Some people like to have friends who are different from them. Others like to have friends who are similarto them. What kind of friends do you want for yourself?

Kate

Join Date: March, 2011

Location: the United Kingdom

I like to have friends who are like me. My best friend Vades likes traveling, and so do I. We went to Italy last month and stayed there for a week. Next month we want to go to Paris. However, Vades is more athletic than me.

Ditlady

Join Date: April, 2011

Location: Canada

I like to have friends who are like me. It can be very helpful. I’m a little quiet and my good friend Libby is quiet, too. Sometimes I don’t know what to do with my problems and she can tell me what I should do, because she knows about me better than people who are different from me.

Harbinger

Join Date: May, 2011

Hi, everyone! I had a cold last week and just got here. In my opinion, it is important to have both kinds of friends. That makes your life more interesting.

1.Where is Kate going next month?

A. To France. B. To the UK. C. To the USA.

2.What’s Libby like?

A. She’s as beautiful as Ditlady.

B. She’s more outgoing than Ditlady.

C. She’s as quiet as Ditlady.

3.What was the matter with Harbinger last week?

A. He had a cold. B. He had a headache. C. He had a fever.

4.What kind of friends does Harbinger like to have?

A. Those who are different from him.

B. Those who are the same as him.

C. He likes to have the friends who are different from him or the same as him.

5.What does the underlined word “similar”mean?

A. 可爱的. B. 相似的. C. 简单的.

How could we tell time if there were no watches or clocks anywhere in the world? The sun was probably the world’s first “clock”, except in the far north, where the Eskimos(爱斯基摩人) live. There, it’s dark most of the winter, and light most of the summer. But in most of the world, people have used the sun for a clock. Even today, if you don’t have a clock, you still know that when the sun shines, it’s day, and when it’s dark, it’s night. The sun can also tell you if it’s morning, noon, or afternoon.

People who live near the sea can tell time from the tides. In the daytime, for about six hours, the water rises higher and higher on the beach. And then it goes down and down for about six hours. The same thing happens again at night. There are two high tides and two low tides every 24 hours.

Seamen on a ship learn how to tell time by looking at the moon and the stars. The whole sky is their clock.

In some places in the world the wind comes up at about the same time every day or changes direction or stops blowing. In these places the wind can be the clock.

A sand clock is an even better clock. If you had fine dry sand in a glass shaped like the one in the picture, you would have what is called an hourglass. The sand in the hourglass goes from the top part to the bottom part in exactly one hour. When the hourglass is turned over, the sand will take another hour to go back again.

1.According to(根据) the passage, there are _______ ways to tell time besides the

clock and watch.

A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 7

2.The Eskimos in the far north can’t use the sun for a clock because __________.

A. they know very little about the sun B. the sun there never goes down in winter

C. it’s too cold for them to go out to watch the sun D. it has long dark winters and long light summers

3.The underlined(下划线) word “tides” in the passage means __________.

A. 洋流 B. 潮汐 C. 海啸 D. 波浪

4.In which page of a newspaper can you most probably read this passage?

A. News B. Science C. Business D. Advertisement

5.What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Different Ways to Tell Time B. Useful Machines to Tell Time

C. The History of the Clock D. The Development of the Clock

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