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1.All of the travelers live together like a big (家庭).
2.Harry keeps exercising every morning. As a result, he’s a few kilos (轻的) than he used to be.
3.David is such an (telling the truth) boy that everyone likes him very much.
4.You have to be (having or showing patience) if you are waiting at the end of a long queue.
5.As we know, is the second day of a week.
London has a new magazine. But it is not printed(印刷) on paper. Everyone who has a television can receive it because it is on TV.
In order to read this magazine you have to have a decoder (解码器). Each page of it is numbered, so you only have to dial the number to choose which subject you want to read about. There are all kinds of information ---everything is included from cooking to the latest sports news.
If you want to read the news, the first thing you have to do is to turn to the back page, which has an easy-to-remember page number, 100 for example. Then you start choosing what you want to read. The news is on page 101 to 109, so you put in the numbers and the news appears written across your screen. Perhaps you want to go out in the afternoon, so you press 181, and a brightly colored weather map appears on the screen. But the weather is terrible, so you decide to go shopping and dial 162 for a list of the week’s best bargains. But should you drive or take the train? To answer that question you only have to press 189 for the traffic report. It is very simple to use. But probably the best thing about the service is that it is being updated all the time. Journalists type new material directly onto the screen and the whole pages of the magazine can be replaced in minutes.
London already has three services. One, sent out by TV, is called ORACLE while the other two, on BBC, are called CEEFAX because they let you see facts. Although CEEFAX and ORACLE have been operating for some time, they have not been well publicized(宣传). BBC engineers do not think that their idea will ever replace books and newspapers because they can be taken with you everywhere. But many people would agree that is a breakthrough(突破) as great as the invention of printing, which could not just change our reading habits but our whole way of life.
1. We can know from the passage that in London .
A．the magazine is available at any local home
B．most of the postmen will lose their jobs some day
C．everyone can read this magazine if they have a television
D．the readers can get various kinds of information staying at home
2.In the sentence “Each page of it is numbered,” the word “it” refers to the .
A．magazine B．program C．decoder D．subject
3.According to the passage, the “decoder” is used to help people .
A．work out the total(合计) of certain numbers
B．read the information sent by TV signals
C．go shopping and have other entertainment
D．receive some special TV program for entertainment
4.The passage is mainly about .
A．a new magazine printed in London
B．an up-to-date way of getting information
C．a popular TV program about magazines
D．an advanced technology helping people communicate
Chinese are very generous in educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States and Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities such as musical instrument learning or ballet classes, or other classes. They think these will give them a good future. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend much unreasonable money on education. Even poor parents will buy a computer for their son or daughter.
However, most parents don’t understand that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.
Parents can see that their children are very good in some areas while poor in others. Parents can also see some children are good at these skills and others do well in others. Most parents don’t realize that today’s children lack self-respect and self-confidence.
The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills that they need are to be confident, happy and clever.
Parents can achieve this by teaching skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework. Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking needs patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and lots of self-confidence.
Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with, will make him curious(好奇的) and improve his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them. Your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.
1.We know from this passage parents in China .
A．are too strict with their children
B．are too rich to educate their children
C．are too poor to educate their children
D．have some problems in educating their children correctly
2.We learn from the passage that .
A．the cheaper an education is, the better it is
B．children today should learn difficult skills
C．practical skills are helpful to children’s growth
D．school education can’t meet parents’ expectations
3.Doing some cooking at home helps children .
A．benefit (有益于) from it and prepare themselves for the future
B．learn how to serve their parents
C．learn how to become strong and fat
D．make their parents believe that they are clever
4.What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A．Broken things are useful for children
B．Interest is necessary for everything
C．Learning to think is very important.
D．Using hands helps improve thinking ability
In some science fiction movies, evil robots refuse to die, no matter how hard people fight back.
Now science fiction has become science fact. For the first time, scientists have made a robot that can take a beating and keep on going. Scientists from Cornell University made the robot, which looks like a spider with four legs.
Until now, even the most advanced (先进的) robot was almost certain to break down when it was damaged (毁坏). That is because its computer inside simply doesn’t know how to make the machine work after its shape has changed.
To deal with this problem, the scientists put eight motors (发动机) and two sensors (传感器) that read how the machine is working. They all give signals to the machine’s software. Using this information, the computer can then figure out the machine’s shape at any moment.
The new technology is a big advance in robot-making, scientists say, and it’s far from scary. It may someday help scientists create better artificial (假的) arms and legs and give new freedom to people who lose them. It might also help scientists understand how people and animals figure out their own sense of place in space.
“It has been difficult to design robots that can work well when the environment changes or when it’s damaged,” says Olaf Sporns of Indiana University in US. “With this work, we are nearer to solving this problem.”
1.Why do robots easily break down when they are damaged?
A．They cannot repair themselves.
B．The computer has changed a lot.
C．They have no computers inside.
D．The computer cannot work if the robot changes.
2.The new technology(技术) allows the robot to .
A．keep working after being damaged
B．tell people where it is
C．do house work for humans
D．remember a lot of information
3.The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 5 refers to .
A．sensors B．robots C．scientists D．arms and legs
4.How do the sensors in the robot work?
A．They can replace the computer when it’s broken.
B．They help the computer learn the robot’s condition.
C．They can find out where the damage comes from.
D．They can send signals to the person who uses the robot.
Wonder why you can get angry so easily while your friend smiles all the time? It’s probably because you both have different personalities(个性).
Personality is also about how people think, behave, and react (反应) to everything around them from day to day.
So what makes people think and behave in certain ways?
Part of the reason is that people are born like this. A baby gets its blood type, genes (基因) and other physical things when it’s still inside its mother. These things may help decide what the baby will be like.
But one’s personality doesn’t stop here. Family life, school learning and life experiences can also make you the person you are. This doesn’t mean it’s impossible to change your personality. You can always try to make yourself better. Don’t get too worried about your shortcomings (缺点). Just accept them. This is a good way to start making changes.
If you don’t know how to make friends, find out why. Is it because you’re too shy? Tell yourself to smile at people. Start talking to people using warm greetings.
Don’t give yourself a hard time about it all. It’s not easy to change lifelong habits in one night. Keep working at it. One day you’ll see that you can turn over a new leaf and be a new you!
1.Personality is about the following except .
A．how you behave
B．what you look like
C．how you react to something
D．how you think about something
2.We know that from the passage.
A．people are born the way they’ll always be
B．a person can try to change his/her personality
C．personality decides what a person looks like
D．blood type decides what a person will be like
3.From the last two paragraphs, we learn that .
A．a shy person can’t make many friends
B．you can work hard to improve yourself
C．everyone can change him- or herself in life
D．there is no way to change your lifelong habits
Robby was 11 years old when his mother (a single mom) sent him to have his first piano lesson. I prefer that students begin at an earlier age, but Robby said that it had always been his mother’s 1 to hear him play the piano. So I 2 him as a student.
Although Robby worked very hard, he didn’t have a basic 3 of music. However, he never 4 up and continued. And at the end of each weekly lesson he’d always say: “My mom is going to hear me 5 some day.” But it seemed 6 . He didn’t have a natural talent or ability for music.
One day Robby 7 to our lessons very late. He told me that his mom had been 8 and unable to take him to piano lessons, but he was still 9 in class. He asked if he could take part in my concert and I 10 .
The night of the concert came. The high school gym(体育馆) was 11 with parents, friends and relatives. The concert was going well. Then, Robby came up on stage. He announced (宣布) that he had chosen Mozart’s Concerto No 21 in C Major. I was not prepared for what I heard next.
His 12 danced on the keys…
He played so 13 that everyone was on his feet, clapping excitedly. In tears, I ran up on stage, “Oh, Robby! How could you do it?”
“Well, Miss Hondorf... remember I told you my mom was sick? Well, actually she had cancer(癌) and 14 away this morning. And well… she was born deaf, so tonight was the first time she ever heard me play at the 15 . I wanted to make it special and show her I could do it! My mother’s dream came true at last.”
1. A．decision B．conclusion C．advice D．dream
2. A．considered B．accepted C．knew D．protected
3. A．sense B．education C．information D．thought
4. A．got B．gave C．stood D．put
5. A．sing B．speak C．play D．call
6. A．cheerless B．helpless C．hopeless D．meaningless
7. A．listened B．flew C．came D．went
8. A．asleep B．deaf C．well D．ill
9. A．writing B．practicing C．singing D．talking
10. A．agreed B．disliked C．expected D．decided
11. A．satisfied B．bored C．crowded D．familiar
12. A．fingers B．feet C．arms D．legs
13. A．carefully B．cheerfully C．meaningfully D．wonderfully
14. A．took B．passed C．moved D．ran
15. A．party B．concert C．meeting D．show
