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A. sounds B. smells C. tastes D. looks

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Many years ago, there was an old man who had four sons. He wanted his sons 【1】 not to judge things too quickly. So he told 【2】 to go and look at a pear tree. It was far away from his home. The first son went in winter, the second in spring, the third in summer, and the 【3】 son in autumn.

When the sons came back, the old man asked them to describe what they had seen.

The first son complained the tree was 【4】 with only dry branches. The second son said the tree 【5】 with buds （芽；苞）and full of hope. The third son said the tree was full of green 【6】. They looked so beautiful, and it was the most wonderful thing he had ever seen. The youngest son said that the tree was bowed down 【7】 heavy fruits. It was full of life and fulfillment(收獲).

The old man explained that all of his sons were right, 【8】 each of them had seen just one season of the tree. He 【9】 them that they couldn’t judge a tree or a person by only one season. “If you give up when it’s winter, you will miss the hope of your spring, the 【10】 of your summer, and the fulfillment of your autumn.” said the old man.

It is true that we shouldn’t let the hard season break the happiness of the other seasons. Never give up during the difficult days and better times are sure to come some day.

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We met a dog when we walked along the road in a rural （鄉(xiāng)村的）area. We thought maybe his family was camping somewhere nearby, so we passed him by. A few 【1】 later, on our return trip, he was still in the same place. When he saw 【2】 , he laid down in the middle of the road, so we were unable to get around him.

We 【3】 the car and looked around for a few minutes, trying to figure out if anyone who was around him. Nobody appeared, so we felt that he was abandoned.

My husband said, “If he doesn’t bite me when I try to pick him up, then we have a new dog.” Then the dog happily 【4】 us with no fight at all. He kept sticking his head between the two front seats and 【5】 us for picking him up.

The dog was extremely under weight. He was 【6】 with new wounds. So we fed him a lot in the next 【7】 weeks and he gained over twenty pounds. We took him to the veterinarian(獸醫(yī)), and he said the dog appeared to be in good health.

He had 【8】 been mistreated（虐待）, but he was still so sweet. He had no manners, but he was a quick learner. He no 【9】 tried to get on the bed, but liked sitting in one of the folding chairs. Since then, he had become a 【10】 of our family.

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Mark, 30, was the manager of a food company in the UK. He gave 【1】 his job the year before to live in a caravan (大篷車) near England’s city of Bath. There, he grew 【2】 own food and recycled junk that other people threw away.

He used fish bones with wild seeds to 【3】 his teeth and old newspapers as toilet paper. He grew vegetables, mushrooms and nuts on a small piece of land and sometimes 【4】 leftovers (剩菜) from nearby restaurants.

Mark said he did these things 【5】 he doesn’t want to live a wasteful life. “There are people going 【6】 on the other side of the world. There are people who die 【7】 medicine, food and clean water,” he said.

“We’re over here in the West spending crazy amounts of money on expensive things,” Mark 【8】 the reporter.

Mark lived for 【9】 year without spending any money, but he didn’t expect other people to copy his example. He just wanted to send the 【10】 to people to “consume (消費) a bit less”. Meanwhile, he plans to continue his happy life.

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There was once a young man who liked puppets (木偶) so much. He became a student of a master puppet-maker. 【1】, the young man was not so clever as his classmates. His teacher and the other 【2】 were always telling him that he had no ability to make puppets, so he would never succeed.

Even so, he enjoyed 【3】 puppets so much that he worked day after day to improve his skills. With his efforts, they would always find something wrong with the puppets that he had made. So they often 【4】 his puppets out of the workshop.

The young man wasn’t going to give up. He made up his mind 【5】 all his time in making just one kind of puppet. Years passed, and with each new attempt(嘗試), his puppet became a little bit better. By now, his puppet was much better than his old classmates could make, but he still kept making 【6】 improvements than before.

By the time he was an old man, his puppet was truly 【7】. After so many years of hard work, he finished work on his puppet, and said, “I can’t find anything wrong with it. This time it is perfect.” And for the 【8】 time in all those years, instead of throwing his puppet away, he put it on the shelf. He felt very 【9】 and happy. What made him succeed was not 【10】 talent but his hard work of so many years. If you want to make a difference in your life, you should keep it in your mind that success lies in never giving up.

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There are more and more electronic products like smart phones in our life. However, doctors have 【1】 that children are finding it hard to hold pencils because of too much use of electronic products.

“Too much use of smart phones is stopping children’s finger muscles(肌肉) from developing. It makes 【2】 unable to hold a pencil correctly,” they said. “Children are given a pencil, but they are not be able to hold it 【3】 they don’t have the basic movement skills.”

Payne said the nature of play had changed. “It’s 【4】 to give a child an iPad than encouraging him to do muscle-building play like building blocks. Because of this, they’re not developing the 【5】 they need to hold a pencil.”

Six-year-old Patrick has been having weekly training classes 【6】 six months. The 【7】 is to help him develop the necessary strength in his fingers to hold a pencil.

His mother regretted that she 【8】 gave Patrick electronic products to play with instead of traditional toys. When he got to school, he couldn’t hold pencils and 【9】 to write because he couldn’t move pencils correctly. “The training classes are 【10】 a lot and I’m really strict with his use of electronic products now,” she said.

Long ago, people did not need money. They lived on wild animals, fruits and other plants. As time passed, people learned to raise animals and crops. Sometimes, families produced more than they needed, so they started to trade with other families. Later, people began to use money as a means of exchange. However, it was not the kind of money we use today. They used shells（貝殼）, rice, salt, large stones, etc.

During the 600s BC, people began using coins as money. They soon found that coins were easier to carry than goods and lasted a long time. Later, countries began to make their own coins.

The Chinese were the first to use paper money, probably as early as the 11th century. The Italian traveler Marco Polo saw the Chinese using money when he visited China in the 1200s. However, European countries did not start using paper money until 1600s.

Today, we have many ways to pay for things. We can pay in cash or pay for things by card. Often, people prefer to pay by a smart-phone. Paying by a smart-phone is easier and safer than carrying around a lot of “real” money.

【1】Why is money very important in our life?

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【2】What did people depend on when they didn’t need money?

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【3】Had people begun using coins as money since the 600s BC?

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【4】When did European countries start using paper money?

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【5】How can people pay for things today?

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Too Good To Go, an app being used in the UK, allows users to order leftover(剩余的)food at a low price from restaurants. The purpose is to help cut down on food waste, as lots of restaurants usually throw away the food that can still be eaten at the end of the day.

Users just need to pick a restaurant and pay through the app. Then they pick up their food at planned times usually around closing time or after peak meal times.

“Food waste is one of the biggest problems we have in this world,” one creator of the app said. “The restaurant industry is wasting about 600,000 tons of food each year.” By the end of August, Too Good To Go had helped save about 600 meals in the UK.

Users also have the choice to give meals to people who are in need by donating one British pound or more through the app. By the end of August, more than 1,100 meals had been donated.

Too Good To Go isn’t the first app to try to deal with food waste. In Spain, the Yo No Desperdicio app allows people to exchange leftover food with each other. In the US, the Food Cowboy app allows food shops to sell “ugly vegetables” that most customers don’t buy to charities and food banks that need them.

【1】Why do plenty of people like having a takeaway?

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【2】What is the purpose of the app Too Good To Go?

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【3】How do users order the takeaways through the app Too Good To Go?

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【4】There are three apps that are used to deal with food waste in the article. Please list TWO of them.

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【5】What do you think of the apps like Too Good To Go?

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The founder of this special coffee shop is Henry Hu. Hu noticed that baristas spent a lot of time moving around cups while making drinks. So he decided to build a fully mechanized（機械的） coffee shop. And this is why Café X was born.

Café X is more like a kiosk(售貨亭) than a traditional Café. Customers can order their drinks either by using an app on the phone or by using the computers in the coffee shop. When the order is placed, Gordon gets to work to make coffee.

When the drink is ready, the customer will receive a text with a code(密碼). Upon entering it, the robot will hand over the correct order. If the drink is not picked up within eight minutes after the text is sent, it will be replaced by a fresh drink. Henry Hu says Café X is trying its best to provide customers with the greatest coffee in the shortest time possible.

【1】Where is the special Café X shop with a robot barista?

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【2】Why did Henry Hu open the special coffee shop Café X?

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【3】How can a customer order a cup of coffee if he has no phone?

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【4】When will the customer be given a text with a code?

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【5】What does Café X try to provide for the customers?

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Oymyakon sits just a few hundred miles from the Arctic Circle(北極圈). The average(平均) temperature remains below 50°C in winter and the lowest temperature there was 67.7°C. This is the lowest recorded temperature in the Northern Hemisphere(北半球). Oymyakon is white in winter, since everything is frozen and covered with thick snow. But it’s also dark—the length of daytime is only three hours.

Because of the weather, people’s life there is inconvenient(不方便的), yet simple and traditional. Most homes still burn coal and wood for heat. When people go outside, they have to wear fur coats to stay warm. They can’t wear glasses, or the glasses will freeze to their face. There are few modern conveniences for them to enjoy. People don’t use mobile phones, because the batteries(電池) cannot work in such low temperatures. Cars can only be placed in heated garages. The ones left outside must keep running, or they won’t restart.

【1】Which country does the village Oymyakon lie in?

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【2】How far is it from Oymyakon to the Arctic Circle?

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【3】Which season has the shortest daytime in the village Oymyakon?

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【4】What do the villagers wear when they go outdoors?

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【5】Why can’t the mobile phones be used in Oymyakon?

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