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Different types of maps have different uses. Tourist maps, for example, have signs to show places of interest in an area. When tourists read these maps, it is easy for them to find where to go and what to see in a place and it is easy for them to go and find their ways to these places.
Road maps show large areas so that people can plan long journeys. Different types of roads are given different numbers. For example, if you want to go to Wood Green, you just follow No. 621 Road and keep looking at the road signs.
Distribution maps(分布图) use colors or signs to show facts about an area. For example, where different languages are spoken, how many people live in an area, how cold and hot some places are, or whether a place is short of water.
Some maps, such as railway maps, use straight lines to show everything. This is easy for people to read. Trains are fast. People don’t have to think about small places they go past. They just need to know the two ends of their trips.
1.Jim is visiting the Summer Palace. Which map does he need most?
A. A tourist map. B. A railway map.
C. A distribution map. D. A road map.
2.How can you tell different roads on road maps?
A. By using different colors. B. By finding the numbers.
C. By following No. 621 Road. D. By looking at the road signs.
3. Which of the following can distribution maps tell us?
A. How to get to Lakeside.
B. How to plan a long journey.
C. Where a famous museum is.
D. How many people live in a place.
4.Why do railway maps use straight lines?
A. Because railways are straight.
B. Because people can read them easily.
C. Because people like straight lines.
D. Because railways have only two ends.
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Different types of maps have different uses. Tourist maps, for example, have signs to show places of interest in an area. When tourists read these maps, it is easy for them to find where to go and what to see in a place and it is easy for them to go and find their ways to these places.
Road maps show large areas so that people can plan long journeys. Different types of roads are given different numbers. For example, if you want to go to Wood Green, you just follow No. 621 Road and keep looking at the road signs.
Distribution maps(分布图) use colors or signs to show facts about an area. For example, where different languages are spoken, how many people live in an area, how cold and hot some places are, or whether a place is short of water.
Some maps, such as railway maps, use straight lines to show everything. This is easy for people to read. Trains are fast. People don’t have to think about small places they go past. They just need to know the two ends of their trips.
1.Jim is visiting the Summer Palace. Which map does he need most?
A. A tourist map. B. A railway map.
C. A distribution map. D. A road map.
2.How can you tell different roads on road maps?
A. By using different colors. B. By finding the numbers.
C. By following No. 621 Road. D. By looking at the road signs.
3.Which of the following can distribution maps tell us?
A. How to get to Lakeside. B. How to plan a long journey.
C. Where a famous museum is. D. How many people live in a place.
4.Why do railway maps use straight lines?
A. Because railways are straight.
B. Because people can read them easily.
C. Because people like straight lines.
D. Because railways have only two ends.
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Different types of maps have different uses.Tourist maps, for example, have signs to show places of interest in an area. When tourists read these maps, it is easy for them to find where to go and what to see in a place and it is easy for them to go and find their ways to these places.
Road maps show large areas so that people can plan long journeys. Different types of roads are given different numbers. For example, if you want to go to Wood Green, you just follow No. 621 Road and keep looking at the road signs.
Distribution maps(分布图)use colors or signs to show facts about an area. For example, where different languages are spoken, how many people live in an area, how cold and hot some places are, or whether a place is short of water.
Some maps, such as railway maps, use straight lines to show everything. This is easy for people to read. Trains are fast. People don’t have to think about small places they go past. They just need to know the two ends of their trips.
1.Jim is visiting the Summer Palace． Which map doeshe need most?
A．A tourist map．
B．A railwaymap．
C．A distribution map．
D．A road map．
2.How can you tell different roads on road maps?
A．By using different colors．
B．By finding the numbers．
C．By following No． 621 Road．
D．By looking at the road signs．
3.Which of the following can distribution maps tell us?
A．How to get to Lakeside．
B．How to plan a long journey．
C．Where a famous museum is．
D．How many people live in a place．
4.Why do railway maps use straight lines?
A．Because railways are straight．
B．Because people canread them easily．
C．Because people like straight lines．
D．Because railways have only two ends．
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When we are in a new place, maps help us find our way easily. However, different types of maps have different uses.
Tourist maps, for example, have signs to show places of interest in an area. When tourists read these maps, it’s easy for them to find where to go and what to see in a place.
Road maps show large areas so that people can plan long journeys. Different types of roads are given different numbers. For example, if you want to go to the zoo, you just follow one number of the road and keep looking at the road signs.
Distribution（分布）maps use colors or signs to show facts about an area. For example, how many people live in an area, how cold and hot some places are, or whether a place is short of water.
Railway maps, use straight lines to show everything. This is easy for people to read. Trains are fast. People don’t have to think about small places they go past. They just need to know the two ends of their trips.
1.People can plan long journeys with the help of _______.
A. road maps B. distribution maps C. tourist maps
2.Railway maps use ________ to show everything.
A. different numbers B. straight lines C. road signs
3.We learn from the passage that ________ is a tourist map.
4.Distribution maps can tell us _________ .
A. which place is short of water
B. how to get to Germany
C. where a museum is
5.The passage is mainly about the _________ of maps.
A. value B. history C. types
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People may have many different types of hobbies during their lifetime. When we are very young, most of our time is spent playing with toys. ___1._ Some kids go out for a sport like football or skating. Some might get interested in quiet activities like reading, painting, or stamp collecting. __2.___
As we get older, our hobbies might change or not. Some people who collected stamps as a child might still be collecting stamps when they are 80. _3.__ Some people are lucky that they have found jobs that are close to their hobbies, like the kid who loves computers and becomes a programmer.
What are the most popular hobbies in the world? Some of the most popular hobbies include watching TV or videos, reading books, magazines and newspapers, playing a musical instrument, singing or listening to music. _4.__ There are also many people who like to join sports clubs where they practice basketball, volleyball or swimming.
___5._ A hobby is mainly to give yourself an enjoyable break from your everyday work or school. It is something you should do for yourself.
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| A. Why do people have hobbies? B. When we get older, we start to pursue (追求) our first hobbies. C. Traveling is also a popular hobby. D. Other people might change their interests every year depending on fashion. E. While some others might enjoy playing an instrument like the piano or the guitar. |
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For thousands of years, people have used plants to make medicines. They used different parts of the plants —the roots, the leaves, the flowers, and the bark (树皮). Today, doctors have rediscovered more medicinal (药用) values of some plants. Let’s look at some examples.
Foxglove is a common plant. People have used it to make the heart slow down. Recently scientists have developed another drug from it. This new drug helps prevent other heart problems.
In some areas, malaria has been a problem. Scientists have learned that the bark of a South American tree, the cinchona, can be made into a drug to prevent malaria. For a long time, the Chinese have known that a special plant, wormwood, can also fight malaria. Scientists have been working with it to develop new drugs against malaria.
In Germany, some scientists studied garlic (大蒜) for four years. They found that it helps prevent the build-up of plaque (血小板) because too much plaque is bad for health. This very common plant continues to be studied.
As we know, there are about 250,000 kinds of flowering plants in the world. Scientists have only studied little more than one percent of plants for their medicinal value. Maybe medicines for AIDS and cancer will be made from the other 99 percent.
1.What can foxglove be used for?
A．Studying plants.
B．Building up the plaque.
C．Treating AIDS and cancer.
D．Preventing heart problems.
2.What does the underlined word “malaria” in Paragraph 3 refer to (指的是)?
A．A drug. B．A plant.
C．An illness. D．An animal.
3.How many plants are mentioned in the passage?
A．3. B．4. C．5. D．6
4.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A．Past and future
B．Plants and medicine
C．Health and illness
D．Scientists and doctors
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An atlas is a book of maps. Atlases are made with different kinds of information about different parts and areas of a country or the world. They are prepared for desk use or travel use.
Desk atlases are made for different groups of people with different needs. For example, students may use desk atlases to help learn geography, and other people may use desk atlases to study a place. A popular type of the latest atlas shows the recent fact of the world. New atlases are often carefully produced to help people learn about the changes, such as the name changes, boundary(边界) changes and other important new information. A desk atlas can also have some different maps of the same place. For example, an atlas may include maps showing population and important products of a place.
Travel atlases usually show the information about both natural and man-made features(特点). So it is not surprising to find universities, airports, forests, rivers, roads as well as cities, towns and villages in them. A travel atlas is often the first thing people need when they want to start a trip in a strange place. It often has a map of a whole country, and a map with more special information of each important place in the country. Take the atlas of the United States as an example, it often has a map of the whole country and then a map of each of the fifty states.
A travel atlas may also point out the beautiful natural places. In the US, the atlas may include national parks such as the Yellow Stone Park and some others to show the beauty of nature and interesting places to tourists.
1.An atlas is ________ according to the passage.
A. a guide book B. a history book
C. a collection of pictures D. a collection of maps
2.How many kinds of atlases are mentioned in the passage?
A. One B. Two C. Three D. Many
3.From the passage we know people need newly produced atlases because ________.
A. they can’t see the old ones clearly B. they like to buy different ones
C. something has changed D. something is missing
4.According to the passage, people can find the information about ________ in a travel atlas of Shanxi.
A. the population of Shanxi B. the local products of Shanxi
C. the Yellow Stone National Park D. Xi’an Jiaotong University
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An atlas is a book of maps. Atlases are made with different kinds of information about different parts and areas of a country or the world. They are prepared for desk use or travel use.
Desk atlases are made for different groups of people with different needs. For example, students may use desk atlases to help learn geography, and other people may use desk atlases to study a place. A popular type of the latest atlas shows the recent fact of the world. New atlases are often carefully produced to help people learn about the changes, such as the name changes, boundary(边界) changes and other important new information. A desk atlas can also have some different maps of the same place. For example, an atlas may include maps showing population and important products of a place.
Travel atlases usually show the information about both natural and man-made features.So it is not surprising to find universities,airports,forests,rivers,roads as well as cities,towns and villages in them.A travel atlas is often the first thing people need when they want yo start a trip in a strange place.It often has a map of a whole country,and a map with more special information of each important place in the country.Take the atlas of the United States as an example,it often has a map of the whole country and then a map of each of the fifty states.
A travel atlas may also point out the beautiful natural places. In the US, the atlas may include national parks such as the Yellow Stone Park and some others to show the beauty of nature and interesting places to tourists.
1.An atlas is according to the passage.
A. a guide book B. a history book
C. a collection of pictures D. a collection of maps
2.From the passage we know people need newly produced atlases because .
A. they can’t see the old ones clearly
B. they like to buy different ones
C. something has changed
D. something is missing
3.According to the passage, people can find the information about in a travel atlas of Shaanxi.
A. the population of Shaanxi B. the local products of Shaanxi
C. the Yellow Stone National Park D. Xi’an Jiaotong University
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Tons of people enjoy listening to different types of music while they paint, write, or draw. Many believe that music helps get the creative juices flowing, but an international new study is challenging that view by putting volunteers through a series of tests.
The study was performed as a joint partnership between psychologists at three universities in Europe. The results suggest that any task that relies on verbal(与文字有关的) creativity was impaired(削弱) when listening to any type of music.
Subjects(受试者) in the project all spoke English as their first language, and had no problem in their sight or hearing.
The tasks were simple word games. For example, subjects were given three words, such as dress, shine, and flower. Then, they were asked to find a single word which could be connected with all three to form a common phrase or word. The single word, in this case, would be “sun” (sundress, sunflower, etc).
Subjects completed the tasks in either a quiet room, or while they were played background music with foreign lyrics(歌词), English lyrics, and instrumental music with no lyrics at all.
The research team also tested the library background noises, but found that such noises had no great difference in subjects’ creativity. The study’s authors believe that was the case because library noise is a “steady state” environment which is not as disruptive(扰乱的). Music with or without lyrics is characterized by changes in pitch or tone.
It’s worth mentioning that even familiar music with well known lyrics impaired subjects’ creativity, even when subjects declared that they worked or studied with music on regularly and the music improved their overall mood.
So next time you sit down for a study session with those lo-fi beats, you may be giving your brain something else to focus on rather than your work.
1.What does “that view” in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A.Listening to music while working is so common.
B.People enjoy listening to different types of music.
C.Listening to music impairs creativity.
D.Music helps improve our creativity.
2.According to the word game in Paragraph 4, if volunteers are given three words “foot, base, basket”, what is the single word?
A.Case. B.Line. C.Print. D.Ball.
3.Which of the following had no great difference in performance of the verbal tasks?
A.Familiar music with well known lyrics.
B.The quiet and library noise conditions.
C.Background music with foreign lyrics.
D.Instrumental music with no lyrics.
4.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A.Music cannot disrupt the verbal working memory of the disabled.
B.Different kinds of music impair different parts of our brains.
C.You may do your best work without listening to music.
D.Library noises are characterized by changes in pitch or tone.
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An event changed my life. Our life is so interesting that we will face different types of situations in life. Every situation is an experience for us. Every chance, no matter how small it may be, will provide us with a lesson to learn something if we can keep our mind open for learning. There is an event, which has helped me to always remain happy. I was busy shopping during my Christmas holidays and after picking a couple of things, I was walking down the street. Suddenly I noticed a person crossing the road. This man had no hands and had only one leg. It appeared that it was a result of a terrible accident: he had experienced earlier. What surprised me most was to see a smile on his face. I was wondering how he could smile in such a terrible and painful state. I learnt a lot from him.
Our life is decided by our thoughts. If our attitude towards life is positive (积极的), we will be happy. But when we have a negative (消极的) outlook, our life would be different. Satisfaction brings us pleasure in our life.
1.When was the writer busy shopping? (不超过5个词)
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2.What made the writer feel most surprised? (不超过10个词)
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3.What can you learn from the end of the passage? (不超过10个词)
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