Need an app for that? Anvitha Vijay, 9, can build one. With the help of YouTube videos, the girl from Melbourne, Australia, learned code(代码) at age 7. Soon, she was trying her hand at making apps.
“When I first got my iPad, I was excited by all the apps on it. It wasn't long before I wanted to make my apps,”said Anvitha.
She built her first two apps with her younger sister in mind. Smartkins Animals helps children know more than 100 animals and their sounds. Smartkins Rainbow Colors teaches kids colors.
Anvitha went to a conference（会议） hosted in San Francisco, California.
All the classes in the conference made her get an idea for a third app. This one, called GoalsHi, encourages（鼓励） kids to have good habits. Users can get gifts, such as eating their vegetables and playing the piano.
Anvitha likes to make new apps. They can help kids learn while they are having fun. But what is even more important to her is that let the world see the talents of kids.
1.Anvitha Vijay began to learn code by ________.
A.asking her parents for help
B.watching YouTube videos
C.playing with her mother's iPad
2.What made Anvitha Vijay want to make her own apps?
A.Playing games.
B.Using her phone.
C.The apps on her iPad.
3.What do Anvitha's first two apps help kids with?
A.How to keep animals as pets.
B.Colors , animals and their sounds .
C.How to draw animals with the right colors.
4.From the fifth paragraph we can infer（推断）that ________.
A.Anvitha learned a lot at the conference in San Francisco
B.Making apps was easy for Anvitha
C.Anvitha played the piano at the conference in San Francisco
5.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.At first Anvitha didn't like her iPad.
B.Anvitha got many gifts at the conference .
C.Playing with iPad helps kids learn while having fun .
In recent（近来的）years, many students from China come to the UK to study in schools there. Over 4,000 new students came in 2018. Most of them decide to study in a UK university(大学) after studying in middle schools in the UK. It can help them make their written and spoken English better, find out more about a different culture and to know very different ways of teaching.
Studying in the UK will be a special and interesting thing. Unlike China, the UK isn’t a large country. Its furthest mainland points are only 1,350 km away. We can visit many great cities in a short time, such as London, Cambridge and Oxford.
Life for a student studying in the UK can be very exciting. Children start school at the age of 4. At 11, children go to middle schools where they may study 10 subjects. They are math, science, English, history and one or more languages （语言） such as French and so on. Classes in the UK schools often have between 20 or 30 students. Most schools do not make students sit in the same seat for every lesson.
Children do not just learn from books or a screen, but enjoy various sports as part of their school day, such as soccer, basketball, horse-riding and so on. They can join clubs after school.
So do you want to study in the UK one day?
1.According to the first paragraph, which is not the reason why Chinese students study in the UK?
A.To improve science skills.
B.To study in a university in the UK.
C.To learn more about another culture.
2.The second paragraph mainly（主要地） tells us that ________.
A.the UK is too small to have fun
B.it’s easy to enjoy the beauty of the UK
C.you always feel bored in the UK
3.Students in the UK have to learn at least ________ language lessons.
A.two B.three C.ten
4.The underlined word “various” means ________.
A.不同的 B.相似的 C.无趣的
5.From the passage, we can learn that ________.
A.studying in the UK may be tiring and boring
B.primary school students in the UK have more than ten subjects
C.students in the UK don’t sit in the same seat or classroom all the time
| Name: One Piece: Stampede Kind: Cartoon Time & Place: 20:00-21:41 on Friday &Saturday, at Lumiere Theater Tickets & Price: 36 yuan each, half the price for kids under 10. The Japanese film is about pirates（海盗）from around the world going to the Pirates Expo to look for Gold. Roger's lost treasure（宝藏）. |
| Name: Better Days Kind: Youth/Love Time&Place: 19:00-21:15 on Saturday &Sunday, at Center Theater Tickets&Price:42 yuan each, half the price for students with ID card The film tells the story of two high school students whose lives were changed by an accident and how they fight against school bullying and grow up to better persons in the end. |
| Name: Terminator: Dark Fate Kind: Action/ Science Time&Place: 19:30-21:38 on weekdays, at CGV Theater Tickets&Price:40 yuan each, 40% off book online The film tells that Sarah Connor and a hybrid cyborg human must protect a young girl from a newly modified liquid Terminator from the future. |
1.If you are interested in science, you can choose to watch _.
A.One Piece: Stampede B.Better Days C.Terminator: Dark Fate
2.Mr. and Mrs. Read want to watch Better Days with their 14-year-old daughter. How much are the tickets?
A.84 yuan. B.105 yuan. C.126 yuan.
3.We can learn from above that _____.
A.One Piece: Stampede is a cartoon made by Japanese.
B.In Better Day, two high school students try to look for the lost treasure.
C.We can watch Terminator: Dark Fate on weekends at CGV Theater.
Shopping Guide in City Mall | |
5F | Restaurant, Tea house, Coffee house ,Cinema |
4F | Children’s clothing, Children’s pleasure ground |
3F | Men’s clothing, Sports clothing |
2F | Women’s clothing |
1F | Vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, drinks, cooked food |
Business hours: Weekdays: 9:00 a.m.—10:00 p.m. Weekends: 9:30 a.m.—10:30 p.m. |
1.You can buy a dress for your mother on _____.
A.the first floor B.the second floor C.the third floor
2.According to the guide, we can go shopping at _____ on Sunday.
A.9:00 a.m. B.10:00 p.m. C.11:00 p.m.
One day, a boy had a fight with one of his classmates. Then he went to his father and told him what had happened. “He is really bad,” the boy said, “and I _________ him.”
His father said, “Let me tell you a story. When I was a boy, I sometimes hated（讨厌） _________ for the things they did.”
As the boy listened _________, his father went on, “There are always _________ tigers inside my heart. One is good and kind. He __________ well with everything around him. But the other is bad and _________. Even the smallest thing will make him angry. He _________ with everyone all the time, and for no reason. He can’t think carefully because he always hates others. It is __________ to live with these two tigers inside my heart. They both try to control (控制) me. ”
The boy looked into his father’s eyes and asked, “__________ tiger always controls you, Dad?”
The man said slowly and seriously, “The one that I feed. I always feed the good and kind one, so I never hate others and __________ get angry now. ”
1.A.like B.hate C.know
2.A.the other B.another C.others
3.A.carefully B.quietly C.slowly
4.A.two B.three C.four
5.A.gets up B.gets off C.gets on
6.A.serious B.unfriendly C.nice
7.A.plays B.laughs C.fights
8.A.necessary B.difficult C.important
9.A.Which B.What C.Why
10.A.always B.sometimes C.hardly
I play basketball every day because I want to play as ________ as Yao Ming.
A.good B.well C.better
