1 . The following are a few of the best places you can take your family to during the summer vacation.

Pawleys Island, South Carolina

This island is filled with beautiful white sand beaches, and a wonderful relaxed summer atmosphere. Here you and your kids can relax from the long school year. You can rent a little beach house for the family and enjoy the warm summer days and the beautiful beach. The kids will love playing in the beautiful white sand. You can also enjoy days of bike rides and walks on the beach.

Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a fantastic destination for families that enjoy music. This city played a key role in the evolution of Blues music. You can explore Beale Street, which was the center of the Blues culture in the early year and is a great starting point for exploring the city.

Rock City, Georgia

Rock City is an amazing rock garden, where you can walk along a trail featuring fascinating rock formations, a bridge, caves and a spectacular view.

San Antonio, Texas

The home of the Alamo is filled with interesting attractions. If you want your children to visit some historic places, there are lots of options in this city. You can eat at historic restaurants and stay at the historic Crockett Hotel, which was built on the site of the Alamo Battlefield in 1909. San Antonio’ s River Walk is another wonderful way to enjoy the city. You can take a leisurely walk and enjoy the dining and shopping of the city. Or you could take a boat tour instead of walking on the River Walk.

1. What can kids do on Pawleys Island?

A．Live in a beach house.	B．Relax in the boats.
C．Walk along the rocks.	D．Ride bikes for free.

2. Where should music lovers choose?

A．Pawleys Island, South Carolina	B．Memphis, Tennessee
C．Rock City, Georgia	D．San Antonio, Texas

3. Where is the historic Crockett Hotel?

A．Near a hotel.	B．Beside historic places.
C．Close to the River Walk.	D．On a former battlefield

2 . Breaking ground on what will be the first 3D-printed community in the world, a large 3D printer built two houses in a poor area of Mexico. The houses aren’t just models. Developers hoped to build 50 new 3D-printed houses, replacing the structures that residents built by themselves out of wood, metal, and whatever materials they could afford.

These residents live in a seismic zone (地震带) that tends to be affected by flooding. Building something that can stand an earthquake and keep people dry during heavy rain was a key consideration when it came to the design of the houses.

New Story, the non-profit organization building the houses, has built more than 2,300 homes in South America and Mexico since it was founded in 2014. This is the first homebuilding project it has done with 3D printing. The organization paired up with ICON, a construction technology company that developed the 3D-printing robotics being used on the project. The homes were co-designed with the families who will live in them.

According to New Story, 3D printing is much faster than regular construction. The printer prints out a concrete mix that hardens when it dries, building the walls one layer at a time. It takes about 24 hours to build two houses at the same time. Since 3D printing is also cheaper than traditional construction, there is great potential for how it will change the world.

The technology holds promise for affordable housing. New Story is excited about what the technology could mean for people who don’t have safe shelter. Brett Hagler, the CEO and co-founder of the organization, said safe shelter is “one of the largest crises affecting humanity today”. The technology is there, and the application to build homes for those in need brings a lot of hope for the future.

1. What did the design of the 3D-printed houses mainly consider?

A．The structures of the old houses.	B．The materials available in the area.
C．The financial ability of the organization.	D．The environmental conditions of the area.

2. What is the third paragraph mainly about?

A．The design process.	B．The introduction of ICON.
C．The teams behind the project.	D．The differences between New Story and ICON.

3. What makes the new technology meaningful?

A．It can end human crises.	B．It can provide shelter free of charge.
C．It can replace traditional construction.	D．It can offer safe housing to the homeless.

4. What is the best title of the text?

A．3D Printing Becomes a Reality.	B．Technologies Change the Future.
C．3D Printing Helps with Housing Problems.	D．Technologies Bring Hope to Mexican Cities.

3 . The Best Treehouse Spots

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to have a treehouse as a child? Well, we’ve got a list of the best treehouse staycation spots to visit this summer.

The TokinTree (Cave Junction, Oregon)

First things first, this treehouse is exactly what its name suggests, a flower-friendly outdoor paradise. For $250 a night, this rental comes with a seasonally available garden tour for you and up to three more guests — all over the age of 21, of course.

The Tiny House Treehouse (Campobello, South Carolina)

This staycation spot in the South is a great way to be immersed in nature while enjoying the comfort of a cozy home. It’s only two acres of land and nearly 20 minutes away from a nearby city Tyron, North Carolina and 10 minutes away from Downtown Landrum. It holds up to 4 guests and will cost you around $265 a night before taxes.

The Sugar Maple Treehouse (Hancock, Vermont)

This neat getaway houses two guests and is located near a quiet area in central Vermont, in the wilderness of the Green Mountain National Forest in three trees above high ground. And during your stay, you can arrange on in-house massage (按摩) therapist, so you’ll likely never want to return home. A night at the Sugar Maple for you and a guest sits at about $159.

The Peaceful Treehouse With Ocean View (Aptos, California)

This next one is a bit of a luxury stay. At $800 a night for you and 5 others, the “Peaceful Treehouse With Ocean View” is bound lo lake your breath away. This house in the trees is full of floor-to-ceiling windows and slide doors inspired by Japanese screens.

1. Which treehouse is the most economical for each guest?

A．The TokinTree.

B．The Tiny House Treehouse.

C．The Sugar Maple Treehouse.

D．The Peaceful Treehouse With Ocean View.

2. What attracts guests most in the Sugar Maple Treehouse?

A．Its neat house.	B．Its relaxing service.
C．Its beautiful scenery.	D．Its convenient location.

3. Where is the text probably taken from?

A．A travel magazine.	B．A gardening guide.
C．A hiking programme.	D．A botanical introduction.

4 . Why Live Near the River?

Imagine pioneers traveling west in the 1800s. In those days, it was hard to find running water and shops where to buy things. As time went by, most pioneers had to make their homes near a river so that they could get water easily.

How did rivers help people live in the past?

Back in the pioneer days, people grew their own food, caught their own fish, and collected their own water.     1     People also used rivers as roads, traveling on boats. Traders shipped goods (货物) to people from other areas.

    2    

When building many factories right next to rivers for the water’s power to make machines work, some people choose to live near a river for working. They use the river to ship large goods, and some of them work at these factories where power factories provide electricity to homes and businesses.     3    

Who wouldn’t want to live near a river?

Some people are nervous about living near rivers because rivers can cause floods (洪水). Every once in a while, floodwaters rise higher than a house, ruining (泡坏) many things in the house.

    4     Such waste causes water to smell bad and pollutes the crops (庄稼) we eat. Water and crops in polluted areas can make people very sick.

How do people decide where to live?

    5     Rivers can provide jobs and fun activities in a beautiful place. However, those living by rivers should be willing to accept possible problems as well.

A．Why do people live near rivers now?

B．Why did people want to live near a river?

C．Some factories put their waste into rivers.

D．Staying close to a river was easy to get water for living.

E．Some factories stop waste water from running into rivers.

F．People who carry goods onto ships live near the river, too.

G．People should think over the possible risks before deciding where to live.

5 . Eating Out

Are you looking for somewhere special to go this weekend? Do you want to try something new? Check out one of these hot new restaurants.

Musical Chairs

Have you noticed how music makes the taste of your food better? This new restaurant has different types of live music every night except Sundays, and excellent food to go with it. Great fish dishes, beef and pizza. Monday is classic rock night, so see you there.

The Chocolate Box

The owner of this small cafe used to cook all kinds of food. But then she realized she preferred sweets to anything else. If you want meat or fish, don’t come here. They only do desserts! Lots of different kinds of sweets. Chocolate lovers will be excited by the range (范围) of chocolate cakes.

Last Days of the Raj

A centrally-located (位置中心的) Indian restaurant, perfect for eating before or after the cinema or a show. In summer enjoy your meal in the beautiful garden. The most popular dishes are beef and chicken cooked with mild, medium (中等的) or hot spices (调料). For brave customers there is extra hot!

A Tasty of Tuscany

Whether you'd like a great value-for-money lunch or a relaxed evening meal at a fantastic restaurant, this is the place for you. The cooks have all been trained in Italy and they make both traditional and modern dishes. We recommend (推荐) the pasta and seafood.

1. What’s special about Music Chairs?

A．Sunday is classic rock night every week.

B．The chair there can play wonderful music.

C．The restaurant only welcomes music lovers.

D．You can enjoy your meal with live music there.

2. Which of the following does the Chocolate Box serve?

A．Fish.

B．Cakes.

C．Seafood.

D．Chicken.

3. What can people do at A Taste of Tuscany?

A．Enjoy a relaxed breakfast.	B．Taste dishes cooked in Italy.
C．Have a value-for-money lunch.	D．Learn to cook pasta and seafood.

4. What is recommended in the text?

A．Hot restaurants.

B．Spicy food.

C．Weekend activities.

D．The best places to go.

6 . Young adults in Singapore can often live with their parents into their 30s. They are encouraged by the government, which is fond of praising family values. Housing policy makes it difficult for young people to live independently. Almost 80% of Singaporeans live in subsidized (补助的) public housing. They cannot have a flat of their own until they marry or turn 35.

Yet a small but growing number of Singaporeans are resisting the nanny state (保姆式国家): Between 1990 and 2020, the number of those under 35 who lived alone or with non-family members grew from 33,400 to 51,300. Since they do not qualify for public housing, they must rent in the private sector. One factor is that Singaporeans are getting married later. In 1980, the average ages at which men and women married were 27 and 24; today, they are 30 and 29. A growing number choose not to marry at all. For others, it was COVID-19 that pushed them out of the nest. Serene Chee, a 25-year-old lawyer, did not greatly mind living with her parents until travel restrictions and work-from-home policies kept her stuck at home all the time. In June, Ms Chee and a friend moved into an apartment together.

Living on your own is not easy. First, you must inform your parents. It took Lydia Yang, an illustrator who was then 28, three months to gather the courage Then you must learn to pay bills and do basic chores. When Lenne Chai, a photographer, moved out seven years ago at the age of 23y she did not know how to cook.

Life on your own can be lonely. Ms Yang found it “a bit depressing”, particularly during the lockdown. But living apart may improve relationships. Both Ms Yang and Ms Chai said that they got on better with their parents after moving out. When living together, they paid each other little attention. Now their weekly visits are “quality time”, said Ms Chai. When Ms Chee’s parents came to her flat for dinner recently, they were impressed by how tidy it was.

1. What’s the attitude of the government to family values?

A．Negative.

B．Supportive.

C．Objective.

D．Subjective.

2. What makes it hard for young people to live by themselves?

A．Housing policy.	B．The spread of COVID-19.
C．Parents’ disagreement.	D．The limited private apartments.

3. What can we know from Paragraph 2?

A．A growing number of people have enough money to hire nannies.

B．People need to rent houses because they have qualification for public housing.

C．More and more people don’t want to get married because of economic pressure.

D．COVID-19 is one of the reasons why many people don’t want to live with their parents.

4. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A．The definition of “quality time”.	B．The positive effect of living alone.
C．The loneliness of living independently.	D．The parents’ attitude to children’s independence.

7 . Here are the top 4 breakfast venues in New Orleans.

Surrey’s Cafe & Juice Bar

Surrey’s Cafe & Juice Bar is the oldest organic(有机的) juice bar in New Orleans. There are two locations located on historic Magazine Street. It is a trendy juice bar that serves local food items with a Latin flavor. You’ll just have to try it for yourself!

Opening & Closing Hours:

Tuesday: Closed

Wednesday: Closed

Thursday-Monday: 8 am to 3 pm

Two Chicks Cafe

The Two Chicks Cafe was started by, you guess it, “two chicks”. Two best friends started this cafe in New Orleans with the support of their families. They worked hard to make their restaurant dream a reality. Everything in the restaurant and on the menu was handcrafted by the “two chicks”. At Two Chicks Cafe, you are family.

Opening & Closing Hours:

Monday: Closed

Wednesday-Sunday: 8 am to 2 pm

The Camellia Grill

The Camellia Grill is a must-visit for everyone traveling in New Orleans. This diner is located in Uptown New Orleans and has been open since 1946. At The Camellia Grill, you can really enjoy the taste of the past. It is a diner-style restaurant with a local charm. All the servers are dressed in traditional uniforms to take you back to the good old days in New Orleans.

Opening & Closing Hours:

Monday-Thursday: 8 am to 12 am

Friday-Saturday: 8 am to 2 am

Sunday: 8 am to 12 am

Bywater Bakery

Bywater Bakery was opened by Alton Osborne and Chaya Conrad in 2017. They were newly married and wanted to make New Orleans feel like home. Alton and Chaya have created a delicious bakery that rings true to their original intent. Home really is where the food is. The bakery is located on the corner of Dauphine and Independence. They offer a rich selection of delicious breakfast items that you do not want to miss.

Opening & Closing Hours:

Thursday-Monday: 8 am to 3 pm

Tuesday: Closed

Wednesday: Closed

1. To eat at 1 pm on Wednesday, where should you go?

A．Surrey’s Cafe & Juice Bar.	B．Two Chicks Cafe.
C．The Camellia Grill.       .	D．Bywater Bakery.

2. What may The Camellia Grill impress you?

A．Traditional local food.	B．Old organic dishes.
C．Fashionable uniforms.	D．Super long business hours.

3. Which column of a website does the text belong to?

A．Life.

B．Health.

C．Entertainment.

D．Fashion.

8 . 阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词, 或括号内单词的正确形式。

Shenzhen’s first coffee-themed post office opened at the Science and Technology Park in Nanshan District. The postal service hall is no longer a     1    (tradition) one, providing a new scene     2     citizens can socialize and experience postal culture. Postal elements can be seen everywhere, with stamps, postcards and cakes in the shapes of mailboxes, mail carts and an old-style postman bicycle     3    (exhibit).

China Post has been trying new business opportunities in recent years.     4     February 2022, the country’s first coffee-themed post office opened in Xiamen and quickly became a hot search topic on multiple social platforms. At least 14 such shops     5    (set)up nationwide so far. In 2022, China Post and ride hailing company Didi Chuxing     6    (joint) launched offline activities such as “Take Didi to coffee-themed post offices, ”     7     carried out a book circulation (流通)plan with OALTY, an oat milk company from Sweden. China Post also introduced modes like ”tea+coffee“ and “day coffee+night wine”     8    (attract) more young consumers.

China Post    9    (have) its unique advantages in developing coffee shops: public data shows that by the end of 2020, there were 54, 00Q postal offices and 43, 000     10    (deliver) service outlets (网点) in China. It aims to open 100 such themed stores nationwide.

9 . The Fourth of July is an important day for the Quad Cities River Bandits, a Minor League Baseball team. Thousands of fans crowd into Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport, lowa, to cheer on the home team and watch fireworks. But it was a bit different in 2014, says Chesser, the Bandits' manager, when the baseball stadium was rurned into an island in the middle of the Mississippi River. Fans had to cross the floodwaters on a movable bridge to reach the stadium.

Davenport is the only major city on the upper Mississippi River without flood walls to hold back the river. Instead of building a barrier(障碍)between the river and nearby homes and businesses. Davenport designed its downtown to be floodable lining the city's nine miles of riverfront (滨河地区) with parks, bike tracks, parking lots, and a very wet baseball stadium.

Local leadership says thin method has come with some economic benefits. Building a wall would be expensive, potentially costing more than present flood cleanups. “When the river comes up, and that happens every year now, we let it take its own course. There is nothing really in there that could be damaged,” says former Davenport mayor Bill Gluba.

Davenport’s method does come at a cost. “When we have a flood, we put off other important services.” says Public Works Director Nicole Gleason,” We press a stop button on everything that's scheduled.”

Despite complaints (抱怨) about slow road repair, the Davenport community realizes what it has gained with the public green space. Locals enjoy frequent citywide events, from festivals and concerts on the riverfront to an annual Father's Day bike ride.

For residents like Bandits' manager Chesser, the many beautiful days at the riverfront more than make up for the day when flooding spreads into the city. “I can't complain if five days a year Mother Nature decides to throw us a curveball.” he says.

1. Why does the writer mention “The baseball stadium” In Paragraph 1?

A．To introduce the topic.	B．To draw a conclusion.
C．To analyze the problem.	D．To explain an idea.

2. What's special about Davenport's flood-prevention method?

A．It designed in floodable riverfront.

B．It blocked away the flood effectively.

C．It used valuable land to build flood walls.

D．It spent much more than the traditional way.

3. Which statement will the locals probably agree with?

A．The city's flood method is short-sighted

B．The benefits can make up for flood influence.

C．The locals' life is hardly affected by the flood

D．The speed of road repair is extremely fast after flood.

4. Which can be a suitable title for the text

A．Walling Up the City to Flood	B．Davenport's Peace with the Flood
C．A Model for Cities' Flood Management	D．A Common Method for Mississippi's Flood

10 . 阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

URUMQI-As morning sunlight shines brightly over the snowy mountain, Daliu, an experienced ski     1     (instruct), gets his equipment and sets     2     for work.

Nanshan Mountain in Urumqi is extraordinarily beautiful     3     it has several popular pistes (滑雪道), attracting crowds of tourists across the country every year. Looking up from the valley, we can see the pistes     4     (neat) lay on the long slope and skiers     5     (slide) fast down, their figure floating like a feather on the snowy mountain.

Located in the     6     (gold) latitudes (纬度) of ice and snow, Xinjiang is rich in ice-and-snow resources. There are more than 18,600 large and small glaciers (冰川) covering over 24,000 square kilometers,     7     account for 42 percent of the glacier area in China. The region has become an     8     (intend) destination for ice-and-snow sports, due to a large amount of thick powder snow, a good climate, low wind speeds, bright sunshine and high mountains with moderate slopes.

The boom in ice-and-snow tourism is bringing more business opportunities to local equipment factories. Dozens of machines in the factory of Xinjiang Huatong Taike Play Equipment Co     9     (run) day and night     10     (produce) a range of skiing equipment.