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Everybody knows that words can carry messages. People communicate with words. Books, magazines, TV, radio and films all help us to communicate with others. They all help us to know what is going on in the world and what other people are thinking about.

Do you think you can communicate without words? A smile on your face shows you are happy or friendly. Tears in your eyes tell others that you are sad. When you put up your hand in class, the teacher knows you want to say something or ask a question. You shake your head, and people know you are saying “No”. You nod and people know you are saying “Yes”.

Other things can also carry messages. For example, a sign at the bus stop helps you to know which bus to take. A sign on the wall of your school helps you to find the library. Signs with arrows on doors tell you where to go in or out. Have you ever noticed that there are a lot of signs around you and that you receive messages from them all the time?

People can communicate in many ways without words. For example, an artist can use his drawings to tell about beautiful mountains, about the sea and many other things.

1.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. It is a most popular way for man to communicate with words.

B. Words are the only way for man to communicate.

C. Using radio is one of the ways for man to communicate.

D. TV can help people to know the world better.

2.Besides words, which can also be used to express oneself?

A. Sign language.      B. Smile.    C. Head shaking.     D. Nodding.

3.Which of the following signs is usually used to show you the direction?

A. Picture.         B. A number.   C. A kind of color.     D. An arrow.

4.According to the passage, how does an artist often express himself?

A. He writes articles.   B. He gives reports.　　C. He sings songs.   D. He draws pictures.

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Everybody knows that words can carry messages. People communicate with words. Books, magazines, TV, radio and films all help us to communicate with others. They all help us to know what is going on in the world and what other people are thinking about.

Do you think you can communicate without words? A smile on your face shows you are happy or friendly. Tears in your eyes tell others that you are sad. When you put up your hand in class, the teacher knows you want to say something or ask a question. You shake your head, and people know you are saying “No”. You nod and people know you are saying “Yes”.

Other things can also carry messages. For example, a sign at the bus stop helps you to know which bus to take. A sign on the wall of your school helps you to find the library. Signs with arrows on doors tell you where to go in or out. Have you ever noticed that there are a lot of signs around you and that you receive messages from them all the time?

People can communicate in many ways without words. For example, an artist can use his drawings to tell about beautiful mountains, about the sea and many other things.

1. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

2. Besides words, which can also be used to express oneself?

3. Which of the following signs is usually used to show you the direction?

4. According to the passage, how does an artist often express himself?

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You speak, write a letter, make a telephone. Your words carry a message. People communicate with words. Do you think you can communicate without words? A smile on your face shows you are happy or friendly. Tears in your eyes tell others that you are sad.

When you put up your hands in class, the teacher knows you want to say something or ask questions. You shake your head, and people know you are saying "No". You nod and people know you are saying "Yes". Other things can also carry messages. For example, a sign at the bus helps you to know which bus to take. A sign on the door helps you where to go in or out. Have you ever thought that there are a lot of signs around you and that you receive messages from them all the time? People can communicate in many other ways. An artist can use his drawing to tell beautiful mountains, about the blue sea and many other things. Books are written to tell about all the wonderful things in the world and also about people and their ideas. Books, magazines, TV, radio and films all help us communicate with others. They can help us to know what is going on in the world and what other people are thinking about.

1.People communicate ________.

A.with words only                    B.in many different ways

C.in letters and drawings            D.with smiles, tears and hands

2.Signs can carry as many _________ as words.

A.questions　      B.examples       C.tears and smiles      D.messages

3.Which of the following is not talked in the passage as which can help us communicate?

A.books and magazines    B.TV and films C.newspapers　          D.radio

4.Communication is important because it can help people to ______.

A.understand the world and other people better around us.

B.teach each other to speak, write, read and draw.

C.know what other people are thinking about

D.learn about mountains,blue sea and other things.

5.The best title（题目）for this short passage is _________.

A.Signs Carry Messages                 B.The important Communication

C.Words, Signs and Drawing              D.Ways of Communication.

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Everybody knows that colors are connected with certain feelings. For example, why do some people paint the walls of their rooms yellow and others pink? The same is true in stores. They want us to feel something when we look at their products.

Green, for example, tries to show the quality of a product: how good it is for us or for our environment. It also suggests that the product is healthier, has less fat and maybe fewer calories. Red, on the other hand is an aggressive color that is often used for packaging food. Red wants us to become hungry or thirsty. Purple is a kind of color that is often seen as royal. It indicates that it is something special. Producers use purple to show that something is of good quality. Blue is not very often found in food packaging because there are not very many foods that have a blue color.

Colors can also have different meaning in different cultures and countries. For example, while the color white is used in many Western countries to represent purity and innocence, it is seen as a symbol of mourning in many Eastern countries. The Egyptian pharaohs(法老) wore white crowns. A white sale is a sale of sheets, towels, and other bed and bath items. A white flag is the universal symbol for truce(休战). A white elephant is a rare, pale elephant sacred(神圣的) to the people of India, Thailand, Burma, and Sri Lanka. In these countries, something that is a white elephant is either a possession that costs more than it is worth to keep or an item that the owner doesn’t want but can’t get rid of.

Consumers are aware that certain foods must have certain colors. When Pepsi brought out a crystal clear cola in 1992, it thought that consumers would buy it because clear meant pure and healthy. After a few months Pepsi found out that a cola had to be dark-colored. Crystal Pepsi failed and the company pulled it off the market.

Advertising professionals often need to look at a product through the consumers’ eyes when choosing a color. The right packaging colors can truly improve the sales of a product but choosing a wrong color could end in failure.

1.According to the passage, blue is rarely used in food packaging because ____.

A. most consumers dislike it

B. it matches very few foods

C. it brings people low spirits

D. it doesn’t catch people’s eyes

2.According to the passage, in India if something is expensive but useless, it can be called   ____.

A. a white flag   B. a white elephant

C. a white sale    D. a white crown

3.Pepsi’s example is used to show ____.

A. Pepsi’s success comes from failures

B. health is the main concern in drink making

C. crystal clear drinks can’t attract consumers

D. people have fixed ideas about products and colors

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Colors in advertising

B. Colors in food packaging

C. Our everyday life and colors

D. Foods in different colors

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“I would say, no matter what people tell you, anything can happen.” That’s the message Internet singer Austin Mahone says at We Day, an event for young people in Canada.

When he was 14，Austin and a friend began uploading pop songs to musical websites.“I was just doing it because we had nothing to do, living in a small town.”

“I’d check different websites for the hottest songs, and I’d record my own videos,” he explains. “That’s how people began to find me online.”His videos got millions of hits and he signed with a record company. The result was the release of Austin’s first album, Junior Year. While it seems like a sudden rise for the teenager, Austin admits the early days were not always fun. He says a lot of people thought badly of him for posting his videos online. Yet this didn’t put him off.“I kept working hard. ”And the hits on his videos kept coming.

Austin’s achievement and spirit make him a perfect fit for the message of We Day. After all, Free the Children, the creator of the event, was founded to “enable youth to make changes.” Even Austin’s unusual rise by way of the Internet fits with the way Free The children works and raises money.

Because of Austin, his four million followers will learn about Free the Children. While Austin’s presence certainly helps We Day, it’s good for him, too. Austin gets to show himself as someone who volunteers his time and talent for a worthy cause and show that he cares about making the world a better place.

1.Why did Austin put pop songs on musical websites?

A. He was bored with his life there.

B. To attract people’s attention.

C. To help advertise the songs.

D. His friend asked him to do so.

2.What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Austin’s sudden rise.

B. People’s dissatisfaction.

C. The release of Junior Year.

D. Signing with a record company.

3.What Austin did at We Day ________.

A. was a win-win situation

B. set an example for all the singers

C. first made him become known to the public

D. led many young people to be volunteers

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People are convinced that her ________ policies will succeed on condition that it can be carried out seriously by the local government.

A. delicate                 B. stubborn                   C. tough                           D. determined

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Words are the tools through which we can heal or destroy. They are weapons that hurt people as well as magical sticks that repair everything.1.

Good words are encouraging words, caring and loving words, powerful words etc. To fill someone’s wound, the good words should be used. So, just say, good things are going to happen. I am always with you. You can make it.

Good words have healing power.2. The author uses healing and powerful words, which affects the core of our heart. Don’t use painful words which hurt people. Your words can lift or drop anyone.

3. Bad words are discouraging words, painful words, fearful words, and words can destroy the future and our relationships. Therefore, we should learn to take words seriously, because they can determine whether we have good feelings or bad feelings, and decide how we get along with the others.

To avoid hurting others with your words, you’d better speak the way you want others to speak to you. Whatever you say and whoever you’re speaking to, be aware of your words.4. While they are speaking, they never take any time to reflect on what effect their words are putting on others. How we speak to others decides how far our relationship will go. So be aware of your words.

5. Therefore, we must learn to use words properly to explain what we mean to say.

A. Now what are bad words?

B. The same sentences apply for other purposes as well.

C. But sadly, nowadays people speak without thinking.

D. All in all, a proper word says a lot than to speak lots of words uselessly.

E. When we read motivational books, the book motivates us by its words.

F. So in our language words need to be good because our •words tell about us.

G. When you involve in an argument, remember that no one has won in argument.

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Keep calm and carry on! You can see this message write on many T-shirt and other souvenirs in London and the UK. It has become very famous that there are many versions of it. But where does the originally phrase come from? Well, it comes from Second World War. It was the message used for a poster being created by the British government to calm people down and encourage it during the war. When London was being attacked, “Keep calm and carry on” with your life as normal, as if there were no war. Keep calm when you have problems is known as a very British thing to do. In the past British people are famous for keeping a “stiff tipper lip”. This means your lips don’t shake when you are excited or frightening: you stay calm and don’t show people how you are really. Do the British still like this today? Well, not really. However, they are still fond of this message.

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Birds Can “Read” Human Gaze

We all know that people sometimes change their behavior when someone is looking their way. Now, a new study reported online on April 2nd in Current Biology shows that jackdaws (寒鸦) — birds related to crows with eyes that appear similar to human eyes — can do the same.

“Jackdaws seem to recognize the eye’s role in visual perception (视觉), or at the very least they are extremely sensitive to the way that human eyes are directed,” said Auguste von Bayern, formerly of the University of Cambridge and now at the University of Oxford.

When presented with a preferred food, hand-raised jackdaws took longer to get the reward when a person was directing his eyes towards the food than when he was looking away, according to the research team led by Nathan Emery of the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London. The birds hesitated only when the person was not known to them and thus potentially threatening.

In addition, the birds were able to understand human communicative gestures, such as stare change and pointing, to help them find hidden food, they found. The birds were unsuccessful in using unmoving signals, including eye stare or head direction.

Unlike most birds, jackdaws’ eyes have a dark pupil (瞳孔) surrounded by a silvery white iris (虹膜). The researchers said they believe jackdaws are probably sensitive to human eyes because, as in humans, eyes are an important means of communication for them. The hand-raised birds examined in the study may be even better than wild jackdaws at attending to human stare and responding to the gestures of the people who have raised them.

The findings are particularly notable given that most other species examined so far, including our closest relatives, the chimpanzee and “man’s best friend,” the dog, are not particularly sensitive to eye direction and eye stare, von Bayern said. Rather, she continued, chimps and dogs seem to rely on other signals such as head or body direction in determining the looking direction of others. The results suggest that birds may deserve more respect for their mental abilities.

“We may have understated the psychological world of birds,” von Bayern said. “Jackdaws, among many other birds, form pair ties for life and need to have much in common and work together with their partner, which requires an efficient way of communicating and sensitivity to their partner’s viewpoint.”

1.A hand-raised jackdaw hesitates to take a preferred food when the feeder ______.

A. is unfamiliar to the bird　　 B. is looking away from the food

C. holds the food in his hand　　 D. is looking at the food

2.According to the researchers, jackdaws can notice human eye direction probably because ______.

A. their eyes also have a dark pupil

B. they are far more intelligent than other birds

C. they are mostly hand-raised by humans

D. like humans, they also use eyes to communicate

3.Why does the author refer to chimpanzees and dogs?

A. To suggest that they are much better at understanding stare change.

B. To make clear that they rely on other means in determining people’s intention.

C. To show that they communicate more frequently with humans than jackdaws.

D. To reflect how unique jackdaws are in being able to notice stare direction.

4.What does the research finding suggest?

A. We know embarrassingly less about birds than we assume.

B. Not all jackdaws are good at attending to human stare.

C. We may have understated jackdaws’ mental abilities.

D. The closer we communicate with animals, the better we understand them.

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If you want to know how crazy people can be about their pets, you might remember that Helmsley left $12 million to her little Maltese dog when she died last year.

The dog's name is Trouble. And apparently Trouble is still alive. Of course, I would hang on, too, if someone left me $12 million. Look! Top-shelf dog food, soft pillows everywhere, drivers walking me in nice leafy parks. I would live to be 110 in dog years.

The dog's story is still fresh in my mind the other night when I leave a steak house after a superb meal. Then I notice a woman carrying a small bag out of the door behind me.

Once outside, she walks over to where a man is holding a tiny dog and it's a baby. The dog looks like a Maltese, too, barking and annoying, with a cute haircut,

And now I am treated to an absolute astonishing sight. Because now the woman reaches into the bag and begins pulling out little pieces of meat, which she puts on a plastic spoon and feeds to the dog.

This is no cheap steak house. It's actually, way out of my league --I'm there only because it's a special occasion. I can tell you this: if I walked out of the place with any leftover steak, it sure wouldn't go to a dog. Not at those prices.

So now the woman is Spoon-feeding the dog and the man is just standing there, holding this dog and looking as if this is the most normal thing in the world. And the dog is calmly chewing these pieces of steak as if he's a little king. And this dog is in no hurry. He's having a great time.

A few minutes go by, and now the dog finishes all of his steak. At this point, I hear the woman say to the man "Think he's still hungry?" And she glances behind her at the restaurant, as if she might go back in there to get more steak for the dog.

Watching all this, I'm afraid I'm going to shout, "Are you out of your mind? Feeding all that pricey steak to that little dog? Did you see what our American life is like today? We're all going to be eating dog food if this keeps up!"

1.Why would the author live to be 110 in dog years?

A. Because he is always in poor health and falls ill.

B. Because a Maltese dog lives longer than a human being.

C. Because his grandparents left him a large sum of money.

D. Because he thinks the dog is treated extremely well.

2.What is the story mainly about?

A. An American family's happy life.

B. A Maltese dog getting $12 million from its owner.

C. A New Yorker spending $ 8 billion for a few banks.

D. A pet dog being fed with expensive food.

3.The underlined sentence "It's actually way out of my league. " (in Para. 6) means __

A. the restaurant is too expensive for the author

B. the author hates the dog being taken there

C. the superb restaurant is about to be out of service

D. the dog doesn't belong to the author's group

4.Seeing the dog is being treated to expensive steak, the author becomes extremely ____

A. indifferent　　　　　　 B. annoyed

C. concerned　　　　　　 D. envious

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