Wally: Excuse me. How can I get to the hospital?

Sally: Well, the hospital is on Tenth Street. It takes you about 20 minutes to walk there. Walk along this street and turn left at the second crossing.

Wally: OK. Then?

Sally: You’ll be on Fifth Road. At the end (尽头) of the road, you can see a park in   front of you. Turn right and go to Lipton Avenue.

Wally: Go to the park, turn right into Lipton Avenue?

Sally: Yes. Then turn right again at the first crossing. You’ll be on Tenth Street. Walk  on and you’ll see the hospital on your left. It’s across from a bank.

Wally: OK, I got it. By the way, can I take a bus there?

Sally: Of course. You can take Bus No. 5. Look, the bus stop is over there. It takes you about ten minutes.

Wally: Thank you very much.

  Thousands of years ago, the ancient people of Babylon and Egypt studied the stars in the sky and created the zodiac（黄道十二宫图）. It was first used to count time. Later, many people used the stars to describe a person’s character and to foretell（预言）what would happen in the future.

  A person’s zodiacal sign is connected to his or her birth date. Some believe this sign can tell us about a person’s character. For example, some think that a person born under the sign of Cancer (between June 22 and July 23) is kind and home-loving.

  In many countries in Asia, people believe the Chinese horoscope can describe character and foretell future events. In the Chinese horoscope, there are future events. In the Chinese horoscope, there are twelve animals. A person’s animal sign is connected to his or her birth year. Each animal has a different type of character. People born in the Year of the Rat are friendly, but careful. Those born in the Year of the Monkey are smart and good at making money.

  In Asia, a person’s blood type is also used to describe character. People with the blood type A are calm and serious, but they may be selfish. People with the blood B are independent but may be lazy. People with the blood type AB are honest, and people with the blood type O are talkative.（健谈的）

  Not everyone believes that star signs or blood types can be describe character. But reading the horoscope can still be a lot of fun.

 Do you remember your dreams? Do people have the same dreams? Why do we dream? There are many questions about dreams. We dream during the REM (rapid eye movement) stage of sleep. We have about five periods of REM sleep during the night. The first REM cycle lasts about 10 minutes. As the night goes on, the REM cycle gets longer. By early morning, the REM cycle can last up to 90 minutes. Usually, it is in this last REM cycle that we remember our dreams.

  Dreams change as people age. People may have several dreams each night. Some are like films and usually in color. They come to us over and over again. That may be because the dreamer is worrying about something and trying to find the answer. Sometimes we wake up with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can’t remember the dreams clearly.

It is reported that too much dreaming is bad for our health. The more we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is hard at work. That is why we may have a long sleep and still feel tired when we wake up.

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When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence“How do you do? ” as an example, if you look up each word in the dictionary, once at a time, what is your translation（翻译）? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.

Languages don’t just have different sounds, they are different in many ways. It’s important to master（掌握）the rules for word order in the study of English, too. If the speaker puts words in a wrong order, the listener can’t understand the speaker’s sentence easily. Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence changes, the meaning of the sentence also changes. But sometimes when the order changes, the meaning of the sentence doesn’t change. Let’s see the difference between the two pairs of sentences.

“She only likes apples. ” “Only she likes apples. ”

“I have seen the film already. ” “I have already seen the film. ”

When you are learning English, you must do your best to get the spirit of the language and use it as the English speaker does.

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If it is 12:30 p.m. in eastern Canada, the time is _______ in western Canada.

While Canadian children are waking up, children in Scotland are ________.

There are many factors(因素) that can affect climate change. Among these, the population movement is a new one. A research shows us that the movement of many people out of Beijing for the Chinese New Year(CNY) causes the temperature to drop slightly(轻微地). Before holidays, people around Beijing all gather(聚集) here. Besides, buildings and roads, and the heat made by human activities lead to higher urban(城市的) temperatures. So Beijing is deeply affected by “urban heat island(UHI城市热岛效应)”

When the winter holiday comes, most workers leave big cities for their own hometowns. As a result, the UHI effects are not that serious in large cities, but increase in tourists’ destinations(目的地) The research shows that the average(平均的) world temperature rose by 0.85 degrees Celsius between 1880 and 2012. Although this increase is not very obvious, many things have changed with the increase. The sea level has risen. Snow and ice cover has reduced(减少) and had climate(气候) events have become more common. “The CNY holiday offers a unique opportunity(机会) to study the effect.” Zhang Jingyong, lead scientist of the research, said, “Our research strengthens the role of population movements in urban climate, and may help deal with urban environmental problems.”

Lightening the colors of roofs, changing to white roofs, or planting more trees can help to lessen(减轻) UHI effects. Light-colored roofs reflect more solar radiation(日光照射) and reduce energy demand in warm seasons. Trees and grass have cooling effects by biological interaction(互相作用). Low-carbon production and lifestyle play an important role in reducing heat emissions(热量排放) from city buildings, factories, and cars, and thus become another effective means to lessen the heating effects.

Robots have been designed (设计) to do many things, such as playing music, saving people, working in a hospital, serving people in the restaurant and so on.

There are some robots working in the Jinjiang Robot Hotel in Tongren, Guizhou. One hundred customers (顾客) can have a big dinner in it together. Two of the robots serve drinks, while the other four serve the food. But not all the work in the restaurant is done by them. There are also people working there, especially in the kitchen. The cooks are humans, because the robots don’t have the skills (技术) to cook.

Our skin is like a bag that we live in. Inside the bag our bodies are mostly water. Our water is like the water in the sea. It is very salty. Also, like the ocean, we can lose our water. The wind and the sun could take it away. Our bag of skin keeps our body’s ocean from drying up.

Our skin keeps out sunshine. Too much sunshine can hurt us. Skin also keeps out dirt. That’s important because some kinds of dirt can make us sick. Our skin feels things. It feels warm things, cold things, things it touches, and things that hurt it. A campfire feels warm. A snowball thrown in our face feels cold and hurts us. A hug is the touch of another person’s skin on our own.

Our hair is a special kind of covering. It helps us keep things out of our eyes, ears and nose. Hair is also good for keeping us warm. When we get goose bumps (鸡皮疙瘩), our body hairs stand up. Then the hairs hold air close to our skin like a thick blanket (毯子). Hair keeps animals warm, too. Some animals have more hair than others, so they have a better blanket for cold weather.

Our nails (指甲) are another special skin which are very hard. They help keep our fingers from getting hurt. Our nails aren’t as strong as the nails that animals have. But they are good for picking up coins.

（2016年重庆）Many homes have cameras to protect them from danger. The cameras can tell the owners if someone has entered. But the cameras do not know whether the person is a family member, a friend, a postman or a criminal (罪犯).

But a new camera made by a French company can recognize (辨别出) faces. It can tell parents at work that their children have returned from school, or that the mail has been sent to their home. It can also tell them if a stranger has entered their home. When family members enter a home, the smart camera "recognizes" them and sends information to the owner's phone. The owner can choose to see the video then or later. But if an unknown person enters a home, the camera will send a warning sound on the owner's phone.

This is what happened recently to a smart home camera owner named Damien. He lives in Paris.

"On a Friday I was at work, having a big monthly meeting when my phone moved. At first I told myself ‘Oh, it must be a wrong warning,’ but my phone was telling me there was a face that the camera did not recognize. Something was happening in my house!"

"I saw a person I did not know with his shoes on, which is not allowed in my apartment (公寓). I watched it on the video. I felt quite surprised. I hurried back home as fast as possible and called the police on the way. Thanks to the smart camera, the criminal was caught soon," said Damien.

The new smart camera is different from the ones in many homes because it can _________.

In Damien's apartment, people can't _______.

The underlined word "warning" in Para. 2 means __________.

Which of the following sentences is NOT true according to the passage?

The best title of the passage may be "_______".