When you are curious about something and want to know more about it, you can use the way of asking questions. Asking questions is the first step to make discoveries and find interesting answers. The following steps can guide you during the research. 

Step l On a note card or a piece of paper, write down the subject that you are interested in. Just get the main idea down. For example, you might write: Discover more about dinosaurs. 

Step 2 Next, stop and think for a moment about what you have already known about your subject. List what you have already known like the sentences below: 

Dinosaurs lived long before human beings appeared.

Dinosaurs lived on the earth for more than 150 million years. 

Some dinosaurs ate plants; some lived on meat. 

Step 3 What can you do with what you want to learn? Ask questions, on your paper, start writing down questions about the dinosaurs as you think of them: 

What’s the best weather for dinosaurs to live in? 

How many kinds of dinosaurs were there? 

Have dinosaurs really disappeared? 

Step 4 Armed with your list of questions, you can now go to the nearest library or computer to begin your research. As you learn more about your subject, you'll probably discover some new questions. For example, you might discover that dinosaurs disappeared about 65 million years ago. Why? What happened? Asking new questions can help you research your subject more widely.   

The next time you find something interesting to research, take time to organize your thinking by asking good questions. And remember that learning more always brings more questions.

1.Which of the following shows the right order of doing some research?

① List what you want to know.  ② Choose a research subject.

③ List what you've already known.     ④ Discover new problems.

A. ④③①② B. ②①④③ C. ②③①④ D. ③②④①

2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Dinosaurs liked warm seasons.

B. All the dinosaurs didn’t live on meat.

C. Dinosaurs appeared after human beings.

D. Dinosaurs lived on the earth for 65 million years.

3.What might be the best title for this passage?

A. Discovering Dinosaurs B. Good Questions Help Research

C. Finding Right Subjects D. Steps to Make Discoveries

Do you laugh every day? Most people _____ times a day. Scientists say that people laugh about 17 times a day. That is a lot of laughter.

In India, there are ______ laughter clubs. The people in these clubs get together every morning. First they stretch their hands above their heads. Then they pretend to laugh. Soon everyone is laughing naturally. People say they feel good after ______ together.

Scientists believe that laughter is good ______ you. Why For one thing, laughter is a good exercise. When you laugh, you exercise many muscles (肌肉) in your body.

Scientists say that one hundred laughs is the same as ten minutes of running. When you laugh, you also breathe deeply. This makes you feel ______ .

Why, do we laugh? That is a hard question ______. We know that people laugh ______ in a group. We don’ t laugh very often when we are alone. Many scientists believe that we use laughter to make friends with _____. Laughter helps us feel part of a group.

In English, people say that laughter is the best ______. Some think that laughter helps sick people get ______. Do you think so?

1.A. Laughs B. do C. does D. did

2.A. hundred of B. hundreds of C. hundred D. hundreds

3.A. laugh B. to laugh C. laughing D. laughed

4.A. for B. at C. with D. about

5.A. relaxed B. to relax C. relaxing D. relax

6.A. answered B. answering C. answer D. to answer

7.A. less than B. hardly C. never D. more often

8.A. another B. others C. other D. the other

9.A. magazine B. knowledge C. medicine D. friend

10.A. well B. good C. bad D. ill

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