Cellphones help us easily find people anywhere at any time. However,using cellphones too often may cause cancer. It's reported that people who used a cellphone for 10 years or more were more likely to get brain cancer. 

   The suggestions below may help you reduce the risk (风险) of cancer: 

   ◆When using your cellphone,try lo keep it away from your body as much as possible. Don’t put it under your pillow (枕头) or on a bedside table when you go to sleep.

   ◆When you’re on the cellphone,use the speaker. In this way,you have just 1/100th of the contact (接触) with radiation you have when you hold it to your ear. An earphone is also a good idea.

   ◆Try to keep your conversations short. If you need to talk longer,use an ordinary phone instead. 

   ◆Change ears when you’re using your cellphone. Before putting it to your ear,wait until the person you are calling picks up the phone.

   ◆Your phone gives out radiation when you talk or text (发短信) ,but not when you’re listening or getting messages. Listening more and talking less can lower the risk of cancer.

   ◆Do not use your cellphone when the signal (信号) weak or when moving at a high speed,for example in a car or train. At high speeds your phone is trying to pick up signals,and this increases the radiation it gives out.

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                          Healthy tips on cellphone use

☆Try to 1 your cellphone away from your body,both when using it and sleeping.

☆Using the speaker or an 2 is a good way to reduce the radiation.

☆Avoid using a cellphone to make 3 conversations.

☆Don’t press the cellphone to your ear until the person you are calling 4 the phone.

☆Listening more and talking 5 can lower the risk of cancer.

☆Don’t use your cellphone when the signal is 6 or when moving at a high speed.

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When I was growing up in America, I was ashamed of my mother’s Chinese English. Because of her English, she was often treated unfairly. People in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.

My mother has realized the limitations of her English as well. When I was fifteen, she used to have me call people on phone to pretend I was her. I was forced to ask for information or even to yell at people who had been rude to her. One time I had to call her stockbroker (股票经纪人). I said in an adolescent voice that was not very convincing, “This is Mrs.Tan...” And my mother was standing beside me,whispering loudly, “Why he don’t send me check already two weeks ago?”And then, in perfect English I said, “I’m getting rather concerned.You agreed to send the check two weeks ago, but it hasn’t arrived.”

Then she talked more loudly, “What he want? I come to New York tell him front of his boss.” And so I turned to the stockbroker again, “I can’t tolerate any more excuse. If I don’t receive the check immediately, I am going to have to speak to your manager when I am in New York next week.”

The next week we ended up in New York. While I was sitting there red-faced, my mother, the real Mrs.Tan, was shouting to his boss in her broken English.

When I was a teenager, my mother’s broken English embarrassed me. But now, I see it differently. To me, my mother’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It is my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, and full of observation and wisdom. It was the language that helped me shape the way I saw things, expressed ideas, and made sense of the world.

1.Why was the author’s mother poorly served?

A. She was not very polite.

B. She was often misunderstood.

C. She was not clearly heard.

D. She was unable to speak good English.

2.From paragraph 2, we know that the author was .

A. good at pretending

B. unwilling to phone for her mother

C. rude to the stockbroker

D. ready to help her mother

3.After the author made the phone call, .

A. they failed to get the check

B. they went to New York immediately

C. they forgave the stockbroker

D. they spoke to their boss at once

4.What does the author think of her mother’s English now?

A. It helps her understand the world.

B. It embarrasses her.

C. It helps her tolerate rude people.

D. It confuses her.

The book, Aliens Ate My Homework, is set in a small town in the United States. By the way the characters talk to each other and the description of items from their daily lives, I think the story takes place within the last 10 years. It is a story about a boy named Rod Allbright who goes to school like any other normal kid. Unfortunately, the class bully(恃强凌弱者) always picks on him because he is overweight. While he’s working on a school project for the science fair, tiny aliens(外星人) come, crashing through his bedroom window in a spaceship. They have come to the earth to get another alien, an evil one named BKR. He is known in other galaxies(星系) for his cruelties. Rod gets bullied throughout the entire novel. The bully’s name is Billy Becker, who is also called BKR! Rod does not discover that Billy is a bad alien until later on.

This book has lots of action and the main character is fun to read about. The most exciting part is when the aliens and Rod find out that BKR is Billy Becker and they skip school and go to search his house. They get caught when BKR comes home from school. He traps them in a storing device where he keeps his alien items. They break free of the device and escape from his house with some difficulty. Rod Allbright is fun to read about because he can never tell a lie. This gets him into trouble when the aliens eat his homework and he can’t make up an excuse for the teacher.

The main idea that the author shares is that there could be other galaxies out in the universe with intelligent life forms who could be almost the same as humans. In this book, the aliens are just like humans in the way they think even though they look different and have a different language. I have learned that if you are nice to people they will be nice in return. This is proven in the book because Rod is nice to the aliens and they return the favor.

1. The tiny aliens come to the earth to _________.

A. look for resources

B. do research on the earth

C. find an alien who has got lost

D. catch a cruel alien

2.What’s the right time order for the following events?

a. Billy is found to be BKR.

b. Tiny aliens come to the earth.

c. Rod and the tiny aliens go to search BKR’s house.

d. Rod and the tiny aliens are trapped, but later escape.

A. abcd B. abdc C. bacd D. bcad

3.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A. It pays to be kind to others.

B. It pays to work for the science fair.

C. Aliens are cruel to humans.

D. Aliens and humans are alike.

4.The passage is mainly about_______.

A. aliens B. school bullying

C. a science fiction story D. a boy’s school life

阅读下面的短文,掌握其大意,然后从1-20各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项。

“What an excellent thing is knowledge,” said a sharp-looking, talkative man to one who was ________ older than himself. “Knowledge is an ________ thing, as everyone can see,”________ he. “My boys know more at six and seven years old than I did at twelve. They can read all sorts of books, and ________ on all sorts of subjects. The world is a great deal wiser than it used to be. Everybody knows ________ of everything now . Do you not think, sir , that knowledge is an excellent thing ?” “ ________ , sir,” replied the old man in surprise, looking ________ in manner, “that depends ________ upon the use it is applied. It may be a blessing or a curse(诅咒). Knowledge is only an ________ of power, and power may be bad, ________ a good thing” “That is what I can’t understand, ” said the ________ little man. “How can power be a bad thing?”

“I will tell you” calmly replied the old man and thus he went on: “When the power of a horse is under control, the animal is ________in bearing burden, drawing loads, and carrying his master, but ________ that power is out of control, the horse ________ his bridle (缰绳),dashes to pieces the carriage that he draws, or throws his ________ . ” “I see! ” said the little man.

“When the ship is operated alright, the sail that she ________ enables her sooner to get into port, but if operated ________ ,the more sails she carries, the further she will go out of her course”“I see!” said the little man, “ I clearly see! ”

“Well then,”________ the old man, “if you see these things clearly, I hope you can see, too, that knowledge, to be good thing, must be rightly applied. God’s grace in the heart will make the knowledge of the head a blessing but ________ this, it may ________ to us no better than a curse.” “I see! I see! ” said the little man, “I see! ”

1.A. much B. still C. even D. rather

2.A. intelligent B. impressive C. excellent D. gorgeous

3.A. claimed B. stated C. repeated D. described

4.A. doubt B. talk C. question D. explain

5.A. everything B. nothing C. anything D. something

6.A. Sorry B. Why C. My god D. Excuse me

7.A. formal B. mysterious C. serious D. cautious

8.A. partially B. comparatively C. frequently D. entirely

9.A. increase B. amount C. independence D. interest

10.A. other than B. as well as C. rather than D. no more than

11.A. confident B. ridiculous C. optimistic D. talkative

12.A. useful B. volunteer C. Interested D. kind

13.A. even though B. although C. now that D. when

14.A. refuses B. breaks C. ruins D. destroys

15.A. owner B. driver C. rider D. leader

16.A. lifts B. contains C. generates D. governs

17.A. poorly B. unpredictably C. carelessly D. improperly

18.A. reviewed B. expressed C. continued D. decided

19.A. with B. without C. besides D. except

20.A. prove B. lead C. happen D. explain

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