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Post-it Notes were invented about twenty years ago by Art Fry, a scientist at 3M Corporation. The idea for the product came from a frustrating experience he often had while singing in his church choir. Fry used pieces of paper as bookmarks to mark the places in his book of songs, but these bookmarks were always falling out. He knew he needed a bookmark that would stay where he put it, but that he could remove without damaging the pages.
Around that time, Fry heard about a new adhesive (粘合剂) that a workmate, Dr. Spence Silver, had created. This adhesive was special because it was sticky, but not too sticky. It was strong enough to hold papers together, but weak enough to not tear the paper when it was removed. Fry saw that the new adhesive could help solve his bookmark problem. One morning, Fry put some of the adhesive on the edge of a piece of paper. Just as he hoped, it made a perfect bookmark.
A short time later, Fry realized that his new invention had even more uses than being a great bookmark. He came to this realization when he wrote a note on one of his new "bookmarks" and attached it to a report he was going to give to a workmate. Soon, co-workers were asking Fry for more samples of his invention so that they could use the new type of notes themselves.
Fry and some other people at 3M believed so much in the new product that they persuaded the company to give away thousands of the "sticky pieces of paper" for trial use(试用). When some salespeople at 3M went to offices and showed workers just how helpful the new type of notes could be, they immediately received many orders. As more and more people discovered how useful Post-it Notes could be, the product took off.
小题1:The invention of Post-it Notes showed that Art Fry________ .
| A．had a lot of knowledge |
| B．was very hard-working |
| C．was good at creative thinking |
| D．loved his job in the church |
| A．They worked together and often discussed science. |
| B．His invention of a special adhesive made Art's invention possible. |
| C．He advised 3M Corporation to give away lots of Post-it Notes for trial use. |
| D．He worked together with Art by providing the new adhesive for Art. |
| A．started to leave the ground | B．disappeared from the market |
| C．had even more uses | D．became popular very quickly |
| A．it can stay anywhere and leave no sign when removed |
| B．it is very cheap to use |
| C．it is good to write notes on |
| D．it is very thin and beautiful |
新闻：6月5日是联合国世界环境日，去年主题是“冰川消融，后果堪忧！”为了避免可能造成巨大的灾难性的气候改变，联合国规划署组织了 “Planting Trees for the Earth大型活动，许多国家和地区积极响应……
A.信息归纳(共5小题，每小题2分，共10分)
以上的新闻播出后，Sabrina Akhtar写了一封信，请仔细阅读这封信后完成下面表格，请将答案写在答题卷相应题目的答题位置上。
Mr. John Heppell
House of Commons
London
SWIAOAA
Dear Mr. Heppell,
I’m Sabrina Akhtar studying in a high school and I’ve noticed that forests are disappearing.
You know, more and more forests are disappearing around the world each year. This is because of many different reasons including farming, tourism pollution, etc. If we stop doing these things, there will be a good future for people of tomorrow.
Now I’m writing to ask you to help stop forests from disappearing. You can help by getting shops to stop selling paper made from trees and changing to tree-free paper ( paper not made from trees ). This will help forests so much. There are many things we can do to help protect forests. By changing the little things, we can make a big difference.
If you would like to contact me, please see the above address or e-mail me at shazadinol @ hotmail. co. uk. Thank you for taking your time in reading this letter.
Yours sincerely
Sabrina Akhtar
Information Card
| Ways to contact Sabrina Akhter | By 81 ___________ her or e-mailing her. |
| Reasons that cause more forests to disappear | 82___________________________, 83________________________, etc. |
| Advice that Sabrina Akhtar gives Mr. Heppell | To get shops 84_____________ made from trees and to use tree-free paper. |
| The purpose to write this letter | To ask Mr. Heppell to 85_____________. |
panda can grow up to 1. 5 meters long and weigh up to 160kg. People think the
giant panda is very lovely. ① So it is not surprising that the World Wide Fund
for Nature chose the giant panda as its symbol. The WWF tells people about
animals that they are in danger and raises money to save them.
The giant panda only lives in the wild in China. In the early 1980s, there
were only l,000 left in the wild. The main reason why pandas are endangered is
that the area where pandas can live has become smaller.
The WWF works to help giant pandas in the wild in many ways. One of the
ways that helps them is to increase the size of panda reserves(自然保护区).
Some reserves need to be joined together by planting bamboo between them to
make "corridors". These are paths that lead from one reserve co another. No one
may harm the pandas in these areas. The corridors let pandas move from one
habitat(栖息地) to another to look for food.② People are working very hard to
make sure the giant panda does not die out.
So it is not surprising that _____by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Mr John Heppell
House of Commons
London
SWIAOAA
Monday 12th March 2007-11-12
Dear Mr Heppell,
I am Sabrina Akhtar studying in a high school and I've noticed that forests are disappearing(消失).
You know, forests are disappearing around the world each year. This is because of many different reasons including farming, tourisms pollution(污染), etc. If we stop doing these things, there will be a good future for people of tomorrow.
Now I'm writing to ask you to help stop forests from disappearing. You can help by getting shops to stop selling paper made from trees and changing to tree-free paper(paper not made from trees). This will help forests so much. There are many, many things we can do to help forests. If you would like to know more, please visit http://www.Rainforestweb.org/. By changing the little things, we can make a big difference.
If you would like to contact me, please see the above address or e-mail me at shazadinol@hotmail.co.uk. Thank you for taking your time in reading this letter.
Yours sincerely,
Sabrina Akhtar
(56) The writer of this letter is ______________.
A. a student B. a teacher C. an officer D. a driver
(57) ________ is one of the reasons why the forests are disappearing.
A. Rain B. Tourism C. Planting D. Breathing
(58) The writer advises Mr Heppell to ___________.
A. stop shops from using paper any more
B. use paper which is made from trees
C. stop shops selling paper made from trees
D. plant more and more trees in the future
(59) How can Mr Heppell contact the writer?___________.
A. By calling her B. By interviewing her
C. By visiting her D. By e-mailing her
(60) What's the purpose of this letter?_____________.
A. To know more about Mr Heppell
B. To make friends with Mr Heppell
C. To ask Mr Heppell to teach in the school
D. To ask Mr Heppell to help protect forests
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Many people have to work on the weekend. Some people do not mind. Other people think it is terrible(糟透的).
One man thinks that working on the weekend can be dangerous ,He is Graham Coates. Mr. Coates works in an office in Brighton, England.
On Saturday, May 24, 1986, he went to the office to do some work. When he got on the elevator (电梯), it stopped between floors. Mr. Coates could not get out of the elevator. He started to shout , but no one heard him. Then Mr. Coates remembered that it was a holiday in England. No one was going to come to work until Tuesday!
There was nothing for Mr. Coates to do He had to wait until one of his coworkers came to work and found him. With nothing to eat or drink, Mr. Coates ended up sleeping for most of the time.
Early on Tuesday morning, the vice president of the company came into work and found the elevator was not working .When the elevator was opened, Mr. Coates came out cold, Weak, and tired. He had been in the elevator for 62 hours!
Now Mr. Coates says, "I only use elevators if they have telephones in them.”
(1) Why could Mr. Coates not get out of the elevator?
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(2) In the elevator, there was no ________.
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(3) What did Mr. Coates do in the elevator?
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(4) How long was he in the elevator?
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(5) Who helped him get out of the elevator?
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