Look at the centre circles of Diagram (图)A and Diagram B. Which of the centre circles looks larger? In fact, they are exactly the same size.

Then look at the picture on the right. What do you see? A vase? Or two faces?Does the picture change quickly from one to the other again and again? Maybe or maybe not, but you can never see them at the same time.

“What’s happening? Is something wrong with my eyes?” You may wonder at what you see. Don’t worry. Here is how it goes:

When we look at things, our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains interpret(解读)the information. However, sometimes our brains interpret the received information in a wrong way. It seems that our eyes are playing a joke on us. This often happens and we call it “visual illusion(视觉错误)”.

Movie makers often make use of visual illusions. They make the objects around actors much smaller or bigger than usual. This makes us believe that the actors are much larger or smaller than they usually are. The movies Jurassic Park and Honey I shrunk the kids just make use of visual illusions.

1.Why does the centre circle in Diagram A look smaller than that in Diagram B?

A.something is wrong with our eyes

B.the two circles are not the same size

C.our brains interpret the information in a wrong way

D.the two pictures change quickly from one to the other

2.What do movie makers make use of visual illusions for ?

A.To help the actors look better

B.To make the actors much braver

C.To help the actors become stronger

D.To make the actors seem different in size

3.In the picture below, it seems that Line AB is shorter than Line CD, but in fact Line AB is as long as  Line CD. Which paragraph can explain what has happened to our eyes?

A. The second one.               B. The third one.

C. The fourth one.                D. The sixth one.

4.What’s the right order according to the passage?

a. We look at things with our eyes.

b. Our brains interpret the messages.

c. Our brains tell us what we have seen.

d. Our eyes send messages to our brains.

A.a d b c            B.c a b d            C.a c d b            D.b c a d

5.Where may this passage be from?

A.A letter                               B.An English newspaper

C.A science book                         D.An advertisement

 

阅读下面短文,根据短文内容,完成小题。

(1)Daniel(丹尼尔)  was always making excuses for forgetting to do things. His usual excuse was: “I was too busy.” or “I didn’t have time.”

Daniel’s parents were worried about him. “He shouldn’t make so many excuses.” his father said. “No one will believe him.”

(2) “I don’t know what we can do.” his mother said.

“I have an idea” his father said. “If this doesn’t work, nothing will.”

The next day was Daniel’s birthday. He wanted to get exciting presents from his parents. But all day they only said “Good morning, Daniel. Hurry, or you will be late for school.” There were no presents, not even a card. He was really sorry.

“Never mind.” he thought. “There is a surprising present for me after school.” But there wasn’t. Sadly he said to his parents at dinner, (3) ________(今天是我的生日).”

“Oh,” his father said. “So it is. I forgot.”

“So did I.” his mother said.

“How could you forget?” “We have a really good excuse for forgetting your birthday, Daniel. We didn’t remember your birthday because we were too busy.”

Poor Daniel! He never had an excuse for not doing something again.

1.请把(1)处译成汉语。 _________________________________________________________。

2.请把(2)改成同义句。(用两个词)I don’t know what ______ ______.

3.请把(3)处译成英语______________________________________.

4.Did Daniel get his birthday present at last?

____________________________________________________________________________.

5.What do you learn from the story? _________________________________________.

 

There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But only a few of them are very important. English is one of them. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the USA, but also in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 people speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a foreign language. Many millions of people are trying to do so. Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different answers. Have you ever noticed ads(广告) of this kind in the newspapers or magazines? “Learn English in six weeks, or give your money back…” “Easy and funny…” “Our records and tapes help you master English in a month”. Of course, it never happened quite like that.

The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should remember that we all learned our own language well when we were children. If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. Think of what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears.

So it is hard to say that learning English is easy. We must do a lot of practice. And practice needs great efforts and takes much time. Good teachers, record, tapes, books, and dictionaries will be helpful, but they cannot do the student’s work for him.

1.How many languages are very important in the world?

A.A few

B.Few

C.About 1500

D.Many

2.If we want to learn English well, what shall we do?

A.We should study it without any help.

B.We must do a lot of practice.

C.We need to get much money back.

D.We must live in England or America.

3.How does the writer like the ads in the newspapers or magazines?

A.He thinks the ads very expensive.

B.He thinks the ads are true.

C.It never happened quite like what the ads said.

D.He believes” Learn English in six weeks, or give your money back”.

4.Which language is easy to learn?

A.English

B.Chinese

C.Japanese

D.The mother language

5.Which countries use English as the mother tongue?

A.China and France

B.Japan and Italy

C.England the America

D.Germany and France

 

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