阅读理解。 There are two methods by which hydrogen (氢) can be used to power cars.
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| 阅读理解。 |
There are two methods by which hydrogen (氢) can be used to power cars. The first way is
to use hydrogen to drive the engine, in much the same way as many cars use gas. The second
method is to use the reaction of hydrogen with oxygen in a battery, making the car a kind of
electric one.
The dream of producing hydrogen in the car while driving along by electrolyzing (电解)water
is a long way off, so we are still at the period of batteries and filling the tank with hydrogen gas.
This is the difficulty for potential car users and producers. There are only sixteen hydrogen filling
stations in Los Angeles and none in 99% of other cities worldwide.
Indeed, some of the big name automobile producers have pulled out of the race to put the first
practical hydrogen car on the streets. Ford and GM have announced that they are pulling out in
America and so has Renault in France.
However, the Japanese companies are pressing on. In fact, Honda introduced its first hydrogen
fuel cell car in 1999. They are now producing second generation hydrogen car known as the
FCX Clarity. Guess where they are available for sale? In only one city because of its filling stations.
Honda thinks that they could go into full-scale production of the FCX Clarity by 2020 if the
world is prepared for them by then.
Then there are hydrogen-powered buses in several European cities including Amsterdam,
Barcelona, Hamburg, London, Luxembourg and Madrid. Lotus, the makers of London taxis,
have announced that they propose to manufacture hydrogen-powered taxis in time for the London
Olympics.
So, the hydrogen vehicle is out there and the numbers will be growing fairly soon. The buses
go back to their bus station, where an electrolyzing machine changes water into fuel for them to
fill up on and the same will be the case for many of London"s taxis.
Unfortunately, getting fuel is not the only difficulty for the average motorist, a number of these
vehicles cost about $300,000 each. |
| 1.According to the text, hydrogen-powered buses _____. |
A. can easily be filled up with gas.
B. are likely to sell well in the future.
C. are mainly used in the United States
D. won"t be used in the London Olympics |
| 2. What does the underlined word "them" in paragraph 5 refer to?_____. |
A. Japanese companies
B. Hydrogen buses
C. The FCX Clarity
D. Filling stations |
| 3. Where are hydrogen cars currently available for sale?_____. |
A. In Barcelona
B. In Hamburg
C. In London
D. In Los Angeles |
| 4. We can learn from the text that ______. |
A. there are sixty hydrogen filling stations all over the world
B. hydrogen vehicles fueled by water will be very expensive
C. Honda will mass-produce the FCX Clarity by 2012
D. Honda produced its first hydrogen car in 1989 |
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| 阅读表达 |
Kids won"t eat their vegetables? Name them again, scientists say. In a new study, 186 four-year-old
children were given regular carrots and, on other lunch days, they were given the same vegetables which
were renamed X-ray Vision Carrots.
The study suggests kids like vegetables with cool names better and the influence of these names might
continue to exist. Children continued to eat about 50 percent more carrots even on the days when they
were no longer called cool names.
The research, which was funded (资助) by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was put up at the
yearly meeting of the School Nutrition Association in Washington DC.
"Cool names can make for cool foods," says Brian Wansink of Cornell University. "Whether it is "
power peas" or "dinosaur broccoli trees," giving the food a fun name gets kids to think that it will be more
fun to eat. And it seems to keep working-even on the next day," Wansink said.
Similar results have been found with adults. A restaurant study showed that when the Seafood Filet was changed to Succulent Italian Seafood Filet, sales increased by 28 percent and the taste rating (评级)
increased by 12 percent. "The same food, but different expectations, and different experience," said
Wansink, the author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think.
The study was done in pre-schools (幼儿园), but the researchers believe the same tricks can work
with children .
"I"ve been using this with my kids at home," said a researcher Collin Payne. "Whatever inspires their
imagination seems to inspire their appetite (胃口)." |
1.What do the scientists say about kids who don"t like vegetables according to Paragraph 1? (Please
answer within 8 words.)
_________________________________________ |
2. Why can cool names make for cool foods? (Please answer within 20 words.)
_________________________________________ |
3.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 6 with proper words. (Please answer within 5 words.)
__________________________________________ |
4.Which sentence in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?
It appears that anything that can fire children"s imagination can increase their appetite.
__________________________________________ |
5. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
__________________________________________ |
Researchers found that walking around with a forced smile and fake (假的) happiness simply leads to
people feeling unhappier. So, putting a brave face on your sadness could be harmful. The research also
found that women suffered more than men when pretending to be happy.
Dr. Brent Scott, who led the study, said employers should take note because forcing workers to smile when dealing with the public can result in bad outcomes. He said, "Smiling for the sake of smiling can lead
to emotional tiredness, and that"s bad for the organization." He also said the research showed
customer-service workers who had "fake smiles" throughout the day fell into a bad mood and didn"t want
to work, so their productivity dropped.
The study is one of the first of its kind to examine emotional expressions over a period of time and
compare the different effects on men and women.
Dr. Scott"s team examined the effects of "surface acting", or fake smiling, compared to "deep acting",
or making people smile by thinking of pleasant memories. Dr. Scott said, "Women were harmed more
by surface acting, meaning their moods worsened even more than men"s. However, they were helped
more by deep acting, which means their moods improved more by thinking of pleasant memories. "
According to Dr. Scott, women tend to suffer more when pretending to be happy because they are
expected to be more emotionally expressive than men. Therefore, forcing a smile while feeling down is
more likely to go against their normal behavior and cause more harmful feelings.
Although deep acting can improve moods a little in the short term, Dr. Scott says, it"s not a long-term
solution to feeling unhappy. "There have been some suggestions that if you do this over a long period you
start to feel unreal. You"re trying to develop positive emotions, but at the end of the day you may not feel
like yourself any more." |
| 1. According to the passage, Dr. Scott"s study ______. |
A. is supported by some big employers in the USA
B. is meaningful as there haven"t been many similar ones
C. examined more women than men for a long time
D. aimed to make the employees more productive |
| 2. Women suffer more from fake happiness mainly because ______. |
A. they usually turn up shy in public places
B. they should be more emotionally expressive
C. they are often treated in a terrible way
D. they like thinking of pleasant memories |
| 3. It is implied in the passage that deep acting _____. |
A. doesn"t have any effect on men
B. cannot improve our moods in any case
C. harms our feelings in the long run
D. pleases people by feeling like another person |
| 4. What is the best title for the passage? |
A. Fake smiling makes people unhappy.
B. Women shouldn"t be forced to smile.
C. An important suggestion for workers.
D. Why people don"t want to work |
| 阅读理解。 |
Nowadays everybody seems to think that they know English. Many people speak it but few speak it
really well. Practice is essential in speaking English well.
Reading is one of the things that will help you to speak English better. Read whenever you can and
whatever you like! Read papers and visit Internet sites that you like in English every day. Gradually, you
will see that the number of known words is increasing and you are able to speak with more skills. Then you will have made the foundations (基础) and a good basis of English. It is not advisable to stop and get
stuck there.
Going to England or an English-speaking country is a good choice, but many people cannot afford it. If you cannot go, reading and speaking with your friends will also help you to practice your English.
However, I think that it is very good to visit some English-speaking country to see and test your
knowledge in everyday life. You will feel the everyday usage of the language in its natural environment.
There your level of English is going to improve even faster. Your ability to speak English is better. Nothing can match the excitement and happiness when a native speaker tells you that your English is very good!
Finally, in order to speak English well, you must be persistent (坚持的) and do it every day. It is like
playing the piano. Pianists play it every day and so should you. Practice, practice! Read, write and improve your language skills and you are on your way when you will be able to speak it with more and more
confidence! Let it be fun and entertaining! |
| 1. According to the text, what may make the author excited? |
A. Reading papers and visiting Internet sites.
B. Having a good basis of English.
C. Going to an English-speaking country.
D. A native speaker"s praise. |
| 2. What does the author suggest doing about reading? |
A. Trying to enlarge your vocabulary.
B. Keeping on reading when you have time.
C. Stopping when you have a good basis of English.
D. Looking up every unknown word when reading. |
| 3. In the author"s eyes, the essential way to improve your speaking skill is . |
A. practicing
B. going abroad
C. reading
D. writing |
| 4. What does speaking English have common with playing the piano? |
A. Both need much practice.
B. Both are fun and entertaining.
C. Both need great confidence.
D. Both need good teachers. |
| 5. Which of the following could be the best title of the text? |
A. How to improve your language skills
B. How to speak English well
C. Speaking English
D. Practice, practice! |
| 阅读理解。 |
English is a very interesting language. It has borrowed words from many other languages. Immigrants(移民) coming into the United States have contributed many words to the language, which have kept
their original pronunciation. "Coolie" and "kowtow" were taken from the Chinese language, "kamikaze
from the Japanese, "shampoo" from India, "blitz" from German, "amigo" and "Los Angeles" from Spanish
and so on.
Many students have studied English for years, some as many as eight. However, some students still
have difficulty in speaking fluent English. Some know many words but are unable to discern them when
native speakers use them. In our Oral English classes we will focus on speaking and listening to native
English speakers. For this reason, because we are trying to train your ears to hear English and your
mouths to speak intelligible (易理解的) English, we will have a rule that ONLY ENGLISH will be
spoken in our English classes. Anyone speaking Chinese in class will be required to pay a fine in order to
encourage the speaking and understanding of English. If teachers enter a classroom and discover that
anyone is speaking Chinese, they will require everyone in the room to pay the fine. It is everyone"s job to
enforce the English-Only rule. It is for your benefit. It is because we want to accustom (使习惯于) your
ears to hearing English.
Other subjects may be learned solely from books but the only way to learn a foreign language is to
SPEAK IT! Students are often nervous about speaking in class at first but we hope to make the classes
fun, so you will forget your nervousness and learn to speak out. Enjoy your classes. |
| 1.The first paragraph is mainly about________. |
A. the difficulty of learning English.
B. how interesting and various English is
C. different words in different languages
D. the immigrants" contributions to America |
| 2.The underlined word "discern" in Para 2 can be replaced by___________. |
A. understand
B. notice
C. hear
D. speak |
| 3. In the author"s opinion , the only way to learn a language well is to__________. |
A. listen to it on the radio
B. learn it from books
C. play games with it
D. speak it often |
| 4.The article is probably aimed at________. |
A. Japanese students
B. German students
C. Chinese students
D. Indian students |
| 阅读理解。 |
When people advise your children to"get an education", they tell you only half the truth. What they
really mean is to get just enough education to give manpower for your society.
Get a high school diploma, at least. Without that, you are occupationally dead, unless your name
happens to be George Washingon or Thomas Edison and you can successfully stop study in primary
school.
Get a college degree, if possible.With a BA, you should start to find a job. You have to put on the
brakes now. If you do go for a master"s degree, make sure it is an MBA and only from a first-class
university. Otherwise, the famous law of diminishing (报酬递减率) begins to work.
Do you know, for example, that long-distance truck drivers make more money a year than full professors? Yes, each driver was paid $28,000 in 1997 while a full professor managed to get $27,930.
A PhD is the highest degree you can get, but except in a few specialized fields such as physics or
chemistry, where the degree can quickly be turned to industrial or commercial aim, you are facing a not
very bright future. There are more PhDs unemployed in this country than in any other part of the world
by far.
If you became a PhD in English or history or political sience or languages or-in philosophy, you take
the risk of becoming over-educated for our national demands.
Thousands of PhDs ars selling shoes, driving taxis, waiting on tables and filling out applications month
after month, and then may be taking a job in some high school or college with the pay much less than a
door-keeper makes. |
| 1. According to the writer, society expects education to turn out people who will . |
A. raise their payment
B. get employed
C. become specialized in some field
D. meet the demands as a source of manpower |
| 2. Long-distance truck driver make more money a year than full professors because . |
A. the famous law of diminishing functions
B. long-distance truck drivers only get a high school diploma
C. full professors are PhDs in English or history
D. long-distance truck drivers work harder than full professors |
| 3.The underlined phrase "put on the brakes" in the 3rd paragraph means " ". |
A. stop learning for a higher degree
B. take up a master"s degree at once
C. go on studying in a first-class university
D. find an interesting job |
| 4.What can we know from the passage? |
A. The higher education you get, the more money you will earn.
B. Neither George Washington nor Edison received formal education.
C. There are more PhDs than the society demands.
D. If you are specialized in physics, you can"t get a good job easily. |
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