4月20号，星期二。天气晴朗。你在家里做完作业后，决定去电影院看电影。正要到电影院的时候，你突然发现一位外国人，站在路边非常焦急。于是，你走上器拿去问出了什么事。可彼此都听不懂对方说的话。最后，你们依靠身势语才知道对发个意思。原来这位外国人士想去人民公园。于是你叫了辆出租车，并告诉司机他要到哪里。然后，你就去了电影院。
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If you happen to find “On the Road” at a gas station or “Who Moved My Cheese?” in your grocery store, it might not be and accident. You could be the unwitting beneficiary of a “bookcrosser”---- a person who on purpose leaves books in public places hoping they’ll be found by strangers.
The idea o leaving a book for someone else to find and enjoy is not new ---- some people have been leaving just-finished books in airports and on buses since the dawn of the hurry-up-and-wait. Creating a system for book-leavers to find out what happened to those books adds a new way to the practice. Bokcrossing.com, the website that encourages books to be “released into the wild”, has more than 18,000 members since its start last year, and averages 112 new participants daily.
Its members have scattered(分发) more than 42,000 novels, self-help books, memoirs, technical manuals and biographies in 45 countries, leaving them in public restrooms, movie theatres, coffee studios or anywhere that they can imagine. The result: a worldwide living library.
Peri Doslu, a California yoga instructor, has dropped three--- one on top of a telephone booth, one on a rock wall at remote Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada, and another in one of the studios where she teaches.
“I’m always looking for paces to pass on books,” said Doslu. “To think my book’s going to go off and have this future, and I might even get to know a little bit about it down the road.”
1.If you are an unwitting beneficiary of a bookcrosser, that means_____.
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A．you get a book on how to avoid accidents |
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B．you know where to get a book for free |
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C．you get a book somewhere for free without knowing in advance |
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D．you get a card with which you can borrow books at a gas station or somewhere else |
2. Bookcrossers are the people who ____.
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A．have lots of books |
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B．have lots of money |
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C．release books in public places on purpose |
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D．like reading books very much |
3. A bookcrosser may not leave books in _____.
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A．toilets |
B．a studio |
C．the fields |
D．his bed |
4. Which of the following about Doslu is true?
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A．She dropped her first book on top of a telephone booth. |
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B．She had no idea who took her books away |
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C．She always left books to her students |
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D．She is a bookcrosser traveling around the world |
Tokyo: The world’s oldest man, retired Japanese silkworm breeder Yukichi Chuganji, died in his home at the age of 114, on Monday. Family members found him dead on his mattress. Born on March 23, 1889, Chuganji worked as a silkworm breeder and bank employee after leaving school. He also served as a community welfare(福利) officer. He had been in god health, talking daily with his family members.
Washington: Every American dislikes people who talk on cell phones while driving, even those who do that kind of act. In the State of New Jersey, 84 percent of 968 cell phone owners said in recent telephone survey that they would support a state ban(禁令) on the use of cell phones while driving. However, 42 percent of cell phone owners also said they used the devices “very often” or “sometimes” while driving. Although most agree that the banning is good, only 38 percent believed such a ban would be easy to enforce(实施).
New York: A woman in the US who was being attacked by a dog said she was saved from further harm when her 13-year-old daughter distracted the dog by screaming “You want a piece of me?” and kicked it repeatedly in the head. Jane Howell said she and her daughter, Elizabeth, were taking a walk around the neighborhood on Saturday evening when they came across he big dog, unchained.
1. The main idea of the second news is _____.
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A．most Americans don’t like cell phone |
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B．a ban on the use of cell phones has been made |
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C．few people use cell phones while driving |
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D．using cell phones while driving will be banned because most Americans don’t like it |
2. The woman in the US ____.
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A．was not harmed by the dog |
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B．raised the dog, which attacked her later |
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C．was protected from being seriously hurt by her daughter |
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D．had escaped when her daughter was kicking the dog |
3. From the news we can infer ____.
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A．Chuganji was living alone when he died |
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B．the woman’s 13-year-old daughter was very brave |
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C．cell phones are not good devices |
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D．it’s easy to enforce the ban the use of cell phones while driving |
The passport photographs of the future could turn out to be more than just another pretty picture if a new computer technique developed by Israeli scientists catches on.
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University, in Israel, have invented a way to hide information such as a fingerprint or signature in color images. They believe this could improve passport safety or be used to produce product bar codes(条形码) or designs that cannot be seen.
“The papers can be faxed, scanned(扫描) and reprinted without hidden data disappearing,” New Scientist magazine said last week.
Joseph Rosen and a team of scientists worked out the new instrument by creating a mathematical model.
The model turns a fingerprint or signature into a series of numbers which are used to shape the dots that make up a color picture.
“Each dot can be forced out of the usual place slightly without noticeably changing the final appearance of the image,” the magazine said.
Several images that can be hidden in a single picture are scanned into a computer which does the work.
The hidden images or fingerprints cannot be shown until the picture is scanned again.
The computer rebuilds the fingerprint by measuring the displacement of the dots in the picture.
The magazine said that if he model is used for passport checkpoints the picture can be unscrambled(解码) to show the fingerprint or signature and checked against the person holding the passport.
The researchers are now working on a handheld, and instrument which could make unscrambling the hidden information easier.
1. The new passport photos will probably contain all EXCEPT _____.
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A．one’s picture |
B．one’s fingerprint |
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C．one’s signature |
D．one’s blood type |
2. The writer probably got the information about the new passport photos from ___.
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A．Israeli scientists |
B．a radio or TV |
C．a newspaper |
D．a magazine |
3.What is the best title for the passage?
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A．A New Computer Technique by Israeli Scientists |
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B．A New Way t Hide Information |
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C．The New Passport Photo: More Than Meets the Eye |
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D．Safe Passport Photos |
We are going to talk again this week about higher education for disabled students who want to study in the United States．As we noted last time，there are no special colleges or universities for blind students．But there are for deaf students．One of them is Gallaudet University in Washington，D.C. Gallaudet is said to be the world’s only liberal arts university where everything is designed for deaf or hard-of-hearing students．About 2，000 students attend Gallaudet．The cost for international students is about 33,000 dollars a year．
Financial aid is available in the form of scholarships，but only after the first year of studies. Most scholarship aid goes to students in financial need who do well in their first year．One scholarship for international students is for deaf students from developing countries．Another is just for students from China．The university also offers an English Language Institute．But Gallaudet says this program does not guarantee (担保)acceptance to the university．
In the past year，students at Gallaudet protested against the administration’s choice of a new president for the university．The protests led to the choice of a different president who is more popular with the students，Robert Davila．He is a former officer of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf．This technical college is in Rochester, New York. It is one of the eight colleges in the Rochester Institute of Technology．
More than one thousand students attend the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. About one hundred of them are international students．They come from Africa, Asia，Europe and South America.
The cost is about 28,000 dollars a year for an international Technical Institute student．Foreign graduate students pay about 20,000 dollars. Both undergraduate and graduate student can receive limited financial aid. They can also take part in the student employment program．This program makes it possible for students to work at the school.
1. The passage is written for _______ .
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A．blind students |
B．deaf students |
C．art students |
D．dumb students |
2.The second paragraph mainly shows ________ .
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A．students can get scholarships easily |
B．foreign students call receive more scholarships |
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C．some information about Gallaudet |
D．the costs in Gallaudet are low . |
3. Robert Davila is the president who __________ .
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A．is well received there |
B．is hated by the students |
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C．has high fame world-wide |
D．was appointed by the government |
4.To those who study in Gallaudet，__________ .
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A．foreign students can earn more |
B．the costs are different |
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C．receiving financial aid is easy |
D．every student can find a suitable job |
Public schools in New York，America’s biggest city, commonly have numbers for names．But this is unusual．In the United States，the process of naming a school often involves parents and the community
as well as elected school leaders.
Researchers say school names can show civic (市民的) values and also shape them． For example，naming a school after a historic person becomes a way to teach students about that person’s importance in history．
A new study examines the naming of American public schools．The study is from the Manhattan Institute，an organization that does public policy research．The study shows that fewer and fewer schools are being named after people．Instead。more schools are being named after the local areas or natural features like hills．trees or animals．The researchers say these changes raise questions about the civic duty of public education．
The looked at seven states with 20% of all public school students in the country. They found the similar result in every state: new school are less likely to be named after people. This is true especially with presidents. For example, in Arizona, public school in the past 20 years were almost fifty times more likely to be named after such things as landforms or plants .
School officials say they try to choose names that will not offend anyone. For example, a few years ago the city of New Orleans banned the naming of any school after a person who owned slaves. Other school system have rules against naming new schools after any person, living or dead .
The researchers say naming a school after a person can lead it important debates about democratic values. They call for more research to identify the causes and effects of the changes in school names.
The causes may include changes in American culture as well as in the political control of school systems. One area worth exploring , they say, is the link between trends in school names and weak results for public schools on measures of civic education.
1.More schools are being named after the following EXCEPT ________ .
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A．hills |
B．trees |
C．animals |
D．people |
2.What does “they” in paragraph 7 refer to ?
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A．School officials |
B．Public schools |
C．The researchers |
D．Democratic values |
3. If the passage appears in a newspaper, which column will it be ?
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A．Culture |
B．Science |
C．Travel |
D．Entertainment |
4. What’s the best title for the passage ?
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A．Few Us Public School Now Are Named after people |
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B．Public Schools In New York Have Numbers for Names |
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C．The Various Origins of America Schools |
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D．US Public Schools Value the Names of Great Persons |
