题目内容
Yesterday my friend and I__________to the zoo.
A.go B.goes C.went
The late president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, once said: “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own language, that goes to his heart.”
Mandela understood that our mother language is a very close thing to us. For people who speak their mother language, it helps them keep their traditions. Their language is the bridge with their ancestors (祖先). And it is also how they think about the future.
So it's a serious thing that a language disappears (消失). Over the last century, more than 400 languages have died out. Some languages are now spoken only by a few people, like Yagan in Chile. Africa and South America are also places where many languages are imperiled (处于危险的).
Why are humans speaking fewer languages than we once did? The answer has something to do with globalization (全球化). Nowadays, it's more useful to speak certain languages—English is one example. This has killed some languages, usually ones spoken by fewer people.
The United Nations has set Feb 21 as International Mother Language Day. This work is very important. As US writer Rita Mae Brown wrote, “Language is the map of the culture. It tells where its people come from and where they are going”.
1.How does the writer introduce (介绍，引入) the topic?
A.By using a famous person’s words. B.By asking difficult questions.
C.By giving good examples. D.By explaining special things.
2.According to Nelson Mandela, a man’s mother language _____________.
A.doesn’t go to his head B.can’t explain things better
C.carries certain feelings D.helps talk to their ancestors
3.Which is the most suitable (适合的) place in the passage for the sentence, “But some people aren’t prepared to accept the earth with fewer and fewer languages”?
A.At the beginning of Paragraph 2 B.At the beginning of Paragraph 3
C.At the beginning of Paragraph 4 D.At the beginning of Paragraph 5
4.What can we infer (推断) from the passage?
A.The US writer Rita Mae Brown does not agree with Nelson Mandela.
B.The United Nations wants people to care more about dying languages.
C.People in Chile do not speak their mother languages any more.
D.There will be more and more languages in the world soon.
Later this year, Beijing will start the country’s first driverless(无人驾驶 ) subway trains. The Yanfang Line-connecting part of Fangshan district center-will be the first to try out driverless technology.
According to the experts(专家) in public transportation, the new trains will make the underground railway system(系统) better. They will have an upgraded(升级的)operating system. They will reach 80km per hour and carry more than 1,200 passengers.
The development of driverless technology is opening up in other areas of transport(交通工具). Driverless cars have been a dream for many people. And in the past few years, big car companies, including Volkswagen and Toyota, have made lots of studies while they are competing with other companies, such as Google.
But with not racks(轨道) to run on, how will driverless cars be safe? This technology is made up of many sensors(传感器) including radar and GPS. This gives the car an exact position in the world, as well as what’s around it. It also allows the car to see moving objects(目标), like other cars and people.
Pilot-free planes have also become a hot technology topic. Yet while these new kinds of technology are seen as better and safer, they do have problems. They cannot work at all without the help of computers. Just like humans, computers make mistakes-although less often. And like much of technology, it makes many workers lose their jobs. What will happen to the future bus drivers and pilots?
1.Will Beijing start the country’s first driverless subway trains?
2.How many passengers will the driverless subway train carry?
3.What did the big companies do about the driverless technology?
4.Why will driverless cars be safe?
5.What does the writer mainly tell us in the last paragraph?
The young man couldn’t afford a new car. ________ he bought a second-hand one.
A.Still B.Instead C.Moreover D.Finally
My name is Jenny. I study in Green Park School. I began playing the piano when I was four years old. I have my piano lesson in the Girls’ Music Club. We give a concert twice a year. I am practicing(练习)new music for the next concert.
In the school year, I take four piano lessons ever week from my piano teacher, Mrs. Taylor. She teaches piano lessons in the club. In summer, I take two lessons every week. I want to learn everything about playing the piano, so I practice playing the piano very hard-about ten hours every week.
The piano is a very interesting instruments to play. I like moving my fingers on the keys, and hearing the beautiful music. I always practice until I can play the music well. I am not sure what I want to be when I grow up. But I do know that playing the piano will always be an important part of my life It is very special to me.
1.Does Jenny study in Green Park School?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
2.Where does jenny have her piano lessons?
3.Who is Jenny's piano teacher?
4.How many hours does Jenny practice the piano every week?
5.What does jenny think of the piano from the passage?
Butterflies are insects.__________look very beautiful.
A.They B.Them C.Their
Margaret Knight was born on February 14, 1838, in Maine. She lived during a time when factories were springing up all over the United States and business were booming. Her father died when she was 10 years old and began working in a textile mill(纺织厂).
When she was 12, Knight saw an accident in which a part of one of the marhines flew off, seriously hurting a worker. So she decided to plan a way to prevent such accidents. Knight designed a safety feature that would stop the machines if something got caught in them. The machine soon became common in textile mills and is still used in some factories now.
Although factories were willing to use her first invention, Knight did not receive much in the way of reward for her effort. Because of her youth and her family's lack of(缺乏)of education, Knight was unable to patent(获得专利)her safety machine to earn money from selling it.
In Knight's day, paper bags were shaped like envelopes(信封), which made them difficult to fill. While working at a paper bag factory, Knight thought of bags with flat, rectangular(长方形的)bottom. Then she tried to invent a machine that would produce them, and she succeeded.
Knight worked for months to perfect her work, but when she asked for a patent, a man named Charles Annan had seen an early model of Knight's idea and had tried to patent the machine as his own.
Knight insisted that the patent should be hers and ended up taking Annan to court(法庭). During the case; Annan said that a woman would not be able to invent such a complex and innovative(创新的)machine. But Knight provided evidence proving that the machine was hers and received patent in 1871.
Knight died in 1914, and one newspaper described her as a "woman Edison". At a time when women's hard work and knowledge were taken too lightly, she proved that women too could develop new ideas that would shape the future of industry.
1.Why didn't Margaret patent her safety machine at first?
A.She had no money to do it. B.She didn't consider it worth her effort.
C.She expected her invention to be of use to all. D.She had no sense of patent at that time.
2.We can infer from Margret's story that at Margret's time________ .
A.women didn't get well protected at work B.women got badly paid at factories
C.women weren't expected to achieve much D.women had no right to invent things
3.Why did the writer write the passage?
A.To tell the importance of role of women in society. B.To call on girls to learn from a woman scientist.
C.To encourage women to fight for equal rights. D.To introduce a famous woman inventor in America.
B. 根据短文内容和所给中文提示，在空白处写出单词的正确形式。每空限填一词。
British Milkman Steve Leech saved some shops and flats with milk and 1.（赢得）a national Bravery Award（国家勇敢奖）
Leech , 35 years old, said that when he was sending out milk as 2.（平常的）along Pine Street, he suddenly heard a loud,3.（奇怪的）sound behind him and then he saw smoke coming out of a shop in Corn Wall, southern England, “That must be a fire, I 4.（推）the door in and then I shouted for the people inside. Then I started pouring（倒出）milk 5.（到处）.”He used 320 bottles of milk to 6.(阻止) the fire. When firefighters（消防员）7.（到达）at the shop, the fire was under control（得到控制）.
Leech helped save the 8.（生命）of eight people in the flats above the shops.
“It was hard work to 9.（打开） those bottles. But it was even 10.（更难）trying to tell my boss where all the milk had gone ,” Leech said jokingly.
— ___________ orange juice do you want—Three bottles.
A.How many bottles of B.How many C.How much D.How much bottles of
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