Creative vending(售卖) machine prints short sto...

Creative vending(售卖) machine prints short stories to read while you wait

Recently, inventive vending machines have become popular around France. 1. Created by literature-loving company Short Edition, these savvy stalls(货摊) promise to help pass the time, whether you’re waiting at the airport, stuck at the train station, or even accompanying your friend on the trip to the mall.

2. To use these wonderful and creative inventions, simply choose your desired reading time: 1 minute, 3 minutes, or 5 minutes. Then, the machine will surprise you with a randomly-selected short story to occupy your time and make waiting around a bit more bearable— at least for a couple of minutes!

The “Short Story Dispenser” first debuted(亮相) at Paris’ bustling Charles de Gaulle Airport last year. 3. If you’d like to learn more about the locations of these lovely literary oases, check out the Short Edition website. 4.

5. All you have to do is choose the length of time you'd like to spend reading. And look! Out comes a little piece of literature.

A. Fewer people read short stories these days.

B. Using a “Short Story Dispenser” is simple.

C. How do you kill a few minutes while waiting for a bus or train?

D. Since then, the popular machines have been fixed in various public places across the country.

E. Short Edition, a library of short literature, has fixed unique vending machines that print out short stories.

F. Instead of selling sweet treats or sugary drinks, however, these machines distribute short stories.

G. Pretty in design and minimal in effort, each vending machine offers an appealing way for customers to kill time.

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The giant vending machine（自动售货机）is a new village shop

Villagers have long been used to 1. (face) a drive when they run out of basic supplies. 2., help is now nearer at hand in the form of the country's first automatic push-button shop. Now residents in the Derbyshire village of Clifton can buy groceries around the clock after the huge vending was installed outside a pub in the village this week.

Peter Fox, who is 3. electrical engineer, spent two and a half years working on the project. The machine 4. (equip) with security cameras and alarms, and looks like a mini shop with a brick front, a grey roof and a display window.

Mr. Fox said he hoped his invention, 5. is set to be installed in other villages in the area over the coming months, will mark a return to convenience shopping for rural communities.

He said: "I had this idea a few years ago but I couldn't find a manufacturer who could deliver what I wanted, so I did it by 6.. The result is what amounts to a huge outdoor vending machine. Yet I think the term automatic shop is far　 7. (appropriate)."

In recent years, the commercial pressure from supermarket chains 8. (force) village shops across the country to close. In 2010, it was estimated that about 400 village shops closed, 9. (urge) the local government to give financial support to struggling shops or set-up new community stores.

Hundreds of communities have since stepped in and opened up their own volunteer-run shops, but Mr. Fox hopes his new invention will offer a solution 10. those villages without a local shop.

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A school in Buffalo, New York has filled a vending machine(自动售货机) with books to get young students more interested in reading.

Lock up a lot of books behind a wall of glass and with a special gold coin students at the school can pick out their favorite books. They get to take the books home for free. And the best part? It’s not a system based on behavior or attendance. The process is designed so that every student will get a chance to use the machine at some point.

The idea was first introduced by the assistant principal, Unseld Robinson, who was inspired by another school he visited doing similar. He thought it could be a funny way to get parents and students at his school to read. Now, after a year of fund-raising,the machine has been filled with over $1,000 worth of books—all of which will be continuously added through various donations(捐赠).

Robinson says that many children in Buffalo are not reading as much as they should. So the idea of the vending machine was “to encourage reading in and out of school as well as increase every child’s overall excitement about reading.”

1.How do the students of the school get the book from the machine?

A.By asking the head teacher.

B.By using some cash.

C.By using some special coin.

D.By exchanging the books with new ones.

2.Who can get a free book from the machine?

A.The student with the best behavior.

B.The student with the best attendance.

C.The student with real gold coins.

D.The student with good luck.

3.What do people think of the activity?

A.Boring. B.Meaningful and useful. C.Useless. D.Doubtful.

4.Why did the assistant principal use this method?

A.The students here didn’t read enough books.

B.The school could get more donations.

C.The students here could earn extra money.

D.The school could improve the students’ score.

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Now let us look at how we read. When we read a printed text, our eyes move across a page in short, jerky （急动的）movement. We recognize words usually when our eyes are still when they fixate. Each time they fixate, we see a group of words. This is known as the recognition span(范围)or the visual span. The length of time of which the eyes stop ---the duration of the fixation (定位)----varies considerably from person to person. It also varies within any one person according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text. Furthermore, it can be affected by such factors as lighting and tiredness.

　Unfortunately, in the past, many reading improvement courses have concentrated too much on how our eyes move across the printed page. As a result of this misleading emphasis on the purely visual aspects of reading, numerous exercises have been devised to train the eyes to see more words at one fixation. For instance, in some exercises, words are flashed on to a screen for, say, a tenth or a twentieth of a second. One of the exercises has required students to fix their eyes on some central point, taking in the words on either side. Such word patterns are often constructed in the shape of rather steep pyramids so the reader takes in more and more words at each successive (连续的) fixation. All these exercises are very clever, but it’s one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently. Reading requires the ability to understand the relationship between words. Consequently (因此), for these reasons, many experts have now begun to question the usefulness of eye training, especially since any approach which trains a person to read isolated (孤立的) words and phrases would seem unlikely to help him in reading a continuous text.

1.The time of the recognition span can be affected by the following facts except ________ .

2.The author may believe that reading ______.

3.What does the author mean by saying “but it’s one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently.” in the second paragraph?

4.Which of the following is NOT true?

5.The tune of the author in writing this article is ________

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Reading is good for more than just entertainment Sparing part of everyday to read printed books can make you a smarter, kinder, more relaxed individual. Involving kids in books, magazines, and more at an early age is a great way to encourage them to be lifelong readers, which means they'll reap these benefits for years to come.

Reading helps understand another personas feelings. Reading books doesn’t just make you smartest can make you a kinder person as well： According to a study in 2013,People who consume literary fiction have an easier time sensing and relating to emotions in other people. Great literature forces readers to step outside themselves and empathize with the characters they’re reading about.

Reading can lower stress. Feel stressed at the end of a long day? Cracking open a book is a good way to wind down. A 2009 study found that reading for just 30 minutes has similar stress-reducing effects to doing 30 minutes of yoga.

Reading is an excuse to put your phone away at night. Reading a physical book before going to bed is a great alternative to scrolling through your phone-something most of us admit to doing. Research has shown that smart phone use at night makes it harder for people to fall asleep and leads to an overall decline in sleep quality, Some experts say reading books, on the other hand ,can have relaxing effects, making it the ideal bedtime activity.

Reading helps families bond. When parents read out loud to their children ,they can pass on the benefits of reading and encourage meaningful interactions. To help kids get the positive effects of reading, parents should stick to physical picture books, A recent study found that printed books, unlike tablets and e-readers, can deepen connections between caretakers and children.

1.What is probably the beat title for the text?

A.Benefits of Reading Printed Books.

B.Stress-reducing Effects of Reading.

C.Connections between Parents and Kids.

D.Significance of Reading Great Literature.

2.Which of the following can replace “reap” underlined in paragraph 1?

A.search. B.reduce.

C.obtain. D.resist.

3.According to paragraph 4, to sleep well at night, you'd better ______.

A.put your phone away

B.relax by reading on the smart phone

C.read a physical book before bedtime

D.do bedtime activities through your phone

4.What is suggested in the last paragraph?

A.Tablets and e-reader should be made* use of in reading.

B.Kids should read aloud to get positive effects of reading.

C.Meaningful interactions should be encouraged in games.

D.Printed books should be read to improve family connections.

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It’s a too long story — 17 months to be exact — with an ending that’s short and sweet. Ruthie has, finally and happily, been reunited with her family.

The story goes back to October, 2005. Ruthie, 8 months old, was sitting on the back seat of the family car when her owner walked hurriedly into a Long Island store. When Nancy Noel returned a few minutes later, Ruthie was nowhere in sight.

Nancy Noel and her husband, Lincoln Werden, got in touch with Nassau County police, put up flyers (小传单) around their Manhasset neighborhood. But no sightings of Ruthie were reported. Until last week, that is, someone sent Ruthie to a Manhattan shelter after finding her walking slowly around the Bronx — 25 miles from where she was taken on that fateful October day.

And then, shelter workers searched Ruthie for a possible microchip (微芯片) — she had one fixed under her skin. It showed her family’s name and address. Ruthie was immediately reunited with Nancy Noel and her daughter, Sara Werden.

“We never thought we would see her again,” said Sara Werden. “We were just amazed.”

She’s no longer the tiny pup they last saw. In fact, Ruthie gained (增加) 10 pounds during her months away from home. She’s on a diet now, and has already lost one and a half pounds. Ruthie also has a new friend to play with. The family had got another dog, named Holly, after losing the hope of ever finding their beloved Ruthie.

1.According to the passage, when did Ruthie get together with her family?

A. In October 2005.　 B. In March 2006.

C. In May 2007.　 　　 D. In March 2007.

2.According to the passage, Ruthie should be _____.

A. a pet dog that Nancy Noel raised

B. one of Nancy Noel’s daughters

C. one of Holly’s sisters

D. a police working for Nancy Noel

3.Which of the following shows the right time order according to the passage?

a. Ruthie was sent to a shelter.

b. Ruthie stayed outside a Long Island store.

c. Ruthie was fixed a microchip.

d. Ruthie reunited with her family.

e. Shelter workers found Ruthie’s address.

A. baecd 　　 B. caebd　　 C. bedac　　 D. cbaed

4.Which of the following can be inferred according to the passage?

A. Ruthie was stolen by a thief.

B. Ruthie had enough food during the days when she was lost.

C. Nancy Noel never lost the hope of finding Ruthie.

D. Ruthie had to put on weight after she was found again.

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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The following is just a short story but it really brought home to me how very small acts of kindness and even polite behavior have 1. (big) effects than we realize.

I have a bad back 2. flares up (发作) from time to time. Yesterday I was out walking in the street while 3. (carry) shopping bags and my keys. My keys 4. (sudden) slipped from my hand and fell to the ground. The problem was that because of my back I couldn’t bend down 5. (get) them. I was just thinking of how to get around this 6. two teenage girls came up beside me. Without even speaking to me, one of the 7. (girl) just reached down, picked up my keys, handed them 8. me and went on her way.

While it was 9. small gesture and she couldn’t have known that I was in too much pain to bend down, it 10. (mean) a great deal to me at that moment

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This story is well worth ____________.

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I like Chinese because I enjoy ______stories and poem.

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单词拼写

1.Take your time—it’s just a short d　　　　　　　 from here to the restaurant.

2.Please read the i　　　　　　　　 first before taking the medicine.

3.I’d a　　　　　　　 it if you could turn the radio down. I’m doing my homework.

4.I will call you i　　　　　　　　　 I hear anything. （一…就…）

5.The discussion last week c　　　　　　 a wide range of subjects.

6.The problem is very important. You should take it ____________（严肃地，认真地）.

7.There are concerns that the refugees may not ____________（幸存） the winter.

8.The poet gave a vivid ____________（描述） of the beautiful scenery.

9.Doing enough ____________（翻译） exercises can improve your writing.

10.She worked as a lawyer______________（在…之前）to her marriage.

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