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We all know who Benjamin Franklin was. He was a very famous American statesman. He was also the first man to discover electricity. Franklin liked to study and to learn about new things. One day he heard from a friend that something black in colour holds the heat better than something white in colour. Franklin wanted to find out if this was true or not.

There was snow on the ground at the time. So he put two large pieces of cloth over the snow. One piece of cloth was black in colour, the other piece was white. Then he waited until the sun began to shine. After several hours he looked under the pieces of cloth and saw that the snow under the black cloth melted much faster than the snow under the white cloth. This proved to him that the black cloth held the heat better than the white cloth.

Soon after this, people began to wear white hats and white clothes during the summer because they were cooler.

根据短文内容判断正（T）误（F）：

1.Benjamin Franklin was only a scientist.

2. One day a friend of his told him something about the relation(关系) between colour and heat.

3. Something black in colour holds heat better than something white in colour.

4.This story happened in summer.

5. People wear white clothes in summer because they know it is cooler.

There was a man who had a little son. He loved him very much. Every day after work the man would come home and play with the little boy.

When the man came home from work one night, he found that he had some extra work to do. And he wasn’t able to play with his little son. He wanted to give the boy something to keep him busy. So, looking around his study, he saw a magazine with a large map of the world on the cover. He got an idea. He patiently tore the map up into pieces. Then he led his son into the dining room and spread the pieces on the table. He explained to the boy that it was a map of the world. He told the boy to put it back together and they could play together when he finished. Surely this could keep the child busy for hours, he thought.

After about thirty minutes, the boy came to the man and said, “Okay, it’s finished, Dad. Can we play now?”

The man was surprised, saying, “That’s amazing! How did you do that?” The boy said, “It was easy. On the back of the page was a picture of a man. When I put the man together, the whole world appeared completely.”

1. Why couldn’t the man play with his son that night? 

A. He had to read a magazine.                 B. He had some extra work to do.

C. He had to learn something about a map.     D. He had to stay at his office for extra work.

2.What did the man ask his son to do?

A. To read the magazine to find the map.

B. To tear the map of the world up into pieces.

C. To put the pieces of the map of the world back together.

D. To clean the dining room first, and then read the map of the world.

3. How long did it take the boy to finish the work?

A. A few hours.      B. About an hour.    C. About half an hour.   D. The whole night.

4.Which of the following is TRUE about the passage?

A. It’s a report about a father’s extra work.

B. It’s a story between a father and his clever son.

C. It’s an advertisement for the map of the world.

D. It’s a poster about how to deal with parents’ problems.

beep …beep … There went the bell! Robbie opened his eyes. He had been sitting in the room for a whole day, and now it was time for him to do something.
Robbie looked out of the window. It was still snowing heavily and there was ice on the window. It was another cold day. Robbie was told to turn the heat on before the family got home. And he did it.
Then Robbie was told to do some cleaning work at once. It was an easy job for him, but a tough one for his master, Helen. He kept on working until every room was clean and tidy.
For now, he had to cook supper for the family.
The first thing Robbie did was to get the big pot(锅) in the kitchen. Then he put some water in the pot and put it on the stove. He used one of his hands to cut up a chicken and added the pieces to the water to make a good soup. Then he got some tomatoes, cabbages and carrots to make a vegetable salad.
At ten past eight he laid the table. Then he put some bread, the chicken soup and the salad on it. What a sweet smell! The moment he turned on the lights, the whole family came home.
“The soup smells great, Victor,” said Helen. “You really know how to tell Robbie what to do.”
Robbie is one robot that really saves the family a lot of work.
【小题1】What is Robbie?

 Mr. Black loved his daughter Helen very much. Every day he spent all of his free time   51   with her. One night, he had much work to do,  52   couldn't play with his daughter. In order to keep her   53   , he found a map of the world in a magazine and cut it into pieces. When he   54  , Helen. camerunning to him and was ready to play. Mr. Black said he had

  55   time to play fight now. He told the girl to put the pieces of paper back together to a map of the world, and then they could both play.

     About half an hour later, Helen came to her father and said, "Okay, it's finished. Can we play now? " Mr. Black was surprised ~ saying, "That's   56    Let's go and see. " And sure enough, there was the picture of the world; all put together, every   57   in its place.

     Mr. Black said, "That's surprising!   58   did you do that?" Helen said, "It was   59  . On the back of the page was a picture of a   60  .When I put the man together, the whole world fell into place. "

1.A. working            B. running             C. playing            D. walking

2. A. or                 B. and                 C. but                D. then

3. A. sleepy            . B. warm               C. free               D. busy

4. A. left home           B. got home            C. let the office      D. got to the office

5. A. no                 B. enough             C. much              D. some

6. A. right               "B. wrong              C. possible           D. impossibl

7.A. map               B. picture             C. piece              D. page

8. A. How                B. Why                 C. When              D. Where

9. A. hard              B. simple             C. difficult           D.different

10. A. boy                B. girl                 C. man        D.woman