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Some weird, wild and wonderful stories coloured the news in 2010:

★A Copenhagen bus company has put "love seats" on 103 of its vehicles for people looking for a partner. "Even love at first sight is possible on the bus," said a spokesman for the British owned Arriva company to explain the two seats on each bus that are covered in red cloth and a "love seat" sign.

★Shoppers at an international luxury fair in Verona, Italy, found a cell-phone-equipped golden coffin among the items on display. The phones will help "the dead" contact relatives if they have been buried alive by mistake.

★A man in New York came up with a disarming way to set off his latest bank heist , approaching the clerk’s window with a large bunch of flowers and handing over a hold-up note saying “give me the money!”

★ An Englishman who lost all his legs and arms in an electrical accident successfully swam across the Channel, a challenge he had been preparing for two years. The whole cost is 400 dollars.

★A set of artificial teeth made for Britain's war-time prime minister Winston Churchill known as "the teeth that saved the world" sold for nearly 18,000 pounds (21,500 euros, 24,000 dollars) at auction.

★A British woman caused an Internet hate campaign after she was caught on camera dumping a cat in a rubbish bin. She was fined 250 pounds (400 dollars, 280 euros) after pleading guilty.

★The BBC apologized completely and without any doubts after a radio presenter jokingly announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died.

★Two Australian men needed surgery after shooting each other in the bottoms during a drinking session to see if it would hurt were charged 400 dollars separately.

★ A Kuwaiti MP(议员) proposed state-aid for male citizens to take second wives, in a bid to reduce the large number of unmarried women in the oil-rich state.

1.What is special about the coffin in the second news?

A. It is golden B. It has a cell phone.

C. It is a luxury D. It has many items

2.What is the probable meaning of the underlined word heist in the third news?

A. robbery B. proposal C. begging D. raising money

3.Who has to spend 400 dollars to do the surgery?

A. A British woman who dumped a cat in a rubbish bin.

B. One who bought Winston Churchill’s artificial teeth.

C. An Australian man who shot in bottom to test the hurt.

D. An Englishman crossing the Channel without legs and arms.

4.From the last news we can infer that _________.

A. In Kuwait many men are eager to get married

B. A lot of rich single men lived in Kuwait

C. There are quantities of oil in Kuwait

D. There are many single women in Kuwait

【答案】

1.B

2.A

3.C

4.D

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Some weird, wild and wonderful stories coloured the news in 2010:

★ An Englishman who lost all his legs and arms in an electrical accident successfully swam across the Channel, a challenge he had been preparing for two years. The whole cost is 400 dollars.

★A British woman caused an Internet hate campaign after she was caught on camera dumping a cat in a rubbish bin. She was fined 250 pounds (400 dollars, 280 euros) after pleading guilty.

★The BBC apologized completely and without any doubts after a radio presenter jokingly announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died.

★Two Australian men needed surgery after shooting each other in the bottoms during a drinking session to see if it would hurt were charged 400 dollars separately.

★ A Kuwaiti MP(议员) proposed state-aid for male citizens to take second wives, in a bid to reduce the large number of unmarried women in the oil-rich state.

What is special about the coffin in the second news?

A. It is golden B. It has a cell phone.

C. It is a luxury D. It has many items

What is the probable meaning of the underlined word heist in the third news?

A. robbery B. proposal C. begging D. raising money

Who has to spend 400 dollars to do the surgery?

A. A British woman who dumped a cat in a rubbish bin.

B. One who bought Winston Churchill’s artificial teeth.

C. An Australian man who shot in bottom to test the hurt.

D. An Englishman crossing the Channel without legs and arms.

From the last news we can infer that _________.

A. In Kuwait many men are eager to get married

B. A lot of rich single men lived in Kuwait

C. There are quantities of oil in Kuwait

D. There are many single women in Kuwait

In the future your automobile will run on water instead of gas! You will be able to buy a supercomputer that fits in your pocket! You might even drive a flying car!

For each prediction that has come true today, several others have missed by a mile. Many of these predictions didn’t consider how people would want to use the technology, or if people really needed it in their lives or not. Let’s look at some predictions from the not-too-distant past.

Robot Helpers

Where’s the robot in my kitchen? Nowhere, of course. And he’s probably not coming anytime soon. Robots do exist today, but mostly in factories and other manufacturing environments.

Back in the 1950s, however, people said that by now personal robots would be in most people’s homes.

So why hasn’t it happened? Probably because robots are still too expensive and clumsy. And maybe the idea of robots cooking our dinners and washing our clothes is just too weird. At home we seem to be doing fine without them.

Telephones of Tomorrow

In 1964 an American company introduced the video telephone. They said by the year 2000 most people would have a video phone in their homes. But of course the idea hasn’t caught on yet.

Why? The technology worked fine, but it over—looked something obvious: people’s desire for privacy. Would you want to have a video phone conversation with someone after you just step out of the shower? Probably not---it could be embarrassing! Just because a technology available doesn’t always mean people will want to use it.

And finally, how about that crazy prediction of the flying car? It’s not so crazy anymore! But a flying car remains one of the most fascinating technology ideas to capture our imagination. Keep watching the news, or perhaps the sky outside your window, to see what the future will bring.

The whole passage is mainly about ________________.

A. predictions that have come true. B. predictions that haven’t come true.

C. why predictions don’t come true easily. D. what technology will bring about.

The author of this passage won’t believe that _________________.

A. predictions needn’t consider people’s practical use of technology.

B. the future isn’t always easy to guess.

C. not all past predictions have come true.

D. many of the high—tech things our parents thought we’d be using by now

simply never appeared.

The underlined word “weird” probably means __________.

A. wonderful B. stupid C. practical D. strange

What does the author think of the flying car?

A. It is too difficult to imagine. B. It is too crazy an idea.

C. It is likely to be made. D. It is often reported in the news.

Some weird, wild and wonderful stories coloured the news in 2010:
★A Copenhagen bus company has put "love seats" on 103 of its vehicles for people looking for a partner. "Even love at first sight is possible on the bus," said a spokesman for the British owned Arriva company to explain the two seats on each bus that are covered in red cloth and a "love seat" sign.
★Shoppers at an international luxury fair in Verona, Italy, found a cell-phone-equipped golden coffin among the items on display. The phones will help "the dead" contact relatives if they have been buried alive by mistake.
★A man in New York came up with a disarming way to set off his latest bank heist , approaching the clerk’s window with a large bunch of flowers and handing over a hold-up note saying“give me the money!”
★ An Englishman who lost all his legs and arms in an electrical accident successfully swam across the Channel, a challenge he had been preparing for two years. The whole cost is 400 dollars.
★A set of artificial teeth made for Britain's war-time prime minister Winston Churchill known as "the teeth that saved the world" sold for nearly 18,000 pounds (21,500 euros, 24,000 dollars) at auction.
★A British woman caused an Internet hate campaign after she was caught on camera dumping a cat in a rubbish bin. She was fined 250 pounds (400 dollars, 280 euros) after pleading guilty.
★The BBC apologized completely and without any doubts after a radio presenter jokingly announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died.
★Two Australian men needed surgery after shooting each other in the bottoms during a drinking session to see if it would hurt were charged 400 dollars separately.
★ A Kuwaiti MP(议员) proposed state-aid for male citizens to take second wives, in a bid to reduce the large number of unmarried women in the oil-rich state.
【小题1】What is special about the coffin in the second news?