Many people like doing unusual things, and some of them have appeared in the record books. Here are a few examples.
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Saimir Strati from Albania built the largest picture ever made from toothpicks. More amazingly, a very beautiful horse is in it ！ The artist used 1.5 million toothpicks and it took him about a month to complete it. |
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Can you imagine how tall a motorbike is? Well, here's one! Gregory Dunham （ the USA ） has built the world's biggest motorbike. It is 2.4 meters tall, about 4 meters long and weighs about 1 ton. Has Gregory ever ridden it? Of course, he has, and he says it's great fun! |
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People of Hamburg, Germany, set a new record. They have made the longest model train in the world. It is 110 meters long. How long would a real train of this size be? Leave it to your imagination. |
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Ashrita Furman has appeared in The Guinness Book of World Records 203 times. Furman once ran a mile in about 13 minutes while he was doing the hula hoop （呼拉圈） . But he isn't satisfied. Furman's life is all about breaking records. |
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36 ． A ____________ is in the largest picture made from toothpicks.
| A． |
book |
B． |
horse |
C． |
train |
D． |
hula hoop |
37 ． Gregory Dunham is from ____________.
| A． |
Albania |
B． |
England |
C． |
the USA |
D． |
Germany |
38 ． The longest model train in the world is ____________ long.
| A． |
1.5 meters |
B． |
2.4 meters |
C． |
4 meters |
D． |
110 meters |
39 ． The Guinness Book of World Records has mentioned ____________ 203 times.
| A． |
Gregory Dunham |
B． |
Ashrita Furman |
C． |
some Germans |
D． |
Saimir Strati |
40 ． According to the passage, we know that ____________.
| A． |
Saimir Strati built the largest toothpick picture |
| B． |
Gregory Dunham made the best hula hoop |
| C． |
some Germans made the longest real train |
| D． |
Ashrita Furman's life is all about running |
Bicycles are very popular in China. In our country you can see bicycles almost everywhere. When you walk on the road, you will find a lot of people riding bicycles to school, shops and anywhere else. Therefore(因此), China is known as “the kingdom of bicycles”. In China, many families have one or two bicycles.
Compared(与……比) with cars, bicycles have many advantages. First, they are much cheaper than cars. Most Chinese can’t afford cars, but they can afford bicycles. Second, bicycles are small enough to park anywhere, while cars need a larger piece of land to park. What’s more, with lower speed, bicycles are safer than cars.
However, bicycles also bring some problems. Some riders don’t obey the traffic rules and some riders don’t think about others’ safety. So they ride too fast. During rush hours, too many bicycles may cause traffic jams. We still have a long way to go to solve the problem.Where can you see bicycles in China?
| A．In the big city. | B．In the town. |
| C．In the country. | D．Almost everywhere. |
“The kingdom of bicycles” here is saying ____.
| A．China has a large number of bicycles |
| B．China makes bicycles |
| C．bicycles are a kingdom |
| D．only China has bicycles |
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of bicycles?
| A．Bicycles are much cheaper than cars. |
| B．Bicycles are easy to park. |
| C．Bicycles are more beautiful than cars. |
| D．Bicycles are safer than cars. |
What problems can bicycles bring?
| A．Bicycles are more and more expensive. |
| B．Riding bicycles is more dangerous than driving cars. |
| C．There are no places for so many bicycles. |
| D．Too many bicycles may cause traffic jams. |
What does the last sentence mean?
| A．We should drive cars instead of riding bicycles. |
| B．It’s too far to ride bicycles. |
| C．Bicycles are safe enough. |
| D．We still need to do much to solve the problem. |
American nutrition expert Professor Barry Popkin says that the number of overweight people in the world is now bigger than the number of people who don’t have enough to eat. A billion people worldwide now weigh too much and the number of obese people is now more than 300 million. “Obese” means at least 15 kilos heavier than you should be. However, there are also 800 million people in the world who don’t have enough to eat.
Professor Popkin says that the number of hungry people is falling slowly but the number of overweight people is rising fast. The main reasons for this are:
● People are doing less hard physical work
● More people worldwide now eat too much fatty food
● Too many people are driving cars instead of walking
● People spend too much time in front of a television
The United States has the highest rate of obesity in the developed world and Japan has the lowest. Professor Benjamin Senauer is absolutely certain of the reasons for this.
“Japanese people are fit. They use public transport and walk,” he said. “The average American drives to work and drives to supermarket. When he gets home, he sits on a couch in front of the TV and eats junk food.”
In Britain and many other European countries, there are three times as many obese people as there were 20 years ago. About two thirds of British adults are overweight or obese. “The effects of this are clear,” said London doctor Elena Power. “We have more illnesses related to weight and fewer fit people.
China used to be one of the slimmest nations in the world. However, Professor Wu Yangfeng from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing recently estimated （估计）that 20 percent of the world’s overweight people live in China. The Chinese government is especially worried about the increase in obesity among schoolchildren.
“We have a serious problem,” said Professor Wu. “It requires an improvement from everyone, or it will get worse. How many people weigh too much in the world now?
| A．A billion. | B．20 billion. |
| C．300 million. | D．800 million. |
Professor Popkin probably agrees that_______.
| A．walking to work helps people keep fit. |
| B．watching TV makes people put on weight |
| C．eating food without fat helps people keep fit |
| D．working in offices makes people put on weight |
Which of the following is Not True according to the passage ?
| A．Being overweight can cause more illnesses. |
| B．About two thirds of British people are overweight. |
| C．More and more schoolchildren are overweight in China. |
| D．Most Japanese people are healthier than those in other countries. |
What does the writer try to tell us in the passage?
| A．The importance of losing weight. |
| B．How people keep fit all over the world. |
| C．How many countries have health problem. |
| D．The number of overweight people is growing. |
When the great library of Alexandria burned, the story goes, one book was saved. But it was not a valuable book; and so a poor man bought it for a few coppers（铜钱）.Between its pages there was something very interesting. It was a thin paper on which was written the secret of the “Touchstone”!
The touchstone was a small pebble（卵石）that could turn any common metal into gold. The writing explained that it was lying among thousands of other pebbles that looked exactly like it. But the secret was this: The real stone would feel warm, while ordinary pebbles were cold.
So the man camped on the seashore and began testing pebbles.
He thought that if he picked up ordinary pebbles and put them down again, he might pick up the same pebble hundreds of times. So, when he felt one that was cold, he threw it into the sea. He spent a whole day doing this but none of them was the touchstone.
The days became weeks and the weeks into months. One day, however, he picked up a pebble and it was warm. He threw it into the sea before he realized what he had done. He had formed such a strong habit of throwing each pebble into the sea .So when the one he wanted came along, he still threw it away.
So it is with opportunity. Unless we are careful, it’s easy to fail to know an opportunity when it is in hand and it’s just as easy to throw it away.The book was special to the man because ______.
| A．it was made of cotton |
| B．it was the only book that was saved from the great fire |
| C．it was a story about how to tell the touchstone from ordinary stones |
| D．it included the secret of the touchstone |
The man threw pebbles into the sea ______.
| A．to test how far he could throw |
| B．to practice throwing pebbles |
| C．to avoid picking up the same pebble once again |
| D．to express his disappointment at failing to find the touchstone |
The story is written mainly to tell us that___________.
| A．careful habits can lead to success. |
| B．habits can benefit you but also hold you back. |
| C．never judge a person or a thing by appearances. |
| D．opportunity only visits the ready and watchful mind |
I was born an albino(白化病人）in Pennsylvania in 1945．No one in my family had ever known what an albino was and what it meant to be an albino.
My family and friends treated me as everybody else．That was just about the best thing they could have done．It helped me believe in myself, so when troubles came along, I could deal with them．
Like most albinos, I had the terrible eyesight, but the fact that I could hardly see didn’t bother me that much .Kids would make fun of me, calling me“Whitey”． People looked at me when I held the books right at the tip of my nose so that I could see it well enough．Even when I was eight, movie-theater workers started asking me to pay full prices because I“looked older”．The worst thing for me was that because my eyesight was so bad, I couldn’t play sports very well．I didn’t give up trying, though．And I studied harder．Finally, I got better at school and loved it．When I got to university, I was double majoring(双修), going to summer school and busying myself with every activity I could find．I had learned to be proud of being an albino．I did my best to make“albino”a good word．And I decided to make my living with my eyes—and in sports．
I couldn’t see very well to play sports, but with a good education and a drive to do it, I could make a living in the area I loved．I’ve done it now for more than thirty years in video, and now in cyberspace(网络空间)．People make jokes about how I’m the only“blind editor”they know, but the jokes are of goodwill and some of them are signs of respect(尊重)．
I was just a proud albino kid from the country of Pennsylvania．I now realize that being born an albino helped me to overcome difficulties, have confidence, and be proud of my personal achievement . Which is one of the signs of being an albino?
| A．He has a black face. |
| B．He can’t see clearly |
| C．He looks much older. |
| D．He has a little nose. |
How did the author’s family and friends deal with him?
| A．Regarding him as the best friend |
| B．Laughing at him |
| C．Treating him as a usual person |
| D．Being afraid to speak to him |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．The author has learned to face difficulties. |
| B．The author started to be brave after going to university. |
| C．The author could achieve everything because of his good education. |
| D．The author could play sports well because he never gave up |
What’s the main idea of this passage?
| A．To give the reason of causing the albino. |
| B．To tell us how the albino was treated |
| C．To help us deal with kinds of challenges. |
| D．To tell us how an albino succeeded |
Even if you are a good high-jumper, you can jump only about seven feet off the ground. You cannot jump any higher because the earth pulls you hard. The pull of the earth is called gravity.
You can easily find out the pull of the earth. If you weigh yourself, you will know how much gravity is pulling you.
Since there is gravity, water runs down hill. When you throw a ball into the air, it falls back down. Because of gravity, you do not fall off the earth as it whirls (旋转) around.
Then, can we get away from the earth and go far out into space? Now you can do it, because spaceships have been invented. Then spaceship will go so fast that it can escape (逃出) the earth’s gravity and carry you into space.In this passage, the word “gravity” means.
| A．the pull of everything. |
| B．the force of attraction(吸引) among objects. |
| C．the force which attracts objects towards the centre of the earth |
| D．the force which attracts the earth towards the sun. |
When you slip(滑) you always fall to the ground because
| A．the earth always turns round. |
| B．the earth has gravity |
| C．the earth’s gravity is greater than your weight. |
| D．you are careless. |
Gravity is strong that
| A．it can throw a ball into the air. |
| B．it makes you jump only seven feet. |
| C．it can let you fly away from the earth. |
| D．it can keep everything on earth. |
Because of gravity,
| A．water flows everything. |
| B．we can go everywhere by ship. |
| C．water always flows downwards. |
| D．fish can live in water. |
