【题目】Answer the questions(根据短文内容回答下列问题)

Mr Harries taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of his class, he gave us a talk about an animal called "birdcat", which died out during the Ice Age. He passed around a skull(头骨)as he talked. We all took notes carefully and later we had a test.

When he returned my paper the next day, there was a big red "×" through each of my answers. I had failed! I had written exactly(确切地)what Mr Harries said. Then I learned that everyone in the class had failed. What had happened? Very simple, Mr Harries said he had made all that "birdcat" there had never been any such animal. So the information in our notes was incorrect. Did you think you would get good marks for incorrect answers?

We felt that wasn't fair. What kind of test was this? And what kind of teacher?

We should have found it out, Mr Harries said. After all, at the very moment he was passing around the "birdcat" skull, in fact a cat's. He had told us many unbelievable things about the animal, such as the size, the colour, the strength… but none of us had questioned.

Mr Harries said he hoped we could learn something from this lesson. Teachers and textbooks are not always correct. In fact no one is. He told us not to let our minds go to sleep, and to speak up if we ever thought he or the textbook was wrong.

Up to now I haven't made any great scientific discoveries, but Mr Harries's class gave my classmates and me something just as important: to look people in the eye and tell them they are wrong.

1Who taught sixth-grade science?

________________________________________________________________

2What did the writer and his classmates do during the first science lesson?

They carefully watched the skull and ________________ and then had a test.

3Did they get good marks or fail the test?

_______________________________________________________________________

4How did they feel about the test?

__________________________________________________________________________

5Why did the writer fail in the science test?

Because the information in his notes ________________________________________.

6How do you like the science teacher?

_________________________________________________________________________

【题目】任务型阅读

What is the best-selling book in the world? Is it the Harry Potter series or Secret Garden? According to the Guinness World Records, Xinhua Dictiorary, published by the commercial Press in China,is the world's most popular dictionary and the beat-selling book.

In 1950,Chinese language experts and scholars,Wei Jiangong and Ye Shengtao, started to edit Xinhua Dictionary. There was a lot of discussion,research and paper work. Some hand scripts were checked again and again like compositions, Many people’s hard work and interesting stories went into making the dictionary.

In 1953,the first Xinhua Dictionary was published. By 2015.about 567 million copies of the dictionary have been sold worldwide.

However,revisions(修订) to the dictionary continue to be made.Editors usually summarize the meanings of words again while revising. If the example sentences are out of date,editors need to have experiences and make new examples. “To give a correct explanation of the Chinese‘焗油(hot oil treatment)’, one editor went to a barber shop to experience it himself," Yu.Guilin told the Beijing Times. So far, Xinhua Dictionary has been revised for 11 times. To keep up with the times, some

popular and widely-used Internet words are also added to the dictionary. For example, in the 1lth edition, the phrases“晒工资(show off salary)" and "晒照片(show off pictures)" were included.

All these efforts create the "National 'Dictionary” of ChinaXinhua Dictionary is not only a useful tool for generations of Chinese people. It also helps foreigners who are learning the Chinese language and culture.

The "1Dictionary" of China

Name: Xinhua Dictionary

Publisher:The Commercial Press

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A good beginning

Editors3a lot and did a lot of research and paper work.

A long4

In 1950,Chinese language experts and scholars started to edit it

In5, the first Xinhua Dictionary was published.

A great6of sales

By 2015,about 567 million copies of the dictionary have been sold.

Eleven revisions

Editors usually summarize the meanings of words7more.

Editors need to have experiences and make new examples8that the example sentences can keep up with the times.

Editors also9some popular and widely-used Internet words to the dictionary.

Usage

It is10for generations of Chinese people and foreigners who are learning the Chinese language and culture.

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