(   ) 2. The children      to swim last month and they can swim very well now.

A. are taught    B. were taught

C. were learned    D. are learned

(   ) 1.1 ________ to surf the Internet for some useful information. So I can learn a lot from it.

A. am not allowed    B. am told
C. am allowed    D. am refused

在日常生活中，你肯定会有些奇思妙想，肯定也会有一些小的发明创造。请用英语简要介绍一下你在日常生活中的一项小发明创造。

要求：1.内容包括小发明的名称、形状、材料以及用途，可以适当发挥；

2. 80词左右，标题已给出。

佳作展示：

My Invention

fast, invent, thought, play, to, run, 

music，from，he，become，it，make

  Piano music sounds beautiful. Almost everyone wants to own a piano and 1it in the light of candles. It's romantic(浪漫的).Of course we humans play the piano with our ten fingers. But Teotronica plays the piano with 2 19 fingers.

  Teotronica isn't a human. It's a robot. It was 3 by Matteo Suzzi. Matto Suzzi is 4 Italy. When he was a child，he 5 interested in science. He had many wild and crazy 6 and created some new amazing things. It took him four years to make the 7 robot. 8 the robot cost him about $ 4700.

Teotronica plays the piano 9 than a human because it has more fingers than humans. Teotronica can also sing along 10 the music that it is playing. It's the first robot to do so. Isn't it amazing?

1. 2._______ 3.________

4. _____ 5.__________ 6.________

7._______ 8.________ 9.________

10.       

 Do you want to carry a heavy bag to school? Of course your answer is no. No one wants to 1 his shoulder painful. In India, most of us would look at the reduction(减少)of the textbooks in 2 bags. But in a country

  3America, students will have 4 choices. A" school bag”called go Reader 5 by a company. The " school bag" only weighs 2. 5kg. The size of it is like a laptop computer. There is a color screen on the go Reader. It can 6 all the textbooks which a student needs.

  The company means to work with the publishers(出版商)of textbooks so that these books can 7 to put on the Internet. 8the students need to do is to download their textbooks. Then the students can make notes or mark important parts of a lesson by 9 their go Readers as they did on their textbooks before.

  Now Richard Katzman, the owner of the company，is testing his new 10 at Chicago's Depaul University. Will we say goodbye to the traditional textbooks? It's hard to say.
(   ) 1. A. have    B. make

        C. let    D. give

(   ) 2. A. people's B. teachers'

        C. parents' D. students'

(   ) 3. A. as    B. with

       C. like    D. and

(   ) 4. A. more    B. much

       C. many    D. most

(   ) 5. A. invented    B. was invented

       C. discovered    D. was discovered
(   ) 6. A. carry    B. lock

       C. mark    D. hold

(   ) 7. A. be continued    B. continue

        C. be allowed    D. allow

(   ) 8. A. What    B. When

      C. Why    D. Where

(   ) 9. A. carrying    B. carry

       C. using    D. use

(   ) 10. A. discovery    B. invention

       C. plan    D. idea

A. system B. direction C. invention

D. mark E. man-made

1. to write or draw a symbol，line，etc. on sth. in order to give information about it

2. a thing that has been invented

3. made by people，not natural

4. a group of things that are connected or worked together

5. the position a person or thing moves or points towards

1._______  2._______  3._________

4._______  5._________

 What invention could you not live without? A few years ago, a survey asked adults(成人) and teenagers to choose which of five things they "couldn't live without". The choices were the microwave oven(微波炉)， cell phone， personal computer, car,and toothbrush (牙刷).Believe it or not，the toothbrush got the first place. Nearly half the adults and one-third of the teenagers said they could not live without a toothbrush.

  I guess when you think about ways people cleaned their teeth before toothbrushes were invented, you might not want to live without your toothbrush，either. Would you want to chew (口且嚼)on a stick or bird feather(羽毛)？How about cleaning your teeth with a stick and salt?

  We can thank William Addis for the first mass-produced toothbrushes. Addis took a bone and made small holes in it. He tied some bristles(刷子毛)together and put them into the holes he had made in the bone. He began selling these around the year 1780 in England. Soon he became a rich man.

Over 150 years went by before American really picked up the brushing habit. In World War II，soldiers had been taught to brush their teeth every day. They brought the habit home with them. That's good news for our teeth！

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

(   ) 1. What's the invention you couldn't live without according to the passage?
A. Television. B. Cell phone.
C. Bike. D. Cup.

(   ) 2. Which of these didn't people use to clean their teeth before toothbrushes were invented? 

A. The bone. B. The stick. C. The salt. D. The feather.

(   ) 3. What does the underlined word "mass-produced" mean?

A.    Made a collection of many things.

B.    Made a large number of things.

C.    Made a new part for machines.

D.    Made a kind of something without any shape.

(   ) 4. What caused William Addis to become rich?

A.    Americans really picked up the brushing habit.

B.    Soldiers learned to brush their teeth every day.

C.    People said they could not live without a toothbrush.

D. He sold many toothbrushes.
(   ) 5. What did the passage tell us?

A.    Who invented toothbrushes.

B.    Who invented cell phones.

C.    When toothbrushes were invented.

D.    When cell phones were made.

5. 你知道这场空难是怎么发生的吗？

Do you know how the air accident      ____ ？

4. 她忍受不了朋友们的嘲笑。

She couldn't stand that her friends       her.

3. 在她找到解决这个问题的办法后，马上就和朋友分享了。

After she found out the way to solve the problem, she       it       her

friends at once.