It’s possible to do many simple tricks with numbers. Here is one trick, if you follow the instructions, you will find it’s really interesting.
First, write down your house number. For example, if your address is 73 Jin Shang Road, you would write down 73. After you write down your house address number, you double it. Then add 5 to this doubled number. For example, if your address is 73 and you double it, you will get 146. Then you add 5, you will get 151.
And then, multiply this number by 50. In our example here, you’ll get 7550. The next step is to add your age to this total. For example, if you’re 16 years old, you should add 16 to this total. In our example here, the result will be 7566.
After that, you have to add the number of days in a year, which is 365. In our example here, 365 added to 7566 is 7931.
The final step is this: Subtract 615 from the number that you have. Take away 615 from the total. In our example, 7931 minus 615 is 7316.
The result here—7316—is the trick. The first part of the number is the address and the last part of the number is the age of the person. That is, 73 is the address that we started with, and 16 is the age that we used.
Isn’t it interesting? Do you want to have a try now?
1.How many steps are there in the trick?
A. FourB. Seven C. Nine
2.The third step is ______.
A. ＋5 B. ×50C. －615
3.Tom is 38, he lives in 89 Jin Shang Road. If he plays this trick, he will get ______ in the end.
A. 3889B. 9150C. 8938
4.When you play this trick, ______ is Not the number you have to use every time.
A. 50 B.73C. 365
5.The best title of this passage is “______”.
A. A trick with numbersB. An interesting problem C. How to work out a trick
It is very important for us students to learn to use dictionaries. Try to find the answers to the questions in this dictionary extract（摘要）.
1.We can find these explainations（解释）in _________ dictionary.
A. an English-EnglishB. a Chinese-English C. an English-Chinese
2.If you try to find a word similar to “proud”, you can look up the word “______”.
A. pleasureB. pride C.person
3.If you have a bad cold, you will ______ according to the extract.
A. feel proud of yourselfB. lose your voice C.encourage your parents
4.The word “encourage” is a (an) ______.
A. adjectiveB. noun C. verb
5.In the sentence “Your parents may △ you from smoking”, △ stands for _____ according to the extract.
A. proud B. voiceC. discourage
One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe. Pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth the trouble.” His father said nothing but picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the pennies he bought some grapes.
It was very hot, and there wasn’t a house or a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a grape on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another grape and once again, his son picked it up and put it in his mouth.
And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the grapes and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the grapes, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you had bent down early to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the grapes, always remember the lesson: A person who does not worry about the little things will find that he can not do the great things.”
1.The horseshoe was picked up by ______
A. the father B.the son C.nobody
2.The father bought some ______ after he sold the horseshoe.
A.pennies B.grapesC.trees
3.Thomas picked up the grapes and ate them because ______.
A. he was asked toB. he liked themC. he was thirsty
4.The father dropped the grapes one by one because he wanted ______.
A. his son to eat them all
B. to teach his son a lesson
C. to make fun of his son
5.From the passage, we can learn that ______.
A. if we want to eat grapes, we must pick up a horseshoe
B. a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us much money
C. we should worry about small things before we do the great things
情景七选五。请阅读下面对话，根据其情景，从方框内七个选项中选出能填入下面对话的五个选项。并用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
A: Hello, Maria!1.What’s wrong with you?
B:2.I’m worried about how to tell my parents the result, for they must be disappointed and unhappy.
A: Don’t worry! Even though your parents are strict with you, they love you very much。.
B:3.But what shall I do?
A: First, please dry your tears. Then our classmates and I can help you with your subjects.
B: Thank you!4.
A:5.
A. You are right.
B. I did badly in the exam.
C. What a shame!
D. That’s very nice of you.
E. Why are you crying?
F. That’s all.
G. You’re welcome!
My dear brothers and sisters:
The unexpected earthquake attacked you today last year, my dear friends. Actually it hit every Chinese because we are in the same , sharing the same sky. Though we are not in Sichuan with you, we know how you feel after your family members and belongings in the earthquake. Many volunteers the country come to help you because we know what difficulties you are facing. When we heard the sad or moving stories over the radio or watched them on TV, tears came to our . We are as heartbroken as you are.
, we brave Chinese can beat any disaster and overcome any difficulty. In the past year, we hid our tears and our best to rebuild our hometown. We told ourselves“ Don’t !” “No hope, no success!” “Nothing is impossible to a willing heart!” We are still walking in a desert (沙漠) at present, but we are ready to live on bravely. Please remember that you are not , not only Chinese people but also people from all over the world are with you, we you and we are willing to help you.
So just believe we’ll beat the disaster, and a happy life is just on its way!
1.A. village B. country C. town
2.A. gettingB. calling C. losing
3.A. acrossB. underC. behind
4.A. eyes B. ears C. mouths
5.A. Although B. However C. Because
6.A. tried B. saidC. made
7.A. give out B. give away C. give up
8.A. like B. after C. before
9.A. boringB. happy C. alone
10.A. look for B. care about C. take after
--- We can use QQ to talk with each other on the Internet when you’re abroad.
--- Really? But can you tell me _______?
A. how I can use it B. how can I use it C. why can I use it
