Johnny Smith was a good math student at a high school. He loved his computer. He came home early every day, then he worked with it till midnight. But Johnny was not a good English student, not good at all. He got an F in his English class. One day after school Johnny joined his computer to the computer in his high school office. The school office computer had the grades of all the students: the math grades, the science grades, the grades in arts and music, and the grades in English. He found his English grade. An F! Johnny changed his English grade from an F to A. Johnny' parents looked at his report card. They were very happy.
"An A in English!" said Johnny's Dad. "You're a very clever boy, Johnny."
Johnny is a hacker. Hackers know how to take information from other computers and put new information in. Using a modem, they join their computers to other computers secretly. School headmasters and teachers are worried about hackers. So are the police, for some people even take money from bank computer accounts and put it into their own ones. And they never have to leave home to do it! They are called hackers.
1.Johnny changed his English grade with the computer in _______.
A. the classroom B. the school office
C. a bank near his house D. his own house
2.When Johnny's parents saw the report, they were happy because _______.
A. Johnny was good at math
B. Johnny loved computers
C. Johnny could join one computer to another
D. they thought Johnny was not poor in English any longer
3.Who are worried about hackers in the story?
A. Johnny's parents.
B. School headmasters, teachers and the police.
C. The police.
D. School headmasters and teachers.
4.What should the hackers know well, do you think, after you read this story?
A. Information. B. Back computer accounts.
C. Computers. D. Grades.
5.The last paragraph is about _______.
A. Johnny B. computers
C. hackers D. modem
There are times when people are so tired that they fall asleep almost anywhere. We can see a lot of people sleeping on the bus or train on their way home __1.__ work in the evening. A man is reading the newspaper, and seconds later it appears as if he is trying to eat___2.__. Or he may fall asleep on the shoulder of the stranger _3.___ (sit) next to him. Another place where unplanned short sleep goes on is in the lecture hall __4.__ a student starts snoring so loudly that the professor has to ask_5. student to shake the sleeper awake. A more embarrassing situation occurs when a student starts falling into sleep and _6.__ weight of the head pushes the arm off the desk, and the movement carries the rest of the body along. The student wakes up on the floor with no memory of getting there. The __7._ (bad) time to fall asleep is when driving. Police reports are full of accidents that occur when people fall into sleep and go off the road. __8._ the drivers are lucky, they are not 9. (serious) hurt. One woman’s car, for example, went into the river. She woke up in four feet of water and thought that it _10.__ (rain). When people are really tired, nothing will stop them from falling asleep — no matter where they are
Mrs. Jones was very interested in singing. She had a good , except that some of her high notes tended to sound like a gate, which someone had forgotten to . Mrs. Jones was very aware of this , and took every she could find to practise these high . As she lived in a small house where she could not practise without the rest of the family, she usually went for long walks along the country roads whenever she had time, and practised her high notes there. Every time she heard a or a person coming along the , she stopped and until she could no longer be heard before she started practising again, because she was a person, and because she was sensitive about those high notes.
One afternoon, however, a fast, open car came up behind her so and so fast that she did not hear it until it was only a few yards from her. She was singing some of her highest and most notes at the time, and as the car passed her, she saw an anxious suddenly come over its driver’s face. He put his brakes on violently, and as soon as the car stopped, he jumped out and began to all his tires carefully.
Mrs. Jones did not dare to tell him what the noise he had heard had really been, so he got back into his car and drove off as as he had been when he stopped.
1.A. voice B. noise C. sound D. note
2.A. close B. open C. repair D. oil
3.A. strength B. sickness C. weakness D. advantage
4.A. time B. chance C. person D. place
5.A. notes B. songs C. signs D. sounds
6.A. preventing B. harming C. disturbing D. damaging
7.A. train B. car C. noise D. driver
8.A. path B. avenue C. street D. road
9.A. waited B. expected C. confused D. puzzled
10.A. brave B. shy C. ordinary D. unique
11.A. carefully B. gently C. quickly D. silently
12.A. beautiful B. tiring C. difficult D. energetic
13.A. expression B. conclusion C. impression D. action
14.A. wash B. observe C. repair D. examine
15.A. calm B. upset C. puzzled D. pleased
1.我父母很关心我的学习。
My parents ___________ __________ ____________ my study.
2.在战争时期，她经历了很多的艰难困苦。
She ___________ __________ a lot of hardships during the war time.
3.为了完成这个工作，我们日夜工作。
________ _________ _______ finish this task, we’ll have to work day and night.
4.她变得我几乎认不出来了。
She had changed so much that I could hardly ____________ her.
5.手机在我们日常生活中起着重要的作用。
Mobile phones ____________ _________ important _________ in our daily life.
6.你应该充分利用好一切机会来练习讲英语。
You should ____________ good _________ __________any chance to practice English .
7.我们厌倦了整天坐在教室里。
We are ____________ _________ sitting in the classroom all day.
8.我们旅行多年之后，决定在广州安家。
We decided to ____________ in Guangzhou after years of travel.
9.她遭受孤独的折磨。
She ____________ ___________ loneliness.
10.我很小就喜欢上英语了。
I ______________ ______________ _____________ with English when I was young.
11.在危险面前我们必须保持镇静。
We must ______________ _____________ in face of danger.
1.They are discussing how to build up a ____________(power) government.
2.His angry expression suggested that he ______________(agree) to the decision.
3.If you keep talking _____________(frequent) with your foreign friends, you’ll soon pick up ___________(fluency) English.
4.My parents live in the ____________( east) part of a country.
5.The ____________(express) on her face told me that she didn’t want to discuss it.
6.He made a big mistake because of his _______________(ignore)
7.Please clean the _____________(dust) window after class.
8.She appeared to be angry. _____________(actual), she was pleased.
9.As far as I am _______________(concern), your plan is practical.
face to face set down join in get along well with on purpose come up such as at present a series of add up to even if add up no longer |
1.Karl Max could speak a few foreign languages, __________ Russian and English.
2.You should __________ the language points on the blackboard. They are useful.
3.You can find ___________ English reading materials in the school library.
4.I think the windows were broken ___________ by someone.
5.We’ve chatted online for some time but we have never met ____________.
6.I am very friendly to everyone and _____________ my classmates.
7.___________ more and more people can speak English all over the world.
8.All his schooling ___________ no more than 3months.
9.You must ask for leave first ________ you have something very important.
10.More than 30 students in our class will_________ the discussion.
