A. Observe the World around Us
B. Keep a Science Journal
C. Discuss to Learn Science
D. Learning Science in School is not Enough
E. Introduce Kitchen Science
F. Ways to Explore Science |
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| 阅读理解。 | A car that runs on coffee is unveiled (shown to the public for the first time) today but at between 25
and 50 times the cost of running a car on petrol, the invention won"t please any motor industry accountants.
Nicknamed the Car-puccino, it has been created using a 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco bought for ￡400
and it was chosen because it looked like the time-traveling DeLorean in the movie Back To The Future. The
car will be driven the 210 miles between Manchester and London powered only by roasted coffee granules
(颗粒). It has been built by a team from the BBCI science programme Bang Goes The Theory and will go
on display at the Big Bang science fair in Manchester to show how fuels other than traditional petrol can
power vehicles.
The team calculates the Carpuccino will do three miles per kilo of ground coffee (咖啡粉)-about 56 cups
of espressos (浓咖啡) per mile. The journey will use about 70 kilos of ground coffee which, at supermarket
prices of between ￡13 and ￡26 a kilo depending on brand and quality, will cost between ￡910 and ￡l,820,
or between 25 and 50 times the ￡36 cost of petrol for the journey. In total, the trip will cost 11,760 espressos,
and the team will have to take 6coffee breaks" roughly every 30 to 45 miles to pour in more granules. They
will also have to stop about every 60 miles to clean out the "coffee filters" to rid them of the soot and tar which
is also generated by the process. So despite a top speed of 60 mph, the many stops mean the going will be
slow, with the journey taking around ten hours.
Sadly, the inventors will still have to pay duty on their coffee fuel-even though tax collectors at Her
Majesty"s Revenue and Custom haven"t yet worked out how much.
Nick Watson, producer of Bang Goes The Theory, said, "Coffee, like wood or coal, has some carbon
content so you can use it as a fuel. The coffee needs to be very dry and in granules to allow the air to move
through the pile of coffee as it burns. The brand doesn"t matter." He said the same technology could be used
to power a car on other unusual fuels, such as woodchips or nut shells, construction or agricultural waste. | | 1. Which is the right way to choose the coffee used as fuels to run the Car-puccino? | | [ ] | A. It should be very dry.
B. The stronger, the better.
C. The smaller the granules are, the better.
D. It should be of a certain brand. | | 2. What can be inferred from the passage? | | [ ] | A. All kinds of materials can be used as fuels.
B. The Car-puccino will be put into the market soon.
C. Nick Watson is the designer of the Car-puccino.
D. Much remains to be improved for the Car-puccino. | | 3. The Car-puccino has its disadvantages EXCEPT that _____. | | [ ] | A. it makes a lot of noise
B. it runs at a very high cost
C. it has to stop to be refueled very often
D. it"s not good enough for long-distance journey | | 4. How much ground coffee will be used to cover a distance of 126 miles in this car? | | [ ] | A. About 70 kilos.
B. About 42 kilos.
C. About 32 kilos.
D. About 30 kilos. | | 阅读理解。 | Q:
I"d like to know about fluency. What can I do to feel better when I"m talking to other people? Do you have
some ways to learn it faster? Please help me!
-Roberto in Brazil
A:
Roberto wants to know how to become more fluent in English, and this is something you want to be able
to do "fast".
First, if you get to meet English speakers much, the important rule is to listen not just to native speakers of
English, but also to very good users of English. If you don"t, then listen to the radio, TV or films in English.
The next step is to notice what it is that speakers of English do, which makes them sound fluent. The first
trick (诀窍) is to probably have confidence. Some people think they might make mistakes. Don"t worry about
that. Your listeners will usually try hard to understand you-a few grammar mistakes aren"t going to worry them.
What you do need to worry about is pronunciation, especially stress (重音). When you learn a new word
or expression, learn it with its stress. Notice how a native speaker says it or look it up in a dictionary.
Another good thing that speakers of English do is to have a few tricks up their sleeves (袖子) for when they
need to give themselves thinking time. Sometimes they use "filler sounds" like er,um and so on.
It is also useful to know how to bring other speakers into your conversation so that you keep them intereste
d-and this is often done by asking questions like "What do you think?" "How do you feel about this?" and so on.
So, to become a fluent speaker, you"ll need to put into practice all these kinds of things. And there"s the key:
practise, practise, practise.
-Susan Fern | | 1. Susan first encourage s English learners to _____. | | [ ] | A. meet English speakers
B. listen to very good speakers
C. talk to English speakers
D. buy a radio or a TV set | | 2. When mentioning pronunciation,Susan pays special attention to _____. | | [ ] | A. stress
B. expressions
C. dictionaries
D. words | | 3. What do the underlined words "to have a few tricks up their sleeves" probably mean? | | [ ] | A. To wear a lot of clothes.
B. To have a secret plan or idea.
C. To hide some tricks into their sleeves.
D. To have sleeves covering their whole arms. | | 完形填空。 | Do you know 1 languages there are in the world? There are about l,500, but many of them aren"t very
2 . English is one of the most important languages because many people 3 it, not only in England and
America, 4 in other countries of world. About 375,000,000 people speak it 5 their own language, and
another 375,000,000 use it as 6 language. It is 7 to say how many people are learning it. 8 boys and
girls in schools are trying to do so.
Many English children study French. French is also a very important language. 9 children study German,
Russian, Japanese and Chinese.
What is the best 10 to learn a language? We know that we alllearnt 11 language well when we were 12 .
If we learn a second language in the 13 way, it won"t seem so difficult. What does a small child do? It 14
what people say, and it tries to guess what it hears. When it wants something, it has to 15 it. It is using the
language, 16 in it and talking in it all the time. If people use a second language 17 , they will learn it 18 .
In school, you learn to read, to write, to hear and to speak. It is best to learn all new words through the 19 .
You can read them, spell them and 20 them later. | ( )1. A. how many
( )2. A. useful
( )3. A. like
( )4. A. but
( )5. A. like
( )6. A. foreign
( )7. A. easy
( )8. A. Millions of
( )9. A. Some
( )10. A. time
( )11. A. a foreign
( )12. A. born
( )13. A. same
( )14. A. does
( )15. A. ask
( )16. A. speaking
( )17. A. some time
( )18. A. quickly
( )19. A. mouth
( )20. A. listen to | B. what number
B. necessary
B. use
B. and
B. with
B. a second
B. again
B. Million of
B. Other
B. way
B. our mothers"
B. children
B. different
B. says
B. want
B. writing
B. sometimes
B. soon
B. hands
B. use | C. a lot of
C. important
C. learn
C. also
C. for
C. the second
C. difficult
C. Millions
C. All
C. thing
C. other"s
C. grown
C. useful
C. listens to
C. get
C. thinking
C. all the time
C. freely
C. ears
C. love | D. so many
D. good
D. speak
D. so
D. as
D. a special
D. best
D. Several million of
D. Few
D. place
D. our own
D. boys
D. good
D. follows
D. ask for
D. doing
D. for the time
D. hardly
D. mind
D. write | | 阅读理解。 | UK schoolchildren score lower than their equals (同龄人) in nine other countries in world knowledge,
according to the British Council. In a survey measuring the international viewpoint of young people around
the world, British pupils scored slightly lower than those in the US and much lower than those in other
European countries.
The survey asked 11 to 16-year-olds with household Intemet access in ten countries some questions to
learn their attitudes towards language learning and international affairs. Results were scored on an index of
0 to 7. Nigeria came top of the table with 5.15, followed by India and Brazil. Within the UK, English
schootchildren (2.17) scored lowest compared with their counterparts in Scotland (2.35) ,Wales (2.43) and
Northern Ireland (2.26).
British Council chief manager, Martin Davidson, said, "Our schoolchildren cannot afford to fall behind
the rest of the world. For the UK to compete in a global economy, it is vital that we encourage our young
people to have an interest in and engagement with the world around them." According to the research, UK
schoolchildren (32%) are the least likely to go out of their way to understand current events in the world.
More than twice as many Brazilian (69%) and German children (61%) said they would do so, compared
with a third of Scottish children.
When asked whether they saw themselves as citizens of the world or of their own country, most of the
school children saw themselves first as world citizens. But children in the UK, US and Czech Republic saw
themselves more as citizens of their own country.
Under three-quarters (70%) of UK, school children felt that it was important to speak a foreign language
for their future work (65% in Scotland). This compared with 100% of school children in Saudi Arabia, 97%
in Brazil and India, 85% in China and 73% in America. The foreign language that the UK school children felt
was most important to learn was French (40% of those naming a foreign language), followed by Spanish
(31%), German ( 8% ) and then Chinese (60%, rising to 9% in Scotland). | | 1. What does the underlined word "counterparts" in Paragraph 2 most probably mean? | | [ ] | A. Equals.
B. Students.
C. Parents.
D. Enemies. | | 2. What is the most important foreign language in the opinion of UK schoolchildren? | | [ ] | A. German.
B. Chinese.
C. French.
D. Spanish. | | 3. What is the British Council chief manager"s attitude towards the survey results? | | [ ] | A. Enthusiastic.
B. Worried.
C. Excited.
D. Positive. | | 4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? | | [ ] | A. French: the most popular language.
B. Global awareness: an important matter.
C. British children lack global awareness.
D. A survey about British schoolchildren. | | 阅读表达。 | A teacher is a person who plays the most important role in the develoment of human beings. The future
of any student depends on the qualities (品质) and dedication (贡献) of a teacher. It is a famous saying that
"A teacher is like a light-house which shows the right path to people in darkess". So to be a teacher is in fact
a great responsibility and it"s not easy.
A good teacher, first of all, must like working with people. He or she must have a great enthusiasm for
the subject being taught-even if you aren"t a great expert in a special subject, you can still teach it well if you
enjoy teaching knowledge and are good at communicating with other people.
As far as nature is involved, the one quality a good teacher must have is patience. You must never be angry
with students because they don"t understand something or _____. You must have a sense of humor and create
an atmosphere where everyone knows they can ask questions, try out new ideas and maybe make mistakes.
Finally, a good teacher must be in charge of the class. It"s very good if the students decide some aspects of
how learning takes place, what they learn etc., but the classroom is a much happier and more interesting place
if everyone knows that the teacher is a professional (专业人才), who knows what he is doing and can be
trusted (信赖) to run the lesson effectively. It"s the teacher"s responsibility to keep the class going. So a good
teacher should be good at dealing with all kinds of situations in class. | 1. What is the best title for the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
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2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
A teacher must be patient with his students, which is the first imprtant quality of a good teacher.
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3. Please fill in the blank in the third paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please
answer within 10 words.)
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4. Accoding to the passage,what qualities should a good teacher have? (Please answer within 30 words.)
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese.
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