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  Some people do not like anything to be out of order. They are ___1___ late for work. They ___2____ the books to the library on time. They remember people's birthdays, and they pay the bills the moment they ____3____ Mr Dodds is ____4____ a man.

  Mr Dodds works in a bank, and lives ____5____ his own. The only family is in the next town; his sister lives there with her ____6___, and her son ___7____ Mark. Mr Dodds doesn't see his sister, or _____8__ family, from one year to the next. He sends them Christmas cards, and he has not forgotten one of ____9____ seventeen birthdays.

  last week Mr Dodds had quite an incident. He drove home from his office at the ____10___ time, ____11___ neither too slowly _____12____ too fast. He parked his car where he ___13____ parked it, out of the other cars, and he went ___14____ to make his evening meal. Straight away, there was a ____15___ at the door. Mr Dodds _____16___ the door, to find a policeman ____17____ on the doorsteps.

  “What have I done ____18____?” Mr Dodds asked himself. “Have I ____19___ on the wrong side of the road? Has there been some trouble at the bank? Have I forgotten to pay an important bill?”

  “Hello!____20___,” said the policeman, “my name is Mark.”

(1) A.often
B.usually
    C.quite
D.never
(2) A.borrow
B.return
    C.lend
D.keep
(3) A.go
B.come
    C.arrive
D.leave
(4) A.so
B.rather
    C.such
D.quite
(5) A.in
B.on
    C.for
D.at
(6) A.husband
B.wife
    C.uncle
D.aunt
(7) A.naming
B.be named
    C.named
D.who named
(8) A.his
B.its
    C.her
D.these
(9) A.Mark's
B.Mr Dodds
    C.his sister's
D.the girl's
(10) A.wrong
B.next
   C.last
D.usual
(11) A.working
B.driving
   C.speaking
D.parking
(12) A.not
B.nor
   C.no
D.or
(13) A.always
B.sometimes
   C.never
D.seldom
(14) A.outside
B.down
   C.inside
D.through
(15) A.voice
B.knock
   C.noise
D.shout
(16) A.shut
B.watched
   C.repaired
D.answered
(17) A.standing
B.be standing
   C.stood
D.stands
(18) A.wrong
B.well
   C.right
D.bad
(19) A.stood
B.stayed
   C.walked
D.driven
(20) A.Brother
B.Uncle
   C.Aunt
D.Sister

Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of food people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds;  (2)citrus (柑橘)fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables ; (4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal (谷物), rice is also in this kind of foods; (7) Butter or something like butter. 

People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways.  People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked, canned or frozen. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.

There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on earth. The first thin g is to find some ways to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kind of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy.

1. According to the scientists, which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch?

A.chicken, apples, cereal, cabbages.

B.potatoes, carrots, rice, bread.

C.oranges, bananas, fish, tomatoes.

D.beef, pork, fish, milk

2. It is important for people to eat __________.

A.three times a day

B.dinner at twelve o’clock

C.cooked food all the day

D.something from each of the seven kinds of food every day.

3.People in different countries and different places of the world________________.

A.have the right kinds of food to eat

B.cook their food in the same way

C.have their meals at the same time

D.eat food in different ways.

4. Which of the following is NOT true?

A.People in some places don’t have enough to eat.

B.There are too many people in the world.

C.One of the problems is that no one is hungry.

D.The scientists are trying to make people e grow to be strong and healthy.

5.If there is paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked about?

A.When people eat their lunch.

B.What to do with the two problems.

C.How to cook food in different ways.

D.Why people eat different kinds of food.

 

Did you ever wonder how some of your favorite foods, products or toys came about? Believe it or not, they may have been an accident, or a failure of some other intention. Below, we found three mistakes we’re thankful for turned out to be what they are.

1. Most historians hold that the Chinese invented fireworks in the 9th century when they

discovered how to make gunpowder. Story has it that a Chinese cook accidentally mixed together what were then considered common kitchen items and noticed they burnt. When put tightly in a bamboo tube and lit, it blew up.

2. In May of 1886, a law led John Pemberton, a pharmacist(药剂师), to rewrite the formula(配方) for "Pemberton’s French Wine Coca,” his popular headache treatment. Containing sugar instead of wine as a sweetener, the outcome became something for Coke, which was later mixed with carbonated water. His bookkeeper suggested the name Coca-Cola because he thought the two C’s would look good together, which is how what we call Coca-Cola, a world –wide drink came into being.

3. During World War II, scientists at the University of Birmingham invented the magnetron—an important heat-producing part of the microwave oven(微波炉). While working for Raytheon Corporation after the war, the American engineer Percy Spencer was testing the magnetron when a chocolate bar in his pocket melted. He went on to test other foods including popcorn kernels, and found it to be a much more efficient way to cook. In 1947 Raytheon came out with the first restaurant microwave oven, which was six feet tall and weighed 750 lbs.   

1.The right time order of the three inventions, according to the passage, should be_________.

A. fireworks, the microwave and Coca-Cola

B. fireworks ,Coca-Cola and the microwave

C. Coca-Cola , fireworks and the microwave

D. the microwave, Coca-Cola and fireworks

2.Percy Spencer found the microwave efficient in cooking when he was _______.

A. looking for a way to melt his chocolate

B. trying to know how a magnetron could cook

C. working to know how the magnetron works

D. asked to invent a restaurant microwave oven

3.What can we learn from the above invention stories? 

A. Experiments make great inventors of our time.     

B. Nothing is impossible if one tries each day.

C. Inventors come out of hard work at any time.

D. A small incident may lead to a great invention.

4.What’s the best title for the passage?

A. What great inventions they are!               B. Inventions from Three Countries.

C. Stories of Accidental Inventions.          D. The Human Inventions of time.

 

 

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

Most people believe they don’t have much imagination. They are    1.Everyone has imagination, but most of us, once we become adults, forget how to    2it. Creativity isn’t always   3with great works of art or ideas. People at work and in their free time   4think of creative ways to solve problems. Maybe you have a goal to achieve, a tricky question to answer or you just want to expand your mind! Here are three techniques to help you.

Making connections This technique involves taking   5ideas and trying to find links between them. First, think about the problem you have to solve or the job you need to do. Then find an image, word, idea or object, for example, a candle. Write down all the idea/words   6with candles: light, fire, matches, wax, night, silence, etc. Think of as many as you can. The next stage is to relate the   7to the job you have to do. So imagine you want to buy a friend an original   8; you could buy him tickets to match or take him out for the night.

NO limits! Imagine that normal limitations don’t   9. You have as much time/space/money, etc. as you want. Think about your goal and the new   10.If your goal is to learn to ski,   11, you can now practise skiing every day of your life (because you have the time and the money). Now    12this to reality.  Maybe you can practise skiing ever day in December, or every Monday in January.

Be someone else! Look at the situation from a    13point of view. Good businessmen use this technique in trade, and so do writes. Fiction writers often imagine they are the   14in their books. They ask question: What does this character want? Why can’t she get it? What changes must she make to get what she wants? If your goal involves other people, put yourself in their    15. The best fishermen think like fish!

1.A. wrong              B. unbelievable    C. reasonable      D. realistic

2.A. put up with        B. catch up with   C. make use of     D. keep track of

3.A. equipped           B. compared        C. covered         D. connected

4.A. skillfully         B. routinely       C. vividly         D. deeply

5.A. familiar           B. unrelated       C. creative        D. imaginary

6.A. presented          B. marked          C. lit             D. associated

7.A. ideas              B. ambitions       C. achievement    D. technique

8.A. experience         B. service         C. present         D. object

9.A. work               B. last            C. exist           D. change

10.A. possibilities     B. limitations     C. tendency        D. practice

11.A. in fact           B. in particular   C. as a whole      D. for example

12.A. devote            B. adapt           C. lead            D. keep

13.A. private           B. global          C. different       D. practical

14.A. features          B. themes          C. creatures       D. characters

15.A. positions         B. dreams          C. images          D. directions

 

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