【题目】The homestay (寄宿家庭) provides English language students with the good chance to speak English outside the classroom and the experience of being part of an American home.

What to Expect

The host will provide places to live and meals. Rooms will be cleaned every day. And the host is there to offer help and advice on your physical and mental (精神的) health.

Living Area

Host families are mainly in Zones 2, 3 and 4. Most hosts don't live in Zone 1 because much of central New York is trading center. Zones 3 and 4 often offer larger houses in uncrowded areas. But it's very convenient to travel to the center of New York by subway.

Meal Plans

It's important to know that few American families still provide a traditional cooked breakfast. Your breakfast mainly includes fruit juice, bread and coffee. Cheese, fruit and cold meat are not part of the breakfast. Dinners are usually made up of meat or fish with vegetables followed by dessert, fruit and coffee

Friends

If you wish to invite a friend to visit you, you must ask your host for permission (许可) first, because some families feel uncomfortable when there are strangers at their home.

1Which of the following will the host provide?

A. Room cleaning.B. A swimming pool.C. Free transport.D. Traveling guide.

2We can infer (推断) that _______ is in central New York.

A. Zone 1B. Zone 2C. Zone 3D. Zone 4

3The passage is probably written for _______ .

A. hosts who want to receive foreign students

B. travelers planning to visit families in New York

C. English learners who want to live in American homes

D. foreigners hoping to study American culture

【题目】阅读填空 先通读下面的短文,然后根据短文内容,在文章后表格的空格内填入一个最恰当的单词。所填单词必须写在答题卡对应题号的横线上。每个空格只能填一个单词。

Let's go camping

If you've been to camp before, you're not surprised to hear about the advantages of summer camp. Here is a list of the most important reasons to send your kids to camp. As you know, at camp, children can do as many things as follows.

Make true friends

Camp is the place where kids make their very best friends. Free from the social expectations and stress at school, camp encourages kids to relax completely and make friends easily. All the amazing activities and endless fun at camp draw everyone together. Every day, friendships are created.

Learn social skills

Coming to camp means joining a community where everyone must agree to work together and respect each other. When they live in a small room with others, kids solve problems without the help of families, and understand the importance of open communication more deeply. Camp builds teamwork.

Grow more independent (独立)

Camp is the perfect place for kids to practice making decisions for themselves. Managing their daily choices in the safe, caring environment of camp, children welcome this as a chance to grow in new directions. Camp helps kids develop who they are.

Experience success and become more confident

Camp helps children build self-confidence. With its non-competitive activities and different chances to succeed, camp life really opens a new world for young people. There's achievement every day. Camp teaches kids that they can.

Spend their day being physically (体力的) active

As children spend so much time these days inside and mostly sitting down, camp provides a wonderful chance to move. Running, swimming, jumping, climbing! Young bodies get fully exercised. Camp is action!

Advantages of camp

Details

Make true friends

Kids are 1 to develop friendship with others through many amazing activities.

Learn social skills

Camping is a community. Kids will know it's important to 2more openly with others.

Grow more independent

Kids make 3 for themselves and they will find it is a new direction to develop.

Experience success and

become more confident

Non-competitive activities help kids 4 in themselves and they achieve success every day.

5 in physical activities

Kids will do more exercise to get stronger.

【题目】Think of the empty cities in zombie (僵尸) movies. The streets, the shops and the schools are still there just like they would be on a normal day, except there are no people to be seen. It is the emptiness that makes you scared.

Now a real-life “ghost city” is being built in the US. But luckily, it has nothing to do with zombies –it is going to be a place to test the technology of the future.

Called CITE–the Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation (创新测评)–the city is the idea of technology company Pegasus Global Holdings. Covering an area of 15 square miles, this small, empty city sits in the middle of the New Mexico desert (沙漠), since we can't afford to test the latest technologies in the cities that we live in.

“It will be a true laboratory without safety problems that come with people living there. Here you can break things and run into things, and get used to how they work, before taking them out into the market,” Pegasus managing director Robert Brumley told technology magazine Wired.

In fact, without worrying about hurting people, anybody with a new idea can ask to test it in this city.

Just think about the possibilities – A. driverless cars can move freely on the streets, B. homes with robots can be designed, C. shared bikes can be seen everywhere and D. energy sources like nuclear (核的) power can also be put to the test.

As good as the idea may seem, however, there are still doubts about CITE. “One of the most difficult things to do when developing these new technologies is to have them safely move around people, who can suddenly jump out in front of something,” Reese Jones, a beginner of Singularity University, US, Fortune magazine.

Jones is worried that, even if a technology does perfectly well in CITE, introducing it to a real city will still be a whole different story because there will be people living in the city.

But no matter what, perhaps we should wait until CITE is finished in 2019. Maybe it will turn out to work just fine.

1Why do people need an empty place to build CITE?

A. Because the test will do well with the help of CITE.

B. Because the test will cause danger in our daily lives.

C. Because they can experience the new future technology.

D. Because they can help people get used to the technology.

2What can we learn from the article?

A. Anyone can ask to try out their new designs in CITE.

B. Things in CITE can easily be broken down and built again.

C. Testing all new technologies in a real city will cause problems.

D. People can suddenly jump out in front of some new technologies.

3In the fifth paragraph, there’re four examples marked A, B, C and D. Please choose the one which shouldn’t be there.

4What is the main purpose of this article?

A. To offer a way to develop future technologies.

B. To explain CITE and the problems to deal with.

C. To show that CITE has got a bright future ahead.

D. To explain why CITE is very helpful to technologies.

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