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 or see a great movie, perhaps there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may get 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 to stay in close touch with people who live far away. Quite 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 ________.
A. explain how to use the Internet
B. describe the writer’s joy of keeping up with the latest technology
C. tell the merits(价值) and usefulness of the Internet
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 ________.
A. spend less time working
B. have more free time with his child
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 ________.
A. reach a group of people at one time conveniently
B. keep one’s communication as personal as possible
C. pass on much more information than the later
D. get in touch with one’s friends faster than the later
4.The best title for this passage is ________.
A. Computer: New Technological Advances
B. Internet: New Tool to Maintain Good Friendship
C. Computers Have Made Life Easier
Internet: a Convenient Tool for Communication
When many people are worried that there are no more heroes in the modern times，two university students who lost their lives to rescue drowning children have shown that heroes are still living in the world．
According to the Inner Mongolia Morning Post，the tragedy（悲剧） occurred on the afternoon of December 14,2010 when three school students skating on a frozen lake in Qingcheng Park in Hohhot fell through the ice into the freezing water．
More than 20 university students who happened to be near the place immediately went to the rescue of the children．
Two children were quickly rescued，but the third died．The child's body was not found for three hours． Two of the rescuers，Liu Ye and Hao Longbiao，also died of cold and exhaustion（筋疲力尽）．
The body of Hao who was the first to jump into the lake was not found until the next day．
A student who was unwilling to tell his name said he and his classmates from the local college were taking photos at the lake． When they heard the children's cries for help， they went to the ice hole hand in hand to rescue the children． But the ice kept breaking， causing most of them to fall into the icy water．
Local people held mourning ceremonies（祭奠仪式） at the lake．
Eight of the students were seriously affected by the freezing water and were being kept in hospital for further observation， but their lives were no longer in danger．
1. The underlined word “occurred” here means“____”．
A．employed B．mixed C．guided D. happened
2. When the three students fell into water， the university students were ____.
A． skating on the ice B． taking photos at the lake
C． having a picnic D． walking along the lake
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage？
A． Three students died on the same day in all．
B． Hao Longbiao’s body was found on December 14,2010．
C． The university students didn’t think it dangerous to save the drowning children in the lake．
D． Local people were not brave in face of danger．
4. It can be inferred that ＿＿＿＿．
A． people think little of the two university students' death
B． the ice on the lake wasn't strong enough to skate on
C． some students regretted for what they had done
D． heroes don't agree with the steps of modern times
5. The author wrote the passage to ＿＿＿＿．
A． warn people of the danger of skating on ice
B． call on people to learn from the brave university students
C． tell us a tragedy
D． advise university students to love their lives
There are many types of reports. A report is simply an account of something that has happened. The commonest are news reports. We get them in newspapers, over radio and on television. Sometimes cinemas also show us newsreels(新闻影片).
The main purpose of a newspaper is to provide news. If you examine a newspaper closely, you will find that there are all types of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars, fashions, sports, books, etc. The news covers everything that happens to people
and their surroundings. Sometimes there are news items which are very amusing.
A news report is usually very short, except when it is about something very important, but it contains a lot of information. It is also written in short paragraphs. The first paragraph is in fact a summary of the news item. It gives all the necessary information, what, when, where, how and why. The other paragraphs give full details of the subject. There may also be interviews with people. The words actually spoken by them are within inverted commas(引号).
Often there are photographs to go with the news to make it more interesting.
1.The easiest way to get today’s news is____.
A. to go to the cinema
B. to watch a color TV
C. to read today’s newspaper
D. to listen to the music over radio
2.Newspapers sell well mainly because____.
A. They cost very little
B. They are easy to get
C. They have got pictures to go with news
D. They provide all sorts of news in them
3.If you want to get enough information about yesterday’s traffic accident within a very short time, you’d better____.
A. read the first paragraph of the news report in today’s newspaper
B. start from the second paragraph of the news report in today’s newspaper
C. look through the whole news report in today’s newspaper
D. talk with people who have seen the accident
4.This passage mainly talks about____.
A. different types of reports
B. news reports
C. happenings to people and their surroundings
D.the length of a news report
Elizabeth lived on the other side of a valley. One winter there was a very big flood, and a lot of houses down below Elizabeth’s were washed away. Elizabeth’s house was 21 enough to escape the flood, so when the water 22 and the other houses were standing there with no 23 and no walls and all covered with 24 ,her house was still quite all right.
Her house was quite small, her husband was 25 and she had six children to support. Ten dollars a week, which was the total of their income, didn’t leave much for 26 . Expenses were always greater than Elizabeth had 27 , but she didn’t hesitate to help one of the families that lost everything in the flood and she 28 her house with them until it was 29 for them to move into their own houses.
Elizabeth’s friend was very 30 when she saw Elizabeth do this. She couldn’t understand why Elizabeth wanted to give 31 so much work and trouble to help others.
“Well,” Elizabeth 32 to her friend, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself 33 , because her husband had been killed in the war in Germany and she had a lot of 34 , as I have now.”
“The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have 35 presents for all of us. I’ll go and get it.’ She came back with a little girl who was in 36 clothes and crying in deep sorrow. The girl was an orphan(孤儿). ‘Here’s our 37 . She said to the children.
“The children were very 38 to have such a present. They 39 the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. I was that 40 present.”
1.A. low B. tall C. high D. strong
2. A. raised B. risen C. disappeared D. appeared
3. A. windows B. doors C. roofs D. floor
4. A. mud B. plastics C. trees D. water
5. A. living B. dead C. angry D. pleased
6. A. sharing B. saving C. remaining D. sparing
7. A. gave B. thought C. hoped D. completed
8. A. divided B. separated C. shared D. spared
9. A. possible B. satisfying C. necessary D. important
10. A. happy B. interested C. puzzled D. sad
11.A. her B. herself C. her children D. her friend
12. A. talked B. apologized C. explained D. described
13.A. living B. wounded C. rich D. poor
14. A. friends B. children C. neighbours D. relatives
15. A. many B. enough C. beautiful D. expensive
16.A. suitable B. nice C. old D. new
17.A. home B. flood C. present D. daughter
18.A. excited B. worried C. disturbed D. disappointed
19.A. comforted B. welcomed C. taught D. educated
20.A. Christmas B. New Year C. birthday D. Thanksgiving
It is reported that Russia uses____ energy as Uklaine.
A. as twice much B. twice as much C. twice much as D. twice much
----Have you seen Tom and Mary?
----I haven’t seen____ of them.
A. neither B. any C. either D. none
