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Sometimes we have to resort to chunks of information into manageable portions.()
A.break out
B.breaking into
C.break down
D.breaking down
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A.break out
B.breaking into
C.break down
D.breaking down
Most of us have probably been angry with our friends, parents or teachers. Perhaps they said something you didn't like, or you felt they were unfair. Sometimes people can stay angry for years about a small problem. Time goes by, and good friendship may be lost.
When we are angry, however, we are usually the ones affected. Perhaps we have seen young children playing together. Sometimes they have disagreements, and decide not to talk to each other. However, this usually does not last for long. This is an important lesson for us to learn.
25、What is the writer?()
A.A shopkeeper
B.A doctor
C.A student
D.A dentist
26、What is the main idea of the passage?()
A.How to deal with problems
B.How to do at school
C.How to behave with families
D.How to talk to each other
27、What will happen if people stay angry for long according to the text?()
A.They feel unfair
B.They may get sick
C.Good friendship may be lost
D.They may miss each other
28、From the passage, we know an important lesson for us is()
A.playing together
B.learning to forget
C.staying angry
D.feeling unfair
We may think of all of these as our needs. Yet most of us would be far from satisfied if we had nothing more than these which are supplied for us. (78) We all enjoy extra income to spend on things like books, sports or hobbies. Sometimes we save some of this extra income to pay for future expense of this type on holidays. So we must add our wants to our basic needs. Our standard of living is the degree, to which these needs and wants are satisfied.
But as time goes on, what we think of as our basic needs changes. Twenty years ago a television would have been a luxury, and still is in many countries now. Even now we cannot say it is a need in the same sense as food, clothing and shelter. Yet if most of the people of a country have one, it comes to be accepted as a need.It is possible therefore to have food, clothing and shelter and still be poor by the standards of our own society.
What we need in life is divided into ________ according to this article.
A.the basic necessities and luxury
B.many kinds of need such as food, clothing and houses
C.four groups the basic necessities, luxury, reliable income and future expense
D.the basic necessities and reliable income
Scientists, for several years, have been studying how noise affects people and animals. They are surprised by what they have learned. Peace and quiet are becoming harder to find. Noise pollution is a threat that should be looked at carefully.
There is a saying that it is so noisy that you can't hear yourself think. Doctors who study noise believe that we must sometimes hear ourselves think. If we don't, we may have headaches, other aches and pains, or even worse mental problems.
Noise adds more tension to a society that already faces enough stress.
But noise is not a new problem. In ancient Rome, people complained so much about noise that the government stopped chariots(战车) from moving through the streets at night!
Ways of making less noise are now being tested. There are even laws controlling noise. We cannot return to the "good old days" of peace and quiet. But we can reduce noise—if we shout loudly enough about it.
Why are scientists surprised by the findings in their noise study?
A.Because the world is becoming increasingly noisy.
B.Because they have learned that noise is also is also a kind of pollution.
C.Because noise is an unwanted waste for human beings.
D.Because people knew little about noise before.
First, sometimes early scientists have an idea which is correct, but scientists in later centuries do not believe it. For example, about 270 B. C., a Greek scientist had an idea which we all believe today: The earth moves around the sun. But for the following 1,600 years scientists did not believe this. In their opinion, the sun clearly moved around the earth. They discovered the truth again only in the fifteenth century!
The second fact of history that many people forget is this: Ancient does not mean primitive. For example, the ancient Egyptians knew a great deal about the stars; they used this knowledge to find their way across the oceans. Two thousand years ago a Greek scientist who lived in Egypt calculated the distance around the earth. The results of his calculations were close to the real distance we know today! So the ancients had a great deal of scientific knowledge. They also had skills which equaled the skills of to- day. For example, 1,300 years ago and before, fishermen in Ireland built their boats of wood and leather. Today some fishermen in Ireland still make boats of the same de- sign. They use tools and materials which are not very different from the tools and materitals which their ancestors used. Why? The ancient design of the boats was good, and with skillful sailors, these boats can sail in all kinds of weather.
Clearly long before the sixteenth century, people had the skill, the knowledge and the equipment which were necessary for long journeys by sea. The world did not have to wait until the sixteenth century for its first explorers!
Which of the following statements is consistent with the passage?
A.According to the writer, we only began to really explore the world in the sixteenth century.
B.In the history of science, people sometimes have to discover a fact a second time.
C.The ancient Egyptians had very little knowledge about the stars.
D.The writer agrees with many Americans and Europeans except for the two facts mentioned in the passage.
Scientists, for several years, have been studying how noise affects people and animals. They are surprised by what they have learned. Peace and quiet are becoming harder to find. Noise pollution is a threat that should be looked at carefully.
There is a saying that it is so noisy that you can't hear yourself think. Doctors who study noise believe that we must sometimes hear ourselves think. If we don't, we may have headaches, other aches and pains, or even worse mental problems.
Noise adds more tension (紧张) to a society that already faces enough stress.
But noise is not a new problem. In ancient Rome, people complained so much about noise that government stopped chariots (四轮马车) from moving through the streets at night!
Ways of making less noise are now being tested. There are even laws controlling noise. We cannot return to the "good old days" of peace and quiet. But we can reduce noise--if we shout loudly enough about it.
Why are scientists surprised by the findings in their noise study?
A.Because the world is becoming more and more noisy.
B.Because they have learned that noise is also a kind of pollution.
C.Because noise is an unwanted waste for human beings.
D.Because people knew little about noise before.
The houses we live in are very __1__. They keep us from being cold in the winter and hot in the summer. In the winter they keep out of the snow. They also keep out the wind. Even if it is blowing outside, we are nice and warm inside. In the summer houses keep the hot sun from us.When it rains, they keep us from getting wet.Houses are also places __2__ we feel safe. People can’ t get at us or our things. Houses give us a place to be together with our families and friends. Mothers and fathers __3__ their children there. The children play there. The family eat and sleep under the same roof.Houses are different in many ways. They are made of different things.Some houses are made of wood. Some are made of stones. Sometimes more than one thing is used to make a house.Houses come in different __4__. Some houses have only one room. Some houses have more than one room. Big buildings found in cities have a great many rooms. They hold many families. The rooms in which each family lives are called an apartment. Houses are different in the ways they are __5__. Houses in tropic countries can be lightly built. In places where it rains much of the time, houses must keep out the water.take care( “注意”,“当心”,“留心”)
(1)__1__
A.expensive
B.important
C.huge
I like working here, but I don’t like travelling by tube.It’s too busy! We start work at nine o’clock.There are some very nice colleagues, and I often eat lunch with them in the canteen.Lunch is from one o’clock to two o’clock.Then I finish work at 6 o’clock.My brother works near my office.He is in insurance, and sometimes we have a drink in the pub in the evening – but at the moment he is having a holiday in Scotland.
1、The writer () new job.
A.doesn’t like his
B.likes his
C.is looking for a
2、The writer works in ().
A.insurance
B.marketing
C.computers
3、The writer works for about ()on weekdays.
A.8 hours
B.9 hours
C.10 hours
4、The writer thinks the tube is too ().
A.noisy
B.slow
C.busy
5、The writer and his brother ().
A.sometimes see each other
B.never see each other
C.see each other every day
Does this sound familiar? You have probably read something like it in magazines or books, or seen it in a film. Why is it so popular? One of the reasons is that it reflects the fears of many people; fear of the unknown fear of what is not understood or, at least, fear of something that is not completely understood.
The fact is that every day it seems that computers take control of another area of our lives. Some
factory jobs are now done by robots and the robots are controlled by computers. Our bank accounts are managed by computers. At the airport, our tickets are sold by a computer. Certainly, many of these operations are made more
efficient by computers, but our admiration is sometimes mixed with unsafe feelings. And this lack of safety is caused by the fact that we do not know how computers do these things, and we really don't know what they might do next. But we can find out how computers work, and once we understand them, we can use computers instead of worrying about being used by them. Today, there is a new generation of computer wizards who know exactly how computers get things done. These young men and women, usually university students, are happy to sit for hours, sometimes for days, designing programs, not eating, not sleeping, but discovering what can be done by these wonderful slaves which they have learned to control. These computer wizards have learned to use the computer and search for new tasks for their machines.
(1)、According to the passage, our present world is under the control of ______ .
A:mad scientists
B:men and women
C:the unknown fear
D:some super-inventions
(2)、The reason why many people are afraid of computers is that ______ .
A:they don't know anything about computers
B:they haven't really understood computers
C:there are so many computer games
D:computers are often down
(3)、The author mentions computer wizards in order to point out that ______ .
A:computers can be controlled by man
B:there should be more people devoted to computers
C:only young people are interested in computers
D:more time and energy is required to control computers
(4)、This passage is probably written to suggest that ______ .
A:some day computers can deal with all human problems
B:computers can be used in place of traveling to our jobs
C:people should not fear computers
D:computer technology will not meet people's needs in various situations
(5)、The author's attitude towards widely used computers is __.
A:positive
B:anxious
C:worried
D:serious
A.especially
B.special
C.especial
D.most
A group of alumni(男毕业生), highly __31__ in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into __32__ about stress in work and life.
__33__ his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and __34__ with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some
__35__ looking,some expensive, some exquisite - __36__ them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: 'If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were __37__, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. __38__ it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the __39__ of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself __40__ no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even __41__ what we drink.What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you __42__ went for the best cups... And then you began __43__ each other's cups. Now __44__ this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and __45__ in society are the cups. They are just __46__ to hold and __47__ life, and the type of cup we have does not __48__, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we __49__ to enjoy the coffee God has provided us.' God brews the coffee, not the cups...
Enjoy your coffee! 'The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.'Live simply. Love generously.Care deeply.Speak kindly.Leave the __50__ to God.
A.established
B.prepared
C.devoted
D.defeated