Ask any student which subject he or she hates most. 9 out of 10 students will answer "math". No matter which country you visit, no matter which grade you are in, you may not learn art, geography, chemistry or Chinese, but you always learn math. Why is this so? How come so many students hate math, and yet cannot avoid learning it in school?

Jenny Sanders, a high school student in California, asks, "What good do we get from learning math? We can use computers to compute numbers, and we can use computers to store information. I think learning math at school is a waste of time."

However, there is much more to math than just learning to add and subtract (减) numbers. In fact, math is not so much about calculation (计算) as it is about learning to think logically (逻辑地) and solving problems. Of course, Jenny was right that we can use computers to do calculations, but how would we even know how to use the computer if we can't think logically? In short, computers are only tools when solving problems.

For example, imagine you are a cook and must serve dinner to 100 guests. How should you divide

your resources so that you can get the job done most efficiently (高效地)? In situations like this, the ability to think logically will get you to a reasonable answer and solve your problem.

1.According to the passage, which subject do students always learn in different grades at school?

A. Chinese B. Math

C. Geography D.Art.

2.What does Jenny Sanders think of learning math?

A. Interesting B. Boring

C. Useless D. Difficult.

3. Which of the following is TURE according to the passage?

A. 90﹪of the students hate learning math.

B. Students can learn math well with computers.

C. Math can do calculations and store information.

D. Math helps students learn all the other subjects well.

4.What does the underlined word "resources" mean in the passage?

A. 科目 B. 效率 C. 信息 D. 资源

根据短文内容,选择最佳答案。

A city without cars would be very strange, right? But Venice is such a city.

Venice is in the northeast of Italy. It wasn't built on land, like Beijing or Shanghai, but on more than 110 islands. Seawater is everywhere around the city.

Even so, travel isn't difficult. The waterways have always been the best way to get around. There are 117 waterways and more than 400 bridges that can guide you where you want to go. People in Venice move from place to place by boat. They like to enjoy the scenery(风光) and cool summer nights while taking boat trips. They can talk to other people as they go along.

Venice grew out of small islands in saltwater lakes when some Italians escaped from a war over 1,500 years ago, and built homes there.

Water makes the city special, but it is also a big problem. Sometimes tourists will have such strange experiences. One moment they walk across the Rialto Bridge, and there’s nothing special. But when they come back to the bridge an hour later, it’s underwater and everyone is wearing rain shoes.

Once, people used too much underground water. This made the city get lower little by little. Now the city has gone down by 23 centimeters. Another problem is the rising seawater. The temperature has risen over the years. This has made the ice of the Arctic Ocean (北冰洋) melt( 融化).

Every year, high waters hit the city in autumn and winter. When a lot of water comes, more than half of the city is underwater.

Scientists are trying different ways to stop the city from getting even lower. The Italian government has asked some of Italy’s biggest companies to build the MOST project, which was planned to be build under the seawater to stop the rising water. Anyway, this project is helping solve the problem.

1.According to the passage, Venice is a ___________of Italy.

A. in the northeast. B. in the west.

C. in the southwest D. in the south.

2.______have always been the best way to go here and there in the city.

A. Taxis and cars. B. The waterways

C.400 bridges. D. Boats and rain shoes.

3.Venice _____________ small islands in saltwater lakes more than 1500 years ago.

A. change into B. used to be

C. became D. developed from

4.Which is NOT the reason why the city gets lower and lower?

A. The higher temperature

B. Overused underground water

C. Too many waterways

D. The rising seawater

5.The passage is mainly about of Venice.

A. the waterways and bridge

B. the MOST project and problems

C. the specials and problems

D. the history and scenery

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