1. Lily wanted to write a diary with her pen this morning.But it didn’t work.She will go to a shop to buy a new one after class.

2. Yesterday afternoon, John hurt his eyes while he was playing basketball with his classmates.Now he feels painful and he wants to go to see an eye doctor.

3. Dick bought a new red car a few days ago.Last night he drove it to buy something and parked it in front of Fusheng Supermarket.Unfortunately, it was stolen.He was very unhappy.

4. Jack’s written English is OK.

But he is poor in spoken English.How he wishes he could talk with the foreigners freely in English some day.

5. Anne put her new watch on the desk while she was reading newspapers in the library this morning.She forgot to bring it back when she left the library.

A.Last night we caught some thieves.

They stole(偷)a red car in front of Fusheng Supermarket.If you are the owner of the car, come to Daji Police Station to get it back.

B.This morning a student gave us two watches.He found them in the school library.If you lost them, come to Room 403 to have a check.

C.We have many colorful notebooks and some pens here.Welcome to choose what you like.If you buy many of them, you will pay less money than usual.

D.Yesterday when we walked around the school, we found two students stealing an MP4 and some money in Class One.If you lost them, come to the teachers’ office.

E.Our net bar will provide you with the fastest surfing and the most comfortable seats.Sometimes we also give you some food if you come here too late without meals.

F.This is a good website for you to practice your spoken English.You can download(下载)the exercises from it and practice by yourself at home or at school.

G.There are many famous eye experts(专家)in our hospital.We can deal with different kinds of eye problems.Before you go to our hospital, please call 86539003 and make an appointment(预约).

Have you noticed your life becoming a little easier? Now, when you go to a certain shopping mall, you can enjoy its free Wi-Fi there. When you want to take a taxi, you can book one with your phone. In fact, all these can be seen as the basic parts of a smart city.

The idea of a smart city was brought up by US company IBM in 2010. Generally, a smart city is a city that uses digital technologies such as the Internet to improve city planning, save money and resources, and make our lifeconvenient. How smart can a city be? Here are great examples that we can learn from.

In 2009, Dubuque became the first smart city in the US. The city used smart water meters to take the place of traditional water meters. They can detect(探测〉water waste and leakage(泄漏)and send data to let the house owner know. The same system is used for other city resources like electricity and natural gas. This way, people know how they use their resources and are glad to help reduce waste.

Santander in Spain also gives us a look at the future. If people point a phone toward a nearby bus stop, the phone immediately shows all bus lines that serve the stop as well as their arrival times. The government organized a research team and provided an App(应用程序〉that collects data on almost everything: light, temperature, and the movements of cars and people. Opening the App near a supermarket provides immediate information on special

1.According to the passage, which of the following is RIGHT?

A. Digital technologies are used in smart cities.

B. An English company first raised the idea of a smart city.

C. A smart city is mainly made up of free Wi-Fi and phones.

D. A smart city is still an idea and hasn’t come into being.

2.The underlined word “convenient” is the closest in meaning to _____.

A. useful B. normal C. suitable D. easy

3.Compared to traditional water meters, smart water meters do better in .

A. cleaning water B. supplying water

C. saving water D. producing water

4.The example of Santander shows the use of smart systems in aspects(方面)EXCEPT _____.

A. business B. health care

C. traffic controlling D. public transportation

5.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Digital technologies help improve city planning.

B. Smart cities will make our future life better and smarter.

C. Smart cities are very common in both Dubuque and Santander.

D. Spain and the US take the leading position in building smart cities.

What do people do with their old, out of date but still useful computers? Most people don’t know how to deal with them. Many old computers are put away. Many more are simply thrown away as rubbish.

Finally, some companies are thinking of ways to bring down the number of old computers. Sony has agreed to help recycle old Sony products(产品). Dell, Hewlett Packard and other companies now also take back some old computers of their own brands.

In some countries, laws have been passed, too. Computer companies have to pay for collecting and recycling their used products. And 70% of the computer waste must be recycled. The idea behind the laws is that computer companies themselves should pay for the cost. That will encourage them to make computers which are easier and cheaper to repair and upgrade(升级).

Yet many people are throwing away good computers, while others cannot afford them at all. Hundreds of organizations are working on this problem. They collect and repair old computers. Some also teach others how to repair computers. These repaired computers then go to schools, charities(慈善团体) or people who need them. Giving a used computer to one of these organizations can turn one person’s rubbish into someone else’s useful things and cut down waste, too.

根据短文内容,选择正确答案。

1.What do many people do with old computers?

A. They repair them. B. They sell them.

C. They send them to others. D. They stop using them.

2.How many computer companies are mentioned in the second paragraph?

A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.

3.According to the laws in some countries, computer companies must _____.

A. recycle most of their products

B. collect all their used products

C. repair and upgrade old computers

D. make more cheaper computers

4.What do the organizations do to solve the problem of old computers?

A. Help the computer companies to collect them.

B. Repair and send them to those who need them.

C. Help people to learn to use them.

D. Turn rubbish into useful things.

5.What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Repairing old computers.

B. Encouraging to make cheap computers.

C. Recycling old computers.

D. Helping those who need computers.

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