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At one time, howeverHenry Bond was about ten years old when his father died. His mother found it difficult to provide for the support of a large family, but still everything was left in her care. By good management, however, she tried to do well and also to send Henry, the oldest, to school, and to supply him, for the most part, with such books as he needed.

, Henry wanted a grammar book, in order to join a class in that study, and his mother could not help him with the money to buy it. He was very worried about it, and went to bed with a heavy heart thinking what could be done.

On waking in the morning, he found that a deep snow had fallen, and the cold wind was blowing strongly. “Ah,” said he, “it is an ill wind that blows nobody good.”

He rose, ran to house of a neighbour, and offered his service to clear a path around his houses. The offer was accepted. Having completed this work, and received his pay, he went to another place for the same purpose, and then to another, until he had earned enough money to buy a grammar book.

When school began, Henry was in his seat, the happiest boy there, ready to begin the lesson in his new book.

From that time, Henry was always the first in all his classes. He knew no such word as fail, but was always successful in all he had tried.

1.Was Henry the only child in his family?

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2.Why did he want a grammar book at one time?

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3.What did he find on waking one morning?

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4.How did Henry get the money for his grammar book?

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5.What kind of boy do you think Henry is?

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Look at the center circles of Diagram(图)A and Diagram B. Which of the centre circles looks larger?

Take a first look and you probably think that the centre circle in Diagram A is smaller than that in Diagram B. In fact, they are exactly the same size.

Then look at the picture on the left. What do you see? A vase? Or two faces?Does the picture change quickly from one to the other again and again? Maybe or maybe not, but you can never see them at the same time.

“What’s happening? Is something wrong with my eyes?” You may wonder at what you see. Don’t worry. Here is how it goes:

When we look at things, our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains interpret(解读)the information. However, sometimes our brains interpret the received information in a wrong way. It seems that our eyes are playing a joke on us. This often happens and we call it “Visual illusion(视觉错误).

Movie makers often make use of illusions. They make the objects around actors much smaller or bigger than usual. This makes us believe that the actors are much larger or smaller than they usually are. The movies Jurassic Park and Honey I shrunk the kids just make use of illusions.

1. Why does the centre circle in Diagram A look smaller than that in Diagram B?

A. something is wrong with our eyes

B. the two circles are not the same size

C. our brains interpret the information in a wrong way

D. the two pictures change quickly from one to the other

2. What’s the right order according to the passage?

a. We look at things with our eyes.

b. Our brains interpret the messages.

c. Our brains tell us what we have seen.

d. Our eyes send messages to our brains.

A. a-c-d-b B. c-a-b-d C. a-d-b-c D. b-c-a-d

3.What do movie makers make use of visual illusions for ?

A. To help the actors look better.

B. To make the actors much braver.

C. To help the actors become stronger.

D. To make the actors seem different in size.

4.In the picture on the right, it seems that Line AB is shorter than Line CD, but in fact Line AB is as long as Line CD. Which paragraph can explain what has happened to our eyes?

A. The second one. B. The third one.

C. The fifth one. D. The sixth one.

5.Which magazine is the text probably taken from?

A. Art world B. Amazing Science

C. Health and Medicine D. Daily news

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