“Cool” is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express (表示) a t

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“Cool” is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used to express (表示) a temperature that is a little bit cold. As the world has changed, the word has had many different meanings. “Cool” can be used to express feelings of interest in almost everything.
When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say. “It’s cool.” You may think “He’s so cool,”when you see your favorite football player.
We all maximize(扩大)the meaning of “cool”. You can use it instead of many words, such as “new” or “surprising”. Here’s an interesting story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her student to write about the waterfall(瀑布) they had visited. On the student’s paper was just the one sentence, “It’s so cool.”Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt.
But the story also shows a scarcity(缺乏)of words. Without “cool”, some people have no words to show the same meaning. So it is quite important to keep some credibility(可信性).Can you think of many other words that make your life as colorful as the word “cool”? I can. And I think they are also very cool.
小题1:In the passage, the word “express” means “_______”.

A．see

B．show

C．know

D．feel

小题2:If you are ________ something, you may say,“It’s cool.”

A．interested in	B．angry about
C．worried about	D．unhappy with

小题3:The writer takes an example to show he is ________ the way the word is used.

A．pleased with	B．strange to
C．worried about	D．unhappy with

小题4:In the passage, the writer suggests(暗示)that the word “cool”___________.

A．can be used instead of many words

B．usually means something interesting

C．can make your life colorful

D．may not be as cool as it seems

答案

小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:A
小题4:D

解析

试题分析：这篇短文主要描述了cool这个单词在交际中的重要作用，同时作者也对这个单词表达的准确性表示出了自己的担心。
小题1:词义辨析题。See看见；show展示，显现；know知道；feel感觉。根据express （表达）汉语提示，可知选B。
小题2:细节理解题。根据第二段“Cool”can be used to express feelings of interest in almost anything．When you see a famous car in the street，maybe you will say，“It’s cool．描述，可知选A。
小题3:细节理解题。根据短文第四段的描述，可以看出作者对这个单词用法的担心，故选A。
小题4:细节理解题。根据最后一段So it is quite important to keep some credibility（可信性）．及下文描述，可知cool这个单词在表示含义的时候，具有一定的模糊性，故选D，可能不像它看起来那么好。

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Imagine the situation. You are driving a car along a desert or on a mountain. You have no idea you are. You passed the last house two hours ago. Then your breaks down. It is night and it is cold. You have no mobile phone. What do you do? Well, next time take a with you. This invention may be able to help you. It is a device(装置) which uses satellites to find the user’s position(位置). It can find your position to within 20 metres. A GPS cannot start your car, but at least you will where you are.
GPS, which means Global Positioning System, is a small receiver. It looks like a mobile phone. You can hold it in your hand, or put in your pocket. It is sometimes put into a watch or a . We also find GPS devices in cars, planes, or boats. Some of these devices have electronic , so you know where you are. For example, in a city they can tell you the name of the .

There are parts to the Global Positioning System. The first part is the . You can either hold it in your hand have it fixed into your car, plane, etc. The second part is a group of satellites orbiting the Earth. The receiver contacts at least four of the satellites and calculates(计算) its position. The third part of the system is a network of ground stations. They are all over the world. They the satellites and make sure they are working well.
Some people think that in the future the GPS will be as as the mobile. They are becoming and more and more accurate(精确的). There are also new uses for the GPS. Perhaps they will become like . Everyone will have one and you will never be lost again.

小题1:

A．where

B．what

C．who

D．how

小题2:

A．ship

B．car

C．train

D．plane

小题3:

A．watch

B．ring

C．clock

D．GPS

小题4:

A．advise

B．know

C．represent

D．speak

小题5:

A．radio

B．TV

C．robot

D．machine

小题6:

A．room

B．office

C．road

D．mobile phone

小题7:

A．parts

B．maps

C．video

D．music

小题8:

A．studio

B．teenager

C．bus

D．street

小题9:

A．five

B．four

C．three

D．two

小题10:

A．sender

B．receiver

C．Internet

D．system

小题11:

A．and

B．then

C．but

D．or

小题12:

A．control

B．achieve

C．allow

D．imagine

小题13:

A．expensive

B．special

C．new

D．common

小题14:

A．cheaper

B．easier

C．more expensive

D．bigger

小题15:

A．computers

B．robots

C．satellites

D．watches

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There is good news for the children in the      . We may still remember the girl       big eyes. Her big eyes       us her dream: I wish to go to school. In China, there are still       girls and boys like her. They want to go to school,        their families are too poor. If the family has two or three children, it is harder for them to       the education for all the children. So the parents often ask girls       at home, and boys to go to school.
Now they       worry about the money. From 2006 on, children could go to school for free in some poor places. They don’t have to pay for books and other things. Some of them can even get money from the government to make their life       . Soon all the children in the countryside can go to school for free. All families are very happy with the news. It is       great. China that has changed for the better.
小题1:A. cities             B. countryside        C. farm
小题2:A. with              B. on                  C. in
小题3:A. says              B. tells                  C. talks
小题4:A. a lot            B. much                C. a lot of
小题5:A. but           B. and                C. or
小题6:A. take             B. afford                 C. spend
小题7:A. stay          B. staying            C. to stay
小题8:A. mustn’t          B. needn’t            C. can’t
小题9:A. better         B. worse                  C. longer
小题10:A. really       B. never                   C. hardly

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Project Hope is a social service program to help poor students. It started on October 30^th, 1989. It aims to bring schools into poor areas of China, and to help poor families afford an education for their children.
In the past sixteen years, Project Hope has raised about 3 billion yuan from people at home and abroad. It has paid for the education of 2.5 million poor students and sent 2.3 million students to high schools. Minmin comes from a poor family. She has received help from Project Hope. Without the help of project Hope, she couldn’t go on her studies. Project Hope changes her life. She has been a college student for two years. With the money, Project Hope has built thousands of schools and libraries and trained 2300 teachers. But 40 million children from poor families still need help, so Project Hope still has a lot of work to do.
小题1: Project Hope is a social service program to _______________.
A. help homeless people    B. help poor students       C. help disable children
小题2:Project Hope started ___________.
A. in 1998             B. 14 years ago            C. in the past sixteen years
小题3: Minmin has been a college student with the help of ___________.
A. Project Hope            B. her classmates          C. her teachers
小题4:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Project Hope has raised money to build ring roads.
B. Project Hope has raised money from Home and abroad.
C. Project Hope has trained 2.5 million teachers.
小题5:The writer wrote this article to ______________.
A. tell us what Project Hope does
B. tell us how poor China is
C. raise money

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Everyone likes living in a clean and comfortable environment. If the environment is bad, it will affect our body, and make us not feel well. Sometimes we may be terribly ill. Why? It’s germs（细菌）that make us ill. There are germs everywhere, They are very small and you can’t find them with your own eyes, but you can see them with a microscope（显微镜）They are very small and there may be hundreds of them on a very small thing, Germs can always be found in dirty water. When we look at the dirty water under the microscope, we shall see them in it. Germs can also be found in the air and dust（灰尘）. If you cut your finger, some of the dust from the floor may go into it, and you will have much pain in it. Sometimes the germs will go into all of your body, and you will have pain everywhere.
So environment is very important to us. To keep us healthy, we should try our best to make our environment become cleaner and tidier. It needs us to act together.
小题1:Germs are the things that________.
A. you can’t see with your eyes
B. you can see everywhere
C. are very big
小题2: Germs can be found_________.
A. on the small thing      B. everywhere               C. only in dirty water
小题3:You feel ____________ if germs go into the finger that is cut.
A. nothing             B. painful                 C. relaxed
小题4:The underlined word “affect” means __________ in Chinese.
A. 强壮                B. 打动                    C. 侵害
小题5:From the passage we know that________.
A. the environment is becoming worse
B. if the environment is better, germs will be more
C. germs may make us ill

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China has decided to take actions to stop the use of free plastic bags. Supermarkets and shops in China aren’t allowed to offer free plastic bags.
Every year, people use too many plastic bags and fail to deal with them in a right way. While we offer quick and useful service to customers, the plastic bags cause serious pollution as well. For example, people will throw away plastic bags after they use them. The waste plastic bags may fly with the wind and make the environment ugly. Worse still, animals may eat them by mistake and die. Besides, It’s difficult to find new land to put the waste plastic bags in, so plastic bags are burned. The burning plastic bags give out harmful gas.
So the government encourages people to go back to carry cloth bags and use baskets for their shopping things.
根据短文内容按要求完成下列各题。
小题1: What aren’t supermarkets and shops allowed to offer?（根据短文内容回答问题）

小题2:Do people deal with the waste plastic bags properly? （根据短文内容回答问题）

小题3:What kind of pollution do the burning plastic bags cause? （根据短文内容回答问题）

小题4:从短文中找出与下面句子划线部分意思最相近的短语。
The plastic bags cause serious pollution, too.
小题5:In the passage, the underlined word “them” refers (指) to          .

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