Are you always disturbed by the noise made by your coworkers while you’re working hard at your task? What kind of feelings will you have on hearing such kind noise? Have you ever got an idea that a certain helmet will help you out of the trouble no you can focus on your work at the office? Now, you needn’t worry for the “Helmfon” will help you ignore noisy co-workers and other distractions.
Created by Ukrainian design company Hochu Rayu, the Helmfon is a big helmet that uses special equipment to absorb the sound so as to completely block out any outside noise, giving the wearer their own quiet personal space so they can better focus their attention on their work. Made of a glass fiber shell, cloth and polyethylene(聚乙烯), the helmet not only blocks outside sound, but it also keeps the noise you make in, allowing you to answer calls, hold Skype conferences, watch or edit videos, privately.
The company came up with the idea for the Helmfon after being asked to design a new phone booth for an IT company. The project made the team think about the way we communicate and finally begin work on a device that would allow you to be in two worlds just sitting on your chair in the office, in a meeting, or everywhere you feel like just wearing your helmet.
The Helmfon comes complete with a system board, microphone, speakers, and a special holder for your phone. The only trouble is that it makes you look like a character from Mel Brooks famous movie Spaceballs, but the company also made public a variety of great choices, including Bat man-inspired design, and even a Native American headgear.
The Helmfon is still in prototype(维形)stage, but the Ukrainian company is already working on a commercially available design and plans to offer the design for sale. A release date has not yet been made public.
1.What is the function of the Helmfon?
A. Protecting the wearers’ safety. B. Keeping others talking secretly.
C. Helping the wearers talk secretly. D. Giving the wearers quiet space.
2.What do the underlined words “The project” refer to?
A. Designing a new phone booth. B. Inventing a helmet everyone likes.
C. Designing a device people can wear. D. Holding a special phone meeting.
3.What’s the disadvantage of the Helmfon?
A. It makes the wearer uncomfortable. B. It isn’t suitable for everyone.
C. Its appearance may be strange. D. It looks like an astronaut’s helmet.
4.We can infer from the text that the Ukrainian company .
A. designed the helmet specially for an IT company
B. plans to sell the helmet in the future
C. often comes up with crazy ideas
D. will sell the helmet online
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Are you always disturbed by the noise made by your coworkers while you’re working hard at your task? What kind of feelings will you have on hearing such kind noise? Have you ever got an idea that a certain helmet will help you out of the trouble no you can focus on your work at the office? Now, you needn’t worry for the “Helmfon” will help you ignore noisy co-workers and other distractions.
Created by Ukrainian design company Hochu Rayu, the Helmfon is a big helmet that uses special equipment to absorb the sound so as to completely block out any outside noise, giving the wearer their own quiet personal space so they can better focus their attention on their work. Made of a glass fiber shell, cloth and polyethylene(聚乙烯), the helmet not only blocks outside sound, but it also keeps the noise you make in, allowing you to answer calls, hold Skype conferences, watch or edit videos, privately.
The company came up with the idea for the Helmfon after being asked to design a new phone booth for an IT company. The project made the team think about the way we communicate and finally begin work on a device that would allow you to be in two worlds just sitting on your chair in the office, in a meeting, or everywhere you feel like just wearing your helmet.
The Helmfon comes complete with a system board, microphone, speakers, and a special holder for your phone. The only trouble is that it makes you look like a character from Mel Brooks famous movie Spaceballs, but the company also made public a variety of great choices, including Bat man-inspired design, and even a Native American headgear.
The Helmfon is still in prototype(维形)stage, but the Ukrainian company is already working on a commercially available design and plans to offer the design for sale. A release date has not yet been made public.
1.What is the function of the Helmfon?
A. Protecting the wearers’ safety. B. Keeping others talking secretly.
C. Helping the wearers talk secretly. D. Giving the wearers quiet space.
2.What do the underlined words “The project” refer to?
A. Designing a new phone booth. B. Inventing a helmet everyone likes.
C. Designing a device people can wear. D. Holding a special phone meeting.
3.What’s the disadvantage of the Helmfon?
A. It makes the wearer uncomfortable. B. It isn’t suitable for everyone.
C. Its appearance may be strange. D. It looks like an astronaut’s helmet.
4.We can infer from the text that the Ukrainian company .
A. designed the helmet specially for an IT company
B. plans to sell the helmet in the future
C. often comes up with crazy ideas
D. will sell the helmet online
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--- You didn’t have a good time at the party?
---- No, I ______ a lot from the noise made by the band.
A. worried B. suffered C. heard D. enjoyed
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Last night, I to be fully absorbed in my work, but found myself disturbed by noises from my neighbour upstairs.
A. had intended B. were intended
C. intended D. had been intended
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The school students have to ______ the neighboring noise made by the wedding company.
A.make up with B.keep up with C.put up with D.fill up with
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Great speakers are not born but made. You too can become a good orator by taking up the public speaking courses. Those who are incapable of speaking in front of the public can’ t come up in their life. The art of public speaking must be practiced by everybody who wants to reach great heights in their career. A lot of public speaking courses are available on the Internet. Choosing the best course that is right for you may be difficult but not impossible.
The basic motive of public speaking courses should be to train you to become a public speaker and improve your skills of delivering a public speech. The course should first educate you with the principles of public speaking and tell you how to overcome stress and anxiety. By overcoming fear, you will be able to deliver your presentation clearly to your audience.
A speaker can have a great influence on the audience with his body language and your public speaking course should tell you the gestures on stage that can attract the audience. Non-verbal communication also has a major role to play in delivering a speech effectively to a group. Though body language is important, the content and the natural use of words are what the audience are closely caring about. Public speaking courses should give tips in using the right words at the right time.
Even though you have prepared well, the real success of public speaking lies in the way your speech is delivered. Public speaking courses will train you to present the contents in a lively manner impressing the audience. Your presentation should be professional and stylish. You can add humor or interactive sessions (互动环节) to your presentation to gain the audience attraction.
1.If you want to become a good speaker you should______.
A. be born an excellent one
B. practise speaking in public
C. attend all kinds of courses
D. make a search on the Internet
2.From the public speaking courses you can learn______.
A. the skills of listening to a public speech
B. the rules of attending a public speech
C. the importance of your presentation
D. how to keep calm while giving a speech
3.You can draw the audience’s attention to your speech by______.
A. using non-verbal communication
B. getting rid of your fear and nervousness
C. following the public course
D. speaking in a loud voice
4.What can be used to replace the underlined word “delivering” in Para 2?
A. make. B. have. C. making. D. having.
5.Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?
A. What to look for in the public speaking courses.
B. Some golden rules of giving a good speech.
C. It is easy to find the speaking courses online.
D. Some useful tips of delivering a public speech.
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People of Burlington are being disturbed by the sound of bells. Four students from Burlington College of Higher Education are in the bell tower of the ________ and have made up their minds to ________ the bells nonstop for two weeks as a protest(抗议) against heavy trucks which run ________ through the narrow High Street.
"They not only make it ________ to sleep at night, but they are ________ damage to our houses and shops of historical interest." said John Norris, one of the protesters.
"If we must have these noisy trucks on the roads," said Jean Lacey, a biology student, "Why don't they build a new road that goes ________ the town? Burlington isn't much more than a ________ village. Its streets were never ________ for heavy traffic." Harry Fields also studying ________ said they wanted to make as much ________ as possible to force the ________ to realize what everybody was having to ________. "Most of them don't ________ here anyway," he said, "they come in for meetings, and the Town Hall is sound proof(隔音) so they probably don't ________ the noise all that much. It's high time they realized the ________."
The fourth student, Liza Vernum, said she thought the public were ________ on their side, and even if they weren't they soon would be.
I asked if they were ________ that the police might come to ________ them. "Not really," she said, "actually we are ________ bell-ringers. I mean we are assistant bell-ringers for the church. There is no ________ against practising."
I left the church with the sound of the bells ringing in my ears.
1.A. college B. village C. town D. church
2.A. change B. repair C. ring D. shake
3.A. now and then B. day and night C. up and down D. over and over
4.A. terrible B. difficult
C. uncomfortable D. unpleasant
5.A. doing B. raising C. putting D. producing
6.A. to B. through C. over D. round
7.A. pretty B. quiet C. large D. modern
8.A. tested B. meant C. kept D. used
9.A. well B. hard C. biology D. education
10.A. effort B. time C. trouble D. noise
11.A. townspeople B. other students
C. government officials D. truck drivers
12.A. stand B. accept C. know D. share
13.A. shop B. live C. come D. study
14.A. notice B. mention C. fear D. control
15.A. event B. loss C. action D. problem
16.A. hardly B. unwillingly C. mostly D. usually
17.A. surprised B. afraid C. pleased D. determined
18.A. seize B. fight C. search D. stop
19.A. proper B. experienced C. hopeful D. serious
20.A. point B. cause C. need D. law
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A new argument has been put forward as to whether penguins are disturbed by the presence of tourists in Antarctica.
Previous research by scientists from Keil University in Germany monitored Adelie penguins and noted that the birds’ heart rates increased dramatically at the sight of a human as far as 30 meters away. But new research using an artificial egg, which is equipped to measure heart rates, disputes this. Scientists from the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge say that a slow moving human who does not approach the nest too closely, is not viewed as a threat by penguins.
The earlier findings have been used to partly explain the 20 per cent drop in populations of certain types of penguins near tourist sites. However, tour operators have continued to insist that their activities do not adversely(不利地)affect wildlife in Antarctica, saying they encourage non-destructive behavior in tourists, and that the decline in penguin numbers is caused by other factors.
Amanda Nimon of the Scott Polar Research Institute spent three southern hemisphere summers at Cuverville Island in Antarctica studying penguin behavior towards humans. “A nesting penguin will react very differently to a person rapidly and closely approaching the nest,” says Nimon. “First they exhibit large and prolonged heart rate changes and then they often flee the nest leaving it open for predators(掠夺者)to fly in and remove eggs or chicks.” The artificial egg, specially for the project, monitored both the parent who had been ‘disturbed’ when the egg was placed in the nest and the other parent as they both took it in turns to guard the nest.
However, Boris Culik, who monitored the Adelie penguins, believes that Nimon’s findings do not prove his own research invalid. He points out that species behave differently – and Nimon’s work was with Gentoo penguins. Nimon and her colleagues believe that Culik’s research was methodologically(方法论上)defective because the monitoring of penguins’ responses needed catching the birds and fitting them with heart-rate transmitters(发射器). Therefore, argues Nimon, it would not be surprising if they became stressed on seeing a human subsequently.
1.According to the passage, which of the following messages is presented?
A. No firm conclusions are drawn.
B. Neither Culik’s nor Nimon’s findings are of much value.
C. Penguin reduction is closely related to tourist behavior.
D. Tourists are not responsible for the fall in penguin numbers.
2.Which of the following is right according to the passage?
A. Penguins are harder to research when they have young.
B. Tour operators should encourage tourists to avoid Antarctica.
C. Not all penguins behave in the same way.
D. Penguins need better protection from tourists.
3.What do you know about the opinions of Culik and Nimon in the passage?
A. They are unreasonable. B. They are based on each other.
C. They are similar. D. They are contrary to each other.
4.The underlined word subsequently probably means ________.
A. later B. calmly
C. separately D. earlier
高二英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析
Are you worried by the rising crime rate? If you are, you probably know that your house and possessions are increasingly in danger of suffering from great rise in the cases of burglary(夜盗;抢劫) and attack.
Figures show an ever-increasing crime rate, but it is only too easy to imagine "It will never happen to me".Unfortunately, statistics show that it really can happen to you and, if you live in a large city, you run twice the risk of being a victim.
Fortunately, there is something definite which you can do.Protect Alarms can help to protect your house with a burglar alarm system which is effective, simple to operate and easily affordable.
You must remember that owning a burglar alarm is no indication(暗示) that your house is packed with valuable possessions.It quite simply indicates to unwelcome visitors that yours is one house they will not break into easily, so they carry on to an unprotected house where their job is made a lot easier.
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1.Anyone who takes an interest in the crime rate will, according to the text, be aware that ___________.
A.more burglars are being caught than ever before |
B.people have more possessions to worry about nowadays |
C.burglars are more at risk than they used to be |
D.homes are more likely to be broken into nowadays |
2.It seems that people who live in cities are ____________.
A.more often victims than those living in other areas |
B.of the opinion that statistics are wrong |
C.twice as well as people living in other areas |
D.of the opinion that burglars only rob unprotected homes |
3.The article claims that possessing an alarm system will _________.
A.show burglars that you have something worth stealing |
B.persuade burglars not to break into your house |
C.make the burglars' job less complicated |
D.persuade burglars to try again another time |
4.In order to find out more information about this alarm system one can _______.
A.buy a leaflet |
B.write enclosing a stamped, addressed envelope |
C.sign a contract |
D.phone at any time of day or night |
5.The underlined word "Figures" in the second paragraph can be replaced by “__________”.
A.Pictures | B.Fingers | C.Numbers | D.Mathematics |
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
_______ your letter, I am pleased to tell you that you are to receive the answer by the end of this week.
A. Concerned about B. Concerning C. Concerning with D. Concerned
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
Do you want to live forever? By the year 2050,you might actually get your wish-if you are willing to leave your biological body and live in silicon circuits (半导体电路). But long before then, perhaps as early as 2020,some measures will begin offering a semblance of immortality (虚的永生).
Researchers are confident that the technology will soon be able to track every waking moment of your life? Whatever you see and hear, all that you say and write, can be recorded, analyzed and added to your personal chronicles (履历). By the year 2030, it may be possible to catch your nervous systems through electrical activities, which would also keep your thoughts and emotions.
Researchers at the laboratories of British Telecommunications have given the name of this idea as Soul Catcher. Small electronic equipment will make preparation for Soul Catcher. It would use a wearable supercomputer, perhaps in a wristwatch, with wireless links to microseosors under your scalp (头皮) and in the nerves that carry all five sensory signals. So wearing a video camera would no longer be required.
At first, the Soul Catcher's companion system-the Soul Reader-might have trouble copying your thoughts in complete details. Even in 2030, we may still be struggling to understand how the brain is working inside, so reading your thoughts and understanding your emotions might not be possible. But these signals could be kept for the day when they can be transferred to silicon circuits to revitalize minds everlasting entities (永生实体). Researchers can only wonder what it will be like to wake up one day and find yourself alive inside a machine.
For people who choose not to live in silicon, semblance of immortal it would not be as useless as they thought. People would know their lives would not be forgotten, but would be kept a record of the human race forever. And future generations would have a much fuller understanding of the past. History would not be controlled by just the rich and powerful, Hollywood stars, and a few thinkers in the upper society.
1.The main idea of this passage is that_____ .
A. human beings long for living forever
B. there are many difficulties in making the Soul Catcher
C. people can live forever as technology develops
D. the invention of Soul Catcher has great importance
2.According to this passage, a Soul Catcher will be______ .
A. a new machine on which research measures have already been made
B. a new invention in order to catch and keep human's thoughts
C. made by British scientists to offer something that looks like living forever
D. made of silicon circuits which can catch people's nervous activity
3.We can infer from the passage that semblance of immortality is______.
A. to be a reality sooner or later
B. far from certain
C. just an idea that couldn't be realized at all
D. a fading hope
4.The meaning of the underlined word revitalize, in the fourth paragraph is close to___ .
A. make dead B. make famous
C. make known D. make active
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