The Morning After Robot
From today’s newspaper, I know that in 2014 you might get a Morning After Robot. It will clean your house after a party. The Robot can take picture of your room before the party. After the party, the robot will go around the room, and it will pick up bottles and trash. After that it will compare the room with the picture and put things back according to its original shape. Such robots are being studied in a lab at Stanford University. That sounds pretty cool! If we can see the robot and have enough money, we must buy them.
Robot Roomba
Mothers’ Day is coming. You can give Robot Roomba as a gift to your mother. The Roomba is a great gift for two reasons. On the one hand, it’s really cool as a useful robot. It can actually clean your floor. Maybe not as fast or well as a person does, but it is a lot more fun cleaning the floor by the Roomba than cleaning the floor yourself. On the other hand, it shows the family life is very modern.
1.How does the writer know about the Morning After Robot?
A. From the Internet
B. From the newspaper
C. From the magazine
D. By listening to others
2.The lab at Stanford University is ___________ the Morning After Robot
A. working B. using
C. repairing(修理) D. studying
3.What is the right order for the Morning After Robot to clean the room?
① Put back things as its original shape.
②Compare the room with the picture
③Go around the room picking up trash.
④Take a picture of your room before the party.
A.①②③④ B.④③①② C.④③②① D.④①②③
4.What’s the disadvantage(缺点) of the Roomba?
A. It doesn’t clean the floor as quietly as a person does.
B. It doesn’t clean the floor as clean as a person does.
C. It doesn’t clean the floor as fast or well as a person does.
D. There is less fun using it.
Some Advice on Traval
NO.1. Forget Fashion(时尚)！Always wear your most comfortable clothes when going on long journeys.
NO.2. Traveling on trains and buses can be boring. So take a good book to read.
NO.3. If you’re going somewhere cold, remember your warm clothes.
NO.4. Or, if you are going somewhere sunny, remember to wear sun block(防晒霜) and sunglasses.
NO.5. Always take a camera with you to capture(抓住) those special moments.
NO.6. Be careful with your things whenever you go to busy places, like a train station. There are often thieves there.
NO.7. Always leave room in your bag for buying presents.
NO.8. Most countries have lower prices for students. So if you have one, take your student card with you and save money.
NO.9. Bus tours often stop at expensive shops along the way, save your money by buying presents at local shops.
NO.10. If you travel abroad, remember to take your passport. Whatever you don’t lose it!
1.If you go to Hainan Island for a trip in summer, you should take______ with you.
A. warm clothes and sports shoes
B.sunglasses and sun block
C. fashionable clothes and a big bag
D. some fruit and drinks
2.According to the passage,_______ is a good way to keep away from boredom(单调) while you are on a train or a bus.
A. taking a camera B. reading a good book
C. listening to music D. sleeping for some time
3.If a student want to buy some presents at lower prices while traveling, he should show_______to the shop assistant.
A. the prices B. his things
C. his passport D. his student card
4.The underlined word “passport” in this passage means_______.
A. 身份证 B. 户口本 C.护照 D.通行证
Name | Wants to be | If I become…… |
Andrea |
an artist | If I become an artist, I will go to Paris to have an art exhibition. Then I’ll be famous and make lots of money. With the money, I’ll travel all over the world. |
Martin |
a volunteer | I want to teach in a mountain village as a volunteer, because I plan to give the students a good start in life and open up their eyes to the outside world. |
Mark |
an athlete | If I become an athlete, will I be happy? Yes, I will be very happy. I’ll be able to do something I love and make a lot of money. Then I can give the money to schools and charities. |
Marcia |
A Hollywood star | If I become a Hollywood star, I will choose(选择) to live like a real person in a real world. That will start with living outside, Maybe move to San Francisco. It is less than two hours’ flight. |
1.Martin wants to work____.
A. in Paris B. in a mountain village
C. in Hollywood D. in San Francisco
2.If Andrea’s dream comes true, she______.
A. will have an art exhibition in Paris
B. will teach in a mountain village
C. will give money to schools and charities
D. will live in San Francisco
3.It takes ______from San Francisco to Hollywood by plane
A. about three hours B. less than two hours
C. just two hours D. just two days
请先阅读短文，然后根据短文内容从方框内所给的单词中选择恰当的词（注意词形变化）填入短文空白处，使短文完整、通顺。一词只用一次，一空限填一词。方框中有两个词是多余的。
much, place, impossible, good, look, animal, another, describe, ourselves, pack,hard,they |
We have been in Australia for three days. We’re having a1.________ time here. Australia is the sixth largest country in the world. There is so 2._____to see that it is 3.___________ for me to tell you everything. Sydney is a beautiful city. There are many big trees and flowers around and they4.________really beautiful. There are also some special5.________in Australia, such as kangaroos and koalas. They are really lovely.
During the past three days we’ve visited many6._________ of interest around Sydney. I’d like to spend more time here. But we will fly to7._________city, Cairns, to see coral beds(珊瑚礁) tomorrow. It is said that words can’t8._________the beauty of the colorful corals. Many famous cartoon films were made there. Now we are busy 9.________our bags so that we will not lose time when we leave. We can enjoy 10.___________in Cairns this time tomorrow. I’m looking forward to going there again!
请先阅读下面短文，掌握其人意。然后从各小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
Once there was a farmer. He_______near a school. There was a road, it was not ______, but from time to time, cars passed the farm. Near the farm gate, there was a large_____in the road. This hole was______full of water, and the______of the cars could not see how deep(深的) the hole was. They thought it was not too deep. Then when they drove into the hole, they could not drive out because______was so deep. And they had no ways to get out because there were______people there. They had to go to the farm for______.The farmer did not spend much time______ on his farm. He spent most of it watching the hole. When a ______drove into it, he pulled（拉）the car out with his tractor(拖拉机) and asked the driver for a lot of______for doing this. He pulled at least one car______the hole every day.
One day, the driver of a car_____to him, “You must make a lot of money by_____ cars out of this hole night and day.” “Oh,__ ____,” the farmer said. “I don’t pull cars out of the hole at night. At night I fill the hole with water.”
1.A. stayed B. lived C. worked D. watched
2.A. wide B. new C. busy D. old
3.A. car B. hole C. horse D. stone
4.A. never B. sometimes C. seldom D. always
5.A. drivers B. farmers C. people D. doctors
6.A. they B. he C. she D. it
7.A. many B. a lot of C. few D. some
8.A.a rest B. help C. food D. water
9.A. working B. work C. to work D. work s
10.A.bus B. bike C. train D. car
11.A. time B. money C. food D. cars
12.A. into B. across C. through D. out of
13.A. looked B. smiled C. said D. tell
14.A. carrying B. pulling C. taking D. lifting
15.A. no B. yes C. however D. But
--- Could you please answer the phone?
--- ________. I’m busy now.
A. That’s right. B. No problem.
C. Sure. D. Sorry, I can’t
