The summer holiday is coming. Try to take time off from school and have fun. Here are some ideas for planning your summer holiday.

First of all, joining a club is a good idea! You can join a music club, a sports club or an art club. It’s good for your future and the teachers in the club can give you some good advice. You can also make some new friends.

Doing something good for society is also great. There are many volunteer programs for you to choose, such as looking after the old or the young, cleaning the streets, planting trees or keeping the traffic in order. You know that students can also make the world better.

Did you ever live with another family? You can join in a program called“Meeting a new family”. Two families exchange their children for some time so that they can learn how to get on well with others.

Summer camps are still popular today. An English summer camp can be a good one. You can not only make friends but also learn English.

1.What can you do in your summer holiday according to this passage?

①Join a club. ②live with a new family.

③Do some volunteer jobs. ④Go on a summer camp.

A.①②③ B.①②④ C.②③④ D.①②③④

2.You can get some advice from the ________in the club.

A.teachers B.students C.friends D.children

3.You can do all the following things EXCEPT (除了) ________.

A.make streets clean B.look after old people

C.tell people not to cut trees D.help to make the traffic better

4.The program “Meeting a family” means________.

A.helping a new family B.living with another family

C.starting another family D.visiting a new family

5.The passage mainly talks about ________.

A.summer holiday jobs B.programs in summer

C.summer holiday plans D.an English summer camp

It's late evening in the middle of the winter. The snow is deep, but off I go into the wild.

Suddenly, I hear it: the howl(嚎叫)of wolves. Excitedly, I walk faster in the direction of the howling.

I've been working as a volunteer wolf tracker in Yellowstone National Park for over a year It's my job to follow wolves to record information about them. Like wolves, however, I don't work alone. I'm one of a team of people who have been in a project to help reintroduce wolves to the park.

Humans have always feared wolves. From fairy tales to movies, the wolf is always the bad guy —a danger to humans and other animals. In the 1920s, the organizers of the park shared this view about wolves and made the decision to drive them away from the park. As a result, the number of elk (麋鹿)in the park increased. The elk started looking for food near river banks since they didn't have to worry about wolves. This, in turn, stopped trees from growing along the rivers, doing great harm to the environment there.

The return of wolves has already made a big difference. To begin with, the elk soon learned to stay away from the rivers, so new trees have been able to grow there. The trees become home to new wildlife, such as birds, and provide food for more animals.

The park is now becoming more and more popular with those who want to see wolves in their natural environment. It has also helped the local people make more money. Tourists visit the area, stay in the local hotels, and eat in the local restaurants.

Looking at the wild animals and the beautiful sceneries around me, I am amazed at the changes the wolf has made to Yellowstone. And happily, it is playing a good guy in this story.

1.According to the passage, one of a wolf tracker’s jobs is to________.

A.catch wolves in the park B.feed wolves in the wild

C.stop wolves from killing elk D.collect information about wolves

2.Why did the organizers drive the wolves away from the park in the 1920s?

A.The wolves were always howling at night.

B.The elk in the park were in danger of dying out.

C.The wolves had done great harm to the environment.

D.The park was thought to be unsafe with wolves around.

3.Paragraphs 4 and 5 are mainly about the _______ that wolves have brought to Yellowstone.

A.risks B.troubles C.changes D.competitions

4.What does the writer mean by the underlined sentence in the last paragraph?

A.Wolves are important to Yellowstone. B.Yellowstone has been home to wolves.

C.The wolf and the elk live in peace now. D.The number of wolves is growing fast.

The Notre Dame (巴黎圣母院) fire has been put out, but its wooden roof has been largely damaged. The terrible accident caused a sudden sharp pain to people around the world, “What a pity that we cannot see the damaged parts of the wonder anymore.”

But the good news is that there is at least one way of seeing them, namely via a video game called Assassin’s Creed: Unity. In this game, the player can travel to one city after another and enter the buildings exactly like what they are in reality, and see Notre Dame as it was before the fire.

What’s more, with VR technology, which is already quite mature, one can even look around the undamaged Notre Dame as if it is still there. Maybe digital technology could help to better protect architectural cultural heritage (建筑文化遗产).

The idea of digitizing ancient buildings, making digital models of them so their data can be saved, dates back to the 1990s and the necessary technology has continued to advance since then. By scanning the ancient buildings with lasers, building 3D models with hundreds of images, as well as measuring (测量) everything exactly, engineers can make a copy as “same” as the real one.

As computers and smartphones are hugely popular, the digital replica or digital copy has great practical value. First, it allows tourists to feel the cultural relics (文物) without touching them, which helps protect them. The virtual tour of Dunhuang Grottoes in Gansu Province is a good example of this as tourists can view the paintings without standing near them. Furthermore, it can make the digitized cultural relics more famous by spreading awareness about them via the Internet. In 2000, a virtual tour of the Great Wall became very popular at the Hannover World Expo, which increased the number of foreign tourists visiting it in the following years. Above all, it saves all the information of the cultural relics. Even if the original ones are damaged one day, people can still know what they were like and can build a replica if desired.

Time is the biggest problem to architectural heritage. Maybe we will have better technologies in the future, but the digital technology offers a practical way to protect architectural cultural heritage at the moment.

1.What can we see about Notre Dame in the video game?

A.The big fire. B.Its original look.

C.The damaged parts. D.Its wooden shape.

2.What will engineers do to create a digital copy of the ancient buildings?

A.Make digital models. B.Build 3D models of full size.

C.Improve the cultural heritage. D.Measure all the parts exactly.

3.How does the writer prove the digital copy has great practical value?

A.By giving examples. B.By comparison.

C.By reasoning things out. D.By showing methods.

4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A.The Damage of Notre Dame

B.The Value of Digital Replica

C.Digital Technology Helps Protect Cultural Relics

D.VR Technology Helps Repair the Ancient Buildings

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