You can't remember who sings a certain song from the 90s. You Google it. You're arguing with a friend about who played Mickey in The Goonies. You solve the problem by Googling it. You don't know the way to that new restaurant. You Google Maps it.
We hold the answers to about all of life's questions in our hands today. But that means our brains are feeling free to take some rest. According to the Daily Mail, our growing reliance on(依赖) the Internet for fact checking is making our memories worse.
Scientists at Harvard University found people now regard Google and other search engines as an outside part of their own brains, rather than a tool. Writing in the Journal Scientific American, Harvard psychologists Daniel Wegner and Adrian Ward warn that people who believe their memorable facts that are saved online are much worse at remembering them.
"The Internet is also unlike a human memory partner; it knows more and can produce the information more quickly, You can find almost all information today easily through a quick Internet search. It may be that the Internet is taking the place of people's memory."
In a series of tests, researchers found it was easy for people to remember information well if they believed it would be deleted.
Those who thought it was stored on a computer were more forgetful, even if they were asked to keep the information in mind.When people want to check a fact, probably they will .
| A．look up in a book |
| B．ask friends |
| C．use the Internet |
| D．go to teachers for help |
According to the passage, if we depend on the Internet for fact checking, .
| A．our brains will become smaller |
| B．our brains will become bigger |
| C．our memories will become worse |
| D．our memories will become better |
People are easy to remember things well if they know .
| A．they will lose the information |
| B．they will lose the computer |
| C．the information is good for them |
| D．the information is important |
The writer wants to tell us .
| A．not to use Google |
| B．Google is bad for our memory |
| C．Google is a good tool for checking facts |
| D．not to depend on the Internet for checking facts too much |
Co-operation (合作)is always needed when you make a project that the teacher gives you.
First, discuss all you would like to do with your classmates. Choose one of the members to write down what you’re talking about. Then, with the ideas you get, list all you want. Everyone shares the duty for the project. You can collect information not only from books but also on the internet. Making a survey and doing a research are also good ways. After that, all the members put what has been found together. Try to make the project more well-organized. In the end, you can give a report in front of your class to show the results of your hard work.
How to do it? |
Peter was getting ready to graduate from the college. He loved a beautiful sports car for many months, and knew his father could well afford it for him. He told his father all that he wanted.
As the graduation day was coming near, Peter had got nothing from his father. On the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his study. He told his son how proud he was to have such a good son, and told how much he loved him. Then he gave his son a beautiful gift box. He opened the box, finding a lovely book, a Bible(圣经), with the young man’s name in it. Angrily he raised his voice to his father and said, “With all your money you give me a Bible?” He then ran out of the house, leaving the Bible.
Many years later, Peter was very successful in business. He had a beautiful house and a wonderful family. Realizing his father was old, he thought he should go to see him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Unfortunately, he was told that his father had died.
When he reached his father’s house, he began to take care of his father’s papers. And then he found the Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened it and began to turn the pages. As he was reading, from the back of the Bible dropped a car key. That was the key to the sports car he wanted so much. Sudden sadness and regret (悔恨)filled his heart.
Sometimes we don’t realize the good luck that we already have because we don’t know the gift box is packed in a different way. The gift box may be the door to happiness. It is just waiting for us to open.The son would like his father to buy him___________.
| A．a beautiful house | B．a Bible | C．a beautiful box | D．a sports car |
The son ran out of the house angrily because ____________.
| A．his father said something wrong to him | B．his father gave him nothing |
| C．he thought his father only gave him a Bible | D．his father didn’t love him |
Many years later, the son_____________.
| A．was told his father was still healthy | B．became a successful man |
| C．had a hard life | D．went to see his father quite often |
How did the son feel when he got the car key?
| A．Excited and happy. | B．Worried and sad. |
| C．Disappointed and upset. | D．Sad and regretful. |
From the story, the writer wants to tell us ___________.
| A．we may miss good luck because they are not packed as we expect |
| B．we should look after our parents carefully |
| C．our parents will give us everything we ask for |
| D．we should accept any gift that our parents give us |
If you want to become a better reader, here are four important points to remember about rate or speed(速度)of reading:
First, knowing why you are reading and what you are reading to find out will often help you to know whether to read rapidly or slowly.
Second, some things should be read slowly. Examples are directions for making or doing something; arithmetic(算术)problems, science and history books. They are full of important information. You must read such things slowly to remember each important step and understand each idea.
Third, some things should be read rapidly. Examples are simple stories for enjoyment, news, letters from friends, items or bits of news from local or hometown paper, telling what is happening to friends and neighbors.
Fourth, in some of your readings, you must change your speed from fast to slow, and slow to fast, as you read. You’ll need to read certain pages rapidly and then slow down and do more careful reading when you come to important ideas which should be remembered.A tale about fairies(神话) should be read_________.
| A．slowly | B．carefully | C．rapidly | D．to change one’s speed fast to slow |
A book about knowledge of the nature should be read _____________.
| A．either rapidly or slowly | B．rapidly | C．neither rapidly nor slowly | D．slowly |
__________should be read slowly.
| A．Novels | B．Letters |
| C．Some things full of important information | D．Newspapers and magazines |
In this passage the author advises us to ____________.
| A．read more books | B．be better readers |
| C．fit our speed to our needs | D．change our speed of reading now and then(不时地) |
According to this passage, one must pay attention to _______in your reading.
| A．why you are reading | B．what you are reading |
| C．the speed of reading | D．careful reading |
According to a new education survey, student safety has become a big problem. Nearly 50 percent of the students say they are worried about robbery on the way to and from school. Now in many big cities in China，some schools have taught an unusual lesson. self-protection；Students like this lesson as there are no exams or boring classes. And they can learn how to save lives and know how to stop danger before it really happens.
Chen Haoyu，a teacher at Beijing No. 25 Middle School and a self-protection expert，gives young students advice on how to deal with danger．
If you are robbed, keep calm. If you cannot cry for help or run away, give the robber your money, try to remember what the robber looks like and tell the police.
If you are in a traffic accident and if you are hurt by a car, take down the car number；if it is a bicycle, try to contact your parents before you let the rider go. This is because you don’t know how seriously you are hurt.
Don’t stay in high places and keep away from trees if it is raining hard and there is lightning.
Get away as fast as you can when there is a fire．Put wet things on your body and try to find an exit. Do not take the lift!
If someone is drowning and you can’t swim, don’t get into the water. Cry out for help.
Remember that danger is never as far away as you think. Take care of yourself at all times!Why do students like the self-protection lesson?
| A．Because there is advice on exams |
| B．Because they can learn how to protect themselves. |
| C．Because they like self-protection experts. |
| D．Because they have lots of exams during the lesson. |
The underlined word “contact” means_________.
| A．end up | B．wait for | C．search for | D．get in touch with |
If your house is on fire, you must __________.
| A．put dry things on your body |
| B．run quickly and take the lift |
| C．take everything you have and then run away |
| D．run away and find an exit as quickly as you can |
If you see a child fall into the river and you are not able to swim, you _______.
| A．should telephone the doctor | B．can jump into the river and save him |
| C．can do nothing | D．should shout for help |
What’s the best title for this passage?
| A．Protection | B．Advice on how to deal with danger |
| C．The popular lesson | D．An interesting lesson |
A mother and her young son get into a bus in a small city and sit down. The bus conductor comes to them for their money. The mother says ,“I want one ticket (票) to the zoo.” and gives her one yuan.
The conductor looks at the small boy for a few seconds then says to him, “How old are you, young man?”
The mother begins speaking, but the conductor stops her, and the boy says, “I’m four years old at home, and two in buses .”
The mother takes fifty fen out of her bag and gives the money to the conductor. The conductor gives her one and a half tickets.One day the mother takes a bus ______.
| A．to a small city | B．to get some money |
| C．with her son | D．to get a ticket |
The mother gives the conductor ______ fen in all(总共) that day?
| A．120. | B．150. | C．180. | D．200. |
Whatdoestheword“conductor”mean?
| A．司机 | B．售票员 | C．乘客 | D．警察 |
The conductor asks ______ how old he is?
| A．the mother | B．the little boy |
| C．the bus driver | D．the mother and the son |
The boy is ______ years old.
| A．four | B．two | C．two and a half | D．six |