An App for Parking

Is it very difficult for you to park your car when you go out? Don’t worry. Parking Insider can help you.

Parking Insider is a smart app with a mobile wallet. You can use it to help you park your car quickly and pay for the parking in a really short time. The app also invites users to earn free minutes of parking by taking pictures of free parking spaces. The app uses the photos to make a heat map. The map lets other users find open parking spaces more easily. If you want to use the app, you should be one of the clients(客户) of Deutsche Bank. As a client of Deutsche Bank, you can have an account to pay for your parking through the app. You’d also need to drive Mercedes-Benz, a smart car or other Daimler products. To give better service, the makers of the app are trying hard to be partners with other banks and car companies.

The app is very popular now, but it has to face plenty of competitions. Cities are making their own parking and paying apps. There are a number of companies already focusing on the issue, too, including Park Now and PayByPhone.

1.What is the Parking Insider?

A. It’s a car company. B. It’s a mobile wallet.

C. It’s a smart app. D. It’s a bank card.

2.What does the Parking Insider use pictures from users to do?

A. To earn free minutes of parking. B. To give users better service.

C. To make a map which helps users’ parking. D. To pay for the parking through the app.

3.What should you have if you want to use Parking Insider?

A. A map with pictures. B. Some pictures of free parking spaces.

C. A new car made in America. D. An account at Deutsche Bank.

4.What does the underlined word “issue” refer to?

A. Face plenty of competitions. B. Cities make parking and paying apps.

C. Try to be partners with banks. D. Help peoples’ parking with an app.

5.Where can you probably read the passage?

A. In a history book. B. On a website of science.

C. In a newspaper for students. D. In a book about singers.

Mr. Clarke works in New York and he brought his family to China last summer. They visited many places of interest and had a good time here. Before they left for New York, the Clarkes climbed the Great Wall. It was the greatest project over two thousand years ago. They took a lot of photos there and then they had a picnic under a big tree. Suddenly it began to rain and they hurried to the car. And when they returned to the hotel, they couldn’t find the bag in which their expensive camera was. They were all sorry for it. They could buy another camera but had no time to go to the Great Wall again. They could not miss the plane!

That evening they didn’t have supper. Mr. Clarke hoped to make them happy, so he said, “Well, let me tell you a story. An old man lived in a sixty-story building. One day he fell down from it when he was cleaning the window. But he didn’t hurt himself.”

“It was a miracle!” called out his children, “Why?”

“Because he lived on the first floor!”

They all began to laugh while two policemen with a bag came in. They said a Chinese boy found it under a big tree and he asked them to find out who lost it.

“It’s really a miracle!” the Clarkes said happily.

1.Where did the Clarkes left their bag?

A. They left their bag in the car.

B. They left their bag in the plane.

C. They left their bag under a big tree.

D. They left their bag on the Great Wall

2.Why didn’t they have anything that evening?

A. Because they were not hungry.

B. Because they had nothing to eat.

C. Because they had no time to have supper.

D. Because they were sorry for losing the camera.

3.What did Mr. Clarke tell a story to his family for?

A. He liked telling stories.

B. His children asked him to do so.

C. He wanted to tell them a miracle.

D. He wanted to make his family happy.

One day in summer, little Jack was playing on the beach with his father. Suddenly, he saw a little tortoise moving slowly on the sand He started to look at it carefully and began to touch it with his hand. To his surprise, the tortoise stopped moving. It pulled in its head and legs , and closed its shell tightly. He touched it again but the tortoise didn’t move at all Jack became angry. He used a stick and tried to force(强迫)it to open.

When his father saw this,he stopped him and said,“No,son,you mustn’t do that! You will kill the tortoise. You won’t get it open with a stick ”Jack was curious and asked,“Why?”

“Just wait and see,” his father replied. Then he picked up the tortoise and put it m a bag.

After they came back home, the father took the tortoise out of the bag. He put it near the fireplace(壁炉).After a few minutes,the tortoise began to move a little. Then the tortoise stretched out(伸出)its head and legs. At last,the tortoise began to crawl across the room. How excited Jack was when he saw this.

“Son,now you see,” said his father,“sometimes,you can’t force someone to do things he doesn’t like. But if you get him warm first,he will do what you want him to do. ”

1.One day Tack and his father were playing _______.

A. on the beach B. in the zoo C. on the hill D. in the garden

2.Tack used a stick to _______the tortoise.

A. save B. feed C. open D. close

3.The father picked up the tortoise and _______.

A. killed it B. put it in a bag

C. cooked it D. threw it into the sea

4.After the tortoise got _______ near the fireplace, it began to move a little.

A. warm B. cool C. thirsty D. hungry

5.The story tells us that______.

A. people will do things we want them to do

B. people won’t do things we want them to do

C. we can force people to do things they don’t like

D. we can’t force people to do things they don’t like

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