A
Mrs . Jackson is an American doctor . She is now in China . She works in a children' s hospital in Chongqing . She is also learning Chinese medicine there . She likes Chinese medicine very much . She loves to work for children . She works hard in the day and reads English books on Chinese medicine at night . She learns Chinese from the Chinese doctors and her Chinese friends . Now she can speak some Chinese . She can read some Chinese ,too.
Her husband , Mr. Jackson , is a teacher . He teaches English in a middle school in Chongqing . He works hard ,too. He works from Monday to Friday . He teaches three classes every day .he wants to make more money .
( )1.The Jacksons are from England .
( )2. Mrs . Jackson works in a children' s hospital in Shanghai .
( )3. Mrs . Jackson is learning Chinese now .
( )4. Mr. Jackson is an English teacher
( )5.Mr. Jackson doesn' t work hard .
B
Robots aren’t only in the movies or on TV. One “real” robot recently married a couple at a wedding ceremony in Tokyo, Japan.
Fifty guests stood as the music played and the bride(新娘)walked down towards the groom
(新郎). Only one guest stayed seated - the minister(牧师), who happened to be a robot. For this special ceremony, the four-foot tall robot named I-Fairy wore flowers around her head. I-Fairy’s eyes flashed colored lights as she pronounced the couple man-and-wife and asked the groom to kiss the bride. The wedding was the first time a marriage had been led by a robot, according to the company that built I-Fairy.
A robot might seem like an unusual choice(选择)to lead a wedding, but if you knew the couple you would think I-Fairy was the perfect choice. That’s because the groom teaches robotics at a university and the bride works for the company that built I-Fairy. The newly married couple hopes their wedding will encourage more uses for robots. They hope their wedding will give people ideas about ways in which they might use robots to do “everyday things” in their lives in the near future.
( )6. The “real” robot is the ________ at the wedding ceremony.
A. bride B. groom C. reporter D. minister
( )7. Which is TRUE about the robot?
A. It wore flowers around the neck for the ceremony
B. Its eyes flashed colored lights while it was speaking.
C. It was built by the I-fairy company.
D. It kissed the newly married couple.
( )8. In paragraph(段落)3, “robotics” must be the ________ on how robots are made and used.
A. science B. book C. magazine D. cartoon
( )9. We can learn from the last paragraph that________•
A. it is very usual for robots to lead weddings
B. a robot is the perfect choice for everybody’s wedding
C. the wedding is expected to encourage people to use robots more
D. people get ideas on how to do everything with robots in the near future
( )10. This passage is a(n) ________.
A. novel B. news report C. folk story D. advertisement
C
Lightning(闪电)is shocking, and it happens all over the world! Scientists think that there are more than three million lightning strikes(袭击)every day in the world-that’s thirty strikes every second.
Lightning can also be very dangerous. Every year, lightning kills people because it can start big fires or because it reaches temperatures up to 28,000 degrees centigrade. American Roy Sullivan, who worked in a park, holds the record for surviving the most lightning strikes. Between 1942 and 1983, he was hit seven times!
So, why does lightning strike? Lightning strikes happen when ice and water in clouds rub(摩擦)together, and cause atmospheric(大气层的)changes. When this happens, it creates a static charge(静电电荷). Lightning can strike inside the cloud, between two clouds and between a cloud and Earth. It’s the last type of strike that is the most dangerous for humans. About 1,000 people get struck by lightning every year in the United States, and about 100 of them die as a result.
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