1 . These books will send you up in the air and flying through the clouds.

	The Story of Flight by Jakob Whitfield This illustrated (插图) history of flying machines includes everything from the earliest balloons and airships to the latest stealth (隐形) jets. Discover how historical events and social changes have affected the extraordinary story of human flight—and the unbelievable inventions that might wait for us in the future.
	Sky Chasers by Emma Carroll Inspired by the real-life story of the Montgolfier brothers, this historical adventure follows Magpie, a pickpocket who dreams of flying over the rooftops of Paris. When she meets Pierre, she is soon caught up in a race to be the first to fly a hot air balloon in front of the King and Queen of France.
	Skyward SKYWARD by Sally Deng It’s 1927, and in the UK, Russia and the US, three girls share the same dream of flying. Against all the odds (逆境), Hazel, Marlene and Lilya follow their hearts—and end up flying for their countries in wartime. This beautiful illustrated book explores the role that brave female pilots played in the Second World War.
	Wings: Flyboy by Tom Palmer In this exciting story, young footballer Jatinder feels as though something is holding him back. Then an extraordinary thing happens: he finds himself transported into battle—in the First World War fighter plane of his hero, pilot Hardit Singh Malik. Can this amazing adventure help Jatinder learn to take risks?

1. What are these books about?

A．Taking flights.	B．Showing inventions.
C．Having adventures.	D．Exploring wartime.

2. What do The Story of Flight and Skyward have in common?

A．They have high prices.	B．They are set in a war.
C．They have many pictures.	D．They are intended for girls.

3. Who wrote a story of time travel experience?

A．Jakob Whitfield.

B．Emma Carroll.

C．Sally Deng.

D．Tom Palmer.

2 . 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。

Three Chinese astronauts landed in a northern desert on Sunday after six months in space. They had been working     1     (complete) the basic structure of the Tiangong space station, a symbol of the country’s     2     (ambition) space program. A capsule carrying commander Chen Dong and astronauts Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe touched down at a landing site in the Gobi Desert in northern China at approximately 8:10 pm.

Before leaving the Chinese space station, they had spent almost five days with three     3     (colleague) who arrived on Wednesday in the Shenzhou-15 spaceship,     4     (mark) the first time China had six astronauts in space at the same time.

The astronauts     5     (carry) out of the capsule by medical workers about 40 minutes after landing. They all wore smiles and appeared to be in good condition, waving     6     (happy) at the workers at the landing site.

The three astronauts were part of the Shenzhou-14 spaceship,     7     was launched in June. After their arrival at Tiangong space station, Chen, Liu and Cai performed three spacewalks, held a live science lecture from the station and conducted     8     range of experiments.

Tiangong space station will be the only space station still up and running in the universe one day     9     the International Space Station     10     (retire) by around the end of the decade as expected.

3 . A stuffy nose is usually nothing to worry about; it’s mostly just uncomfortable, with varying symptoms. “For some people, it’s having something sticky in the nose or a feeling that the airways are blocked and there’s a declining sense of smell.” says Dr. Ahmad Sedaghat, a director of Rhinology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Actually, COVID-19 might cause a stuffy nose in some cases, although it wasn’t on the original list of COVID symptoms. Classic symptoms of the SARS-CoV-2 initial variant(变体)included fever, a cough, body aches and pains, shortness of breath and a loss of taste and smell-without a stuffy nose. However, the Delta variant is different. It’s often associated with symptoms of a common cold, like a stuffy or runny nose and sore throat. But there is something that needs to keep in mind.

One is that the Delta variant still results in the loss of taste and smell, and it’s far-reaching. Sedaghat says that’s because the COVID virus can infect the taste buds. “When you lose smell with a stuffy nose, you can still taste sweet, salty, bitter or sour. But that ability is wiped out with COVID. There’s no taste at all.” he says.

The other to consider in distinguishing COVID from a stuffy nose: vaccination(接种疫苗)，accompanying symptoms and health history. “If you’re fully vaccinated against COVID and you have a known history of allergies, then a stuffy nose without any other symptoms is likely allergies. If you’re not vaccinated, we are less sure. But anyone who’s had a potential exposure to someone with COVID should be monitored closely.” Sedaghat advises.

1. What is the distinction between the SARS-CoV-2 variant and the Delta variant?

A．A stuffy nose.

B．The chance of recovery.

C．The loss of taste.

D．The death rate.

2. What is typical of COVID virus according to Paragraph 3?

A．It leads to breathing problems.

B．It causes high fever eventually.

C．It has the same symptoms as flu.

D．It gives rise to a total loss of taste.

3. How is the last paragraph developed?

A．By analyzing cause and effect.

B．By making assumptions and reasoning.

C．By listing examples.

D．By comparing data.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for this text?

A．How to Deal with Stuffy Nose

B．The Research on COVID-19

C．Stuffy Nose and COVID-19

D．Ways to Identify Virus Variants

4 . McDonald’s is partnering with the White House to promote vaccination(疫苗接种)information on its coffee cups as hesitancy grows about taking the potentially life-saving shot.

Beginning in July, customers in the United States will see redesigned McCafe cups and delivery seal stickers that features “We Can Do This”，a slogan(口号)created by the US Department of Health and Human Services to promote vaccine confidence. It also includes a website address (vaccines.gov) that directs people to nearby appointments and safety information.

The promotion will last several weeks and the slogan will be printed on roughly 50 million cups. Prior to that, McDonald’s said its billboard in New York’s Times Square location will also display vaccine information beginning in mid-May. “We all want to protect ourselves and our loved ones and be together with our communities again,” said Genna Gent, McDonald’s USA vice president for global public policy and government relations. Xavier Becerra, the Health and Human Services secretary, said, “The public-private partnership will help more people make informed decisions about their health and learn about steps they can take to protect themselves and their communities.” McDonald’s wasn’t paid by the government for this promotion, according to a person familiar with the campaign.

The “We Can Do This” campaign was announced in March and aimed at encouraging hesitant Americans to get vaccinated. In a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 47% of people who say they want to “wait and see” before being vaccinated said paid time off to get it would make them more likely to do so, and 39% said a financial allowance of $200 from their employer would work. The US vaccination rate has declined from its peak last month, pushing officials to work out new ideas to further encourage the cautious, hesitant and inaccessible to get vaccinated. So far, more than 150 million people in the US have received at least one dose(剂量) of the vaccine.

1. Why does McDonald’s redesign its Mc Cafe cups?

A．To promote its coffee sales.

B．To encourage people to get vaccined.

C．To raise public safety awareness.

D．To bid for government investment.

2. What do we know about the McDonald’s campaign?

A．The slogan is to be displayed in mid-May.

B．The government provides financial support.

C．McDonald’s doubles its efforts for public health.

D．McDonald’s assists people in making appointments.

3. What can be inferred about the vaccination rate?

A．Employers can play a vital part.

B．Government efforts were in vain.

C．People’s busy work slows it down.

D．Next month will witness an increase.

4. Where is the text probably taken from?

A．A government document.	B．An advertisement.
C．A tourist brochure.	D．A newspaper.

6 . Are you interested in robot-science? What do you think robots are capable of? Let’s have a review of world-leading technology gathered at the World Robot Conference (WRC) 2022.

Technology in agriculture

A fruit-picking robot attracted visitors’ attention. With the help of various sensors and an AI system, the robot can collect fruit according to its ripeness, quality and size. The robot first locates the fruit and then uses sensors to decide whether it is ripe, with a robotic arm picking the fruit gently. The fruit is then categorized, ending up in a basket according to its size. It is said that more robotic technology will be used in agriculture in the future, including robots for daily inspection and weeding.

Robots fighting Covid-19

Medical staff conducting nucleic acid tests often find their work toilsome, especially under the summer heat. A nucleic acid test robot developed by Tsinghua University and a Chinese biotech company was presented at the WRC. It looks like a vending machine, but the robot can collect throat swabs (拭子), process samples, as well as produce and upload the results within 45 minutes. The whole process will not require the involvement of humans or laboratories.

Inventions of the youth

Those visiting the exhibit also witnessed the intelligence of a new generation. Wang Zirun, a junior student at the school, designed a three-dimensional parking facility model. Since there are usually too few parking spaces in older residential areas, Wang’s work aims to fit more cars into current parking spots. The facility works like a sky wheel with six parking spots. When cars need to be picked up, the facility rotates steadily, placing the car on the ground.

1. Where is the text probably taken from?

A．A travel brochure.

B．A technology textbook.

C．A science magazine.

D．A product advertisement.

2. Why is the parking facility designed like a sky wheel?

A．To save building materials.

B．To prevent cars from being stolen.

C．To increase ground parking spaces.

D．To make the most of limited space.

3. What can we infer from the text?

A．Both the fruit-picking robot and the nucleic acid test robot can save manpower.

B．The WRC is intended to inspire the intelligence of a young generation.

C．All the inventions mentioned have been put into practical use.

D．Human can be replaced by the robot in the future.

7 . Scientists are taking the study of archaeology (考古学) to a whole other dimension: space. For the first time, researchers are examining the ways humans live on the International Space Station (ISS), more specifically how they live culturally and materially, since it began orbital operations in 2000.

The project, involving daily photography of various ISS areas, was developed in 2015 by professors Justin Walsh of Chapman University in California, and Alice Gorman of Flinders University. The Earth-based scientists are working with astronauts to monitor changes in one-meter-square areas at the space station.

According to Chris Young of Interesting Engineering, for their first experiment, the astronauts are creating the equivalent of an earthen test pit (探坑) by marking out five areas within the space station. This test will focus on the kitchen table, workstation, payload rack (载荷机架) and a wall near the washroom and a section of the laboratory module, Destiny. Astronauts will then take daily photographs over a period of 60 days to know how the different spaces are used by the crew. For the first 30 days, images will be taken at about the same time each day and then at random times for the remainder of the experiment.

The archaeologists plan to study the images to better understand how the astronauts have interacted and adapted in the space in the 20 years when the ISS has orbited Earth, and how it has affected the crew’s ability to solve technical, engineering and medical issues, reports Leonard David of Space.com.

Original plans called for the ISS crew to swab (用拭子擦拭) surfaces for biological data and make sound and video recordings, but these ideas were given up so the project could begin sooner. Walsh tells Space.com he hopes the project will help find ways for future habitat designers to do their work better.

“The advantage of archaeology is that it shows us what people actually do, rather than what they think, or say, they do,” Gorman says.

1. What can we learn about the project according to the text?

A．It plans to get astronauts interested in archaeology.

B．It’s carried out based on international cooperation.

C．It’s intended to learn more about other planets in space.

D．It involves taking daily photos of several areas on the ISS.

2. What will be a research focus of the project?

A．Astronauts’ health and fitness.

B．Orbital operations of the ISS.

C．The ways of communication between astronauts.

D．Searching for creatures living on other planets.

3. What was done in order to get the project started earlier?

A．Reducing the number of the participants.

B．Deleting some tasks from the original to-do list.

C．Inviting more scientists to give useful advice.

D．Asking the ISS crew to stop their daily work.

4. What is the main idea of the text?

A．Researchers use archaeology to study humans’ life on the ISS.

B．Scientists should carry out more experiments on the ISS.

C．Astronauts tend to enrich their daily lives by taking pictures.

D．Archeologists can play a leading role in space explorations.

8 . My son, Toby, 17 months old, has just tested positive for COVID-19. He is the first in our household to test positive, and all the information provided for people in this situation is designed for adults who are(or should be) concerned about protecting their families. Toby, obviously, cannot comprehend such advice. He cannot keep a distance from everybody else, or eat and wash in a separate room. We called 911, and the medic we spoke to agreed that the official guidance didn’t really apply to our situation.

Indeed. Not much we can do. So, here we are, trapped within our four walls with a little baby infected with COVID-19, who continues to climb on us, spit in our faces, love us and hug us. It seems inevitable that we, and our elder son, are going to get COVID now. Not much we can do.

My first reaction, after absorbing his diagnosis, was to cook sausages. I didn’t even know that was my comfort food of choice. Perhaps an afternoon crisis would have caused a different cooking desire? Anyway, a full stomach helped me take stock. Yes, it may now be inevitable that we’re going to contract the very virus we’ve spent a year avoiding, but as long as we don’t contract it at the same time, then, hopefully, one other of us will be available to look after our kids (thus answering my five-year-old’s most pressing concern: “…but who will make the pudding?”).

So, to minimise transmission, we’ve opened all the windows. And we’ve decided to wear face coverings whenever we are with Toby. This decision has been insignificant to him—I imagine he literally cannot remember life before masks—but for me, it’s distressing. I’ve become accustomed to wearing masks in supermarkets and coffee shops, of course, but to actually walk around with half my face covered in my own house is quite another matter—it is telling me that my home has been infected, That it’s no longer a safe space.

And so it was, when I sat down to write this column, that I ended up writing about COVID, which is probably the last thing you wanted to read. Sorry about that. COVID has coloured my thoughts today, even though I know that my wife and children will be fine, and that really we should just be grateful we haven’t passed it on to my grandmother.

I predict there will be more sausages in the morning.

1. By repeating the sentence “Not much we can do” in paragraph 2, the writer implies that ________.

A．he feels inspired	B．he is really helpless
C．he wants professional support	D．he needs to keep a distance from Toby

2. According to the writer, what did sausages bring to him?

A．Appetite.

B．Concern.

C．Relief.

D．Sadness.

3. Why did wearing masks at home distress the writer?

A．It discourages him from writing about COVID.

B．It brings him back to the days before COVID-19

C．It makes him feel at a loss for how to help his son.

D．It is a reminder of what is happening to his family.

4. What can be concluded from the passage?

A．The diagnosis leaves the writer’s family in a tough spot.

B．Being infected with COVID-19 leaves Toby in a bad mood.

C．The writer is sure that his other kids won’t contract the virus.

D．Sausages have long been considered by many to be comfort food

9 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

As COVID-19 continues to spread in China, watching a fitness livestreaming (网络直播) video,     1     (host) by Liu Genghong, has been a daily must for millions of people stuck at home.

Liu,     2     was a little-known singer born in Taiwan, took the Internet by storm and became the hottest fitness broadcaster on Chinese social media, with his videos     3     (attract) 230 million followers. Since the popularity of Li Jiaqi, China’s “Livestreaming King” famous     4     his eye-catching online sales strategy, no one     5     (enjoy) such a rise in livestreaming field. A comment says, “Li empties our wallets, while Liu empties our bodies.”

Experts voiced     6     (different) on whether the new trend would last long. “It has driven people to exercise, but in the long term, I think     7     difficult to form a new area within livestreaming”, according to Wang Peng from Renmin University of China. But Huang Haidong,     8     expert from the Chinese online fitness platform Keep, says the fitness wave is certain to be a firm, long-term trend, whether it’s about Liu Genghong or not.

China has the largest fitness market in the world. However, whether this trend has long-lasting power will depend on how money     9     (give) to the livestreaming platforms. Now broadcasters mainly have three     10     (source) of income including fans offering cash “gifts”, advertising brands, and selling products through videos. Yet, organizers and networks haven’t found a better solution to the problem.

10 . Live streaming (直播) is booming, with viewers watching nearly 4 billion hours of live stream, in the gaming sector alone, in 2020.

To stream or not to stream—that is the question with over 50 million American online creators. With over seven-in-ten people in the US using social media such as YouNow, Facebook Live, YouTube Live and Twitch, sharing a moment, routine, or an exciting experience with others has never been easier for US streamers.

For some, the motivation to live stream is for the fun of it, while others are seeking to become the next celebrity (名人).

Back in 2016, researchers studied live streams originating from the US, Japan and Germany on the platforms YouNow, Periscope and UStream. They found a wide variety of motivations driving each streamer, with a large majority using live streaming services for their own entertainment.

The main motive of US streamers was to reach a specific target group, for example, by performing music. Their goal was to improve their personal image and to cultivate their fan base. On the other hand, socializing was the main motivation for Japanese streamers. The need to communicate with their audience was especially strong. Finally, German streamers’ primary motivations were to relieve their boredom. And they’re not alone. Boredom was also a strong motivator found in both American and Japanese streamers back in 2016. Simply put, many people turned to live streaming to help pass the time and to relieve their boredom.

And then there’s a new type of live streaming where streamers don’t perform for, interact or even communicate with their viewers. Instead, the live stream broadcasts uninterrupted everyday activities such as sleeping and studying. Streamers position their cameras on their beds and go to sleep. In February 2020, Chinese streamer YuanSan broadcast his 2-day “sleep-stream” which, to his surprise, attracted 18 million viewers. In an interview, YuanSan claimed that his motivation was to relieve his boredom. “I was so bored that I decided to live stream myself sleeping. What I discovered was that viewers on the internet were even more bored than I was.”

1. What is the probable reason for the rise of live streaming in the US?

A．The fast network connections.	B．Streamers’ desire to share.
C．People’s need for entertainment.	D．The huge number of online viewers.

2. Why do most people want to live stream in 2016?

A．To enjoy themselves.	B．To make money.
C．To make friends.	D．To be famous.

3. What is Paragraph 5 mainly about?

A．Various ways of streaming.	B．Positive infuences of streaming.
C．Great achievements of streamers.	D．Different motivations of streamers.

4. Which of the following statements could YuanSan agree with?

A．It is boring to stream online.	B．Streaming can improve his sleep.
C．Streaming can help relieve boredom.	D．It is important to communicate with viewers.