When I asked my daughter which one she would keep: the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said 'the phone'. As for me, I could do without the phone entirely(完全地), which makes me unusual. But in fact, telephone is _______ our lives more than any other piece of technology.

Point 1 The telephone gives the need to communicate. On the road, drivers may call his/her friends or relatives. In the same way, more roads have traffic _______. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 p.m. and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist would she have anything to talk about?

Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone. 'The mobile saves my life,' says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the road between suburbs and city centers. Trapped(被困)inside, she tried to make the call that _______ the ambulance to her.

Point 3 The mobile has our secret usages. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaison, to ring his sales staff all round the world at any _______ of day to ask where they are, where they are going, and _______ their last meeting went.

Point 4 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several people though they are _______ to us at the beginning on chat lines. My daughter enjoys talking while I don't know what to talk about before we get to know each other. We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts if you know any while they're space-walking.

1.A.making B.changing C.spending D.using

2.A.names B.lights C.signs D.accidents

3.A.fetched B.bought C.gave D.brought

4.A.place B.one C.time D.space

5.A.which B.how C.what D.who

6.A.angry B.foolish C.strange D.satisfied

Middle children are more likely to grow up to become successful adults, a study has claimed.

Far from being cold or shy, researchers found that a middle child’s place in the family helps them develop communication skills.

Psychologist Catherine Salmon believed that middle children are more likely to “become leaders of change in business, politics and science” ---- a conclusion that middle children such as Madonna and Bill Gates would probably support. And they are also more likely to have the drive to succeed in the workplace.

Professor Salmon, who wrote The Secret of Middle Children, said, “As children, middles have to wait a lot. Modern middles wait while their younger sister or brother is placed into the car seat. They wait the firstborn performs in the concert. They wait to be served at the dinner table and praised for their hard work in school. Middles are used to not getting what they want right away. They learn to wait, and this helps them later in life. ”

________, Professor Salmon also found that middle children repot feeling more distant from their parents and are more likely to be easily influenced by their friends. She added, “Middles get less time, attention and resources from the parents, and they often feel painful. But this seems to be short-lived. There is no doubt that this lack of attention can lead to the development of some extremely useful skills.”

1.According to the first and second paragraph, middles are more likely to be _____.

A.cold B.successful C.rude D.shy

2.Why would Madonna and Bill Gates probably support this idea?

A.Because they make the conclusion.

B.Because they believe that middles will become leaders of change in business.

C.Because they like to drive to their workplace.

D.Because they are the middle children who are successful.

3.Middles have to wait EXCEPT ________.

A.while their elder sister or brother performs in the concert.

B.while their younger sister or brother gets out of the car

C.while other children are served at the dinner table

D.while other children are praised for their hard work at school

4.Which sentence can be put in the bank in the last paragragh?

A.Besides, middles can have a good relationship with their parents.

B.However, the situation isn’t all good.

C.Also, middles feel happy from their childhood.

D.Instead, parents spend more time on sisters or brothers

It is reported that some developed countries have shipped(运往)broken parts of computers to China. Last month Hong Kong officers found 131,000 kilograms of broken computers,TVs and phones sent from Japan.

Things like these are called electronic waste,or e?waste. Dealing with them is not an easy job. Every time an old computer breaks down,it needs to be dealt with safely. What is worse,at present,broken computer parts are usually buried. It may be hundreds of years before they are really gone in the earth.

Many places in China are polluted by e?waste. Guiyu in Guangdong Province is one of them. This town is named as “the e?waste capital of the world”. It has to deal with 1.5 million kilograms of e?waste each year,from which it makes 75 million yuan. But it comes at a cost.

Many of the poisons in e?waste find their way into the environment. An environmental group has found the air,the earth and the rivers in Guiyu badly polluted.

Luckily,the Chinese government wants to change the situation. This year,China passed a new environmental protection law. Computer companies like Lenovo and Dell will be asked to take back their old computers. Hopefully,the problem with e?waste will be solved in the near future.

1.The e?waste found in Hong Kong last month was from ________.

A.France B.Japan

C.Germany D.Australia

2.The underlined word “buried” probably means “________” in the passage.

A.焚烧 B.降解

C.回收 D.掩埋

3.The town of Guiyu in Guangdong Province ________.

A.is the e?capital of the world

B.has serious e?waste pollution

C.deals with the e?waste safely

D.spends much money on e?waste

4.This year,the Chinese government ________.

A.closed some computer companies

B.asked people to hand in old computers

C.made a new environmental protection law

D.tried to change people's life

What would the world be like if cars could drive themselves?Imagine seeing an empty car passing by on its way to pick up its owner, or a car full of passengers who are reading, listening to music or even sleeping. But none of them is worried about the road ahead.

Well, all of these could be the future of driving. There are several companies, for example, Google, working on driverless cars. So far, no Google self?driven car has got a traffic ticket, but some of them have been in accident when other cars hit them.

These cars are now still in the testing stages. If the tests are successful, these electric, self?driven cars could be available very soon. But how is it possible for a car to drive itself?Cars already have many features allowing them to take the place of drivers during certain situations. Some features include cars being able to park themselves, or slow down when they notice other cars close by. They can also control the speed if there are dangerous conditions.

Scientists believe that with the help of wireless signals, cameras and GPS, it is possible to create a safe self?driven car very soon.

The cause of deadly road accidents is usually careless drivers or dangerous conditions. The self?driven car may be able to stop this. However, some people do not like the idea. American lawyer Whit Drake, for example, doesn't believe these cars are safe. He thinks that technologies can also be mistakes.

1.The main purpose of the first paragraph is to ________.

A.get readers to pay attention to road safety

B.tell readers the danger of self?driven cars

C.ask readers to keep away from heavy traffic

D.make readers be interested in self?driven cars

2.The testing self?driven cars need ________ to run.

A.solar energy B.water

C.electricity D.coal

3.From the passage, we know that the testing self?driven cars can already ________.

A.stop any accident on the road

B.turn around when getting near other cars

C.control the speed in dangerous situations

D.park themselves with the help of the drivers

4.Which is NOT helpful to make the self?driven cars run safely according to the passage?

A.E?reading. B.Wireless signals.

C.Cameras. D.GPS.

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