Look at this special handrail(扶手). One part o...

1.This handrail is helpful for _________.

A.the old B.the rich C.the young D.the poor

2.This new mask makes it ________ for people with hearing problems to communicate with others.

A.hard B.easy C.comfortable D.exciting

3.You can ________if you don't like the pattern.

A.put it off B.cut it of C.turn it off D.wash it off

4.Germans started using Pepper to ________ in a supermarket.

A.work as nurses B.look after babies

C.keep customers apart from each other D.save customers' lives as soon as possible

5.We can probably find the passage in a ________.

A.travel guide B.science magazine C.history book D.geography book

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How to Invent a Product

1.

It's unnecessary to think of something that no one has ever thought of before. Just ask yourself what exactly you are trying to improve or solve? If you want to build a better dust mop (拖把),how will it be better? What interesting or important part does it have? What could you do differently?

2.

Try coming up with 15 solutions in a minute, no matter how crazy. Or choose one of the solutions and ask how is that like my idea? "How and why does it work?" "When, where and how is it used?" "How is it described?" Let your questions and imagination come up with new ideas or find a different way of looking at a problem

3.

Visit stores that offer products similar to what yours will do and even go as far as to ask store workers for products they might sell with a similar purpose. If you have a name for your product created, search this to find out whether it is already being used.

4.

This is often the longest part of inventing! Thomas Edison's lab tested more than 6,000 different materials for light bulbs before they came up with one that worked. Make the model until it works the way you want. Sometimes you might discover an entirely different idea.

5.

When you think you've got everything ready, it's time to make a working model of your invention --- a prototype. This is what you'll use to show people what it will look like and how it will work. You can use this prototype to show and introduce to the people who might have interest.

A.Research your invention.

B.Brainstorm

C.Ask for advice.

D.Find a problem worth solving.

E.Make your invention to a reality.

F.Build, test, rebuild, repeat.

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How do you feel about your looks? Is it important to have a beautiful face? Are there other things that can make a person special? The way you look is special. Do you know what I mean by that? We all look a little different. Some of us are tall. Some of us are fat. The point is, all of us have our own look-our own face.

Sometimes, we might feel bad about looking different. We might feel like we look ugly or strange. But our differences are what make us special.

I recently watched a speech by a man named Robert Hoge. He was born with a strange-looking face. His mother always worried that he would face many difficulties in life. But what Hoge did changed his mother's mind little by little. Strangers would stare at him or even make fun of him. But he didn't care at all. He decided to accept his face and feel confident (自信的) in himself. He has made a decision to live an amazing life.

It's hard when you feel like you don't look "normal" or "perfect". But the truth is, no one is perfect. The important thing to remember is that you are special, no matter what you look like.

根据短文内容，判断下列各句正（T）、误（F）。

1.According to the writer, all of us look a little different. _____

2.The writer recently watched a speech by Robert Hoge's mother. _____

3.Hoge's mother used to worry that he would face many difficulties in life. _____

4.When strangers made fun of him, Hoge lost his confidence. _____

5.The writer tries to tell us that we are special no matter what we look like. _____

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How did Chinese people choose the 12 animals of the zodiac (生肖)?

There are many stories1.the Chinese zodiac. In one of the most2. stories, the Jade Emperor (玉皇大帝）wanted to pick 12 animals to keep his palace safe. He ordered all the animals to have a 3.to run to the palace. The first 12 animals to4. at the palace were the winners.　 They then became part of our calendar.

5. , the real history behind the Chinese zodiac is much harder to find. Some say the zodiac came from animals6. were important in people’s lives at the time. Some of the animals were ones that people7.at home, such as the chicken and the pig. Others were animals they loved such as the tiger and the monkey. Others say that ancient Chinese people chose the 12 animals according to animals’ habits. This is because people not8.used the zodiac to stand for different years, but also used them to tell time.

9. animal stands for one shichen, or two hours. It is said that during each shichen, its corresponding ( 相 应 的 ) animal would be active. For example, the mouse stands for the period of time from 11 pm to 1 am10.this is the time when mice would go out to look for food. Do you think our ancient Chinese are full of wisdom(智慧)?

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根据短文内容, 从短文后的A~F选项中, 选出5个适当的选项补全短文。

Close friends, think alike?

"What! You, too? I believed I was the only one." Have you ever said something like this to someone? 1.

It seems that similarity often helps form friendship. The Greek thinker Aristotle once said, "People regard friendship as a matter of similarity; they say that we love those who are like our-selves." 2. Scientists from University of California said friends have similar behaviors, Scientific American reported.

The scientists invited 42 university students to take part in a test. Each student watched the same set of videos, which included a comedy, a discussion and a soccer match. 3.According to their scans, friends who watched the same video reacted in similar ways. Similar parts of their brains lit up while watching the videos, especially parts that are connected with motivation(动机), learning and memory. 4.

"Seeing one's friends have similar behaviors will reinforce(强化)one's own values, opinions, and interests," lead scientist Carolyn Parkinson told Business Insider. 5. Scientists from the University of Leipzig, Germany, found that friendship is also based on how physically close you are to someone. The scientists did a test with first-year college students the first time they met in class. In this test, students who sat in neighboring seats were more likely to become friends.

A.Now, there is some science behind this idea.

B.If so, you may have ended up becoming friends with this person.

C.Friends share a lot of similarities, though there are some differences.

D.But brain similarity is not the only thing that can result in friendship.

E.However, people who weren't friends had different reactions to the same videos.

F.At the same time, scientists scanned their brains and recorded their brain activity.

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You've been learning words since you were a tiny baby. At first, you learned them only by hearing other people talk. Now that you're a reader, you have another way to learn words. What should you do when you come to a word and you think you don't know what it means? 1..

Say it

First sound it out. Then say it to yourself. 2.. Sometimes you know a word in your head but you don't know what it looks like in print. So if you match up what you know and what you read - you have the word!

Use context

If this doesn't work, take the next step: look at the context — the other words and sentences around it. Read this sentence: When it rained, the dog looked for shelter in the doorway. 3.. Rain and in the doorway might give you helpful information.

4.

If the context doesn't help, look at the parts of the word. Does it have any parts you know? These can help you understand what it means. If you don't know the meaning of miner, try looking at parts of the word. You might know that a mine is a place underground where people get coal and other valuable things. A lot of times, -er at the end of a word means "a person who does something". So a miner might be someone who works in a mine.

Look it up

If the three steps above don't work, you can look it up.5. — either a book or online.

Nobody knows the meaning of every word, but good readers know how to understand words they don't know.

A.Use word parts

B.Look at the words

C.It might sound like a word you know

D.You can find the word in a dictionary

E.Following some easy steps can help you

F.If the word shelter doesn't look familiar. look at the words around it

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In Germany, there is a special museum. It is the only one of this kind in the world and few people know it.Every year，the number of people who come to visit the museum is only one thousand.What kind of museum is it?

It is a museum about taxes (税收)．In this museum，you can see the history of taxes and all kinds of taxes in different countries in the world.

After visiting the museum，people can draw a conclusion(得出结论)．That is from 3000 B．C.(公元前)，the kings，dictators(独裁者)and finance ministers(财政部长)could tax people freely.They taxed people heavily because of such things as wars，weddings(婚礼)or road building.They needed money and they got money by taxing their citizens (公民)．

In the early times of Egypt，farmers had to pay heavy taxes if the water level(水面)of the River Nile rose.The kings said that if the water level rose，there would be much more earth in farmers' fields.So the farmers could get a good harvest and they should pay more taxes.

A strange kind of tax—Window Tax appeared(出现)in England.It lasted more than one hundred years.How? If there were more windows in the wall，the people must pay more taxes.So in those years, people built as few windows as possible in the wall.

Russian people once paid a tax for their beards (胡子)．The people who had paid this tax would get a special piece of paper.But what about the people who didn't pay for their beards? Of course，their beards would be cut.But without a beard for a man is a way to scorn(蔑视)God.He would also be punished.

1.Which is right about the museum?

A. It is in Germany.

B. It is a museum about taxes in German history.

C. It is the only museum in the world.

D. It is very famous in the world.

2.Which is the best title for this museum?

A. A German museum

B. A tax museum

C. The only museum in the world

D. A very small museum

3.The history of taxes may have lasted ________ years at least.

A. 3, 000　　 B. 5, 000

C. 6, 000　　 D. 2, 000

4.Which is right?

A. Only Egypt, England and Russia have taxes.

B. The taxes are free now.

C. The taxes were heavy.

D. The taxes were completely used for people.

5.Which is right?

A. Egypt—Window Tax，England—Water Level Tax，Russia—Beard Tax

B. Egypt—Water Level Tax，Russia—Window Tax，England—Beard Tax

C. Egypt—Water Level Tax，Russia—Beard Tax，England—Window Tax

D. Egypt—Beard Tax，Russia—Water Level Tax，England—Window Tax

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My favourite animals ______ zebras. Look at this one. It ______ cute. It is black and white like the panda. But it ______ come from Asia, It _____ from Africa. It _____ grass.

1.A. are　　　　 B. am　　　　　　 C. is　　　　 D. be

2.A. am　　　　 B. is　　　　　　 C. are　　　　 D. be

3.A. is　　　　 B. isn’t　　　 C. does　　　 D. doesn’t

4.A. come　　　 B. comes　　　　 C. go　　　　 D. goes

5.A. eat　　　　 B. eats　　　　 C. drink　　 D. drinks

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完形填空

My favourite animals ______ zebras. Look at this one. It ______ cute. It is black and white like the panda. But it ______ come from Asia, It _____ from Africa. It _____ grass.

1.A. are　　　　 B. am　　　　　　 C. is　　　　 D. be

2.A. am　　　　 B. is　　　　　　 C. are　　　　 D. be

3.A. is　　　　 B. isn’t　　　 C. does　　　 D. doesn’t

4.A. come　　　 B. comes　　　　 C. go　　　　 D. goes

5.A. eat　　　　 B. eats　　　　 C. drink　　 D. drinks

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Many people travel to different places in the world by air. Usually it takes a long time, perhaps half a day, for passengers to stay in the plane. So airlines offer passengers food. But it is common that they feel bad about food taste. Do you agree?

To solve this problem, airlines try hard to improve their food. They would like to do so because they don't want to lose customers.

However, according to scientific research, part of the reason why plane food tastes bad is that at high altitude (海拔)we can't taste things as well as we do on the ground. Also scientists have found that our noses become very dry even before a plane takes off. As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure reduces one third of the sensibility (感觉)of our taste buds (味蕾). So our taste buds become senseless. The sad fact, however, is that our noses don't know it.

All of these helps explain why food on the plane tastes so bad. They also help explain why airlines choose to offer passengers salty and spicy food. Without doing so, the food would be tasteless.

Now there are many researches on this. According to one of them, some volunteers are asked to lie with their feet higher than their heads for weeks. And scientists write down their feelings about food taste.

Though scientists try their best, it is not as easy as they thought. Because they can't deal with the special environment successfully, such as the change in air pressure, making food taste good is still hard for them.

1.In Paragraph 2, "this problem" refers to "________".

A.passengers stay long in the plane B.food on the plane tastes bad

C.passengers have no food to eat D.food on the plane is expensive

2.As the plane moves up, how much of the sensibility of our taste buds does the change in air pressure reduce?

A.One fifth. B.One fourth. C.One third. D.Half.

3.Why do scientists feel it hard to make food on the plane taste good?

A.Because they can't find enough volunteers.

B.Because the volunteers don't understand them.

C.Because the volunteers don't know about food taste.

D.Because they can't deal with the special environment successfully.

4.What is the best title of the passage?

A.Airplane Travel. B.The Change in Air Pressure.

C.Taste of Airplane Food. D.Scientific Research on Noses.

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