2. Write your own understandings of the relationship between family members.
3. 100—120 words.
1. memory
2. move in
3. no longer
4. convenience
5. selection
6. view
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5 . As an English, I can speak three languages - English, German and French, so do you think the British people are very good language learners? The fact is that they aren’t.
Some statistics (数据) from the survey done by the European Commission (欧盟委员会) showed that 62% of the British people only speak English, 38% speak at least one foreign language and 18% speak two or more. Compared with the British people, 56% of the people in other European countries speak at least one foreign language and 28% speak two or more. From this you can see that the British people are famous for not speaking foreign languages and that they are not good language learners in Europe.
And the survey also showed that English is the most widely-spoken foreign language. Many European people can have a conversation in English. That’s why y people don’t think it is necessary to lean a foreign language.
In Britain, students are not required to learn a foreign language. That means learning a foreign language is only an option at school. In UK schools it is common for children to start learning a foreign language at 11 and many of them give it up at 14. So why don’t students continue learning foreign languages at school? Because they think it is more difficult to get good marks in languages than in other subjects such as science or history.
To solve this situation, the British government is looking for different ways to improve language learning at school. One way is to start learning it at a much younger age. Another one is to give school children more choices.
Changing the British attitude (态度) to learning foreign languages may be a hard task but the government decides to try!
1. Which country does the writer come from?| A．America. | B．China. | C．Britain. | D．Egypt. |
| A．They are good language learners |
| B．62% of them speak two or more languages. |
| C．They are famous for speaking foreign languages. |
| D．More than half of them only speak English. |
| A．science or German | B．history or German | C．science or history | D．German or French |
| A．a choice | B．a game | C．a mistake | D．a conversation |
| A．Speaking English | B．Foreign Language Learning in UK |
| C．Schools in UK | D．Young English Learners |
6 . Getting rid of(丢弃) old tyres(轮胎) has long been a problem. Every year many tyres are thrown. Some of the ways might be better than getting rid of them, but they are not especially green.
Energy recovery(回收利用) is one common way. This includes burning tyres to produce electricity, or as a way to provide heat for other industrial processes. But that produces planet-warming pollution. Tyres can be whole or broken in construction projects, such as repairing roads. There are, however, worries about chemicals from the tyres coming out and polluting the ground.
So some companies have begun exploring another pleasing idea. Since tyres are mostly made from hydrocarbons(碳氢化合物), it should be possible in principle to turn old tyres into environmentally friendly materials which can be used to run some cars they came from. One of the most thoughtful companies is based in Oslo, Norway. Later this year the company will start building a huge tyre-reused factory in Sunderland in northeastern England. In a couple of years, when the factory is fully operational, it will be able to turn 8 million old tyres into new products.
The process works by dividing a tyre into its three main parts. One is steel, which is used to support the structure of a tyre and which can be easily reused. The second is powder used to improve the continuous use of the tyre. The third is rubber. Some of that will be natural rubber from the rubber trees. The carbon black can be reused to make new tyres. That is of interest to tyre makers because it helps efforts to become carbon neutral(碳中和).
1. What is the disadvantage of energy recovery of tyres mentioned in the text?| A．It is unpractical. | B．It produces pollution. |
| C．It costs a lot. | D．It produces less electricity. |
| A．By giving an example. | B．By making questions. |
| C．By following time order. | D．By comparing differences. |
| A．Costly. | B．Useful. | C．Dangerous. | D．Short-lived. |
| A．Tyres can be divided into three parts |
| B．A company built a tyre-reused factory |
| C．Energy recovery can deal with old tyres |
| D．Old tyres can become environmentally friendly materials |
Billie Jean was always full of energy (精力)! One morning, Billie Jean’s friend Susan asked her: “Do you want to play tennis? You’ll love it!”
Tennis sounded exciting! That evening, Billie Jean asked her father, “What’s the best sport for a girl?”
Her dad had a think. “Tennis, of course!”
She felt excited. Maybe this “tennis” was the sport for her!
The next weekend, Susan took Billie Jean to the Virginia Country Club. It was a really great place!
There were beautiful gardens and ladies wearing white tennis dresses. She felt quite out of place in her baggy T-shirt and shorts!
But her nervousness disappeared when she got out onto the sunny tennis court (网球场). Susan handed her a strange thing that looked like a net.
“This is a racket (球拍). You hit a ball with it!”
Susan lobbed (发高球) a yellow ball at her. Billie Jean hit her racket as hard as she could. Her friend showed her how tennis should be played. They did their best to hit the ball over the net in the middle of the court. Billie Jean spent more time hitting the air than she did hitting the ball — but she loved playing tennis anyway!
Buying a racket was unaffordable for her family. From that day on, Billie Jean asked people in the neighborhood about any jobs she could do. Finally, Billie Jean bought a little wooden racket.
“Can we go to the Virginia Country Club to play?” she asked.
Her mom said, “We can’t afford it, love. What about the public courts at Houghton Park?”
Billie Jean quickly agreed! When she arrived at the park, she saw an old man waiting by the tennis court.
“I’m Clyde!” he said. “Do you want some tennis lessons?”
Billie Jean was worried. “Yes...but I don’t have any money.”
The man just smiled. “It’s free! Come on in!”
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This was only the second time that Billie Jean had tried to play tennis.
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Clyde said with a smile, “Billie Jean, with hard work, you can be a champion.”
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It is not every day that scientists explore a beautifully protected ancient forest deep inside a sinkhole (落水洞).
Such a
The sinkhole also had other plants
Apart from being deep, the sinkhole is 306 metres long
The scientists said the forest was an ancient woodland and it had probably never been disturbed (打扰) by human activity. These types
China is home to the world’s deepest sinkhole, Xiaozhai Tiankeng, which is 662 metres deep and was
In the Bahamas, Dean’s Blue Hole is another sinkhole famous for
9 . Two high-speed train companies, Eurostar and Thalys, are joining forces to create a single rail company that will serve five countries (the UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany) across Europe after the European Commission agreed on the merger (合并) on Tuesday.
It was first planned in 2019 but the pandemic (大流行病) caused ticket sales to drop overnight in 2020, pushing back the project. Both companies were going out of business. “By merging Eurostar and Thalys, we are able to face the challenge of the environmental problems and the pandemic,” president of French train company SNCF Guillaume Pepy said.
Pepy added that the creation of a European high-speed rail company gives 18.5 million passengers an attractive alternative (可供选择的事物) to the road and air transport. Known as Project Green Speed, one of the goals of the merger is to increase passenger numbers to 30 million a year by 2030. It also hopes to use more green power in its trains.
Sophie Dutordoir, CEO of Belgian rail company SNCB and chairman of the board for Thalys also said the merger could only be good for passengers. “This merger project is based on the common belief that trains are the fastest, easiest and safest way to travel in Europe — now more than ever. The main advantages for passengers will be better scheduling and ticketing. It will be easier for passengers to, for example, take a Eurostar service to Paris then connect with a Thalys service to travel on to Germany.”
In the future, there would also be services that run all the way through from London served by Eurostar to cities served by Thalys, including Cologne or Frankfurt. But all UK travelers will have to pass through the border (边境) control before getting on the train. It means that these stations will have to add many data processing terminals (数据处理终端). It would be an arduous task and could take a long time to complete.
1. What happened to Eurostar and Thalys in 2020?| A．They merged into one company. |
| B．They faced serious business difficulties. |
| C．They built a new high-speed railway across Europe. |
| D．They failed to get official support from the European Commission. |
| A．To increase train speed by 18.5%. |
| B．To offer free service to European passengers. |
| C．To serve 30 million passengers a year by 2030. |
| D．To produce green power for European train companies. |
| A．It will lead to new environmental problems. |
| B．It will encourage more foreign tourists to visit Europe. |
| C．It will improve the development of air transport in Europe. |
| D．It will make train travel easier between five European countries. |
| A．Difficult. | B．Dangerous. | C．Impossible. | D．Obvious. |
10 . The levees (防洪堤) that protect New Orleans held up against Hurricane Ida’s fury (猛烈), passing their first big test since Hurricane Katrina that struck 16 years ago. The government spent billions of dollars to upgrade the city’s levee system which had failed before Katrina. But the effort couldn’t spare some neighboring communities from Ida’s terrible storm surge (风暴潮).
Many people living in LaPlace, located 25 miles west of New Orleans, had to be rescued from rising floodwaters. Marcie Jacob Hebert ran away before Ida. But she has no doubt that the storm flooded her LaPlace home. Her house didn’t flood during Katrina. But it took on nearly two feet of water during Hurricane Isaac in 2012. “We didn’t have these problems until everybody else’s levees worked,” said Hebert, 46. “It may not be the only cause, but I sure do think it makes a difference.”
Gov. John Bel Edwards said a recent survey of levees across Louisiana showed they did exactly what they were for and held the water out. “We don’t believe there is a single levee anywhere now that actually broke or failed. There were only a few smaller levees in New Orleans that failed,” Edwards said.
After Katrina, the government spent $14.5 billion on projects designed to improve protection from storm surge and flooding in New Orleans and nearby areas. The system is a 130-mile ring built to hold out storm surge of about 30 feet. In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina produced a storm surge that flooded about four-fifths of the city, causing over 1,800 deaths.
Work recently began on a levee project to protect LaPlace and other communities outside New Orleans’ levee system. That project will be completed in 2024.
“I’m glad they’re building us a levee, but I worry about what happens to the next group further to the west,” Hebert said. “The water has got to go somewhere no matter how many levee systems are built. We can’t just keep moving it from person to person, place to place.”
1. What is the reason for the flooding in LaPlace according to Hebert?| A．Heavy rainfall. | B．Weather change. | C．Levees breaking. | D．Nearby levees. |
| A．It costs too much. | B．It may cause danger. |
| C．It is generally satisfying. | D．It badly needs improvements. |
| A．Provide some helpful suggestions. | B．Offer some background information. |
| C．Introduce a new topic for discussion. | D．Discuss the causes of the problem. |
| A．Levees cannot completely solve the problem. |
| B．Some locals had better move away from LaPlace. |
| C．The levee project in LaPlace won’t be finished on time. |
| D．It is a mistake to build a levee system for locals in LaPlace. |
