The human brain weighs about 1.4 kilograms, but it can hold much more information than most computers. However, there is another difference between humans and computers. Computers don't forget information they are given, but humans often do. No one remembers everything, and luckily we don't usually have to. But everyone can improve their memory if they want to. Here are some suggestions.
◆Try to use new informati6n immediately. For example, if you meet someone who says "Hi! I'm Carlos," don't just say "Hello." Repeat the person's name. Say"___________"
◆Break a big number into smaller parts. For example, it's hard to memorize (记忆) 109244153. But if you break it into three parts--109/244/153—it becomes easier.
◆Write out what you need to remember ever and over again. This will help you keep it in mind longer, especially for memorizing formulas (公式) or facts.
◆Always review information. If you bring what you've learned back to your mind, they become easier to remember. For example, before you go to sleep, it’s a good idea to review the new things you learned that clay.
◆Discuss with a friend. It is always easier to remember things through discussions. You can have a discussion about what's right and what's wrong, and it will lead to the right answer.
◆Never tell yourself that you have a bad memory. You can always do something to help improve your memory. And everyone's memory gets better if they use it often enough.
All of the suggestions are helpful. If you follow them, you are certain to improve your memory.Which should be put in the blank (空格) in Paragraph 2？
| A．Hello, Carlos. | B．How do you do? |
| C．Hello, I am Sophia. | D．Glad to meet you! |
What can help memorize a big number more easily according to the passage?
| A．To store it in a computer. |
| B．To break it into smaller parts. |
| C．To discuss it with a friend. |
| D．To review it before you sleep. |
Which of the following is true according to the passage?
| A．Discussing with friends can help you remember things. |
| B．Always reviewing information can help you fall asleep. |
| C．Formulas and facts can help you learn about your brain. |
| D．Human beings can improve their memory by computer. |
What does the sentence "Never tell yourself that you have a bad memory” mean?
| A．You should tell others about your bad memory. |
| B．You should believe in other people all the time. |
| C．You should ask others to improve their memory. |
| D．You should have confidence in your memory ability. |
A small boy lived with his mother and grandmother in a big house. His father had died.
A bucket（桶）of water fell on the small boy’s left foot, and it began hurting a hot. His mother said, “I’m going to put something very hot on your foot tonight. That’s always very good. Tomorrow your foot won’t hurt any longer.”
In the evening, the small boy’s mother came to his bedroom. She had a hot poultice（膏药）in a bowl. The small boy looked at it and said, “I don’t want that. I had one a month ago. Poultices hurt.”
His mother sat down on his bed and said, “You’re going to have this poultice on.” She pulled his sheets（床单）and blankets（毯子）away, and put the poultice near his foot, but the boy pulled it away quickly, and poultice fell on the bed.
His mother was angry. She went down stairs and came back with his grandmother and a stick. She said to her son, “Your grandmother’s going to put the poultice on your foot, and I’m going to hold this stick. Now don’t be a stupid boy.”
She held the stick over the boy, and the grandmother took his foot and put the poultice near it. The boy said. “Stop, you…” but his mother brought the stick nearer, and he did not say anything else.
The grandmother brought the poultice near the foot again, and the boy stopped her again, but his mother was angry now and said, “I’m going to hit you.” The boy did not finish his words, and his grandmother put the poultice on his foot. He let it there for a few minutes and then took it off again.
The boy’s mother and grandmother put the sheets and blankets over him again and he said, “My left foot hurts, but you put the poultice on my right foot. I stopped you twice, but you didn’t listen to me.” The small boy’s foot hurt because ____.
| A．he fell off the bike |
| B．a bucket of water fell on his foot |
| C．he fell and hurt his foot |
| D．he was ill |
In the evening ___ first came to the small boy’s room.
| A．his mother | B．his father | C．his grandmother | D．his grandfather |
The small boy ____ his mother.
| A．agreed with | B．didn’t stop | C．thanked | D．didn’t agree with |
The small boy took the poultice off because ____.
| A．his foot didn’t hurt |
| B．he hated his mother and grandmother |
| C．his left foot hurt |
| D．his right foot hurt |
The best title for this passage is ____.
| A．Left or Right | B．A Small Boy | C．The Poultice | D．A Small Boy’s Mother |
Take a look at the label(标签) on almost any bottle of milk and you may see the word PASTEURIZED. What does that mean? Let’s find out by meeting Louis Pasteur.
Louis Pasteur was born in 1822 in a little town in France. As he grew up, he loved to paint. He loved to look at the world around him. When he went to college in Paris, he showed interest in looking through a microscope. A microscope makes things look a lot bigger; it lets you see things you can’t see just with your eyes. Looking through a microscope, Pasteur found a living world in a drop of water. He saw and drew pictures of the small living things -- he called them “microbes” or “germs”-- that crowded in a drop of water.
One day a winemaker came into the lab, hoping that someone could help him with his problem. “Sometimes my wine tastes delicious, but sometimes terrible,” he said to Pasteur. “Can you help me find out why?”
Pasteur put some drops of the wine under the microscope. He noticed that the terrible wine had some unusual germs. If he killed these germs, maybe he could keep the wine from turning terrible. He tried with different ways to kill the germs. In the end he found heating (加热) the wine seemed to work best. The winemaker tried it, and every bottle of wine tasted good.
Pasteur’s idea worked for other people, too. When farmers heated milk, it didn’t turn bad so quickly. When breweries heated beer, it tasted better. People called it “pasteurization” ---heating a liquid to kill bad germs. Aren’t you glad that the milk you drink has been pasteurized? The Chinese meaning for the word “microbes” is____.
| A．病毒 | B．真菌 | C．支原体 | D．微生物 |
Which is the right order in Pasteur’s life story?
(1). He received college education in Paris.
(2) He helped to find some unusual germs in some drops of wine.
(3) A new way of killing bad germs--pasteurization was found out.
(4)He was born in 1822 in a little town in France.
(5) Microbes were found by Louis Pasteur with the help of a microscope.
| A．2; 1; 3; 5; 4 | B．4; 1; 5; 2; 3 | C．4; 1; 3; 5; 2 | D．3; 1; 2; 5; 4 |
What do you think Louis Pasteur was like from the passage?
| A．Clever, helpful and hard-working. |
| B．Quiet, helpful and kind-hearted. |
| C．Brave, careful and hard-working. |
| D．Clever, serious and kind-hearted. |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．Germs only live in something that is bad. |
| B．Louis found the way to kill the unusual germs in the wine by chance (偶然). |
| C．Everybody knows what the word PASTEURIZED means. |
| D．Pasteurization is used to kill bad germs in the milk we drink. |
What does the passage mainly tell us?
| A．What life Louis Pasteur lived. |
| B．How to make milk clean. |
| C．How pasteurization was invented. |
| D．What to do with wine. |
A Hard-working Student
This story is about a young student. She worked very hard at her lessons. She was too busy to have a rest. At last, she became ill, and couldn’t go to sleep. Every night, when she went to bed, she closed her eyes and tried to sleep. But the more she tried, the more she stayed awake.
After a while she went to see a doctor, “I just can’t go to sleep at night. What should I do?” “I have a suggestion (建议),” said the doctor, “Try counting numbers. By the time you reach one thousand, you will be asleep. I’m sure of it.”
The next day the student returned to the doctor’s office. “Well,” said the doctor, “How are you today? Did you try my suggestion?” The student still looked tired. “Yes,” she said, “I tried counting one, two, three...up to one thousand. But when I reached five hundred and sixty-nine, I began to feel sleepy. I had to get up and drink some coffee so that (以便) I could go on counting up to one thousand. But then I still couldn’t fall asleep.”
根据短文内容,选择正确答案。 Why couldn’t the young student go to sleep?
| A．She was worried about her lessons. |
| B．She hadn’t finished her homework. |
| C．She had worked too hard and became ill. |
| D．There was a lot of noise. |
What did the doctor ask the young student to do while she was lying in bed?
| A．To take some medicine. |
| B．To count numbers while she was lying in bed. |
| C．To count numbers before she went to bed. |
| D．To read some books on the bed. |
The underlined word “awake” in paragraph 1 means “______”.
| A．asleep | B．not asleep | C．sleepy | D．sleeping |
What did she do after she felt sleepy?
| A．She fell asleep. |
| B．She stopping counting. |
| C．She got up and drank some tea. |
| D．She got up to have some coffee. |
The coffee made her ______, so she still couldn’t fall asleep.
| A．tired | B．sleepy | C．hungry | D．excited |
A man lives in a very tall building. He has a lot of money and he has a parrot at home. It’s a clever bird.
Every morning, after the man gets up, the bird says “hello”. When the man comes back from his work, the bird says, “Is that you? Come here. I can see you.” One evening, when the man is sleeping, a thief comes into his building by climbing up the window. When he finds some money and begins to leave the house by climbing down through the window again, he hears a voice in the dark.
“Hello! Is that you? Come here. I can see you.” The thief is so frightened that he falls down from the window.. A parrot is kind of ________
| A．thing | B．bird | C．man | D．machine |
When does the parrot say “Hello!” to the man?
| A．After it gets up. | B．After the man gets up. |
| C．After the man goes to bed | D．After the man has breakfast. |
. When does the thief come?
| A．In the afternoon | B．In the morning |
| C．The man isn’t at home. | D．The man is asleep. |
The parrot is the man’s ________.
| A．neighbor | B．enemy | C．pet | D．servant |
What do you think of the thief at last?
| A．He leaves safely. | B．He climbs down the building. |
| C．He climbs down the ladder. | D．He died. |
An old engineer went suddenly blind. She promised a doctor a lot of money if he could make her see again. “If you fail,” she said, “you’ll get nothing.” The doctor agreed.
The doctor soon discovered what was wrong with her, but he decided not to cure her right away. Instead each time he visited, he secretly took some of her things. When he had taken away everything, he wanted to cure her blindness and asked for the money.
Now the old woman could see again, she noticed that all her things had gone and she refused to pay the money. So the doctor took her before a judge.
“What the doctor said is true,” she said to the judge. “But I say I was not well cured, because I still can’t see any of the things in my house.”
The old woman won the case and the doctor went away unhappily without getting his pay. What did the engineer promise the doctor if he failed to make her see again?
| A．A lot of money | B．Half of the money | C．No money | D．A little money |
The underlined word “discovered” in paragraph 2 means _______.
| A．found | B．caught | C．heard | D．covered |
What can you infer from the story?
| A．The old engineer lived alone |
| B．The old engineer lived with a servant. |
| C．The old engineer lived with her children. |
| D．The old engineer lived with a judge. |
What’s the result of the case?
| A．The engineer failed |
| B．The doctor failed to get the pay. |
| C．The doctor returned the things |
| D．The old engineer forgot her promise. |
. What kind of person was the old engineer?
| A．She was foolish. | B．She was kind. | C．She was clever | D．She was polite. |