1 . Welcome to Our Festival

Story Show in Oheron

Adults

8:00 pm-10:00 pm

Join us for an evening of true, personal stories about science. Come to the only show where you can hear people—scientists, not-scientists, and half-scientists—tell funny and touching stories about the role of science in their lives.

Cost: $10

Make Your Own iPhone Case through Toysinbox 3D Printing

Families & Teens & Adults

10:00 am-12:30 pm

In this workshop, you will learn to design and make your own iPhone case by 3D printing. First, you will learn how to use a 3D printer. Next, you will design a 3D model for your iPhone case that will have a lovely pattern and your name. Once you create the model, you will print it out on our 3D printers. A 3D-printing worker will guide you through this process step by step. Come and enjoy this fun and unique learning experience!

Cost: $35

DIY Underwater Vehicle Design in MIT Museum

Teens

2:00 pm-5:00 pm

Dive into the world of ocean engineering by designing and building an underwater vehicle! Test your vehicle in large tanks on the Museum’s floor. Show off your engineering creations and share your design process with Museum visitors.

Cost: $15, Ages 12

Animal Kingdom for Young Ones in Museum of Science, Boston

Families

9:30 am-2:00 pm

Join us for a day of hands-on science fun designed especially for pre-schoolers!

Activities include the Museum’s popular “Live Animal Story Time” shows and a talk about baby animals and book-signing by children’s book authors. Take part in special live animal visits and activities in the exhibition halls, as well as design challenges and lab activities—all created with your young scientist in mind!

Cost: free, from Ages Pre-kindergarten to Ages 8

1. What can people do in Story Show?

A．Do role-play games.

B．Put on science shows.

C．Hear touching stories.

D．Meet authors of the books.

2. If you are interested in ocean engineering, you will probably attend ________ .

A．Story Show

B．DIY Underwater Vehicle Design

C．Make Your Own iPhone Case

D．Animal Kingdom for Young Ones

3. Animal Kingdom for Young Ones is designed for________.

A．adults

B．children of all ages

C．kids under 8 years old

D．children aged twelve and older

2 . The little boy with big brown eyes was waiting for us on the other side of the world. Ever since our adoption agency had _________ us, I’d been hurriedly competing all the necessary paperwork. I made it a personal goal to never delay the process. On one late afternoon in June. I rushed toward the closest FedEx office. I had some _________ to send overnight, and I wanted them to go out that day.

I thought I knew where the FedEx office was. I drove there as the minutes slipped away, only to find that the office was no longer _________ where I remembered it. Tears came to my eyes. This was _________ we all had a smartphone in our pockets. I had no way of _________ the correct location. _________ , I started driving toward home. I felt like a failure, as though I’d just ___________ my new son to more days in an orphanage waiting for us.

Suddenly, I was ___________ at a stoplight by an oversized box truck My anger turned to ___________ when I saw the sign. It was a FedEx truck I ______________ closely behind the truck. What were the ______________ the truck would lead me straight to the FedEx office I was seeking?

It broke out the chances were good. Less than five minutes later, I saw a FedEx sign, and the truck made a turn into the parking lot. I had ______________ in my eyes again.

Our documents went out that night. The truck driver ______________ knew he was an angel for me that day. Three months later, we flew halfway around the world to ______________ our son for the first time. We have been with him every day since.

Miracles are always around us ______________ we are open to them. Sometimes, it’s a smile at the right time or a kind word. And every now and then, it’s even a big truck that cuts us off in traffic.

1.

A．debated

B．challenged

C．matched

D．scanned

2.

A．gifts

B．letters

C．documents

D．postcards

3.

A．locked

B．located

C．ranked

D．repaired

4.

A．before

B．after

C．since

D．when

5.

A．finding

B．choosing

C．describing

D．showing

6.

A．Bored

B．Delighted

C．Disappointed

D．Surprised

7.

A．compared

B．sentenced

C．appointed

D．accompanied

8.

A．kept up

B．put down

C．taken in

D．cut off

9.

A．guilt

B．panic

C．shock

D．terror

10.

A．ran

B．arose

C．walked

D．followed

11.

A．chances

B．wonders

C．doubts

D．promises

12.

A．dust

B．dirt

C．tears

D．sands

13.

A．just

B．never

C．exactly

D．immediately

14.

A．free

B．meet

C．beat

D．spoil

15.

A．if

B．although

C．unless

D．until

3 .

[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.

2. The centre circle in Diagram A looks smaller than that in Diagram B, That’s because____.

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

3. In the picture on the right, it seems that Line AB is shorter than Line CD, but in fact Line AB is as long as Line CD. Which paragraph can explain what has happened to our eyes?

A．The second one.	B．The third one.
C．The fifth one.	D．The sixth one.

4. What’s the right order according to the text?
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

5. Movie makers make use of visual illusions to .

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