Birthdays are celebrated all over the world. Some ways to celebrate birthdays are rather similar from county to country---candles, cakes and birthday wishes. But there are also different ways to celebrate birthdays. Here are a few:
Denmark A flag is flown outside a window to show that someone who lives in the house is having a birthday. Presents are placed around the child’s bed while he is sleeping so he will see them at once when he wakes up. |
India Usually Indian children wear white to school. However, on their birthdays, children wear colored clothes to school and give out chocolate to everyone in the class. Their best friends help them to do this. |
Japan The birthday child wears new clothes to mark the special time. Certain birthdays are more important than others. These are the third and seventh for girls and fifth for boys. |
Holland The birthday child receives an especially large present. The family also puts flowers on the birthday child’s chair to make it beautiful. |
When someone is having a birthday in Denmark, what can you see outside the window?
| A．flowers | B．presents |
| C．a flag | D．a chair |
Flowers are put on the chair of the birthday child in .
| A．Japan | B．Denmark |
| C．India | D．Holland |
In India, birthday children .
| A．give out chocolate to their classmates |
| B．share chocolate with their best friends |
| C．go to school in white clothes |
| D．wear new clothes to mark the special time |
阅读理解
Have you ever imagined what bees can do with their tiny brains? Now scientists are looking into a bee’s brain.
Clint Perry, a scientist, has spent much time studying how bees think. He says studying bees is not very different from studying other animals. “The main difficulty is to design（设计）an experiment（实验）bee and get what we want,” he says. “With humans, we can ask them a question and get an answer. But we can’t use the same way to get an answer from bees. They are just trying to get sugar. Bees like sugar.”
The fact that bees like sugar is helpful for scientists to design experiments. For example, in one experiment, Perry gave bees a task: to find delicious sugar on a landing place above a black bar（棒）. Perry made the task easier or harder by moving the landing place farther from or closer to the black bar. He found that bees would avoid the task when it was difficult. And when the task was easy, bees would try it.
As for humans, we might choose not to take a test when we weren’t ready for it. And we might choose to take the test when we were well prepared. In the same way, bees seemed to make decisions like humans.
Perry points out that we are not sure whether bees actually make a thoughtful choice from experiments. Now scientists still do not know how bees manage to do so much with their tiny brains. But learning more about how bees’ brains work could help us learn more about how our own brains deal with information.
根据语篇内容，选择最佳选项。
（1）What did Perry study in his experiments?
| A． |
How bees sleep. |
B． |
How bees think. |
C． |
How bees dream. |
（2）What can we know from Paragraph 2?
| A． |
Bees can talk. |
B． |
Bees are lazy. |
C． |
Bees like sugar. |
（3）What would bees do when the task was easy according to Paragraph 3?
| A． |
They would try it. |
B． |
They would avoid it. |
C． |
They would praise it. |
（4）What’s the importance of looking into bees’ brains?
| A． |
It helps us learn how human brains work. |
| B． |
It tells us how to make thoughtful choices. |
| C． |
It lets us know how to deal with information. |
（5）Where is the article probably taken from?
| A． |
A travel magazine. |
B． |
A sports magazine. |
C． |
A science magazine. |
阅读理解
Betty lived in a small town. Beautiful flowers were seen everywhere in the town. Because of the shyness, Betty just stood with few words in public. The shy girl hardly talked to people in social activities. She was often considered as a quiet girl in the community. She felt like a wallflower and wondered if she would go unnoticed all the time.
However, her closest friend, Fiona, was completely different. Fiona loved to communicate with others and she encouraged Betty to change. She told Betty that life wasn’t always as beautiful as roses and that everyone was able to make it full of roses.
With the encouragement of Fiona, Betty began to change. Instead of being a wallflower, she started attending a community theater class. She took an active part in acting in the theater group. Her gift for acting began to shine. However, new difficulties were never far away. One of Betty’s classmates became a thorn（刺）in her side. The classmate was not satisfied with her achievements, but Betty continued to deal with the situation. She managed to show herself and became friends with the classmate. All the changes made her feel fresh every day.
Betty’s hard work paid off when the town’s famous director, Mr. Johnson, watched one of her plays. He liked her acting so much that he offered her the lead role in his new play. Betty’s moment arrived. People were happy to watch her show.
Finally, Betty became a confident（自信的）girl. Her change was like a beautiful rose in full flower. She encountered many difficulties which taught her that there’s no rose without a thorn. But those thorns helped her develop her abilities. Betty proved（证明）that personal changes were possible for anyone.
根据语篇内容，选择最佳选项。
（1）Why did Betty stand with few words in public?
| A． |
Because she was shy. |
B． |
Because she was great. |
C． |
Because she was tidy. |
（2）What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?
| A． |
Betty’s encouragement. |
B． |
Betty’s changes. |
C． |
Betty’s gift for acting. |
（3）What can we infer（推断）from Paragraph 4?
| A． |
Johnson was good at writing. |
| B． |
Directors often act in plays. |
C. Betty did well in her show.
（4）What does the underlined word “encountered” probably mean in Paragraph 5?
| A． |
Gave. |
B． |
Met. |
C． |
Forgot. |
（5）What does Betty’s story tell us?
| A． |
The more changes we make, the more confident we are. |
| B． |
Friendship makes it possible for everyone to change. |
| C． |
It’s possible for everyone to make a change. |
阅读理解
根据语篇内容，选择最佳选项。
（1）What is the article on Page 3 about?
| A． |
Science. |
B． |
Culture. |
C． |
History. |
（2）Who is the writer of the article “How to take notes”?
| A． |
Paul Miller. |
B． |
Judy Dean. |
C． |
Alex Black. |
（3）How many famous nature parks are mentioned in the article “Nature parks”?
| A． |
Five. |
B． |
Seven. |
C． |
Nine. |
（4）On which page can you find the article “Chinese gardening”?
| A． |
Page 8. |
B． |
Page 15. |
C． |
Page 22. |
（5）When should we drink a glass of water according to Kate Brown?
| A． |
Before each meal. |
B． |
During each meal. |
C． |
After each meal. |
阅读理解
Last July, my family took a holiday in a village. We stayed there for five days and enjoyed ourselves every day. However, when we went home by train, my 6-year-old son found his favorite ball was lost. The ball was a gift from his best friend, so I knew what it meant to him. I called the hotel which we stayed in, but they said, “Sorry. No one has found a lost ball here.” My son was very sad.
One week later, we received a box from the hotel. My son couldn’t wait to open it. He was very happy to see his ball in the box. I was glad that the hotel helped us find the ball in the end.
根据语篇内容，判断下列句子正误，正确的填“T”，错误的填“F”。
（1）My family took a holiday in a village last July.
（2）My son’s favorite ball was a gift from his teacher.
（3）We received a box from the hotel one week later.
（4）My son was very happy to see his ball in the box.
（5）I was glad that I found the ball by myself in the end.
阅读下面语言材料，然后按文后要求做题。
Some of the jobs which were common fifty years ago are almost not seen now, and some that are popular today may disappear in twenty years. （1）
Space tour guide
People have been expecting an exciting travel in space. （2） Anyone who wants to see the Sun rising and setting over the Earth will be able to take trips to space. And for a trip of this kind, travelers will need a tour guide—someone who can explain to them what they are seeing and help keep them safe. （3）
AI psychologist（心理学家）
AI is used for more and more practical work. And machines will become more humanlike. （4） An AI psychologist would need to understand about both psychology and technology. It would be this person’s job to make sure that future supercomputers worked well.
Human-technology integration（融合）specialist
With all the new technologies on offer, people may need help to understand and use them. So human-technology integration specialists might be very important. （5） They would look at all the technologies a person could use and advise on the best ones and how to get the most out of them.
根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，使文章意思通顺、内容完整。
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A. It will soon come true for many people. B. They will need engineers for their “minds”. C. They could teach others how to use future technologies. D. So have you ever wondered what future jobs might be wanted? E. The person who will do this job has to be a good communicator. |