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Have you ever dreamed about sending a letter to yourself or your friends in the future? While express mail(快递) is a fast way to send your letters, there is another type of mail appearing in China as a new business—future mail.
“The letter should be sent next Mother’s Day and not a day earlier!” Lin Xiaofan, a college student in Shanghai, tells one of the companies offering the service.
Lin Xiaofan wrote the letter to her mother nearly a year earlier to express her love to her mother for next Mother’s Day.
“Offering this service makes people slow down and lets them understand the meaning of ‘time’ in another way,” said Zheng Zhimin, manager at a “future mail” company. Zheng thinks “future mail” letters help remind us of care, friendship and love.
While “future mail” is becoming more and more popular, some people are wondering what will happen if the postal address changes or if the company goes broken before the letters arrive.
Zheng said customers are glad to sign a contract(签订合同) to make sure that they can becompensatedif their letters are lost or damaged.
Most of the customers are college students and young white-collar(白领) workers. Psychologists (心理学家) said that young Chinese might have a new way to express their feelings through this service. Most people put their hopes and wishes in the letter so that they can experience the connection(联系) between the past and the present when they receive the letter.
1.“Future mail” is a/an ______ way to send your letter.
A. fast B. old
C. new D. cheap
2.The underlined word “compensate” means ______ in Chinese.
A. 赔偿 B. 完成
C. 送达 D. 抛弃
3.The “future mail” service is popular among ______.
A. junior students B. college students
C. young children D. blue-collar workers
4.The “future mail” service can help us ______.
A. sign a contract
B. express our love and care
C. forget friendship
D. understand the meaning of “time” in a wrong way
5.You’d better use “future mail” if you want to ______.
A. save money from sending express mail
B. send a birthday gift to your friend quickly
C. talk with your friends about your life freely
D. send a your best wishes to yourself on January 1, 2020
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
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Many of you have heard a Cinderella (灰姑娘) story, but you may not know that there are over a hundred different ways to tell the Cinderella story. When writers tell the same story in a different way, it is called their “version” of the story. The story of Cinderella has many different versions. Let’s read two of them and find out how they are different.
The version that most people know is the oldest one written in 1697 by Charles Perrault from France. This is the version where the birds help make Cinderellas’s dress and the mice turn into carriage men (马车夫) and help Cinderella go to the dance in a pumpkin (南瓜) carriage. In this version, many of the animals are Cinderella’s friends. They help her meet the Prince. Cinderella marries the Prince and they live happily together ever after.
In another version of this story written in the 1850s by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from Germany, the birds help Cinderella in the whole story. Cinderella’s father gives her a little tree when he comes back from a party. She plants the little tree and her tears water it until it grows into a tall tree.
The birds now live in the tree and they give Cinderella a dress of gold and shoes of gold. Cinderella goes to the party to meet and dance with the Prince. Later, he finds Cinderella at home doing work for her stepmother (继母). Cinderella marries the Prince and they live happily ever after.
Now you can understand what the word “version” means and how more than one writer can tell a story in a different way. That is why there are many versions of the same story.
1.In the story written in 1697, ________ helped make Cinderella’s dress.
A. her father B. her stepmother
C. the birds D. the mice
2.In Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s story, Cinderella’s father ________.
A. gives her some birds
B. gives her a little tree
C. makes a gold dress for her
D. makes gold shoes for her
3.The Chinese meaning of the word “version” in this passage is probably “________”.
A. 人物 B. 语气 C. 方法 D. 版本
4.If we put the passage into three parts, which of the following is the best?
(①=" Para." (自然段) 1 ②=" Para." 2 ③=" Para." 3 ④=" Para." 4 ⑤=" Para." 5)
A. ①; ②③④; ⑤ B. ①②; ③; ④⑤ C. ①②; ③④; ⑤ D. ①; ②; ③④⑤
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
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Your brain controls everything you do. It makes it possible for you to think, Learn, create and feel; to blink(眨眼) and breathe and for your heart to heat –this fantastic control center is your brain. It is so amazing that a famous scientist once called it " the most complex(复杂) thing we have yet discovered in our universe".
Can this small grey organ(器官) , which weighs less than one and a half kilos,
really do so much? Amazingly , your brain contains about 100 billion neurons(神经元) -it would take you over 3 ,000 years to count them all. Believe it or not, the activity in your brain never stops. Your neurons create and send more messages than all the phones in the world. And although one neumn creates only a little electricity, all your neurons together can produce enough electricity to power a light bulb (灯泡).
So exactly how fast does your brain work? Well, imagine this: a bee lands on your foot. Neurons in your skin send this information to your brain at a speed of more than 240 kilometers per hour. Your brain then uses other neurons to send the message back to your foot to shake the bee off quickly. These neurons can send this information at more than 320 kilometers per hour. No computer has your hrain's unbelievable ability to deal with the amount of information coming from your eyes, ears and other sensory organs.
But how does your brain allow you to leam things Lhat you will use in the future? The structure (结构) of your brain changes every time you have a new thought, remember or leam something. For example, riding a bike seems impossible at first, but soon you are able to do it. How? As you practice, your brain sends "bike riding" messages again and again Soon, the actions are learnt and you are able to ride a bike easily from then on.
1.From the passage we know that neurons______________ .
A. receive messages very slowly
B. are only found in your skin
C. send messages to your brain
D. need electricity to work
2.In Paragraph 3, the writer mentions computers to ______________ .
A. compare them wich the human brain
B. show how fast they have become
C. say that computers have no abilities
D. ask people to use computers more
3.When you have a new thought, ______________ .
A. your brain will power a light bulb
B. your heart beats faster
C. you remember something
D. the structure of your brain changes
4.The article is mainly ahout ________________ .
A all the steps when your brain leams things
A. what an unbelievable organ the human brain is
B. how the brain makes people smarter than computers
C. the things you can do to make your brain work faster
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
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I still remember quite clearly the day when my parents got divorced(离婚). Dad kissed me goodbye and left.
For a long time Mum and I lived a peaceful life. Then one day, Jim came over for lunch wearing a blue suit with a short brown tie and a green shirt. I couldn't believe this was going to be my new stepfather. It couldn't be true that my beautiful mother would marry someone who dressed like a clown(小丑). I hated him.
Lunch was terrible. Mother kept trying to start a conversation, but neither Jim nor I would say much. Finally I offered to bring in the dessert just to get away from the clown.
Something unpleasant happened, but I didn’t mean(故意)to do it. I guess the plate slipped. But one minute I was handing Jim his blackberry pie, and the next, dark purple berries were oozing(渗出) all over his shirt and tie.
I was mortified. My face turned bright red. Jim looked very much surprised at first, but then he began to laugh. I started to laugh too. Maybe this guy was all right, after all. Then I had a quick look at my mother. She looked happier than I had seen her in a long time.
1.The writer thinks Jim's clothes look_____________.
A. nice B. expensive C. usual D. funny
2.From the story we might guess that_________·
A. Jim didn’t seem likeable at first B. the writer liked Jim from the start
C. Jim was angry with the writer D. Jim didn't like blackberry pie
3.In this story the word "mortified" means________.
A. happy B. bored C. embarrassed D. angry
4.The best title for this story would be ______________.
A. I Love Pie B. My New Stepfather
C. The World's Worst Lunch D. Mothers Shouldn't Marry
难度: 困难查看答案及解析