1 . George Devol who came from the USA designed the first programmable robot in 1969. It meant that the robot age had started from then on. However, in about 989 BC, during western Zhou Dynasty, a Chinese man whose name was Yan Shi made a wood robot. It looked like a real man and it was able to do many actions. It was good at dancing and it has a heart, a stomach and other things in its body. It also had teeth and hair. It could express its feelings by using its eyes. Its eyes could move and could show love to women, but it couldn't laugh. It was probably the earliest robot in the world.
Not all robots always look like humans. They have various shapes. They are clever and they can do all kinds of jobs, especially difficult and dangerous jobs. They are widely used in factories, banks, hospitals and other places. In the future, robots will make fewer mistakes, even can correct themselves and they will be smarter. It's possible that we will have a robot in our own home. They will do more things for us. We will have more free time to have a rest, to relax ourselves with the help of robots. I believe that we can have a better life.
1. What started the robot age?A.The first programmable robot. | B.The Chinese robot. |
C.The wood robot. | D.The small robot. |
A.Dance. | B.Tempt women with eyes. |
C.Express its feelings with eyes. | D.laugh. |
A.About 50 years old. | B.About 100 years old. |
C.About 2,000 years old. | D.About 3,000 years old. |
A.Now robots are in all kinds of shapes. |
B.Now robots can do kind of difficult jobs. |
C.Now robots can help people do most of jobs. |
D.Now robots can help doctors in some ways. |
A.Robots. | B.The history of robots. |
C.The robots' usage and start. | D.People and robots. |
2 . A jigsaw is a power-driven saw (锯) used to cut sharp curves (急弯曲线) in pieces of wood.
A jigsaw is also a puzzle. It is made up of a large number of small, interlocking pieces. Each piece has a small part of a picture on it. A completed puzzle produces a picture or design.
Jigsaw puzzles were first created by producing a picture on a flat, rectangular (矩形) piece of wood, then cutting that picture into small pieces with a jigsaw – that’s where the name comes from!
Pictures found on jigsaw puzzles mainly include scenes from nature, city life and similar designs. Castles, mountains and water scenes are traditional subjects. However, any kind of picture can be used to make a jigsaw puzzle. Cartoon-styles are popular. There are companies that create puzzles from personal photographs. Completed puzzles can also be glued onto a piece of wood to make a wall hanging.
The first jigsaw puzzles were designed as geography teaching tools by John Spilsbury in 1767. His “jigsaw” was a map puzzle. It was a hand-painted map of England on a piece of wood. It was a successful teaching method. He went on to make over thirty other map puzzles. The pieces were not interlocking.
With the invention of power tools more than a century later, jigsaw puzzles with fully interlocking pieces came into being. The jigsaw machine could cut sharp curves. Then the name jigsaw puzzles came into being. Jigsaw puzzles became very popular in the United States in the early 1930s, when people had difficulty in finding jobs and making money.
Today puzzles of all sizes are a standard item in toy shops and supermarkets. However, they usually come in 300-piece, 500-piece, 750-piece, and 1,000-piece sizes. The largest one even has 24,000 pieces.
Some jigsaws are quite tricky. Try doing one with all pieces without pictures on it. A few puzzles are made double-sided, so they can be solved from either side. This increases the difficulty, because the puzzle solver cannot be certain which way up each piece goes. Some jigsaws do not have straight edges (边缘). The edge pieces could be any interlocking piece. Solving these jigsaws requires more effort than doing those straight-edged ones. Others designedly have a piece or two missing. Jigsaws are no longer educational toys but are used for entertainment or a hobby.
1. What can we learn about jigsaw puzzles?A.Cartoon-style pictures are traditional subjects of jigsaw puzzles. |
B.People can choose any photo they like to use in a jigsaw puzzle. |
C.The smallest jigsaw puzzle in the world has three hundred pieces. |
D.There are many small, interlocking pieces in all the jigsaw puzzles. |
A. | B. | C. | D. |
A.A double-sided jigsaw with straight edges. |
B.A one-sided jigsaw with straight edges. |
C.A double-sided jigsaw with curved edges. |
D.A one-sided jigsaw with curved edges. |
A.Puzzles are cheap entertainment that can be replayed or passed on to others. |
B.By 1767, students began to learn geography by putting the puzzles back together. |
C.Spilsbury continued to build more puzzles with different area maps and sell them. |
D.Early wooden puzzles had pictures printed to the front and lines for cutting on the back. |
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Take a look in your clothes drawer. Do you see a pair of jeans? You probably do. You may be wearing a pair right now. Or you might have a jean jacket, shirt, or a pair of denim (牛仔布) shoes. Jeans are so common, and you may wonder who invented them and how the fashion took off.
Jeans were invented by a German named Levi Strauss. He went to the U. S. in 1847 and followed the Gold Rush to San Francisco. He carried many kinds of fabric (布料) to sell to dry goods stores. Levi quickly became a successful businessman. The miners (矿工) in California had a problem with their pants. When they found gold or ore (矿石) , they carried it in their pockets. But the metal was heavy, and the pockets ripped (撕开) . In 1873, Jacob and Levi made the first jeans-tough denim pants. The miners loved them, and the jeans quickly became popular.
In the beginning, Levi's jeans were work pants. Many workers wore them all the time. But a gentleman wouldn't think of wearing jeans. Women didn't wear pants at all. But this changed when Western movies became popular. All the cowboys were in jeans. People thought the cowboys looked tough and cool. But jeans still weren't proper for places like schools and offices. Back in the U. S. , fashions changed. Movie stars wore jeans in their films. Teenagers everywhere loved them. Some schools banned jeans because of their "rebel" (叛逆) image. But casual clothing, including jeans, became popular for more and more occasions. Eventually, jeans were so common that it became okay for anyone to wear them. You can even find pictures of the president wearing jeans.
Today, all kinds of people around the world wear jeans. People wear them everywhere. Jeans are popular today for the same reasons they were popular when Levi Strauss first made them. They look good, they last long, and they are comfortable. That's probably why you own a pair or two, or seven, yourself.
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2. When did Jacob and Levi make the first jeans?
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3. What did people think of the cowboys in jeans?
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4. Why are jeans popular today?
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1. What do park rangers on Mona Island do?
A.Protect the land and animals. |
B.Offer some help to visitors. |
C.Feed animals on Mona Island. |
D.Drive a boat between Puerto Rico and Mona Island. |
A.so difficult that you can’t finish |
B.so clear that you can see through |
C.too deep to be reached |
D.too bright to be seen |
A.On the beaches. | B.In a museum. |
C.In the caves. | D.On the wall of the hotel. |
A.Mona Island is very small. |
B.Watching the stars on Mona Island is amazing. |
C.Visitors can settle in after a full day on Mona Island. |
D.Mona Island is far from other places and darkness is all around it. |
A.To explain why animals live on the island. |
B.To show readers where the island is located. |
C.To tell about a place that some people might enjoy. |
D.To give facts about people who work on the island. |
Do you live in a city? Do you know how cities began? Long long ago, there were only a few thousand people in the world. These people moved from place to place. They moved over the land, hunting(打猎)animals for food.
A long time passed. These people began growing crops. No one knows how or when those people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed, they did not have to move houses any more.
They could stay in one place and grow it. People began to live near each other. And so the first villages grew. Many people came to work in the villages. These villages grew bigger and bigger. Then people had machines, and lives in the villages changed again. They built factories. So the villages grew into cities. Some of them grew very big.
Today, some people are moving back to small towns.
1. How many people were there in the world long long ago?2. When didn’t people have to move houses any more ?
3. What did the villages grow into after people built factories?
4. Why did people move from place to place long long ago?
5. Who knows when people learned about growing food?