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Over the past 10 years, developments in technology have moved the dream of personal fling vehicles closer to reality. The British company Malloy Aeronautics has developed a model of its flying bicycle. The company says its Hoverbike will be a truly personal flying vehicle.

The company’s marketing sales director Grant Stapleton says the Hoverbike is able to get in and out of small spaces very quickly and can be moved across continents very quickly because it can be folded and packed.

Safety was the company’s main concern when developing the Hoverbike. The designers solved this problem by using overlapping rotors(重叠旋翼) to power the vehicle. With adducted rotors(内转旋翼) the rider immediately not only protects people and belongings if he were to hit them, but if the rider ever were to crash into somebody or something, it’s going to bring the flying vehicle out of the air. The company is testing two models of the Hoverbike.

In New Zealand, the Martin Aircraft Company is also testing a full-size model of its personal flying device, called Jetpack. It can fly for more than 30 minutes, up to 1,000 meters high and reach a speed of 74 kilometers per hour.

Peter Coker, one officer from the company said Jetpack “is built around safety from the start.” In his words, “Reliability(可靠性) is the most important part of it. We have safety built into the actual structure itself, very similar to a Formula One racing car.”

Jetpack uses a petrol-powered engine. It also has a parachute(降落伞) that can be used if there should be an emergency(突发事件). It opens at very low altitude(纬度) and actually saves both the flying vehicle and the pilot in an emergency.

Mr. Coker says Jetpack will be ready for sale to the public by the end of 2019. He adds it’ll have a price of about $200,000.

1.According to the text, the Hoverbike         .

A. is ready for sale    B. is difficult to control

C. is easy to carry    D. is popular in England

2.What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A. How the Hoverbike flies.    B. How models of the Hoverbike were tested.

C. How the Hoverbike was powered.    D. How the designers solved the Hoverbike’s problem of safety.

3.The underlined word “It” in the sixth paragraph refers to         .

A. the petrol-powered engine    B. the parachute

C. the vehicle    D. the overlapping rotor

4.Peter Coker attaches great importance to Jetpack’s         .

A. safety    B. speed

C. market    D. power

An Indian movie about two sisters has become a huge hit in China. The Hindi language film, called Dangal, has earned almost $170 million in China since its release there on May 5.

Much has been written about why Dangal has enjoyed such big success in China. Some people say one reason is that the film’s star and producer, Aamir Khan. He is famous in India's Bollywood film industry. Two of his earlier films were also big hits in China.

Khan's popularity was clear after he got more than 600,000 followers on the Chinese social media service Sina Weibo within two months of joining. But he is not the only reason that the film strongly connects with audience across China. Media has pointed out how it shows similarities between parental systems in China and India.

Dangal is based on the true story of a man who enjoyed the sport of wrestling(摔跤). He competed as a wrestler, but never could achieve his lifelong dream: winning a gold medal. As a father, he wanted his son to win the medal. But his wife only gives birth to daughters. So he finally decides to train them to be world-class wrestlers.

The movie is more serious than most Bollywood productions, which tell happy love stories and include colorful music and dance performances.

Edward Chan is a professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He says the strict way of parenting in the film is something people in China can easily relate to. "I think the father role described by the movie in India is quite to the culture, especially the traditional culture in China."

The Chinese government supported Global Times newspaper pointed that movie critics (评论家) in China did not like Dangal. Most of them agree with the fact that the father in the film was forceful in pushing his daughters to become wrestlers. But the film Dangal is really aimed to educate children to work for their dreams.

1.What's the main reason for the father teaching his daughters to wrestle?

A. He wanted to punish them    B. He wanted them to realize his goal.

C. Few women took this sport.    D. He loved them very much.

2.What do most Chinese movie critics agree?

A. The truth of the whole story was doubtful.

B. The film Dangal was against the Indian traditional culture.

C. Indian films often have a bad influence on Chinese parents.

D. The father's behaviour in the film Dangal was cruel.

3.What can we learn from the text?

A. Most films from Bollywood are serious.

B. Indian parents' roles are similar to those in China in some way.

C. Daughters perform worse in sport than sons.

D. The films produced by Aamir Khan is not popular with Chinese.

4.What does the author think of Dangal?

A. It's unsuccessful.    B. It's unknown.

C. It's educational.    D. It's relaxing.

My folks bought their first house in the early 1940s after Dad got a better job in Marquette, Michigan. We lived just inside the city limits in what was still a rural area.

In the spring of 1948, when I was 6 years old, my parents bought a calf（小牛）to replace our cow, which had been killed the year before. So one day we drove to a local farm and returned with a white and brown calf we named Tubby.

We didn’t own a truck, so Tubby rode home in the backseat of Dad’s car with my 9-year-old brother, Steve, and me. As you can imagine, the trip was a lot of fun for us kids.

Later that summer, Mom thought it would be cute to take a picture of me sitting on Tubby’s back. All went well until the snap of the camera shutter sent Tubby charging off on a run, with me holding on for dear life.

I lasted for about 30 feet before I hit the ground. Mom was quick enough to shoot a follow-up picture, so we had photos of me both on and off Tubby!

When summer had passed, the day arrived for poor Tubby to fill our freezer. I must have been somewhere else with my Mom on the fateful day, because I have no memory of how it happened. All I knew was that the barn was empty, and that we had plenty of meat for dinners.

I hadn’t lived on a farm like my mother, so I didn’t understand that what happened to Tubby was not unusual. Livestock aren’t meant to be pets, and most farm kids know and accept that truth.

Whenever we had beef for dinner, I would tearfully, “Is this Tubby?” This went on for a couple of weeks until Dad had finally had enough and declared, “No more cows!” That made me feel a little better about poor Tubby.

1.The writer’s parents bought Tubby so that ____.

A. the family would have enough meat to eat

B. It would provide their children with milk.

C. they would have more cows in the future

D. they would no longer feel lonely on the farm.

2.Which word can be used to describe the author’s mom?

A. Serious.    B. Strong-willed.

C. Careless.    D. Quick-minded.

3.We learn from the passage that _____.

A. Steve was not so fond of Tubby as his younger brother.

B. the author’s mom thought it natural to kill a cow for meat.

C. the author had much trouble with Tubby in the summer.

D. the author was pleased to see their freezer filled with beef.

4.We can most probably read the text above in a website on ____.

A. pets    B. education

C. diet    D. animals

Scientists are studying different foods, and they will see which foods protect us from cancer(癌症), and which cause it. It is known that a healthy diet(饮食) will help keep a healthy body weight, which can also decrease the risk(风险) of many types of cancer.

Fruit and vegetables

Fruit and vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet. They can decrease the risk of some cancer types like mouth and throat cancer. They are a good source of many important nutrients such as vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, and are an excellent source of fiber.

Our advice

Try to get plenty of fruit and vegetables in your diet. Eating fruit and vegetables with a variety of colors will help you get many kinds of vitamins and minerals, as the chemicals that give these foods their colors are good for you.

Meat

Eating lots of red and processed meat can increase(增加) your risk of stomach cancer. Red meat includes all fresh and frozen beef, pork and lamb. Processed meat includes ham, bacon and sausage. White meat, such as chicken, is unlikely to increase your risk of cancer.

Our advice

Eat smaller and fewer parts of red and processed meat. Try using beans or peas instead of meat in your diet. When you cook meat, use low-temperature methods.

Fat

Fat is a necessary part of our diet but high-fat diet can increase our risk of cancer, heart disease and other diseases. Meat is higher in saturated fat(饱和脂肪) and eating too much saturated fat may increase your risk of breast cancer.

Our advice

Try not to eat too much fatty foods. In particular, try to cut down on saturated fat contained in fatty meat, biscuits, and butter. Try to avoid frying foods in lots of oil.

1.According to the passage, fruit and vegetables ___________.

A. are an excellent source of fiber

B. will help you get all kinds of vitamins and minerals

C. are an only necessary part of a healthy diet

D. can increase the risk of some cancer types like mouth and throat cancer

2.What can we know about meat from the passage?

A. Eating processed meat is better than eating beans.

B. Processed meat is a part of a healthy diet.

C. Meat should be cooked at a high temperature.

D. Eating chicken is better than eating sausage.

3.What can be inferred from the last two paragraphs?

A. Saturated fat leads to breast cancer.

B. Foods with fat will cause heart disease.

C. A healthy diet should contain fat.

D. Butter belongs to low-fat foods.

假如你是李华，你校外教Smith已结束一年的任期，于一个月前回到了美国。新年来临之际，请给他写封邮件，内容包括:

1.回顾你们过去一年的生活；

2.你的学习近况；

3.你的新学年打算。

注意:

1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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