The first part of a new science-fiction series （系列剧）was shown on NBC last night. Star Trek is about a spacecraft（宇宙飞船）which travels faster than the speed of light. The show is developed from three ideas about the 22nd century. First, we’ll find other life forms great tools which will make amazing things possible.

Let’s think about these predictions. If we find life forms on other planets, will they be intelligent? I hope so. But we human beings might not be friendly – I don’t think we’ll believe in the idea of peace one hundred years from now. But this is science fiction, so we can be optimistic! And Star Trek’s idea of life in the future is ‘communicators’. And we will be ablt to have conversatins with people who are on because you’ll have an electronic notebook. And if you get ill, the doctor won’t have to examine you – a machine will ‘read’ your body. The strangest manchine includes a ‘teleport’ which will take people to a different placein a second!

The ideas are interesting, and in my opinion there’s only one problem with star trek: the acting. The TV company （公司）will have to get better actors. If they do that, the show might be a success. If the acting doesn’t improve, Star Trek won’t last for more than one series. Of course, my prediction may be wrong. I can’t see into the future!

1. What is Star Trek?

A. A TV play. B. A popular song.

C. A spacecraft. D. An alien.

2.What does the underlined word “optimistic” mean?

A. Lucky and happy.

B. Hopeful and confident.

C. Helpful and creative.

D. Thankful and popular.

3.Which would be the best title for the passage?

A. Aliens on Other Planets. B. The Idea of Human Life.

C. A Science Fiction. D. A New Series about Future.

For a long time, humans have used technology (科技) to study the world around us, and Mars is the latest place we’re using machines to explore. Besides the earth, the “red planet” is seen, as the one place in our solar system most likely to have life.

Early last month, the first American robot, Spirit, landed on Mars without any problem. Opportunity, the second robot, landed on the planet more than a week ago. Scientists are very excited about these machines’ safe landing on Mars. It means that now we have an excellent chance to look for water and other signs of life. So far, the robots have found some stones that could show Mars was once a wet and warm planet.

But the trips made by Spirit and Opportunity were dangerous. Mars is often called the “death planet”, because in the past its environment has been unfriendly to the robot explorers. Before Spirit and Opportunity, nearly forty spaceships had been sent to Mars since the 1960s. Two-thirds of them failed. The first spaceship, Korabl, sent in 1962 by Russia was among them. It broke apart (分裂) near the earth.

1.For a long time humans think ________.

A. they can surely find life on Mars

B. there may be life on Mars

C. it’s too late for them to explore Mars now

D. Mars is the only planet that has life on it

2.The two robots ________.

A. have found out that it is warm and wet on Mars

B. were sent to Mars to find some stones

C. were the first two American robots that landed on Mars

D. are the only machines that have landed on Mars so far

3.The third paragraph mainly tell us ________.

A. it’s a very hard and dangerous trip for spaceships to Mars

B. two-thirds of the spaceships sent to Mars have failed

C. Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars successfully

D. Mars is called the “death planet”

In the 1920s and 30s the airlines were just beginning. It was unusual for people to travel by air because it was expensive and dangerous. In those days, there were no flight attendants to look after the passengers. Young men ,or “stewards” helped the passengers onto the airplane and carried the passengers’ luggage(行李)but they did not provide food and drinks. But then in 1930, a woman called Ellen Church invented the “stewardess”.

Ellen Church was born in 1904 on a farm in Iowa. She was a different child. She didn’t want to work on a farm or marry a farmer —she wanted a more adventurous(冒险的)life. Ellen studied to be a nurse at the University of Minnesota and then got a job in a hospital. For the next few years she stayed at the hospital but also took flying lessons and got her pilot’s license.

Ellen was twenty-five years old when she first got in touch with Boeing Air Transport. She loved flying but she understood that airlines were a man’s world. Although women like Emelia Earheart were becoming famous, she realized it was impossible for a woman to have a career as a pilot .But she had another idea. Most people were frightened of flying because. flying was still an unreliable(不可靠的) way to travel. There were often delays(延误),many crashes and the bad weathers made many passengers sick. Ellen thought nurses could take care of passengers during flights and B.A.T. agreed.

The young woman from Iowa and seven other nurses became the first air stewardesses.

At first pilots were unhappy because they did not want stewardesses on airplanes, but passengers loved the stewardesses. In 1940 there were around 1000 of them working for different airlines. The early “stewardesses” had to be under twenty-five-year-old, single and slim. When a woman joined an airline, she had to promise not to get married or have children. It was hard job and not well paid. They worked long hours and earned ＄1 an hour.

In the 1970s, stewardesses were unhappy in their job and airlines had to make some changes. Since the 1970s, “stewardesses” have been called flight attendants. They are well paid and work fewer hours than in the past.

1. The last sentence of the first paragraph suggests that _________.

A. the word “stewardess” was made up by Ellen Church

B. Ellen Church was the first woman who flew a plane

C. Ellen Church was the first woman who worked on a plane

D. Ellen Church was the first woman passenger on a plane

2.From the second paragraph, we learn that ________.

A. Ellen did not behave in the same way as most other girls

B. Ellen’s family was not rich enough to support her education

C. Ellen was fond of working as a nurse in the hospital

D. Ellen has an unhappy childhood that changed her completely

3.The main reason for Boeing Air Transport offering Ellen the job was ________.

A. her flying experience

B. her university education

C. her nursing experience

D. her life attitudes

4.The passage mainly talks about _______.

A. the background of early flying pilots

B. the experience of flying passengers

C. the history of early flight attendants

D. the development of airplanes

根据句意，用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。

1.The ________ (发展) of science has changed our world a lot.

2.Everyone knows that three ________ (四分之三) of the earth is covered with water.

3.The price of the vegetables has ________ (上升) greatly in Wuxi in the last few weeks.

4.Thank you for giving me some useful ________(建议). It’s of great valuable to me.

根据句意和汉语注释，写出单词的正确形式。

1.She invited me to her mother’s ________(forty) birthday party the day before yesterday.

2.She left her book at home this morning because of her _________(care).

3.The silk scarf must be one of those________(act) .Look, she is looking for it.

4.I am sure China will be able to hold the Winter Olympic Games _______(success) in 2022.

动词填空

1.What a heavy rain! We have no choice but ________(wait) at the bus stop.

2.Don’t miss Mayun’s wonderful speech. I’m sure each of us __________(attract)

3.---How soon ______ your friend ________(return)? ----I’m not sure, maybe in half an hour.

4.The Apple Watch young people were looking forward to ______(come) into the market at last.

5.-----Did you see a woman in a red skirt pass by just now？

------Sorry, I didn’t. I ___________(chat) with my online friends.

6.How lucky ! She _________(choose) to play the lead role in the new film directed by Zhang Yimou.

7.This book is so important that it is worth _______(read) again and again.

8.This is the first time that I ___________(play) baseball, What great fun!

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Robot revolution

The day that a robot wakes you up, cleans your room and walks your dog might still be a few decades （十年）off. But increasingly, engineers are saying that robots are going to make the leap from the factory floor to your family room.

Companies like Sony and General Electric are working on designs for small robots. Products like the Roomba, a robot that can clean floors, are flying off the shelves. On the cover of a recent issue of Scientific American magazine, Bill Gates predicted the “Dawn of the Age of Robots”.

What’s behind this new era (时代)? It’s partly a matter of technology. Devices that can recognize and respond to a human voice have been developed. There are now a few different ways for robots to move around. They can walk, crawl or ride on wheels. They are being made smaller and smaller. They are also becoming more and more energy efficient.

A bigger part of the story is on the demand side. From the day Robert Adler invented the television remote control in the 1950s, people around the world have tirelessly searched for ways to get lazier.

Also take into consideration the increasing wealth of rich people, the time appears ripe to introduce robots to ease our daily lives.

To be sure, robots that walk on two legs and talk like people are still too complex for our present engineering abilities. Today’s robot revolution is to make them for everyday use. Robots will do basic housework such as cleaning or gardening, or just help you have more fun on the basketball court.

What makes a robot different from an ordinary cleaning machine is not the presence of computer chips (芯片). Nowadays even your microwave has a computer chip. It is the ability to sense and make changes to the environment in real time.

For example, a floor-cleaning robot should be able to sense your scared cat and move out of the way. Today’s computing ability is, for the first time, able to make machines that could “think”, at least in certain limited ways.

完成句子 按所给的汉语，用英语完成下列句子，并将答案写在答题卷标有题号的横线上。

1.他很勇敢，设法把那辆失控的轿车停了下来。

It was brave of him to ______________________________________________________.

2.从童年时起他就热衷于绘画。

He _________________________________________ since her childhood.

3.当她犹豫不决的时候，她过去常向父母老师求助。

She used to ask her parents and teachers for help when she _________________________.

4.太遗憾了！过去政府很少重视对湿地的保护。

What a pity! Little attention _____________________________the wetlands by the government,

5.我们想知道他要离开家乡多久。

We wondered how long ______________________________________ his hometown.

6.恶劣的气候使得他一开始未能成功地把宇宙飞船降落到月球上。

The terrible weather _____________________________ on the Moon in the beginning.

书面表达

假如你的朋友Mike 明年打算去游览上海迪士尼乐园，请你写一封90词左右的信，介绍一下上海迪士尼，并给出你的建议。要点如下：

1. 上海迪士尼将于今年六月开业。它位于上海浦东新区(Pudong New District)的川沙镇(Chuansha)。

2. 它是由Walt Disney Company 建造的世界上第六个主题公园。

3. 据报道每天会有成千上万的游客去游览。

4. 它和其他迪士尼公园不同，在公园的中央有一个中国式的园林。

5. 你可以欣赏到绿草，鲜花和水的美景。

6. 去太空山（Space Mountain）乘坐室内过山车很刺激。和迪士尼人物合影你会非常愉快。

7. 请你用2-3句话就交通和园内环保方面提些建议。

Dear Mike,

I’m very glad to know you want to visit Shanghai Disneyland this year. I’d like to tell you something about it.

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I hope all these can be helpful to you.

Best Wishes,

As we all know, Neil Armstrong was _____ astronaut. And he was also _____ US citizen.

A. an, an B. a, an C. an, a D. a, an