They have been married for a long time. As usual they have their ups and downs. One day they had a big   1   over his long working hours and things were falling apart. He was disappointed and she was  2  .

After one week of silence treatment from his wife, he approached her with   3   and pencils. He suggested that both of them sit down at the dining table and   4   down on paper what they were not   5   with each other. They would then   6   the paper and discuss it.

So the wife   7   to write without looking up because she had a lot to write about her frustration(沮丧). The husband took a long look at the wife and he was too started to write. After fifteen minutes of writing, they   8   at each other and exchanged the paper. What did the husband see on the paper? He looked at the paper full of   9  . The wife wrote down all the behaviors of her husband that she didn’t like. When the wife looked at his paper, She was   10   and quickly tears rolled down her cheeks. On his paper, he wrote for two full pages, “I love you, honey.”

A.rest     B.party    C.quarrel   D.experience

A.happy    B.angry    C.excited   D.confident

A.books    B.brushes   C.boxes   D.paper

A.settle    B.turn    C.go    D.write

A.happy    B.disappointed  C.sad    D.worried

A.change   B.keep    C.exchange   D.hold

A.started    B.stopped   C.happened   D.planned

A.laughed   B.looked   C.aimed   D.threw

A.complaints   B.expectations  C.questions   D.advantages

A.disappointed  B.surprised   C.shy    D.brave

Can trees talk? Yes, but not in words. Scientists have reason to believe that trees do communicate (交际) with each other. Not long ago, researchers learned some surprising things. First a willow tree attacked in the woods by caterpillars (毛虫) changed the chemistry of its leaves and made them taste so terrible that they got tired of the leaves and stopped eating them. Then even more astonishing, the tree sent out a special smell---a signal (信号) causing its neighbors to change the chemistry of their own leaves and make them less tasty.
Communication, of course, doesn’t need to be in words. We can talk to each other by smiling, raising our shoulders and moving our hands. We know that birds and animals use a whole vocabulary of songs, sounds, and movements. Bees dance their signals, flying in certain patterns that tell other bees where to find nectar (花蜜) for honey. So why shouldn’t trees have ways of sending message?
【小题1】It can be concluded from the passage that caterpillars do not feed on leaves that ______.

A.are lying on the groundB.have an unpleasant taste
C.bees don’t likeD.have an unfamiliar shape
【小题2】The willow tree described in the passage protected itself by ______.
A.growing more branchesB.communicating with birds and bees
C.changing its leaf chemistryD.shaking caterpillars off
【小题3】According to the passage, the willow tree was able to communicate with other trees by ______.
A.waving its branchesB.giving off a special smell
C.dropping its leavesD.changing the colour of its trunk
【小题4】According to this passage, bees communicate by ______.
A.making special movementB.Telling one another
C.smelling one anotherD.making unusual sound

[1] Look at the center circles of Diagram A and Diagram B. Which of the centre circles looks larger?

[2] Take a first look and you probably think that the centre circle in Diagram A is smaller than that in Diagram B. In fact, they are exactly the same size.
[3]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 see them at the same time.

[4]“What’s happening? Is something wrong with my eyes?” You may wonder at what you see. Don’t worry. Here is how it goes:
[5]When we look at things, our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains interpret 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(幻觉)”.

[6] Movie makers often make use of 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 J shrunk the kids just make use of illusions.
【小题1】In which column of a magazine can you read the above text?

A.Culture.B.Science.C.Humour.D.Education.
【小题2】The centre circle in Diagram A looks smaller than that in Diagram B, That’s because____.
A.something is wrong with our eyes
B.the two circles are not of the same size
C.our brains interpret the information wrongly
D.pictures change quickly from one to the other
【小题3】In the picture on the right, 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 sixth one..          D. The fifth one
【小题4】What’s the right order according to the text?
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-e-a-d

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