Marley is a businessman. His business is freezing people. He works for a company in California called Trans Time. Trans Time freezes people after they die. Why does Trans Time freeze people? Doctors today can cure many diseases, but they cannot cure all diseases. People still get sick and die. Maybe in the future doctors will have medicine for all diseases. Some people think so. They want Trans Time to freeze their bodies after they die. Maybe 100 or 200, or 300 years later, Trans Time doctors will bring the people back to life. The doctors will cure their diseases, and the people will be alive and healthy again.
People often ask the scientists at the Trans Time, “How will Trans Time bring dead people back to life?” They say, “We can freeze a healthy animal and bring it back to life. We think that someday it will be possible with human.” When they say “someday”, they mean years from now — maybe 100 or 200 years. How can Trans Time keep people frozen for 200 years?
After a person dies, workers at Trans Time cool the body with ice and chemicals. When the body is very cold, workers put the body into a capsule (密封舱). They fill the capsule with liquid nitrogen (液氮). The temperature in it is 196 degrees centigrade below zero. Every two weeks workers add more liquid nitrogen. The liquid nitrogen keeps the bodies frozen.
Trans Time charges $21,000 to freeze a body and $59,000 to keep a body frozen. That’s $80,000 all together. It is a lot of money. But some people think that $80,000 is a fair price. It’s a fair price for a chance to live again, isn’t it?
1.What kind of people does Trans Time serve? (No more than 2 words)
2.How much should one pay together, if he wants his body to be cooled and kept by Trans Time?
(No more than 2 words)
3.Why do people want to be frozen? (No more than 9 words)
4.What is the main idea of Paragraph 3? (No more than 6 words)
It’s easy to see how the sawfish got its name. These frightful creatures can grow to be more than 6 meters long. Their bodies are flat and winged, like underwater airplanes. And their noses are shaped like chainsaws.
Sawfish are food hunters of the sea. When a sawfish is hungry, it waves its sharp-toothed snout（口鼻部）through a group of fish. Then, it lifts its nose and uses its mouth to draw the injured victims.
Hardy（适应力强的）population of sawfish thrived in warm waters along coastlines around the world for thousands of years. Over the past 200 years, however, human actions have severely endangered sawfish. Threats include fishing nets that trap the huge animals, often by mistake.
Some people collect sawfish’s snouts as prizes: One snout recently sold for nearly $ 1,600 online. In some Asian cultures, the toothy snouts are used in ceremonies to drive evil and disease away. And sawfish are also delicious. A growing demand in Asia for the fish’s fins for a pricey soup has contributed to the fish’s loves. Compared with other fish, sawfish give birth late in life and at slow rates, which makes it hard for them to recover from overfishing.
New efforts now aim to restore sawfish population. Beginning next month, an international agreement will provide protection for all seven of the world’s sawfish species. Scientists are hoping that it’s not too late to save the sawfish.
Until 1998, “this fish had never been formally studied in the United States,” says Tonya Wiley of the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Fla. “We didn’t know such basic things as where they live, what habitat they use, how often they breed, how many young they have — even what age sawfish are when they begin breeding.”
Through historical studies and field research, scientists have become aware of how much the fish’s numbers have decreased. Today, there may be 90 percent fewer sawfish than there used to be. Wiley estimates that only 3,000 to 6,000 sawfish remain in US waters.
Sawfish
Descriptions Size
1.__________
2. __________ Body: Flat and winged Nose: Like a chainsaw
3.__________ of hunting for food Attacking fish with
4.__________.
Drawing the injured victims with its mouth.
5.__________ Sawfish’s disappearance
6.__________
Sawfish’s snout relates business.
Its
7._________ and slowly which makes it hard to recover from overfishing.
8._________ Only 10 % sawfish left
3,000 to 6,000 remain in US watersEfforts
9.__________ Measure
Restoring sawfish population
10.__________ all seven of the world’s sawfish species
Is language, like food, a basic human need? Judging from the extreme experiment of Frederick in the 13th century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue he told the nurses to keep silent.
All the babies died before the first year. But clearly there was more than language deprivation (剥夺，丧失). What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the ability to survive is seriously affected.
Today no such extreme deprivation exists as that ordered by Frederick. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to signals of the baby, whose brain is programmed, to mop up language rapidly. There are critical times, it seems when children learn more rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again.
Linguists suggest that speech milestones are reached in a fixed order and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ.
Recent evidence suggests that a baby is born with the ability to speak. What is special about man’s brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a teddy bear with the sound pattern “teddy bear”.
But speech has to be developed, and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child, where the mother recognizes the signals in the child’s babbling, clinging, grasping, crying, smiling, and responds to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals reduces the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the child’s nonverbal (非语言的) signals is basic to the growth and development of language.
1.Frederick’s experiment was extreme because _________.
A．he wanted to prove children are born with ability to speak
B．he wanted his nurses to say another language
C．he was unkind to the nurses
D．he ignored the importance of mothering to the babies
2.The reason that some children are backward in speaking is most likely that _________.
A．they do not listen carefully to their mothers
B．their mothers do not respond to their attempts to speak
C．their brain has to absorb too much language at once
D．their mothers are not intelligent enough to help them
3.In paragraph 3, by “critical times” the author means _________.
A．difficult periods in the child’s life
B．moments when the child becomes critical towards its mother
C．important stages in the child’s development
D．times when mothers often neglect their children
4.If a child starts to speak later than others, he will _________ in future.
A．have a high IQ B．be less intelligent
C．not necessarily be backward D．be insensitive to verbal signals
5.If the mother seldom responds to her child’s signals, _________.
A．the child will be able to speak properly
B．the child will continue to give out signals
C．the child will invent a language of own
D．the child will make little effort to speak
The US government has started a website, Admongo, to help children think critically about the advertising aimed at them. It claims to provide visitors with an “aducation” through games and other entertainment.
A cartoon man dressed in old time pilot clothing greets visitors to Admongo. "Call me Haiz", he says upon arrival in a rocket ship that opens up with a crazy world inside it. Spacey dance music plays in the background as Haiz tells visitors that they need to learn about advertising.
Its inventors say eight to twelve years old is the age kids develop their critical thinking abilities. Kids that age are also a big market for advertisers.
The idea behind Admongo is to teach children three things: To identify the advertiser. To know what the advertiser is really saying. And to know what the advertisement is trying to get the child to do.
Children learn these things through a video game. They create their own game character. They can choose different skin colors, hair styles, eye and mouth shapes. Then they begin a trip through ad-land, where there are ads on buses and billboards. The players have to find all the marketing in the neighborhood before they can move on to the next level.
The Admongo game takes players inside a home, to the advertising studio and everywhere else ads can be found. It is a complete exploration of the world of marketing.
One such area is food marketing. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says it is a big business. The FTC estimates that food, drink and fast-food restaurants spent more than one and a half billion dollars on advertising to young people in 2009.
The FTC says children are important for three reasons. They buy products. They influence parents and caregivers to buy. And they are the future adult buyers of the products.
A recent study says most advertising aimed at children is for foods of the lowest nutritional value. First Lady Michelle Obama has said she would like to see advertisers marketing healthy foods for children.
1.What is the best title of the text?
A．A website aimed at children’s food B．The cartoon guide named “Haiz”
C．An “aducation” website for children D．A popular online video game
2.Why did the government start the website?
A．To advertise the video game for children. B．To help children know about advertising.
C．To attract the biggest market of buyers. D．To sell the products of its company.
3.What can players do in the website game?
A．Play video games during the trip. B．Travel to a supermarket.
C．Eat in a fast-food restaurant. D．Choose appearance for their character.
4.Children are important for advertising because they are
A．important for the society B．the most potential buyers
C．easily influenced by ads D．easily affected by poor products
5.According to Michelle Obama, lots of foods advertised for children are ________.
A．of low quality B．yummy C．of high nutrition D．healthy
Four out of ten women who diet end up heavier than when they started watching their waistline（腰围）, a study revealed today. The research also showed that a large percentage of women start noticing the pounds creeping back on just 21 days after reaching their ideal weight.
Yesterday, Dr Ian Campbell of the Jenny Craig weight management program said: “In the UK 61.4 per cent of adults are overweight or obese. Successful weight management requires a long-term commitment in order to lose weight successfully and for good. Dieting can be a real challenge so setting realistic goals and remaining focused on them is important. Otherwise as this research shows, women could end up heavier than when they started.”
The “Food: Body: Mind” report was publicized by Jenny Craig who quizzed 2000 women aged between 18 and 65 who diet regularly on their attitudes, beliefs and behaviors around weight loss. Six in ten said they are currently on a diet and one in five women said they are on a “continuous diet”.
It found the most common triggers to start dieting was seeing their “reflection in the mirror”, preparing for a summer holiday or unflattering photos posted on social networking sites. Other popular reasons include comments by friends or relatives or their other half.
However, the study showed that one in ten give up within one day, while almost a fifth manage to make it to a week or more. The average is ten days. Many blamed pressure they put on themselves to lose weight too quickly for the weight gain, which leaves them with a bigger appetite than normal. Others blamed colleagues, who tuck into fatty lunches and snacks unaware of the effect it has on the dieter, while mothers who polish off their children's leftovers（剩饭）was another common cause of weight gain.
1.Which of the following might be the best title for this article?
A．Three reasons to fail in dieting B．Important things for successful diet
C．Obesity: problem for 61.4% adults in UK D．Four in ten women gain weight on diets
2.In the UK, women who go on a diet __________.
A．are all overweight or obese
B．are likely to gain weight again after reaching their ideal weight
C．all fail because they are not persistent enough
D．end up heavier than when they start to diet
3.The underlined word “triggers” in Paragraph 4 probably means __________.
A．effects B．examples C．causes D．imagination
4.Which of the following is NOT the reason why many people quit dieting very soon?
A．The pressure they put on themselves to lose weight quickly.
B．Colleagues who give them fatty lunches and snacks.
C．Reflections they see in the mirror.
D．Leftovers of children’s taken by their mothers.
5. In which column of the newspaper do you probably find the passage?
A．Health. B．Economy. C．Sports. D．Education.
The construction of Shanghai Disneyland project and the international tourist resort is 1. ______ to cost the municipal government more than 100 billion yuan ($15.1 billion), 2.______ than the expense of last year's World Expo. According to the report, it will cost about 25 billion yuan to build the new theme park's core area, and 3. ______ 40 billion yuan to finish affiliated（附属的）facilities. Most of these expenses will be paid by the Shanghai government.
The entire project will cover 4. _____ to 107.1 square kilometers, with 7 square kilometers taking up the core area, 13.6 square kilometers for affiliated facilities 5.______ 86.5 square kilometers for control areas. The government is expected to spend more than 100 billion yuan on the project..
"Affiliated facilities, 6.______ a commercial hotel, are set to be finished before the park opens in 2015," said Xu Lin, who heads the Pudong New Area district. Major construction work will begin in May, and affiliated facilities are scheduled to be done 7.______ June 2014.
In addition, apart from government investments, overseas capital and some domestic companies are eyeing deals for the park's affiliated projects as well. A Japanese company, 8._______ is in charge of Tokyo Disneyland's operations, is contacting the Walt Disney Co in the US, trying to obtain an operation deal for the park.
