Answer the questions(根据短文内容回答下列问题)
Your Nose is Busy and Important
Your nose has many important jobs, and is always busy.
Smelling
Smelling helps you gather information about the world around you. A good scent (气体),like flowers, brings you pleasure. A bad scent, like smoke or sour milk, warns you of danger. Most things around you release scent particles (微粒) into the air. These invisible chemicals enter the nose when you breathe. Nerves in the nose send information to the brain to identify a smell. You are able to recognize thousands of smells.
Breathing
Most of the air you breathe enters through your nose. The nose uses hair and mucus (粘液) to clean dust and germs (细菌) out of the air. The air that enters your nose contains oxygen. Your body uses oxygen to unlock the energy in the food you eat.  Even when you sleep, your body needs energy to keep your heart beating and your brain working.
Tasting
Your nose helps you enjoy food. Flavor is a mixture of taste and smell. The smell of the food helps you identify what you are eating. The sense of smell contributes more to (贡献) food flavor than the sense of taste .When you are sick and have a stuffy nose, your food doesn’t taste as good because without smell, food loses most of its flavor.
Smell memory
Smells can bring back memories. Your brain uses a process to create a picture in your mind from the odors(气味)you smell. Smells can affect your feelings because the part of the brain that helps you identify smells is close to the area that affects your emotions, mood and memory. More smell memories are collected as you get older.
Your nose has many important jobs, and is more than just a smeller!
小题1:How many important jobs does a nose do according to the passage? What are they?
小题2:Smelling helps you recognize thousands of smells, doesn’t it?
小题3:What does the nose use to clean dust and germs out of air?
小题4:What happens to your food if you are sick and have a stuffy nose?
小题5:How do smells bring back memories?
小题6:What do you think of your nose? Why do you think so?

“I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning and I surf the net.”
“I often check my e-mail forty times a day.”
“I often spend more than three hours during one time on the net.”
“I spend more time in chat rooms than with my ‘real-1ife’ friends.”
Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction(瘾) called Internet addiction. Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. The use of the Internet can be an addiction like drug(毒品) use. People lose control of the time they spend on the Internet
For example, one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried, and they called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the net for several days straight.
Studies show that about 6 to 10% of Internet users become addicted. And people worry about the teens because the Internet is changing the playing field for some of them. They spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friends and family.
Is ‘surfing the net’ a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have these symptoms(症状):
●You do not go to important family activities or you do not do school work because you like to spend hours on the Internet.
●You can’t wait for your next online time.
●You plan to spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours.
●You go out with your friends less and less.
小题1:What does the beginning of the passage tell us?
A.How to become an Internet addict.
B.What an Internet addict usually does.
C.Where to find an Internet addict.
D.Why to write this passage.
小题2:How does the writer describe the addicts’ use of Internet?
A.It is something like keeping drugs.
B.It is a way of producing drugs.
C.It is like taking drugs.
D.It is terrible to imagine.
小题3:Why do people worry about the teens?
A.The teens are wasting too much money.
B.They used to work on the Internet.
C.The playing field of the teens will disappear.
D.More and more of the teens wil1 become addicted to the Internet.
小题4:The example in the passage shows that _______.
A.Internet problems are more serious among college students
B.Internet addicts usually stay in the computer lab without sleep
C.Some of the Internet users have already been seriously addicted
D.The police often help to find those Internet addicts.
小题5:What is the writer trying to tell us at the end of the passage?
A.Don’t be addicted to the Internet.
B.Go to family activities more often.
C.Do things as you have planned.
D.Stay with your parents as often as possible.

Hands play an important part in our daily life. But do you know which of your two hands you use more? Very few people use both hands equally well.  Most of us are right-handed.  Only about five people out of a hundred are left-handed.  New-born babies can take hold of things with either of their hands, but in about two years they usually use their right hands.  Scientists don’t know why this happens.
Monkeys are our close relatives in the animal world. Scientists have found that monkeys like to use one of their hands more than the other, but it can be either hand.  There are as many right-handed monkeys as left-handed ones.  Next time you visit a zoo, watch the monkeys carefully, you will see that some of them will use their right hands and others will use their left hands.  But most of the people use their right hands better and this makes life difficult for those left-handed people.  We live in a right-handed world. 
小题1:How many people among 100 people use their left hands better?
A. 5%.     B. 50%.     C. 95%. 
小题2:What’s the meaning of the underlined word “equally” in Chinese?
A. 公正地    B. 均等地    C. 平凡地
小题3:New-born babies can use  ____  ____ __. 
A.  both of their hands    B.  neither of their hands    C.  their right hands
小题4:Which of the following is true?
A.  There are more monkeys using their right hands than left hands. 
B.  There are more monkeys using their left hands than right hands. 
C.  There are as many right-handed monkeys as left-handed ones. 
小题5:“We live in a right-handed world. ”means ____ ____ __. 
A.  Most people use their right hands better. 
B.  Few people use their right hands better. 
C.  Half of the people use their right hands better. 

Do you sometimes argue about what seems to you to be a simple fact? Do you argue whether it’s cold outdoors or whether the car in front of you is going faster than the speed limit (限速)?
If you get into such arguments, try to think about the story about the six blind men and the elephant. The first blind man who felt the elephant’s trunk (象鼻) said it was like a snake. The second who felt the elephant’s side said it was like a wall, while the third said it was like a spear( 矛 ) as he touched the animal’s tusk. The fourth, who took hold of the elephant’s tail, insisted that it was like a rope. The fifth man said it looked like a tree as he put his arms around one of the elephant’s legs. The last, who was tall and got hold of the elephant’s ears, said it was like a huge fan.
Each man’s idea of the animal came from his own experience. So if someone disagrees with you about a “simple fact”, it’s often because his experience in the matter is different from yours.
To see how hard it is for even one person to make up his mind about a “simple fact”, try this simple experiment. Get three large bowls. Put ice water in one. Put hot water in the second. Put lukewarm water (温水)in the third. Now put your left hand in the hot water. Put your right hand in the lukewarm water. Your right hand will tell you the water is cold. Your left hand will tell you it is hot.
小题1:There were _______ blind man who were trying to tell what an elephant was like in the story.
A.twoB.fourC.fiveD.six
小题2:The man who touched the elephant’s ears must be very_______.
A.heavyB.thinC.tallD.strong
小题3:The underlined word “it” in the last line of the paragraph refers to ___.
A.your left handB.your right handC.the waterD.the bowl
小题4:What makes people think about simple facts differently?
A.People’s wrong ideas.
B.People’s different experience.
C.Simple facts are different sometimes.
D.People often disagree with each other.
小题5:It can be inferred from the passage that we should__________.
A.learn from the blind men
B.not agree about simple facts
C.never think about simple facts
D.never decide anything with one side

The scientists from the Lockheed Space Company (公司) work in Felton, California, with the help of a computer. But the computer is placed in Sunnyside, about 80 kilometers away. What the scientists input is sent by telephone lines to the computer, and after a time, copies of the designs are needed back in Felton as possible. Lockheed people have tried several ways of sending the prints (印刷品), but the most effective seems to be by pigeon (鸽子). Are pigeons really used to carry messages in these days? They are, and they send the prints faster and cheaper than any other way.
Human (人类的) messengers (persons carrying messages) are much more expensive and slower than the pigeons. The road to Felton goes through the mountains, and the driving is not easy. An electronic printout system(电子印刷系统) could do the work in Felton, but at a cost of 10 dollars a print. Pigeons carry the designs for about 1 dollar each.
Now Lockheed people have ten pigeon messengers. The pigeons do the work, and they have made Lockheed more famous. You can often read the news about the pigeons in the newspapers around the world.
小题1:The story is mainly about      .
A.Felton, CaliforniaB.the scientists
C.how to work with computersD.sending prints by pigeon
小题2:This story is unusual because pigeons       .
A.don’t like carrying things
B.are often cheap to keep
C.seem out of place in the space age
D.aren’t friendly to the scientists
小题3:Something that’s effective(有效的)       .
A.usually costs more
B.is something that works
C.is often unhappy
D.is often don by animals
小题4:Which happened first?
A.Pigeons were used as messengers.
B.Human messengers were used.
C.What the scientists input was sent to the computer.
D.Scientists got their designs.
小题5:Lockheed likes the pigeons because they       .
A.do the work at low cost
B.get their pictures on television
C.understand the computer
D.make the scientists pleased
阅读短文,然后根据内容从A、B、C、D中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
With a determined(坚定的) look on his face, Chicago’s Michael McCarthy held on to the banister(扶手) and climbed to the top of the Willis Tower not long ago. The Tower stands 1,451 feet(442 meters) tall, the_1_ building in the US.
As he got to the last step, McCarthy _2_ fell down, but that didn’t stop him. The 14-year-old boy finally finished climbing the 2,109 steps and arrived at the top, where he _3_ cheers from many people.
“I just want to show people that _4_ a kid with no legs can do it, anyone can do it,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy, who was born without legs, has to wear prosthetic legs(假肢) and use a stick to walk. But McCarthy has a strong 5 . He believes having a disability(残疾) shouldn’t stop anyone 6  achieving his or her success.
He has been in a special school 7  he was four. When he decided to climb the Willis Tower, his teacher, Jeff Kohn, was   8  by his determination(决心) and offered to help train him. They   9  more than ten hours practicing climbing stairs and keeping balance with the prosthetics and sticks on the steps every day. “ 10  seems that he never knows how difficult it is. 11  I was so tired that I asked him to rest for a day,”said Kohn. “But he said he was still full of energy and wanted more 12 .”
Kohn always walked with McCarthy for the climb. “I   13  the last 10 floors, he went faster,” said Kohn. “He’s the most cravensportsmanI’ve ever trained.”
McCarthy said he was   14  of himself and that the tower now holds special meaning. “When I’m older, I’ll   15  to the building and say ‘Look at this building I climbed’,” he said.
小题1:
A.largestB.highestC.earliestD.latest
小题2:
A.seldomB.hardlyC.alwaysD.almost
小题3:
A.enjoyedB.neededC.madeD.kept
小题4:
A.whileB.afterC.ifD.though
小题5:
A.heartB.hopeC.bodyD.love
小题6:
A.byB.forC.inD.from
小题7:
A.asB.sinceC.untilD.before
小题8:
A.pleasedB.beatenC.movedD.asked
小题9:
A.usedB.spentC.tookD.wasted
小题10:
A.HereB.ThereC.HeD.It
小题11:
A.HoweverB.SometimesC.AgainD.Then
小题12:
A.friendsB.helpersC.timeD.exercise
小题13:
A.triedB.sawC.didD.met
小题14:
A.thinkingB.talkingC.worriedD.proud
小题15:
A.pointB.goC.turnD.hurry
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