If you want to see a thing well, touching can help you to “see” it better. Your eyes can tell you that a glass ball is round. But by holding it in your hands, you can feel how smooth and cool the ball is. You can feel how heavy the glass ball is. When you learn all these about the ball, you really see it well. With your skin, you can feel better. For example, your fingers can tell the differences between two different coins in your pocket. You can feel a little drop of water on the back of your hand, too. You can even feel sounds against your skin. Have you ever wanted to know why some people like very loud music?They must like to feel the sounds of music. All children soon learn what “Don't touch!” means. They hear it often. Yet most of us keep on touching things as we grow up. In shops, we touch things that we might buy. To see something well, we have to touch it. The bottoms of our feet can feel things, too. You know this when you walk on warm sand, cool grass or hard floor. All feel different under your feet.

Most museums are just for looking. But today some museums have some things to touch. Their signs say, “Do touch!” There you can feel everything on show. There are ways of learning to see well by feeling. One way is to close your eyes and try to feel everything that is touching your skin. Feel the shoes on your feet, the clothes on your body and the air on your skin. If you want to see better, reach out and touch. Then you will really see!

1.The underlined word “these” in Paragraph 1 refers to ________.

A. a round glass ball

B. a smooth and cool glass ball

C. a smooth, cool and heavy glass ball

D. a round, smooth, cool and heavy glass ball

2.By touching things, you can ________.

A. have a strange feeling B. know how to reach out your hands

C. tell the differences between them D. tell what colors they really are

3.When people buy things in shops, what do they often do?

A. Try them on first. B. Put their right hands on them.

C. Just have a look. D. Feel and touch them.

4.Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

A. People don't have to learn to touch.

B. Our skin may help us enjoy music.

C. By touching things, we can learn more about them.

D. Most people touch things to see them well.

5.What is the best title for the text?

A. Feeling by Seeing B. To See or to Feel

C. To See Better—Touch D. Ways of Touching

D

For ten weeks, in a great house on the island of St Thomas, Dr John C. Lilly tried to teach a six-year-old dolphin to speak English. Margaret Howe, an experiment(实验) helper, would live day and night with Peter, a dolphin. And they would eat, bathe, sleep and play together from Sunday to Friday, with only Saturdays off for Margaret. She lived her life in swimming clothes—with a coat on colder evenings —and cut her hair short so that she could get on with Peter more easily.

After a few days, Peter was becoming more and more interested in winning her attentions. He threw a ball against her shower towel to get her to play. As time went by, he only wanted to play ball with her and not on his own.

The problem was that, just at the time Peter and Margaret began to get on well just as two best friends, the experiment ended and the lab was closed. After a few weeks, Margaret received the sad news that Peter had killed himself by refusing to breathe (呼吸), and sinking to the bottom of his pool.

Dolphins may not speak English, but just like humans, they know all about broken hearts.

1.Peter is the name of _________.

A. a doctor B. a dolphin C. a scientist D. an experiment helper

2.Margaret worked ________ days a week during the experiment.

A. four B. five C. six D. seven

3.To live with the dolphin, Margaret couldn’t _________.

A. cut her hair short B. have a common life like others

C. wear swimming clothes D. eat, bathe and play together with him

4.The ending of the story was that_________.

A. Margaret didn’t leave the lab

B. the lab was closed and the dolphin died

C. the dolphin could speak English at last

D. Dr John C. Lilly was satisfied with the experiment

5.From this passage, we can learn that _________.

A. dolphins aren’t worth studying

B. dolphins can’t be humans’ good friends

C. dolphins can’t communicate with humans

D. dolphins may have feelings just like humans

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