Do you want to know what it feels like to fly like a bird？Can you imagine surfing the Internet without your fingers? Let's have a look at some of the new inventions.
Wing Suits | The suits can make your dream of flying like a bird come true. Well, not exactly flying, but gliding (滑翔) through the air. Fliers wearing wing suits can glide 1 kilometer in about 30 seconds. But they need a parachute(降落伞) to land safely. |
Google Glasses | In short, Google Glasses are like a computer but in the shape of a pair of glasses. The glasses allow you to surf the Internet and, make phone calls without fingers. The glasses also have a camera and GPS system. Users can take and share photos, check maps and surf the Internet just by moving their eyes to look up, down, left and right. |
Talk Gloves | Four college students have invented a pair of gloves to help people with hearing and speaking problems to communicate with others. The gloves are set with sensors(感受器) that receive sign language and translate(翻译) it into texts on a smart phone. Then the smart phone changes the texts to spoken language. |
1.Fliers wearing Wing Suits can glide in about a minute.
A.0.5 kilometers B.1 kilometer C.2 kilometers D.3 kilometers
2.How do you surf the Internet after putting on Google Glasses?
A.By moving eyes. B.By using a computer.
C.By using fingers. D.By moving hands.
3.In order to use Talk Gloves, you may need .
A.a camera B.a radio C.a GPS system D.a smart phone
It was one afternoon a few months after Tom and I were married. Max, Tom’s son walked into the dining room, where I was looking _______ my old photos.
These months I was learning to let Max come_______ on his own. If I moved too quickly, he ran away. If I was patient, we often ended up playing, laughing, and recently, even sitting together on the sofa with a book.
“Who’s that?” he pointed to one photo.
“My mom. I suppose she is your grandma Sylvia.”
“Cool. Who is that to me?”
“That was my grandfather. He died a few months ago.”
“Hmm. Too bad he had to die.”
Death is always a painful(痛苦的) _______ especially for a seven-year-old child who lost his mother only two years before. I secretly put away the pictures of dead relatives.
He began to finger through the photos. “Who is that to me?”
Under his finger I could see my own face. I should have known the answer to his question. But I said, “I’m your_______ mom. I’m sorry that your first mom died.”
“What should I call you?” he asked.
Mom, I wanted to cry. I held back.
“You can call me Mom or Betsy, _______ feels OK for you.”
I waited, _______ my new title.
“Sweet.” He said, walking out of the room.
For a couple of days after that, Max _______ a new title for me. “Can we go bowling?” “Can I watch TV?” he would ask, and follow the questions by mouthing Mom, _______ the word Mom was always silent.
One weekend, he suddenly said, “I notice I don’t call you Mom.”
“I noticed that too.”
“_______ I say Betsy, I mean Mom. Moms die, you know. I think it’s maybe __________ if you’re just Betsy.”
Tears(眼泪) were filling my eyes.
“Hey, Betsy?”
“Yeah,” I said, taking pleasure in the new announcement of my old name.
1.A.for B.around C.up D.through
2.A.from B.true C.close D.back
3.A.subject B.present C.message D.information
4.A.natural B.past C.only D.second
5.A.neither B.both C.either D.every
6.A.thinking B.expecting C.waiting D.admiring
7.A.worked out B.watched out C.took out D.came out
8.A.so B.instead C.but D.as
9.A.Until B.Before C.When D.Unless
10.A.kinder B.safer C.sadder D.harder
—Excuse me, could you please tell me________?
—Just go along the street and turn left. It’s on your right.
A.how did he come to school today B.where the post office was
C.how I can get to the bookstore D.where he parks his car
I’m not sure if he to the club tomorrow. If he , I’ll watch a movie with you instead of playing golf with him.
A.will come; comes B.will come; doesn’t come
C.comes; comes D.comes; won’t come
—________great fun the Water Festival is!
—Yeah, I hope we can come back next year.
A.How B.What C.How a D.What a
Tom, ________ the lights. It’s time to go to bed.
A.turn on B.turning on C.turn off D.turning off
