Perhaps you have heard a lot about the Internet, but what is it, do you know? The Internet is a network. It uses the telephone to join millions of computer together around the world.
Maybe that doesn’t sound very interesting. But when you are joined to the internet, there are lots and lots of things you can do. You can send e-mail to your friends, and they can get them in a few seconds. You can also do with all kinds of information on the World Wide Web (WWW).                                              
There are many different kinds of computers now. They all can be joined to the internet. Most of them are small machines sitting on people’s desks at home, but there are still many others in schools, offices, or large companies. These computers are owned by people and companies, but no one really owns the internet itself.
There are lots of places for you to go into the internet. For example, your school may have the internet. You use it during lessons or free time. Libraries often have computers joined to the internet. You are welcome to use it at any time.
Thanks to the internet, the world is becoming small. It is possible for you to work at home with a computer in front, getting and sending the information you need. You can buy or sell what ever you want by the internet. But do you know 98% of the information on the internet is in English? So what will English be like tomorrow?
【小题1】What is the passage mainly about?
A internet     B information       C computers       D E-mails
【小题2】Which is the quickest and cheapest way to send messages to your friends?
A by post     B by e-mail       C by telephone     D by satellite
【小题3】Which may be the most possible place for people to work tomorrow?
A in the office     B at school     C at home    D in the company
【小题4】Who is the owner of the internet?
A The headmaster    B The officer     C The user      D No one
【小题5】What does the writer try to tell us with the last two sentences?
A English is important in using the internet.
B The internet is more and more popular.
C Most of the information is in English.
D Every computer must have the internet.


Is it difficult for you to get up in the morning? Hiroyuki’s bed will solve your problem! Here is how it works.
The bed is connected to an alarm clock. First, the alarm clock rings. You have a few minutes to wake up. Next, a tape recorder in the bed plays soft music. The tape recorder in Hiroyuki’s bed plays a recording of his girlfriend. She whispered in a soft voice, “Wake up, darling, please.” After minutes later, Hiroyuki hears a recording of his boss. His boss shouts, “Wake up at once , or you’ll be late !”
If you don’t get up after the second recording, a mechanical “foot” in the bed will kick you in the head. The bed waits a few more minutes. What! You’re still in bed! Slowly the top of the bed rises higher and higher. The foot of the bed goes lower and lower. Finally you slide off the bed and onto the floor. You are out of bed awake!
Hiroyuki’s bed is not in stores. There is only one bed--- the bed Hiroyuki made for a contest. Maybe someday a company will make Hiroyuki’s bed and sell it in stores. Maybe people will buy millions of beds. Then Hiroyuki will be rich. If the bed makes Hiroyuki rich, he won’t need to work, and he won’t need to get up early!
【小题1】 The bed is useful to the people _______.

A.who can’t sleep wellB.who can’t get up early
C.who go to bed earlyD.who go to bed late
【小题2】The bed is not connected to _______ .
A.an alarm clockB.a tape recorderC.a TVD.a mechanical “foot”
【小题3】 What will finally happen to Hiroyuki if he doesn’t get up ?
A. He will slide onto the floor .
B. A tape recorder will play a recording of his boss .
C. A mechanical “foot” will kick him in the head .
D. The bed will rise higher and higher
【小题4】Which is TRUE of the following sentences ?
A. Hiroyuki’s company has made many such beds .
B. Hiroyuki’s bed is the only one made for a contest .
C. Hiroyuki has made a lot of money .
D. Hiroyuki needn’t get up early now .

If you look at the sky one night and see something moving and shining that you have never seen before, it might be a comet (彗星).

  A comet sometimes looks like a star. Like a planet, a comet has no light of its own. It shines from the sunlight it reflects (反射). Like the earth, a comet goes round the sun, but on a much longer path (轨道) than the earth travels.

       If a comet isn’t a star, what is it then?

    Some scientists think that a large part of a comet is water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock. When sunshine melts (融化) the ice in the comet, great clouds of gas go trailing after it. These clouds, together with the dust, form a long tail.Many people perhaps have seen a comet. However no one knows how many comets there are. There may be millions of comets, but only a few come close enough for us to see.

  An Englishman named Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the paths that comets take through the sky. Some comets move out of our sight and never come back. Others keep coming back at regular times. A big comet that keeps coming back was named after Halley because he was the one who worked out when it would come back again. Maybe you have ever seen Halley’s Comets because the last time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year 1986. Then people all over the world were outside at night to look at it. You will probably be able to see Halley’s Comets when it comes near the earth again.

1.A comet is like ________.

A. sun      B. moon     C. sunlight    D. the earth

2.A large part of a comet is ______.

A. water and rock

B. water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron

C. ice, iron and rock dust

D. only a few big pieces of rock

3.Maybe many people _______.

A. haven’t seen any comets      B. have seen all comets

C. have seen a comet at daytime  D. have seen a comet

4.Some comets keep coming back ________.

A. at any time  B. at noon  C. at regular times  D. at daytime

5.Halley’s Comets came back _____.

A. in 1990    B. in 1980     C. in 1986      D. in 1989

 

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