A young woman was driving through the lonely countryside. It was dark and rainy. Suddenly she saw an old woman by the side of the road, holding up her hand as if she wanted a lift(搭便车).

“I can’t leave her out in this weather,” the young woman said to herself. She stopped the car and opened the door.

“ Do you want a lift?” she asked. The old woman nodded and climbed into the car. After a while, she said to the old woman “ Have you been waiting for a long time?” The old woman shook her head. “ Strange” thought the woman. She tried again. “ Bad weather for the time of the year,” she said. The old woman nodded.

Then the young woman noticed that the old woman’ s hand, which were large and hairy(多毛的). Suddenly she realize that “she” was a man!She stopped the car. “ I can’t see out of the rear screen(后挡风玻璃),” she said. “ Would you mind cleaning it for me ?”

“The old woman” nodded and opened the door. As soon as “she” was out of the door, the frightened young woman drove off as fast as she could.

When she got to the next village, she stopped. She noticed “ the old woman ” had left “her” handbag behind. She picked it up and opened it. Inside was a gun.

1. When the young woman talked with “her”, “ the old woman” only nodded or   shook “her” head because “she”______.

A. didn’t want the young woman to hear “her” voice

B. didn’t want to trouble the young woman any more

C. was so tired that “she” didn’t want to talk with her

D. was worried that the young woman had seen “her” hands

2.The young woman asked “the old woman” to clean the rear screen in order to_________.

A. see more clearly           B. drive fast and well

C. make “her” speak         D. throw “her” out

3.From the story we can see that the young woman was______.

A. kind and clever            B. beautiful and bright

C. foolish and shy            D. strong and helpful

4.What do you think “the old woman” was?

A. A policeman.               B. A basketball player.

C. A robber(抢劫犯).           D. A poor villager.

 

Onceupon a time there was a wise man that used to go to the sea to do his writing. Hehad a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.One day he waswalking along the shore. As he looked down at the beach, he saw a human figuremoving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought that someone woulddance on the beach. So he began to walk faster to catch up. As he got closer, hesaw that it was a young man and the young man wasn’t dancing, but instead he wasreaching down to the shore, picking up something and throwing itinto the ocean. As he got closer, he called out, “Good morning! What are youdoing?’’

Theyoung man paused, looked up and replied, “Throwingstarfishes(海星)in theocean.”

“I guess I should have asked, why are you throwing starfishes in the ocean?”

“The sun is up and the tide is going out.And if I don’t throw them in, they’ll die”

“But, young man, don’t you realize thatthere are miles and miles of beach and starfishes all along it. You can’tpossibly make a difference!”

Theyoung man listened politely. Then he bent down, picked another starfish andthrew it into the sea, and said, “It made a difference for that one.”Thereissomething very special in each and every one of us. We have all beengifted with the ability to make a difference. And if we can know that gift, wewill gain through the strength of our vision the power(力量) toshape the future.

We musteach find our starfish. And if we throw our starfish wisely and well, the worldwill be better. 

1.One day, the wise man saw a young man _______.

A.dancing along the beach

B.walking with a dancer

C.picking up starfish for sale

D.trying to save as many starfishes as possible

2.The underlined words “something very special” refers to ________. 

A.the gifts from friends

B.the strength of making decision

C.our own starfish

D.the ability to make a difference

3.From the last two paragraphs, we can learn that ________.

A.the wise man realized something new and important

B.the wise man thought it was foolish of the young man to throw starfishes in the ocean.

C.the young man had the ability to make a difference

D.it is necessary for us to save starfish on the beach

4.The writer told this story to show us _____.      

A.how and where we can write a good article

B.everyone can do something for the future

C.wise men are sometimes stupid

D.young men are in fact wiser than old people

 

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1) Born in 1930, Dr Yuan __1___ from Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then,   2  ways to grow more rice has been his life goal. As a young man, he saw the great need for increasing the rice output. At that time,   3  was a disturbing problem in many parts of the countryside. Dr Yuan _4__ for a way to increase rice harvests without __5__ the area of the fields. In 1950, Chinese farmers could produce only fifty million tons of rice. In a recent harvest, however, nearly two hundred million tons of rice was produced. These ___6___ harvests mean that 22% of the world’s people are __7__ from just 7% of the farmland in China. Dr Yuan is now __8___ his knowledge in India, Vietnam and many other less developed countries to increase their rice harvests. __9___ to his research, the UN has more tools in the battle to __10__ the world of hunger. Using his hybrid rice, farmers are producing harvests twice as large as before.

2) The most universal   1   expression is, of course, the smile---its   2  is to show happiness and put people at   3  . It does not always mean that we are   4  happy, however. Smiles around the world can be _ , hiding other feelings like anger, fear or worry. There are   5  smiles, such as when someone “lose face” and smiles to   6  it. However, the general   7  of smiling is to show good feelings.

From the time we are babies, we show   8  or anger by frowning. In most places around the world, frowning and turning one’s back to someone shows anger.   __9 _ a fist and shaking it almost always means that someone is angry and   10_  another person.

 

Fish Ears Tell Fish Tales

  Fish have ears. Really. They’re quite small and have no opening to the outside world carrying sound through the body. For the past seven years, Simon Thorrold, a university professor, has been examining fish ears, small round ear bones called otoliths (耳石).

  As fish grow, so do their otoliths. Each day, their otoliths gain a ring of calcium carbonate (碳酸钙). By looking through a microscope and counting these rings, Thorrold can determine the exact age of a young fish. As a fish gets older, its otoliths no longer get daily rings. Instead, they get yearly rings, which can also be counted, giving information about the fish’s age, just like the growth rings of a tree.

  Ring counting is nothing new to fish scientists. But Thorrold has turned to a new direction. They’re examining the chemical elements (元素) of each otolith ring.

  The daily ring gives us the time, but chemistry tells us about the environment in which the fish swam on any given day. These elements tell us about the chemistry of the water that the fish was in. It also says something about water temperature, which determines how much of these elements will gather within each otolith ring.

  Thorrold can tell, for example, if a fish spent time in the open ocean before entering the less salty water of coastal areas. He can basically tell where fish are spending their time at any given stage of history.

  In the case of the Atlantic croaker, a popular saltwater food fish, Thorrold and his assistant have successfully followed the travelling of young fish from mid-ocean to the coast, a journey of many hundreds of miles.

  This is important to managers in the fish industry, who know nearly nothing about the whereabouts of the young fish for most food fish in the ocean. Eager to learn about his technology, fish scientists are now lending Thorrold their ears.

1.What can we learn about fish ears from the text?

 A. They are small soft rings.

 B. They are not seen from the outside.

 C. They are openings only on food fish.

 D. They are not used to receive sound.

2.Why does the writer compare the fish to trees?

 A. Trees gain a growth ring each day.

 B. Trees also have otoliths.

 C. Their growth rings are very small.

 D. They both have growth rings.

3.Why is it important to study the chemistry of otolith rings?

 A. The elements of the otoliths can tell the history of the sea.

 B. Chemical contents of otoliths can tell how fast fish can swim.

 C. We can know more about fish and their living environment.

 D. Scientists can know exactly how old a fish is.

4.How would you understand “fish scientists are now lending their ears”?

 A. They are very interested in Thorrold’s research findings.

 B. They want to know where they can find fish.

 C. They lend their fish for chemical studies.

 D. They wonder if Thorrold can find growth rings from their ears. 

 

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