Stay as safe as possible during an earthquake. Be aware that some earthquakes are actually foreshocks (前震) and a larger earthquake might occur. Reduce your movements to a few steps to a nearby safe place.
If you are indoors, do “duck,cover and hold”. Duck or drop down to the floor, under something strong, such as a table or a desk,cover your head and face with your arms and hands and hold on to that table or desk so that it does not move away from you as the ground shakes. Do this until the shaking stops and it is safe to move. Stay inside to avoid being injured by falling glass or building parts. If there isn’t a table or desk near you, cover your face and head with your arms and crouch(捲缩)in an inside comer of the building.
Stay clear of windows,fireplaces, and heavy furniture that may fall over. Stay inside until the shaking stops and it is safe to go outside. Research has shown that most injuries occur when people inside buildings attempt to move to a different location inside the building or try to leave.
If you are outside, get into the open and stay there. Move away from trees,buildings, signs and power lines. Once in the open, stay there until the shaking stops. The greatest danger exists directly outside buildings, at exits and alongside exterior walls. Ground movement during an earthquake is seldom the direct cause of death or injury. Most earthquake-related casualties (伤亡) result from collapsing walls, flying glasses, and falling objects.
If you are driving, you may not realize what is going on at first because the car may feel like it is going to blow up. Stop the car in as clear and open an area as possible and stay in it until the shaking stops. If it is a really bad quake, turn on the radio to find an emergency channel to get information. Follow the directions of people directing traffic.
If you are in a mountainous area, watch out for falling rock and other debris that could be loosened by the earthquake.
If you are at the beach, move quickly to higher ground or several hundred yards inland.Which of the following pictures means “duck,cover and hold”?
Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?
A.Ground movement during an earthquake is the main reason of death. |
B.You should keep your windows, fireplaces and heavy furniture clear. |
C.Stop your car in the clear area and get out of it if an earthquake happens. |
D.Run away from the beach as quickly as possible if an earthquake happens. |
The passage is mainly about________ during the earthquake.
A.ways of keeping you safe |
B.the importance of keeping safe |
C.ways of finding safe places |
D.researches on how to keep safe |
Now more and more people in the world are getting fatter. This troubles them a lot. (1)Experts(专家) say that it has a lot to do with our eating habits.
Our eating habits are very important for good health and a strong body. Most of us like eating sweets and ice cream better than vegetables and rice. Sweets and ice cream are not bad for us if we eat them at the end of a meal. (2)If we eat them before a meal, they may take away our appetite(食欲).
It’s important for us to eat our meal in the same period each day. When we feel worried or excited, we may not want to eat. A long time ago, in England, some judges(法官) often decided whether a man was telling the truth by giving him some dry bread. If the man could not swallow(吞) the bread, it meant that he wasn’t telling the truth. Because when a man is worried about something, he will have trouble in swallowing anything dry, because he loses his appetite.Are more and more people getting fatter in the world?___________________________
Do most people like eating sweets or rice?_______________________________
What may happen to people when they feel worried or excited?______________
将短文中画线句子(1)处翻译成汉语。
将短文中画线句子(2)处翻译成汉语。
It’s possible to do many simple tricks with numbers. Here is one trick, if you follow the instructions, you will find it’s really interesting.
First, write down your house number. For example, if your address is 73 Jin Shang Road, you would write down 73. After you write down your house address number, you double it. Then add 5 to this doubled number. For example, if your address is 73 and you double it, you will get 146. Then you add 5, you will get 151.
And then, multiply this number by 50. In our example here, you’ll get 7550. The next step is to add your age to this total. For example, if you’re 16 years old, you should add 16 to this total. In our example here, the result will be 7566.
After that, you have to add the number of days in a year, which is 365. In our example here, 365 added to 7566 is 7931.
The final step is this: Subtract 615 from the number that you have. Take away 615 from the total. In our example, 7931 minus 615 is 7316.
The result here—7316—is the trick. The first part of the number is the address and the last part of the number is the age of the person. That is, 73 is the address that we started with, and 16 is the age that we used.
Isn’t it interesting? Do you want to have a try now?How many steps are there in the trick?
A. Four B. Seven C. NineThe third step is ______.
A. +5 B. ×50 C.-615Tom is 38, he lives in 89 Jin Shang Road. If he plays this trick, he will get______ in the end.
A. 3889 B. 9150 C. 8938When you play this trick, ______ is Not the number you have to use every time.
A. 50 B.73 C. 365The best title of this passage is “______”.
A. A trick with numbers B. An interesting problem C. How to work out a trick
It is very important for us students to learn to use dictionaries. Try to find the answers to the questions in this dictionary extract(摘要). We can find these explainations(解释)in _________ dictionary.
A. an English-English B. a Chinese-English C. an English-ChineseIf you try to find a word similar to “proud”, you can look up the word “______”.
A. pleasure B. pride C.personIf you have a bad cold, you will ______ according to the extract.
A. feel proud of yourself B. lose your voice C.encourage your parentsThe word “encourage” is a (an)______.
A. adjective B. noun C. verbIn the sentence “Your parents may △ you from smoking”, △ stands for _____ according to the extract.
A. proud B. voice C. discourage
One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe. Pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth the trouble.” His father said nothing but picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the pennies he bought some grapes.
It was very hot, and there wasn’t a house or a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a grape on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another grape and once again, his son picked it up and put it in his mouth.
And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the grapes and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the grapes, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you had bent down early to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the grapes, always remember the lesson: A person who does not worry about the little things will find that he can not do the great things.”The horseshoe was picked up by______
A. the father B.the son C.nobodyThe father bought some ______ after he sold the horseshoe.
A.pennies B.grapes C.treesThomas picked up the grapes and ate them because______.
A. he was asked to B. he liked them C. he was thirstyThe father dropped the grapes one by one because he wanted ______.
A. his son to eat them all
B. to teach his son a lesson
C. to make fun of his sonFrom the passage, we can learn that______.
A. if we want to eat grapes, we must pick up a horseshoe
B. a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us much money
C. we should worry about small things before we do the great things
Have you seen Avatar?It’s a popular movie this year. It is three-dimensional(3D), so you may have to wear a special pair of glasses to see it. The 3D glasses make the images(图像) from the movie look like they are coming straight at you.
More and more 3D movies are coming to theaters. 3D TV sets have been produced in Japan now. Three-dimensional technology can make TV and movies more exciting. But people with eye problems may get headaches if they spend too much time watching 3D movies.
When we look at an object(物体), each eye sees it at a different angle(角度). Our eyes send the two images to our brain(大脑), and the brain puts them together. That’s how we see depth(深度). So when we watch a 3D movie, one film projector(投影机) projects a left eye image and the other projects a right eye image. 3D glasses allow us to see a different image in each eye.
There are a lot of people walking around with very less serious eye problems. Under normal situations, the brain can adjust to their eyes so they can see things normally.
But when they are watching a 3D movie, the images projected to their eyes can’t be put together by their brain. So the brain needs to work harder at reading the images. That makes it easier for these people to get headaches.
Dr John Hagan, an eye doctor in Kansas City, said some people who do not see depth normally cannot see in 3D at all.When people want to watch a three-dimensional movie, they need .
A. a ticket B. a pair of 3D glasses C. an earphoneThree-dimensional technology uses film projector(s) to project one movie at the same time.
A. one B. twoC. threeAccording to the passage, if we look at an object by only one eye, we can’t judge the excatly.
A. image B. angle C. depthWhich statement is TRUE according to the passage?
A. In the near future, people can enjoy 3D movie by watching TV at home.
B. Whenever you wear a 3D glasses, you can see objects more clearly.
C. People who have something wrong with their brain can’t read the images of 3D movie.The main idea of this passage is .
A. how to use 3D glasses to watch a 3D movie.
B. 3D glasses make the movie seem alive
C. not everybody can enjoy 3D movies.