It’s Tuesday afternoon, and I’m in Rheinburg, Germany, visiting the Extra Future Store. The “store of the future” is attracting a lot of attention these days– but not for it’s prices. Instead, people are coming from all over to experience a new way to shop.
The experience is less like shopping in a supermarket and more like playing some kind of high–tech game. It starts as I enter the store and choose a shopping cart(购物车). First, I swipe my store ID card through a computer on the cart. The computer’s screen comes on, a map of the store shows, and the journey begins.
As I shop, antennas(天线) around the store send information about different specials to the computer on my cart. Attracted by one of the ads, I choose a box of cheese. I hold up the box to the computer. It displays the price and also suggests that a certain type of bread would be good with it. The map on my chart shows me where to find the bread. It’s like the store is helping me to shop.
How does the store make this kind of shopping experience possible? The answer is radio frequency identification chip (or RFID射频识别). Each chip has a special number. Using an RFID reader on the computer, we can get information from a chip about the product(产品). RFID will help shoppers find the things in a store more quickly– products that are just right for them. In addition, people won’t have to wait in long lines to pay. The things in your cart will be read by the computer and the money will be paid by your store ID card automatically(自动地). So you can simply walk out of the store with your shopping bags.
Sounds good, right? Maybe you will experience the new shopping soon in your city.
1.Why are so many people coming to the Extra Future Store?
A. They hope to buy a new kind of computers.
B. They want to play some new high– tech games.
C. They expect to experience a new way of shopping.
D. They plan to learn how to use the FRID readers.
2.What is the right order to shop in this store?
①Look for the things you want to buy and find them.
②Swipe your store ID card through the computer.
③Walk out of the store without waiting in lines.
④The computer shows you a map and some ads.
⑤Hold up the things to the computer to be charged.
A.②①④③⑤ B.①②⑤③④ C.②①⑤③④ D.②④①⑤③
3.What are Not so necessary for this kind of new stores?
A. Carts with computers. B. RFID readers.
C. Many shop assistants. D. Good products.
4. Which of the following is the advant
age
of this new store?
A. The things in the shop are much cheaper.
B. It costs more time to find the things you need.
C. You will buy more things than you really need.
D. It’s more convenient to find the products and to pay.
My brother and I often fight with each other over small things. One day our father said to us, “Tomorrow we will take part in the Ray Home Sports Day. Both of you must go with me. Perhaps you can learn something from those children.” My brother laughed, “Dad, Ray is a home for physically disabled children. What can we learn from them?”
“You will see,” our father said.
Our father works as a volunteer at Ray.
The children there have problems with their hands, speech, walking or hearing.
Every day, he spends hours helping th
em
to move or exercise
their legs or arms.
The following day, he took us to Ray Home. When we got there, we found a nice place to sit down. Finally, the sports began. There was a 50-meter race to see who could run fastest. All the runners were physically disabled. As the race started, all the children moved as fast as they could. Just then, one of the girls fell over and hurt her leg. She began to cry at the top of her voice.
All the children stopped to help the poor
girl. Then they 
all
held hands and finished the race together. My brother and I were surprised to
see this: the children weren’t interested in winning the race－they were more interested in helping each other to
finish the race.
1.Why did the father take the writer and his brother to Ray Home?
A. The father wanted them to do something at Ray.
B. The father asked them to help the children at Ray.
C. The father wanted them to take part in the Sports Day.
D. The father wanted them to learn something from the children.
2.What does the father
often do in Ray Home?
A. He works as a teacher there. B. He helps the children there.
C. He watches the games there. D. He does sports with his sons.
3. Why did all the children stop in the 50-meter race stop?
A. All the children were disabled. B. A little girl fell over and got hurt.
C. They stopped to laugh at the girl. D. They didn’t want to finish the race.
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A. The children there can help each other.
B. All the runners there can not run fast.
C. All the children don’t want to be winners.
D. The disabled children there were not smart enough.
Here are four messages on Alan Marshall’s answer phone.
Monday 9:21
Alan? Alan, if you’re at home, please answer the phone. Are you really not there? Well, I’d just like to say that I’m really annoyed with you—and your father is too. You know how much he loves our monthly family lunches. This is the fifth one you’ve missed. I hope you’ve got a really good reason this time. Oh, umm, this is your mother speaking.
Monday 10:02
Mr Marshall, this is Rose, Mr Smith’s assistant. I’m
calling to make sure tomorrow’s lunch with Mr Smith of Rising Sun Computer
Games. Mr Smith wants you to know that this meeting is very important. Please
remember to bring the designs with you. He says that he is ready to pay for
your new game! The restaurant is The Four Stars in Gower Street and I’ve 
booked
a table for a quarter past one. Be there on time—please!
Monday 11:23
My name is Karen Miller. I’m manager at Superstar Computer Games, Australia. I saw your game “Kill the Enemy!” at the International Computer Game Fair. I think your work is great and I’d like to talk with you about buying your new game. Perhaps we can interact over lunch and know more about each other. I’m in London until Wednesday. My mobile number is 6130800.
1.Alan Marshall is a ________ according to these telephone messages.
A. psychologist B. veterinarian C. movie director D. computer game designer
2.Alan’s mother was _________ when she called her son.
A. angry B. patient C. terrified D. excited
3.________are going to buy Allan’s new game.
A. Mr Smith and Mr Marshall B. Alan and Rose
C. Mr Miller and Mr Smith D. Alan and Karen
4.The underlined word “interact” means “_______” here.
A. discuss B. play games C. eat D. fight
Inside Today
Hainan buys jets
Hainan Airlines is buying four Beijing 737— 300-passenger airplanes to improve its services. Page 2
Rural health care
At least 400 million rural Chinese will get medical and health care services soon. Page 3
HK protest(抗议)
Hong Kong people protest against a Chinese patriotic education course. Page 4
Model village
Ai Defu has made his village the pride of millions of farmers. Page 6
1.We can probably see the above reading
A. on TV B. in an essay C. in a newspaper D. in a book
2.We can turn to if we are interested in Hong Kong issues.
A. Page 2 B. Page 3 C. Page 4 D. Page 5
3. _______is NOT mentioned in the reading.
A. Sports news B. A model village C. Hainan Airlines D. Rural health care
阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后请从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
When are you an adult?
When do you think you are an adult? Maybe different have different ideas.
Now let's see what some American teenagers say.
Sam: In idea, you are an adult at the of 18. That's when you can vote(投票）. You can help to who rules the whole country. That's also a grown-up does! My grandfather couldn't vote he was 21. They changed it to 18 in 1971.
Jenny: I don't it's hard to say. I can drive a car at 16, can't I? When you have a driver's license, you can it to people to tell them your age for all kinds of things. sixteen must be the age when you change from a person to an adult. Because you can tell others you are not a any more.
Suzie: Well, I think there is wrong
with American laws for when young people can things. I
can vote at 18 and drive at 16. So you would think that 18 is a grown-up,
16 isn't. But then I can't drink wine until I'm 21! If
I'm an adult at 18, how can people stop me from a
cup of beer in a bar?
1.A. teenagers B. adults C. drivers D. grandfathers
2.A. his B. my C. her D. your
3.A. age B. end C. front D. number
4.A. make B. keep C. teach D. choose
5.A. after B. until C. when D. if
6.A. hope B. want C. like D. think
7.A. show B. send C. ask D. pass
8.A. But B. And C. So D. Or
9.A. old B. young C. little D. tall
10.A. baby B. grown-up C. boy D. kid
11.A. anything B. everything C. something D. nothing
12.A. do B. buy C. like D. borrow
13.A. as if B. even though C. ever since D. above all
14.A. already B. still C. also D. yet
15.A. selling B. making C. drinking D. giving
—I don’t think that Class 8 will win the soccer game.
— I . Their team is becoming stronger and stronger.
A. agree B. disagree C. hope so D. think so
