What might the future be like? 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. But in 28 years, Spring Festival travel may not be a problem at all. 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.
Newspaper will come to an end in 2043. In the future, digital(数字的) newspapers will be sent to personal web tools through Internet. Readers can discuss topics with journalists and editors. Information will move faster.
Oil is running out faster than expected. But scientists have found something else for oil as fuel(燃料). Coal, natural gas, solar power, nuclear power and even water can take the place of oil as sources of energy(能源).
Schools will go electronic(电子化). Computers will be important and popular among the students. 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.
1. More than 2 billion people have a hard time returning home during .
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A．Christmas Day |
B．National Day |
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C．the Spring Festival |
D．the Mid-autumn Festival |
2.The newspapers will disappear .
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A．in 28 years |
B．by 2020 |
C．by 2053 |
D．in 33 years |
3. is not mentioned in the passage as sources of energy.
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A．Coal |
B．Wind |
C．Nuclear power |
D．Water |
4.From the passage we can know in the future.
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A．the Spring Festival travel may still be a problem |
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B．90% of the population will live in the city |
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C．robot teachers will check homework |
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D．readers can discuss topics with each other through Internet |
5.What’s the main idea of the last paragraph? .
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A．Schools will go electronic |
B．Computers will be important |
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C．There will be robot teachers |
D．School buses will be like spaceships |
Prana was a beautiful dog, whose name means “breath of life”. Although he died several years ago, I can still remember the days we spent together and what he has taught me about love.
I have two apple trees in the garden. Prana loved apples. When he went outside, he’d catch an apple and take it into the house to eat later. The apples had been on the ground and were often dirty so I wasn’t always happy that Prana had brought them into the house.
It was an autumn day in America, but it was very cold. A big snow fell and we had not done anything for its coming. On that special day, Prana went outside and I watched him through the window. I noticed that he was madly digging(挖) holes and bringing the apples to the ground so they could be seen above the snow. I did not know why he was doing this. He seemed to want to do something special.
When I called him back, he had his usual one apple in his mouth. About five minutes later, I looked outside. The garden was completely covered with birds. Prana had dug up all those apples for his bird friends to eat. He knew that they wouldn’t have stored enough food for the coming winter!
1.Prana was .
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A．the writer |
B．a boy |
C．a bird |
D．a dog |
2.I wasn’t always happy because .
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A．Prana loved apples |
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B．Prana caught an apple and ate it |
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C．the apples fell on the ground and were dirty |
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D．Prana brought the dirty apples into the house |
3.On the snowy day, Prana .
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A．ate up all the apples |
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B．dug holes to put the apples in them |
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C．brought the apples under the snow to the ground |
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D．left the house and died |
4.The birds flew to the garden to .
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A．look for Prana |
B．eat the apples |
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C．make new homes |
D．store food for the winter |
5.The topic of the story is about .
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A．apples |
B．animals |
C．love |
D．life |
Learning Chinese may seem difficult to foreigners outside China. However, Daisy Raffan, an
36 girl in Britain, hopes to bring the 37 to the young people.
Daisy has 38 an online learning website to teach the language to as 39 people as possible, all over the world.
With China’s fast development in the world, Daisy thinks 40 important for people to learn the language sooner rather than later.
Daisy has been learning Putonghua 41 the age of five. Two years ago, 42 she decided to pass on what she had learned, she 43 the idea for the website, kidschineseclub.com.
She said: “People are afraid to learn Putonghua. One of the main reasons is that they think it’s an 44 language to learn, but I have had fun 45 it .And I hope what I have done is easy and fun.”
Her 46 offers a series of lessons, which are videos of Daisy teaching a group of students on topics from greetings and numbers to Chinese culture.
Daisy’s website has 47 the support of several important persons —the teenager says she has received a letter praising(赞扬) her work from Gordon Brown, 48 is the British Prime Minister(首相).
She said: “I wrote to him and told him what I was doing and got a letter 49 . He said that what I was doing was a really good idea. I thought it was amazing. I was excited that 50 was supporting what we’re doing.”
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— I bought a tie for Dad on Father’s Day yesterday.
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A．It’s nothing |
B．I would, thanks |
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C．That’s special enough |
D．I didn’t mind |
— Congratulations! Your English teacher told me you got an A this time.
— Thank you. She is very .
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A．impressed |
B．embarrassed |
C．terrified |
D．frustrated |
— You didn’t go to school yesterday, did you?
— , though there was a heavy rain.
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A．Yes, I did |
B．No, I didn’t |
C．Yes, I didn’t |
D．No, I did |
