（1）你们原相约7月份一同爬长城；

（2）由于你自身某种原因（请说明具体原因），你无法按原计划前往；

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Dear Chris,

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Yours,

Li Hua

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With the development of science and technology, intelligent robots will be wide used in the future. At home ,robots will help people do some housework and taking care of the elderly, babies and patients. In addition to these task, robots will even be able to play the chess and do exercise with people. In factories, robots will be used to perform some dangerous jobs avoid accidents.

Robots will change our future life by many ways, what will make it more colorful and comfortable. Therefore, we shouldn’t depend on intelligent robots too much, for they were made to help humans rather than replace us. As helpers of we humans, robots should be used properly.

Billions of poor people around the world 【1】 (depend) on the use of wood for cooking. And as they take more and more firewood from wild areas, they are destroying habitats around the world. Wood collection is one reason why many animals have become endangered. This is 【2】 Dr. Metcalf spends each summer in Africa. He wants to teach women and children in villages how to cook with the sun. He helped create Solar Cookers International. It’s an organization 【3】 introduces solar cookers to developing countries as well as teaching people how to use them.

Tea is an important part of Chinese tradition. As Chinese society developed and progressed, tea production has played a role in driving economic development while drinking tea has remained a practice of daily life.

The practice of tea culture can bring the spirit and wisdom of human beings to a higher level. Tea has an 【1】 (extreme) close relationship to Chinese culture, and its study 【2】 (cover) a wide field and has very rich content. There is no doubt 【3】 it has been beneficial in improving social 【4】 (achieve) and people’s appreciation of art.

【1】Where are the new houses?

A. On the main road. B. Close to a bus station. C. Near the sports center.

【2】What does the woman like most about the new houses?

A. The sports center. B. The space. C. The quietness.

【3】Why does the man sound uninterested?

A. Because he doesn't want to move.

B. Because he is very interested in the book.

C. Because he has to finish his work first.

【4】What can we know about the man in the end?

A. He is interested in the new houses.

B. He will change his mind.

C. He will go to see the new houses.

【1】What does the woman think of mahjong?

A.It is boring.B.It is painful.C.It is attractive.

【2】What used to be the man’s hobby?

A.Collecting stamps.B.Playing card games.C.Taking photographs.

【3】What will the two speakers do next?

A.Read books.B.Play mahjong games.C.Learn old card games.

Just 【1】 (locate) in east of the Forbidden City, the Dongsi hutongs are one of the 【2】(old) residential neighborhoods in Beijing. Over the past years, these hutongs 【3】(undergo) major restoration as the city and its residents both struggle to find a balance between traditional and modern values.

Mother’s Gift

I grew up in a small town when the primary school was a ten-minute walk from my house. When the noon bell rang, I would race breathlessly home. My mother would be standing at the top of the stairs, smiling down at me.

One lunch-time when I was in the third grade will stay with me always. I had been picked to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had rehearsed my lines so hard with me. But no matter how easily I acted at home, as soon as I stepped onstage, every word disappeared from my head. Finally, my teacher took me aside. She explained that she had written a narrator’s (旁白的) part to the play, and asked me to change roles. Her words, kindly expressed, still hurt, especially when I saw my part go to another girl.

I didn’t tell my mother what had happened when I went home for lunch that day. But she sensed my pain. Instead of suggesting we practice my lines, she asked if I wanted to walk in the yard.

It was a lovely spring day and the rose vine (藤蔓) was turning green. Under the huge trees, we could see yellow dandelions (蒲公英) in the grass in bunch, as if a painter had touched our landscape with gold. I watched my mother casually bend down by one dandelion. “I think I’m going to dig up all these weeds,” she said, “pulling it up by its roots. From now on, we’ll have only roses in this garden.”

“But I like dandelions,” I protested. “All flowers are beautiful---even dandelions.”

My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes, every flower gives pleasure in its own way, doesn’t it?” She asked thoughtfully. I nodded, pleased that I had won her over. “And that is true of people too,” she added. “Not everyone can be a princess, but there is no shame in that.” Relieved that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry as I told her what had happened. She listened and smiled.

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“But you will be a good narrator,” she said, _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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After the play, I took home the dandelion. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

【1】Where did the man see the ad?

A.In a newspaper.B.On TV.C.On the radio.

【2】What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A.School teacher and student.

B.House seller and buyer.

C.Newspaper reporter and reader.

To test out whether the glow acted like that, researchers at Boise State University in Idaho put bats and fireflies in front of high-speed cameras. They published their results in Wednesday’s journal Science Advances.

The painstaking experiment required researchers to introduce western bats, which had never seen lightning bugs before, to the insects. Later, they hand-painted firefly bellies black, turning off their night lights but avoiding the holes the insects breathe through. When the bats first saw the unfamiliar lit-up fireflies, they acted excitedly and ate a lot of the bugs, only to get a bad taste in their mouths.“They shake their heads and spit and generally hate their caretakers for giving them such a rude meal,” said study author Jesse Barber, a Boise State biology professor and author of the study. After a few tries, the bats then avoided the glowing fireflies. Despite the popular misconception, bats aren’t blind, a study author noted.

Once the fireflies essentially taught bats that they taste bad, Barber and his colleagues introduced the darkened fireflies. About 40 percent of the painted ones were eaten, while none of the normal fireflies were eaten. Researchers also think the way lightning bugs fly signals what they are. To test that they put fireflies on fishing lines and the bats went after them, despite already knowing that fireflies don’t taste good. The results make sense and are valuable, said Nick Dowdy, a Purdue University researcher in Indiana, who was not involved in the study.

Scientists already knew that fireflies have distinctive flash patterns that tell others who they are and where they are. And some females prefer males that flash at higher rates, according to study co-author Marc Branham of University of Florida. Barber noted that even in their larval (幼虫) stage, the bugs glow and don’t get eaten. So he theorized that when it comes to evolution, fireflies’ glowing trait (特点) may have developed first as protection from predators and later became a mating signal.

So, Barber said, “Bats may have invented fireflies.”

【1】The purpose of the researchers’ study is to see________

A.whether fireflies flash to warn their predators away

B.how fireflies react to high-speed cameras

C.how fireflies flash to attract a mate

D.when fireflies make a bright light

【2】Why did the researchers put fireflies on fishing lines?

A.To hide their flashes.

B.To make them fly faster.

C.To make them more energetic.

D.To change their flying patterns.

【3】What does Barber mean in the last paragraph?

A.Bats have influenced fireflies’ evolution.

B.Bats and fireflies depend on each other.

C.Bats have similar traits to fireflies.

D.Bats tend to avoid larval fireflies.