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| Some people just can not decide what to do all by themselves. They often __1__ the advice (建议) of their friends. But they never do as their friends have said. My friend Jack is __2__ person, and he is always asking me for help. I try to help him as well as I can, but he never listens to me. Yesterday I __3__ a new way to make him take my advice. It worked. "Look," he said __4__ me a letter. "What do you think I should do? " The letter told him that there was a good job for him. It seemed to be a good chance (机会) for a young artist.  rk. The job would pay very__6__ , and he __7__ to travel and visit many interesting places. " __8__ this, Rose?" he asked, " If I take the job, I will have to stay in Australia for two years. I may stay a bit longer. But it would be a wonderful time for me. Should I go, Rose?" "Don't go," I told him, "You'll suffer (受苦) a lot there." "Don't go?" he __9__ surprised at my answer. As you have probably known, Jack went. I wonder (想知道) __10__ he found that I really wanted him to take the job. | |||
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B. receive B. this kind B. tried B. showed B. send B. well B. could B. How do you like B. spoke B. whether |
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D. give D. a such D. wanted D. shown D. sends D. enough D. would be going D. What do you think D. looked D. when |
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When I was a child, my mother often told me, “Don’t run around, or bad uncles
will grad（抓住） you. And you know what? You will never see Mum and Dad again.”
“Why, Mama? Why would these uncles grab me?” I would ask. “The city is a dangerous place and we don’t trust any strangers, ”she would reply.
Well, that might answer the question of why my second brother never picks up calls from an unknown person either on his mobile or his home phone. It seems that he doesn’t care if he misses an important call. because he thinks that all unknown calls are from bad persons.
So, have we given too much protection to our young kids? Perhaps it is so. But the adults’ thoughts are indeed easy to understand. The kids meet swindlers sometimes as we adults tell them. Also they get some news about cheating（欺骗） in newspapers or on TV every day. That makes the kids believe that they just cannot trust strangers.
Let’s look at an example from everyday life. Say, if someone carrying a wooden stick（棍子） comes nearer to you, will you try to run away at once even before he or she starts talking to you? Will you guess this person’s intentions（意图） and think that he or she wants to rob（抢劫） you of something? Think of the answer for yourself.
Of course, the kids should look after themselves, but overprotection can sometimes stop them from making new friends. Sometimes it’s not good for their new friendships.
Trust is like a mirror. When we offer trust to people, they might just show you trust in return.
1 What do “swindlers” probably do?
A. They cheat other people.
B. They often call other people.
C. They rob people of something.
D. They teach children to protect themselves.
2 Which of the following is NOT the reason why children don’t trust strangers?
A. Their parents tell them not to trust strangers.
B. They get to know some news about cheating in newspapers or on TV every day.
C. Strangers always have bad intentions.
D. They sometimes have experiences of being cheated.
3 What does the writer want to tell us?
A. Children should always follow their parents’ advice.
B. We should never talk to strangers.
C. Parents should learn to protect their children.
D. People should try to 
trust each other.
The Australians had a great idea to stop people from drinking and driving. The idea was that if a driver wanted to start the car, she or he would have to blow into a bag first. If there was too much alcohol(酒精) in their breath, the car wouldn’t start. It sounded like a great idea to me, but people said that they might need to drive the car in an emergency even if they had drunk too much alcohol. Another idea I liked was an invention by a scientist who thought his children watched too much TV. He linked the TV to an exercise bike so that the electricity to power the TV was generated(产出) by the bike. If the children wanted to watch a lot of TV, they had to pedal(踩踏板) very hard. I found another invention on the Internet which was intended (倾向于) to encourage good habits. Believe it or not, this invention was an ashtray(烟灰缸) which spoke to you when you lit a cigarette! The “voice” of the ashtray was activated (启动) by the heat from the cigarette and reminded you how dangerous it is to smoke.
One of the strangest inventions I have come across is a bicycle which can cross rivers! The idea was that when you came to a river, you could inflate a huge plastic ball all around the bike. You would then get into the ball which would float on the river while you pedaled the bike inside the ball! Why not use a bridge instead? A friend of mine at school once bought a strange pair of football shoes. On the bottom of the shoes there was a rotating pad of studs (转动钉垫). The idea was that you would change direction more quickly if the studs rotated with you. The problem was that every time you stopped you changed direction whether you wanted to or not! I think he wore those shoes twice! One thing I would like is a baseball cap with a built-in radio so you can listen to sport all day with your hands free. While we are on the subject of sport, the Americans invented a kind of robot for sports fans. If you were watching your team on TV on your own, you could press a button and the robot would do “high fives” with you! Fantastic! I wonder if you have any good ideas for inventions like these.
小题1:What’s the writer’s attitude towards the inventions mentioned in Paragraph 2?
| A．The writer regrets he knew nothing about the inventions. |
| B．The writer doubts if the inventions will be popular soon. |
| C．The writer thinks people will benefit from the inventions. |
| D．The writer finds these inventions are the strangest of all. |
| A．The father used his invention to stop children watching too much TV. |
| B．It was very bad for the drivers to blow into a bag before their driving. |
| C．The bike crossing rivers was considered one of the best inventions. |
| D．The invention of new shoes would make players run much faster. |
| A．check out | B．blow up |
| C．look into | D．turn over |
| A．Popular Inventions Today. |
| B．Technology and Invention. |
| C．The History of Invention. |
| D．Inventions with a Difference. |
three hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most
Americans sleep an average of seven to eight hours a night. After age fifty, the
average sleep time goes down t0 6. 5 hours a night.
Most people have a bad night when they cannot fall asleep. The name of this
problem is called insomnia.
This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia.
Some of these people had special ideas to make them sleep. Benjamin Franklin,
the famous statesman (政治家) and inventor, had four beds. He moved from one
to another to fall asleep. King Louis XI V of France had four hundred and thirteen
beds and hoped to fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous American
writer, had a different way. He laid on his side across the end of his bed.
B. No one looks like each other.
C. We go to bed at different time.
D. Our sleeping time is not the same.
B. no sleeping time
C. less sleeping time
D. a fixed time to sleep
B. find it difficult to fall asleep
C. find it hard to wake up in the morning
D. have more beds
B. People and Sleep
C. How Famous People Tried to Sleep
D. People and Insomnia