For several years, a computer game “Happy Farm” has been popular among Chinese people.

Today, many Chinese have their own real Happy Farms.

A Farm of Her Own

It is Saturday. Yan Zhen is leaving for her grounds at edge of Beijing. She rents a piece of farmland for eight hundred yuan per year in the happy farm in the west of Beijing, an area of fifteen square meters.

If you're not good at farming, you can pay a farmer to care for the land, and you just pick the vegetables and visit the countryside with your friends or family on weekends. However, on some other farms, you just bring your basket and pick the fruits and vegetables you want before paying money.

Concern about Food Safety

“I think we Chinese have been troubled by problems of food safety. When you have planted your own vegetables, and you know what fertilizers(肥料) you have used. Pick them with your own hands, this is very safe.” Yan Zhen said.

The Happy Farm

Older people often remember that many years ago, farm products were untreated and food was clean, but now they are worrying about the poor food quality. Some of them find on these farms a means to help the community and to better feed the family. Some of them start gardening for their pregnant(怀孕)daughters to protect the health of the mother and child. On the other hand, some parents want to teach their children the value of work and healthy foods on a farm.

1.If you aren't good at farming, you can________.

A.Pay a farmer to take care of the Land. B.Pick the vegetables for free.

C.Ask a friend to help you. D.Rent the land to others.

2.We can learn from the 4th paragraph that________.

A.We must know how to use fertilizers. B.We must plant vegetables with our own hands.

C.Chinese are worried about food safety. D.Picking vegetables can make us safe.

3.The underlined word “untreated” probably means ________ in Chinese.

A.未种植的 B.未治疗的 C.未实现的 D.未处理的

4.Some parents want to teach children________.

A.The importance of food. B.The quality of food.

C.The advantages of farm. D.The value of work.

5.The writer write the second paragraph mainly to tell us that Yan Zhen________.

A.wants to be a foreigner. B.rents a piece of farm.

C.lives in the west of Beijing. D.builds a house of fifteen square meters.

阅读表达

A TV programme has become popular in China recently. It has made people all over China become interested in writing Chinese characters(汉字).

The increasing use of computers and smart phones has left most young people hardly able to write by hand. Many of them are even unable to remember the 10,000 characters used in daily life without electronic(电子的)help.

CCTV started the Chinese Character Dictation Competition to improve people's handwriting skills. Contestants(参与者)on the show were school pupils, but it was found that 70%of adults in the audience were unable to remember how to write the word “chan chu”.

Because computers allow people to type characters simply by entering pinyin,they don't need to remember how to write them.” The keyboard age has had a big influence on the handwriting of Chinese characters, “said Guan Zhengwen,who designed and directed the show.

He added that he hoped to encourage people to keep it alive as an art form.

Hao Mingjian,an editor(编辑)of a magazine,putting his heart into Chinese characters,said,“Leaning Chinese characters goes on throughout your life .If you stop using them for a long time,it is very likely that you will forget them.”

1.Which TV programme is mainly talked about in this passage?(in no more than 5 words)

_____________________________________________________.

2.What makes most young people stop writing Chinese characters by hand?(in no more than 8 words)

_____________________________________________________.

3.Who could take part in the competition?(in no more than 2 words)

_____________________________________________________.

4.Why did the writer mention the word “chan chu” in Paragraph 3?(in no more than 7 words)

_____________________________________________________.

5.What must we to prevent us from forgetting Chinese characters?(in no more than 5 words)

______________________________________________________.

The year is 2025, and it’s 7:45 on a rainy Monday morning, and you are in your car and on your way to work. You turn left, and then you turn right. ______ When the light turns green and there are no other cars in the crossing, you continue on your way. Ten minutes later, you arrive at work and you stop reading the morning paper. Then, you get out of your car and you say, “Thank you!” ______ This possible future may sound unreal, but in fact many car companies are already testing robotic cars, or “driverless cars”, on the roads today.

______ By 2025 companies such as VOLVO, GM, Nissan and WMW plan to sell driverless cars. Driverless cars are not really “driverless” - the “drivers” are the computers that use radar, computer maps and other modern technology. They offer many advantages. ______ For example, in 1968 more than 53,000 people lost their lives in car accidents in the USA. In addition, people will spend less time stuck in traffic jams and there will be no need for people to have a driving license. ______ The technology is not free. US $ 5,000 to US $ 10,000 may be added to the price of a new car. At sometime in your life, you will probably be sitting in a driver-less car on your way to work or on your way to school. The future is almost here. Are you ready for it?

根据材料内容,从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项,使短文意思通顺、内容完整。

A. Your car replies, “You’re welcome!”

B. A few minutes later, you stop at a traffic light.

C. In the 1980s, Germany and the United States tested the first driverless cars.

D. One of the major disadvantages of the new technology , however , is the cost.

E. Perhaps the most important of these is fewer deaths caused by road accidents.

1.____________

2.____________

3.____________

4.____________

5.____________

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