Do you often lose things? Don’t worry. Now a new tool that can be connected to any object you might lose may be the way to solve your problem. The Tile, a small square linked up to your iphone or ipad by means of Bluetooth, lets you see how close you are to your missing item, within a 50-to-150-foot range. If the item goes out of your phone’s 150-foot range, it can still be found on other smart phones with the same app.
When you drive the app on your phone, it shows you, with green bars that increase or decrease, how close or far away you are from the Tile. You can also program it to make a sound when you get close to the Tile. And you can link up your phone with up to ten Tiles. And if your lost object—a dog, for example, or a stolen bike—go out of your own phone’s 150-foot Bluetooth range, you can set it as a “lost item”. If any of the phones with the Tile app comes within range of your lost item, a message will be sent to your phone, telling you its position. The Tile app also has the function to remember where it last saw your Tile, so that you can easily find where you left it.
Since the Tiles use Bluetooth rather than GPS, they are never out of battery or needn’t to be charged, and they work for one year before needing to be replaced. And the app works with all generations of iPhones and iPads.
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1.What can the Tile app help you ?
A. To use your phone more wisely
B. To find your missing items
C. To save your phone’s power
D. To find other phone users
2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The Tile needs to be charged after a year of use.
B. One smart phone can only be linked up with one Tile.
C. A missing item can’t be found if it goes out of your phone’s Bluetooth range.
D. The Tile cannot be linked up with a phone without Bluetooth.
3.What does the second paragraph mainly tell us?
A. What the Tile app is.
B. The advantages of the Tile app.
C. How the Tile app works.
D. Why the Tile app was created.
4.Where does the passage probably come from?
A. A health report. B. An advertisement.
C. A personal diary D. Science fiction.
How many men do housework? Recently a European Commission tried to find out people’s ideas and reactions to the women’s movement. As part of their survey, they asked many men and women the question, “Who does the housework?” The men answered very differently from the women!
The housework they asked people about were: preparing meals, washing dishes, cleaning the house and babysitting. 48% of British husbands said they did these things. 37% of Danish men helped in the house. But only 15% of Italian men said they did the housework, many of them said they never helped at all!
But there was an interesting point of view from the wives. According to British wives, only 38% of their husbands helped in the house. And Italian wives said that their husbands hardly ever helped. The Italian and British men did not tell the truth! The Commission found that Danish men were the most trustful husbands; their answers were the same as their wives’ answers.
Do the men you know help in the house? Do you think the survey gives a true picture in your experience? Write and tell us what you think.
1.The survey was carried out in ______.
A. Britain B. Europe C. Denmark D. Italy
2.The subject for the survey is ______.
A. how many boys do the housework
B. who are more diligent, wives or husbands
C. how many women do the housework
D. who does the housework at home
3.From the passage we can see that ______.
A. there were more husbands who did the housework than wives
B. husbands did half of the housework all the time
C. there were more wives who did the housework than husbands.
D. wives did all the housework at home
4.More ______ husbands help in the house than ______ husbands.
A. British; Danish B. Italian; Danish
C. Danish; British D. Italian; British
书面表达
请以“On Driving Cars”为题，按下面所给提示，写一篇字数在100左右的短文。
第一句已给出，字数不计。
1. 如今，路上的汽车越来越多；
2. 一些人喜欢开汽车的原因；
3. 另外一些人不喜欢开汽车的原因。
Nowadays, there have been more and more cars in streets and people drive it for work…
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短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
When I was a small child，my parents didn’t have many money and I had very few Christmas gifts. My cousin was ten and he had gone out singing Christmas songs and made quite a bit money. Without tell anyone he went to the shop and spent almost every penny of his money in a teddy bear. Then he was used the change to buy a little necklace with a glass charming (迷人的) heart on them. He came to my house and told my parents what he had bought these things for me as Christmas gift. Twenty-five years later the teddy bear has been thrown away, but I even have the little necklace in my jewelry box to remind me of my cousin kindness.
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项
We looked through the Styles archive(档案文件) of 2015, sorting through the many tips and tricks throughout our stories. Our subjects are about what you wear, what you consume and how you love. _1.________．
1. Wear comfortable underwear.
“I only wear granny panties(内裤),” said Julia Baylis, 22. Mayan Toledano, 27, added: “What’s sexy for us is being natural and comfortable.” _2._______．
2. Stare into the eyes of someone you love (or want to love) for exactly four minutes.
Not two. Not three. Four. “3._________ ” said Mandy Len Catron, the author of a Modern Love column on the exercise. “Four really takes effect.”
3. Be nice to babies.
Even if they're screaming on a plane. Nyfesha Miller became a social media star after taking care of her seatmate's crying infant on a flight earlier this year.
4. __4._______．
It may be true that you can't really cure depression, so you can only get better at living with it. But raising a kitten（小猫）seemed to help one depressed man.
5. Make sure you are the boss of your electronic devices.
Rather than the other way around. _5.________ That’s the most important for us to keep the laws.
6. Enjoy the phrase 'I'm too old for this.'
“There is also something profoundly liberating about aging: an attitude, one that comes hard won,” wrote Dominique Browning. “Only when you hit 60 can you begin to say: ‘I’m too old for this.’ This line is about to become my personal motto.”
A. Here are some tips for improving your existence in the coming year.
B. It’s only allowed to wear granny panties for the young.
C. Help a depressed man.
D. In other words, it’s our first choice to feel natural and at ease.
E. Get a pet.
F. Try making a few rules for when you do (and don't) use your phone.
G. Two minutes is just enough to be terrified.
---Shall we go to see the Avengers II this weekend?
---I’d love to, but well, I will check my schedule first. This Saturday evening?
---_____.
A. When you are convenient B. When there is convenience
C. At your convenience D. For you convenience
