Each Indian(印第安人) was supposed to keep his birth name until he was old enough to earn one for himself. But his playmates(游戏伙伴) would always give him a name of their own. No matter what his parents called him, his childhood friends would use the name they had chosen. Often it was not pleasing, such as Bow Legs or Bad Boy. But sometimes a name fit so well that the youngster found it difficult to shake it off. If he could not earn a better one from a war later, he could be stuck with a name like Bow Legs for the rest of his life.

   The Indian earned his real name when he was old enough for his first fight against the enemy. His life name depended on how he acted during this first battle. When he returned from the war, the whole tribe would gather and observe the ceremony in which he would be given his name by the chief. If he had done well, he would get a good name. Otherwise he might be called Crazy Wolf or Man-Afraid-Of-a-Horse. So an Indian’s name told his record or described the kind of man he was.

A man was given many chances to improve his name, however. If in a later battle he was brave in fighting against the enemy, he was given a batter name. Some of our great fighters had as many as twelve names—all good and each better than the last.

An Indian’s names belonged to him for the rest of his life. No one else could use them. Even he himself could not give them away because names were assigned by the tribe, not the family. So no man could pass on his name unless the chief and the tribe asked him to do so.

Sometimes an Indian would be asked to give his name to a son who had performed a noticed deed. I know of only three of four times when this happened. It is the rarest honor for a person—the honor of assuming(承担) his father’ name.

An Indian could be given the second name by__________.

A. his father       B. the enemy     C. the chief of the tribe    D. his childhood friends.

The greatest honor an Indian could earn was__________.

A. a victory in his first battle against the enemy.    B. a name given by the chief.

C. a ceremony to get his real name.              D. the right to use his father’ name.

If an Indian had more than ten names, it means that___________.

A. many people in the tribe liked him.            B. he was a great fighter.

C. he had a lot of friends.                      D. he had fought in fewer than ten battles.

Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage?

A. The names given by the playmates of an Indian were usually not pleasant.

B. The life name of an Indian was earned in battle.

C. An Indian could throw away his birth name when he was old enough to earn one for himself.

D. The Indians themselves were not allowed to give their names away.

Back in my country, when I was a child, I used to go to “market day” with my mother. One day each week, farmers used to ___1___ their fruit and vegetables into the city. They ___2___ one street to all cars, and the farmers set up tables for their ___3___. This outdoor market was a great place to ___4___. Everything was fresher than produce in grocery stores because the farmers brought it in ___5___ after the harvest. My mother and I always got there early in the morning to get the ___6___ produce.

The outdoor market was a wonderful adventure for a small child, ___7___ was like a festival — full of colors and ___8___. There are red tomatoes, yellow lemons, green lettuce, peppers, grapes, onions. The farmers did their own ___9___. They all shouted loudly for ___10___ to buy their produce. “Come and buy my beautiful oranges! They’re juicy and delicious and full of vitamins to ___11___ your children healthy and strong!”

Everyone used to ___12___ with the farmers over the ___13___ of their produce. It was like a wonderful drama in a theatre; the buyers and sellers were the “___14___” in this drama. My mother was an ___15___ at this. First, she picked the freshest, most attractive tomatoes, for example. Then she asked the price. The seller told her.

“What?” she said. She looked very surprised. “ So ___16___?”

The seller looked terribly ___17___. “My dear lady!” he replied. “I’m a poor, ___18___ farmer. These are the cheapest tomatoes on the market!”

They always argued for several minutes before agreeing ___19___ a price. My mother took her tomatoes and left. Both buyer and seller were ___20___. The drama was over.

1. A. carry            B. take         C. bring             D. fetch

2. A. opened          B. closed       C. started               D. stopped

3. A. produce        B. goods       C. food           D. product

4. A. buy           B. sell      C. bargain           D. shop

5. A. hurriedly       B. immediately    C. directly            D. straightly

6. A. best         B. finest       C. freshest            D. cheapest

7. A. who           B. that        C. which         D. what

8. A. voices          B. noises       C. sounds                D. accent

9. A. shopping       B. business      C. shouting         D. advertising

10. A. customers      B. producers    C. themselves        D. sellers

11. A. keep              B. let        C. expect              D. make

12. A. argue          B. talk        C. discuss            D. speak

13. A. order          B. price      C. quality           D. form

14. A. viewers       B. listeners       C. actors             D. directors

15. A. actress        B. inventor       C. advancer          D. expert

16. A. wonderful      B. exciting       C. cheap            D. expensive

17. A. injured         B. hurt        C. damaged          D. wounded

18. A. excellent        B. fair        C. honest             D. easy

19. A. with           B. to              C. in                   D. on

20. A. disappointed B. encouraged  C. satisfied         D. tired

A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.

“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components (元件),” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.

They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.

While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. “Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.

Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to day basis.”

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1.The difficulty the team of engineers met with while making the robotic fly was that __________.

A.they had no model in their mind

B.they did not have sufficient time

C.they had no ready-made components

D.they could not assemble the components

2.It can be inferred from paragraphs 3 and 4 that the robotic fly __________.

A.consists of a flight device and a control system

B.can just fly in limited areas at the present time

C.can collect information from many sources

D.has been put into wide application

3.Which of the following can be learned from the passage?

A.The robotic flyer is designed to learn about insects.

B.Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.

C.There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.

D.Wood’s design can replace animals in some experiments.

4.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A.Father of Robotic Fly

B.Inspiration from Engineering Science

C.Robotic Fly Imitates Real Life Insect

D.Harvard Breaks Through in Insect Study

 

 

The Food and Drug Administration is, again, threatening to impose(征税) milk and meat from cloned animals on a public that opposes the technology and its products.

Respected polls report that more than 60% of Americans think animal cloning is immoral, and that most people said they wouldn’t knowingly eat the products even if the FDA approved them. But because the FDA would allow cloned meat and milk to be sold without identifying labels, consumers wouldn’t be able to avoid them. The FDA has consistently tilted toward those who want cloned milk and meat in our food. Agency officials have repeatedly asserted that science shows cloned milk and meat are safe for humans. But the FDA has never published the complete scientific studies it says support that claim.

The argument that cloning is safe for animals is unconvincing. Cloned meat and milk offer no public economic benefits. Having cloned cows produce more milk wouldn’t reduce milk prices. US farmers produce more milk than we drink, and the government is required to buy the surplus. Since 2000, dairy support programs have cost taxpayers more than $ 5 billion.

Most important, this first decision to advance animal biotechnology raises ethical issues beyond the FDA’s expertise(专家意见). Techniques used to clone animals will advance the ability to clone humans-and create animals with human genes. Neither the agency nor animal scientists are qualified to tell us whether and when it is ethically acceptable for humans to alter the essential nature of animals. We need a national discussion, including ethicists and religious leaders, to consider the wisdom of cloned and transgenic animals. Given the risk of unintended consequences, we should proceed cautiously. The president should halt further FDA action on cloning and set in motion(运作) a process for beginning this broader discussion.

1. The author’s attitude towards cloning is __________.

       A. standing in the middle      B. opposed     C. approving      D. supportive

3. In US many people buy cloned foods __________.

       A. to support the new technique

       B. because FDA approved them

       C. because they cannot tell which is cloned food

       D. because they cannot read the labels.

3. From the text we know that cloning technique ___________.

       A. developed well enough to clone human beings

       B. may cause unintended bad results to human beings

       C. will bring more unexpected economic benefits

D. is supported by ethicists and religious leaders

4. What’s the best title of this passage?

A.Public Is Against Cloned Food     B.Benefits of Cloned Food

C.Cloned Food Is Illegal             D.Technique in Cloned Food

 

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The Internet is making the world smaller and changing every aspect of our lives. The impact of this, in my opinion, will be strongly felt in the field of education. There are three reasons for this.

First, the Internet provides equal opportunities for all students, as long as they can get access to it. In the traditional form of education, students who get higher marks in examinations may enter a good school, and those who do not, have to enter a relatively less good one. With the Internet, every student is provided with access to the same educational materials, so they have equal opportunities to improve themselves. In that case, the general quality of education will be highly improved in our country.

Second, the Internet presents a challenge to teachers. Traditionally, teachers have controlled education. With the Internet, a student may choose any teacher’s instruction as he wishes. Faced with this, a teacher is likely to try his best to improve his instruction to be attactive and this will in turn improve the educational quality of our country.

Last but not least, the Internet makes education more convenient for students. A student can learn at any time he likes and, at the same time, he can save the money spent on tuition and board. All of these may lead to a revolution in education.

It is true that the Internet may still remain out of the reach of some people and maybe less amicable (友好的) than human teachers. But the point is that the Internet is sure to accelerate the development of education in our country.

Theme

The Internet is strongly affecting 71. _________.

 

72. _________ for this

1) All students are 73. _________ with equal opportunities by the Internet, as long as they can have 74. _________ to the Internet.

In this way, our country’s education will

be of high 78. _________.

2) With the Internet, education becomes a little bit 75. _________ to teachers. Teachers have to try to improve their instruction to 76. _________ more students to his classes.

3) The Internet brings 77. _________ to the students and helps them save some money.

Conclusion

Though the Internet is 79. _________ the reach of every person and it is not so amicable, it will make education  80. _________ faster.

 

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