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Brooke wanted a dollhouse and some sugar cookies. So he asked Alexa to get them. It was a voice-activated home assistant powered by AI. A few days later, a $170 dollhouse and four pounds of cookies showed up.
Alexa isn't the only AI willing to serve you. Apple HomePod has Siri, 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. In addition, people with disabilities who are unable to use a keyboard or mouse can shop without any help.
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. Some have worried about what happens to these recordings. The CIA found a way to hack smart TVs to turn them into spies that listen. 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 hacked when people try voice shopping?
A.Paragraph 1. B.Paragraph 2. C.Paragraph 3. D.Paragraph 4.
5.What's the best title for the text?
A.The Advantages and Disadvantages of Voice Shopping
B.The Voice-activated Home Assistant—Alexa
C.The Convenience of AI
D.Brooke's Wishes
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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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An elephant wants to make some friends. He see a monkey in a tree and asks, “Can you be my friend?”
“You are too big. You can’t swing(摇荡) in the tree like me.”
Then the elephant meets a panda. “Please be my friend.” he says.
“How can I ? Sorry, sir. You are too big.”
The elephant is very sad(伤心).Then he goes home.
The next day, he sees all the animals running. He doesn’t know why. A rabbit tells him that there’s a tiger near here. He is coming to eat the animals.
The elephant goes to the tiger. “Mr. Tiger, don’t eat the animals, please”
“Go away(走开)！” says the tiger.
The elephant is not happy and kicks(踢)the tiger. Then the tiger goes away.
At last, all the animals want to make friends with the elephant.
1.What does the elephant want to do?
A. To look for some food.
B. To make some friends.
C. To see the tiger.
2.The panda doesn’t want the elephant to be his friend because ________ ?
A. The elephant is too big.
B. The elephant’s nose is long.
C. The elephant eats too much.
3.Why are the animals running?
A. Because they are playing games.
B. Because they don’t want to see the elephant.
C. Because a tiger is coming to eat them.
4.There are ________ kinds of animals in this story.
A. four. B. five. C. six.
5.Which of following is right?
A. When you are big, you can’t find friends.
B. The elephant doesn’t have friends at last(最后).
C. After the elephant helps others, he has many friends.
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Mrs. Smith asks some friends to her house for dinner. She wants to cook a good dinner of meat and soup.
She has five daughters. They are busy all day. Mrs. Smith is cleaning the house. Her hands are dirty. Suddenly(突然) she thinks of the soup. She forgets to put any salt(盐)into it.So she calls one of her daughters to help her.
“Mary, ”she says, “please put some salt into the soup. My hands are very dirty now.”
“ I can’t, Mom. I’m washing my hair,” Mary says.
“Jane, go and put some salt into the soup.” “Sorry, Mom,” Jane answers. “I’m washing my dress.”
Mrs. Smith asks the other girls, but gets the same answer. So she washes her hands and puts some salt into the soup. Then she begins to clean the house again.
Now Mary thinks that she should help her mother, so she goes quietly into the kitchen and puts some salt into the soup. Then Jane begins to feel sorry, too. So she goes to put some salt into the soup, too. One by one, the other three girls do the same thing.
When the friends come and sit at the table, the soup smells(闻起来) good. But when the friends have a little soup, their faces look strange. They put down the spoons(汤匙) and drink a lot of water. Nobody says a word. They just look at each other. “Why…?”
1.Mrs. Smith can’t put any salt into the soup because .
A. her hands are dirty B. she is talking to her friends
C. she wants to test her daughters D. she knows her daughters can do it
2.The underlined word “strange” means “ ” in Chinese.
A. 平静的 B. 奇怪的 C. 快乐的 D. 激动的
3. put(s) some salt into the soup.
A. Mrs. Smith B. Nobody C. Five daughters D. Six people
4.Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The soup smells good and tastes good.
B. The soup smells bad and tastes good.
C. The soup smells bad but tastes good.
D. The soup smells good but tastes bad.
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An elephant wants to have some friends. He sees a monkey in a tree. “Can you be my friend?” asks the elephant.
“You are too big. You can’t swing (摇荡) in the tree like me.”
Then the elephant meets a rabbit. “Please be my friend,” he says.
“How can I? Sorry, sir. You are strong.”
The elephant is very disappointed. Then he goes home.
The next day, he sees all the animals running. He doesn’t know why. The monkey says a tiger is near here. He will come to eat the animals.
The elephant goes to the tiger. “Please, Mr. tiger. Don’t eat the animals.”
“Go away!” says the tiger.
The elephant is not happy and kicks (踢) the tiger. Then the tiger goes away. At last, all the animals want the elephant to be their friend.
1.The monkey thinks the elephant can’t ________ in the tree like him.
A. sleep B. swing C. swim D. jump
2. Why don’t the monkey and the rabbit want the elephant to be their friend?
A. Because the elephant is big and strong.
B. Because they are strong and big.
C. Because the elephant is scared of them.
D. Because they are scared of the elephant.
3.The underlined word “disappointed” in the passage (文章) means ________.
A. 高兴的 B. 礼貌的 C. 粗鲁的 D. 失望的
4.How many kinds of animals are there in the passage?
A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.
5.Which of the following is True?
A. The elephant has many friends at last.
B. The rabbit wants to be the tiger’s friend.
C. The monkey will come to eat the animals.
D. The tiger kicks the elephant and goes away.
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—________?
—I want to buy some cookies.
A. May I help you B. Can you help me
C. What do you want D. What’s the matter
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Joe wants a computer. He asks his_______for the money and they say he must get it himself. But how does he get it? He _______about this when he walks home. Not many people want _______ children to work for them. Maybe he can take away snow for the neighbors (邻居). But this is not _______ . He has to wait a long time for that. He can’t cut grass for their gardens _______he has no tools (工具) to do the work with.
Then he sees one of his classmates, Dick, delivering (送) _______. I can do that, he thinks. Maybe I can even get the computer right away. I can pay for it a little each week. He runs to catch up with Dick. Joe asks him a lot of questions. He learns that it is possible to get twenty-five dollars each week. He learns that the job (工作) takes_______three hours each night. He asks Dick the phone number of the newspaper manager (经理).
Joe almost flies home. After he tells his mother what he thinks, she _______. "I think it is a _______idea," she says, "I'll call the newspaper …"
"Wait, Mum," Joe said, " I'll call. I'm going to be a businessman now."
Joe's mother smiles ________
1.A. teachers B. parents C. classmates D. friends
2.A. says B. tells C. thinks D. speaks
3.A. ask B. asks C. to ask D. asking
4.A. spring B. summer C. autumn D. winter
5.A. because B. when C. while D. after
6.A. newspapers B. bikes C. computers D. tools
7.A. at B. about C. before D. after
8.A. smiles B. shouts C. cries D. worries
9.A. big B. large C. great D. bad
10.A. sadly B. happily C. politely D. angrily
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Growing up without hands and arms has many challenges. However, Jamarion has always refused to let it stop him even when everyone else made sure that he'd fail. So when 13yearold Jamarion wanted to play basketball, everyone thought it was ____， but he never gave up.
“They would start to pick out teammates and I would be the only one ____. And then they would just tell me ‘Just go home.'” Jamarion said, after trying to join neighborhood kids ____ basketball at a community center.
So ____ the first day of middle school, Jamarion found basketball coach Darian Williams and sincerely told him he wanted to join the team, saying “Mr. Williams, I've ___ been on a team before. Even if I don't play, I just want to be one in the team.” At last, his coach didn't refuse.
Despite Jamarion's limitations(限制), he was determined to ___ everyone was wrong and worked harder than everyone else. “He is usually the first one in the gym ____ usually the last one to leave.” Darian said. Jamarion still sat most of the ___ on the bench, but he finally got his moment last month when he was put in a game with six minutes left and sank two perfect threepointers.
“If I could wave a magic wand(棒) now and give you your ____ back, would you want them？” Jamarion was asked. “I don't need them.” he ____ confidently. He is a teen with willpower. We should learn from him to become a confident person.
1.A.different B.impossible C.special D.important
2.A.left out B.broken out C.found out D.made out
3.A.growing B.thinking C.playing D.coming
4.A.at B.on C.in D.by
5.A.never B.ever C.even D.still
6.A.waste B.guess C.promise D.prove
7.A.and B.so C.but D.or
8.A.season B.time C.chance D.team
9.A.legs B.eyes C.arms D.ears
10.A.asked B.replied C.changed D.worried
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A bus stop at a small bus stop.A man is hungry and he wants to buy some cakes.It’s raining hard,he doesn’t want to go out in the rain.He sees a boy. “Come here boy!”he cries. “Do you know how much the cakes are?”The boy says yes.The man gives the boy four dollars and asks him to buy two cakes. “One is for you and one is for me.”Three minutes later,the boy comes back.He is eating a cake.He gives the man two dollars and says, “Sorry,there is only one cake left”
1.Where is the man?
A. He is near the bus. B. He is at home.
C. He
is in the bus. D. He is in the car.
2.The man doesn't want to go out because_______________.
A. He is tired. B. He doesn't like rain.
C. He is hungry. D. It's raining hard.
3.How many cake
s does the boy get?
A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.
4.How much are they if we buy five cakes?
A. Five dollars. B. Four dollars.
C. Ten dollars. D. Fifteen dollars.
5.What's the result(结果)?
A. The man eats the cake.
B. The boy eats the cake.
C. The boy doesn't eat the cake.
D. The boy and the man both eat the cakes.
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Next Wednesday is New Year's Day. Karen wants to buy some new year presents for husband, John and her children.
| Name | Hobby | Present | Price |
| John | Playing table tennis | A pair of trainers | $40 |
| Mark | Listening to music | Some CDs | $30 |
| David | Reading novels | A book, Big Tom | $10 |
| Anne | Watching films | A film ticket | $15 |
1.Karen has ________ children.
A.two B.three C.four D.five
2.Karen's husband will get ________ from her.
A.a film ticket B.a pair of trainers
C.a book D.some CDs
3.Mark likes ________.
A.playing table tennis B.watching films
C.reading novels D.listening to music
4.________ will get a film ticket on New Year's Day.
A.Karen B.David C.Anne D.John
5.The presents cost(花费) Karen ________.
A.$75 B.$85 C.$95 D.$105
is in the bus. D. He is in the car.
s does the boy get?