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Do you always understand the directions on a bottle of medicine? Do you know what is meant by “Take only as directed”? Read the following directions and see if you understand them.
“To reduce pain, take two tablets (药片) with water, followed by one tablet every eight hours, as required. For night- time and early morning relief (缓解疼痛) take two tablets at bedtime. Do not take more than six tablets in twenty-four hours.
For children six to twelve years old, give half the amount (量). For children under six years old, ask your doctor’s advice.
Reduce the amount if you suffer from restlessness or sleeplessness after taking the medicine.”
How many tablets at most can a person over 12 have in 24 hours?

A．Three.

B．Four.

C．Six.

D．Eight.

What is the advice for one who cannot sleep well after taking the medicine?

A．Stop taking the medicine at bedtime.

B．Continue to take the normal amount.

C．Take more than the normal amount.

D．Take less than the normal amount.

It can be inferred from the directions that this medicine .

A．helps you to fall asleep quickly.

B．may be dangerous to small children.

C．cannot be taken if one feels sleepy.

D．should not be taken by children under six.

This text is most probably taken from a .

A．textbook

B．newsreel

C．doctor’s notebook

D．bottle of medicine

Annealing is a way of making metal softer by heating it and then letting it cool very slowly. If metal is heated and then cooled very quickly, for example by dipping (浸) it in water, it will be very hard but also very brittle (脆) —that is , it will break easily. Metal that has been annealed is soft but does not break as easily. It is possible to make metal as hard or as soft as is wished, by annealing it. The metal is heated, and allowed to cool slowly for a certain length of time. The longer the heated metal takes to cool slowly, the softer it becomes. Annealing can also be used on other materials, such as glass.
Annealing can make metal

A．hard and tough (韧).	B．hard but brittle.
C．soft but tough.	D．soft and brittle.

Why do people put hot metal in water?

A．To make it hard.	B．To make it soft.
C．To make it cool.	D．To make it brittle.

As suggested by the text, how can glass be made less brittle?

A．It can be heated and then cooled quickly.

B．It can be cooled and then heated slowly.

C．It can be heated and then cooled slowly.

D．It can be cooled and then heated quickly.

A well-known old man was being interviewed (采访) and asked if it was correct that he had just celebrated his ninety-nine birthday.
“That’s right.” said the old man. “Ninety-nine years old, and I haven’t an enemy in the world. They’re all dead.”
“Well, sir.” said the interviewer, “I hope very much to have the honour of interviewing you on your hundredth birthday.”
The old man looked at the young man closely, and said, “I can’t see why you shouldn’t. you look fit and healthy to me!”
The old man said he had not an enemy in the world, which shows that he was a very .

A．friendly man—he never made any enemies

B．healthy man—he lived longer than

all his enemies

C．lucky man—his enemies had all died

D．terrible man—he had got rid of all his enemies

When the interviewer said that he hoped very much to have the honor of interviewing the old man again the following year, .

A．he was trying to make the old man happy

B．he wished he himself would live another year

C．he did not believe the old man would live to be one hundred

D．he did not believe he would interview the old man again

When the old man said, “I can’t see why you shouldn’t”, what he meant was .

A．“You must try to live another year to interview me again next year”

B．“Of course you can see me again since you’re so fit and healthy”

C．“If I live to a hundred years, you should interview me again”

D．“Unless you live another year, you wouldn’t be able to interview me again”

What kind of man would you say the old man was?

A．He was silly.

B．He was unpleasant

C．He was very proud and sure of his health.

D．He was very impolite to young people.

Shu Pulong has helped at least 1000 people bitten (咬) by snakes, “ It was seeing people with snake bites (伤口) that led me to this career,” he said.
In 1963, after his army service, Shu entered a medical school and later became a doctor of Chinese medicine. As part of his studies he had to work in the mountains. There he often heard of people who had their arms and legs cut off after a snake bite in order to save their lives.
“I was greatly upset by the story of an old farmer I met. It was a very hot afternoon. The old man was pulling grass in his fields when he felt a pain in his left hand. He at once realized he had been bitten by a poisonous snake. In no time he wrapped a cloth tightly around his arm to stop the poison spreading to his heart. Rushing home he shouted ‘bring me the knife!’ Minutes later the man lost his arm forever.”
“The sad story touched me so much that I decided to devote myself to helping people bitten by snakes,” Shu said.
The best headline (标题) for this newspaper article is .

A．Astonishing Medicine	B．Farmer Loses Arm
C．Dangerous Bites	D．Snake Doctor

. The farmer lost his arm because .

A．the cloth was wrapped too tightly

B．he cut it to save his life

C．Shu wasn’t there to help him

D．he was alone in the fields

Shu decided to devote himself to snake medicine because .

A．he wanted to save people’s arms and legs

B．he had studied it at a medical school

C．he had seen snakes biting people

D．his army service had finished

Why did Shu go into the mountains?

A．He wanted to study snake bites.

B．He wanted to help the farmers.

C．He was being trained to be a doctor.

D．He was expected to serve in the army.

I am a German by birth and descent. My name is Schmidt. But by education I am quite as much an Englishman as a 'Deutscher', and by affection much more the former. My life has been spent pretty equally between the two countries, and I flatter myself I speak both languages without any foreign accent.
I count England my headquarters now: it is “home” to me. But a few years ago I was resident in Germany, only going over to London now and then on business. I will not mention the town where I lived. It is unnecessary to do so, and in the peculiar experience I am about to relate I think real names of people and places are just as well, or better avoided.
I was connected with a large and important firm of engineers. I had been bred up to the profession, and was credited with a certain amount of “talent”; and I was considered—and, with all modesty, I think I deserved the opinion—steady and reliable, so that I had already attained a fair position in the house, and was looked upon as a “rising man”. But I was still young, and not quite so wise as I thought myself. I came close once to making a great mess of a certain affair. It is this story which I am going to tell.
Our house went in largely for patents—rather too largely, some thought. But the head partner's son was a bit of a genius in his way, and his father was growing old, and let Herr Wilhelm - Moritz we will call the family name—do pretty much as he chose. And on the whole Herr Wilhelm did well. He was cautious, and he had the benefit of the still greater caution and larger experience of Herr Gerhardt, the second partner in the firm.
Patents and the laws which regulate them are strange things to have to do with. No one who has not had personal experience of the complications that arise could believe how far these spread and how involved they become. Great acuteness as well as caution is called for if you would guide your patent bark safely to port—and perhaps more than anything, a power of holding your tongue. I was no chatterbox, nor, when on a mission of importance, did I go about looking as if I were bursting with secrets, which is, in my opinion, almost as dangerous as revealing them. No one, to meet me on the journeys which it often fell to my lot to undertake, would have guessed that I had anything on my mind but an easy-going young fellow's natural interest in his surroundings, though many a time I have stayed awake through a whole night of railway travel if at all doubtful about my fellow-passengers, or not dared to go to sleep in a hotel without a ready-loaded gun by my pillow. For now and then - though not through me - our secrets did ooze out. And if, as has happened, they were secrets connected with Government orders or contracts, there was, or but for the exertion of the greatest energy and tact on the part of my superiors, there would have been, to put it plainly, the devil to pay.
The writer preferred to be called ________.