When we think about giving help to developing countries, we often think about giving money so that these countries can build schools and hospitals, buy food and medicine, or find clean water supplies. These seem to be the most important basic needs of the people we are trying to help. However, it’s far from enough. Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got to come up with some better ideas to help them.
I was very surprised, then, when I read about a plan to make cheap laptop computers（便携式电脑）for children in developing countries. A man called Nicholas Negroponte invented a cheap laptop computer, which can run without electricity. He decided to invent this computer after he visited a school in Cambodia.
The laptop which Mr. Negroponte has designed is a little different from the normal laptop computers you can buy in the shops. One difference is that it will be covered in rubber so that it is very strong and won’t be damaged easily. As an electricity supply can be a problem in developing countries, the computer also has a special handle（把手）so that children can wind（摇）the computer up to give it extra power when needed.
These special laptop computers will cost less than 100 US dollars and Mr. Negroponte wants to build as many as 15 million machines in the first year of production. The idea is that these computers will help the children’s education as they will be able to access the Internet. These computers might not help the people in developing countries immediately, but by improving children’s education they should help people to find their own solutions to their problems in the long term.
Another idea to help children in developing countries is to recycle old mobile phones so that they can be used again. In the UK, and, probably in many other countries too, millions of mobile phones are thrown away every year. The waste created by throwing away these old phones is very bad for the environment, so it seems to be an excellent idea to recycle them. In this way we will be able to achieve two important goals（目标）at the same time. We will reduce the waste we produce and help others. In other words, we will be able to “kill two birds with one stone”, and that is always a good thing.
1 : Some new and better ways to help developing countries
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Traditional way |
Giving money to help them meet the most important basic 2 such as food and medicine. |
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New ideas |
Making cheap laptop computers for children there |
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Nicholas Negroponte |
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Reason |
His 4 to a school in Cambodia |
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Features |
1. Being covered in rubber 2. Running 5 electricity 3. Being able to access the Internet |
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Less than $100 |
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Purposes |
1. To help 7 children 2. To help people solve problems |
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8 old mobile phones for reuse |
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Throwing away old mobile phones easily creates waste, which does ___10 to the environment. |
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Goals to achieve |
We’ll reduce the waste; meantime, we will help others. |
1. 教室里太乱了，我无法集中精力学习。
It’s so noisy in the classroom that I can’t ______ ______ my study.
2. 为了减肥，她目前正在尽力节食。
In order to lose weight，she is trying to go on ______ ______at the moment.
3. 不要对学生们太苛求，他们毕竟还是孩子。
Don’t be too ______ ______the students. After all, they are still children.
4. 他还告诉我们赢得尊重的最佳途径就是专心学习并取得好成绩。
He also told us that the best way to earn respect was to ______ ______ to study and get high grades.
5. 我发现这里布置的家庭作业不像我以前在原来学校时那么繁重。
I found that the homework here was not so heavy ______ ______I used to get in my old school.
6. 很多青少年感到孤独，好像没有人理解他们以及他们正在经历的变化。
Many teenagers feel lonely, as if no one understands them and the changes they are ______ ______.
7. 男孩和女孩在这方面往往有所不同。
Boys and girls______ ______ be different in this regard.
8. 你应该充分利用每分每秒来实现目标。
Every minute and every second should be made the most of ______ ______ your goal.
9. 这个问题值得在课上再次讨论。
This problem ______ ______ be discussed again in class.
10. 如果你能遵循以上建议，你的气色和感觉很快就会好得多。
If you ______ the suggestions above，you will look and feel much better _____no time.
1. As teenagers grow, it is normal for them to become ________ (困惑的)with the changing world both inside and outside of them.
2 To remember so many words in such a short time is really ________ (挑战性) for an ordinary students.
3. She has been c________ with his friends online all the morning. No wonder she hasn’t finished the task yet.
4. If you eat the right food and exercise r________, you can feel better, look better and have more energy.
5. After a heated a___________, a decision was finally made.
Malnutrition (营养失调)remains a serious problem for India. But a new study shows that India’s leading causes of death now also include diseases related to obesity（肥胖）such as heart disease.
India’s National Family Health Survey shows that more than twenty percent of Indians living in cities are overweight or obese. And in the northwestern state of Punjab, that is true for almost forty percent of women.
Aradhna Tripathi is a business professional in New Delhi. She said, “ Eating is the most important thing in any Indian household and how you show your love and gratitude(感激) for a person is through the kind of food you serve him. And the kind of lifestyle we are leading is one of the reasons why we have the number of obese people increasing every day.
But Aradhna Tripathi says she has decided to lose weight. Her mother and grandmother are also diabetic(患糖尿病的). In fact, the International Diabetes Federation says India is now the diabetes capital of the world. Researchers say Indians store more body fat per kilogram than Europeans. That means obese Indians are even more at the risk of diabetes than other people.
Doctor Anoop Misra at Fortis Hospital in New Delhi says the risk of diabetes is crossing social and economic lines. Five years ago, he says, obesity and diabetes were limited to India’s richest people, but now things have changed.
But Doctor Misra is hopeful that the spread (蔓延，传播)of obesity can be slowed. And he says it must start in schools by giving all Indian children the same instruction on physical activity and diet.
The World Health Organization says China is also moving up in obesity rates. The estimate (估计) has reached about five percent countryside and as high as twenty percent in some cities.
1.What is this passage mainly about?
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A．Obesity has become a big killer in India. |
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B．Heart disease is troubling people in India. |
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C．People in India live a very unhealthy life. |
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D．Malnutrition remains a serious problem in India. |
2.According to Aradhna Tripathi , one of the causes of the obesity problems is____.
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A．.the development of economy |
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B．the change of Indians’ lifestyle |
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C．Indians’ attitude （态度）towards eating |
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D．Indians’ attitude towards obesity. |
3. What can we infer from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5?
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A．Most rich people in India are overweight. |
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B．Five years ago, few people in India were overweight |
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C．Few poor people are diabetic for economic reasons. |
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D．Now even the poor in India suffer from obesity. |
Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.
I am one of those unlucky people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the place I was heading for.
I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit（承认）that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite（相反的）direction to that in which you should be going.
If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.
Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.
Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.
1.What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?
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A．He will direct the right way to the person willingly.
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B．He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town.
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C．He will give the very person long list of direction.
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D．He is going to show the man an opposite direction. |
2.Why did the writer consider himself to be an unlucky dog?
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A．Because of his poor sense of direction. |
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B．Because he always forget the way to home. |
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C．Because he did not have any friend. |
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D． Because he used to be shy and dared not ask others the way. |
3.How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?
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A．He felt strange. |
B．He felt embarrassed. |
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C．He felt very sad. |
D．He felt astonished. |
4.Who showed the right way to the interviewee according to the passage?
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A．Someone we don’t know. |
B．The writer did it for himself.
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C．The secretary did so. |
D．A warm-hearted old lady did itI. |
Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.
Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.
E-mail makes it easy to work at home, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren’t necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she’d been born before electronic mail became such a practical tool.
The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun - see a great movie perhaps - and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may be tired of telling the story.
With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and address it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.
E-mail is also an inexpensive way stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children off at college.
We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don’t take the place of any of the old ways.
1. The purpose of this passage is to ________.
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A．explain how to use the Internet |
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B．describe the writer’s joy of keeping up with the latest technology |
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C．tell the merits(价值) and usefulness of the Internet |
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D．introduce the reader to basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet |
2.The use of E-mail has made it possible for the writer to ________.
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A．have more free time with his child |
B．spend less time working |
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C．work at home on weekends |
D．work at a speed comfortable to him |
3.According to the writer, E-mail has an obvious advantage over the telephone because the
former helps one ________.
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A．reach a group of people at one time conveniently |
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B．keep one’s communication as personal as possible |
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C．pass on much more information than the later |
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D．get in touch with one’s friends faster than the later |
4.The best title for this passage is ________.
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A．Computer: New Technological Advances |
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B．Internet: New Tool to Maintain Good Friendship |
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C．Computers Have Made Life Easier |
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D．Internet: a Convenient Tool for Communication |
