随着科技(science and technology)的发展，我们的生活越来越好，对未知世界的了解也更多。科技的发展在我们的生活中占有重要的位置，请以“Science and Human Life”为题，写一篇 80个词以上的作文。

提示:1.科学给人们带来许多好处(benefit);

2.科学也给人们带来许多灾难(disaster);

3.我们该怎么做？

Science and Human Life

 A long t 1      ago there was an old woman. She lived with her two d 2      in a small house. There w 3      two rose trees in her g 4     . One rose tree had white flowers. One of her daughters was as beautiful as a white rose. Her name was Snow White. The other rose tree had red flowers. The other daughter had long hair and big blue eyes. She was as b 5      as a red rose. Her name was Rose Red,and she liked singing and d 6     . Snow White liked s 7      at home and working in the house with her mother. The girls were good friends and they were a 8      together. They loved their mother. They t 9      care of their mother. Their mother liked them very much. They lived h 10     .

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Long ago,people didn’t wear shoes. There was a king who went to travel far into the countryside. He felt very u 1      and unhappy because there were many stones on the road and they made his feet h 2      a lot.

As soon as he returned to his palace,he a 3      an order that all the roads should be covered with cattle hides(牛皮). He thought it was good not only for himself,but also for other people,and hoped walking would no 1 4      be a terrible thing. But there were not e 5      cattle hides. They couldn’t do that. A servant in the palace said, “Why not take an easier w 6     ? You don’t have to cover the roads with cattle hides. What you have to do is just to cover each of your f 7      with a

piece of cattle hide. ” Surprised and pleased,the king changed his i 8      and asked people to do as the clever servant said.

It is said to be the origin(起源)of m 9      shoes. Though it sounds funny and strange,it makes us think. It is much easier to change oneself than to change the whole w 10      .  When you change your way of thinking,maybe you’ll find it easier to solve a problem.

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 Thomas  Edison lost the first job. For  the next five years he  went around the country  from job to job.  At  last Edison went to New York.  He had little money.  He could not buy enough  food  to eat. He had no place to sleep.

For many days Edison looked for work. He was hungry. At last he found work fixing(修理) machines. He could fix the old machines. He also made new ones. The head man liked Edison’s new machines. He was going to give Edison $40，000 for them. Edison would now have money to do what he wanted.

Thomas Edison was then 23. He used the money to build a shop in New Jersey. He had many people working for him. But he worked more than any of them. He rested very little. Soon he was making more than 40 new things at one time.

In 1876，Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone. But it could carry voices only a little way. Edison wanted to make a better telephone. He soon made one. It could carry voices a long way.

1.选择最佳答案。

(   ) 1) Edison had a bad time in the next five years after        .

A. he finished school     B. he worked in New  York

C. he lost his first job     D. he lost his house and food

(   ) 2) In        ，Edison began to have good luck after he found work.

A. New     York  B. New Jersey

C. his hometown     D. Seattle

(   ) 3) The headman paid Edison        for  his  new  machine.

A. little     B. nothing  C. $4,000 D. $40,000

(   ) 4) Edison’s telephone invention        .

A. was the first in the     world  B. carried voices only a little way

C. carried voices much     farther  D. couldn’t carry voices clearly

(   ) 5) The best title is        .

A. The First Shop     B. The First Telephone

C. The First Job     D. A Great Inventor

2.根据短文内容补全下列各句_Q每空所填词数不限。

1) Thomas Edison        before  he  went to New York.

2) He could not only mend machines,but also        .

3) When        ,  he  had  many workers working for him.

4) He rested        than his workers.

5) Edison made a telephone better than        .

A stamp is just a piece of paper with a picture and some words printed on one side and some glue(胶水)on the other side. What makes one of these bits of paper worth any money at all ? What makes a ten-fen stamp worth ten fen'!

When you buy a stamp,you also buy service from the post office. You get the letter sent by post. After the stamp has done its job,the post office says it is worthless. You must buy a new one for each letter you send.

But people often pay money for stamps that have already been used. Stamp collectors,or philatelists(集邮家).have fun just trying to collect as many different kinds as possible. Certain

kinds are hard to find. To get one of these uncommon stamps,some collectors are willing to pay a great deal of money. They think it is worthwhile and that gives it value. If you collect stamps because they are especially beautiful or tell an interesting story,or show all kinds of animals,then those are the ones that have value to you.

1.选择最佳答案。

(   ) 1) When you are going to post a letter,you must buy        .

A. a ten-fen stamp  B. a new stamp

C. a collected stamp     D. a valuable stamp

(   ) 2) The post office says a stamp is useless if        .

A. it is collected     B. you get a letter sent  by post

C. it is old     D. it has a postmark  on  it

(   ) 3) When some of the stamps are difficult  to  find,          .

A. nobody will try to get them

B. they can become of great value(有价值，珍贵)

C. everybody would like to buy them

D. they will be worthless

(   ) 4) Which of the following is NOT true?

A. The stamp has a picture and some words on it.

B. Many used stamps are worth a lot of money.

C. Stamp collectors try     to get different  kinds  of  stamps whether they are used or not.

D. A     used stamp can be used again to post  a  letter.

(   ) 5) Which of the following is true?

A. A new twenty-fen stamp is not worth  twenty fen.

B. One can have a letter     sent by a used stamp.

C. Sometimes people are     willing to pay much money for a stamp.

D. A post office worker does not want to buy any used stamps.

2.根据首字母提示补全单词。

1) Stamps  are  m        of paper.

2) Stamps  can  be  used for s        letters.

3) When you get a letter,the stamp on the envelope can’t be used a       

4) If a person likes stamps c        ,  he  will  collect  as  many  kinds  as  possible.

5) From the passage we know some kinds of used stamps are w        much  money.

 Coffee has been a part of people’s life for thousands of years. Today it is still a 1      drink of millions of people in the world. Coffee is so popular,but do you know the story of coffee and how it was 2       ?

There is an old 3      that says coffee was discovered in Africa long,long,time ago. One day,a farmer was watching his goats,and he saw them eat some small berries(干草种)from a 4      After they ate the berries,the goats  5         very active. The man often felt 6     ,so he decided to try the berries too. Surprisingly,he did not feel tired 7      Coffee plants were thus (这样) discovered. Then coffee was taken from Africa to Arabia,and there it was 8      used as medicine. The Arabs kept coffee a secret for many years. 9     ，coffee came to Turkey,then Italy,then France. From Europe,the coffee plant was taken to America. People found that coffee plants grew 10      in many parts of South America,so large coffee farms were started,and many coffee plants were 11     . On these farms,coffee beans were picked from the plants by 12     . Then the beans were 13      and prepared for market to sell. Different coffee beans were mixed together to 14      different kinds of coffee. Coffee was sent to all over the world,and soon became very 15     .

(   ) 1. A.  favourite  B. popular     C. like  D. love

(   ) 2. A.  worked  B. invented     C. looked  for  D. discovered

(   ) 3. A.  farmer  B. worker     C. story  D. doctor

(   ) 4. A.  tree  B. plant     C. animal  D. place

(   ) 5. A.  became  B. were     C. felt  D. kept

(   ) 6. A.  angry  B. hungry     C. tired  D. thirsty

(   ) 7. A.  neither  B. also     C. any more  D. too

(   ) 8. A.  last  B. first     C. second  D. begin

(   ) 9. A.  Then  B. Later     C. After  D. before

(   ) 10. A.  well  B. good     C. fine  D. nice

(   ) 11. A.  digged  B. watered     C. cut down  D. grown

(   ) 12. A.  air  B. car     C. hand  D. sea

(   ) 13. A.  hot  B. heat     C. wet  D. dried

(   ) 14. A.  pick  B. produce     C. prepare  D. protect

(   ) 15. A.  important  B. popular     C. interesting  D. delicious

Paper was invented 1     the Chinese in 2      century AD. The 3      of paper-making took seven hundred years to 4       the Muslim(穆斯林)world and 5       seven hundred years to get to Britain. Most paper is made  6      wood. When 7      are cut 8     ,they are carried to paper mills(作坊). Here they are 9      and the wood is broken into fibres(纤维)which are mixed with water and chemicals(然后与水和化学物质混合).This mixture(混合物)is then 10      and made 11      paper. One tree  12       for every four hundred copies of a forty-page newspaper. If half the people in Britain 13      buys one daily paper,this 14      over forty thousand trees 15      .

Trees are being cut down 16      than they grow up,so there 17      a 18      paper shortage(短缺)at the 19      of the  20     century.

(   ) 1. A.  on  B. in     C. at  D. by

(   ) 2. A.  the first  B. one     C. a one  D. a

(   ) 3. A.  time  B. art     C. man  D. woman

(   ) 4. A.  get  B. arrive     C. reach  D. go

(   ) 5. A.  another  B. the other     C. others  D. the others

(   ) 6. A.  of  B. from     C. by  D. with

(   ) 7. A.  wood  B. woods     C. trees  D. a tree

(   ) 8. A.  down  B. out     C. in  D. off

(   ) 9. A.  cutting down B. cut up     C. cutting into D. cut off

(   ) 10. A.  wet  B. dry     C. hot  D. dried

(   ) 11. A.  of  B. from     C. in  D. into

(   ) 12. A.  needs  B. has     C. is needed  D. wants

(   ) 13. A.  every  B. all     C. each  D. both

(   ) 14. A.  uses up  B. uses     C. pays  D. eats up

(   ) 15. A.  a year  B. a day     C. a week  D. an hour

(   ) 16. A.  fast  B. quick     C. quickly  D. faster

(   ) 17. A.  maybe  B. perhaps     C.  possible  D. may be

(   ) 18. A.  good  B. fine     C. bad  D. serious

(   ) 19. A.  begin  B. beginning     C. began  D. top

(   ) 20. A.  eighteenth B. twenty-first C. twentieth     D. twentieth-first

Bill Gates was born on October 28,1955. He was n 1          William Henry after his father and grandfather. He was a very clever boy. At school,his favourite s 2       were science and maths. When people asked him w 3       he wanted to be in the future,he always said, “ A scientist. ” When he was 13 years old,Bill started to play w 4       computers. At that time,a computer was a very large  m 5       . Once he was interested in a very old computer. He  and some  of his friends spent lots  of time d 6       unusual things with it. In the end,they worked  out a software program(软件程序).Bill sold it for 4,200 dollars when he was only 17. In 1973,Bill went to Harvard University. There he developed the BASIC language for the first microcomputer(微机). But he didn’t finish his studies in Harvard. In his t 7       year,he left Harvard to work for Microsoft(微软). He thought computer would be an i 8       tool(工具)in every office and in every home,s 9       he began developing software  for  personal computers.  He  made  it

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 电视机发明于20世纪30年代，从那时起，大多数人的生活巳经离不开电视了，因为电视是人们的好帮手，使人们开阔了视野，使我们足不出户就可以了解一切。看电视比听收音机更好，因为人们在看电视的时候不仅能听到声音,而且能看到图像。请你根据以上内容及下面的提示词语，写一篇80个词以上的短文。

提示词语：view观点to some extent在某种程度上image图像 furthermore 而且 provide 提供

 Maths is rather fun (有趣).you know. The problems and puzzles are often very i 1      . Would you like to have a try? Now here is a q 2      for you. Three men had a m 3       in a restaurant. After the meal，the waiter brought them a bill for thirty dollars. Each man g 4      the waiter a ten dollar note. The waiter then took the thirty dollars to the cash-desk(收款台). The bill was only twenty-five dollars,so he t 5      five dollars back to the three man. But the three men could not divide(分)the five dollars a 6      them.

“Let’s give the w 7      two of the five dollars,” said  one  of  the men.    “Then  he  can  give  us one dollar e 8      .    ”

The other two men agreed to this,and so each man received only one dollar from the waiter. This means that each man p 9      nine dollars for his meal. The waiter k 10      two dollars. Three times(乘)nine is twenty-seven,plus(加)two is twenty nine.

Where is the other dollar then?

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