environment. We can transport ourselves to one location and spend more time exploring it on foot, by bike or on horseback. That’s less harmful to the planet than rushing to the next thing on the list with whatever vehical that will get us there in a hurry.
| A．Be more eco-friendly. |
| B．Experience different means of transportation. |
| C．This created more stress than we were escaping. |
| D．Making a checklist makes your journey more organized. |
| E．Slow travel allows you the time to feel a destination. |
| F．Here are some reasons we think you need to try slow travel. |
| G．Your communication tends to be more relaxed and more real. |
3 . Snowboarding genius Su Yiming made a name for himself by winning China’s first Olympic gold in the sport on Tuesday. By cleanly stomping back-to-back 1800 tricks, the teenager landed the biggest prize so far in his young career—gold in the men’s Big Air at the Beijing Winter Olympics. The notable achievement realized a childhood dream to reach the peak of the sport, which he began to learn at the age of 4.
Now with two shinning medals hung around his neck, the 17-year-old described his superb Olympic debut ( 首秀) as an unbelievable experience that has made all his sacrifices worthwhile. “This feels so surreal that I’ve finally accomplished what I’ve dreamed of since I was little,” said an emotional Su.
Over the past four years, Su has combined his talent with hard work to produce one of the swiftest rises to prominence the sport has ever seen. When the Shougang Big Air venue hosted its first international event, Su was an unknown qualifier, who didn’t even make the final runs. Just over two years later, Su is the name on everyone’s lips at the venue’s Olympic debut—drawing the whole nation’s attention to the sport he loves.
“The biggest motivation (动力) for me is my love for snowboarding,” Su said, when asked about the secret to his success. “In snowboarding, I feel like I can show my own style and creativity. Every time I ride my board, it’s always a joyful moment. I hope through my experience, I can inspire more young people to get interested in the sport.”
Su, a former child actor who featured in action movies, said the Olympic gold will encourage him to seek for more breakthroughs—even beyond his athletic career. “I enjoy snowboarding just as much as I enjoy acting,” said Su, who turns 18 on Friday. “I think I still have a lot of possibilities to explore in my future career either in snowboarding or in acting. But now I just want to enjoy the moment and celebrate it as the best possible birthday gift.”
1. What does the underlined word “landed” in Paragraph 1 mean?| A．Arrived. | B．Gained. | C．Created. | D．Dreamed. |
| A．His acting experience. | B．His talent and hard work. |
| C．His being fond of snowboarding. | D．His life dream of achieving success. |
| A．Talented and thoughtful. | B．Lovely and famous. |
| C．Creative and kind-hearted. | D．Hard-working and devoted. |
| A．Upset. | B．Hopeful. | C．Anxious. | D．Satisfied. |
4 . Exploring Jaipur’s Art and Design Scenes
City Palace
Still home to the royal family of Jaipur, this 300-year-old palace has lost none of its grandeur (壮观). The complex of courtyards, gardens and buildings is a mixture of Rajasthani and Mughal architecture. Among other things, the thoughtfully decorated museum houses an extensive textile (纺织品) collection, featuring rich fabrics as well as a carpet dating back over 400 years.
Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing
Situated in a restored old house, the Anokhi Museum is the perfect introduction to Jaipur’s textile industry. Information boards are excellently written, and the clothing on display is impressive. Don’t miss the on-site shop. Combine a visit with a trip to the UNESCO-listed Amber Fort, a remarkable walled castle that rises above the city and is only a five-minute ride from the museum.
Block Printing Project
Feel creative? A workshop is a great way to get a feel for the printing process. You’ll work alongside local craftsmen (工作), choosing your own blocks and colours. There are scores of companies providing the experience, but consider one of the sessions offered by the Wabisabi Project, which include a field trip and black tea to keep that creative energy flowing.
Jawahar Kala Kendra Centre
Just outside the Old City, Jaipur’s most important cultural centre was built to preserve Rajasthan’s rich heritage and master craftsmanship. Showing a wide range of both traditional and contemporary art, the space houses six galleries, as well as a museum, a library and an open-air theatre with programmes from plays to Indian folk dance. It also hosts its own theatre festival.
1. What can visitors enjoy at City Palace?| A．An age-old carpet. | B．An open-air theatre. |
| C．A local gallery. | D．A walled castle. |
| A．Indian folk dance. | B．Hands-on experience. |
| C．The UNESCO-listed site. | D．The royal family of Jaipur. |
| A．City Palace. | B．Block Printing Workshop. |
| C．Jawahar Kala Kendra Centre. | D．Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing. |
5 . It’s normal for friends to experience conflict, disagreements, and even fight. You can’t always agree on everything. Most times conflict with a friend is easily solved. But in some cases, the disagreement and the conflict grow leading to anger, sadness and even the end of a friendship. Learning to handle the conflict with friends in a healthy way is beneficial for both sides.
Calm down.
The first thing is to calm down.
It may feel as if it helps you explain your concerns more thoroughly if you bring in related examples from past events. Avoid this at all costs. Past issues for discussion only make things worse. Remember it’s important to focus on the issue at hand, not past events.
Work towards a compromise.
Unfortunately, some people believe that a compromise means a “lose/lose situation” because each person has to give up something. While this is true, every healthy relationship usually involves compromise and adjusting to others’ needs or wants.
Be careful of unhealthy friendships.
It’s generally a good idea to work through conflicts with friends. But it isn’t in your best interest if the friendship causes more harm than good.
| A．It takes two to make it work |
| B．In a heated situation, it’s easy to say or do things we later regret |
| C．Avoid explaining your concerns repeatedly |
| D．Remain on the current matter |
| E．Here are some tips |
| F．It’s important to surround yourself with people who positively influence your life |
| G．If you are in a friendship that is based more on conflict or you are the one always apologizing |
6 . Welcome to our school. You can do a lot of things here. Come and join us.
Timetable
| Sunday 8:30-11:30 Personal Inventions. You can see many inventions by the students; you may also bring your own inventions. | Monday 19:00-21:00 Space and Man Dr. Thomas West If you want to know more about the universe. |
| Wednesday 19:30-21:00 Modern Medicine Mrs. Lucy Green Would you like to know medical science? | Friday 18:30-21:00 Computer Science Mr. Harry Morison from Harvard University, US Learn to use Linux. |
| A．Sunday | B．Monday | C．Wednesday | D．Friday |
| A．8:30 to 11:30 on Sunday | B．19:00 to 21:00 on Monday |
| C．19:30 to 21:00 on Wednesday | D．18:30 to 21:00 on Friday |
| A．Canada | B．Australia | C．New Zealand | D．America |
| A．Mrs. Lucy Green | B．Dr. Thomas West |
| C．Mr. Harry Morison | D．Mr. Adam |
7 . Tonal languages use pitch (音调) to distinguish words that otherwise might sound the same. In Mandarin, for instance, mă means horse whereas mã means mother. Nontonal languages like Spanish sometimes include pitch changes to suggest emotion, for example, but not to change a word’s meaning.
As a Mandarin speaker and musician, Jingxuan Liu wondered about the crossover (融合) between language and music. While studying at Duke University, Liu helped analyze the musical abilities of nearly half a million people from 203 countries. Her colleagues had launched an online game in which participants completed several musical tasks, including identifying matching melodies at different pitches and finding beat tracks that fit songs’ rhythms.
On average, native speakers of the 19 represented tonal languages were better at the melody task compared with speakers of 29 nontonal languages. And the effect wasn’t small a tonal first language strengthened melodic understanding by about half the amount that music lessons did, which was also surveyed. But tonal languages speakers tended to be worse at the rhythm task.
Humans must be choosy about what they pay attention to. Pitch patterns are quite important in tonal languages, which might explain the balancing act in music. “You’ve got a finite resource of attention, and you’ve got to divide up that somehow,” says study coauthor Courtney Hilton, a scientist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
Prior research on language and music often compared just two tongues, usually English and Mandarin. But other cultural influences, such as Eastern and Western music styles, could have affected results. By examining a wide range of people, the new study included languages never estimated in this way and reached more generalizable conclusion.
“Our result here is showing that the language someone speaks which is an important part of culture — also shapes cognition,” Hilton says.
1. Why did Liu’s colleagues launch the online game?| A．To attract more students to do the research. |
| B．To learn about different people’s musical abilities. |
| C．To confirm the role of music in people’s language learning. |
| D．To find the difference between tonal languages and nontonal ones. |
| A．Finding beat tracks. | B．Suggesting emotion. |
| C．Distinguishing word meanings. | D．Figuring out matching melodies. |
| A．Valued. | B．Limited. | C．Special. | D．Potential. |
| A．Ground-breaking. | B．Brain-washing. | C．Inefficient. | D．Unreliable. |
8 .
Hope Book Club A book club is a small group of persons that are reading the same book in order to share different feelings and opinions about the book. The book club meets once a month for an hour of lively discussion. All students(3+), teachers and parents are welcome! Here you can discover a new world, learn new ideas and make new friends! |
What you should do: ★You will read the book on your own and then discuss your reading in the book club. ★You must keep up with your reading so that you can join as a part of your group. The book club will decide what pages or chapters(章节) you will read. ★You should take down notes and thoughts as you read. ★Everyone in the book club is expected to join in the discussion. More tips: ★Keep our place clean. ★No pets and no smoking. ★Take good care of books and return them on time. ★You must ask for leave if you cannot join in the discussion. Fees: Kids from 3—7: Free; Kids from 8—18:10 dollars a month; Adults: 15 dollars a month. If you are interested, call 487-256-656 or 487-266-545, send an email to hopebook@yahoo.com or visit our website at www. hopebookclub.com. |
| A．40 dollars. | B．60 dollars. | C．80 dollars. | D．90 dollars |
| A．Keeping the environment tidy. | B．Taking care of your pets. |
| C．Keeping silent when discussing . | D．Deciding whatever pages or chapters. |
| A．You can keep the books as long as you like. |
| B．Books aren’t allowed to be taken out of the club. |
| C．The members in the club have to put down their ideas. |
| D．You can choose your favourite books to read in the club. |
9 . People solve some new problems readily without any special training or practice by comparing them to familiar problems and extending the solutions to the new problems. That process, known as analogical reasoning (类比推理), has long been thought to be an ability only humans have. But now people might have to make room for a new kid on the block.
Psychologists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) claim that, astonishingly, the artificial intelligence (AI) language model GPT-3 performs about as well as college undergraduates when asked to solve the sort of reasoning problems that typically appear on intelligence tests and standardized tests.
But the psychologists raise the question: Is GPT-3 copying human reasoning as a by-product of its massive language training data set or using a fundamentally new kind of cognitive (认知的) process? They also say that although GPT-3 performs far better than they expected at some reasoning tasks, the popular AI tool still fails completely at others. “It can do analogical reasoning, but it can’t do things that are very easy for people, such as using tools to solve a physical task,” says Taylor Webb, a UCLA postdoctoral researcher in psychology.
Webb and his colleagues tested GPT-3’s ability to solve a set of problems inspired by a test known as Raven’s Progressive Matrices, which ask the subject to predict the next image in a complicated arrangement of shapes. To enable GPT-3 to “see” the shapes, and make sure that the AI tool had never met the questions before, Webb transformed the images into a text format that GPT-3 could process.
The psychologists asked 40 UCLA undergraduate students to solve the same problems. Surprisingly, not only did GPT-3 do about as well as humans but it made similar mistakes as well. GPT-3 solved 80% of the problems correctly — well above the human subjects’ average score of just below 60%, but within the range of the highest human scores.
1. What is analogical reasoning usually considered?| A．A simple learning skill. | B．A unique human ability. |
| C．A vital thinking process. | D．A solution to any problem. |
| A．Its system has some limitations. | B．Its application hasn’t been popular. |
| C．It needs to be trained for these tasks. | D．It is good at copying human reasoning. |
| A．To add difficulty to the questions. | B．To enable GPT-3 to see the results. |
| C．To guarantee the foreignness of the tasks. | D．To test GPT-3’s ability to identify text. |
| A．It will replace humans in some cases. | B．It rarely makes mistakes like humans. |
| C．It is able to do things very easy for people. | D．It runs undergraduates close in reasoning. |
10 . Walking through an airport is never easy. Now imagine doing it if you were blind. That’s the problem faced by Chieko Asakawa, a computer scientist and IBM researcher. Asakawa often flies between the US and Japan, making the journey monthly. If travelling alone, she has to be helped at both ends of the flight, which sometimes involves endless waiting. Searching for a better alternative led Asakawa to invent a high-tech suitcase that helps get her to the place she wants to go safely.
“I never relax when I travel alone,” she says. “I always think about what technology will help me travel on my own more easily, quickly and comfortably.” It was this restlessness that led to the Al suitcase.
The idea has been in development since 2017 in a collaboration between IBM, other Japanese companies, and Caregie Mellon University in Pennsylvania. Asakawa says there are hopes to put the suitcase on the market and a pilot program is prepared to use it in an airport, a shopping mall and other public spaces. Though the current version is too full of tech to hold any clothes, that could change in the future, she says.
As a runner, Asakawa had Olympic dreams as a child, but a swimming accident at age 11 caused her to gradually lose her sight until, aged 14, she became totally blind. “Blind people usually use a white cane (手杖) or a guide dog. A smart suitcase will open up many doors for blind people, because we’d be able to go anywhere by ourselves. Without new technology, we cannot make our society more inclusive,” Asakawa says. “The suitcase is a great showcase for how AI and technology can change the lives of the blind.”
1. What drove Asakawa to invent the suitcase?| A．The great commercial value of the suitcase. |
| B．The suggestion from an international airport. |
| C．The previous experience of helping the blind. |
| D．The wish to finish her trip smoothly without others’ help. |
| A．It can hold a lot of clothes. | B．It has yet to be widely used. |
| C．It’s certainly a long way for it to be on sale. | D．It is ready the perfect version. |
| A．It will change people’s way of travelling. |
| B．It will make the public care for the blind more. |
| C．It will encourage scientists to do more researches. |
| D．It will hugely offer the blind freedom of movements. |
| A．Technology Is Changing Blind People’s Lives |
| B．An AI Suitcase Will Help the Blind Go Around |
| C．A Robot Suitcase Makes Travelling Easy and Popular |
| D．Travelling Alone Requires Much Courage for the Disabled |
