| A. This electric product can make you cool during the hot days. It can help you change the temperature and control the humidity (湿度) of your room. B. You can do many things with this product, such as sending e-mails, playing games, getting online and so on. You can also listen to music with it when you want to relax. C. This electric product is useful to all of us. People often have one at home. It is often put up on the wall. If you want to know the time, just take a look at it. D. This can help you wash your dirty clothes and dry them. What you need to do is to turn it on and later hang the clothes on the line. With this electric product, life will be a lot easier for you. E. Each family needs this product. You can use it to store meat, vegetables, fruit, drinks and medicine. It can keep them cool and fresh, so that they will not go bad easily on hot days. F. It is a very useful product which tells you the time. It can wake you up with a piece of music any time you want, but you have to set the time first. G. When you wash your hair, you need this product. It can make your wet hair dry in a minute. It can also be used for drying your wet clothes or some other wet things. |
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It’s reported that Australia will be the first country to use the cloud passport. With the cloud passport, you don’t have to take a paper passport with you all the time. The cloud passport will have your name, photos and other information. And if you go to other countries, you can just check the information on the computer.
When you take a paper passport with you, you might lose it. But with the cloud passport, you don’t have to worry about that.
Do you think the cloud passport it a great idea? Perhaps you will have it in the future, too.
1. You may use a new kind of passport called “______passport” in the future.
| A．cloud | B．paper | C．history | D．photo |
| A．China | B．Australia | C．America | D．England |
| A．you can take it with you easily | B．you needn’t worry about losing it |
| C．you can go to Australia freely | D．you needn’t go to other countries |
【推荐2】These new gloves are expensive, but they take the term “handsfree” to a new level. People can talk into them as they make a call. The gloves cost 1,000 pounds a pair.
They come with a speaker unit (扬声器装置) put into the thumb (拇指) and a microphone built into the little finger that can be connected to any using Bluetooth. Phone users will be able to keep their hands warm while they chat without taking their phones out of their pocket or handbag.
Artist Sean Miles, form Winsor, designed (设计) the great gloves that double as a phone in part of his project. He connected gloves with parts from mobile phones recycled through O2. Mr. Miles designed two pairs of the new gloves: one in pink and the other in brown and yellow. They will appear in an exhibition this July and visitors will be able to win the gloves. If need is great, they will then be produced at a larger amount.
O2 Recycle, which supported the project, says that there are already 70 million unused mobiles phones in the UK. Bill Eyers, head of O2 Recycle, asks people to recycle their phones responsibly.
Designer Sean Miles, the4l-year-old man behind the designs, said, “I hope that my project will get people to think again about the waste created by not recycling gadgets (小器具). If a few more people recycle their gadgets rather than throw them away as rubbish, I think this project will have fulfilled its goal.”
Miles is now working on connected phones with handbag. So people don’t spend time searching the around in their bags to find a phone when it rings.
1. The text tells us that the new gloves ________.| A．can be uses as handbags | B．are affordable to everyone now |
| C．are connected to mobile phones | D．can help people walk more freely |
| A．leads O2 Recycle in the UK | B．is the inventor of the new gloves |
| C．has produced the gloves in all colors | D．asks people to sell old phones to him |
| A．stopped | B．achieved | C．corrected | D．set |
| A．Chat while walking | B．Send your phones | C．Make hands free | D．Talk to the Hand |
【推荐3】Earthquake rescue robots have experienced their final tests in Beijing. Their designers say with these robots, rescuers will be able to buy more time to save lives during an earthquake.
This kind of robot looking like a helicopter(直升飞机) is a flying robot. It’s about 3 metres long, and it took about 4 years to develop the model. Its main functions (功能) are to collect information from the air, and send goods of up to 30 kilos to people trapped (被困住) by an earthquake. It has a high-definition 360-degree panoramic(全景的) camera. It can work day and night and is also able to send the latest pictures from the quake area.
Dr Qi Juntong, a researcher at Chinese Academy of Sciences, said, “The most important feature(特点) of this flying robot is that it doesn’t need a distant control. We just set the destination information on it, and then it takes off, and lands by itself. It flies as high as 3,000 metres, and as fast as 100 kilometres per hour.”
This robot has a different function—it can change as the environment changes. Its main job is to search for any signs of life in places where human rescuers are unable to go. As well as a detector(探测器) that finds victims and detects poisonous gases, a camera is placed in the 3-metre-long robot, which can work in the dark. Another use for the rescuers is the supply part, with its 10-metre-long pipe, people who are trapped in the ruins(废墟) will be able to get supplies including oxygen and liquids.
Experts have said that the robots will enter production and serve as part of the national earthquake rescue team as soon as possible.
1. According to Dr Qi Juntong, what makes this robot mainly different from the others?| A．It has more functions. | B．It is tall and has a special shape. |
| C．It has more advanced cameras. | D．It can work by itself once given the information. |
| A．A detector. | B．A camera. | C．A rescuer. | D．A supply. |
| A．It hasn’t been put into production so far. | B．It weighs about 30 kilos. |
| C．It is a machine with a length of 10 metres. | D．It is carried by the helicopter. |
| A．What the robot looks like. | B．How the robot is made. |
| C．An introduction to a robot. | D．Information about earthquakes. |
【推荐1】Are kids getting too much praise（赞扬）? Too much praise may be doing kids more harm than good.
A cover story in Scholastic Instructor magazine asks if kids today are over-praised. He is worried that while parents are trying to build up kids’ confidence, they are paying little attention to kids’ real goals and achievements（成就）. In a study, eighth graders in Korea and the United States were asked if they were good at math. Among the American students, 39% said they were excellent at math, but just 6% of the Korean eighth graders said they were good at math. But the fact was rather different. The Korean kids scored far better than the over-confident American students.
The disadvantage of too much praise is that kids may start to focus on（注意）what they get rather than what they are learning. His confidence comes from a blind sense of achievement rather than his or her actual abilities, so when a student fails, the result can be devastating（毁灭性的）. This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t praise our kids or that teachers shouldn’t try to build up their students’ self-confidence. But self-confidence should be the result of good grades and real achievements, not empty praise from others.
Last month, Cognitive Daily reported that parents and teachers should be specific rather than general when they offer praise. For example: General praise is telling a child, “You are smart”. Specific praise would be to say “you did a good job on reading...” or “you did great on your math test”. Kids who receive general praise about their abilities probably show “helpless” behavior when they meet with problems with learning, compared with kids who receive specific praise about their achievement on a task. The reason: a child who knows she’s a smart girl feels defeated（挫败的）if she has trouble reading a sentence. But a child who has been told she is a good reader is more likely to have confidence in that specific ability and work a little harder to do with a more difficult book.
1. What can we learn from the passage?| A．The students in the United States are over-praised. |
| B．Over-confident students may achieve much more. |
| C．Kids’ self-confidence should come from teachers’ praise. |
| D．Parents and teachers should give kids more general praise. |
| A．scientific | B．careful | C．exact | D．secret |
| A．Ask others for advice. |
| B．Probably give up easily. |
| C．Work them out alone. |
| D．Work harder than before. |
| A．To encourage us to give up praising kids. |
| B．To tell us Korean students are less confident. |
| C．To explain why kids can get praise from parents. |
| D．To prove too much praise may be harmful to kids. |
【推荐2】Everyone has traits (特性) that make us who we are. We have physical traits, like red hair, long legs and funny-looking toes. We also have character traits including humor, warmth, creativity and so on.
Certain physical traits are fully inherited (遗传), such as blue eyes and knobby knees. About 25,000 to 35,000 genes (基因) are in a single cell in the human body. These genes carry the traits that are passed down genetically from parents to their children.
Many traits exist between inheritance and development — the interaction with environment. One example is body shape. It tends to be passed down from parents. But once diet becomes a factor, environment begins to play an important role in how the body develops. Body shape is a trait that is a mixture of inheritance from parents and influence of environment.
So lots of our most important traits have been learned, rather than inherited. For example, if you’re really great at video games, it’s not because your parents passed down the skills in genes. It’s because you have practiced a lot of video games and developed those skills yourself. If you have kids who turn out to be great at video games, it is because they put in the hours, learned the skills, and memorized the moves that are necessary to play the video games well.
Of course, some of us have brains that are more advantageous to video game playing. Say you were born with a large and powerful part of the brain that controls your hand-eye coordination. That is inherited. What you do with it, how you choose to develop that advantage, is up to you.
You can pierce your nose or get a tattoo (纹身) — it doesn’t matter how much you change your body during the lifetime. None of those things will turn into genetic material to be passed down to the next generation. However, if your children grow up in an environment with role models who are pierced and covered in tattoos, they are more likely to get piercings and tattoos!
1. is a physical trait that is fully inherited.| A．The eye color | B．The special diet |
| C．The body shape | D．The pierced nose |
| A．Video game playing. | B．Advantageous brains. |
| C．The shape of your brain. | D．Your hand-eye coordination. |
| A．character traits can hardly change during the lifetime |
| B．the skills of video game playing are passed down to kids |
| C．a kid’s hand-eye coordination isn’t related to inheritance |
| D．environment plays an important role in traits development |
| A．Why are Traits Important? | B．How does Inheritance Influence Traits? |
| C．Where do Traits Come from? | D．What are Physical and Character Traits? |
【推荐3】Facial recognition technology (人脸识别技术) is widely used today. For example, the police use it to search for bad guys. It’s also used to unlock phones or doors.
Now, a similar technology, known as facial detection (探测), is entering a new field: the business of advertising (广告).
Such systems are going through tests in a small number of stores. One facial detection system can judge (判断) a person’s “happiness” or “fear” level. Another system can detect whether someone is wearing eyeglasses. If so, stores can send advertisements for new glasses to him.
Facial detection technology is also placed inside some large advertising boards. Cameras in those boards can detect information like people’s ages and five levels of feelings — from “very happy” to “very unhappy”.
Supporters of the technology say it could improve buyers’ experience by showing products they might like or by offering them products at lower prices.
Some are against the idea of using such systems. Pam Dixon, the head of a privacy (隐私) group, is one of them. She thinks ________. For example, a store could raise the price of a product according to a person’s age and feelings.
However, one store testing the technology explained people’s information like names or ages wouldn’t be stored. And the advertising board system maker said it didn’t keep any personal information or record any videos.
1. Facial detection technology can judge people’s ________, according to the passage.| A．weight | B．feelings | C．height | D．hobbies |
| A．Supporters. | B．Buyers. | C．Products. | D．Prices. |
| A．nobody likes to have their feelings collected | B．it is very important to protect people’s privacy |
| C．the strange actions may cause something unfair | D．stores may use them to have more customers |
| A．can detect buyers’ names and record them | B．is put inside some large advertising boards |
| C．may be used to sell cheaper goods in all stores | D．may need some time before being widely used |
| A．Facial Recognition Technology Entering a New Field |
| B．Facial Recognition Technology Looking for Bad Guys |
| C．Facial Detection Technology Going into Advertising Field |
| D．Facial Detection Technology Improving Buyers’ Experience |
