1.Her father has________(fly) to London on business already.
2.In order to keep healthy, Lucy eats less for supper. She looks________(slim) than before.
3.How________(heavy) it rained in Europe! Some museums along the River Seine had to be closed.
4.Last year, he________(success) in winning a scholarship to Harvard University.
5.A picture of pear (yali) stands for “stress”, which shares a similar________(pronounce) with the fruit in Chinese.
1.Three________(五) of the surfaces of the lake is covered with wild plants.
2.I wonder________(是否) I can pass the Civil Service Exam or not. It’s a big challenge for me.
3.Tu Youyou won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology. She is the________(骄傲) of us Chinese.
4.Researchers say temperatures in North Africa will continue________(上升) this summer.
5.We are sorry to hear that you are not________(满意) with your new car.
Meet Thomas Wilson. Thomas is famous all over the World. He holds the world record for sleeping in(睡过头). One weekend, Thomas slept in for two days, three hours and fourteen minutes. It was unbelievable. No one in history had ever slept in for so long before.
Thomas was very proud of his world record. His friends were proud of him, too. Whenever Thomas walked down the street, people always came up to him and shook his hand. Thomas was a star.
The only person who wasn’t proud of Thomas’s world record was his father. Dad didn’t like it when Thomas slept in. He complained that whenever Thomas slept in, the lawns didn’t get mowed. He was worried about how high the grass was getting. Every weekend, it seemed to get higher and higher. “It’s like a jungle there.” Dad moaned(抱怨) to Thomas one day. But Thomas wasn’t worried about the grass getting higher. He had more important things on his mind—— like sleeping in.
One morning, Thomas was woken from a deep sleep by a loud roaring noise. It sounded like a wild animal pacing about under his bedroom window.
Thomas rushed over to the window and pulled the curtains back. His eyes bulged like basketballs. “What on earth…？” He gasped. There, in the middle of the backyard, was a lion! “Awesome!” cried Thomas. Suddenly, a giraffe poked its head through the window. It munched the leaves from a plant sitting by Thomas’s bed. Next, an elephant walked past the swimming pool and squirted(喷出) water all over Dad’s car! “Cool!” cheered Thomas. “Now I don’t have to wash Dad’s car today.”…(选自《新理念英语阅读》)
1.What is Thomas famous for?
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2.How long did Thomas sleep in one weekend?
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3.Was Thomas’s father proud of his son’s world record?
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4.Why did Thomas say he didn’t have to Wash Dad’s car?(no more than ten words)
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5.What do you think of Thomas’s world record for sleeping in?(no more than three words)
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Mobile phone history
Not long ago, mobile phones were used mainly by business people and government officers in society. In the US, mobile phone users were about 340,000 in 1985. Now there are 205 million mobile phones users in the US. Studies also show that over 50 percent of children in the US own their own personal mobile phones. The mobile phones explosion(激增) has led to a huge number of waste phones. The number of mobile phone users has also increased throughout the world. In the middle of 2005, the number of total users jumped to 2.4 billion worldwide.
Mobile phone waste
When people throw their mobile phones away, they usually end up in the open air. Mobile phones include some materials like lead, mercury and cadmium。 They can go into public drinking water and food and do harm to people’s health. About 75 percent of mobile phone users don’t know their phones away. Instead, they prefer to keep the waste ones sitting around the house as they are not worth very much. People are also afraid that others may know their information if they sell their waste phones. Less than 20 percent of them are recycled each year.
Benefits of recycling mobile phones
Mobile phones have valuable materials inside. The most valuable material is gold, which is used in the phone circuit boards. Recycling can reduce greenhouse gas emissions(排放物) and keep natural resources like gold. If all of the waste phones in the US are recycled, it will save enough energy to offer over 194,000 US families electricity(电) for one year.
How mobile phone recycling works
Many people do not know how mobile phone recycling works. One method of recycling mobile phones is to take the working parts of broken phones, then combine(使结合) them with the working parts of other used mobile phones to make one ready-to-use mobile phone. Another method of mobile phone recycling is to melt(融化) down and separate parts of the phone in order to get the valuable natural resources, such as gold and platinum. Plastic and glass can also be recycled from used mobile phones.
The used mobile phones | |
Mobile phone history | ●Compared with the condition in 1985, there are1. mobile phone users at present. ●More than2. of the children in America have their own personal mobile phones. ●The mobile phone explosion has3. a huge number of waste phones. |
Mobile phone waste | ●Some materials, such as lead, mercury and cadmium in the mobile phones are4. to people’s health. ●Three-quarters of the users prefer to keep the waste phones sitting around the house5. of throwing them away. |
Benefits of recycling | ●Some materials are of great6.. They can be used again. ●It can7. plenty of electricity for American families if the waste phones are recycled. |
How recycling8. | ●One way is to join working parts of9. or used phones together. ●10. way is to melt down and separate parts of the phones to get the valuable natural resources. |
Lord and Lady Duncan Live in Buckingham House. They have told the police that a valuable statue has been stolen. The police have not been able to solve the crime, so they have asked Holmes and Watson to help.
Holmes: Lord Duncan, can you tell me what happened?
Lord Duncan: We returned from the party at midnight and as we drove up to the house, the alarm started ringing. I jumped out of the car and went to investigate(调查). A person, just a little shorter than me, ran past carrying a large bag.
Holmes: How tall are you?
Lord Duncan: I am 1.8 metres tall.
Holmes: What happened next?
Lord Duncan: As the person ran past me, I hit out with my umbrella. The person fell to the ground but got up and ran away into the night. It happened so quickly.
Holmes: Lady Duncan, you must have hurt the thief. Dr. Watson, please test the blood that I found on these broken glasses which were left behind.
Watson: Holmes, I have made a drawing of footprints found outside the broken window. It looks as if our thief was wearing high heels(鞋跟). By the way, the blood sample belongs to Blood Type O.
Holmes: We have five suspects. Which one do you think is the thief?
Profiles of the suspects:
Suspect 1: the gardener, male, 47 years old, 1.8m, black hair, with a beard, Blood Type A
Suspect 2: the butler(管家), male, 30 years old, 1.68m, brown hair, with a scar, Blood Type O
Suspect 3: the cook, female, 32years old, 1.75m, red hair, with glasses, Blood Type O
Suspect 4: the cleaner, female, 86 years old, 1.75m, blond hair, with glasses, Blood Type O
Suspect 5: the driver, male, 38 years old, 1.75m, brown hair, with a beard, Blood Type O
Can you use the clues to decide who stole the statue?(《选自初中英语读本》)
1.Who has asked Holmes to help solve the crime?
A. Lord Duncan. B. The police. C. Lady Duncan. D. Dr. Watson.
2.Lord and Lady Duncan went to the party .
A. by car B. by bicycle C. on foot D. by bus
3.Which of the following was helpful for solving the case?
A. The alarm started ringing.
B. The thief jumped out of the car.
C. The thief left footprints and blood behind.
D. The thief was knocked over by the umbrella.
4.Which is NOT true according to the article?
A. Lord and Lady Duncan returned from the party very late.
B. The thief probably got his or her glasses broken.
C. Lady Duncan probably hurt the thief with her umbrella.
D. The thief was just a little shorter than Lady Duncan.
5.Who do you think the most probably stole the statue?
A. The butler. B. The cook C. The cleaner. D. The driver.
Autism(自闭症) is a disorder of the brain that happens in the first three years of life. It affects the brain's normal development. Most autistic patients have difficulty talking with other people or doing things. However, some of the autistic people have amazing abilities. For example, some can memorize many things and some can do calculations really fast.
Raymond Babbitt in the 1988 film Rain Man is an example. The character in the film was based on Kim Peek, a man from the USA. Peek couldn't switch on a light or put his clothes on by himself. But his memory was so amazing that he could remember almost anything. He could memorize every road, place and distance on maps. He could even remember almost every word in thousands of books. His way of reading was more amazing. Peek could read two pages at the same time in just eight to ten seconds. He read the left page with his left eye and the right page with his right eye.
Scientists still don't know for sure why some autistic people have special talent after they have done a lot of research. There is one possible explanation. When certain parts of the brain are damaged! by autism, other parts of the brain might get stronger. Therefore special abilities were born.
But not all people with autism have amazing abilities. In fact, autistic people with amazing abilities are rare (罕有的) and the abilities cannot be trained. According to research, only ten percent of autistic people show any signs of special talent.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案，并将其标号填涂在答题卡相应位置。
1.What do we know about Autism?
A. It is a disorder of the bones.
B. It happens all through one's life.
C. It helps people memorize things better.
D. It affects the brain's normal development.
2.Who is Kim Peek?
A. He is a good friend of Kaymond Babbitt.
B. He is a character in the film Rain Man.
C. He is an autistic patient from the USA.
D. He is a scientist working on autism.
3.What is Kim Peek different from others?
A. He can do some basic things like dressing himself.
B. He has a special talent in calculation.
C. He had difficulty reading books.
D. He has a very good memory.
4.What does the underlined word mean in Chinese7
A. 毁坏 B. 强化 C. 开发 D. 摘除
5.What does the passage mainly talk about7
A. Ways of dealing with autism
B. Relationship between autism and talent
C. Ways of training autistic people's abilities
D. Reasons for autistic people's special talent
