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广东省深圳龙华区2023-2024学年七年级下学期英语期中考试卷
By 2050, nearly 70%% of the world's population will live in cities. Many of them will become large cities with a population of more than 10 million. Moving people around each large city will he different. The traffic speed in Landon will fall about 7 miles per hour. Around the same speed it was 150 years ago, in the days of the horse and cart . But city planners are working on ways to solve the problem.
Self-driving taxis or robot taxis will play a part. There will 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. |
Public transport like buses will be highly personalized.People don't need to look through the timetable. Buses will be connected on the Internet and make the way by themselves according to where the people need to go. |
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. |
Want to be a football coach, a policeman or a model? If you could do any job for a day, what would it be? Takeover Day offers young people this chance.
Takeover Day is for young people to "take over" the day from adults (成年人). It gives young people experience in different kinds of jobs. Adults can also learn from young people's fresh ideas.
Here's what the students say about their Takeover Day.
Simon, 13, went to Coventry Football Club. He became a football coach for a day, "Having a try at training players was an unforgettable experience," said Simon. "If I have the chance, I will do this job every day." |
Sally, 15, became the head teacher of her school. "So many meetings! We even had no time for lunch." she said. But Sally thinks she learned a lot. "My favourite part of the day was meeting the school cook and improving the school menus (菜单) for the week. It was a great chance to tell her what we really like eating!" |
Paul, 14, spent the day with a doctor. Paul thought, " If everyone has the chance to follow a model for a day, they will be surprised." "They nearly worked for 20 hours a day," he said. |
Most studies show that many animals can feel the weather changes. Here are some interesting things about animals.
Animals | Behaviour (表现方式) | Weather changes |
Birds
| A lot of birds get together and stay under the roofs (屋顶) of houses. | Heavy rain will come. |
Sharks
| Sharks swim to deeper water. | A big storm will arrive. |
Spiders
| There are more spiders than usual in autumn, and the spiders make larger webs (网) than usual. | A cold and dry winter will come. |
There are fewer spiders and they make smaller webs. | A warm and wet winter will come. | |
Ants
| A lot of ants are on the grass. | It is going to rain. |
The world of animals is very amazing. Sometimes you can not explain why they can tell the weather before the weather report. If you want to know more about them, you can read more articles about science on School Science Magazine.
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