Geena David knew she wanted to be a movie star when she was very young. She was not sure what gave her the idea, but she wanted to look like a movie star. “I have a lot of pictures from my childhood of me wearing sunglasses,” she says. “I used to wear them to watch TV.”
Early movie actors started wearing sunglasses not because they looked good, but because their eyes hurt. The lights used on movie sets were extremely bright and could cause a painful problem known as “Klieg eyes”. It was named after the Klieg brothers who invented the lights. Actors wore sunglasses to give their eyes a rest. But when movie stars began wearing their sunglasses in public, they quickly became a must.
Eventually actors started wearing sunglasses in their movies as well as on the street. Audrey Hephburn wore ultra-cool Ray-Ban sunglasses in the 1961 movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. As a result, Ray-Ban sunglasses started to appear more and more in the movies. In 1979, Ray-Ban “Wayfarers” were worn by Jake and Elwood in The Blue Brothers. Tom Cruise wore Ray-Ban “Aviator” sunglasses in the 1986 hit, Top Gun. Then in 1997, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones made Ray-Ban “Predator” sunglasses famous in Men in Black.
Of course sunglasses aren’t just a fashion statement. The main reason to wear sunglasses is to protect our eyes against UV radiation. UV radiation can damage our eyes, so people now choose their sunglasses carefully. But you don’t have to give up style for safety. The choice of frames and lenses available these days is huge. So you can protect your eyes and still be the coolest person on the beach.
1.What is mainly discussed in this passage?
A. The use of sunglasses.
B. The history of sunglasses.
C. Why movie stars like to wear sunglasses.
D. The sunglasses wearing.
2.Why did Geena David like to wear sunglasses?
A. She wanted to follow a movie star.
B. She was a movie star.
C. Wearing sunglasses was good to her eyes.
D. It was good to wear sunglasses when watching TV.
3.Early actors’ eyes hurt because ______.
A. they wore sunglasses
B. they went out in the sun too much
C. their scripts were written in very small writing
D. the lights on movie sets were too bright
4.We may know from this passage that ______.
A. Ray-Ban is the name of sunglasses maker
B. Audrey Hephburn was a famous film star
C. Sunglasses made Top Gun the hit in 1986
D. Men in Black must be an advertisement of sunglasses
5.Now people wear sunglasses ______.
A. for fashion and to protect their eyes
B. just to protect their eyes
C. because of bright lights
D. because movie stars wear them
The famous British inventor George Stephenson was born in 1781 and died in 1848. One of his important inventions was the train. He his first train when he was forty-four years old. When he was experimenting with the engine on the train, he met with from the government, the newspapers and the gentlemen in the country. They said that the noise and the smoke would cows, horses and sheep, that the would burst or that the hot coals from it would their houses. At that time, people believed what they said.
George Stephenson the people that the train could go on small , could pull carriages goods and passengers and there was to them. It was a very matter for him to them believe. However, after , he was able to do it; and the first train that by Stephenson himself what he had said.
The first day the people along the way the noises of the train and saw it running quickly to them, they ran back home as quickly as they could and closed their doors tightly, for they thought it a genius(妖怪).They did not dare to come out until it had passed.
1.A. very B. a lot C. much D. most
2.A. bought B. made C. introduced D. did
3.A. electrical B. atomic C. oil D. steam
4.A. troubles B. success C. people D. pleasure
5.A. buy B. kill C. interest D. take away
6.A. smoke B. noise C. engine D. driver
7.A. pull down B. blow away C. pass D. set fire to
8.A. few B. most C. only a few D. the rich
9.A. said B. spoke C. warned D. told
10.A. roads B. rivers C. rails D. steam
11.A. full of B. short of C. empty of D. without
12.A. dangerous B. no great danger C. a lot of danger D. few danger
13.A. difficult B. easy C. pleasant D. light
14.A. get B. cause C. force D. make
15.A. some time B. sometime C. a few times D. sometimes
16.A. was driven B. was sold C. was pulled D. helped
17.A. believed B. seemed C. proved D. sensed
18.A. when B. of C. while D. for
19.A. caught sight of B. listened to C. thought D. heard
20.A. in the distance B. nearby C. on the far D. from the distance
She just cannot make herself ________ though she tries hard.
A. understand B. understanding
C. understood D. to understand
On AIDS Day, the minister of Health Department demanded that the problems ______ paid special attention to.
A. referred to being B. referred to be
C. refer to being D. refer to be
He got up late and hurried to his office, _______ the breakfast untouched.
A. left B. to leave
C. leaving D. having left
I did very ______ the first time I took my entrance exam.
A. poorly B. poor
C. poverty D. poorness
