The Optimus Prime (擎天柱) model on Zhu Xiaoxuan’s desk looks small–only 30cm high. But it may be the first Transformers (变形金刚) toy made by a 3-D printer (打印机)in China.
Zhu, 14, from Shijiazhuang Foreign Language School, designed it himself. Zhu is a big Transformers fan. In winter vacation, when he saw news that people abroad made many things with 3-D printers, he quickly thought of printing a 3-D model of his favorite Transformer: Optimus Prime.
But where did he start? Zhu went to a local 3-D printing company and found that he first needed to design a digital (数码的) 3-D model. However, the software is much for difficult for a teenager to learn.Feeling challenged, Zhu decided to have a try. He found a video online that showed how to use the microsoft. He watched it and learnt hundreds of computer commands (命令).
After three days of hard work, he built the arms. But they turned out to be too long. Zhu had to re-design it. “The model has 96 parts and almost every part needs to be adjusted (调整). You can imagine how many times I have failed,” Zhu said.
Finally, over 20 days later, Zhu completed the design and had Optimus Prime printed out.

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I have a friend called Mark. Last Sunday it was a beautiful day. When it got too hot, Mark rolled up his sleeves. I was very surprised to see that he had a tattoo! Then he told me he has lots of tattoos. He has tattoos on his arms, legs, chest and back. So of course I asked him lots of questions about the tattoos!

“It was ten years ago,” he said, “I remember I was on an island in the middle of the sea. I chose a dolphin tattoo because I wanted to have something about the sea.”

“I liked the idea of doing more designs about the sea. So after the dolphin I had an octopus, and then a starfish. These are on my left leg. Then, over my left arm I had lots of fish swimming together. They took a long time to do. I also have a crab and a lobster too!”

“Most recently I got a mermaid. It was finished two weeks ago. I saw a painting of a beautiful mermaid in a museum. I took a photograph and then decided to get a tattoo. I made the design a little simpler.”

“People ask me if getting a tattoo hurts. It depends. If you feel relaxed then it’s OK. But if you’re tired or nervous then you feel it more. It also depends where on the body the tattoo is done.”

1.Where did the writer find the tattoo?

A. On Mike’s sleeves.   B. On Mike’s arms.  C. On Mike’s body.

2. When was the mermaid done?

A. Ten years ago.   B. Last Sunday.   C. Two weeks ago.

3. Where did he get the idea for the beautiful mermaid?

A. From the sea. B. From a painting. C. From the cinema.

4. We can learn from the last paragraph that _______.

A. it’s not good to feel nervous when getting a tattoo

B. people can do anything they like with their tattoos

C. people have different feelings about their tattoos

5. What does “tattoo” mean?

A. 烟草   B. 图片      C. 文身

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    Do you like coke? Do you know we can cook chicken with it? And does it have anything to do with our mobile phones? The latest cell phone, the “Coke Phone”, by the Chinese designer Daizi Zheng is a surprise.

Daizi Zheng is a famous designer in England. The Nokia company asked her to design a phone that is not bad for the environment. As a result of her research, she found that normal phone batteries are expensive and bad for the environment. It also uses many good resources（资源）to make a normal battery. So she wanted to design a battery that is green. Then a Nokia cellphone that drinks coke was born.

The cell phone has a bio-battery（生物电池）.It gets power from sugar. So users only need to pour a glass of coke into it, and then watch the coke turn into power. Once the battery dies, only oxygen and water are left. Bio-batteries can last three to four times longer than the usual batteries. In fact, Zheng said that not only coke but also soda（苏打）with sugar can be good resources to power the cell phone.

    If so, you may never look at a can of coke in the same way again.

1.The “Coke Phone” is the ________ cell phone that is designed ________ a Chinese girl.

2. The normal phone batteries are ________and do ________ to the environment.

3.The Chinese girl designed a bio-battery to________ the ________of a normal phone battery.

4. Coke and soda with sugar can ________ the “Coke Phone” ________ power.

5. From the passage, we know coke has ________ use besides being used to ________ and a drink.

— What a nice dress! It fits you well.

— Thank you. It ______ me seven hundred yuan. I like its design.

A．paid                                 B．spent

C．took                                 D．cost