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  What’s new in the scientific community? Here are four gadgets(小玩意儿)to open up your eyes:

  Mosquito Repelling Necklace

  For quite a lot of people, mosquitoes are one of the biggest problems brought by the warm and often rainy season.The necklace generates a sonic(声波的)repelling frequency(频率), which keeps the insects away.Unlike many other products, it doesn’t use any kind of chemicals and toxic sprays that poses a potential threat for the human body.The plastic case is compact(简洁的)enough to wear around your neck or clip to your collar.Effective up to three meters in radius(半径).

  Ice Cream Ball

  Ice cream in just 20 minutes? No magic tricks.

  All they’ll need are five ingredients and some rolling around.Load ice and rock salt into one end and the ice cream ingredients into the other.As the mixture of ice and rock salt is melting, it absorbs heat.

  Roll or toss the ball around and voila(那就是)-ice cream.

  Cell phone

This new kind of cell phone features a color touch-screen-speech balloons(对话框)are brought to real life from comic(漫画的)strips.It adapts to your favorite comics:talks to you in your favorite character’s language, updates you on new ringing tones and games based on the comics.The tail of the cell phone serves as a Usb.connector to interchange data between this phone and a computer.Turn this cell phone 90 degrees-the contents of the screen will rotate(旋转)as well.Even if you hang upside down like Spiderman you will make everything out.

  Time-flex

  Want to keep track of time but hate wearing bulky watches? Check out Time-flex, this ultra-flexible, self-gumming watch sticks to your skin or clothes like a transparent Band-Aid.It can be peeled off and rolled up like paper when not in use.You control the menu via touch-screen.It’s powered by ultra small batteries that are invisible to the naked eye.

(1)

According to the passage, which description about the mosquito repelling necklace is True?

[  ]

A.

Sonic repelling frequency will do no harm to the human body.

B.

The necklace is made of iron instead of plastics.

C.

The necklace can drive mosquitoes away beyond three meters in radius.

D.

The necklace is inconvenient for people to carry with.

(2)

According to the information of Time-flex, what does the underlined word “bulky” mean in the passage?

[  ]

A.

awkward

B.

neat

C.

out-of-date

D.

vulgar

(3)

According to the passage, which judgment is false?

[  ]

A.

The mosquito repelling necklace and ice cream ball both work in terms of physical(物理的)change.

B.

Among the four gadgets, the cell phone can best represent an individual’s interest and character.

C.

Among the four gadgets, only the cell phone features a touch-screen.

D.

All these gadgets will make life more comfortable and will inspire more inventions.

答案:1.A;2.A;3.C;
解析:

(1)

根据“Unlike many other products, it doesn’t use any kind of chemicals and toxic sprays that poses a potential threat for the human body.”可知,这种产品不像其他产品一样,因为它不使用任何有害于人体的化学元素和有毒喷雾。

(2)

广告中介绍了这种形状类似邦迪的手表的灵巧方便,那么用bulky形容传统的手机,应该是“笨拙,不方便”之意,所以要用A项。

(3)

广告中介绍了这种新式的手机和手表都有液晶触摸屏。


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  To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up.For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的).So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion.Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans.

  What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱).What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits.Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch.

  Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet.In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”.

  But in the end tomatoes carried the day.The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead.”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted.”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato.Some people fainted.But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory.

(1)

The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________.

[  ]

A.

it made Christive evil

B.

it was the apple of Eden

C.

it came from a forbidden land

D.

it was religiously unacceptable

(2)

What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

[  ]

A.

The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down

B.

There was little pregress in the study of the tomato

C.

The tomato was still refused in most western countries

D.

Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato

(3)

What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?

[  ]

A.

To manke imself a hero

B.

To remove people's fear of the tomaoto

C.

To speed up the popularityt of the tomato

D.

To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory

(4)

What is the main purpose of the passage?

[  ]

A.

To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato

B.

To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato

C.

To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato

D.

To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence

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