“I can’t see clearly, because I don’t wear my glasses today.” We always hear people saying something like this. Glasses are very important to many people. Do you know how they were invented and developed?
Glasses took a long time to develop into what you can find in the glasses store today. The Chinese first used colored glasses as fashion. They thought that those glasses had magic, but they didn’t think that glasses could help eyes to see clearly.
In 1262, the inventor, Roger Bacon, discovered the amazing function(功能) of lenses(镜片), and he thought that glasses could be used to help people to see. Twenty years later, in Florence, Italy, the inventor, Alessandro di Spina, made the first pair of glasses that could help people to see.
Although these glasses worked, scientists didn’t understand how glasses helped eyes to see. They thought that eyes sent out light onto whatever a person was looking at, and then the light came back to the eyes. Johannes Kepler finally found out how glasses worked.
Inventors continued to improve glasses. In 1784, Ben Franklin created glasses that had bifocal(双焦的) lenses. Many years later, in 1827, George Airy made circle-shaped glasses to correct astigmatism, an eye problem that stops the eyes from seeing things clearly.
1.When the Chinese first used colored glasses, they thought ______.
A. glasses could help eyes to see clearly
B. glasses were in style
C. eyes could send our light onto glasses
D. glasses could help with eye problem
2.______ made the first pair of glasses that could help people to see.
A. Alessandro di Spina
B. Johannes Kepler
C. Roger Bacon
D. George Airy
3.From the passage we can know the underlined word “astigmatism” in the last paragraph is ______.
A. a special function of glasses
B. a special lens
C. a kind of glasses
D. an eye problem
People are different. So are friends. Some friends are patient and helpful while some friends are cheerful and caring. The following are some kinds of friends. You can read it and find out what kinds of friends you have. This will help you to improve your relationships with them and help you to find new friends.
Animal Friends
Many people keep animals as pets at home. It is right to say that animals are wonderful creatures (生物). They can be with you whenever you need them. Some people say they will feel lonely without their pets. Dogs are considered as people’s best friends.
Internet Friends
The Internet has become a very important part of our lives. It is not only helpful for people to work, but also a good way to make friends. Internet friendship has become more and more popular recently. More and more people begin to make online friends. Online friends are those who know each other through the Internet. They can talk about everything with each other online. Making Internet friends is similar to making pen pals.
Pen Friends
Pen friends, also known as pen pals, are quite popular with people who like writing. Pen friendship is mainly developed by writing to each other. It was a popular way of making friends in different parts of the world before the Internet came into being. Mostly, pen friends aim to share different cultures with each other.
1.According to the passage, the Internet is a good way for people to ______.
A. keep healthy B. make friends
C. travel D. play games
2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Animal friends can be with you whenever you need them.
B. Internet friends can talk about everything online.
C. Nowadays nearly no one likes to make pen friends.
D. Pen friends can talk about different cultures with each other.
3.The passage mainly tells us ______.
A. how to make friends B. different people
C. some kinds of friends D. the importance of friends
Are you interested in country music? I like it very much! It will take me away for a while after I am tired. The guitars and songs will take me to mountains and fields.
Country music usually talks of everyday life and feelings. It’s the spirit of America, easy to understand, slow and simple.
Country music developed in the Southern United States. It was the folk music of American countryside. Many of songs told about the lives of farmers. They talked about love, crops or death.
The life of the countryside can be hard, so the words in country music are often sad. At first, people played the music only at family parties. But it became more popular later. In the nineteen twenties, people played country songs on the radio, and they made them into records.
When people in the countryside moved to towns and cities to look for work, they took their music with them. Country music continued to change and became popular across America.
John Denver was one of America’s most famous country singers in the 1970s. His song “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is well-known and people still play it today.
1.Country music was usually about everyday life and feelings.
2.Country music developed in the Northern United States.
3.People began to make country song records in 1970s.
4.Country music was easy to understand, slow and full of happiness.
5.John Denver is famous for the song “Take Me Home, Country Roads”.
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Working in Africa, one day we went to an orphanage (孤儿院). There we met a lovely little girl named Tanzile. I gave her a sweet I brought. “She ________ one more, doctor,” said the nurse. I said “Of course.” and gave her ________ .
Before we left, we went to say ________ to Tanzile. She was holding the sweets I had given her.
I said to the nurse, “This little girl is clever. She has taken two sweets for herself.” ________ after the nurse asked her some questions, we learned the ________ about Tanzile.
Tanzile was 7 then. Two years before, her mom and dad had both died of AIDS. Her baby sister was taken away from her. From then on, whenever she ________ anything from people, including food, she refused to accept unless they gave her two — one for her and one for her ________ .
In fact, in her room, we found quite a few old things which she ________ to give her sister one day.
Later that day, I was ________ to find that this was not an isolated (个别的) story. There were many orphans just like Tanzile. With a lot of things in their rooms, they ________ for their brothers and sisters who they hadn’t seen for so long.
People sometimes think African children are different from our kids. They think that the children there don’t feel pain or sadness or love. But that is not true. Their pain is deep. And so is their love.
1.A. gives B. wants C. eats D. keeps
2.A. another B. the other C. others D. other
3.A. thanks B. sorry C. goodbye D. hello
4.A. Because B. Since C. But D. So
5.A. duty B. story C. idea D. study
6.A. received B. bought C. sold D. made
7.A. because B. friends C. nurse D. sister
8.A. threw B. wasted C. used D. collected
9.A. interested B. pleased C. surprised D. tired
10.A. made B. got C. left D. waited
Don’t forget _________ the light before you leave a room
A. to turn off B. to close
C. turning off D. closing
We are supposed to talk with the old _________.
A. polite B. impolite C. impolitely D. politely
