1 . Only a few people in Toronto have the luck to live within walking distance from their workplace.For the rest of us， commuting (乘车上下班) is a rather unpleasant daily necessity.
So how do you avoid a traffic jam in Toronto？ You can do it in the old way and listen to one of the radio stations that give regular updates about the traffic situation in Toronto’s streets.Seeing the big picture of Toronto’s traffic and knowing when and where heavy traffic occurs is a must.From my own experience， there are situations where a quick decision can help you make it in time for an event or a meeting.That’s why we prepared three short videos showing the overall traffic situation in Toronto from dawn to night.You can click them and watch.
With the help of “Google Maps”， where you can watch the live traffic density all over the world and average traffic data based on past conditions， we were able to provide you with traffic maps for a typical (平常的) Friday.
Friday traffic in Toronto is quite fast in the early morning，with only a few hot spots showing up at the major junctions (交叉点) at 7：00 am.The morning traffic jam starts light at 7：30 and the traffic gradually slows down to reach a breaking point at 8：30.The roads are quite free afterwards， only Allen Road is likely to be jammed around lunchtime from 11 ： 30 am to 12：00 noon.It comes as no surprise that Friday afternoon brings heavy traffic as early as 1：00 pm， mainly on the Don Valley Parkway.You won’t have a good time getting away from the city from 4：00 pm to 6：30 pm， as there is a good chance to get caught in a traffic jam.The traffic in Toronto is quite heavy on a Friday night.I hope you will have a nice Friday night in the city and a safe journey home this Friday！
1. By saying “commuting is a rather unpleasant daily necessity”，the writer refers to the fact that ________.| A．buses are usually very crowded |
| B．they are often stuck in traffic jams |
| C．they have to travel a long way to work |
| D．they usually cannot do anything on the way to work |
| A．What the traffic in Toronto is like for a typical Friday. |
| B．How to avoid heavy traffic on Fridays. |
| C．Why the traffic is terrible on Fridays. |
| D．What “Google Maps” can do for us. |
| A．from 6：30 am to 7：00 am |
| B．from 8：30 am to 9：30 am |
| C．from 10：30 am to 11：00 am |
| D．from 4：00 pm to 6：30 pm |
| A．A TV program. | B．A radio program. |
| C．A website. | D．A travel booklet. |
2 . A couple in their 60s has travelled 12,000 miles across 16 countries from Britain to China — riding their bikes the entire way. Grandparents Peter and Chris stepped on the long journey after deciding to ''do something a bit different''. They travelled across cities, deserts, mountains and everything in between across Europe, the Middle East and the East Asia. The married couple of 37 years enjoyed themselves with delicious local food and spent most nights inside a tiny tent put up wherever they could find shelter.
Peter, 66, said the moment they finally had a look at the famous Great Wall after a year and a half of cycling 30 miles a day was ''really exciting''. At the end of their journey, the special pair didn’t fly home but instead choose to book a cabin inside a 400m-long container ship. The final part was a three-week voyage from Singapore across the Indian Ocean and into the Mediterranean Sea before arriving at Southampton.
''You never know what the day is going to bring. All you know is that you are going to get on your bike and cycle. Every day is an adventure and every day is new. Overall, the experience is absolutely unbelievable, '' Peter said.
Peter and Chris initially set out to cycle from Britain in January 2017 but were forced home. They had cycled all the way to Hungary when Peter slipped on tiles and broke his leg. After even nonths of recovery, the couple set out again in Britain. They finally arrived in China in November 2018.
3th Peter and Chris agreed that the best part of the entire trip was coming across the kinhood of strangers along the way, many of whom invited the couple for food and drink. Chris, 64, said ''It was a wonderful experience, particularly wonderful because of the amazing people we met along the way. ''
1. What’s the couple's purpose of taking the long journey?| A．To try something new. | B．To break the world record. |
| C．To go across 16 countries by bike. | D．To celebrate their 37-year marriage. |
| A．By cycling. | B．By train. |
| C．By plane. | D．By sea. |
| A．Peter had an accident. | B．They ran out of their money. |
| C．They met with a heavy snow. | D．Peter fell ill suddenly in Hungary. |
| A．The beautiful scenes. | B．The help from others. |
| C．The delicious food and drink. | D．The kindness from other cyclists. |
3 . Most Chinese people expect to relax and enjoy themselves during the Golden Week. But for those trying to go someplace, it may seem more disappointment than pleasure. This year, the traffic jam resulted in a roadside wedding(婚礼).
The suffering of being stuck in traffic was probably most strongly felt by Lv Kangzhou and his bride(新娘) Yan Mengxia. By tradition, the groom（新郎） drove early in the morning to the bride's home in Zhejiang Province in East China to pick her up along with her family and take them to his family's hometown for the wedding. By 4 pm, Lv's wedding was 90 minutes away, but his car had not moved an inch for a long time. Lv got in touch with the local radio to explain his difficult situation and ask for a traffic forecast. The radio host told Lv there was no way to hold his wedding on time and offered to hold their wedding on the air. At 5：30 pm, Lv and his bride said their vows(发誓) on the side of the road, and Lv's family and friends witnessed the ceremony by listening to the radio.
Lv wasn't the only person stuck in the Golden Week crowds. According to the state news agency Xinhua, 11.7 million people traveled by train on Wednesday. About 120，000 people gathered at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing to watch the flagraising ceremony. Last year, the Forbidden City in Beijing hosted 175，000 tourists on one day during the Golden Week, and the number is expecting to be even bigger this year.
Chinese Internet users complain about the Golden Week holiday every year. An Internet user Tuzhi said on Sina Weibo: “On the Great Wall, I'm holding your hand, but I cannot see your face.”
1. By tradition, the wedding should take place in ________．| A．Zhejiang Province | B．a hotel |
| C．the bride's hometown | D．the groom's hometown |
| A．ask for help |
| B．hold their wedding on the air |
| C．complain about the traffic conditions |
| D．find someone to pick them up |
| A．A successful roadside wedding during the Golden Week. |
| B．The popularity of traveling around during the Golden Week. |
| C．The crowded situation in China during the Golden Week. |
| D．The cause of the heavy traffic in China during the Golden Week. |
| A．A newspaper. | B．A textbook. |
| C．A travel brochure. | D．A TV interview. |
要点：1. 建议骑自行车上学；
2. 自行车是学生常用交通工具；
3. 骑自行车的一些好处；
4. 骑自行车需要注意的问题。
注意：1. 词数： 不少于100字，开头和结束语已经为你写好（不计入总词数）；
2. 可以根据要点适当增加细节， 使行文连贯。
Dear schoolmates,
Recently, a debate concerning whether we should cycle to school or not has appeared in our school.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Don’t hesitate, everybody. Let’s ride to school.
Li Jin
From Class 1 Grade 1
1. What time was the plane originally scheduled to leave?
| A．At 3:00. | B．At 4:00. | C．At 5:00. |
| A．The weather is bad. | B．The report is not finished. | C．An appointment will be delayed. |
Chinese high-speed railways are a very comfortable way to travel. They are clean, quiet and
The stations are
What’s more, with a faster check-in, the high-speed trains are also
7 . From quiet paths by a stream in a forest to busy roads running through a city, people have created various forms of routes in different places. These now exist all around us, and their use is imperative for societies. These routes have enabled people to move, transport things, and send information from one place to another quickly and safely. Throughout history, they have been important in our daily lives.
Early routes were often formed naturally on land. They gradually developed over long periods of time while people traveled them on foot or horseback. A significant turning point in their history arrived when the first wheeled carts appeared in ancient times. Once this happened, people recognized the importance of well-maintained routes. Therefore, towns, cities, and entire countries improved them. As a result, life became more convenient, communities grew, economies evolved, and cultures expanded.
People have established routes on water, too. Rivers and canals have served as effective routes for people to move around and carry things. For instance, in the old, Japanese city of Edo, water routes were used for the transportation of agricultural products, seafood, and wood. People have also opened routes across the sea. The seaways were critical for the navigation of ships, particularly in the days when they moved mainly by wind power. Using these sea routes, people could travel great distances, and go to places they had not previously been able to reach.
People have gone on to open routes in the sky as well. Since the invention of the airplane, they have made it possible to travel long distances easily. Eventually, people became able to travel safely and comfortably high in the sky, and going vast distances only took a small amount of time.
Today, we have a new type of route, the Internet. By using this worldwide route, people can easily obtain information that once was available mainly from books and face-to-face communication. They can also instantly send messages to large numbers of people all at once.
As long as there have been people, there have been routes to connect them. Currently unknown routes will surely take us even further in the future.
1. Which of the following is closest to the meaning of the underlined word imperative in paragraph 1?| A．accidental | B．industrial |
| C．essential | D．traditional |
| A．To describe the difficulty of creating routes on the water. |
| B．To emphasize the fact that it was an important city. |
| C．To explain the use of water routes to move along the coastlines. |
| D．To illustrate the important roles of water routes for cities. |
| A．Routes can be thought of as existing invisibly in the world. |
| B．Routes that move information can be regarded as dangerous. |
| C．The fundamental functions of routes are declining. |
| D．The importance of different kinds of routes is the same. |
| A．Humankind first created various types of convenient routes on land. |
| B．Improvements in transportation have come at great cost. |
| C．Technology has interfered with opening up routes around the world. |
| D．The advancement of humanity was aided by the development of routes. |
8 . Self-driving cars have been backed by the hope that they will save lives by getting involved in fewer crashes with fewer injuries and deaths than human-driven cars. But so far, most comparisons between human drivers and automated vehicles have been unfair. Crash statistics for human-driven cars are gathered from all sorts of driving situations. and all types of roads. However, most of the data on self-driving cars' safety have been recorded often in good weather and on highways, where the most important tasks are staying in the car's own lane and not getting too close to the vehicle-ahead. Automated cars are good at those tasks, but so are humans.
It is true that self-driving cars don't get tired, angry, frustrated or drunk .But neither can they yet react to uncertain situations with the same skill or anticipation of an attentive Unban driver. Nor do they possess the foresight to avoid potential dangers. They largely drive from moment to moment, rather than think ahead to possible events literally down the road.
To a self-driving car, a bus full of people might appear quite similar to an uninhabited field. Indeed, deciding what action to take in an emergency is difficult for humans, but drivers have sacrificed themselves for the greater good of others. An automated system's limited understanding of the world means it will almost never evaluate （评估）a Situation the same way a human would. And machines can't be programmed in advance to handle every imaginable set of events.
Some people may argue that the promise of simply reducing the number of injuries and deaths is enough to support driverless cars. But experience from aviation（航空）shows that as new automated systems are introduced, there is often an increase in the rate of disasters.
Therefore, comparisons between humans and automated vehicles have to be performed carefully. To fairly evaluate driverless cars on how well they fulfill their promise of improved safety, it's important to ensure the data being presented actually provide a true comparison. After all, choosing to replace humans with automation has more effects than simply a one-for-one exchange.
1. What makes the comparison between self-driving cars and human-driven cars unfair?| A．Self-driving cars never get tired. | B．Machines can make decisions faster. |
| C．Self-driving cars know the world better. | D．Statistics are collected differently. |
| A．Climbing steep slopes. | B．Driving steadily. |
| C．Evaluating the cost of loss. | D．Making complex decisions. |
| A．To support human-driven cars. |
| B．To show his doubt about self-driving cars. |
| C．To call for exact evaluation of self-driving cars. |
| D．To stress the importance of reducing car accidents. |
| A．A narrative | B．A description |
| C．An argument | D．An exposition |
9 . Petrol and diesel (柴油）cars may still dominate our roads, but their days are numbered. A recent university study found that current electric cars could be used for 87 per cent of daily car journeys in the US. That figure could rise to 98 per cent by 2020.
One hurdle to the widespread adoption of electric cars has been ‘range anxiety’ — drivers’ concerns about running out of juice on a journey. While petrol stations are conveniently located across national road systems, the necessary network of electric charging stations is still being developed. That said, charging points are becoming increasingly common throughout the USA.
Attitudes towards electric vehicles have changed quite considerably over the last few years. Not that long ago, electric cars were met with distrust, and their large price tags（标签） drove customers away. Thanks to improvements in battery capacity, recharging times, performance and price, the current generation of electric cars are starting to persuade critics. Plug-in cars will soon give internal combustion（燃料） engine models a run for their money.
As well as advancements on the road, electric vehicles are taking to the seas and skies. Electric boats are among the oldest methods of electric travel, having enjoyed several decades of popularity from the late 19th to the early 20th century before petrol-powered outboard motors took over. Now, the global drive for renewable energy sources is bringing electric boats back. Steps towards electric air travel are also being made, with Airbus and NASA among the organizations developing and testing battery powered planes. The experiments could soon make commercial electric flight a reality.
Electric vehicles do not produce any emissions. Were the US to act on the study’s findings and replace 87 per cent of its cars with electric vehicles, it would reduce the national demand for petrol by 61 per cent. However, because of the production processes and the generation of electricity required to charge these vehicles, they cannot claim to be completely emission-free. That said, as many countries continue to increase their use of renewable energy sources, electric vehicles will become even cleaner.
1. Which is the best title for this passage?| A．My Dream Car | B．History of Electric Cars |
| C．Problems with Petrol Cars | D．Driving into the Future |
| A．aim | B．barrier |
| C．consequence | D．step |
| A．They were expensive. |
| B．They were very poorly made. |
| C．They were not widely promoted. |
| D．They couldn’t travel at a high speed. |
| A．To introduce the history of electric travel. |
| B．To explain why the world needs more electric cars. |
| C．To show why more people have interest in electric cars. |
| D．To describe different ways electric vehicles can be used. |
China, once famous for four inventions in ancient times, has once again showed its ability
With electronic payments, people can buy and eat
Thanks to the large amounts of capital (资金) China has invested in encouraging inmovation (创新), China has entered
