Can you imagine surfing the Internet without lifting your finger? Do you want to know what it feels like to fly like a bird? Let’s have a look at some of the “Best inventions of the Year 2012”.
Wing Suits
The suit can make your dream of flying like a bird come true. Well, not exactly flying, but gliding(滑翔)through the air. Fliers wearing wing suits can glide one kilometer in about 30 seconds. But they need a parachute(降落伞)to make a safe landing because the suit does not allow you to slow down.
Talk Gloves
Do you often feel confused(困惑的)by the sign language used by disabled people? Here is the “helping hand” you need. Four students in Ukrainian college have invented a pair of gloves that helps people who has hearing and speech problems to communicate with others. The gloves are set with sensors(传感器)that receive sign language and translate it into text on a smart phone. Then the smart phone changes the text to spoken.
Google Glasses
In short, Google Glasses are like a computer which is built into a pair of glasses. The glasses allow you to surf the Internet and make phone calls without even lifting a finger. All you have to do is to let your head move the mouse on the screen. The glasses also have a camera and GPS mapping system. Users can take and share photos, video-chat, check maps and surf the Internet just by looking up, down, left and right. But now they are on sale only in two countries, German and America.Through the Talk Gloves, the sign words are translated for__________.
A.trained people | B.disabled people |
C.normal people | D.old people |
How can users of Google Glasses surf the Internet?
A.By lifting the hands. | B.By using the keyboard. |
C.By using the mouse. | D.By moving the eyeballs. |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.Now people can buy Google Glasses in China. |
B.People need a parachute to fly besides a wing suit. |
C.Wing Suits can make you fly one kilometer in 30 minutes. |
D.Talk Gloves include sensors, a smart phone and glasses. |
What’s the writer’s purpose of writing this article?
A.To draw people’s attention to the Year 2012. |
B.To bring some pleasure to readers. |
C.To introduce some interesting inventions. |
D.To ask people to buy these products. |
My mother was telling me about how she and her family got their first television when she was a teenager. Of course it was black and white. She said she only watch it at night. She doesn’t remember over watching it in the morning or afternoon. When I was young we had only about 3 or 4 different channels. My bothers ,my sisters and I would sometimes fight about which channel to watch. But we usually enjoyed the same shows.21教育网
Nowadays we can get hundreds of channels on TV.I can’t believe it! There are channels with old movies, cooking ,fishing and so on. It’s amazing! There is a channel for everything. I wonder how much my bothers, my sisters and I would fight if we had hundreds of channels when I was a child. Of course we had only one television set. These days I notice families with 2 or 3 or more television sets in their homes. I guess it stops people from arguing over which channel to choose from .
In those days, what kind of television sets did people only have?
A. Black and white ones.
B. Colors Ones.
C. All kinds of television sets.
My mother watched TV ________when she was young.
A. in the morning
B. in the afternoon
C. at night
Nowadays,how many channels can we g et on TV?
A.3 or 4 different channels.
B. Only once channel
C.Hundreds of channels.
When I was a teenager ,my brothers ,my sisters and I usually enjoyed_____.
A.four shows
B. the same shows
C. different show
Which of the following in NOT true?
A. My bother ,my sisters and I would sometimes fight about which channel to watch when I was a child.
B. These days, there is only one channel with old movies, cooking and fishing.
C. People have many channels to choose from now.
Tom was three years old. He liked to watch TV with his parents after supper, but his parents never let him stay long. Mother would say, “It’s eight o’clock now. It’s time for you to go to bed, Tom.”21*cnjy*com
“But why don’t you go to bed, too?” Tom always asked.
“We are adults (大人),” mother would say, “And adults go to bed late.”
One evening Tom asked his mother for an apple.
“But it’s too late,” his mother didn’t want to give him anything to eat at bedtime. “The apples are already asleep.”
“But not all of them, Mom.” Tom said, “The baby apples are perhaps asleep, but their parents are surely awake.”
Tom liked to watch TV with_________ after supper.
A.his father and mother | B.his sister |
C.his grandparents | D.his brother |
His parents _______let him stay long.
A.never | B.sometimes |
C.often | D.usually |
One evening Tom asked his mother for_________.
A.an egg | B.an apple |
C.an orange | D.a pear |
His mother didn’t want to give anything to him to eat________.
A.in the morning | B.in the afternoon |
C.at bedtime | D.at noon |
From the story we know__________.
A.Tom was a quiet boy |
B.Tom was a bad boy |
C.Tom was a lazy boy |
D.Tom was a clever boy |
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People at home keep asking me, "Is it hard to learn Chinese? Why have you learned it so well?" Well, there's one thing that makes Chinese easy to learn: there are so many people to talk to. You've probably heard that it's the most spoken language. Today it's also one of the most written languages online. And with so many Chinese people interested in learning English, it couldn't be easier to find a friend for language learning. You just have to know where to look for them.
The really good place to look for them is QQ. QQ has the same status(地位) in China as AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) does in the US. It is reported that at any moment, up to 9,000,000 people are using QQ. They're at work, or in a web café(网吧), or at home, and the information of the users can be found. If you sign on with your address set to "abroad", you'll soon find that many thousands of them are interested in speaking to you! This is a great way for you to learn Chinese, and for them to learn English. I think that it's a very interesting way of cultural contact(文化交流), too, for ordinary people from around the world to be able to have one-on-one contact. In the first paragraph(段落), the writer tells us ___________.
A.why his family members want to learn Chinese |
B.where you can find people to talk to for language learning |
C.the easiest thing to do is learning Chinese |
D.Chinese isn’t so hard to learn as his friends think |
From the second paragraph we know that QQ and AIM are __________.
A.addresses for the Internet users |
B.documents you need to get online |
C.tools for people to talk online |
D.programs of a computer |
Offices, web cafes and homes ____________.
A.attract the most people to learn Chinese |
B.provide both QQ and AIM in China |
C.are the best places for English learners |
D.have the most people online |
The writer wrote this passage mainly to __________.
A.tell a way of learning Chinese |
B.show what the Chinese people are doing |
C.tell the important of learning Chinese |
D.show the difference between AIM and QQ |
The writer of this passage is probably ___________.
A.a Chinese who works abroad |
B.an expert who works at home |
C.an American who works in China |
D.a salesman who sells softwares |
Mr. and Mrs. White had two sons and three daughters.One Sunday,Mrs. White said to her husband,“The children don’t have any lessons today,and you’re free too.There’s a new funfair(游乐场)in the park.Let’s all go there to play.
Her husband said,“I want to finish some work today. “oh, forget it.Go there and make our children happy.That’s the most important work” Mrs. White said.
So Mr. and Mrs. White took their children to the funfair.Mr. White was forty-five years old.
but he enjoyed the funfair more than his children. He hurried from one thing to another,and ate lost of sweets. One of the children said to her mother,“Dad is just like a small child,isn’t he, Mom?” Mrs. White didn’t want to follow her husband around any more at that time and answered, He is even worse than a small child,Mary,because he might spend more money than a small child. There were ________ children in the White family·
A.two | B.three |
C.four | D.five |
One Sunday,Mr. and Mrs. White wanted to go to _______ with their children.
A.school | B.work |
C.a funfair | D.a shop |
Mr. White liked the place so much that he_______.
A.bought lots of sweets |
B.followed his wife all the time |
C.hurried from one thing to another |
D.asked a lot of questions |
From the story we know Mrs. White________ when Mary asked her the question.
A.was still excited to play |
B.was a little angry with Mr. White |
C.looked for Mr.White everywhere |
D.are a lot of sweets |
Of all the family members,_________ enjoyed playing there most that Sunday.
A.Mr.White | B.Mrs.White |
C.Mary | D.the boys |