What will we be able to do in 10, 20 or 30 years' time? What will the life be like in the future? 1.
Genetic engineering (基因工程) may help us make the perfect humans. Babies may grow up to play basketball like Yi Jianlian or look nice like Zhang Ziyi. 2. Maybe people will be able to meet and talk with their dead family members.
Over the next 20 to 50 years, it will become harder to tell the difference between humans and machines. Perhaps we will be able to make copies of ourselves, so we will appear to be alive long after we are dead. 3.
Nanobots(纳米机器人) will be important.4. For example, we will swallow (吞下) a nanobot and it will travel through our body, taking a video of what's happening there. The video will help the doctor save us.
5. They may be able to think better than us. We may be more and more interested in computers. We may spend all our time in front of computers. Maybe we will forget our real needs. Maybe we will become super couch potatoes weighing 250kg!
A. Robots can help us feel better
B. We will use them when we are ill
C. Will it be much better than it is now?
D. In the future, computers may have their feelings.
E. Also, we may be able to bring the dead back to life.
F. People may be able to find ways of putting the life of a person into a new body.
Can hippos swim?
Hippos like to spend most of their time in the water. But they can't swim!
They just walk in water. Hippos enjoy staying in cool water. They go up and
down in the water.
Can Koalas eat poison?
Koalas only eat a special kind of leaves. Each Koala eats about 1kg of these leaves a day. These leaves are poisonous(有毒的)。But they can' t kill koalas because koalas have special bodies. They can keep koalas from the poison in the leaves.
Are clouds really light?
Most clouds might look light. But they are heavier than you think. A cloud can be about 500000 kg. That' s as heavy as 100 elephants. Clouds look big but are made up of many small water drops (水滴). Each water drop is so small that it can fly high. This is how clouds stay in the sky.
Are left-handers stmarter?
Left-handers and right-handers usually use different sides of their brains(大脑). Right- handers use the left side more often, but left-handers use both sides. We use the left side of our brain to work out problems and the right side to create. Left- handers are good at creative things such as music, art and science. But it's not all-good news for them. They often forget names and places.
Do children with older brothers spend more time learning language?
Having an older brother comes with many good points. However, a group of
scientists found that children with older brothers spend more time in language learning than those children with older sisters. Scientists think this is because older brothers talk more to their parents. Older sisters talk with their younger sisters and brothers more.
1.What are these passages about?
A.Human and nature. B.Animals and weather. C.Weather and human.
2.Hippos can____ in the water.
A.swim B.go up and down C.enjoy keeping warm
3.According to the passages above, which question can you answer?
A.Why are the clouds heavy?
B.Why can koalas eat poisonous leaves?
C.Why does it take children with older brothers more time to learn language?
4.What may left-handers not be good at?
A.Music, art and science. B.Working out problems.
C.Remembering names and places.
5.In which magazine below can we read these passages?
A.World Trip B.Science Today C.Animal World
In China, there are many great people. They do a lot for our country and people. These days, Book Store has some new books about their stories. Come and see for yourself!
| Qian Xuesen ●Father of China's missile program; King of rockets ●1911-2009 ●Birthplace: Shanghai ●He led China’s nuclear and space programs. Price:￥35 |
| Yuan Longping ●Father of hybrid rice ●1931-now ●Birthplace: Beijing ●He develops high-yield hybrid rice and greatly improves China's rice production. Price:￥38 |
| Tu Youyou ●China' s first Nobel Prize winner in natural science ●1930-now ●Birthplace: Ningbo ●She studies traditional Chinese medicine and artemisinin which can treat malaria(疟疾). Price:￥42 |
| Lang Ping ●The most important player of Chinese women's volleyball ●1960- now ●Birthplace: Tianjin ●She led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win five world titles in a row, making it the only team in history to do so. Price:￥40 |
SALE | : two books, 10% off four books, 20% off |
1.Of the four great people, Qian Xuesen is from _________.
A.Shanghai B.Beijing C.Ningbo
2.Alice likes Yuan Longping and Tu Youyou. She will pay_________for the two books.
A.￥64 B.￥72 C.￥80
3.Tu Youyou, China's first woman to win Nobel Prize, always studies ___________.
A.hybrid rice B.nuclear and space C.traditional Chinese medicine
4.As Yao Ming is talented in basketball, Lang Ping is really good at ________.
A.baseball B.volleyball C.football
5.Which of the following is NOT true?
A.There are two great men and two great women above.
B.Chinese women’s volleyball team won five world titles in a row.
C.All of the four people are over sixty-five years old.
阅读下面短文,根据短文内容判断句子的正误。正确填(A),错误填(B)。
Dear Mike, These days, I find that I have a growing interest in listening to music. Taylor Swift is my favorite singer. But I' m spending so much time listening to music that I'm having problems with my schoolwork. I have a lot of schoolwork to do these days. What can I do about this problem? Wu Yu |
Dear Wu Yu, It’s nice to hear that you’re spending much time listening to music. I also like to listen to music often, and I even play it myself. I think it's a fine hobby. But how much time do you need to spend listening to music? It’s hard to say. If listening to music is stopping you from finishing your work, then maybe you should listen a little less. Every hobby must be enjoyed in moderation (适度). There is such a thing as“too much of a good thing” . Here's an idea: why not listen to some other kinds of music when you study? It's OK that you can do both at the same time. The key is to choose music that isn’t too distracting (使人分心的)。There are many kinds of quiet music you can enjoy. If you choose it, I think it' s all right to listen to music when studying. Mike |
1.Wu Yu doesn't have enough time for her schoolwork because of listening to music too much.
2.Listening to music isn't Mike's hobby.
3.Wu Yu doesn't need to care when a hobby stops her from studying.
4.Mike advises that Wu Yu can listen to some quiet music when studying.
5.Mike shares his ideas about how to start a new hobby in this article.
Kobe Bryant is a famous basketball star. He shows his talent not only in basketball but also in his __________. His new book The Wizenard Series: Training Camp ____________in March, 2019.
The book was about the West Bottom Badgers, a young basketball team. Kobe told five stories in this book. Each story told about one ________. Their names are Rain, Twig, Cash, Peno and Lab. All of the young kids on this team came from a poor neighborhood. No one believed the kids would be________.But something different ________after a new coach(教练) joined the team.
Once a sports reporter met Kobe and had a ________with him. Kobe said he didn’t think he was going to be a writer. __________he often told his stories to his daughters and this was one of the best ________why he wrote his own book. Some parts of the book were from Kobe 's real life experiences.
When Kobe was on the basketball team, some NBA players ________ Bill Russell and Michael Jordan were his idols. He once said he would love to play a game with them.
Kobe had two different sports shirts with NO.8 and NO.24 on each. The number 24 ________he needed to work hard for 24 hours a day to be successful.
All in all, Kobe is both a great guy and a very hard- working man.
1.A.drawing B.writing C.singing
2.A.came out B.found out C.brought out
3.A.expert B.writer C.character
4.A.normal B.successful C.available
5.A.happened B.reached C.broke
6.A.talk B.class C.fight
7.A.And B.But C.Or
8.A.reasons B.results C.roles
9.A.for example B.such as C.because of
10.A.advised B.decided C.meant
In most countries, people usually eat traditional food on special days. A special holiday in the United States is Thanksgiving. It always falls ________ the fourth Thursday in November. And it is a time to show ________ for everything. At this time, people also remember the first travelers from England who moved to America about 400 years ago. They lived a(n)__________life and many of them died. __________,
the native (本土的) Americans were friendly to them and taught them how to grow food. The next year, they had enough food and they planned to have a big party to thank the natives, food and new lives. These days, most Americans still _________it by having a big turkey meal at home with their family.
1.A.in B.for C.on
2.A.hopes B.thanks C.surprises
3.A.hard B.boring C.enjoyable
4.A.Seriously B.Probably C.Luckily
5.A.trust B.celebrate C.organize
