1 . Mrs. Marks bought a printer yesterday. She was h    1     because she could print anything she wanted at any time. H    2     , after about an hour, she was angry because she couldn’t print the color blue. All the other c    3     printed fine, except (除了) blue, which was very unusual.

She d    4     to call the after-sales service department (售后服务部) to help her solve the problem. David answered the phone. He t    5     everything he could think of to help Mrs. Marks. He asked her to reinstall (重新安装) the program, to reboot (重新启动) the computer and to turn the printer on and off. N    6     of these things helped.

After hours of trying, the problem s    7     wasn’t solved. Finally, David asked Mrs. Marks if he could go to her h    8     and try to solve the problem in person. Mrs. Marks agreed and t    9     him her address (住址). When he arrived at her house, she showed him her computer and the printer. David u    10     what the problem was right away. He told her, ＂From now on, print on white paper instead of blue!＂

2 . There have been many great inventions that change the way we live. The first great ___ was one that is still very important today—the wheel. This made it easy for man __ heavy things and to travel long distances. For hundreds of years after that, there were ___ great inventions like the wheel. Then in the early 1800’s the world started to change ____. There was little unknown land left in the world. People did not have to search much any more. In the second half of the 19th century many great inventions were made. ___ them were the camera, the electric light and the radio. These have all become a big part of our life today.

The first part of the 20th century saw more great inventions. The helicopter (直升机) in 1909. Movies _____ sound in 1926. The computer in 1928. This was also a time when a new ___ was first made. Nylon (尼龙) came out in 1935. It changed the kind of clothes people wear. Of course new inventions continued to be made. Man began looking __ ways to go into space. Russia made the first step. Then the United States took another. Since then other countries, including China and Japan, ___ their steps into space. In 1969 man took his biggest step away from earth. __ first walked on the moon. This was certainly just a beginning. New inventions will someday allow us to do things we have never yet dreamed of.

1.

A．scientist

B．artist

C．musician

D．invention

2.

A．carry

B．carrying

C．to carry

D．carried

3.

A．few

B．a few

C．little

D．a little

4.

A．largely

B．differently

C．greatly

D．freely

5.

A．Between

B．Among

C．Before

D．After

6.

A．in

B．of

C．on

D．with

7.

A．mistake

B．product

C．world

D．material (材料)

8.

A．for

B．out

C．after

D．around

9.

A．made

B．were made

C．have made

D．had made

10.

A．Chinese

B．Japanese

C．Americans

D．Russians

3 . We live in the " computer age ". People like scientists, teachers and even students use computers to do many kinds of work. But many years ago, computers couldn’t do much. They were very big and expensive. Very few people were interested in them and knew how to use them.

Today computers are smaller and cheaper. Since they can do a lot of work, many people like to use them. Most people have them at home. Many have smaller ones so that they can take them out to work, to travel, to have meetings and to give talks.

Computers become very important because they can work faster than men and make fewer mistakes. Computers can help people do a lot of work. Writers now use computers to write. Teachers use them to help teaching. Scientists use them to do research and children use them to play games. Computers can also remember what you put into them. Computers are very useful and helpful. They are our good friends.

根据短文内容完成下列小题
1. Why were very few people interested in computers many years ago?
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2. How are computers today?
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3. What can people do using smaller computers?
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4. Why do computers become very important?
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5. As a student, what can you do with the help of the computer？
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4 . Nanotechnology is a new type of science that will be wideIy used in many fields. Do you want to know more about it?

Imagine: A television screen has the size and thickness of a piece of paper. You carry it around in your pocket and take it out when you want to watch a show. (1) A guitar is so tiny thatis so tiny that you can’t see it with the human eyes, but you can hear sounds when its strings are pulled.

(2)Naotechnology is the science, this kind of science can deal with doing things in a very small way, and it is being studied and developed all over the world. Many scientists say nanotechnology will prodece the next industrial revolution （工业革命）.

(3)也许纳米技术对医学将有最大的影响。Imagine nanobots in medicine. Thousands or even millions of tiny machines can be sent into the human body with specific tasks. For example, (4)they can be designed to find and destroy cancer cells or viruses（病毒）. Other machines may stay in the human body forever to help organs（器官）that are not working properly.

When could all of these happen? Scientists predict that most of these are possible in the next 30 years. Thousands of scientists around the world are working on these micro-machines. Nanotechnology is just around the corner.

根据短文内容，完成下列各题。
1. 将(1)处翻译成中文。        _________________________________________
2. 将(2)处改成复合句。        _________________________________________
3. 将(3)处翻译成英文。        _________________________________________
4. 写出(4)处“they”指代的内容。       _______________________________
5. 找出该文章的中心句。       _________________________________________

5 . Scientists will put some robot fish into the sea near Spain this year. These robot fish will help people find out the pollution in the water. If the robot fish are able to finish their work successfully, the scientists hope the fish will be used in rivers, lakes and seas around the world.
The robot fish are about 1.5 metres long. There will be a detector (探测器) in each fish’s
body. It can find the pollution in the water, and then the robot fish will eat part of it.
Unlike other robots, the robot fish don’t need to be operated (操作) by people far away. The robots all have a big battery (电池) that can last for about eight hours. They can “swim” in the sea freely and send back information to people on the beach. After their batteries run down, they will go back to the beach by themselves.
There are five robot fish altogether. Each costs about 29,000 dollars. They are part of a three-year project by the joint effort of the engineering company BMT Group and University of Essex in England.
1. The robot fish will help people find out in the water.

A．more fish

B．the treasure

C．some batteries

D．the pollution

2. What will the robot fish do if they find the pollution in the water?

A．They will eat part of it.	B．They will stop working.
C．They will tell people where it is.	D．They will take it to the beach.

3. How long can the robot fish work before they have to go back to the beach?

A．They can work for five hours.	B．They can work for eight hours.
C．They can work for twelve hours.	D．They can work for one day.

4. The five robot fish cost about        dollars altogether.

A．14,500

B．29,000

C．145,000

D．1,450,000

5. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A．The robot fish can eat anything in the water.

B．The robot fish need to be operated by people.

C．The robot fish are 1.5 metres long and they look like sharks.

D．The robot fish can go back to the beach when the batteries run down.

6 . George: What are you doing?
User: Saying hello to you!
George: Are you a moneky?
User:       Do you think monkeys can type?
George: Sure.
User:       Are you a monkey?
George: Do you think monkeys can type?
User: You told me they could.
This is a chat between a human “user” and a computer. The computer was designed to be as human as possible. It was taught to talk to humans. It has also learnt from what people have said to it. This has helped it to become even more human.
The technology that makes George talk is called Jabberwacky. This technology recently won the Loebner Prize. The Loebner Prize is a competition to find the most realistic artificial intelligence (人工智能). The judges had to talk to the computer. They typed questions to it. The computer answered.
   Jabberwacky’s design team say it will be a long time before the programme is very realistic.
It was first created in 1982. It has been getting better every year since then. Each time it chats   to a human, the list of things to say gets bigger. This means the computer has more things to say when you talk to it.
It is hoped that a computer like this will replace humans in call centres. When the programme is more realistic, this will be possible.
1. From the passage we can know that George is a .

A．monkey

B．computer

C．judge

D．scientist

2. Jabberwacky is a kind of technology that can make the computer .

A．sing songs	B．look like humans
C．talk to people	D．draw pictures

3. Jabberwacky was first created in the year of .

A．1980

B．1982

C．2006

D．2007

4. The Loebner Prize is a competition for science and technology in .

A．chemistry	B．computer science
C．physics	D．geography

5. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Jabberwacky has been getting better since it was created.

B．The more you talk to a computer, the fewer things it has to say.

C．The computer may replace humans in call centres in the future.

D．It takes a long time to make Jabberwacky more realistic.

7 . Do you want to know what our life will be like in the future? Let’s have a look. You may be surprised!

        You will go to the kitchen when you are hungry. You will give orders to the kitchen robot. The robot will prepare the food for you in a few minutes. Then it will send it to you.

In the kitchen you will find a special food machine. The food machine will tell you what your body needs. It will help you eat healthily. The food machine will connect with the kitchen robot. The robot can get signals(信号) and messages from the food machine.

After having a meal, you can go to your home office. You will work at home and you don’t need to go out to work any more.

You will have a special information screen. You can get any information on the screen. When you receive a message from a friend in America, your information screen will be turned on automatically(自动地). Your friend’s face appears on the screen. The screen will translate English into Chinese. And the Chinese words appear at the bottom.

1. What is the second paragraph about?

A．It’s about healthy food.

B．It’s about the kitchen robot.

C．It’s about a nice kitchen.

D．It’s about a robot which can do homework.

2. According to the passage, ________ will tell you what your body needs.

A．the kitchen robot

B．the food machine

C．the information screen

D．the computer

3. What does the underlined word “message” mean in Chinese?

A．菜单

B．机器

C．信息

D．笔记

4. You can see your friend’s face _________.

A．on the wall	B．on the screen
C．on the Internet	D．on TV

5. Which is not mentioned in the passage?

A．Work place.	B．Food machine.
C．Information screen.	D．Mini computer.

8 . Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in their daily life. For example, they can help people to save much time to do much work, and they can help people to work out many problems they can’t do easily. Our country asks everyone to learn to use computers except the old people.
Today more and more families own computers. Parents buy computers for their children. They hope that computers can help them to improve their studies at school. But many of their children use computers to play games and watch videos. For most students, computers can not help them to study better but make them fall behind. So computers are locked in boxes by parents.
In some other countries, even some scientists also hate computers. They say computers let millions of people lose their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble. Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness? It will be decided by people themselves!
1. Why do we say the computer is a useful machine?

A．Because our country asks us to learn to use it.

B．Because it can help us a lot.

C．Because we can use it to play games.

D．Because it can help us to find jobs.

2. What do many parents complain about?

A．They complain that their children use computers to play games.

B．They complain that computers let them lose their jobs.

C．They complain that computers bring them a lot of trouble.

D．They complain that computers can’t bring them happiness.

3. In this passage we know computers ______.

A．also bring us trouble	B．bring us happiness only
C．are hated by people	D．are bad for people’s health

4. Can computers really help children to study better?

A．Yes, they can.	B．It’s hard to say.
C．No, they can’t.	D．Of course not.

5. How do you understand the last sentence of this passage?

A．It means computers are used by people.

B．It means people can live well without computers.

C．It means one must decide how to use computers.

D．It means computers are strange machines.

9 . Thumbs Down to Texting (屈指发短信)

Do you have a mobile phone? Do you send text messages to your friends and family?

Text messaging or “texting” is becoming very popular. But, scientists have discovered that texting can give us problems with our hands. Be careful! Too much texting can cause swelling in our thumbs. Our thumbs were not made for pushing small buttons, over and over . Scientists call this problem RSI. We spoke to a doctor called Harriet Wilson, who treats many sick people with RSI. She says we need to see how much time we are spending in typing text messages. If we are spending more than 10-15 minutes at once, we could have problems in the future.

As mobile phones develop, they are getting smaller with buttons closer together. Texting with a smaller phone is worse than using a larger phone with bigger buttons. Using a computer keyboard and playing video games can cause the same problem. So more and more people could find themselves with RSI. Among them, most are university students and teenagers, as they do not know the risks of spending so much time using computer, video games and mobile phones. If we don't do something about this, too many young people could grow up in terrible pain.

根据短文内容，完成下列小题。
1. What is becoming very popular now?
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2. Does the word “once” mean “one time” in the second passage?
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3. What kind of people are easier to have the problem of RSI?
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4. What can also cause RSI except texting?
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5. Which is easier to cause the problem of RSI, using smaller mobile phones or larger ones?
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10 . We humans can play the piano . of course we play the piano with our ten fingers . But Teotronica can play with its 19 fingers . Teotronica is not a human . It is a robot . It is a special robot which can play the piano like humans .
Nattei Suzzi is the inventor of Teotronica . Matteo Suzzi comes from Italy and he is more than thirty years old . He was interested in science when he was young . He always likes to use his head to create amazing things . He spent four years making the musical robot . He made the piano-playing robot at a cost of about 4,700 dollars .
Teotronica is a special and great robot . It has more fingers than humans . It plays the piano faster than a human . Teotronica can sing as well when it plays the piano . It is the first robot to do so and many people feel excited to see it . Teotronica can even use its eyes to interact with humans because there are cameras in its eyes .Teotronica is amazing , isn’t it ?
1. How many fingers does Teotronica have ?

A．Ten

B．Fifteen

C．Nineteen

D．Twenty

2. How long did it take Matteo Suzzi to make Teotronica ?

A．Two years .	B．Three years .
C．Five years .	D．Four years .

3. How can Teotronica interact with humans ?

A．By using its eyes .

B．By using its arms .

C．By moving around .

D．By playing music and singing .

4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage ?

A．Matteo Suzzi is only nineteen years old .

B．Matteo Suzzi was interested in music when he was young .

C．Matteo Suzzi spent 7,400 dollars creating Teotronica .

D．Teotronica can sing when it plays the piano .

5. What’s the best title for the passage ?

A．An Amazing Robot and a Musician .

B．A Musician Robot and Its Inventor

C．An Inventor from the USA

D．Differences Between Humans and Robots