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Humans are naturally drawn to other life forms and the worlds outside of our own. We take delight in the existence of creatures and even whole societies beyond our everyday lives.
This sense of wonder is universal. Look at the efforts that scientists have made to find out whether life of some kind exists on Mars, and the popularity of fantasy(幻想) literature or movies like The Lord of the Rings. This sense of wonder draws us to each other, to the world around us, and to the world of make-believe(虚假). But have we gone so far in creating worlds of fantasy that we are missing the pleasure of other worlds that already exist all around us?
Human beings, as biologists have suggested, possess an inborn desire to connect with and understand other life forms. However, people, especially in big cities, often lead rather isolated(隔离的) lives. In a study of British schoolchildren, it was found that children by age eight were much more familiar with characters from television shows and video games than with common wildlife. Without modern technology, a small pond could be an amazing world filled with strange and beautiful plants, insects, birds, and animals. When we lack meaningful interaction(交互) with the world around us, and sometimes even with our families and friends, we seek to understand and communicate with things that exist only in our imaginations or on a computer screen。
The world of make-believe is not necessarily bad. But when the world of fantasy becomes the only outlet(出路) for our sense of wonder, then we are really missing something. We are missing a connection with the living world. Other wonderful worlds exist all around us. But even more interesting is that if we look closely enough, we can see that these worlds, in a broad sense, are really part of our own.
【小题1】The popularity of The Lord of the Rings proves       .

LIPITOR

ABOUT LIPITOR

       Lipitor is a prescription medicine．Along with diet and exercise, it lowers（降低）"bad" cholesterol（胆固醇）in your blood．It can also raise "good" cholesterol．

       Lipitor can lower the risk of heart attack in patients with several common risk factors, including family history of early heart disease, high blood pressure, age and smoking．

WHO IS LIPITOR FOR?

Who can take LIPITOR:

       ●People who cannot lower their cholesterol enough with diet and exercise

       ●Adults and children over 10

Who should NOT take DIPITOR:

       ●Women who are pregnant, may be pregnant, or may become pregnant．Lipitor may harm your unborn baby．

       ●Women who are breast-feeding．Lipitor can pass into your breast milk and may harm your baby．

       ●People with liver（肝脏） problems

POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS OF LIPITOR              

       Serious side effects in a small number of people:

       ●Muscle（肌肉）problems that can lead to kidney （肾脏） problems, including kidney failure

       ●Liver problems．Your doctor may do blood tests to check your liver before you start Lipitor and while you are taking it．

Call your doctor right away if you have：

       ●Unexplained muscle pain or weakness, especially if you have a fever or feel very tired

       ●Swelling of the face, lips, tongue, and/or throat that may cause difficulty in breathing or swallowing

       ●Stomach pain

Some common side effects of LIPITOR are:

       ●Muscle pain

       ●Upset stomach

       ●Changes in some blood tests

HOW TO TAKE LIPITOR

DO：

       ●Take Lipitor as prescribed by your doctor．

       ●Try to eat heart-healthy foods while you take Lipitor．

       ●Take Lipitor at any time of day, with or without food．

       ●If you miss a dose（一剂）, take it as soon as you remember．But if it has been more than 12 hours since your missed dose, wait．Take the next dose at your regular time．

Don't:

       ●Do not change or stop your dose before talking to your doctor．

       ●Do not start new medicines before talking to your doctor．

Taking Lipitor is helpful for _______________.

A. women who are pregnant           B. teenagers with liver problems

C. breast-feeding women              D. adults having heart disease

If it has been 7 hours since you missed a dose, you should ____________.

       A. eat more when taking your next dose

       B. have a dose as soon as you remember

       C. take the next dose at your regular time

       D. change the amount of your next dose

Which of the following is a common side effect of taking Lipitor?

       A．Throat swelling．                    B．Upset stomach.

       C．Kidney failure.                      D．Muscle weakness．

What is the main purpose of the passage?

      A．To teach patients ways for quick recovery．

       B．To show the importance of a good lifestyle．

       C．To give information about a kind of medicine．

       D．To present a report on a scientific research．

Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug. On good days, they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi. On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers don’t come at all. “That water kills people,” a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday morning, pointing to a row of pails filled with thick, caramel (焦糖)-colored liquid. “Whoever drinks it will die.” The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neibourhood. Women often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but no­body is desperate enough to drink it.

　　There is no standard for how much water a person needs each day, but ex­perts usually put the minimum at fifty li­tres. The government of India promises (but rarely provides) forty. Most people drink two or three litres—less than it takes to wash a toilet. The rest is typically used for cooking and bathing. Americans consume between four hundred and six hundred litres of water each day, more than any other people on earth. Most Europeans use less than half that. The women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred litres that day—two or three buckets’ worth. Shoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesn’t go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon. She often makes up the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other way. Sometimes she just buys milk; it’s cheaper. Like the poorest people every­where, the people of New Delhi’s slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes.

1.The underlined word “slum” most likely means ______.

A. a village

B. a small town

C. the part of a town that lacks water badly

D. an area of a town with badly-built, over-crowded buildings

2.Sometimes the water tanker doesn’t come because ______.

A. there is no electricity             B. the weather is bad

C. there is no water            D. people don’t want the dirty water

3.A person needs at least ________ litres of water a day.

A. forty           B. four hundred         C. a hundred      D. fifty

4.The passage mainly tells us ______.

A. how India government manages to solve the problem of water gets their water

B. how women in Kesum Purbahari

C. how much water a day a person deeds

D. that India lacks water badly