Is your TV connected to the Internet? What about your chair,or your fridge? Probably they are not. But in the future, most things in your home may be connected, thanks to the so-called “Internet of things”.
The Internet of things may be coming sooner than you think. Earlier this year, Aamsung CEO spent a lot of time talking abput the Internet things. He said that five years from now,every Samsung product will be part of the Internet of things,no matter whether it’s a remote control or a washing machine.
So, how do household(家用的) objects that are part of the Internet of things work? Well,think of a common chair. When connected to the Internet, the chair warms up when it knows the user has just walked into the room and is feeling cold.
An Internet-connected camera could help people feel safer in their homes. It can know people’s faces and has an infrared sensr(红外传感器),so even if it’s dark it can see when someone passes by and send you a message on your smartphone to let you know who’s there. If the person is someone you don’t know,it can tell you that ,too.
But according to MIT Technology Roview, whether companies are connecting dog food bowls or security systems to the Internet, there may be some problems. For example, many early connected-home objects don’t have much built-in security, which means they could be hacked(被黑客攻击). Morever, it could be difficult to get these new machines to work together especially when they are made by different companies. To fight this ,many companies have joined the Open Interconnect Consortium, which had 45 menbers by late 2014.
So, picture this: you enter your home.The temperature changes to make you feel comfortable. Your favorite music starts playing for you. Do you think that this would be a good thing? I t may happen sooner than you think.What does the article mainly talk about?
| A．Advantages of living with the Internte |
| B．Disadvantages of living with the Internte |
| C．The coming ” Internet of things” |
| D．The imposslble ” Internet of things” |
Which of the following can support the idea “how will household objects connected to the Internet work?”
| A．A warm chair connected to the Internte |
| B．Dog food bowls connected to the Internte |
| C．A remote comtrol made by the Samsung Company |
| D．An Internet-connected camera with an infrared sensor. |
Paragraph 5 is mainly about _________
| A．the possible problems of” the Internte of things” |
| B．the problems with early connecten-home objects |
| C．how to get different new machines working together |
| D．how to solve the ” the Internte of things” problems |
Which of the following words best describes the writer’s tone(语气) in the article?
| A．Doubtful | B．Hopeful |
| C． Humorous | D．Worried |
Dinner customs are different around the world. If you are a guest in Ghana(加纳), this information will help you a lot.
In Ghana, dinner is usually from four in the afternoon to six in the evening. But there are no strict rules about time. Whenever a guest arrives, a family offers food. When you go to a home, the person who receives guests takes you to the living room first. At this time everyone welcomes you. Then you go to the dinning room. There you wash your hands in a bowl of water. All the food is on the table. In Ghana you usually eat with your fingers. You eat from the same dish as everyone else .But you eat from one side of the dish only. It is not polite to get food from the other side of the dish. After dinner, you wash your hands again in a bowl of water.
Most meals in Ghana have a dish called fufu. People in Ghana make fufu from the powder (粉末)of some plants. Sometimes they cut the fufu with a saw(锯子)because it is very hard. You must chew(咀嚼 )fufu well, or you may get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your right hand only. From the passage we know that in Ghana
| A．the rules for dinner time are not strict |
| B．dinner is always at six in the evening |
| C．a family offers food only at four in the afternoon |
| D．people usually invite their guests to dinner late in the evening |
If you are a dinner guest in Ghana, the host always takes you to____.
| A．the dining room first | B．the living room first |
| C．the kitchen first | D．the garden first |
People in Ghana usually eat ________.
| A．from one side of a dish to the other |
| B．from the other side of the dish |
| C．with their fingers |
| D．with their spoons |
In fact, most meals in Ghana _____________
| A．are cooked with the flowers of some plants |
| B．have fufu in them |
| C．are too hard to eat |
| D．are not very hard . |
When you eat fufu, you’d better
| A．cut it with a saw | B．use your right hand only |
| C．chew it well | D．all of the above. |
The picture shows 18-year –old Katy Ross in Nepal, a small country in north India. Katy left school 8 months ago and soon she will go to university .She loves traveling and decides to visit Asia before she goes to university. Katy is living with a family in the capital of Nepal. She has learnt a lot about the country since she arrived 4 months ago. The family has two children but many uncles and cousins live with them in their big house. They have taken Katy to many parties.
Katy teaches for four hours a day at a small school. All the classes are in English and the pupils have spoken English since the age of six. The older children speak English very well. Katy has taught writing, grammar and art, all in English. She enjoys art most. And she thinks the children like the lessons best , too.
Katy doesn’t have a lot of time to see Nepal, but soon she will stop teaching and travel around Nepal with a friend.“After that, ’’ Katy says,“we will visit more countries in Asia. We ’ re not sure which ones yet. ’’
| A．She is studying there. |
| B．She wants to take some pictures there. |
| C．She wants to learn more about the country. |
| D．She is an exchange student. |
| A．They are friendly. |
| B．There are three people in their house. |
| C．They are strange. |
| D．They have never taken Katy to the parties. |
| A．Eight months. | B．Six months. | C．Four months. | D．One month. |
| A．When they are 5 years old. |
| B．When they are 6 years old. |
| C．When they are 7 years old. |
| D．When they are 8 years old. |
| A．likes traveling very much |
| B．doesn ’ t want to live with a family |
| C．only teaches writing in English |
| D．will go back to school after she leaves Nepal. |
A teenage girl couldn’ t stand her family rules , so she left home.
She wanted to be a star and became famous. But she had a little education and years later, she had to ask for food on the street for a living. Now her father has died. Her mother is an old woman. But she is still her daughter. She has been to every corner of the city. Everywhere she goes, she a big photo of her daughter on the wall. At the lower part of the photo she writes,“I still love you… Come back home! ”
One day, the daughter saw one of the photos. She was so surprised that she couldn’t believe her .“Is that me?” She moved and read the words,“I still love you…” She cried. She couldn’t wait back home. When she got home, it was early morning. She pushed the door. The door opened itself. She rushed to the bedroom at once. Her mother was sleeping there. She her mother up,“It’s me! Your daughter is back home!” The mother and daughter looked at each other with excitement, full of happy tears. The daughter asked, “ is the door unlocked? A thief could get in.” The mother answered softly,“The door has never locked you left. We miss you all the time. We believe that you’ll come back some day.”
As everyone knows, parents love their children forever. Children should also understand their parents and share their happiness, sadness, even everything with their parents. _ this way, both parents and children can be happy.
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When we got to the hospital, we found Dad still coughed a lot, but his smile was as sure as ever. It was another attack of pneumonia(肺炎). My husband and I stayed with him for the weekend, but we had to go back to our jobs on Monday. Local relatives would help Dad get home from the hospital and look after him. But I wanted to let him know that we also cared about him. even when we weren't with him.
Then I remembered a family tradition （传统）when our children were small. Before leaving their grandparents' home after a visit, each child would write a love note to their grandparents. For days, their grandparents would smile as they read these notes of love.
So when I cleaned Dad's kitchen and made the bed for him, I wrote some notes. Some were like this, "Dad, I put the food in the fridge. " Some expressed my love, "Dad, I hope you will sleep well in your new bed. " Most notes were put downstairs where he would stay for several weeks when he was ill. But I put one note upstairs under his pillow(枕头), "Dad, if yon have found this note, you must be feeling better. We are so glad!"
"These notes helped improve his health. Several weeks later, in one of our regular phone calls, I asked Dad how he was doing. He said, "Pretty good. I just found your note under my pillow upstairs!
根据短文内容填空，每空填一词。The writer's father was sent to the ________ , so her husband and she stayed with him on that _______ .
Local relatives would help the write’s father to _____ home from the hospital and look _____ him
It was _______ for the writer’s children to write love ________ to their grandparents.
The notes only ______ the writer’s love but helped to improve her father’s ________ .
After _______ weeks , the writer was glad to find that her father felt much ______ on the phone .
On the suburb (郊区) of a town in England. there lived an old man in a nice house with a large garden. ______ He watered and fertilized (施肥) them.
One day a young man went by the garden. He looked at the beautiful flowers, imaging how happy he could be if he lived in such a beautiful place. He was very surprised about this and asked, “You can’t see these flowers, why do you take notice of them every day?”
The old man smiled and said, “I can tell you four reasons. First, I was a gardener since I was young, and I really like this job. Second, __________. Third, I can smell the sweetness of them. As for the last one ,that’s you .”
“Me? But you don’t know me,” said the young man.
“Yeah, it’s true that I don’t know you. But I know that flowers are angels（天使）that everyone knows. _____”
The blind man’s work opened our eyes and pleased our hearts, which also made his life happier. It was just like Beethoven. Beethoven himself couldn't hear his wonderful music, but his music has encouraged millions of people to face their difficulties bravely. Isn't it one kind of happiness?
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