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1、While the Astronaut spacewalk, Manchester last year remains in the memory of some families, our week-by-week guide to the school summer break this year features a host of special events and outdoor fun for kids, from open-air cinema and live music to coming face to face with dinosaurs.Polar fun, Edi

2、nburghDynamic Earth in Edinburgh is keeping cool this summer with lots of polar-themed activities, including family science shows on the Arctic and Antarctic, icy experiments, and craft designs where kids can make their own penguin, walrus or polar bear. Until 28 August, 15 adults, 9. 50 children, d

3、ynamicearth.co.uk.Dinosaur events, various locationsDinosaurs in the Wild is a vivid, walk-through experience taking visitors back 67 million years to the late Cretaceous period Dinosaur Babies is an exhibition of dinosaur embryos and eggs, plus a model nest. Dinosaurs of China displays fossils and

4、skeletons never before seen in Europe. Until 23 August, NEC in Birmingham, then 7 October to 7 January, Event City Manchester, 29.50 adults, 26 children, .Proud Country House kids fest, BrightonJust 15 minutes from the centre of Brighton, this 18th century Georgian manor house in Stammer Park has a

5、packed programme of events and activities on throughout the summer including storytelling in the forest, guided bike rides, tree climbing and family yoga 1 July10 September, prices vary, usually from 510, booking for events required but house and gardens can be visited without booking, stammerhouse.

6、co.UK/kidsfest.1. In which event can you see the fossils found in China?A. Polar fun, Edinburgh.B. Astronaut spacewalk, Manchester.C. Dinosaur events, various locations.D. Proud Country House kids fest, Brighton.2. How much will a couple with two children spend at most if they attend all the activit

7、ies?A. 180. B. 220. C. 160. D. 200.3. What can kids do in Proud Country House kids fest, Brighton?A. Tree climbing and family yoga.B. Craft designs and tree climbing.C. Guided bike rides and icy experiments.D. Storytelling in the forest and seeing dinosaur eggs.BNot long ago, I tried convincing my t

8、hree daughters that the worlds secrets are hidden inside silence. The girls looked at me skeptically. Surely silence is nothing?Sitting there at the dinner table, I suddenly remembered their curiosity as children, their wondering about what might be hiding behind a door and their amazement as they s

9、tared at a light switch and asked me to “open the light”. But now they are 13, 16 and 19 and wonder less and less. If they still wonder at anything, they quickly pull out their smart phones to find the answer. None of them have any interest in discussing with me. To attract their attention, I told t

10、hem about two friends of mine who had decided to climb Mount Qomolangma.Early one morning they left base camp to climb the south-west wall of the mountain. It was going well. Both reached the summit, but then came the storm. They soon realized they would not make it down alive. The first got hold of

11、 his pregnant wife by satellite phone. Together they decided on the name of the child that she was carrying. Then he quietly passed away just below the summit. My other friend was not able to contact anyone before he died. No one knows exactly what happened on the mountain in those hours. Thanks to

12、the dry, cool climate 8km above sea level, they have both been freeze-dried. They lie there in silence, looking no different.The girls remained quiet, listening. It seemed as though they had got something.It is easy to assume that the essence （本质） of technology is technology itself, but that is wron

13、g. The essence is the time we spend with our family and how much freedom we have by technology.4. Whats the real purpose of the authors telling the story?A. To entertain the girls.B. To attract the girls, attention to technology.C. To encourage the girls to explore the worlds secret.D. To share a vi

14、ewpoint about the essence of technology.5. Why are the girls unwilling to discuss problems with the author when they are puzzled?A. Because they dont want to solve them.B. Because they can turn to the smart phone.C. Because they feel ashamed for their problems.D. Because they think it difficult to t

15、alk with others.6. How would the author think of the outcome of the storytelling?A. It s effective.B. It s unacceptable.C. Its embarrassing.D. It s discouraging.7. What does technology really bring us according to the text?A. The time with our family and freedom.B. The answers to the puzzling proble

16、ms.C. The information of learning the outside world.D. The choice of communicating with our friends.CWe all have different ways to navigate （导航） when lost-whether asking a stranger for help, consulting an old-school map or simply following our nose. But on a bike, the risks are higher. One wrong tur

17、n or that youre in a traffic jam with two lanes between your bike and the nearest pavement may ruin your good mood. Although cyclists, of course, managed to navigate before smart phones, cyclists can make two choices: a few stay calm and embrace getting lost, and the rest turn to a navigation app.Go

18、ogle Maps added a directions function for cyclists in 2015 in the US and Canada, and two years later across Europe. And while there are dozens of other apps now offering a similar service, Google Maps has the demerits for many, so the app seems to be falling behind expectations.As someone with no se

19、nse of direction, I knew it wouldnt be easy when I started cycling earlier this year. I appreciated that the app gave me two warnings before I needed to turn off a road, and automatically recalculated my route if I accidentally went off course. But still, it wasnt a smooth process. Google Maps thoug

20、ht I could cut across a double carriageway with no breaks in its barrier, assumed I knew what it meant when it told me to “head west”, and thought nothing of taking me the wrong way down a busy one-way street.Cyclists dont just want safety-they want convenience. Londoner Robson Smith regularly cycle

21、s between Clap ham and the City of London and would like to see Google Maps calculate routes where his bike is allowed on public transport and more choice of the type of routes he can take. “Google tends to calculate the most common and comfortable cycle routes. It would be better to have an option

22、which included the fastest route, regardless of comfort,” he says.For this reason, Robson says he uses the app Cycle Streets instead. It offers a choice of four different route modes, based on the type the user wants, and saves previous routes. It also tells you how many calories a route burns, how

23、many traffic lights you will encounter, and how busy it is.8. What higher risks may happen to cyclists according to Paragraph 1?A. Losing the way to their destinations.B. Making wrong plans about the directions.C. Staying still in the same place for a long time.D. Taking wrong turn or being caught i

24、n a traffic jam.9. What does the underlined word “demerits” in Paragraph 2 mean?A. Defence. B. Existence. C. Shortcomings. D. Techniques.10. Whats Robsons opinion on Google Maps?A. It needs improving.B. It is difficult to operate.C. It can provide convenient courses.D. It offers the most common and

25、fastest route.11. Which of the following can be the best title for the text?A. The Different Apps in NavigationB. The Rise and Fall of Google MapsC. The Disadvantages of Google MapsD. Planning the Future of Google MapsDFor many of us, talking about money is embarrassing, especially revealing our inc

26、ome and spending habits in public. So its no wonder that seeking investment advice from computer program is so popular.Consultancy firm Accenture found that 68% of global consumers would be happy to use robot-advice to plan for retirement, feeling it would be faster, cheaper, and fairer than human a

27、dvice. “Many of our customers say they feel awkward in face-to-face meetings, preferring an online experience where they dont feel nervous,” says Lynn Smith, a director of robot-advice firm Wealth Wizards. So how does robot-advice work and is it really any better than traditional financial advice?Ro

28、bot-adviser firms use algorithms （算法） to analyse your financial situation and goals and then work out an investment plan to suit you. Basically, you answer lots of questions online about your income, expenses, family situation, attitude to risk and so on, and then the algorithm allocates （分配） your s

29、avings to a series of investments, from index funds that aim to imitate a particular stock market index or sector, to fixed-income bonds.Robot-advice is certainly growing in popularity. But are we really happy to give up the human adviser completely? “No” is the short answer. Accenture finds that a

30、significant proportion of us still want human interaction, particularly when our finances are complex. “When a customer needs advice surpassing a number of different regulatory regimes, human advice will be required,” says John Perks, managing director of life and pensions at UK insurer LV, which la

31、unched its Retirement Wizard robot-advice service two years ago.The truth is that only about a quarter of funds managed by clever humans overcome the market as a whole, so when you take into account the much higher management fees you pay for that kind of service, the performance difference is likely to be marginal （微不足道的） for most of us.The robots may be coming, but in this case at least, they seem to be on the side of the small investor trying to save for a comfortable retirement.12. What do we know about the robot-advice from the second paragraph?A. It s expensi