My friend’s grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe. After being processed (移民入境检查) at Ellis Island, he went into a cafeteria (自助餐厅) in Lower Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at a table and waited for someone to take his order. But nobody came to him. Later a woman with a plate full of food sat down opposite him and told him how a cafeteria worked.
“Start out at the end,” she said. “Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end he’ll tell you how much you have to pay.”
“I soon learned that’s how everything works in America,” the grandfather told my friend. “Life is like a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want only if you are willing to pay the money. You can even get success, but you’ll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it yourself.”
| A．Poland. | B．Australia. | C．Canada. | D．Japan |
| A．get help form your friends | B．try to get it by yourself |
| C．know how a cafeteria works | D．get up again if you fail |
| A．The old man sat down opposite the woman so that she could take his order. |
| B．The old woman sat down opposite the old man so that she could serve him. |
| C．Although the woman didn’t know the old man, she told him how to get something to eat in the cafeteria. |
| D．Although the woman didn’t know the old man, she decided to pay the bill for him. |
| A．The food served in the cafeteria. |
| B．The success one wants to get. |
| C．The bill one has to pay in the cafeteria. |
| D．The plate used in the cafeteria. |
| A．From Eastern Europe to America |
| B．Eating in an American Cafeteria |
| C．How to Eat in a Cafeteria |
| D．Life Is Like a Cafeteria in America |
Wearable gadgets (可穿戴设备) are usually high-tech equipment, which are so small that people can wear on heads or wrists.
Google Glasses is such kind of wearable gadget. It has attracted the world’s attention since being tested this year. Users can take videos and broadcast live on the Internet. There is also a GPS system in the glasses. So if you get lost you can say “OK，Glasses, where am I?” Then it will tell you where you need to go. It sounds cool, doesn’t it?
Don’t forget Galaxy Gear from Samsung, a Korean company. It is just the tip of the iceberg. This smart watch looks like a normal watch but much lighter. But Galaxy Gear needs to connect with a Samsung Smartphone or tablet (平板电脑). Its short battery life of 25 hours also disappoints (使…失望) users.
With all kinds of wearable gadgets coming into real life, it seems that wearable equipment is becoming more modern and popular. Indeed, unlike smart phones, wearable gadgets are more convenient (方便的). Their biggest advantage is that they can do most of the same things as smart phones, yet they are hands-free.
However, wearable gadgets also have their own problems. Some people are not sure whether wearing a gadget is cool. Unless you know about it, you may just think there are many crazy people talking to their wrists.
Perhaps only time will tell how these gadgets will change our lives.
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Wearable gadgets can be on heads or wrists. Google Glasses and Galaxy Gear are some of them. People can make calls or take pictures, or even receive e-mails without
their hands more. So they can
young people’s attention. Galaxy Gear is
to a normal watch but much lighter. Some people may not be
with it not only because of its short 25-hour battery life, but also because it needs a connection with a Samsung Smartphone or tablet.
Think stars don’t move? Think again! When you look at the sky at night, the stars may appear to stay in the same place. But stars are always on the move—they are just so far away that the movement is hard to see.
But some stars move in ways that appear to be strange to be real. In 2005, astronomer Warren Brown found one of these space oddities(奇特). It was located on the outer edge of the Milky Way, the galaxy(星系) we live in. The star was speeding away like nothing he’d ever seen. “It seemed unbelievable. No star in the galaxy has a speed like that,” Brown remembers. “I thought, oh my goodness, I have something kind of special here.”
No one had ever seen a star like this one. What does a scientist do when the results don’t make sense?
Brown didn’t give up. Instead, he kept looking. And he kept finding more of these strange and speedy stars, called hypervelocity stars. Hyper means “above” and velocity has to do with speed. He and his team just found six more of these “above speed” stars, bringing to the total of 16. And, he says, he’s found even more, and is just waiting for the scientific community to confirm them.In 2005, astronomer Warren Brown found___________.
| A．a star was speeding away very fast. |
| B．a stars was moving away very slowly. |
| C．some stars were not real. |
| D．some stars were not in the Milky Way. |
Which of the following is TRUE?
| A．Stars never move at all. |
| B．No star in the galaxy has a fast speed. |
| C．It’s hard to see the stars moving. |
| D．Brown has never seen something special. |
The underlined word “hypervelocity” in the last paragraph probably means”_____”.
| A．匀速的 | B．超速的 | C．超重的 | D．超常的 |
The writer writes this passage to tell us____________.
| A．something about an astronomer. |
| B．where the Milky Way is |
| C．something about the speedy stars. |
| D．how scientists do their research |
Anybody can learn to count fast if he knows the secret of following trick.
Ask your friend to write any five-figure (五位) number on the blackboard. Then you write your five-figure number under it. You choose your figures so that each one with the figure above it will make nine.
Tell your friend to put a third five-figure number under your number. Then you write a fourth number in the same way. After he has written the fifth number, you draw a line under it and quickly write the sum.(总和). You may even write it from left to right..
How do you do it ? You take away two from the fifth number and put two in front of your answer. Is it interesting?If your friend’s number is 76815, your number must be_____________________.
| A．23184 | B．54613 | C．93184 | D．99999 |
How many six-figure numbers are there on the blackboard at last?
| A．Three | B．One | C．Five | D．Four |
If the fifth number is 49834, the sum will be_____________________.
| A．249834 | B．298344 | C．298342 | D．249832 |
You cannot go without a pencil when writing or drawing something. You have probably noticed letters H and B printed on your pencils．What，for example，do HB，2H or 3H mean?
Those are letters showing the hardness of the lead(铅)or graphite(石墨)in a pencil．H refers to hard lead．The bigger the Arabic number before the letter H，the harder the lead，and the lighter will be the colour. The hardest pencil has 6H on it．Such pencils are often used in making engineering drawings．People seldom write with them．B stands for soft lead．The bigger the number before the letter B，the softer the lead，and the darker will be the colour, the softest being the 6B pencil．Such pencils are favoured by artists．
The HB pencil has a lead core(中心部分)that is neither too soft nor too hard．Its colour is medium in its blackness．It is most suitable for ordinary(平常的)writing and drawing．The number that goes before the letter H shows_________．
| A．the model of the pencil |
| B．the factory where the pencil is made |
| C．how hard the pencil is |
| D．how long the pencil lasts |
A4B pencil is _______ than a 3B one．
| A．harder | B．softer |
| C．better | D．more expensive |
According to the passage，an HB pencil is best for people like_________．
| A．students | B．artists |
| C．printers | D．engineers |
【2012年湖北黄冈】Going on holidays is best choice for the Europeans to relax themselves, especially in the UK. However, much has changed during the past decades(几十年).
One of the most traditional British holidays was the “seaside holiday”. Families got on a train or into a car and traveled to seaside towns nearby to sunbathe on the beach, buy ice-creams and eat fish and chips and so on.
In the late 1970s, more and more British people started traveling to other countries in Europe for their summer holidays (July-August) because the weather wasn’t very good, even in summer. The “package holiday” was particularly popular with most families.
In the 1980s and 1990s, young people in the UK became wealthier, so many of them traveled to countries all over the world for their holidays.
These years, especially after the world financial crisis(金融危机), most British people can not afford to spend their holidays abroad. They again begin to choose to stay in their own home and go on a few day trips rather than spending money on hotels. They call this sort of vacation a “staycation”.
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| Time |
Kind of holiday |
Reason |
| Before the late 1970s |
It was a tradition. |
|
| In the late 1970s |
Package holiday |
|
| Overseas holiday |
Young people became wealthier. |
|
| These years |
The world financial crisis. |