Much of today’s science of physics is based o...

Much of today’s science of physics is based on Newton’s discovery of the three laws of motion and his theory of gravity ( 地球引力). Newton said, “If I saw further than other men, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.” One was the great Italian scientist, Galileo. Another was the Polish scientist Nicholas Copernicus, who had begun a scientific revolution. It led to a completely new understanding of how the universe worked. Galileo continued and expanded the work of Copernicus. Newton built on the ideas of these two scientists and others. He found and proved the answers for which they searched.

Issac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, England, on December 25th, 1642. He was born early and no one expected him to survive. He lived until he was 84. His father died before he was born. His mother married again. He lived with his grandma on the family farm.

As a boy, he liked to make things. He also decided to find a different way to measure the speed of the wind. On a windy day, he measured how far he could jump with the wind at his back. Then he measured how far he could jump with the wind in his face. From the difference between the two jumps, he made his own measure of the strength of the wind. Strangely, Newton became a much better student after a boy kicked him in the stomach. The boy was one of the best of the students　 in the school. Newton decided to get even with him by getting higher marks than the boy kicking him. Newton became the top student at the school very soon.

1.As a boy, what was Newton like?

A. He was too weak to survive.

B. He was determined to study math.

C. He liked to find out new ways to solve problems.

D. He tended to stud y math on the family farm.

2.We can know from the text that the theories of Newton, Galileo, and Copernicus focus on ____.

A. how the universe works　　 B. the three laws of motion

C. a scientific revolution　　 D. the theory of gravity

3.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A. One of the history’s greatest scientists.

B. Issac Newton---History’s greatest scientist.

C. One of the world’s greatest scientists, Issac Newton.

D. Issac Newton and his laws.

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People today make choices of their diets______ what they believe.

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If Newton lived today, he would be surprised by what _______ in science and technology.

A. had discovered                                                       B. had been discovered

C. has discovered                                                          D. has been discovered

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Most of the movies directed by Zhang Yimou ________historical facts.

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Most of the movies directed by Zhang Yimou ________historical facts.

A．is based on        B．based on          C．are based on       D．basing on

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Don’t believe what he said.His story is ________ nothing.

A.based on     B.based of     C.based at    D.based about

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Our love of music and appreciation of musical harmony (和声) is learnt and not based on natural ability, a new study by University of Melbourne researchers has found. The researchers said previous theories about how we appreciate music were based on the physical functions of sound, the ear itself and a born ability to hear harmony.

The study shows that musical harmony can be learnt, and it is a matter of training the brain to hear the sounds. So if you thought that the music of some foreign culture (or Jazz) sounded like the crying of cats, it’s simply because you haven’t learnt to listen by their rules.

The researchers used 66 volunteers with a range of (一系列的) musical training and tested their ability to hear combinations (组合) of notes (音符) to determine if they found the combinations familiar or pleasing. They found that people needed to be familiar with combinations of notes. If they couldn’t recognize the notes, they found the notes dissonant. This finding put an end to centuries of theories claiming (声称) that physical functions of the ear determine what we find attractive.

The study found that trained musicians were much more sensitive (敏感的) to unpleasant notes than non-musicians. When they couldn’t find the note, the musicians reported that the sounds were unpleasant, while non-musicians were much less sensitive. This shows the importance of training or nurturing (培养) the brain to like particular sound of combinations of notes, like those found in jazz or rock.

Depending on their training, a strange chord (和弦) sound was pleasant to some musicians, but very unpleasant to others. This showed us that even the ability to hear a musical note is learnt.

To confirm (证实) this finding, they trained 19 non-musicians to find the notes of a random (随机的) selection of western chords. Not only did the participants’ ability to hear notes improve rapidly; the chords they had learnt sounded more pleasant—regardless of (不论) how the chords were played.

The question of why some combinations of musical notes are heard as pleasant or unpleasant has long been debated. “ We have shown in this study that for music, beauty is in the brain of the beholder(观看者),” a researcher said.

1.According to the passage, why do people sometimes find foreign music quite unpleasant?

A． Because they don’t like the person playing the music.

B． Because they have no talent for music at all.

C． Because they have no idea about how to listen.

D． Because they hear music too often.

2.The underlined word “dissonant” in Paragraph 3 probably means ___________.

A. informal B. unpleasant

C. inspiring　 D. unfamiliar

3.Although non-musicians were less sensitive to music, they can still _______.

A． find the beauty of chords without training

B． enjoy the beauty of music when played by musicians

C． be trained to like particular music

D． make friends with real musicians

4.What is the best title for the passage?

A． Improve Your Brain By Listening to Music

B． You Can Be a Musician Without Being Trained

C． Music Can’t be Taught

D． Love of Music Is Not Natural But Nurture

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With the development of science and technology，there is no doubt_____Chinese

astronauts will land on the moon in the near future.

A．whether                                  B．that

C．what                                D．which

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Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today. People didn’t have modern machines. There was no modern medicine, either.

Life today has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry more easily. Air    pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. It’s bad to all living things in the world.

Cars, planes and factories all pollute our air every day. Sometimes the polluted air is so thick that it is like a quilt over a city. This kind of quilt is called smog.

Many countries are making rules to flight pollution. Factories must now clean their water before it is thrown away, and they mustn’t blow dirty smoke into the air.

We need to do many other things. We can put waste things in the dustbin and do not throw them on the ground, there will be less pollution.

Rules are not enough. Every person must help to fight pollution.

1.Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today because ______.

2.What is the biggest problem in today’s life?

3.The most serious kind of pollution is ______.

4.Factories must clean their water ______.

5.From the passage we know that ______.

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Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today. People didn’t have modern machines. There was no modern medicine, either.

Life today has brought new problems. One of the biggest is pollution. Water pollution has made our rivers and lakes dirty. It kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us talk louder and become angry easily. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. It is bad for all living things in the world.

Many countries are making rules to fight pollution. We need to do many other things. We should put waste things in the dustbins instead of on the ground. We can go to work by bus or with our friends in the same car. If there are fewer people driving, less pollution will be made. Rules are not enough to solve the problems. Every person must help to fight pollution.

1.Hundreds of years ago, life was much harder than it is today because _____.

2.What is the most serious problem in today’s life?

3.Why do people speak louder now than before?

4.What does the writer ask readers to do?

5.From the passage, we know that _____.

A. the pollution is not serious

B today people don’t talk in loud voice

C. we have to drink dirty water

D. people are making rules to control pollution

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