阅读理解。 Special Bridges Help Animals Cross the Road
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- Reported by Sheila Carrick
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.
Most people know this
joke. But recently, some people have been much more worried about how the grizzly bear(灰熊) and mountain lion can cross the road.
"Millions of animals die each year on US roads," the Federal Highway Administration
reports. In fact,only about 80 ocelots, an endangered wild cat, exist in the US today. The
main reason? Road kill.
"Ecopassages (生态通道)" may help animals cross the road without being hit by cars.
They are paths both over and under roads. "These ecopassages can be extremely useful, so
that wildlife can avoid road accidents," said Jodi Hilty of the Wildlife Protection Society.
But do animals actually use the ecopassages? The answer is yes. Paul Beier of Northern
Arizona University found foot marks left by mountain lions on an ecopassage that went under
a highway. This showed that the lions used the passage.
Builders of ecopassages try to make them look like a natural part of an area by planting
trees on and around them. Animals seem to be catching on. Animals as different as
salamanders(火蜥蜴) and grizzly bears are using the bridges and underpasses.
The next time you visit a park or drive through an area with a lot of wildlife, look around.
You might see an animal overpass!
B. the driving conditions have improved greatly
C. the measure for projecting wildlife fails to work
D. an increasing number of animals are killed in road accidents
B. a fence built for the safety of the area
C. a bridge for animals to get over
a river D. a path for animals to cross the road
B. animals begin to learn to use ecopassages
C. animals are crossing the road in groups
D. animals are increasing in number
B. wild animals may jam the road
C. they may see wild animals in the park
D. they may see wild animals on ecopassages
答案
举一反三
is to go on the market to help the growing ranks of elderly Japanese with no one to look after
them.
The "Wakamaru" robot can walk around a house 24 hours a day,warning family,hospitals
and security firms if it perceives(notices)a problem.It will,for example,call relatives if the ow
nerfails to get out of the bath.
Cameras implanted in the "eye-brows" of the robot enable it to "see" as it walks around an
apartment.The images can be sent to the latest cell phones,which display the pictures.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries which developed Wakamaru plans to start selling the meter-high
robots for about $15 000.
Wakamaru,which speaks with either the voice of a boy or girl,is also designed to provide
companionship,greeting its "papa" when he comes home.
It is the first household robot able to hold simple conversations,based on a vocabulary of
around 10 000 words.It cannot only speak but can understand answers and react accordingly.
It will ask "Are you all right?" if its owner does not move for some time.If the answer is no,
or there is no answer,it will telephone preset numbers,transmitting images and functioning as a
speakerphone.
Wakamaru will inform a security firm if there is a loud bang or if an unknown person enters
the house while the owner is out or asleep.It can recognize up to 10 faces . But like most robots
it cannot climb stairs.
It can be set to remind forgetful people when it is time to take medicine,eat and sleep.
Mitsubishi adapted Wakamaru from robots which already makes to go around nuclear power
facilities(设施).The idea to use the technology in the home came from a company employee.
The project chief said:"Looking at the ageing of society and the falling birth rate we decide that
this could work as a business.We want to offer Wakamaru as a product that helps society.
The technology has gained nation-wide publicity in Japan among increasing concern over how
to look after the ever-growing number of old people.The life expectancy of Japanese women has
shot up to almost 85,the highest in the world.
At the same time,extended families are being replaced by nuclear families.This has left many
Japanese anxious about their elderly parents,whom they rarely see because of their long hours at
the office.
B.It cannot speak but can understand answers.
C.It can go up and down the stairs easily.
D.It can recognize as many as 10 faces.
B.to solve the ageing problems
C.to tell people how to use the robot
D.to show the rapid development of technology
B.The robot is likely to have a promising market.
C.The robot has given the Japanese a chance to live longer.
D.The nuclear families have left many elderly Japanese anxious.
B.Japanese Robot and the Ageing Society
C.Vast Market of the New Robot
D.Japanese-built Robot to Help the Old
阅读理解
2011 Top Education News
| "Tiger Mother" became well known both in the US and China after the publication of the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua, a professor of Yale University and a Chinese immigrant mother. In the book, Chua describes how she educates her two daughters in a strict "typical Chinese" way. | The South University of Science and Technology of China (SUSTC), became "China"s first independent university"-the only university to recruit students through its independent exam rather than the National College Entrance Exam adopted by almost all public universities in China. |
| Wuhan schoolboy Huang Yibo, 13, known as the deputy chief of all Wuhan"s young pioneers, became an overnight sensation after blogging about watching prime time news on China"s Central Television since he was two years old and reading People"s Daily since the age of seven because his father asked him to do so. | The First Experimental Elementary School of Weiyang district in Xi"an, Shaanxi province, hit the headlines for requiring students with a poor performance to wear a green scarf, distinguishing them from the good performance of the red scarf, a symbol for the Young Pioneer organization. |
| Dong Fan, a professor from Beijing Normal University, the director of the university’s real estate research center, refused to see any of his students who do not possess 40 million yuan by the time they are 40. Dong said people who had received high-level education should be ashamed if they do not live a wealthy life. | The No 4 classroom building on the campus of Tsinghua University, one of China"s elite colleges, took on the name of a popular clothing company, the Hong Kong-based Jeanswest Clothing in May. A golden-colored plate bearing the name of the company was affixed on to the wall of the teaching building. |
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| BEIJING-Pharmacologist Tu Youyou has become the first scientist on the mainland to win America"s respected Lasker Award for her discovery of a new approach to malaria (疟疾) treatment. The 81yearold was presented with the medical prize by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation on September 23, 2011 in New York. Tu, a scientist at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing, was praised by the jury (评判委员会) for her "drug therapy (治疗) for malaria that has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world," according to a statement on the foundation"s website. In early 1969, Tu was appointed head of a government project that aimed to eradicate(消灭) malaria, and it was then that she began applying modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine to find drug therapy for malaria. After detecting (检测) 380 extracts (提取物) made from 2,000 candidate recipes, Tu and her colleagues obtained a pure substance called "Qinghaosu", which became known as artemisinin in 1972. An artemisininbased drug combination is now the standard regimen (养生法) for malaria, and the World Health Organization lists artemisinin and related agents in its catalog of "Essential Medicines", said a statement from the foundation. The Lasker Awards are given annually to people who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of human diseases since 1945. Lasker Awards are known as "America"s Nobels" for their knack (熟练技术) of gaining future recognition by the Nobel committee. In the last two decades, 28 Lasker laureates (得奖者) have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize, and 80 since 1945. | |
| 1. Which of the following statements about Tu Youyou is FALSE? | |
| A. She is the first scientist on the mainland to win America"s respected Lasker Award. B. She is a scientist at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing. C. She is the first scientist in the world to win America"s respected Lasker Award. D. She began applying modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine to find drug therapy for malaria in 1969. | |
| 2. Lasker Award is awarded by ________. | |
| A. New York Foundation B. the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation C. Chinese Medical Sciences D. Albert and Mary | |
| 3. What"s the influence about Tu Youyou"s "drug therapy for malaria"? | |
| A. It has surprised the people in the world. B. It has reduced malaria. C. It applied modern techniques with Chinese traditional medicine. D. It has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world. | |
| 4. What can we learn from the last paragraph? | |
| A. Lasker laureates can not receive the Nobel Prize at the same time. B. Lasker laureates can receive the Nobel Prize at the same time. C. Lasker Award is the Nobel Prize. D. Lasker Awards are known as "America"s Nobels"． | |
| 5. What"s the main idea of the passage? | |
| A. Tu Youyou won Lasker Award for malarial drug discovery. B. An American won Lasker Award for malarial drug discovery. C. Americans founded the Lasker Foundation. D. Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin. | |
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| The World Trade Center was built from 1969 to 1973 at a cost of ＄750 million. The two 110-story towers had been the tallest buildings until the Sears Tower in Chicago was completed in 1974 at 1450. The World Trade Center was hit by two planes and it fell in a short time later on September 11 th, 2001. America and United airlines both said two of their planes had been hijacked(劫持)and crashed. America said its planes were carrying a total of 156 people. One was a Boston-Los Angeles. An FBI man said the former, a Boeing 767, hit one of the Trade Center towers; the later, a Boeing 757, hit the pentagon(五角大楼). Two United airliners with a total of 110 aboard also crashed -a Boeing 757 outside Pittsburgh, the other, a Boeing 767, into the Trade Center. The crash in Pennsylvania was a New York-San Francisco fight. It rushed into the ground in a field about 85 miles from Pittsburgh. US officials said it was possible the plane had been on a course for the presidential house at Camp David. The police received a phone call at 9:58 am. It came from a man who said he was a passenger locked in the bathroom of United Flight 93. " We are being hijacked. We are being hijacked! It is going down quickly. I can see some white smoke coming from the front and hear some terrible noise. What"s happening? My God!" | |
| 1 .Which statement is true according to the passage?______ | |
| A. The World Trade Center has been the highest building since 1973. B. The World Trade Center was hit by three planes. C. The Sears Tower in Chicago is taller than the World Trade Center. D. The World Trade Center was 1450 feet high. | |
| 2. What kind of planes hit the World Trade Center?_____ | |
| A. A Boeing 757 and a Boeing 767. B. Two planes of Boeing 757. C. Two planes of Boeing 767. D. Tow planes from New York. | |
| 3. From the passage we can know another hitting target which the hijackers wanted but failed to hit is ________. | |
| A. San Franciso B. the Pentagon C. Pittsburgh D. Camp David | |
| 4. What can we infer from the phone call?______ | |
| A. The man was in the bathroom. B. The plane was in great danger. C. A fire broke out the plane D. The man who made the phone call was a pilot. | |
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| A nine-year-old boy smashed a world record by hanging 16 spoons on his face, media reported Saturday. Joe Allison, from Totnes, Devon, beat the previous(先前的) record of 15 spoons set by a 16-year-old in the United States in May 2004. He could balance 16 spoons on his face ---- five from his forehead, one from his nose, two from his chin, three from each cheek and one from each ear. But he admitted he didn"t know what was behind his amazing talent. "They just stick on," he said. "It"s something I can do easily and I know I"ll make 17 one day, but I"ll probably have to wait until I grow a bit so there"s some more space on my forehead," said the schoolboy. Joe discovered his talent two years ago when his cousin challenged him to balance a spoon on his nose. His mother Fenella, 42, a swimming teacher, said, "I"m really, really proud of him because he can do something that no one else in the world can do." The little boy is to appear on the talent TV show ----Britain"s Got Talent, where he will hang the spoons from his face and do a little dance. Officials are now double-checking footage(影像资料) of Joe"s record attempt before entering him into the Guinness Book of World Records. | |
| 1. The underlined word "smashed" in the first paragraph means "________". | |
| A. kept B. broke C. tried D. washed | |
| 2. How many spoons could Joe Allison balance on his ears?______. | |
| A. One B. Two C. Three D. Five | |
| 3. How did Joe"s mother feel when she knew about her son"s amazing talent?______. | |
| A. Unbelievable B. Strange C. Not interested D. Proud | |
| 4. We can learn from the passage that ________. | |
| A. Joe Allison is a 16-year-old boy. B. Joe can hang 17 spoons on his face. C. Joe"s mot  her teaches people to swim.D. Joe has entered the Guinness Book of World Records. |