【文章內容簡介】 art city. The idea of a smart city was brought up by US pany IBM in 2010. Generally, a smart city is a city that uses digital technologies such as the Internet to improve city planning, save money and resources, and make our life convenient. How smart can a city be? Here are great examples that we can learn from. In 2009, Dubuque became the first smart city in the US. The city used smart water meters to take the place of traditional water me tens. They can detect （探測） water waste and leakage （泄漏） and send data to let the house owner know. The same system is used for other city resources like electricity and natural gas. In this way, people know how they use their resources and are glad to help reduce waste. Santander in Spain also gives us a look at the future. If people point a phone toward a nearby bus stop, the phone immediately shows all bus lines that serve the stop as well as their arrival times. The government organized a research team and provided an App （應用程序） that collects data on almost everything: light, temperature, and the movements of cars and people. Opening the App near a supermarket provides immediate information on special offers.（1）The underlined word convenient is closest in meaning to ______. A.usefulB.normalC.suitableD.easy（2）Compared with traditional water meters, smart water meters do better in ______. A.cleaning waterB.supplying waterC.saving waterD.producing water（3）The example of Santander shows the use of smart systems in aspects （方面） EXCEPT ______. A.businessB.health careC.traffic controllingD.public transportation（4）What39。s the main idea of the passage? A.Digital technologies help improve city planning.B.Smart cities will make our future life better and smarter.C.Smart cities are very mon in both Dubuque and Santander.D.Spain and the US take the leading position in building smart cities.7．閱讀理解 If you cannot travel around the world, why not travel on the Internet? GeoGuessr is a new online travel game. The game is easy to play, but nearly impossible to win. The new online game challenges your geography skills.How to play the game When you think you know where the photo was taken, click on the Google map to place your marker. Click on the Make A Guess button on the bottom of the map. A new image will appear, showing the distance between the area you chose and the actual location. GeoGuessr will tell how many kilometers away you were and how many points you earned. You get five chances to guess the location. After the fifth one, you see a map showing your guesses, the correct location and the number of points you earned.Helpful hints（提示） Here are a few tips to help you identify what part of the planet you are seeing. look around and see if you can find any words on signs to show the local language. For example, if both French and English are on signs, Canada might be a good guess. Make a note of whether the cars drive on the right or the left side of the road. If cars are driving on the left, that narrows your guesses. The more you play the game, the better you will get at geography.（1）GeoGuessr is a new online game which challenges your _________ skills. A.mathB.languageC.scienceD.geography（2）You can have _________ chances to guess the location you see. A.threeB.fourC.fiveD.six（3）If you see both French and English on signs, you may be in _________. A.AmericaB.JapanC.FranceD.Canada（4）What39。s the best title for the passage? A.A new online gameB.How to travel around the worldC.How to play the gameD.How to guess the game8．閱讀理解 Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mother was one of those people. My father died when I was one yearold. While I was growing up, we led a very hard life, but my mom gave me a lot of love. Bach night, she seated me on her lap and, spoke the words that would change my life, Kemmons, you are sure to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it. At fourteen, I was hit by a car and the doctors said that I would never walk again. Every might my mother spoke to me in her gentle, loving voice, telling me whatever those doctors said, I could walk again if I wanted to. She drove that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her. A year later, I walked on my own to school! When the Great Depression broke out, my mother lost her job. Then I left school to support the two of us. At that moment I decided never to be poor again. Over the years, I experienced a lot of business success. But the real turning point happened on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in 1951. I was dissatisfied with the secondclass hotels available for families and was very angry, that they charged an extra $2 for each child. That was too expensive for an ordinary American family. I told my wife that I was going to open a motel （汽車旅館） for families that would never charge extra money for children. Many people did not believe me at that time. Not surprisingly, mom was my strongest supporter. As in any business, I experienced a lot of difficulties. But with my mom39。s words in my heart, I never doubted I would succeed. Fifteen years later, I had the largest hotel system in the world Holiday Inn. In 1979 my pany had 1,759 inns in more than fifty countries with an ine of $I billion a year. You may not have started out life in the best situations. But if you find a task in life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.（1）What Kemmons39。s mom often told him during his childhood was . A.boring