Take a look at the label(标签) on almost any bottle of milk and you may see the word PASTEURIZED. What does that mean? Let’s find out by meeting Louis Pasteur.
Louis Pasteur was born in 1822 in a little town in France. As he grew up, he loved to paint. He loved to look at the world around him. When he went to college in Paris, he showed interest in looking through a microscope. A microscope makes things look a lot bigger; it lets you see things you can’t see just with your eyes. Looking through a microscope, Pasteur found a living world in a drop of water. He saw and drew pictures of the small living things -- he called them “microbes” or “germs”-- that crowded in a drop of water.
One day a winemaker came into the lab, hoping that someone could help him with his problem. “Sometimes my wine tastes delicious, but sometimes terrible,” he said to Pasteur. “Can you help me find out why?”
Pasteur put some drops of the wine under the microscope. He noticed that the terrible wine had some unusual germs. If he killed these germs, maybe he could keep the wine from turning terrible. He tried with different ways to kill the germs. In the end he found heating (加热) the wine seemed to work best. The winemaker tried it, and every bottle of wine tasted good.
Pasteur’s idea worked for other people, too. When farmers heated milk, it didn’t turn bad so quickly. When breweries heated beer, it tasted better. People called it “pasteurization” ---heating a liquid to kill bad germs. Aren’t you glad that the milk you drink has been pasteurized?
1. The Chinese meaning for the word “microbes” is____.
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A．病毒 |
B．真菌 |
C．支原体 |
D．微生物 |
2. Which is the right order in Pasteur’s life story?
(1). He received college education in Paris.
(2) He helped to find some unusual germs in some drops of wine.
(3) A new way of killing bad germs--pasteurization was found out.
(4)He was born in 1822 in a little town in France.
(5) Microbes were found by Louis Pasteur with the help of a microscope.
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A．2; 1; 3; 5; 4 |
B．4; 1; 5; 2; 3 |
C．4; 1; 3; 5; 2 |
D．3; 1; 2; 5; 4 |
3. What do you think Louis Pasteur was like from the passage?
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A．Clever, helpful and hard-working. |
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B．Quiet, helpful and kind-hearted. |
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C．Brave, careful and hard-working. |
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D．Clever, serious and kind-hearted. |
4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
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A．Germs only live in something that is bad. |
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B．Louis found the way to kill the unusual germs in the wine by chance (偶然). |
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C．Everybody knows what the word PASTEURIZED means. |
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D．Pasteurization is used to kill bad germs in the milk we drink. |
5. What does the passage mainly tell us?
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A．What life Louis Pasteur lived. |
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B．How to make milk clean. |
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C．How pasteurization was invented. |
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D．What to do with wine. |
A Hard-working Student
This story is about a young student. She worked very hard at her lessons. She was too busy to have a rest. At last, she became ill, and couldn’t go to sleep. Every night, when she went to bed, she closed her eyes and tried to sleep. But the more she tried, the more she stayed awake.
After a while she went to see a doctor, “I just can’t go to sleep at night. What should I do?” “I have a suggestion (建议),” said the doctor, “Try counting numbers. By the time you reach one thousand, you will be asleep. I’m sure of it.”
The next day the student returned to the doctor’s office. “Well,” said the doctor, “How are you today? Did you try my suggestion?” The student still looked tired. “Yes,” she said, “I tried counting one, two, three...up to one thousand. But when I reached five hundred and sixty-nine, I began to feel sleepy. I had to get up and drink some coffee so that (以便) I could go on counting up to one thousand. But then I still couldn’t fall asleep.”
根据短文内容,选择正确答案。
1. Why couldn’t the young student go to sleep?
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A．She was worried about her lessons. |
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B．She hadn’t finished her homework. |
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C．She had worked too hard and became ill. |
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D．There was a lot of noise. |
2. What did the doctor ask the young student to do while she was lying in bed?
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A．To take some medicine. |
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B．To count numbers while she was lying in bed. |
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C．To count numbers before she went to bed. |
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D．To read some books on the bed. |
3. The underlined word “awake” in paragraph 1 means “______”.
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A．asleep |
B．not asleep |
C．sleepy |
D．sleeping |
4. What did she do after she felt sleepy?
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A．She fell asleep. |
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B．She stopping counting. |
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C．She got up and drank some tea. |
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D．She got up to have some coffee. |
5. The coffee made her ______, so she still couldn’t fall asleep.
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A．tired |
B．sleepy |
C．hungry |
D．excited |
Marianne, a schoolgirl, was learning to play the piano, and day after day her father stood behind as she played. How patient and loving her father was, and how cleverly he 1__ Marianne how to play the difficult piece! And there, almost lost in the big chair, sat Wolfgang. Nobody told him to 2 when Marianne was playing.
One evening the father said to Marianne that she had done very well. At the moment Wolfgang climbed onto his father’s leg and said to his father that he wanted to 3 the wonderful piece.
What a joke that was! He picked up his baby son, laughed, and said, “Look at your 4 hands. Why, you cannot span (横跨) the keys yet, you must wait, little man. You must wait!”
There was no end of fun during tea, and Marianne told her mother about Wolfgang 5 to play one of the pieces. 6 a while, the father stood up. “Listen!” said he. “Listen! Marianne is playing that piece 7 than ever!" But Marianne was washing plates in the kitchen.
His wife following, he moved upstairs quietly, pushed the door, and saw little Wolfgang __8__ in the darkness (黑暗). “I love it 9 !” said the child. It was the 10 of Mozart’s life of music.
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根据所给情景，完成下列对话，每空一词。
A: Have you learned Lesson 26?
B: No, not (1)______. We shall begin to learn it next week.
A: But we’ve (2)______ it. It’s about Edison, an (3)______ inventor.
B: I have (4)______about Edison in a book, so I know something about him.
A: Really?
B: Yes. He (5)______ a lot of things. And they all have (6)______ the world.
A: I know he was born in 1847, and (7)______ in 1931.
B: Oh, he has been (8)______ for more than seventy years.
A: Yes, but we can remember him every day.
B: Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean.
A: Do you give your friend a (9)______ every day?
B: Yes, I remember Edison (10)______ invented the telephone.
A man works in a factory and gets his pay at the end of the week. ___1____Saturday he ____2___ the money after he gets his pay. Suddenly he ___3___ that it is wrong. He counts the money ___4___, but still there are five pounds more than he___5___ get. He puts the money in his pocket and says nothing ___6___ others. A week goes by and it’s pay ___7___ again. But this time there are five pounds less. He is ___8___ angry that he goes immediately(立刻) to see the boss. The boss says to him, “Didn’t you notice there was a mistake __9___week?” “For one mistake, I can close my ___10___, but for two mistake, no, I can’t.”
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during; for; lucky; decorated（装饰）; about; where have you been; birthday of; comes from; have; come true |
A: Hi, Li Lei, I haven’t seen you for a long time. (1)_______?
B: I have been to London (2)_______ Christmas.
A: Really? How (3)_______ you are!
B: Thank you.
A: Who did you stay with?
B: I stayed with Tom (4)_______ the Christmas season.
A: Oh, what did you do then?
B: We (5)________ the Christmas tree, met his relatives, went to see Christmas play and so on.
A: How interesting! What was the Christmas play (6)_______?
B: About Jesus Christ.
A: Oh, I see, Christmas Day is the (7)______ Jesus.
B: That’s right. And it (8)_______ the story of Bible（圣经）.
A: Thanks for telling me so much. I wish I could (9)______ Christmas in Western countries some day.
B: I’m sure your dream will (10)_________.
