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In June,2007,a group of students from eight high schools in Winnipeg,the capital of Canada’s Manitoba province,will begin test-launching(试发射)a satellite the size of a Rubik’s cube.
The one-kilogram Win-Cube satellite,named for its home city and its shape,will be put into low orbit.Once in space,it can perform for a few months or up to several years,communicating information that could help find the early signs of earthquakes.![]()
There are 80 similar satellite projects worldwide,but this is the first high-school based program of its kind in Canada.30 Manitoba high school students are having a hand in designing and building the satellite,in cooperation with aerospace(航空航天的)experts and 10 students from the University of Manitoba,and with support from two other organizations.
The Win-Cube project is not something that goes on a piece of paper,it is real-world engineering,allowing high school students to have an opportunity to learn more about the exciting world of engineering through their participation in this challenging program.It is also taken as a wonderful example of the unique partnerships within Manitoba.Designing,building and lauching a satellite with high-school participation will bring this world-class educational project into reality and Manitoba closer to space.
“These Manitoba high school students deserve congratulations for their enthusiasm, innovation(创新),and a strong love for discovery,”said Education,Citizenship and Youth Minister Peter Bjornson.“We want to make science more relevant(相关的),interesting and attractive to high school students by showing them how classroom studies can relate to practical experience in the workplace or,in this case,in space,”Bjornson added.
The Win-Cube program is mainly aimed at inspiring a strong desire for discovery on the part of the students.It also shows Manitoba’s devotion to research and innovation and the development of a skilled workforce—all important drivers of knowledge-based economic growth.
【小题1】According to the passage,the Win-Cube satellite is_______.
| A.named after Manitoba and its shape |
| B.intended for international communication |
| C.designed like a Rubik’s cube both in shape and size |
| D.challenged by university students around the world |
| A.those Manitoba high school students are worth praising |
| B.the study of space can be practically made in classroom |
| C.Manitoba high schools are famous for the sutdy of space |
| D.scientific research is too far away from high school students |
| A.find the early signs of earthquakes |
| B.relate studies to practical experience |
| C.help high school students study real-world engineering |
| D.inspire a strong desire for discovery among the students |
| A.Manitoba School | B.Win-Cube Program |
| C.Space Cooperation | D.Satellite Launching |
School education is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he knows, can not teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher’s job is to show his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So much more is to be learned outside school by the students themselves.
It is always more important to know how to study by oneself than to learn some facts or a formula by heart. It is actually quiet easy to learn a certain fact in history or a formula(公式) in mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a formula in working out a maths problem. Great scientist, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo, didn’t get everything from school. But they were all so successful and invented so many things for men. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of experiments.
According to the passage, a good teacher should be one who is to_________.
A. help his students to gain a good memory.
B. train his students’ ability to learn
C. teach his students everything he knows
D. have his students studying long hours
If a student want to learn better, the most important thing for him to do is_______.
A. to learn all the useful facts and formula by heart
B. to do everything as his teacher have said in class
C. to absorb (吸收) as much knowledge from his teacher as possible
D. to think more while he is studying
The main reason for the success of the great scientists is that________.
A. the teachers who had taught them were all experienced.
B. they used to work and study without a moment’s rest.
C. they had received more schooling than other people
D. they know how to study and worked hard
What’s the good advice the writer gives us?
A. We can learn better without teachers
B. We should do more asking and thinking while studying
C. We should pay enough attention to classroom
D. Book knowledge is little use
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My father had returned from his business visit to London when I came in, rather late, to supper. I could tell at once that he and my mother had been discussing something. In that half-playful, half-serious way I knew so well, he said, "How would you like to go to Eton?"
"You bet," I cried quickly catching the joke. Everyone knew it was the most expensive, the most famous of schools. Besides, even at 12 or 13, I understood my father. He disliked any form of showing off. He always knew his proper station in life, which was in the middle of the middle class, our house was medium-sized; he had avoided joining Royal Liverpool Golf Club and went to a smaller one instead; though once he had got a second-hand Rolls-Royce at a remarkably low price, he felt embarrassed driving it, and quickly changed it for an Austin 1100.
This could only be his delightful way of telling me that the whole boarding school idea was to be dropped. Alas! I should also have remembered that he had a liking for being different from everyone else, if it did not conflict(冲突) with his fear of drawing attention to himself.
It seemed that he had happened to be talking to Graham Brown of the London office, a very nice fellow, and Graham had a friend who had just entered his boy at the school, and while he was in that part of the world he thought he might just as well phone them. I remember my eyes stinging(刺痛) and my hands shaking with the puzzlement of my feelings. There was excitement, at the heart of great sadness.
"Oh, he doesn't want to go away," said my mother, "You shouldn't go on like this.” “It's up to him," said my father. "He can make up his own mind." Ks5
【小题1】 His father sold his Rolls-Royce because ________. ![]()
| A.it made him feel uneasy | B.it was too old to work well | C.it was too expensive to possess | D.it was too cheap |
| A.it drew attention to him | B.it didn't bring him in arguments | C.it was understood as a joke | D.there was no danger of his showing off K |
| A.He was very unhappy. | B.He didn't believe it. | C.He was delighted. | D.He had mixed feelings. |
| A.Children who can go to Eton are very famous | B.Children can go to Eton if they will | C.It is very difficult for a child to get admitted by Eton | D.Children don't have the right to decide whether they will go to Eton |
After two classes, I started to recognize several of the faces in each class. There was always someone braver than the others who would introduce themselves and ask me questions about how I was liking Forks. I tried to be diplomatic, so mostly I just lied a lot to appear to be skilled at dealing with people. At least I never needed the map.
One girl sat next to me in both Trig and Spanish, and she walked with me to the cafeteria for lunch. She was tiny, several inches shorter than my five feet four inches, but her wildly curly dark hair made up a lot of the difference between our heights. I couldn't remember her name, so I smiled and nodded as she gossiped about teachers and classes. I didn't try to keep up.
We sat at the end of a full table with several of her friends, who she introduced to me. I forgot all their names as soon as she spoke them. They seemed impressed by her bravery in speaking to me. The boy from English, Eric, waved at me from across the room.
It was there, sitting in the lunchroom, trying to make conversation with seven curious strangers, that I first saw them.
They were sitting in the corner of the cafeteria, as far away from where I sat as possible in the long room. There were five of them. They weren't talking, and they weren't eating, though they each had a tray of untouched food in front of them. They weren't staring at me, unlike most of the other students, so it was safe to stare at them without fear of meeting an over interested pair of eyes. But it was none of these things that caught and held my attention.
I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all extremely, inhumanly beautiful. They were faces you never expected to see except perhaps on the airbrushed pages of a fashion magazine, or painted by an old master as the face of an angel. It was hard to decide who was the most beautiful -- maybe the perfect blond girl, or the bronze-haired boy.
【小题1】What does the underlined word “diplomatic” mean?
| A.smooth | B.clever | C.honest | D.delight |
| A.“I” was really liking the new place. |
| B.“I” was not interested in what the girl said. |
| C.“I” had a bad memory, so it’s hard to remember names. |
| D.“I” was good at making friends. |
| A.Because “they” weren’t talking. |
| B.Because “they” sat in the corner. |
| C.Because “they” didn’t eat the food. |
| D.Because “they” looked incredibly beautiful. |
| A.The girl walked with “me” was a little short. |
| B.“I” saw the five students for the first time. |
| C.Those students sitting in the corner had finished their food. |
| D.“I” probably wanted to know more about those five students. |