India's richest man is rolling out a $20 billion mobile network that could bring lightning-fast Internet to hundreds of millions of people. Indian consumers are already celebrating the arrival of Mukesh Ambani's new Reliance Jio service, seizing on the billionaire's promise to deliver rock bottom prices and download speeds that will enable streaming video.
The 4G network, which reaches more than 80% of the country, officially went live Monday with a set of generous introductory offers. Indians will be able to use Jio for free until the end of 2016, and pay as little as 149 rupees ($2.25) a month for data after that. "Anything and everything that can go digital is going digital -- at an exponential rate," Ambani told investors last week at his company's annual general meeting. "Life is going digital."
Only one fifth of adults in India have access to the Internet. Few public Wi-Fi spots exist, and fast broadband connections require infrastructure that is rarely found in poorer urban areas, much less rural ones. But that is changing fast. If the Jio network succeeds, Ambani will be able to capitalize on a seismic shift that could see hundreds of millions of Indians come online in the coming years -- in most cases via a smartphone.
Google has installed free Wi-Fi at train stations across India, and Facebook tried to offer a free version of its platform. Many other international companies are also trying to share the great market in India. Ambani has invested billions constructing nearly 100,000 telecoms(电信)towers across India. He estimates that Jio already covers some 18,000 cities and 200,000 villages. By March 2017, his aim is to reach 90% of the population.
Building a national 4G network from scratch represents a major risk for Ambani, who got out of telecoms about 15 years ago after a dispute with his brother, Anil Ambani, who controls Reliance Communications. The brothers, who together are estimated to be worth $26 billion, have patched things up in recent years. Jio will be able to use radio frequencies owned by Reliance Communications.
Rival(对手)networks have responded to the launch of Reliance Jio with special offers of their own, making a price war a near certainty. Airtel has reduced its prices for 3G and 4G service by 80%, and Vodafone has boosted the amount of data in its plans by nearly 70%.
1.What's the main idea of the passage?
A.India's richest man supplies free service to streaming videos.
B.India's richest man gains the wealth of $20 billion.
C.India's richest man offers free Wi-Fi to the whole country.
D.India's richest man provides 1 billion people with free 4G.
2.What difference would the Jio network make?
A.One fifth of the adults in India would lose the Internet they now use.
B.People in poorer areas would set up more infrastructure.
C.Most Indians' online experience would be greatly changed.
D.The rich Indians would share their own Wi-Fi with others.
3.Which statement about the Indian network is TRUE?
A.It's a market that many tech industry giants want to take up.
B.It's a market where Google failed in making much money.
C.It's a market where Facebook has already taken up for years.
D.It's a market that Ambani has been controlling with his brother.
4.What do the underlined words ''patched things up'' in the fifth paragraph mean?
A.Been broken apart from each other.
B.Stopped quarreling with each other.
C.Had something to do with each other.
D.Kept in touch with each other.
Last summer, more than 12,000 fans packed London's Wembley Arena. Thousands more watched online. They shouted and cheered. Were they watching soccer? No, they were watching esports, or competitive PC gaming.
Millions of people in the United Kingdom play PC games for fun. Some of them have become professionals, playing games as their full-time job. The prize at the Wembley event totaled 3 million pounds.
It's not easy being a professional gamer, though. They practice for 10 or more hours a day, five or six days a week. They do exercises like typing something and then trying to type it faster and faster. They also study videos of other players and plan ways to beat them.
Many people who play games also enjoy watching them. They often watch games on video sites like Twitch and YouTube, and in the UK there's even a TV channel showing esports 24 hours a day. Matches can be exciting to watch. Just like in other sports, there are close games, last-minute victories and creative strategies. Sometimes online viewers can interact with the players through instant messaging. For example, some pros (支持者) rename characters in the game with the names of their biggest supporters.
But are esports really sports? Are the players athletes? It's easy to say, ''No way. '' After all, professional gamers don't need to run, jump or throw a ball. At the moment, the UK government classifies esports as a kind of game, not as a sport.
But many people think that esports are sports. They say that players do need physical skills, especially hand-eye coordination, quick reflexes (反应能力), accuracy and timing. If darts (掷镖游戏) and snooker (斯诺克) are classified as sports, then perhaps esports should be too. In fact, the governments of China and South Korea do classify esports as sports, and pro gamers will soon be able to compete for medals at the 2022 Asian Games.
For many esports fans and players, though, the most important thing is that esports are growing in popularity and prestige (声望). If esports are not important at the moment, they probably will be soon.
1.What are the first four paragraphs mainly about?
A.The fun of playing esports.
B.The popularity of esports in the UK.
C.How to start a career as a professional esports gamer.
D.How esports are different from traditional sports.
2.According to the text, why do some people believe esports are sports?
A.It takes players time and energy to learn them.
B.They excite people as much as other sports do.
C.They share rules and strategies with other sports.
D.Players need to develop physical skills to perform well.
3.What is the author's attitude toward the future of esports?
A.Optimistic. B.Negative.
C.Doubtful. D.Unconcerned.
假定你是李华，你校交换生Chris熟悉中国文化，喜欢看动漫。春节档动漫电影《姜子牙（Legend of Deification）》即将于1月25日上映。请你根据以下提示，用英语给Chris写一封电子邮件，邀请他一起观看首映。
1. 提出邀请并简述原因；
2. 约定见面时间和地点；
3. 提出观影后活动建议。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 开头及结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Chris,
How is everything?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Best wishes.
Yours,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写岀修改后的词。
注意：1.毎处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不记分。
My senior high school life is almost over. Although exciting about entering college, I can't help miss those good old days so much that I feel sad. I'm unwilling to say goodbye to everyone and everything I am familiar. However, I come to realize nature never. stood still. Different seasons come and go. Plants and animals die mid new one come to life. We, like everything in nature, has to adapt to the changes. Before knowing it, I am a kind of calm. Now I'd like to recall the most wonderful things which have happened, and accept happy whatever is to happen.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
You've heard of getting lost in a book. Now, get ready to get lost in a “river of books” Zhongshuge, a bookstore in Yangzhou, China. When 1.(walk ) into Zhongshuge, you're surrounded on all sides by a tunnel of books. An 2.(architecture) studio called X+Living designed Zhongshuge. The shelves 3.(arrange) in curved shapes to create the tunnel-like appearance.
The floor is covered with black mirrors, reflecting the shelves above and creating the feel 4. the bookshelves continue down past the floor you’re standing 5.. As it turns out, the store's design has more 6.(significant) than just a fun feel. Yangzhou is full of canals and rivers. X+Living, therefore, 7. (combine) this concept with Zhongshuge 8. (perfect) , and tried to create a "river" of books. As if all that weren't enough, Zhongshuge has9.amazing space for children's books as well. The bookshelves are shaped like houses, clouds, and even a hot air balloon 10. (offer) them a paradise.
Afroz Shall, a lawyer in Mumbai, hasn't had a weekend off in four years. But he hasn't spent this time preparing for _______.
His mission? Saving the world's oceans from _______ pollution.
It's a calling he found in 2015 after moving to a community in Mumbai called Versova Beach. He had played there as a child and was _______to see how much it had _______. The sand was no longer _______ because it was covered by a layer of garbage more than five feet thick - most of it plastic waste.
“The whole beach was like a _________of plastic,” he said, “It hurt me. The _______ mess.” Shah had seen is part of a global environmental crisis. More than 8 million tons of plastic _______in the world’s oceans each year. It's predicted that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. “Plastic in the ocean is a _______. And the sea-species have no choice at all,” Shah said, “We are __________ their habitats.”
In October 2015, shall began __________ up plastic waste from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began calling on others to join in. Word __________ and with help from social media, more volunteers got __________.
For Shah, the work has always been a __________ journey, but it has earned global attention. After he was __________ as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2016, Shah now devotes nearly all of his free time to this ____________.
He's now spent 209 weekends on this mission, __________ more than 200,000 volunteers, some of whom are young students, to join him in what's been called the world's biggest beach cleanup. By October 2018, Versova Beach was __________ clean and Shah's cleanups expanded to another beach as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.
“This world talks too much. I think we must talk __________ and do action more,” he said when interviewed by CNN in October 2019. “We are a smart species. Well adapt. We'll learn. And with these youngsters rising up, I see __________.”
1.A.teaching B.housework C.court D.cleaning
2.A.plastic B.soil C.river D.oil
3.A.upset. B.confused. C.delighted D.hesitant
4.A.grown B.changed C.reserved D.protected
5.A.pure B.golden C.shiny D.visible
6.A.curtain B.carpet C.painting D.photograph
7.A.temporary B.permanent C.ugly D.pretty
8.A.sticks to B.keeps off C.gives back D.ends up
9.A.killer B.cleaner C.guest D.decoration
10.A.sweeping B.attacking C.visiting D.beautifying
11.A.pulling B.thinking C.picking D.looking
12.A.came B.failed C.went D.spread
13.A.involved B.lived C.stuck D.paid
14.A.easy B.tough C.personal D.general
15.A.known B.regarded C.decided D.honored
16.A.cause B.case C.position D.fame
17.A.requiring B.rejecting C.inviting D.inspiring
18.A.originally B.finally C.politically D.theoretically
19.A.fewer B.less C.better D.worse
20.A.honor B.beauty C.hope D.love
