| Dear Mrs. Nugget, You may remember that we have discussed the noise your children make while practicing the piano in your home. You agreed to make sure that they would stop practicing in the evening. You can imagine my astonishment (惊讶) then when I realized that nothing had changed at all and the situation was continuing as before. I find it difficult to stay in my house and I invent excuse to go out for the evening to be away from the terrible noise. Much as I like music, I have had enough and to tell you the truth, I am not prepared to put up with the situation any more. I think it is high time you realized your responsibilities (责任) as a member of the society, and I must warn you that unless you do something about the situation. I will be forced to take legal (法律) action. We all make noise in our day-to-day lives. However, noise which is unreasonable and is likely to disturb others is not acceptable. I will keep a Noise Record Sheet from today on and contact the council when necessary. And I have also sent a copy of this letter to my lawyer. Yours sincerely, R.G.Barge |
1. Why did Barge write this letter?
| A．Because Mrs. Nugget’s children played the piano so badly. |
| B．Because Mrs. Nugget refused to listen to his complaints.(投诉) |
| C．Because Mrs. Nugget didn’t tell the truth as Barge did. |
| D．Because Mrs. Nugget refused to keep her promise. |
| A．Mrs. Nugget agreed to do something about the noise problem. |
| B．Barge is astonished to see that the situation is going from bad to worse. |
| C．Barge has great interest in music. |
| D．Barge is often forced to go out for the evening with reason for noise. |
| A．change | B．improve |
| C．suffer without a word | D．raise the problem at the lawyer |
a, Barge talked with Mrs. Nugget about the noise her children had made
b, Mrs. Nugget’s children played the piano loudly in the evening.
c, Mrs. Nugget promised to stop them doing so.
d, Barge wrote this letter to Mrs. Nugget, warning that he might take legal action if nothing hanged.
e, Mrs. Nugget’s children continued making such noise.
| A．a,b,c,e,d | B．b,c,a,e,d |
| C．e,d,c,b,a | D．b,a,c,e,d |
[1] Look at the center circles of Diagram A and Diagram B. Which of the centre circles looks larger?
[2] Take a first look and you probably think that the centre circle in Diagram A is smaller than that in Diagram B. In fact, they are exactly the same size.
[3]Then look at the picture on the right.What do you see? A vase? Or two faces? Does the picture change quickly from one to the other again and again? Maybe or maybe not, but you can see them at the same time.
[4]“What’s happening? Is something wrong with my eyes?” You may wonder at what you see. Don’t worry. Here is how it goes:
[5]When we look at things, our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains interpret (解释) the information. However, sometimes our brains interpret the received information in a wrong way. It seems that our eyes are playing a joke on us. This often happens and we call it “Visual illusion(幻觉)”.
[6] Movie makers often make use of illusions. They make the objects around actors much smaller or bigger than usual. This makes us believe that the actors are much larger or smaller than they usually are. The movies Jurassic Park and Honey J shrunk the kids just make use of illusions.
1. In which column of a magazine can you read the above text?| A．Culture. | B．Science. | C．Humour. | D．Education. |
| A．something is wrong with our eyes |
| B．the two circles are not of the same size |
| C．our brains interpret the information wrongly |
| D．pictures change quickly from one to the other |
| A．The second one. | B．The third one. |
| C．The fifth one. | D．The sixth one. |
a. We look at things with our eyes.
b. Our brains interpret the messages.
c. Our brains tell us what we have seen.
d. Our eyes send messages to our brains.
| A．a-d-b-c | B．c-a-b-d | C．a-c-d-b | D．b-e-a-d |
| A．help the actors look better | B．make the actors much braver |
| C．help the actors become stronger | D．make the actors seem different in size |
