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广东省深圳实验中学（中学部）2024-2025年九年级上学期英语开学考试卷
Have you ever read the cartoon books The Adventures of Tintin? There are many stories in the books. Each is about an exciting trip of a young reporter named Tintin. When Tintin is on the road, his best friend, a dog named Snowy, is always by his side. Sometimes the two travel around the world. Sometimes they go with their friends.
Tintin, Snowy and their friends aren't real. But thanks to the writer, Georges Prosper Remi, they look quite real.
Born on 22 May 1907, Georges Prosper Remi was a famous cartoon writer and an artist from Belgium.From an early age, he liked to draw pictures very much. Later he created a new name for himself. It was Herge. From then on, he always signed his works not with his real name—Georges Prosper Remi, but with this new name—Herge.
The series first came out in French on 10 January 1929. Herge thanked French illustrator(插图画家) Alain Gree so much. Once Herge travelled to Paris to meet Alain Gree and asked for some advice. Then the two became good friends.
In 1979, Herge got a serious illness. Later his illness became more and more serious. Herge died on 3 March —1983. His death received front— page coverage in many newspapers. Although Herge passed away, his works are still loved by people from all over the world.
By 2050. nearly (将近) 70% of the world's population (人口) will live in cities. Many of them will become large cues with a population of more than 10 million. Moving people around each large city will be difficult. The traffic speed (速度) in London will fall to about 7 miles (英里) per (每) hour. Around the same speed (速度) it was 150 years ago, in the days of the horse and cart. But city planners are working on ways to solve (解决) the problem.
Self-driving cars
Robot taxis | Self-driving cars (无人驾驶汽车) or robot taxis will play a part. There'll be more than 30 million self-driving cars on the road by 2040. People don't need to drive by themselves. By 2050, there will be robot taxis in the city streets. We can call the taxis very quickly. |
Buses | Public transport (公共交通工具) like buses will be highly personalized (个性化). People don't need to look through the bus timetable. Buses will be connected on the Internet and make the way by themselves according to (根据) where the people need to go. |
Bikes | Bikes will be helpful and safe, too. Cities could build special roads for them high above city streets. Xiamen in southeast China already has an 8-kilometer bicycle way to protect riders like that. That may be another kind of transport in 2050. It will be wonderful. |
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