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Soon computers and other machines will be able to remember you by looking at your eyes! The programme works because everyone’s eyes are different. So in the future you won’t have to remember a number when you want to use a machine or take money out of a bank. You’ll just have to look at the machine and it will be able to tell who you are. The eye-recognition(眼睛识别) programme is tested in shops and banks in the USA, Britain and Italy.
Scientists are working on other systems, such as knowing you from the shape of your face or hand or even your smell! And machines can already tell who you are from your voice or your fingerprint(指纹). But eye-recognition will replace other ways of finding out who you are. It is better, because your eyes don’t change as you get older, or get dirty like hands or fingers. And even twins have different eyes, so the programme can be up to 94% correct, depending on how good the technology is. In Britain, it was found that 91% of people said that they liked the idea of eye-recognition.
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。Where has the programme for remembering eyes been tested?
| A．Banks and factories. | B．Banks and shops. |
| C．Schools and computers. | D．Schools and shops. |
How does the eye-recognition programme work?
| A．You look at the machine and type a number. | B．You need to speak and then look. |
| C．The machine looks at your face. | D．You look at the machine. |
Which recognition technology is already in use?
| A．Remembering eyes or smell. | B．Remembering fingerprints or voices. |
| C．Remembering faces or voices. | D．Remembering hands or faces. |
What problems could there be with the eye-recognition programme?
| A．Some eyes are the same. | B．Eyes can change. |
| C．It is not always correct. | D．Eyes can get dirty. |
What is the advantage of the eye-recognition programme?
| A．You needn’t remember a number. | B．You needn’t take money with you. |
| C．You don’t need to look at the machine. | D．People think it’s interesting. |
Can plants eat people? Probably not, but there are many plants that eat meat. Some of them are big. And thay can eat small animals. One famous meat-eating plant is Venus Flytrap(捕蝇草).
Venus flytrap is a very strange plant. It grows in dry parts of the United States. Its leaves are like the pages of a book. They can open and close very quickly. Inside the leaves, there are three small hairs. If a fly touches one of the hairs, the leaf closes quickly， so the fly cannot get out. In about half an hour, the leaf presses the fly until it is dead. Then, the plant covers the fly and slowly eats it.
Why do plants do that? Most plants get what they need from the sun, the air, and the ground. In some places, the ground is very poor. It doesn't have all these important things, especially nitrogen (氮). Animal meat has a lot of nitrogen, so some plants eat meat to get what they need. Let's hope that bigger plants don't get the same idea!Venus flytrap is a kind of______.
| A．plant | B．animal | C．food | D．meat |
Venus flytrap grows in______.
| A．most parts of the world |
| B．parts of Africa |
| C．dry parts of the United States |
| D．wet parts of England |
From the passage, we learn that______.
| A．all plants can eat people |
| B．all plants can eat animals |
| C．some plants can eat people |
| D．some plants can eat animals |
The underlined word"presses"probably means______ in Chinese.
| A．挤压 | B．关上 | C．打开 | D．松开 |
—Why do some plants eat animal meat?
—Because______.
| A．plants are dangerous to animals |
| B．animals are dangerous to plants |
| C．plants want to get what they need from animal meat |
| D．plants want to protect themselves against animals |
An eighty-year-old couple were having trouble with their memories. One day, they decided to see a doctor. The doctor told him that there was nothing serious, but he suggested that they should start writing things down to help them remember things. The couple thanked the doctor and left.
Later that night while watching TV, the old man got up from his chair and his wife asked, “Where are you going?”
“To the kitchen.”
“Will you get me an ice-cream?” asked the wife.
“Sure.”
Then his wife asked him to write it down.
“No, I can remember that,” replied the husband.
“Well, I also want some strawberries and cream on top. You’d better write it down, or you will forget that,” said the wife.
“No, I can remember that,” the husband got a little unhappy and went into the kitchen.
After about 20 minutes, the husband returned with a plate of fish. The wife laughed, “Haha! Your bad memory! I wanted some bread with cream.”
How old was the wife?
| A．Eight | B．Eighteen | C．Eighty | D．Eighties |
Why did the couple go to the doctor’s?
| A．Because they had a headache. |
| B．Because they had bad memories. |
| C．Because the docor was their son. |
| D．Because the old man was ill. |
What did the husband give to the wife?
| A．An ice-cream |
| B．Some strawberries and cream |
| C．Some bread with cream |
| D．Some fish |
What did the wife really want?
| A．Some bread with cream |
| B．An ice-cream with some strawberries and cream |
| C．A plate of fish |
| D．Some strawberries and cream |
Which sentence is right?
| A．The couple often forgot things. |
| B．Only the husband had a bad memory . |
| C．The couple were ill . |
| D．The doctor also had a bad memory. |
阅读短文，根据要求完成下面各小题。
A road is just like a bridge between two places. The Silk Road has been a bridge between East and West. But the Silk Road is not a single route! It is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes. From the time Zhang Qian opened up the world-famous Silk Road during the Han Dynasty, until the Yuan Dynasty, it enjoyed a history of about l,600 years.
This ancient road begins at Chang'an (now Xi’an), and it reaches Dunhuang, where it divides into three, the Southern Route, Central Route and Northern Route. And then it ends in Eastern Europe, near the Mediterranean Sea(地中海). The Silk Road is about 6,500 kilometers long. It goes across one-fourth of the planet. (83)In fact, there is another trade road which is called the “Silk Road on the Sea” in the southwest of China.
The Silk Road was very important to both China and the rest of the world. Besides trade, knowledge about science, arts and technologies were shared across the Silk Road. The Four Great Inventions of China was introduced to the West and Chinese also knew about the religions of the West. (84)In this way, languages and cultures developed and influenced each other. Today, places along the Silk Road are great places of interest, such as the Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an and Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, Gansu.
A．根据短文内容简要回答问题。When was the Silk Road opened up?
Where does the Silk Road end?
B．将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。
C．请给短文拟一个适当的标题。
What is the hottest English word these years? “Selfie" may be one of them. It was even named Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries in 2013. The word was first used in an Australian online forum in 2002. Now, almost everybody knows it.
Selfie is a photo that one takes of oneself. People usually take selfies with a smart phone and send them to a social media website. Nowadays, more and more people are taking selfies. From your best friend to your favorite pop star, selfies are taking over Renren and Sina Weibo.
What makes people love selfies? Selfies can help to remember what's going on in their personal life. "Almost every day, I take a photo of myself at school, and save it in my Qzone. These photos record my happy and sad moments." said Huang Xu, 16, from Hunan. Another usual reason for taking a selfie is to share online. They hope to make friends and share their feelings with others. "During summer vacation, my classmates and I shared many selfies online. Through these photos, we got to know each other's holidays and feelings," said Wang Lin, 15, from Henan. "I'm too shy to ask someone to take pictures of me, but it's easier to do it by myself."
Although taking selfies is popular among young people around the world, they should be careful at the places where they take selfies. People are warned（警告）not to take light-hearted selfies in serious places, such as in some traffic accidents. In order to protect art works, selfie is banned in some museums and galleries, too.
The word "selfie" has a history of about .
| A．2 years | B．13 years |
| C．15 years | D．20 years |
Which could be the best picture to match（搭配）"selfie" ?
In Paragraph 3, the writer mentioned (提到) 2 young people to .
| A．talk about their school lives |
| B．introduce the development of selfie |
| C．help people take a clear and beautiful selfie |
| D．explain the different reasons why people love selfies |
The underlined word "banned" means .
| A．not visited | B．not stopped |
| C．not allowed | D．not watched |
We probably see the passage in a (an) .
| A．science book | B．magazine for teenager |
| C．instruction book | D．English dictionary |
Billy always loved blueberries. They were his favorite fruit. Today he was going to make juice with his uncle. His uncle liked to make juice out of everything. He made carrot juice, apple juice, vegetable juice, and more juices. He had never made blueberry juice before though!
First, Billy and his uncle went to a blueberry farm. They were each given a basket. They picked for an hour and got several pounds. It was hard work picking the little berries from the trees. Now Billy understood why they were expensive in the store.
Next, they had to wash the fruit. Some of them still had leaves. Those had to be pulled off. Then the bad berries had to be thrown away. They washed the berries and made them air-dry.
After that, they pushed the blueberries through a strainer(过滤网). The strainer caught most of the seeds and skins, and only left a small glass of dark purple juice to them.
When they tasted the juice, it wasn't very sweet. Billy's uncle didn't want to add white sugar to the juice. It was better to use a naturally sweet juice, like apple juice, pear juice, or grape juice. They used grape juice as a sweetener (甜味剂), because grapes had a similar color to the blueberries.
Finally, they could drink it. It was a lot of work to make juice, but it sure was refreshing!
Billy's uncle hadn't made juice before.
| A．carrot | B．blueberry | C．apple | D．vegetable |
Billy thought blueberries were expensive because .
| A．they were delicious |
| B．they had to be sent to the store |
| C．it was hard to pick them from the trees |
| D．there weren't many blueberry trees on the farm |
The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 4 refers to .
| A．blueberries | B．farmers |
| C．seeds and skins | D．Billy and his uncle |
The correct order of making blueberry juice is .
① wash blueberries.
②pick blueberries from trees.
③add grape juice to the blueberry juice.
④push the blueberries through a strainer.
| A．②①④③ | B．②①③④ |
| C．②④③① | D．④①②③ |
The passage is mainly about .
| A．why Billy liked blueberry juice |
| B．where Billy got the best blueberries |
| C．how Billy made blueberry juice with his uncle |
| D．what Billy did on the blueberry farm with his uncle |
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