人教新目标Go For It七年级（上）units5-9（二）&

Brooke wanted a dollhouse and some sugar cookies. So the 6­year­old Brooke asked Alexa to get them. It was a voice­activated home assistant powered by AI. And it made Brooke's wishes come true.

Alexa isn't the only AI willing to serve you. Apple Homepod has Siri, Google Home has its Assistant, and the upcoming Galaxy Home device will have Bixby. People who have these devices use them mainly for listening to music, checking the weather, and setting timers. According to a report from The Information, nowadays voice shopping is rare. But many scientists predict a boom in voice shopping in the near future.

Convenience is the main advantage of voice shopping. You can shout out an order as soon as you think of it, even if you are cooking, cleaning, or driving.

But voice shopping has its disadvantages. Unwanted dollhouses aren't the biggest problem. It's usually very easy to cancel an order or return products. The thing that worries some people is that these assistants are always listening. They have to be able to respond when you want them. So they listen for “Alexa” or “OK Google” or another order. When they hear it, they start recording the conversation. Some have worried about what happens to these recordings. Should companies be allowed to use them to learn about people's shopping habits? And what if someone hacks the device? The CIA found a way to hack smart TVs to turn them into spies that listen all the time. Others could do the same with any smart device.

What do you think? Are you ready to start voice shopping?

1.From the passage, we know that Alexa ________．

A.can look after the baby

B.can cook delicious food

C.is a toy doll sold online

D.is one kind of AI device

2.What does the underlined word “rare” mean in Chinese?

A.罕见的 B.昂贵的 C.有害的 D.不可能的

3.What's the main advantage of voice shopping?

A.Its speed. B.Its price.

C.Its quality. D.Its convenience.

4.Which paragraph tells us that personal information might be recorded when trying voice shopping?

A.Paragraph 1. B.Paragraph 2.

C.Paragraph 3. D.Paragraph 4.

5.What is the best title for the passage?

A.The advantages and disadvantages of voice shopping

B.The voice­activated home assistant—Alexa

C.The convenience of AI

D.Brooke's wishes

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吃火锅交朋友

To many local people in Sichuan, there is no problem that cannot be fixed with a hotpot. I was born in and grow up in Sichuan. Hotpot is an important part of my life. We usually even _____ big events with a hotpot.

However, when I went to the UK, I _____ that it was expensive to have hotpot in town (more than 100 yuan per person, without drinks), while the locals know nothing about hotpot. They don't even know that lotus root is a _____. Maybe the only kind of hotpot they know is Swiss chocolate fondue.

So I came up with an idea. It was to invite some international friends to a hotpot _____ dinner. The dinner helped me to _____ our culture. It also gave me a(n) _____ to make friends.

I first showed my _____ for cooking for my best friend, who is a German girl. I took my rice cooker, the pot I used to make hotpot with me _____ I went to her house in Germany.

My friend_____ her gift—a couple of Chinese bowls. And she told me that this would be the first time she had used ______. She had different kinds of vinegar, but not the Chinese kind. Since we didn't have any, we ______ it with another kind. The taste was ______ better.

Her mom______ a piece of lotus root, and I could still remember her face when she put it into her mouth—she was surprised at it. But it was a(n) ______ hotpot night.

When you go to a foreign country, a good way to make more friends is to introduce your own culture through something ______， like food. This will attract more friends and you will get great pleasure from it.

素材选自：21世纪英文报

1.A.hold B.discover C.celebrate D.experience

2.A.showed B.found C.wondered D.reminded

3.A.fruit B.vegetable C.drink D.cake

4.A.with B.for C.around D.from

5.A.accept B.understand C.learn D.spread

6.A.idea B.reason C.chance D.choice

7.A.opinion B.love C.gift D.value

8.A.before B.since C.when D.until

9.A.gave out B.put out C.handed out D.took out

10.A.them B.her C.it D.him

11.A.preferred B.changed C.completed D.compared

12.A.even B.already C.still D.only

13.A.tries B.tried C.was trying D.is trying

14.A.boring B.awful C.tiring D.wonderful

15.A.strange B.creative C.special D.terrible

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阅读短文，根据语篇要求填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词。

[素材选自Keynote Book 1]

网购的两种支付方式

Do you shop online with websites like Taobao? When you make an order on Taobao, the money you pay doesn't go directly to the seller. Instead, it goes through Alipay，which keeps your money 1. a while. Then Alipay gives the money to the seller.

This is called “third party online payment”. 2. is a transfer station between sellers and buyers to make online shopping safe. Alipay is 3. biggest payment service company in China. It has more than 270 million users.

But WeChat payment is not the same. It doesn't have a transfer station. When paying through WeChat, the buyer's money goes directly to the sellers. That's why so many people 4. excited about receiving and handing out hongbao.

In 5. word, the two forms of payment are trying to make online shopping easily. Which one do you prefer? Show us your answer!

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