DIY, which means Do It Yourself, is quite popular in UK. Lots of stores and supermarkets sell DIY things. TV programmes show people how to DIY.
English people like DIY. There is a saying in UK—“As Englishman’s home is his castle”. Large number of people spend their holidays making their homes beautiful “castles(城堡)”. If there is anything that needs fixing around their homes, such as painting the walls or putting in a new shower, they will do the jobs themselves. More and more people have discovered the joy of DIY. Sometimes people also DIY for saving money. At present, many people can not afford a big house. They are looking at how they can make their house better without spending a lot of money. It is not surprising that DIY is so popular.
DIY can be difficult. There is a huge market for DIY furniture which people need to get together themselves with a few basic tools. But some of the furniture is difficult to build. One thing is for sure, though most DIY projects are started with the best intentions. Many of them may not get finished.
Therefore, DIY can bring us fun and help us save money, but it can be difficult. Maybe factories should make products that are easier for us to DIY.
1. What does DIY mean?
2. In which country is DIY popular?
3.What makes DIY difficult?
4.What is the main idea of the passage?
5.请将划线句子翻译成汉语。
It’s hard to imagine life without the Internet. How greatly it has changed our lives in the past 15 years since it was widely used. At the same time, however, the Internet has also 1. (导致) some traditions to fall away.
When almost any fact 2. (可能) be found within seconds through Google and Baidu, personal memory becomes less 3. (重要). The Web can remember it f 4. us.
When was the last time you watched the world out of a 5. /'wɪndəʊ/? When was the last time you r 6. a favorite book once again? More and more people 7. /luːz/ themselves in the Internet. They show less interest and spend less time in the 8. (外面的) world.
When you surf the Internet, it feels l 9. something you're enjoying and nobody knows it.
B 10. many people have realized their personal information can be found easily in the Internet even they don’t want to.
1. But I could never understand her habit of cheering while we were walking in the race.
We walked together all over the town and entered half-marathons（半马拉松）, 26 miles. 2.
I carried it to the starting line along. It had twenty-six cheering ideas, one for each mile. But I wasn’t really planning to slow myself down with all those ideas. I had to keep her list because I didn’t want to hurt Tina’s feelings.
3. I looked at Tina’s cheering list when I checked my watch. At the top of the list was only one word: “Yourself.” I thought it did give me a good start to the race. While I was at it, I took the chance to thank her for the strength the list brought to me. By the time I finished the second mile, my parents were cheering me on by the side of the road. It just so happened that “family” was the next on Tina’s cheering list. At that moment, I had plenty of things to be thankful for.
4. But by the time I was close to the final mile, I was nearly out of breath. I didn’t know if I could make it another mile. Then I looked at the final idea on Tina’s list in my hand: “You can make it.”
5. I had thought the cheering list would slow me down. Instead it carried me to cross the finishing line.
A. She gave me a cheering list to “talk” to me. B. I finished the marathon in less than six hours. C. Tina was the best speed-walker in our school. D. I walked the first mile of the race in 12 minutes. E. The next mile flew by, then the next and the next, each with a cheering idea. |
In 2011, when British photographer David J. Slater was visiting a park in Indonesia, his camera was taken away by a group of black monkeys. The result was hundreds of monkey selfies (自拍照). The best ones show a female monkey smiling toothily for the camera. Slater then sold the photos and they became popular on the Internet.
Nobody knew they would create a copyright battle three years later.
Last month, Wikimedia Commons put the monkey selfies online under a collection of free photos without Slater’s permission. Slater asked the website to take them down since he owns the copyright.
However, Wikimedia Foundation—the organization behind Wikimedia Commons—refused Slater’s request. They said that according to US copyright law, whoever pushes the button on the camera owns the copyright to the photo. It was the monkeys but not Slater that pushed the button.
What’s more, monkeys don’t own copyright. “US copyright law says that works that come from a non-human source can’t ask for copyright,” said Katherine Maher, Chief Communications Officer of Wikimedia.
Slater argues that the pictures belong to him as they were taken from his camera. He said he bought the cameras; he spent a lot of money to travel to Indonesia; and it was his carelessness that allowed the monkeys to take his cameras away. All these have made him the author of the picture, no matter who pushed the button. In a sense, the monkeys could be regarded as his assistant, Slater said.
As of now, there has been no result in the Monkey Selfie case. Who do you think will win this interesting battle?
1. What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A. Some monkeys grabbed Slater’s camera.
B. Slater took photos of the monkeys and sold them.
C. The photos taken by Slater became popular on the Internet.
2.The underlined word “copyright” in the second paragraph probably means “______” in Chinese.
A. 网络 B. 版权 C. 材料
3.The copyright battle of the photos began in ______.
A. 2011 B. 2012 C. 2014
4.Who owns the copyright of the photos according to Wikimedia?
A. The monkeys. B. David J. Slater. C. Nobody.
5.What is the story main about?
A. A copyright battle over photos taken by monkeys.
B. Why Wikipedia refused to take down some photos.
C. How the photos taken by monkeys became popular online.
Saya, the life-like woman robots started her work as a teacher at a primary school in Tokyo Japan days ago. She gave lessons to the pupils there. You won’t hurt it, hit it or play with it.
Professor Hiroshi Kobayashi of Tokyo University of Science, who built Saya, said she didn’t mean to take the place of human teachers with Saya, but to show the joys of technology. “We didn’t want to do all the work of a teacher, but to build this robot to teach children about technology. And Saya may be a help to the schools which have not enough teachers.”
“In some villages and small schools, there are children who know little about new technology and also there are some teachers that can’t teach these lessons,” Kobayashi said. “So we hope the robot can make the children become interested in new technology.”
Many of the children were very interested in Saya, and did not take their eyes off her when they were listening to the report. When class was over, some students touched her face and felt her.
Japan, home to almost 400,000 industrial robots of the world, hopes that they can make more and more robots in the future. And they hope to make some robots to look after the older people.
1. From the passage, we know that Saya is ______.
A. a woman teacher in a small school
B. a student of Hiroshi Kobayashi
C. a robot made by Hiroshi Kobayashi
2.Saya came to the school to ______.
A. give the students technology lessons
B. listen to the report of Hiroshi Kobayashi
C. show her computer technology
3.What did many of the children do when Saya came to their school?
A. They felt afraid of Saya.
B. They showed great interest in Saya.
C. They made friends with Saya.
4.We can learn from the passage that ______.
A. Saya became tired of teaching at last
B. most schools in Japan are short of teachers
C. Japan hasn’t built robots that can take care of the old people
5. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. A Science Professor
B. A Primary School
C. A Robot Teacher
阅读下面材料 ，从每题所给的三个选项（A、B和C）中，选出最佳选项。
| This is a mystery story book. Two children called Calder and Petra try to find out who stole an expensive Vermeer painting. Look at each picture in the book carefully. There is something hidden in each one. |
| This game is good for your thumbs(拇指) and fingers. You have to press the lights when they light up. Do you think it sounds easy? Well, think again because it’s very difficult. If you miss a lot of lights, you’ll not win the game. |
| This might look like a toy, but it’s a talking Internet phone. Just connect the Verballs to your USB port on your computer and you can phone all your friends all around the world. You’ll have fun with it! |
| This is a colorful set which will help you to paint. Each color has a number and the numbers are on the picture for you to follow. Painting beautifully has never been easier. Everyone will think you are the next teenager genius. |
1.What can be found in the pictures in the book Chasing Vermeer?
A. The background of the story.
B. Something about the thief.
C. The value of the painting.
2. What do the players do when playing the game GYA-II?
A. They press the lights with thumbs and fingers.
B. They call their foreign friends to play together.
C. They follow the numbers of the set colors.
3.The writer thinks it fun to______.
A. read the book Chasing Vermeer
B. paint pictures with the colorful set
C. phone friends all over the world
4.Which of the following can be used to talk on the Internet?
A. Chasing Vermeer. B. GYA-II. C. Verballs.
5. How does the writer think of painting with the colorful set?
A. Easy. B. Wonderful. C. Difficult.
