阅读短文，根据短文内容选出最佳选项。 Today many people call Amsterdam &quot;the City of Bicycles&quot; because it is a city which is flat and convenient for bicycles. In the 1960s, a group of cycling...

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Today many people call Amsterdam "the City of Bicycles" because it is a city which is flat and convenient for bicycles.

In the 1960s, a group of cycling fans had an idea. They believed that it would be better for everybody if only bicycles were allowed in the city centre. They hoped that this would help to save energy, reduce pollution and provide free public transport. The group painted hundreds of bicycles white and placed them in public places around Amsterdam for people to use. Anyone was allowed to use them for short journeys, whether he was a local or a foreigner. Wherever someone finished a journey, they would leave the bike there for someone else to use. The problem was that it didn't work—thieves took all the bicycles within weeks.

However, more than thirty years later, the "white bike" is back in town—this time with a computer chip (芯片) to record its every move! To take a bicycle, you have to put a special card inside. The new "white bike" is not white any more but is an unusual design with bright colours. The bikes are parked at special parking places and people who want to use them have to take them to another place that has enough room.

There is less traffic in central Amsterdam because both locals mad tourists have been using the white bikes. Thanks to the good ideas of lots of people, like the cycling fans in the 1960s, many people around the world have been enjoying city centre streets without cars for many years.

（1）、Why is Amsterdam called "the City of Bicycles"?

A、Because it has millions of bicycles. B、Because it is convenient for bicycles. C、Because it is famous for its "white bike". D、Because people like to ride bikes there.

（2）、Which of the following led to the failure of the first "white bike" plan?

A、Thieves stole all the bikes. B、Citizens didn't support the plan. C、No enough bikes were provided. D、The government didn't support the plan.

（3）、Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A、Anyone can use white bikes for short journeys. B、Using a computer chip is to make the bike run faster. C、Now in Amsterdam not all the bikes are painted white. D、People have been enjoying the benefits of cycling in Amsterdam for years.

（4）、The main idea of the passage is ________.

A、the traffic in Amsterdam B、the beauty of Amsterdam C、cities of bicycles D、the "white bike" in Amsterdam

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                                                        Want to say "hello" from Disneyland? Send a post card!
   Beautiful scenes of paradise (乐园), wild animals, silly pictures — you can find them all in one place. Where? On a post card! Have people always sent post cards? No. Before post cards, people liked sealed letters.
   The idea for the first decorated (装饰) post card came to John P. Charlton in 1861. He thought a simple card with decorations would be a great way to send a note. Then in the late 1800s, post cards with pictures appeared. By law, people had to write their note on the front ——on the picture! The back was only for the address. Several years later, England allowed a divided-back post card. Then people could write their note on the back left side and put the address on the right. During the early 1900s, the golden age of post cards, picture post cards became a craze of the world. In 1908, Americans alone mailed over 677 million post cards. Today, post cards are the third most popular collection in the world after stamps and coins.

    Mr and Mrs White had two sons and three daughters. One Sunday Mrs White said to her husband, "The children don't have any lessons today, and you're free too. There's a new funfair(游乐场) in the park. Let's all go there to play.”
    Her husband said, "I want to finish some work today." "Oh, forget it. Go there and make our children happy. That's the most important work." Mrs White said.
    So Mr and Mrs White took their children to the funfair. Mr White was 45 years old, but he enjoyed the funfair more than his children. He hurried from one thing to another, and ate lots of sweets. One of his children said to his mother, "Dad is just like a small child, isn't he, mom?" Mrs White didn't want to follow his husband around any more at that time and answered, "He is even worse than a small child, Mary, because he might spend more money than a small child.”

“Cool" is a word with many meanings．Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit cold．As the world has changed，the word has had many different meanings．
“Cool"can be used to express feelings of interest in almost everything When you see a famous car in the street，maybe you will say，“It's cool." You may think，“He's so cool," when you see your favorite footballer．
We all maximize（扩大） the meaning of “cool". You can use it instead of many words such as “new" or "surprising"．Here's an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used．A teacher asked her students to write about the waterfall（瀑布）they had visited．On one student's paper was just the one sentence, “It's so cool．Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt. But the story also shows a lack of words．Without “cool”，some people have no words to show the same meaning．So it is quite important to keep some credibility（可信性）．Can you think of many other words that make your life as colorful as the word "cool"？ I can．And I think they are also very cool．

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So, let's imagine you are walking down the street drinking a box of tea. You finish drinking the tea. Now, what do you do with the box? Do you drop it on the ground? Or, do you do the right thing and drop it in a trash can? Hopefully, you drop it in the trash can because, besides harming the environment, littering is also very impolite.

Recently, a magazine published a list of the most polite cities in the world. They looked three things: did people litter, did shop clerks say thank you and did people hold the door open for the person behind them? The top three politest cities were New York, USA, Zurich, Switzerland, and Toronto, Canada. Hong Kong, China was number 35. Shanghai wasn't even on the list.

Does that mean that Shanghai is not apolite city? Well, maybe. There are different ways to judge(判断) politeness but the survey was looking at how a visitor to a city would feel when walking around its public places. Visitors don't like to step over empty tea boxes as they walk down the street. They don't like it when they buy something and the shop clerk doesn't say thank you or even give them a smile. They also don't like it when someone lets a door slam(砰然关上) into them instead of holding it open.

Shanghai is a nice city but it is not always the most polite city. I don't think this is intentional(有意的). I think it's just a lack of awareness(缺乏意识). China is becoming a popular place for tourists to visit. When they come to Shanghai they will find a friendly city: it would be nice if they also found apolite one. And, remember, being polite makes you feel good, too. It's nice to be nice.

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Each year on Feb 21, UNESCO (联合国教科文组织) holds an International Mother Language Day (IMLD). The event is to help people to pay attention to the disappearance of the world's languages; many of them are disappearing each year. UNESCO sees this as a terrible fact.

What happens when a language dies out? Something great is lost-not just sounds and marks but the way that people understand the world and communicate with each other. We keep different cultures and traditions through languages. Kill a language and all these are killed too.

Through IMLD, more and more people come to realize he terrible situation and try to stop it.

Google's 2018 Endangered (濒临灭绝的) Languages Project is a good example. Many speakers and protectors of endangered languages upload (上传) texts, audios and videos to the project website. They want to introduce the way that people communicate and express themselves around the world.

The Myaamia Project is the same kind of effort to revive the language spoken by the Miami tribes (部落) of the United States. Project members work to encourage people to study and communicate with this language, which died out in the 1960s.

These activities give life to those endangered languages. People who work to keep Languages alive are not limited to the past. Many young people design apps and use social media to support their activities. They "spread the word" to save the world.

So, while the problem of disappearing languages remains a very serious one, there is hope. We all have a special feeling of our mother language. This is why we should remember the wise words of late president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own language，that goes to his heart."

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Everyone has a family name. My name is Jane Armstrong. Armstrong is my family name. What does Armstrong mean (意思)? Does it mean my arms are strong? But I am a slim (苗条的) girl. I don't like strong arms. My best friend is Lucy Long. Is she a tall girl? No, she isn't. She is short. But she has long hair. Some family names come from jobs. My friend's name is James Cook. Does it mean he can cook(烹饪)? No, it doesn't. And he doesn't like cooking at all. He only likes eating nice food. And he likes the TV show A Bite of China(《舌尖上的中国》) because it is all about nice food. Some people get family names from places. Ann Hill is my classmate. Is there a hill near her home? Yes. There is one hill behind( .....后.面) her home. But her uncle, Tom Hill, lives 20 km from a hill.

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