Here are some predictions: things to come, things to go.
The Spring Festival, the most important Chinese holiday when everyone returns home, has caused headaches for millions of Chinese. More than 2 billion people travel at the same time, making getting travel tickets and the journey difficult. China plans to build more than 120,000 kilometers of railway and a fast transportation network that will serve 90% of the population by 2020. And because most of China will be cities, people will not have to go to other places to find a job, so it will no longer be a problem.
In the future, digital newspapers will be sent to personal web tools through Internet. Readers can discuss topics with journalists and editors. Information will move faster.
But scientists have found something else for oil as fuel. Coal, natural gas, solar power, nuclear power and even water can take the place of oil as sources of energy.
Schools will go electronic. Everything will be in the computer and students will not need to bring books to school. They will find information on the Internet. A computer will be the students’ library, schoolbag and connection to the outside world. There will be robot teachers. They will check homework on computers and communicate with the students’ parents through e-mail. And school buses will be like spaceships, comfortable and safe.
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| A．What might the future be like? |
| B．Oil is running out faster than expected. |
| C．Computers will be important and popular among the students. |
| D．But in 28 years, Spring Festival travel may not be a problem at all. |
E．Newspaper will come to an end in 2043.
Many years ago， there lived a very rich man who wanted to do something good for the people of his town. But first he wanted to find out if they deserved(值得)his help. So he put a very large stone in the middle of the main road into the town. Then he stood behind a tree,waiting and watching.
Soon an old man came along with his cow. “Who put this stone in the center of the road?” said the old man， but he didn’t try to move the stone away. He passed around the stone with some difficulties and continued on his way. Another man came along and did the same thing； then another came,and another. All of them complained about the stone in the center of the road,but nobody tried to move it.
Late in the afternoon,a young man came along. He saw the stone and said, “It will be dark at night. Some people will come along later in the dark and will fall over the stone and get hurt.” The young man then began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled and tried everything he could to move it out of the road. But to his surprise， under the stone he found a bag full of money and this message, “This money is for the person who moves this stone from the road. The person deserves help.”Who put the stone in the center of the road?
| A．An old man. | B．A rich man. |
| C．A young man. | D．Another man. |
Why did the young man move the stone out of the road?
| A．Because he was strong enough to move it. |
| B．Because he knew there was a bag of money under it. |
| C．Because he didn’t want other people to fall and get hurt. |
| D．Because the rich man wanted him to do so. |
When the young man moved the stone， he found ________________.
| A．a bag |
| B．a message |
| C．a bag full of money and a message |
| D．a bag full of message |
All of the people coming along the road did nothing about the stone except ___________.
| A．people of the town | B．the young man |
| C．the rich man | D．the old man with his cow |
What can we learn from the passage?
| A．If we do well， we will have well. |
| B．If we move stones， we will have a lot of money. |
| C．The young man was lucky. |
| D．Other people were unlucky. |
Tom and his cousin took a boat trip. When they got on the boat， every passenger(乘客)should answer the keeper a question. If the passenger answered “yes”， he or she got one gift； if the passenger answered “no”， he or she got two gifts. Tom and his cousin saw all about this. Now it was their turn. The keeper came up to them and asked， “Are you a good sailor?” Tom wanted to get two gifts， so he answered “no” loudly， at the same time he said， “I have never been a sailor， how could I be a good sailor?” The keeper gave him two gifts. His cousin gave the same answer， so he got two gifts， too.
The boat started off. The passengers began to open their gifts. Tom and his cousin did the same. They found that one of the two gifts was a small bottle of drinking water， the other was a seasick tablet(晕船药). Tom had a look at a “yes”-passenger’s gift. His was a nice chocolate. Tom shouted at the keeper， “We are never seasick. Why do you give us seasick tablets?” Tom and his cousin ________.
| A．went to eat chocolates |
| B．went on a trip by boat |
| C．worked for the keeper |
| D．needed a bottle of drinking water |
When did the keeper ask the passengers questions?
| A．Before the trip. | B．After the trip. |
| C．During the trip. | D．Never. |
Why did Tom and his cousin answer “no”?
| A．Because they felt sick on the boat. |
| B．Because they were good sailors. |
| C．Because they both wanted to get two gifts. |
| D．Because they wanted to have chocolates. |
The underlined(下划线)part “a good sailor” means ________.
| A．晕船 | B．不晕船 |
| C．好销售员 | D．好水手 |
Which of the following statements is true?
| A．The keeper cheated(欺骗)Tom and his cousin. |
| B．Tom and his cousin didn’t want the seasick tablets. |
| C．All the other passengers answered “yes”. |
| D．The keeper didn’t want to give Tom and his cousin chocolates. |
Recently, more and more people are reported dead from drowning(溺水) accidents. Here are two reports from www.sinhuanet.com.
Seven People Drowned in a Reservoir(水库)
Reporter Tang got the news from Guangdong Provincial Government that people died in a drowning accident on April 5th, 2015. A 17-year-old girl , Xiao Yi, fell into a reservoir while washing hands after a tomb(墓) sweeping with her family. Her sister, her parents , her brother and some of her relatives jumped into the water one after one to save her, although they didn’t have good swimming skills. Unfortunately, none of them succeeded. As a result, Xiao Yi ans six of her family members lost their lives.
Three People Lost Their Lives in the Dongjiang River
On May 1st, 2015, seven middle school students went swimming in the Dongjiang River. At first, they had a great time playing in the water. Suddenly one of the boys had a cramp(抽筋) . He went up and down in the water and shouted for help. Two of them tried to save him, but got drowned. At that time, a man called Li Jinlin was fishing nearby. When he heard the shout, he jumped into the water without a second thought. He tried his best to save the second one, he ran out of energy and couldn’t go up again. Two students and he lost their loves.
Information CardThe website for the readers to get the news reports
The time of the first accident
The thing Xiao Yi was doing when she fell into the reservoir
The person who saved a student in the Dongjiang River
The number of the people who lost lives in the two accidents
It is reported that some developed counties have shipped broken parts of computes to China.Such a thing can be founded every day although it is against international laws. Last month Hong Kong officers found 131,000 kilograms of broken computers, TVs and phones send from Japan.
Things like these are called electronic waste, or e-waste. Dealing with is not an easy job because dangerous poison like mercury(汞)and lead (铅)can be found in them. Every time an old computer breaks down, it needs to be deal with safely. But at present, broken computer parts are usually buried. It may be hundreds of years before they are really goes in the earth.
Many places in China are polluted by e-waste. Guiyu in Guangdong province is one of them. This town is named as”the e-waste capital of the world”. It has to deal with 1.5mllion kilograms of e-waste each year, from which it makes 75 million years. But it comes at a cost. Many of the poison in e-waste find their way into the environment. Plastic is burned outdoors and chemical water is poured into rivers, Greenpeace, an environmental group, has found the air, the earth and the rivers in Guiyu badly polluted.
The Chinese government wants the country to develop, but in a way that doesn;t do harm to the environment and people’s life. This year,China presents a new protection law, the strictest one we have ever had. Computer complies like Lenovo and Dell will be asked to take back their old computers. This is because the complies that make computers know best to deal with them safely. Hopefully, the problem with e-waste will be solved in near future.The e-waste found in Hong Kong last month was from________.
| A．France | B．Japan | C．Germany | D．Australia |
The underlined word buried probably means ______in the passage.
| A．焚烧 | B．障碍 | C．回收 | D．掩埋 |
The town of Guiya in Guangdong Province_________.
| A．is the e-capital of the world |
| B．has serious e-waste pollution |
| C．Deals with e-waste safely |
| D．speeds much money on e-waste |
This year,the Chinese government__________.
| A．tried to change people’s life |
| B．closed some computer complies |
| C．make a new environment protection law |
| D．asked people to hand in their old computers |
The passage is mainly about________.
| A．the way in deal with e-waste |
| B．the cost of burning e-waste |
| C．the e-waste problem in China |
| D．the need to pass a law against e-waste |
Garden Tour & Cooking Class 909 North Cumbre Road. Santa Barara, CA
Saturday, October 24, 2015. 9:30am-1:00pm
Cook with Suzzane Traditionally, American Indians’ dishes were made with corn,beans,potatoes and pumpkin. Takea tour around Trinity Garden, pick some of these foods and returns in the kitchen. There you can watch Suzzane prepare delicious dishes with them.It is surely a new experience! Suzzane will make an introduction of three traditional foods and tell you what they meant to the American Indians hundreds of years ago. At the same time,you can learn how to cook with these autumn harvest(收获) vegetables.
The means includes the following:
Hot Potato Pie with Cornbread Topping
Thanksgiving Soup
Fresh Vegetable Salad
Trinity Fruit Ice-cream
★$35 per person,including printed recipes (菜谱), the four dishes above and a book by Suzzane, Children under 8 can come for free.
★Booking by email by Oct 15; Suzzane landry @ alt. Net
About Suzzane Landry: She is the writer of Healthy Eating and Fresh Food Matters. To look for new ideas to add to her cooking, she traveled a lot,working in kitchen all over the world.This brought her the idea of “fresh food cooking”. Then she set up the website below to get people’s attention to healthy eating. She is excited to share her knowledge through cooking chooses, cookbooks and DVDs. Her teaching is popular with people from different countries. Learn More: Visit WWW.freshfoodcooking.com Follow Suzzane on FACEBOOK and TWTTER.
The cooking class in advertisement will be given______.
| A．In spring | B．in summer |
| C．in autumn | D．in winter |
In this class ,you can watch Suzzane cook dishes with the foods______.
| A．brought from home | B．picked in Trinity Garden |
| C．bought from the market | D．onbooked from the Internet |
The menu offered by the cooking class including the following EXCEPT______.
| A．cake | B．soup | C．Salad | D．ice-cream |
If Mr.Green goes to the class with his parents and his 6-year-old son, be should pay____.
| A．$35 | B．$70 | C．$105 | D．$140 |
According to the advertisement, we know that__________.
| A．we can book the cooking class on the phone |
| B．only American Indians enjoy Suzzane’s teaching |
| C．Suzzane got her cooking ideas from different DVDs |
| D．Suzzane Landry wrote two books about eating and food |
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