2．　　AI (人工智能) makes our lives easier and better. Let's see the amazing AI.
　　Cool driverless bus

　　A bus door opens and you get on. Wait! Where is the driver? Here is a new kind of driverless bus called Apolong. It has 14 seats and doesn't need a driver. The bus follows traffic rules. It stops as soon as it sees a stop light.
　　Your close friend

　　Hi, everyone. I'm Xiaobing, a chatbot (聊天机器人). I speak like a 17-year-old girl. If you feel lonely, you can talk with me. I'm talented at singing, writing poems and telling stories. I want to be your friend!
　　World's first AI anchor (主播)

　　Hey, look! The famous Chinese anchor Qiu Hao is reporting the news for us. But, is "he" really Qiu Hao? The answer is "no". This is the world's first AI anchor. It looks and speaks just like a real person. It can work 24 hours and doesn't make any mistakes. You might see it on TV soon.
　　Popular AI artist

　　This beautiful painting was at an auction (拍卖) in 2020. The painting is worth about 3,000,000 yuan! But it is not a work by a famous painter, such as Vincent van Gogh. It was painted by an AI artist. Three Frenchmen created the AI artist. It studied over 15,000 paintings. In this way, it learned to paint.

3．　　China has accepted western fashion and technology as it has developed these years, but a lot of young people are turning to the past for their clothes choices and putting on traditional "hanfu".
　　As the government encourages the renaissance (复兴) of traditional culture, hanfu is getting more and more popular with the teenagers. Every year, we can enjoy different hanfu shows around the cities. These shows bring us back to Han dynasty. We learn more about the history, culture and beauty from them.
　　Hanfu hasn't been in the same style since Han dynasty. However, this kind of clothes has something in common. They all have large soft robes (袍子), with sleeves that hang down to the knees, so the hands can't be seen.
　　In modern China, the hanfu lovers are from history fans, cartoon fans to clothes fans.
　　"Clothes are the basic part of culture, so both the traditional clothes and modern clothes play the same role in culture," said Zhang Jun, a famous reporter. "If the people and the country do not even understand our traditional clothes or don't wear them, how can we talk about other important parts of our culture?"

4．　　You have lots of things you'd like to do. But sometimes it's hard to get to the finishing line — just like your goal. How can you break your bad habits and develop good ones? (1)       Here are a few opinions we often get from kids, followed by ideas that might help.
　　●I can't get away from screens.
　　(2)       If you usually spend time lying on the sofa and watching TV programs or a video when you're bored, go somewhere else instead. Take a book to your room or your violin to the backyard. Or ask if you can help cook in the kitchen.
　　●(3)      
　　Start with "showing up." Then take one small step or do one tiny task, followed by another and another. For example, how do I practice the piano? First sit at it. Then play one note at a time.
　　Starting with a super-simple step often helps. Why? It's easy, quick, and gets you in action. Then keep taking steps.
　　●I have no time.
　　(4)       Do those choices show what's important to you? Can you spare 10 minutes a day to work on a goal? Let's suppose you want to be a singer. Is it more important to practice singing than play video games? Talk with a parent about why your goal counts. Discuss whether you can let go of something less important to free up time to achieve it.
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A. Take a look at the choices you make about how you spend time.
B. I can't start such a huge goal.
C. And how can you try to reach your goals?
D. To change a habit, try changing where you spend your time.
E. How do you spend your spare time?

5．From Hobby to Job
　　Yesterday at the Minnesota Fashion Week, the 15-year-old designer (设计者) Rachel amazed the fashion world when she showed her clothes for the first time. (1)       agreed that they looked fantastic.
　　Rachel taught herself to make clothes when she was just 7. "I didn't like my own clothes and wanted to (2)      , so I usually added things — like pockets or ties. My mom used to get a bit (3)       about all the scissors and pins lying around," laughed Rachel. Then one year, she decided to have a summer (4)       at a fashion and design school, where she learned many skills from her teacher Joan. When Rachel was 12, Joan invited a few teenagers to (5)       her at the famous Toronto Fashion Week. "I loved it," said Rachel. "It was just (6)       and I knew that I wanted to be there."
　　At the Minnesota Fashion Week , Rachel looked (7)       beautiful in her smart jacket with a decoration (装饰) of a small blue butterfly on it. People at the event were (8)       her skill and designs. "I did all my work on the clothes after dinner, (9)       I always had a busy timetable at school and much homework as well. But it was worth it." Rachel felt proud.
　　Rachel sold all of her works and the (10)       went to a local children's hospital. "I know that the hospital needs it to make the children's stay as comfortable as possible," she said.

6．　　Have you used e-textbooks? Now more than 20 schools in the northwest of China (1)      (use) e-textbooks. Some teachers say that they make learning easier and (2)      (teach) more convenient.
　　Jin Xuan is (3)      (excite) about lessons like Chinese, English, and maths. She (4)      (enjoy) the pictures and animations (动画) in the e-textbooks. The children here (5)      (study) with e-textbooks since last September.
　　With the help of the e-textbooks, some good ideas are shared at times. Some parents encourage their children (6)      (try) the e-textbooks to make learning easier. But others worry about their children's (7)      (healthy).
　　"You can't (8)      (imagine) how the growing popularity of e-textbooks is changing the way the students learn. More and more students (9)      (learn) with e-textbooks in the future. However, there's still a long way (10)      (go)," said the headmaster.

11．　　A small bee flying from flower to flower is very important to the world. Bees pollinate (对……授粉) the crops and help them grow.
　　Now billions of bees all over the world are dying, and no one really knows why. This is a disaster (灾难) for the world. Many things would change without bees.
　　Thousands of bees have flown away from their hives and disappeared.
　　Scientists and beekeepers are trying to solve the mystery (谜) of the disappearing bees.
　　Some scientists have examined dead bees. They have found that the bees are not very healthy at all. Scientists think that one reason for the death of bees is mites. Mites are tiny insects that cling onto bees. The mites can make the bees get sick and die. Mites can destroy a whole beehive. Some scientists think that bees are disappearing because they have been poisoned (中毒). Farmers spray their crops to kill insects that are eating the plants. These sprays can make bees sick. Bees also may not be getting enough food to stay strong. Climate change might mean the flowers open before the bees have woken from their winter sleep. Then the bees don't get that nectar (花蜜) and pollen that they need.
　　It's very hard for scientists to find out why bees are dying all over the world. Most bees die away from their hives. So scientists don't have a dead body to look at for clues.
　　It is very important for scientists to learn about how healthy bees are.
　　Everything must be done to ________ the bees in trouble.

12．澳大利亚某校 (an Australian school) 的部分师生将要来你校访问。学校英语社团正在招募志愿者承担接待工作：带他们参观校园、向他们介绍潍坊文化 (Weifang culture) 或者带领他们游览潍坊。
假如你是李华，请给英语社团负责人Tony写一封申请信，说明你愿意承担哪一项工作，为什么能胜任这项工作，以及你具体打算做什么。80词左右，开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Tony,
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　　I'm looking forward to your early reply.
Yours,
Li Hua