1 . Most people agree that eating healthy food is important. But sometimes making good food choices can be difficult. Now there are apps that can help people learn about the food they eat to improve their health and their dining out experience.

Open Table app

Open Table app helps people choose restaurants when they want to go out to eat. It is a free service that shows users restaurant available based on where and when they want to dine. It gives users points when they make reservations, which can add up to discounts (折扣) on restaurant visits.

Max McCalman’s Cheese &Wine Pairing app

Wine and cheese can be a great combination. But which wines go best with which cheeses? Max McCalman’s Cheese & Wine Pairing app can help. It provides information about hundreds of different cheeses and suggests wines to pair with each. Max McCalman’s Cheese & Wine Pairing app is free.

Happy Cow app

Vegetarians do not eat animal meat. Vegans do not eat any animal products. The Happy Cow app is made for both groups. Users can search for vegetarian-vegan restaurants and stores around the world.

Local Eats app

Restaurant chains, like McDonalds, can be found almost anywhere a person might travel. But sometimes travelers want to eat like locals. The Local Eats app is designed for that. It can help you find local restaurants in major cities in the US and in other countries. It costs about a dollar.

Where Chefs Eat app

“Where Chefs Eat” is a 975-page book. Most people would not want to carry that around. But there is a much lighter app version of the same name for just $15. Six hundred chefs provide information on 3,000 restaurants around the world on the Where Chefs Eat app.

1. What can users get when making a reservation with Open Table app?

A．Points

B．Books.

C．Wine.

D．Cheeses.

2. Happy Cow app is designed for those who prefer ________.

A．local foods.	B．wine and cheese
C．vegetables	D．animal meat

3. What app costs you most according to the text?

A．OpenTable.	B．Where Chefs Eat
C．Local Eats	D．Max Me Calman’s Cheese & Wine Pairing.

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Thanks to an online facial recognition system, a    1    （China）man who was separated from his parents as a child has found his family.

Fu Gui, 33, was re-connected with his birth parents on April 1, 2018 after    2    use） “Baby Come Home", a website that is     3    （special） used to help people find their missing relatives.

The website use a facial recognition system,     4     matches the portraits offered by parents who are looking for their missing    5    （child）with people who are trying to find their parents.

This is the first time in China missing children and their parents    6    （be）re-connected with-the help of facial recognition technology.

As his father recalled, Fu Gui     7    （bear）in Chongqing, south-west China, in 1984 and went missing in 1990.     8    （find）his son, the man uploaded Fu Gui's information to the website "Baby Come Home" and attached a picture of Fu Gui    9    he was little.

The re-connection of Fu Gui and his parents marked    10    first case in China for missing children and their families to be matched with the help of facial recognition technology.

4 . 假如你是红星中学高三(1)班学生李华。你的英国笔友Jim对中国的数字化生活很感兴趣，来信询问相关情况。请你给他回邮件，内容包括：
1. 介绍你身边的数字化生活；
2. 阐述你的看法；
3. 询问对方情况。
注意：1. 词数不少于80；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

5 . It is now February 7, 2035. The search engine TalkTalk will be open to the public next week and this service will soon be something beyond your imagination. For the first time you can not only talk to the search engine, but you can discuss with it what you are looking for.

For example, if you want to know more about the oil price, TalkTalk asks if you want to know the current oil price, the development of the oil price, or news related to the oil price. You say that you want to read news about it and TalkTalk then directs you to your source, or lets you have the latest news related to the oil price in order from the most respectable sources.

Compared with other search services that use a certain algorithm (程序) to provide data from a search, the artificial intelligence behind TalkTalk is said to easily spot if a certain source is aiming to cheat the searcher. TalkTalk also judges and stores every given reply and discussion, to learn how to give correct answers. TalkTalk is also set to answer questions directly where there is a definite answer. How well this will work in the long run is yet to be seen, but thousands of people have tested TalkTalk and the quality is really good.

The first talking search engine saw the light of day more than 30 years ago and was called Speegle. It could read the results from a written search on the Internet, and was mostly for blind people.

So far, TalkTalk cannot read the information from a certain source to you by phone, if it is not freely available. There are currently talks to find an arrangement for this, but it would most likely be difficult because of copyright (版权).

TalkTalk is available over the Internet and also by phone, even though it only speaks English. There are no plans to add other languages in the near future, most likely because it will cost a lot of money. When you are tired of asking TalkTalk all your questions, just ask, “Where is TalkTalk?” and you will get an answer that will make you leave it with a smile on your lips.

1. The example in Paragraph 2 is given to show ________.

A．how to use the search engine TalkTalk.	B．how to search for news on the Internet.
C．the oil price is a very hot issue currently.	D．TalkTalk has a very high intelligence.

2. The advantage of TalkTalk is that it can ________.

A．be available wherever you go.	B．tell if a certain source is reliable.
C．read the search results for you.	D．offer different kinds of search results.

3. What can be inferred from the text?

A．TalkTalk can read all the information online.	B．TalkTalk will speak other languages soon.
C．TalkTalk may have a bright future.	D．TalkTalk is very expensive.

4. What would be the best title for the text?

A．Hello, TalkTalk.	B．Where is TalkTalk.
C．TalkTalk is improving.	D．Development of search engines.

6 . Some people are so rude!

Who sends an e­mail or a text message that just says “Thank you”？ Who leaves a voice mail message rather than texts you? Who asks for a fact easily found on Google? Don’t these people realize that they’re wasting your time?

Maybe I’m the rude one for not appreciating life’s little politeness. But many social agreed standards just don’t make sense to people drowning in digital communication.

In texts, you don’t have to declare who you are or even say hello. E­mail, too, is slower than a text. Voice mail is a now impolite way of trying to connect.

My father learned this lesson after leaving me a dozen voice mail messages, none of which I listened to. Exasperated, he called my sister to express his dissatisfaction that I never returned his phone calls. “Why are you leaving him voice mail？” my sister asked. “Just text him.”

In the age of the smartphone, there is no reason to ask once­acceptable questions about: the weather forecast, a business’s phone number, or directions to a house, a restaurant, which can be easily found on Google Maps. But people still ask these things. And when you answer, they respond with a thank­you e­mail.

How to handle these differing standards? Easy. Consider your audience. Some people, especially older ones, appreciate a thank­you message. Others, like me, want no reply.

The anthropologist (人类学家) Margaret Mead once said that in traditional societies, the young learn from the old. But in modern societies, the old can also learn from the young. Here’s hoping that politeness never goes out of fashion but that time­wasting forms of communication do.

1. What does the underlined word “Exasperated” mean in the fifth paragraph?

A．Worried.	B．Surprised.
C．Annoyed.	D．Tired.

2. Why didn’t the writer reply to his father?

A．He liked text messages better.

B．He enjoyed checking his voice mail.

C．He didn’t receive any voice mail messages.

D．He didn’t want to talk with his father.

3. Which of the following does the writer agree to?

A．People needn’t learn from one another in traditional societies.

B．Dealing with voice mail should vary with each individual.

C．People needn’t turn to Google for help when in trouble.

D．Declaring who you are or saying hello in texts is necessary.

4. What’s the best title for this passage?

A．Nowadays: what should we do with text messages?

B．Nowadays: do you like leaving others a voice message?

C．Nowadays: what means should we use in communication?

D．Nowadays: do you need a thank­you message?

7 . If you love to read, and if you love social networking, you should check out Goodreads. Goodreads allows you to write reviews（评论）for everything you’ve ever read. You can see and comment on your friends’ reading progress, as well as create or find a book club group page in your area.

Goodreads is simple to use. When you sign up here for an account（帐户）, you will be able to find your friends by their email addresses or other accounts. Once you have some friends, every time you log in（登录）, you will see a timeline of their updates. You can see when they’ve added a book to a list, or when they’ve finished or reviewed a book. As soon as you have an account, you can also start looking for books you've read or that you want to read. Once you finish reading a book, you can go to the book page and review it.

Finding your next book has never been easier. Now, not only can you search for books you know you want to read and add them to your “to read” list, but you can also easily see what your friends have recently read.

If you are looking for a book club that meets in your area, you can search for that on Goodreads, too. Similarly, if you want to create your own book club, you can do that easily: just start a new group on Goodreads and update the page to show what books you’re reading.

1. If you want to use Goodreads, you must have ________.

A．an email address	B．a book review
C．an account	D．a book list

2. What can you do with a “to read” list?

A．You can review books you have recently read.

B．You can make your selection process even easier.

C．You can know what you want to read next.

D．You can see what books your friends enjoyed.

3. If you want to set up a book club on the Internet, you should ________.

A．inform others about book club meetings in time

B．update information about what books you are reading

C．search for your old group on Goodreads

D．refer to book clubs on Goodreads daily

4. The passage is most probably taken from ________.

A．a research paper	B．a news report
C．a website article	D．a travel guide

8 . The Internet has opened up a whole new online world for us to meet, chat and go where we’ve never been before.

But just as in face to face communication，there are some rules of behavior that should be followed when online. The basic rule is simple: treat others in the same way you would want to be treated.     1    . For anything you’re about to send: ask yourself, “Would I say this to the person’s face?” If the answer is no, rewrite and reread.     2    .

If someone in the chat room is rude to you, your instinct (本能) is to fire back in the same manner. But try not to do so.     3    . If it was caused by a disagreement with another member, try to fix the situation by politely discussing it. Remember to respect the beliefs and opinions of others in the chat room.

    4    . Offer advice when asked by newcomers, as they may not be sure what to do or how to communicate. When someone makes a mistake, whether it’s a stupid question or an unnecessarily long answer, be kind about it. If it’s a small mistake, you may not need to say anything. Even if you feel strongly about it, think twice before saying anything. Having good mariners yourself doesn’t give you license to correct everyone else. If you do decide to tell someone about a mistake, point it out politely. At the same time, if you find you are wrong, be sure to correct yourself and apologize to those that you have offended.

It is not polite to ask others personal questions such as their age, sex and marital status.     5    , don’t ask such questions.

A．It’s natural that there some people who speak rudely or make mistakes online

B．Repeat the process till you feel sure that you’d feel comfortable saying the words to the person’s face

C．Everyone was new to the network once

D．Imagine how you’d feel if you were in the other person’s shoes

E．When you send short messages to a person online, you must say something beautiful to hear

F．You should either ignore the person, or use your chat software to block their messages

G．Unless you know the person very well, and you are both comfortable with sharing personal information