In a small city in England, there was a farmer who lived alone. Every day he a pound of butter to his neighbour, who was a baker, One day the baker decided to the butter to see if he was getting a pound. After he weighed it, he found that he wasn't. The baker then took farmer to the judge (法官).
The judge asked the farmer if he had any way to weigh the butter. The farmer replied. "I am so that I do not have enough money to buy anything to weigh it, I do have a kind of scale(天平). " The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the butter?" The farmer replied, "Before the baker started buying butter from , I had bought bread from him. So now every time when I bring home the bread from the baker, I put it on the scale and give him the butter of the same weight,"
We what we give to others in life. Whenever you take actions, ask yourself this , "Am I honest?"
Honesty or dishonesty can become a . Some dishonest people can lie(说谎) without a red face. Others lie so much that they do not even what the truth is any more. But who is it bad for? As a matter of fact, those who lie will hurt themselves by their own dishonest behavior.
A．gave B．fed C．sold D．threw
A．weigh B．watch C．cut D．use
A．/ B．a C．an D．the
A．rich B．poor C．honest D．quiet
A．and B．so C．but D．or
A．I B．my C．me D．mine
A．get back B．look back C．give back D．turn back
A．answer B．question C．help D．idea
A．difference B．habit C．mistake D．difficulty
A．study B．mean C．imagine D．know
Imagine the situation. You are driving a car along a desert or on a mountain. You have no idea you are. You passed the last house two hours ago. Then your breaks down. It is night and it is cold. You have no mobile phone. What do you do? Well, next time take a with you. This invention may be able to help you. It is a device(装置) which uses satellites to find the user’s position(位置). It can find your position to within 20 metres. A GPS cannot start your car, but at least you will where you are.
GPS, which means Global Positioning System, is a small receiver. It looks like a mobile phone. You can hold it in your hand, or put in your pocket. It is sometimes put into a watch or a . We also find GPS devices in cars, planes, or boats. Some of these devices have electronic , so you know where you are. For example, in a city they can tell you the name of the .
There are parts to the Global Positioning System. The first part is the . You can either hold it in your hand have it fixed into your car, plane, etc. The second part is a group of satellites orbiting the Earth. The receiver contacts at least four of the satellites and calculates(计算) its position. The third part of the system is a network of ground stations. They are all over the world. They the satellites and make sure they are working well.
Some people think that in the future the GPS will be as as the mobile. They are becoming and more and more accurate(精确的). There are also new uses for the GPS. Perhaps they will become like . Everyone will have one and you will never be lost again.
A．where B．what C．who D．how
A．ship B．car C．train D．plane
A．watch B．ring C．clock D．GPS
A．advise B．know C．represent D．speak
A．radio B．TV C．robot D．machine
A．room B．office C．road D．mobile phone
A．parts B．maps C．video D．music
A．studio B．teenager C．bus D．street
A．five B．four C．three D．two
A．sender B．receiver C．Internet D．system
A．and B．then C．but D．or
A．control B．achieve C．allow D．imagine
A．expensive B．special C．new D．common
A．cheaper B．easier C．more expensive D．bigger
A．computers B．robots C．satellites D．watches
This week, I asked my classmates about their vacations. Here are some of their answers.
Tina to New York City. The was sunny and the people friendly to her. She went there by and the bus trip was relaxing. The food was delicious. She had a vacation.
Sally went to her uncle. Because the weather was windy and ,she had to stay at the house. She watched TV the TV shows were boring. She went shopping with her cousin but the shop assistants were . She had a terrible vacation. Tom stayed at home. At first he did his homework. It was a little difficult. Then he computer games. They were interesting. He thought his vacation was OK.
A．go B．goes C．went D．going
A．place B．weather C．museum D．beach
A．were B．was C．is D．are
A．bike B．train C．plane D．bus
A．bad B．terrible C．great D．boring
A．visit B．visited C．look D．read
A．rain B．rainy C．sun D．snow
A．but B．and C．or D．with
A．friend B．unfriend C．friendly D．unfriendly
A．play B．played C．listened D．wrote
Henry works in a factory. He likes to watch matches very much and spends much time it.
One evening, there was a big football match on the playground. He went there at once after work. There a lot of people there. And all the tickets were sold out（卖完）. He was sorry for it. He saw a pole（电线杆）outside the playground and it up quickly. A policeman came and said, “It’s to stay on it! Come down!”
Just at that time, the policeman heard cheers on the playground and asked in a hurry, “Which team a goal?”
“Ours!”
“Wonderful! You can stay there. Be careful!”
The policeman said happily and left. the match would soon be over, he came back again and asked, “Who is ?”
“Theirs, 3-2.”
“Come down,” the policeman said , “such a match isn’t worth（值得）watching!”
Henry come down. But soon they heard cheers again. The policeman said in a hurry, “Climb up quickly and see who’s kicked a goal!”A. basketball B. football C. baseball
A. in B. on C. to
A. had B. was C. were
A. climbed B. looked C. put
A. interesting B. easy C. dangerous
A. kicked B. passed C. threw
A. Until B. When C. After
A. playing B. missing C. winning
A. angrily B. happily C. luckily
A. wished to B. had to C. liked to
I had said goodbye to my husband, Joe, so often, but this time was ____.
We now had our first child. After nights of talks, we made the difficult ____ that Joe would go by himself to Alabama for the six-month training course, and I would stay behind with our new son. It was important that I ____ my teaching position near our home at Fort Hood. Also we were part of a strong network of friends ____ I could turn to for help.
On Joe's ____ evening at home, I bathed little Joey, got him into his sleeper and was heading to the bedroom when Joe gently touched ____ on the shoulder. Lifting the baby from my arms, he said he wanted to put Joey to bed tonight.
They headed down the hall, and I busied myself with meaningless tasks, ____ Joe to turn up from the bedroom within a few minutes. A half hour went by, and ____ he had not come back. Thinking he was having ____ getting our son to fall asleep, I walked quietly to the baby's room and ____ into the dimly-lit（灯光暗淡的）room.
Sitting in the rocking chair, moving slowly back and forth, was my husband with ____ in his eyes. He was holding our baby in his arms ____ he had fallen asleep long before. When his pained eyes met mine, he said, "I just can't put him down."
That night we stood over Joey's bed, holding each other and saying over and over that we would make it through this leaving and be ____ again soon.
Joey is six now, and he has a four-year-old brother named Jack. There have been many goodbyes ____ that night, yet my soldier still fights back tears when it's time to ____ once again in service to his country and give his boys that last, long hug goodbye.
A．dangerous B．different C．impossible D．terrible
A．promise B．wish C．suggestion D．decision
A．miss B．keep C．get D．accept
A．whom B．whose C．which D．what
A．first B．next C．other D．last
A．us B．them C．me D．her
A．expecting B．remembering C．agreeing D．allowing
A．again B．still C．then D．ever
A．excuse B．fun C．trouble D．chance
A．moved B．talked C．turned D．looked
A．colors B．tears C．joys D．fears
A．even though B．as if C．so that D．now that
A．sure B．proud C．alone D．together
A．on B．for C．since D．through
A．visit B．sleep C．leave D．play
Today’s young people are taking a more active part in online activities. Although the Internet can be for students to collect information and communicate（交流）with their friends, teachers and parents are becoming more and more about the unhealthy web content（网上内容）in the bar. They think that the birth of “Harm-free Internet Bars”（健康网吧）is step to teenagers.
It was Sunday afternoon and there were not many seats left in the Feiyu Internet Bar. A few were found playing . A person of the bar was walking around Internet users’ online activities.
“My job is to find anyone who is looking at websites and then them from doing so,” he said. “This is a of the ‘Harm-free Internet Bar’ project”. Feiyu, a famous Internet bar in Beijing is among the first 19 to the harm-free Internet bar club.
In order to help start a better for teenagers’ online activities, China’s Communist Youth League has brought out the program named “Harm-free Internet Bar for Teens”.
But while teachers and parents the “harm-free Internet bars”, do many school students think of them?
A．successful B．useful C．hopeful D．interesting
A．amazed B．excited C．frightened D．worried
A．an easy B．a hard C．an important D．an impossible
A．prevent B．stop C．ask D．protect
A．comfortable B．empty C．single D．clean
A．teachers B．students C．parents D．officers
A．music B．bridge C．chess D．online games
A．watching B．looking C．seeing D．finding
A．interesting B．healthy C．unknown D．harmful
A．stop B．tell C．make D．encourage
A．work B．program C．room D．place
A．join B．help C．open D．keep
A．place B．environment C．Internet bar D．club
A．complain about B．worry about C．welcome D．club
A．how B．why C．what D．whether
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