Have you ever seen a windsock blowing in the wind? Well, you can make one of your own! This is a fun project that you can do with things you may have. You just need to follow a few easy steps.| A．fun | B．heavy | C．strong | D．special |
| A．Tape. | B．Ribbons. | C．A pencil. | D．A string. |
| A．Make holes in the tube. | B．Tape the tube together. |
| C．Tie knots in the ribbons. | D．Put a string through the hole. |
| A．Its shape. | B．Its size. |
| C．The color of the paper. | D．The number of the holes. |
| A．To tell an interesting story. | B．To explain how to do something. |
| C．To teach an important lesson. | D．To show what a windsock is like. |
In 1972, Richard Sears, a young American began learning Chinese because of his interest in traditional Chinese culture.
Drawn to the ancient language, he went to China to study Chinese in the 1990s.
In 1994, Richard Sears decided to put the ancient Chinese characters online. Then, in 2002, he did it. That is the beginning of the Chinese Etymology(汉字字源)website. "My website did not get much attention for the next few years. Until one day in 2011, it suddenly got a lot of attention.
I got a few thousand emails, and a few million visitors and people started calling me 'Uncle Hanzi', " Sears said with a smile. Hanzi means Chinese characters. He has put more than 96, 000 ancient Chinese characters onto the website. "When I study each character, I wonder what the ancient Chinese thought, " said Sears.
After visiting many Chinese cities, Sears learned more about China and ancient Chinese culture, He said when he came to China in the last century, few Chinese could speak good English "However, you can hear English in many places in China now. Chinese language and culture were mysterious and not known by people in most countries then, but now, more and more people in the world are learning Chinese, even Chinese history, traditional Chinese medicine and so on, "Sears added.
At present, the 70-year-old American has made his home in China. "When I die, I hope my website will live on, and I'm planning to write a book about my research. This will be my gift to China, " he said.
1．What does "Drawn to the ancient language" mean in Paragraph1?| A．Sears was interested in ancient Chinese. | B．Sears had to study Chinese characters. |
| C．Sears could draw Chinese characters well. | D．Sears could speak ancient Chinese very well. |
| A．1972 | B．1994 | C．2002 | D．2011 |
| A．Chinese history. | B．Ancient Chinese characters. |
| C．The daily life of Richard Sears | D．Traditional Chinese medicine. |
| A．become famous | B．get the nick name "Uncle Hanzi" |
| C．write a book about his research | D．make more people know about ancient Chinese characters |
| A．Great Changes in China | B．Mysterious Chinese Language and Culture |
| C．American "Uncle Hanzi" | D．A Young American and Traditional Chinese Culture |
It’s not news that there can be many problems of latchkey living.
Researchers find that 51% of “latchkey kids” are doing poorly in school. Meanwhile, the study by the Carnegie Council on teenager development shows that children going home alone after school for 11 hours or more each week are twice as likely to use drugs and alcohol.
Are there any positives of latchkey living? Yes, says Renee Peterson Trudeau, an internationally recognized life balance coach. “Some of the most successful people were latchkey kids growing up,” she says. “Young people who are allowed more freedom to be on their own often become more independent.”
Are you a parent of “latchkey kids”? Here are some tips for you to make your children’s home-alone life a safe, growing opportunity.
●Keep in touch. Always make sure your child can reach you. For example, have your child call you when he gets home from school, and then call him as you’re leaving work.
●Keep busy. It’s not a bad idea to have your kids feed the pet or water the flowers before you get home. Chores teach them responsibility.
●Keep an eye. If you have a neighbor, kindly ask her if she could pay attention from time to time. This makes you know whether your child is telling the truth.
●Keep communication. Take the time to keep up with how your kid’s afternoons are going.
Make sure he is clear of your time-alone rules for him, especially around screen time and homework.
“If you follow the suggestions above, you shouldn’t feel regretful for being a working parent.” Renee says. “They are more confident around problem solving.”
1．“Latchkey kids” are those who ________| A．do badly in exams at school. | B．stay at home without parents |
| C．study at school for 11 hours | D．use drugs and alcohol at home |
| A．housework | B．schoolwork | C．exercise | D．energy |
| A．give her kid a call when she is busy at work. | B．teach her kid how to feed the pet and do it together. |
| C．ask her neighbor to go into her house and stay there. | D．talk with her kid to make him know the rules. |
| A．Parents must give “latchkey kids” more freedom. | B．Parents should feel regretful for having “latchkey kids”. |
| C．“Latchkey kids” may be independent problem solvers. | D．“Latchkey kids” are the most successful people. |
① Teachers are often considered（认为）to be engineers of the human soul. They are expected to spread knowledge, ideas and truth. There’s one person in China who is called the “teacher of teachers”. He is Tao Xingzhi, a Chinese educator.
② Born in Anhui province, China, in 1891, Tao studied abroad for educational philosophy（心理学）. When Tao returned to China in 1917 and began his own career as an educator, he did not blindly follow western education methods or theories. In fact, he changed the saying of “Education is life itself” to “Life is education”. Similarly, instead of “school as society (社会)”, he saw it as “society as school”.
③ For Tao, education is an active experience in real-life instead of telling and being told. He supported “unity of teaching, learning, and reflective（反思的）acting”.
④ Besides developing education methods, Tao also tried his best to improve mass education. After doing surveys in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai in 1921, Tao was surprised to learn that in China more than 70% of the people in the city didn’t know how to read or write.
⑤ To solve the problem, Tao organized young workers and farmers to study while working. To deal with the shortage of teachers and money, in 1927, Tao set up Xiaozhuang Normal College in Nanjing to train teachers and educators, most of whom became teachers at schools in the countryside.
⑥ In January 1934, he started the “Little Teacher” movement in which young students were encouraged to serve as teachers to others, even to those older than themselves. Under Tao’s guidance, over 18,000 “little teachers” were invited in Shanghai within 10 months. It later included 28 provinces and cities as a key nationwide education movement. Even in the fight against the Japanese army, Tao never forgot his dream. He founded a middle school in Chongqing and offered free education to poor children.
⑦ Maybe Tao’s motto is the best explanation for his life. “Giving a whole heart, yet taking nothing in return, not even a leaf of grass.”
1．What is the correct order of Tao Xingzhi’s life experiences?| A．a-c-b-d-e | B．a-d-c-e-b | C．b-e-a-c-d | D．b-c-e-a-d |
| A．young children | B．ordinary people |
| C．kids with great talent | D．poor workers |
| A．School is the best place to learn knowledge and values. |
| B．Students should learn from the world outside their schools. |
| C．Education is telling and being told between teachers and students. |
| D．It is the most important to teach students practical skills in school. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
①In a room at Stanford University (大学), scientists (科学家) are studying a small animal called gecko. It’s an amazing animal because it can move very quickly up and down a tree and it can even walk upside down (倒立行走) on ceilings (机器人). The scientists are quite interested in the gecko’s feet. They want to use the same design on their own robots. The metal robot looks like the gecko. It has four feet which can also walk up walls made of glass. However, it still has a more difficult time when it tries to walk upside down.
②Animals and plants can teach people a lot about design and engineering (工程学). When scientists and engineers have a problem, nature (大自然) often has the answer. This science is called biomimetics (仿生学). Bio means “studying living things” and mimetics means “copying (模仿) the movement of things”. In other words, scientists study animals and plants in order to copy the design.
③Takea whale (鲸) as an example. Engineers in Canada are studying their flippers (鳍) because they move very fast through water. The engineers think the shape (形状) can also make the wind turbines (涡轮机) move faster. The boxfish is another animal from the sea which is helping car makers in Germany. Mercedes Benz (奔驰) is using the shape of the fish for one of its new cars. The shape makes it faster and more fuelefficient (节能的).
④Velcro is probably the most famous example of biomimetics. Most people have some Velcro on their clothes. It was invented (发明) by the Swiss engineer, George de Mestral in 1948. He was walking in the countryside when he pulled a plant’s bur (刺果) from his trousers. He noticed how the bur stuck so well to his clothes. He worked on his idea and the result was Velcro and it became an alternative to the traditional zip (传统的拉链).
⑤In a word, biomimetics has helped to design our world and there are many more future possibilities (可能性). Unluckily, it might take a long time to discover (发现) all the possibilities. This isn’t really surprising because it’s taken nature thousands of years to design its animals and plants.
1．The writer organizes Paragraph 1 by ________.| A．using pictures | B．using numbers |
| C．giving an example | D．showing reasons |
| A．The whale. | B．The boxfish. |
| C．The wind turbine. | D．The car. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
| A．产物 | B．原材料 | C．制造商 | D．替代品 |
| A．Nature can provide people with ideas to make better things. |
| B．George de Mestral invented the traditional zip too. |
| C．The robot designed at Stanford University can walk upside down easily. |
| D．Mercedes Benz is using the shape of the whale for one of its new cars. |
The metaverse (元宇宙) has been a hot topic of conversation recently. The word “Metaverse” comes from a science fiction novel Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson in 1992. It refers to a 3D virtual reality (虚拟世界). In this world, we have digital versions of ourselves which are called avatars. The best way to visit the metaverse is through VR headsets.
Visiting the metaverse is like playing a game World of Warcraft (魔兽世界), where we can choose our own avatars. In the metaverse we can do almost everything such as getting together with friends, learning and playing. The value to our lives could be big.
In the metaverse learning process becomes much easier and more interesting. Wearing a VR headset is different from watching a movie. The difference is what scientists call “embodied cognition.” That is, we learn by doing instead of watching, reading or listening. For a lot of the most important learning events in our lives, we actually do something—we walk somewhere or feel something. Similarly, in the metaverse we learn by having such an experience.
James is a professional basketball player in America. He is on a two-week training program in the metaverse. Every day after he wakes up, he puts on his VR headset to go over his plays and practice in the metaverse. It’s like he’s actually on the sports field. But he is just in his living room, getting practice. “In this way, I improve my basketball skills faster.” says James.
Can you imagine how metaverse technologies help people deal with environmental problems in our real world? One example is a scientific test on the island of Ischia, in Italy. Carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) is destroying its ocean plants and animals. In the real world, we can’t bring people all over the world to Ischia to show how worse the situation is. To solve this problem, we produce a seven-minute Ischia journey in the metaverse. Now with VR headsets on, we bring Ischia to people. People see for themselves, study on environmental changes and learn to predict what all the oceans on the earth will be like in the future.
Maria is a volunteer to experience the metaverse. After spending 24 hours “living” in the metaverse, she felt very tired. Her eyes and head hurt a lot the moment she took off the VR headset. For her, such a “virtual” experience is less meaningful than a “real” one.
In fact, the metaverse is a tool, like any other media (媒介) such as Wechat, TikTok and Bilibili. It will surely make a difference to how we receive information, which is a big jump in the history of media. ________. Wherever we are, in the real world or in the metaverse, we will continue to be the same humans. To be or not to be, that’s not a question for the metaverse. It’s already on the way.
1．________ is an example of embodied cognition.| A．Doing English homework | B．Reading the novel Snow Crash |
| C．Watching a movie Kung Fu Panda | D．Listening to Abing’s Erquan Yingyue |
| A．provide a new way of saving people near Ischia |
| B．picture how the ocean environment looked in the past |
| C．show how oceans are being destroyed by carbon dioxide |
| D．explain how pollution from Ischia is destroying other areas |
| A．Other media will still be important |
| B．But many people in the world will not like it |
| C．It will take several years to change people’s lives |
| D．But this huge change will not change who we are |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
①Some people say they “never forget a face”. But what does that saying mean? Is there really no limit (限制) to the number of faces a person can remember?
②A new study has found that, people on average can remember as many as 5,000 faces. The number comes from a group of researchers at the University of York in England. The research team tested people on how many faces they could remember from their personal lives and in the media. They also tested themto see how many famous faces they recognized.
③The people in the test spent one hour writing down as many names of faces from their personal lives as possible. Some examples may include people they went to school with, people they worked with and family members.
④At first, they found it easy to comeup with many faces. But by the end of the hour, they found they had run out of faces completely.
⑤After that, these people were shown thousands of photographs of famous people. Researchers asked them which ones they recognized. To make sure they knew these people, researchers asked them to recognize two different photos of each famous person. The results showed that they knew between 1, 000 and 10, 000 faces.
⑥How do they explain such a wide range (范围)? Jenkins said some people have a natural ability for remembering faces. “There are differences in how much attention people pay to faces and how well they process the information,” he said.
⑦Jenkins also said ________. Some people may have grown up in more populated (人口多的) places. So, they may have had more social contact in their lives.
⑧In the modern world of big cities, computers, televisions and social media, we meet and
| A．introduce some ways to help remember faces |
| B．introduce a new research about memory |
| C．lead to the research of remembering faces |
| D．correct people’s mistakes about memory |
| A．we don’t need to remember people’s faces in the future |
| B．young people could remember more faces than old people |
| C．people could write down names of faces for more than one hour |
| D．people’s ability to recognize faces is very different from one another |
| A．it could be because of different social environments |
| B．it could be because of their education and knowledge |
| C．people who grew up in the country could do better |
| D．the result told us we should take part in more activities |
A． | B． |
C． | D． |
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