Pillows (枕头) have been around since the days of ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. In the beginning, they were used by the wealthy.
By the 16th century, pillows were used by those who were not rich. During the 19th century, pillows began to be produced in large numbers using machinery.
Today, the pillow is an object found in bedrooms throughout the world.
A reading pillow can help people who suffer from back pain.
| A．Most early pillows were made of wood. |
| B．Reading pillows are useful gifts for many people. |
| C．Your sitting style can help you choose the best design. |
| D．However, not all pillows can be used for reading in bed. |
| E．This type of pillow can help reduce stress in people’s body. |
| F．Using a too soft pillow may lead to aches and pains over time. |
| G．As a result, the average person could buy pillows for their homes |
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【推荐1】Do you want to live forever? By the year 2050,you might actually get your wish-if you are willing to leave your biological body and live in silicon circuits (半导体电路). But long before then, perhaps as early as 2020,some measures will begin offering a semblance of immortality (虚的永生).
Researchers are confident that the technology will soon be able to track every waking moment of your life? Whatever you see and hear, all that you say and write, can be recorded, analyzed and added to your personal chronicles (履历). By the year 2030, it may be possible to catch your nervous systems through electrical activities, which would also keep your thoughts and emotions.
Researchers at the laboratories of British Telecommunications have given the name of this idea as Soul Catcher. Small electronic equipment will make preparation for Soul Catcher. It would use a wearable supercomputer, perhaps in a wristwatch, with wireless links to microseosors under your scalp (头皮) and in the nerves that carry all five sensory signals. So wearing a video camera would no longer be required.
At first, the Soul Catcher's companion system-the Soul Reader-might have trouble copying your thoughts in complete details. Even in 2030, we may still be struggling to understand how the brain is working inside, so reading your thoughts and understanding your emotions might not be possible. But these signals could be kept for the day when they can be transferred to silicon circuits to revitalize minds everlasting entities (永生实体). Researchers can only wonder what it will be like to wake up one day and find yourself alive inside a machine.
For people who choose not to live in silicon, semblance of immortal it would not be as useless as they thought. People would know their lives would not be forgotten, but would be kept a record of the human race forever. And future generations would have a much fuller understanding of the past. History would not be controlled by just the rich and powerful, Hollywood stars, and a few thinkers in the upper society.
1. According to this passage, a Soul Catcher will be______ .| A．a new machine on which research measures have already been made |
| B．a new invention in order to catch and keep human's thoughts |
| C．made by British scientists to offer something that looks like living forever |
| D．made of silicon circuits which can catch people's nervous activity |
| A．to be a reality sooner or later | B．far from certain |
| C．just an idea that couldn't be realized at all | D．a fading hope |
| A．make dead | B．make famous | C．make known | D．make active |
Over the years, more than 400 people have said they saw the half-man, half-ape (半猿) Yeren in a remote, mountainous area of the central province of Hubei, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday.
Expeditions (探险) in the 1970s and 1980s found hair, a footprint, and a sleeping nest suspected of belonging to the Yeren, but there has been no conclusive proof, the report added.
Witnesses describe a creature that walks upright and is more than 2 meters tall with grey, red or black hair all over its body, Xinhua said.
Now the Hubei Wild Man Research Association is looking for volunteers from around the world to join them on another expedition to look for the Yeren.
“We want the team members to be devoted, as there will be a lot of hard work in the process,” Luo Baosheng, vice president of the group, told Xinhua.
But the team will have to come up with about 10 million yuan ($1.50 million) first, and is talking to companies and other bodies to secure the money, so there is no timetable yet for when they may start, the report added.
China is no stranger to
1. What the volunteers for this expedition need most is _____.
| A．experience | B．enthusiasm |
| C．confidence | D．devotion |
| A．the number of explorers |
| B．government’s support |
| C．the finance |
| D．local people’s guiding |
| A．the study of mysterious animals |
| B．the study of human beings |
| C．dangerous expeditions |
| D．tourism industry |
| A．Volunteers for an expedition needed |
| B．Scientists to look for China’s Bigfoot |
| C．International cooperation in finding wild man |
| D．Yeren appeared in Hubei again |
【推荐3】In the Death Zone of Mount Everest
Mountain climbers call the part of a mountain over 7,000 meters the Death Zone. The human body can’t live for very long at this height, because the air is too thin and there isn’t enough oxygen. Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, is 8,848 meters high. What happens to the bodies of people who climb it?
Their lungs have to work very hard. Normally, people breathe about 20 times every minute when they are resting. On top of Everest, climbers must breathe 70 to 80 times a minute to get enough oxygen.
Climbing on Everest also affects the brain.
Even with all these difficulties, more than 2,500 people have reached the top of Mount Everest.
| A．But Mount Everest is still one of the most difficult and dangerous environments on Earth. |
| B．As they get closer to the top of the mountain, climbers feel worse and worse. |
| C．Your brain thinks very slowly, because it doesn’t have enough oxygen. |
| D．Scientists have found ways to solve some of their problems. |
| E．Only the strongest bodies can survive up there in the Death Zone. |
| F．The heart must beat faster to move the blood through the body. |
