Are you often very tired and stressed out because of the long trip? Maybe you can control it at the moment. A company in America has found the ideal product to help travelers (方行者) reduce the uncomfortable feelings during the long trip. Please look at the new product called the Ostrich Pillow (鸵鸟枕) .
The Ostrich Pillow is a kind of new product which is very easy and light for travelers to carry. It can help travelers sleep anytime and anywhere,including in airport (飞机场) halls and on planes.
According to its inventors—the distinctive-looking pillow has a hole in which to put your head,and a mouth hole designed to allow its wearer to breathe easily. It also has two side holes where you can store your hands—if napping at a table in a library,for example. And it isn’t heavy at all,so the travelers can carry it everywhere during the long trip.
The Ostrich Pillow has been described on the technology web site CNET as like “ a giant garden squash gone soft” . The inventors sayWe have tried it in many places like at the airports,on the trains,on the airplanes,in the libraries,at the office,on a sofa and even on the floor and in fact it's really wonderful. ”
The Ostrich Pillow will go into production if its fundraising aims are met. The company is now trying to collect $ 70,000 for creative business ideas. And the number so far is slightly more than $35,000 with 23 days remaining.
根据文章内容，完成下面表格。
The information of the new product | |
Where | A company 1. has found a new product. |
Name | It’s 2. . |
Use | It can help travelers 3. at any time and any places. |
What | It also has 4. where you can store your hands. |
How much | The company is now trying to collect 5. for creative business ideas. |
当你因为倒时差和长途飞行困倦不已时，美国一家公司 最新发明的“鸵鸟枕”成为帮助长途旅行者的理想产品。鸵鸟枕是一款新式便携枕头，它将使人们不管在何时何地都能 呼呼大睡。
1. in America 根据第一段的第三句话“ A company in America has found the ideal product to help travelers reduce the uncomfortable feelings during the long trip. ” 可知，这项 新产品是美国的一家公司发明的。
2. the Ostrich Pillow 根据第二段的首句 “The Ostrich Pillow is a kind of new product which is easy and light for travelers to carry.可知，这项新产品的名宇叫蛇鸟枕”。
3. sleep 根据第二段的最后一句话“It can help travelers sleep anytime and anywhere,including in airport halls and on planes. ”可知，蛇鸟枕能够帮助旅行者无论在任何地 方、在任何时间都能大睡。
4. two side holes 根据第三段中的“It also has two side holes where you can store your hands... ” 可知，轮鸟枕有两个侧孔，你可以把手放进里面。
5. $70.000 根据最后一段的句子“The company is now trying to collect $ 70.000 for creative business ideas. ” 可 知，这家公司目前正尝试为创意商机募资筹款7万美元。
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Winter is coming. It's time for the arctic ground squirrel (北极松鼠) to get her underground home ready. Winter is long and cold in northern Canada. Plants can't grow,so there are no leaves or grass for animals to eat. They must find other ways to live. The arctic ground squirrel “sleeps” the winter away.
① For months the ground squirrel has been eating lots of seeds,mushrooms,and berries. Now she is fat. The extra fat will keep her alive through the winter. At last she crawls through a tunnel (隧道) into the nest she has made. She curls up,wraps her tail around herself,and goes to “ sleep. ” Only she won’t really be sleeping. She will be hibernating.
② The ground squirrel's body is usually as warm as yours. When she hibernates,her body becomes colder than ice. But she doesn’t freeze. Her heart beats just one or two times each minute. She will take only about three breaths each minute. These changes in the ground squirrel's body let her live through the winter. When she hibernates,she doesn’t need much food.
③ The ground squirrel will not stay in hibernation all winter. Her body warms up and becomes active for a few hours once every few weeks. Over the winter,these active times use up more than half of the energy that she worked so hard to store. Why does she do this? Scientists aren’t sure. Some think arctic ground squirrels must warm up in case their bodies need to fight off any germs that would make them sick.
根据短文内容，完成下面的任务。
1. 根据上下文，画线单词hibernating的汉语意思是。
2. 用temperature写出画线句子的同义句。
3. The underlined word “changes” in paragraph three comes from his body's , and.
4. 从下面A - D四个选项中为每一段选择恰当的主旨句，其中有一项多余。
① ② ③
A. Colder Than Ice B. Not Really Sleeping C. Store food D. Staying Well
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When I was in school,I was very fat. I thought that nice clothes looked very 1 on me. I was very sad. However,I changed my mind when my friends took me to a 2 one night. At the party my friends all went to dance,3 I thought I would look funny if I danced,so I sat in the comer of the hall and 4 the others dance happily.
“Don’t you like dancing?” A girl next to me asked.
“I like it,but I... ”
“ But you can't,right?” the girl asked 5 I could finish my words.
“You are right,” I answered. I was happy that the girl helped me find a 6 .
“Why don't you ask your friends to teach you?” she asked.
“I am too fat. I won’t look nice if I dance ,” I said.
Hearing this,the girl said 7 ,“ There are many things we can enjoy in life. Don’t let your shape 8 your life. You should be thankful that you have a 9 body. How I wish that I could dance like you! ”
It was then that I found the girl 10 in a wheelchair. At that time I felt I was very lucky. Then I stood up and danced with my friends.
1. A. ugly B. nice C. dirty D. good
2. A. meeting B. party C. show D. concert
3. A. or B. so C. but D. and
4. A. helped B. heard C. felt D. watched
5. A. if B. until C. before D. after
6. A. result B. programme C. way D. reason
7. A. sadly B. slowly C. sad D. slow
8. A. stop B. enter C. influence D. improve
9. A. right B. healthy C. different D. bad
10. A. lying B. sitting C. standing D. pushing
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A short Chinese man seems to be the tallest in the world right now. Jack Ma ( Ma Yun) is executive chairman (董事局主席) of Alibaba Group,a business-to-business online platform. On Sept 19 ,Alibaba went public on the New York Stock Exchange (纽约证券交易所) ，raising $25 billion through an IPO,the biggest in US history. Ma,a former English teacher,has become the richest man on the Chinese mainland.
Bom in Hangzhou,Zhejiang,Ma grew up as a happy kid. At the age of 12 ,he wanted to learn English. Every morning,he awoke at 5 am,cycled 40 minutes to a hotel near the West Lake where he could chat to foreign tourists. He did it for nine years,rain or shine.
The experience made him a fluent English speaker and also opened his eyes to the wider world. In a 1995 trip to the US,Ma was showed the Internet for the first time. He searched Yahoo using the word “Beer”，and found that there was nothing in there about China. Seeing the chance,Ma returned to China and set up a website called China Pages without even knowing much about computers.
Four years later,18 people including Ma,his wife and his friends founded Alibaba in Hangzhou. He believed in the Internet business potential (潜力) when few other Chinese did. People called him “Crazy Jack Ma”. But 15 years later,Alibaba has developed into the world's largest e-commerce (电子商务) company,owning popular shopping websites like Taobao and Tmall. It makes more profit online than Amazon and e-Bay combined.
No one thinks he's mad now. Ma's favorite line has been printed on Alibaba's souvenir T-shirts. It reads： “Everybody should have a dream. What if that dream comes true?”
1. We can tell from the first paragraph that .
A. Alibaba Group is the biggest company in China
B. Alibaba's IPO has raised $25 billion
C. Jack Ma used to be a math teacher
D. Jack Ma is the richest man in the world
2. Why did Ma cycle to a hotel near the West Lake?
A. To do morning exercises.
B. To work as a guide.
C. To chat with foreigners.
D. To work part time.
3. When did Ma and his team found Alibaba?
A. In 1995. B. In 1998.
C. In 1999. D. In 2014.
4. Which is the right order?
a. Ma became the richest man on the Chinese mainland.
b. Ma became executive chairman of Alibaba Group.
c. Ma worked as an English teacher in Hangzhou.
d. Ma set up a website called China Pages.
A. c-b-a-d B. b-c-a-d
C. d-c-b-a D. c-d-b-a
5. The title of the passage can be “ ”.
A. Crazy Jack Ma
B. Alibaba's First IPO
C. The World's Largest E-commerce Company
D. The Internet Business Potential
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阅读短文，根据短文内容补全表格中所缺失的 信息，每空仅填一词。
When you sleep at a summer camp,you know you’re there for a fun time. But fun as this is,for some kids being away from home can be scary and sad. They start to miss their old beds and their parents. It's called being homesick. You can help yourself feel less homesick. Here's how:
If you’re going away from home,bring your pillow or your favorite pajamas. Or maybe you have a favorite bedtime snack. If you’re going to camp,maybe your mom or dad could pack it in your suitcase. You can also bring pictures of the people you’ll be apart from and look at them any time you want.
Spend more time in doing fun things. The more fun things you do,the less time you’ll have to feel homesick. So try to take part in activities and soon you might start to have a good time.
You can make a plan to call your mum or dad. For a night visit,maybe you can call once that night,and again in the morning. In the camp,you might set a regular day and time for a phone call home. You can also send e-mails or short messages to keep in touch with family and friends. If you’re going to be away for a while,you might even write a letter!When you get in touch with someone,make sure to tell them about the fun things you’re doing!
Sometimes,just tell someone that you’re feeling homesick. This will help you feel better. Maybe you can tell a friend that you feel homesick. And the two of you can do something fun,such as telling jokes. If you’re at camp,a camp counselor (顾问) would be a good person to talk to. He or she might have some ideas to help you feel better.
How to deal with homesickness | |
Bring a little bit of home | When you go to camp, take something of home, like your pillow, your favorite |
things with you | pajamas, a favorite snack, or some 1 . |
Keep busy | Try to take part in a lot of 2 . |
| Make a plan to call your parents. |
Keep in 3 | Send e-mails or short messages to your family and friends. |
Write a 4 if you are away for a while. | |
| Share your fun things with your family and friends. |
Talk to someone | Talk to your friends, and do something fun with him/her. |
where you are | Talk to your counselor, and get some helpful 5 from him/her. |
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There is a fish called the angelfish (神仙鱼), which can change from female to male. No,it cannot do it by simply wishing to I become male. The change happens for a specific reason.
The angelfish live in groups. And each group has one male fish,which is blue in color,and four female fish,which are yellow in color.
The male angelfish is the strongest and largest member of the group. When the male dies,the largest female fish in the group begins to change its looks. She begins to grow larger in size. After a week,she starts changing colors,from yellow to blue. Slowly,she begins looking like a male. Two weeks later,black stripes (条纹) appear on her body. She is now really male.
The angelfish are among the most brightly colored fish of the sea. People prefer to keep them because of the interesting patterns (图案) on them. People like to keep them because of their good look. Often,the young ones are different in color from the old ones. At night their colors may change.
阅读短文，回答下列问题。
1. How many angelfish are there in a group?
2. What color are the female angelfish?
3. What do the angelfish first change when they change from female to male?
4. How long does it take the angelfish to change from female to male?
5. Why do people like to keep the anglefish at home?
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My grandfather had a small farm. He also worked in a factory.
One autumn,he promised to help his neighbor harvest their com,but after harvesting his own com,Grandpa's little com picker broke. In order to keep his job,he had to leave the farm before dawn and didn't get home until after sunset. It now seemed impossible to help out his neighbor.
One night,Grandpa decided that he wouldn’t let his neighbor's harvest rot (腐烂的) in the field. Without a machine,he’d harvest it by hand.
“When do you think you’d have time to do it?” asked my grandma. “Besides,it’d be too dark. ”
“I know of one night that I could do it!” he said. “There's still one more full moon in October. If the weather is clear,I think I can do it. ”
And so a few days later,after a long shift at the factory,my grandpa made his way to the field. The weather was cold but clear,and the moon was glowing. He worked through the night to keep his word.
Sometimes,when I want to put off responsibilities,Fd see my grandfather cutting com in the light of the harvest moon. Behind him,row after row of com stalks (秸秆) stand in respect for a man who keeps his word.
1. It was hard for the writer's grandfather to help his neighbor because .
A. he was too tired to carry on
B. he had too much work to do in his own field
C. his little com picker broke and he was very busy in his job
D. the weather was terrible
2. The underlined part “dawn” in the passage probably means“”.
A. 黎明 B. 正午
C. 傍晚 D. 深夜
3. The writer's grandpa worked in the field .
A. after the sunset
B. with a full moon in the sky
C. with his machine
D. by hand
4. What did the writer learn from the writer's Grandpa's story?
A. A man should keep his word.
B. Few words,many deeds.
C. Time and tide wait for no man.
D. Goals determine what you are going to be.
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Do you want to collect stamps? Getting started on a new stamp collection can be fun. There are a number of ways to start getting stamps.
First be sure to ask your family and friends to save the stamps they get. They can just save the whole envelope (信封) for you or they can cut out the stamp part for you. Be sure to have them cut all the way around the stamp so they don't bend or cut the stamp. Also,ask them if they have any old letters in the envelopes. These can be some of the most interesting stamps you’ll come across.
You can also jump start your collection by buying stamps. You can also get a catalogue of stamps. By looking through the catalogue,you can start to see what kinds of stamps you like and would like to collect. Your tastes may change over time,but some people like to collect stamps from some countries or animal stamps,famous people stamps,etc. One of the cool things about stamps is that there are so many types and ways to collect them. You can find your own favorites and collect those.
Next you will need a place to keep your stamps. Stock Books (邮票簿) hold stock sheets. Each stock sheet has a plastic cover. It holds the stamp in place. You can see the stamps,and move them around easily. Stamp Albums (集邮册) are usually preprinted (预印) . So you put the stamp on its preprinted area. There is often information about the stamp on the page.
1. What does the writer think of starting to collect stamps?
A. Difficult.
B. Interesting.
C. Boring.
D. Expensive.
2. The first way of collecting stamps is .
A. buying stamps
B. cutting out the stamps from envelopes
C. asking your family and friends for stamps
D. making stamps by yourselves
3. The underlined word “catalogue” in the passage probably means“”.
A. 系列
B. 目录
C. 相册
D. 封面
4. According to the last paragraph,there are ways to keep stamps.
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. several
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[2015 • 长沙]阅读选择。
阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选 项中，选出最佳选项回答问题或完成句子。
China is a nation of etiquette (礼仪) .Chinese people are among the most hospitable people in the world. If foreigners visit a Chinese family,they would be surprised at the warmth that they would receive as guests.
When you visit a Chinese family,the host usually makes tea for you. Then he will serve you snacks (小吃) like biscuits or candy. Someone in the family will also chat with you,never letting you feel lonely.
At the same time,other family members will prepare a meal for you. Chinese people treat (款待) their guests with a big meal. They always present more food than the guest can eat. On the table,the guests must be the first to eat. Perhaps one of the things that surprises a western guest most is that the Chinese host likes to pick food for visitors,which won’t happen at western tables. The Chinese family go out of their way to make you feel at home. As you are done eating,the host usually says, “It seems that you didn't eat much. Please have more. ” Although you tell them you are full,they still put more food in your bowl.
Being warm and hospitable has long been an important part of Chinese culture and tradition. As Confucius (孔子) said thousands of years ago:
To meet friends from a far
How happy we are !
() 1. What does the underlined word “hospitable” mean in this passage?
A. 好客的 B. 勤劳的
C. 朴实的
() 2. As a guest in a Chinese family,you are usually offered by the host.
A. coffee and snacks
B. juice and snacks
C. tea and snacks
() 3. Why does a western visitor feel surprised when the host picks food for him?
A. Because he thinks it's not polite.
B. Because he thinks it's not necessary.
C. Because it won't happen in western countries.
() 4. What the Chinese family do for the guests is to .
A. make them feel at home
B. show their wealth
C. make them feel uncomfortable
() 5. What's the meaning of the words by Confucius at the end of the passage?
A. 学而时习之，不亦悦乎？
B. 有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？
C. 人不知而不愠，不亦君子乎？
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