If you want to see a thing well, touching can help you to “see” it better. Your eyes can tell you that a glass ball is round. But by holding it in your hands, you can feel how smooth and cool the ball is. You can feel how heavy the glass ball is. When you learn all these about the ball, you really see it well. With your skin, you can feel better. For example, your fingers can tell the differences between two different coins in your pocket. You can feel a little drop of water on the back of your hand, too. You can even feel sounds against your skin. Have you ever wanted to know why some people like very loud music?They must like to feel the sounds of music. All children soon learn what “Don't touch!” means. They hear it often. Yet most of us keep on touching things as we grow up. In shops, we touch things that we might buy. To see something well, we have to touch it. The bottoms of our feet can feel things, too. You know this when you walk on warm sand, cool grass or hard floor. All feel different under your feet.

Most museums are just for looking. But today some museums have some things to touch. Their signs say, “Do touch!” There you can feel everything on show. There are ways of learning to see well by feeling. One way is to close your eyes and try to feel everything that is touching your skin. Feel the shoes on your feet, the clothes on your body and the air on your skin. If you want to see better, reach out and touch. Then you will really see!

1.The underlined word “these” in Paragraph 1 refers to ________.

A.a round glass ball

B.a smooth and cool glass ball

C.a smooth, cool and heavy glass ball

D.a round, smooth, cool and heavy glass ball

2.By touching things, you can ________.

A.have a strange feeling B.know how to reach out your hands

C.tell the differences between them D.tell what colors they really are

3.When people buy things in shops, what do they often do?

A.Try them on first. B.Put their right hands on them.

C.Just have a look. D.Feel and touch them.

4.Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

A.People don't have to learn to touch.

B.Our skin may help us enjoy music.

C.By touching things, we can learn more about them.

D.Most people touch things to see them well.

5.What is the best title for the text?

A.Feeling by Seeing B.To See or to Feel

C.To See Better—Touch D.Ways of Touching

Print a mobile phone at home. Download a film in just one second. Amazing things like these might become reality in 2019 as new technology enters our lives. Check out a few examples here.

Iron Man suit

钢铁侠战衣

Have you ever imagined what fun it would be to fly to school? This Iron Man-style suit from a British company could make your dreams come true.

The suit allows users to fly just like Iron Man. Wearers can take off straight and fly through the air. It is powered by five mini jet engines— four are built into units close to the hands and one is built into a backpack. It can reach a top speed of 80 km per hour. There is a long way to go before this technology is available to everyone, as the suit is still quite expensive - one model recently sold for $ 440, 000 (about 3 million yuan). It is also very noisy. The inventors hope to improve it in the future.

3D-printed houses 3D

住宅打印

Food, water and home are basic human needs. But there are 1.2 billion people in the world who don’t have a proper house to live in. The 3D printed houses made by ICON in Texas may help to solve this problem. The company can print a single- storey 60-square- meter house in just 12 to 24 hours. The walls of the house are made of a special cement(水泥) that looks like cream. Later, workers can make the walls stronger. The 3D-printed houses use less cement than normal houses, If all goes according to plan, 100 homes will be built for people in The Republic of Panama in Central America this year. Each house costs $ 10, 000 (about 69,000 yuan).

Huawei Mate X

华为G折叠手机

Is it possible to fold(折叠) your phone screen? Huawei’s newest phone, the Mate X, is foldable , You can fold it in half as if you are closing a book. But what makes the Mate x different is that it is folded from the outside, The Mate X is both a phone and a table(平板电脑). When folded, it works as a phone. When unfolded, it is a tablet. The phone is very thin. When open, it is 5.4 mm thick, and when closed t 1s just 11 mm.

The other highlight of Mate X is that it supports 5G which means users can download a whole movie in just a second. But users can only take selfies when the phone is folded. That’s because the phone doesn't have a front camera. You have to turn the phone over and use the back camera instead.

1.Why is the Iron Man suit not available to everyone now?

A.Because of its flying speed. B.Because of its price and noise.

C.Because of its flying distance. D.Because of its great fashion.

2.What is the advantage about a 3D-printed house?

A.The new technology is green but quite expensive.

B.The 3D-printed walls are made of special cream.

C.The new technology will make the poor people rich.

D.A 60m2 -3D printed house can be built within one day.

3.What is the most amazing development about Huawei Mate X?

A.The phone is very thin and easy to carry around.

B.You can fold the Mate X which supports 5G network.

C.It's possible for you to take photos when you turn it off

D.There is a front camera and a back one on the Mate X.

4.Which of the following can be the best title?

A.Technologies Have Become True B.The Future May Destroy Our Lives

C.New Technologies Entering Our Lives D.The Importance of New Inventions

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