With China’s large population and increasing urban(城市的)space, the cost of electricity is rising in cities. So the Chinese government is preparing to send the world’s first artificial(人造的)moon to space.

The man-made moon is, in fact, a satellite. It carries a huge space mirror so that it can throw back sunlight to the Earth. The moon will fly about 500 kilometres above Chengdu, a south-western city of China, and work like the Moon at night. Since it runs much closer to the Earth than the Moon, it’s much brighter and there will be no need to use street lights in the city. According to scientists, Chengdu can save around 174 million dollars in electricity if the man-made moon brightens 50 square kilometres of the city.

For now, the artificial moon is still going through testing. Although it has many advantages, quite a lot of people think that creating more artificial light is harmful to the environment, as light pollution is a growing problem in our modern world. Actually, there is no need to worry. Chinese scientists say the mirror on the moon can be controlled, so they can decide its direction, brightness and so on. They can even turn it off when needed. Moreover, when the man-made moon works, people will see only a bright star above. It won’t be a giant moon as imagined.

Several countries, including China, are all looking to use energy from space, and artificial moons have been under discussion for some time. In 1999, Russia tried sending a space mirror into space, but it failed. And later the project was cancelled, according to the New York Times. And now, it seems that space light has come closer.

1.China will send the man-made moon to space to __________.

A.study the Moon B.explore space C.save energy D.protect the Earth

2.What is the second paragraph mainly talking about?

A.How the man-made moon works. B.How the man-made moon was created.

C.How scientists control the man-made moon. D.How the man-made moon throws back sunlight.

3.What can we learn about the man-made moon from the passage?

A.It looks huge from the Earth. B.Three will be sent to space in 2020.

C.It is designed to work at night only. D.China is the first country to send it to space.

4.In which column(专栏)of a newspaper can we probably find the passage?

A.NATURE. B.ENVIRONMENT. C.SOCIETY. D.SCIENCE.

Many of you may want to study abroad after high school. but at the same time more and more students from other countries are coming to study in China. 397, 635 international students came to China in 2015. According to a report from the students. com website (网站), China is now the third most popular country for international students, behind the United States and the United Kingdom.

Last summer, 55 students and teachers from Germany came to China and joined a summer camp They got close to traditional Chinese culture. They visited several schools in Hefei, Anhui. At No32 Middle School in Hefei, they tried to make dumplings, play tai chi, do paper-cuts and learn calligraphy(书法). To help them know more about China, Chinese students paired with them as partners. They led these foreign guests to places of interest.

In recent years, there are more cultural exchanges(交流)between Germany and China. Almost 400 German schools have Chinese classes. Over 8,000 students study in China. The number of international students in China has doubled since 2005. It has been growing by 10% each year. If the growth goes on, China will replace the UK for second place by 2020.

1.It's reported that________is the third most popular country for international students.

A.China B.the United Kingdom

C.Germany D.the United States

2.The German guests tried to do the following things at school EXCEPT________.

A.making dumplings B.doing paper-cuts

C.learning calligraphy D.playing ping-pong

3.What does the underlined phrase paired with mean in Chinese?

A.与……相同 B.与……结对

C.与……比较 D.与…….争

4.How many German schools have Chinese classes in recent years?

A.32. B.55 C.About 400 D.More than 8.000

5.Which of the following is TRUE?

A.more and more foreign students come to study in China now.

B.The German students and teachers came to China to get close to nature.

C.The number of international students in China has doubled since 2015.

D.Recently there are fewer cultural exchanges between China and Germany.

Alice Munro is the first Canadian citizen to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Munro was born into a farming family in Ontario in 1931. The family was very poor.

Munro did a lot of physical work as a young girl. She started writing stories in her teens and studied journalism and English at the University of Western Ontario. She published in many magazines starting in the 1950s. in 1968, she published Dance of the Happy Shades, a collection of short stories. In 1971, she published a collection of stories Lives of Girls and Women, and in many of the stories she talks about her poor relationship with her mother.

Since her first book in 1968, Munro has won many awards, including the 2009 Man Booker International Prize, with the 2013 Nobel Prize as her biggest honor. But Munro doesn’t see herself as a talented writer.

“I have many notebooks that include this terrible clumsy(笨拙的) writing. I often wonder, when I look at these first drafts(草稿), if it was meaningful to do this at all. I’m the opposite of a writer with quick gift.”

“Alice Munro is mostly known as a short story writer and yet she brings as much depth, wisdom and precision(精确) to every story as most novelists bring to a lifetime of novels.” The Man Booker judging committee said.

Munro became world-famous for writing about everyday people. “Here we have a world prize being won by someone who writes about housewives in Vancouver(温哥华), booksellers in Victoria, bean farmers in Huron Country and accountants and teachers and librarians— common Canadian people, and she turns it into magic,” said Doug Gibson, Munro’s publisher.

“After many years, many collections and many wonderful stories, readers may feel they know everything about Alice Munro, especially as so many of her characters live lives similar to her own. In fact, we know very little about her. This is one of the reasons readers are crazy about Munro. This other reason is that she is so good.” said Anne Enright from Guardian.

1.As a Nobel Prize winner, Alice Munro is most famous for ?

A.The mystery of her personal life B.her hard childhood

C.writing short stories D.her quick gift for writing

2.What do we know about Munro’s writing?

A.It is full of depth and wisdom. B.It usually tells lifetime stories.

C.It only cares about the life of women. D.It is about wealthy and famous people.

3.Which of the following shows the correct order of what happened in Munro’s life?

a. She published Lives of Girls and Women

b. She won the Man Booker International Prize.

c. She studied at the University of Western Ontario.

d. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

e. She published Dance of the Happy Shade.

A.c-a-b-d-e B.a-b-c-d-e C.a-c-b-e-d D.c-e-a-b-d

4.What does Paragraph 6 mainly talk about?

A.Magic created by Alice Munro. B.Characters in Munro’s stories.

C.Life of common Canadian people. D.Alice Munro’s special writing style.

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