Some people love eating food right after it is cooked. I prefer food just taken out from the freezer (冰箱). Fruit, candies, nuts, chocolate, cake with buttercream frosting (糖果), even peas, all of them taste delicious when frozen. In fact, I often eat them that way.

    I was a kid when I picked up the habit. In my family, lots of things were thrown into the freezer--finally, two freezers--to prevent them from going bad. Among them were some of the candies my sisters and I had collected on Halloween.

    If we eat when they are still warm, we'll find ourselves taking the cookies more than we should. It's better if we can put them into the freezer and wait. That way we'll eat less and enjoy them more because they are hard and chewing (咀嚼) becomes a slower, more patient effort. That's the point about frozen buttercream frosting. Pm it in your mouth at room temperature, and it's gone very quickly. But when it's frozen, you can enjoy the taste much longer as it melts (融化) in your mouth.

    The freezer treats a lot of fruit kindly. Take frozen grapes for example, I keep a bowl of grapes in my freezer. They become a little icy, and somehow their sweetness is improved. They are perfect and healthy dessert (点心). This is the same with oranges, apples, bananas...You might think bananas would get super-hard when frozen. Wrong! They become cool, creamy and sweet. If you have wisely covered some or all of the bananas with melted chocolate before putting them into the freezer, they will have a double taste.

    As long as you aren't eating anything that truly has to be hot, go ahead and experiment.

High-speed trains, Alipay (支付宝), shared bikes and online payment are seen as the new Four Great Achievements of China by young foreigners, according to a video survey by the Silk Road Research Institute of Beijing Foreign Studies University. In the video, young people from 20 countries along Belt and Road Routes (一带一路) were asked to name great inventions that had influenced their lives in China. The following is what they said from 4 young people of them.

The third season of the documentary A Bite of China began from Monday evening on 19 February. Unlike the first two seasons, the third season introduces not only Chinese food and dishes, but also the cookware used in Chinese cooking and the culture behind it. All of a sudden, a zhangqiu iron wok becomes a star following the first episode(集) of the documentary.

The first episode of A Bite of China Ⅲ focuses on cookwares. And introduces handmade

iron woks from Zhangqiu in eastern China' s Shandong Province. According to the show, it takes 12 steps to make each wok Blacksmiths(铁匠) hit the metal 36.000 times to produce a smooth surface that allows to cook stir-fried eggs without oil.

A Bite of China has not only contributed to the promotion of the Chinese traditional craftsmanship(技术) and culture, but also brought great benefits to businessmen who showed up on the program. According to the data of Tmall. com, the sales of a Zhangqiu wok shop at Tmall has increased six thousand times since the broadcasting of the show. Its customers are mainly from Shandong, Jiangsu, Beijing, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Hubei, Hebei, Sichuan and Henan. Data also show that Zhangqiu woks have been not only sold to Hong Kong. Macao and Taiwan, but also abroad including Southeast Asian countries, America, Russia, Egypt, Ghana, Australia and so on.

A Bite of China Ⅲ has eight episodes in total, each of which lasts 50 minutes, and is planned to broadcast daily at CCTV 1 and CCTV 9 at 8: 00 p.m.

It is well known that the Japanese people’s love of fish is almost as strong as a bee’s interest in honey. As fish populations were decreasing, fishing companies were forced to fish further and further away from the shore. Then they had a big challenge — how to keep the fish fresh for longer. So they decided to keep the fish stored in freezers on the boats. But the public did not like frozen fish. So again the fishing companies had a new bigger challenge. What they decided to do was to have fish tanks on their boats. After catching fishes，they would put them in the tanks and keep them living there until they got back to shore. But in this protected environment, lacking predators（掠食者）, the fish slopped moving around. The Japanese public felt these dull fish did not taste fresh, which had an unpleasant effect upon sales. Once again the fishing companies had an even bigger challenge ...

Stop for a minute! Before we go any further, I would like to ask “What are your challenges? How do you handle an unexpected challenge?” May I think it this way that you should try to attack your challenges? Conquer them with a Swiss Army knife. Take the most proper and simple tool that you can adopt to deal with your situation.

Now back to our story. How did the Japanese finally figure out the fresh fish problem? Sharks! You might think the same. Sharks were caught and put into the tanks with other fishes. Don’t sharks eat fish? Well, they do eat a few fish, but they did also keep more fish active and alert（警觉的）. The fish stay fresh because they are challenged.

Now, try to keep yourself fresh by finding your own shark to offer yourself a challenge in your own business and career.

Have you ever seen a car without a driver? It sounds crazy, but these computer-driven driverless cars will soon be filling roads near you. Companies like Google and Tesla have been designing and testing these cars, and the technology is there.

So how? The cars have sensors（感应器）all around which can find other cars and objects in the road. Road signs are read by cameras, and satellite navigation systems（卫星导航系统）are used so the car knows how to get where you want to go. All you have to do is type in the address! Finally, a central computer system takes in all the information that it receives from the sensors and cameras and works out when to speed up, stop and turn.

Sound like your idea of heaven (天堂)? Sitting back, looking out of the windows and even watching a film or reading a book while ‘driving’ would be possible with this new technology. You wouldn’t have to worry about remembering directions to where you’re going. In addition, computers would also drive more safely than people — they would obey the rules and have quicker action times when in dangerous situations.

However, there are many drawbacks of driverless cars. Computers would have difficulties making ethical (道德) decisions: if a child ran into the road, would the computer choose to hit the child or turn suddenly and potentially kill the car’s passengers? Moreover, I personally find driving fun –I’d miss never driving a car myself. There would also be many other decisions to be made –should children, or drunk people, be allowed in a driverless car by themselves? Or would there need to be a person with a driving license in the car at all times?

I’m not certain I’d want a driverless car – but it’s only a matter of time before they’ll become more affordable and popular on our roads.

 Michael Perham (born on 16^th March, 1992 in Hertfordshire, England) is a boy who, at the age of 17, became the youngest person to sail around the world in the 50 feet racing boat, completing his journey on 7^th August, 2009. He started the world trip on the 15^th of November 2008 from Portsmouth, England.

    Just six days after Michael Perham set sail from Portsmouth, he started having serious problems with the boat, which he was unable to fix himself on the sea. He had to stop in Portugal. Just one day later, he set sail once again, with the hope of breaking David Dick’s world record for the youngest person to sail around the world.

    Michael met many challenges(挑战) along the way, including rough seas and knock-downs in the Southern Ocean, terrible loneliness and fighting storms, but the largest difficulty Michael faced was the boat itself. It caused one problem after another. Funnily he celebrated his birthday in March last year among the dolphins in Indian Ocean.

    Michael Perham has entered the record books after becoming the youngest person to sail around the world. The teenager already holds the record for being the youngest people to sail across the Atlantic, aged just 14.

    Michael Perham plans to create the Sail Michael Fund to encourage young people to take to the water. He is also aiming to take part in the 2012 Olympics.

a. Michael Perham started the world trip from Portsmouth.

b. Michael Perham became the youngest person to sail across the Atlantic.

c. Michael Perham celebrated his birthday in March last year among the dolphins in Indian Ocean.

d. Michael Perham became the youngest person to sail around the world.

(D)

Taking away a cityˈs rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up of things we canˈt eat or use. If we kept these things we would soon have a mountain of rubbish.

In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside of city to a dump. Often the city dump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage system. The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs and other places.

To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish---filled land. Finally, a house or a school may be built there, and then youˈd never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump.

In other cities the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything but the metal. Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles where they slowly change into something called hurnus, which looks like black earth. It is rich with the kinds of things that feed plants and help them grow.

 Robert is thirteen years old now. but he still remembers one day ten years ago, when he tried to get a bottle of milk from the fridge. The bottle fell to the floor and the milk spilled all over the floor.

 When his mother came into the kitchen, she didn’t shout at him. “Oh, Robert, it is amess. Well, would you like to play in the milk for a few minutes?” she said.

 Rober was very surprised, but he began to play in the milk quickly. After a few minutes, his mother said, “ You know, Robert, when you make a mess like this, you have to clean it yourself.” He then cleaned the milk with his mother. His mother then said. “ It’s hard to take a big bottle with your two small hands. Here is another bottle. Let’s see how to find a better way to take it.” The little boy learned that if he took the bottle near the top with both two hands. He could do it easily. Robert also learned that it wasn’t always bad to make mistakes. It was just the mistake that helped him to learn new things. What a good lesson!

根据短文内容，从题中所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中，选出正确选项，并将所选答案涂到答题卡的相应位置上。

  Can money buy happiness? Various people have different answers. Some people think that money is the source of happiness. With money, one can buy whatever he enjoys. With money, one can do whatever he likes. So, in their mind, money can bring comfort, security and so on. Money, they think, is the source of happiness. But there are still many others think that money is the root of evil. Money drives people to steal, to rob, and to break the law. A lot of people become criminals just because they were in search of money. And in the western countries, there is nothing that can't be bought by money. Many people lose their lives when hunting it. I think that money is essential to life and we cannot do things without money. But even though money is necessary to life, it can't buy happiness. Happiness is not something that can be measured by money. It is a state of mind. One can have plenty of money, with which he can buy whatever he wants, and at the same time he is not happy because he is never satisfied or he is troubled by various kinds of problems.

   Therefore, although money is necessary for a happy life, it can't buy happiness.

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