阅读下列短文，然后从后面各小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Can you imagine a cloud floating in the middle of your room? Do you want to know what it feels like to fly like a bird? Here, we have picked out four interesting inventions to share with you.
Talking Gloves
Four foreign students have created a pair of gloves, and it helps people to communicate with people who have hearing and speaking problems. The gloves are equipped with sensors (传感器). They recognize sign language and translate it into text on a smartphone. Then the smartphone changes the text to spoken words. Thus you can understand sign language easily.
Google Glasses
Google Glasses are like a computer built into a pair of glasses. Then the glasses allow you to surf the Internet and make calls without even lifting a finger. The glasses also have a camera and GPS mapping system. Users can take and share photos, check maps and surf the Internet just by looking up, down, left and right.
Indoor Clouds
That’s a real world. An artist, Smilde managed to create a small but perfect white cloud in the middle of a room using a fog machine. But it required careful planning — the temperature, humidity (湿度) and lighting all had to be just right. The cloud only lasted for a short while, though.
Wingsuits
The suit realizes your dream of flying like a bird. Well, not exactly flying, but gliding (滑翔) through the air. It increases the surface area of the human body, which makes it easier for people to float in the air. Fliers wearing wingsuits can glide one kilometer in about 30 seconds.
（1）What do “Talking Gloves” help people to understand?
| A． |
Spoken words. |
B． |
Sign language. |
C． |
Written words. |
D． |
The text on the smartphone. |
（2）How can users of “Google Glasses” surf the Internet?
| A． |
By speaking to the glasses. |
B． |
By tapping the keyboard. |
| C． |
By lifting a finger. |
D． |
By moving the eyeballs. |
（3）How did the artist create a white cloud in the room?
| A． |
With a fog machine. |
B． |
With right temperature. |
| C． |
With a fog machine and careful planning. |
D． |
With a fog machine and right lighting. |
（4）Which of the following can help you fly?
| A． |
Talking Gloves. |
B． |
Wingsuits. |
C． |
Google Glasses. |
D． |
Indoor Clouds. |
（5）What’s the best title of the passage?
| A． |
Four Interesting Inventions |
B． |
Four Famous Inventions |
| C． |
The Advantages of Four Inventions |
D． |
Four Dreams of the Future |
Some children wish to be writers some day. They want to write stories or books for people to read. That's good! It's good to write something for people to read! But they should know that they need to be good readers first before they are really good writers. They should read a lot of books, instead代替 of watching TV and spending a lot of time playing games when they are free.
There is more fun in reading, you want to look for more books to read. Before you decide to be a good writer, you'd better say to yourself, "I must read more and more!"This article mainly主要 tells us that .
| A．some children wish to be writers some day |
| B．it is good to write something for people to read |
| C．reading books is fun |
| D．reading can be helpful for us to become a good writer |
Reading more books may .
| A．help you to be a good writer |
| B．help you play well |
| C．make you work better |
| D．make you watch more TV at home |
It's good for children .
| A．to do a lot of reading | B．to watch TV in the evening |
| C．to be good writers right now | D．to have wishes only |
Some children want to be writers .
| A．because they want to be good readers |
| B．to get more money and buy a lot of good things. |
| C．to write stories or books for people to read |
| D．to find good work some day |
From the passage， we know that .
| A．all children like to be writers |
| B．people like to read for children |
| C．children need to read more and more books |
| D．all writers are children |
Life in the future will be different from life today. Between then and now many changes will happen. But what will the changes be?
The population is growing fast. There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.
Computers will be much smaller and more useful，and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools then. People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports，watching TV and traveling. Traveling will be much cheaper and easier. And many more people will go to other countries for holidays.
There will be changes in our food，too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses for all the people. Then there will be less room for cows and sheep，so meat will be more expensive. Maybe no one will eat it every day. Instead，they will eat more fruits and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier. Work in the future will be different，too. Robots will do dangerous and hard work. Because of this，many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.In the future there will be ______.
| A．much more fruit | B．fewer people |
| C．less vegetables | D．less people |
Every family will have at least a ______ in the future.
| A．robot | B．cow | C．TV set | D．computer |
In the future people don't have to ______.
| A．work long hours | B．work fast | C．walk on foot | D．eat meat |
People may not eat ______ as much as they do today.
| A．fruit | B．fish | C．meat | D．rice |
One big problem in the future is that ______.
| A．many people don't have to work |
| B．many people will not be able to find work |
| C．people have to work fast |
| D．all the work will be done by robots |
A new library opens in the town. It's a very big library. Some robots work there as library assistants. The robots can help you find the right books you want and do other things you tell them to. But you must say “Please”when you ask for something and “Thank you”when you get something.
Li Ming wants to borrow a book from the new library. He comes to the library with Zhang Hua. They see a robot standing there.
Li：Hey，give me the book “Little Tom”．Why，the robot doesn't work. There must be something wrong with it.
Zhang：No，there isn't. When you borrow a book，you must say “Please”．
Li：Will you please give me the book“Little Tom”，Mr. Robot?
Zhang：Look！The robot is bringing you the book. Take it，Li Ming.
Li：What's wrong with the robot？It won't let me have the book.
Zhang：Yor must say “Thank you”．
Li：Oh，thank you very much，Mr. Robot.
The robot smiles and gives the book to Li Ming.
阅读短文，判断正T误F。In the library all the assistants are robots.
The robot will be glad to help you if you say
“Please”and “Thank you”.Li Ming asks for help from the robot in the library.
Mr. Robot is a young man.
People say “Please”and “Thank you”only to robots.
A rich man was once riding along the road and saw an old man digging in his garden. On the ground lay a young tree, ready to be planted. The rich man called out to the old man, “What kind of tree are you planting there, my good man?”
“This is a fig(无花果) tree, sir. ” He said.
“A fig tree?” the rich man was very surprised, “Why, how old are you, may I ask?”
“I am ninety years old.”
“What!” cried the rich man, “You’re ninety years old. You are planting a very young tree now and it’ll take years to give fruit. You certainly don’t hope to live long enough to get any fruit from this tree. ” The old man looked around the garden. Then he said with a smile, “Tell me, sir. Did you eat figs when you were a boy? ”“Sure,” the man did not know why he asked this question.“ Then tell me this,” he said, “Who planted the fig
trees?” “Why-why? I don’t know.” “You see, sir.” went on the old man,“ Our forefathers(祖先) planted trees for us to enjoy and I am doing the same for the people after me.”
The rich man was quiet and said, “You are right，my good man. We should do some things for the people after us. Thank you very much.” Then he rode away.
根据短文内容回答下列各问题。What tree was the old man planting when the rich man saw him?
________________________________________How old was the old man?
_________________________________________The old man was planting the tree to get himself some fruit to eat，wasn’t he?
____________________________________________Did the rich man eat figs when he was a boy?
____________________________________________What should we do for the people after us?
Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories, destroying (摧毁) fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged (破坏) that their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or broken roofs. One person was killed, several were badly hurt and taken to hospital, and a number of other people received smaller hurt. Altogether over two hundred people were homeless after the storm.
A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm began early in the morning and lasted for over an hour.
“I was eating with my wife and children,” he said, “When we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best to climb out but then I saw that one of my children was missing. I went back inside and found him, safe but very frightened.”
Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just left for work when she felt that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children.
“There was no time to take anything,” she said, “A few minutes later, the roof came down.”
Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded (水淹的) area and the welfare department (福利机构) brought them food, clothes and shelter. How many homes altogether (总共) were damaged in the storm?
| A．Fourteen | B．Twenty-one |
| C．Twenty-nine | D．Thirty-six |
Where was Mr. Tan when the storm first began?
| A．He was in bed. | B．He was inside the house. |
| C．He was outside the house. | D．He was on the roof. |
Mrs. Woo and her family didn’t get hurt because _________.
| A．her husband knew there would be a storm |
| B．they were all inside the house when the storm became worse |
| C．she felt the house was moving |
| D．the welfare department helped her |
The underlined word “shelter” in this passage means ______.
| A．something to eat | B．something to wear |
| C．somewhere to study | D．somewhere to stay |
Which of he following may be the best title for this passage?
| A．A Terrible Storm | B．A Lucky Woman |
| C．Good Soldiers | D．Clever People |