Soon computers and other machines will be able to remember you by looking at your eyes! The programme works because everyone’s eyes are different. So in the future you won’t have to remember a number when you want to use a machine or take money out of a bank. You’ll just have to look at the machine and it will be able to tell who you are.
The eye-recognition（识别）programme is already being tested in shops and banks in the USA, Britain, Spain, Italy and Turkey. Soon, this technology will take the place of all other ways of finding out who people are.
However, scientists are working on other systems. Machines will soon be able to know you from the shape of your face or hand or even your smell! We already have machines that can tell who you are from your voice or the mark made by your finger.
Eye-recognition is better than other kinds because your eyes don’t change as you get older, or get dirty like hands or fingers. And even twins have different eyes, so the programme can be up to 94％ correct, depending on how good the technology is. Some programmes may only be right 51％ of the time. In Britain, it was found that 91％ of people who had tried it said that they liked the idea of eye-recognition. In the future your computer will be looking at you in the eye. So smile!
【小题1】How does the eye-recognition programme work?
| A．You write your number. |
| B．You show your ID card. |
| C．You look at the machine. |
| D．You say your name. |
| A．Because eyes never change. |
| B．Because hands or fingers can get dirty. |
| C．Because people like the idea of the programme. |
| D．Because the programme is widely used around the world. |
| A．The programme is being tested in Japan. |
| B．Machines with other systems can also tell who you are. |
| C．91％ of people like the idea of the programme. |
| D．Computers can remember you by looking at your clothes. |
| A．Introduction to some kinds of programmes. |
| B．Introduction to the eye-recognition programme. |
| C．The way how the eye-recognition programme works. |
| D．The places where the eye-recognition programme is tested. |
科目：初中英语 来源：2011-2012学年江苏省苏州吴江市青云中学八年级上学期期中考试英语卷 题型：阅读理解
“Millions of young people will lose their hearing in five years if they listen to MP3 or MP4 players at a too high voice every day,” scientists say recently.
Do you often listen to MP3 players at a too high voice? Are you frightened to hear this?
The sizes of MP3 players are very small, but small MP3 players make it easy to take hundreds of songs with you. So many young people carry them and listen to music every day. MP3 players are very popular among students.
The scientists say teenagers should be far from high volume (音量), including mobile phones’ noise. A study says, “High volume and long listening time can cause hearing problems.” They think if young people listen at more than 89 decibels (分贝) every day, they will lose their hearing in five years. A scientist said, “So many young people often use personal music players and mobile phones at a high voice. I am afraid that they may be losing their hearing.
So let’s turn our MP3 players down!
【小题1】According to the passage, which of the following is true?
| A．Scientists tell young people to turn off their MP3 players. |
| B．Teenagers will lose their hearing if they listen to hundreds of songs in MP3 players. |
| C．A person will lose hearing in 5 years if he or she listens to an MP3 player every day. |
| D．The mobile phone can also cause hearing problems if we don’t use it correctly. |
| A．scientists | B．MP3 players | C．mobile phones | D．teenagers |
| A．Turn your MP3 players down! | B．Never use MP3! |
| C．How to protect your hearing. | D．Young people’s hearing. |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2011-2012学年浙江省兰溪市柏社中学初一下学期期中英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Earthquakes happen without warning(前兆)．They can happen any time of a day，at any point during the year．But don’t worry because most are so weak that they cannot be felt． Only a few big ones hurt people． However，it’s important to know what to do when an earthquake is happening．
Do NOT go outside．You could get injured from falling glass or parts of buildings．If you are outside，stay away from buildings and power lines (输电线)．
Stay under a desk，table，or other strong furniture（家具）．Hold on to it．Or stay in a corner of the building．Cover your face and head with your arms and cover your mouth with a towel（围巾） or clothing．Stay inside until shaking stops and it is safe to go outside．
Keep away from windows，pictures or advertisements on the wall or the building，and anything else that could fall and hurt you．Most people get injured by falling things during an earthquake，not by the shaking itself．
Also keep away from a fire．You could fall down and burn yourself on the fire．
If you are driving when an earthquake happens，stop the car if it’s safe．Stay inside your car until the earthquake stops，and don’t drive near bridges． Try not to stop by power lines or trees．These could fall and hurt you．
【小题1】Most earthquakes are too ----to hurt people．
| A．strong | B．weak | C．dangerous | D．heavy |
| A．stay under a big building |
| B．stay under a strong furniture |
| C．stand by windows |
| D．drive near a big bridge |
| A．run out of the building |
| B．stay in a corner of the building |
| C．cover your head with your arms |
| D．cover your mouth with a towel |
| A．how dangerous the earthquake is． |
| B．how to be safe in an earthquake． |
| C．we shouldn’t be afraid of the earthquake． |
| D．how the earthquake comes into being． |
| A．How Earthquakes Happen |
| B．How to Drive a Car |
| C．What We Should Do in Earthquakes |
| D．Why Earthquakes Happen |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012届江苏省江阴市石庄中学初三中考模拟英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
It’s important to learn about protecting our environment. Here is a 5R rule for us:
1. Reduce
If you want to reduce waste, you should use things wisely. Millions of trees are being cut down to make paper. If everyone uses a little paper carelessly and throw it out, soon we would not have any trees left. Other things are also being wasted, and people don’t know what to do with the waste in big cities. So it is necessary to reduce the waste
2. Reuse
You should always think of reusing the usable things before throwing them out. Give your clothes you do not use or the ones which are too small to the poor. With a family, you may pass on such clothes to younger brothers or sisters.
3. Recycle
Bottles, cans and paper can easily be recycled. By doing so, we save lots of time and money. For example, coke cans are sent to a factory, where they are smashed flat（压平）and melted (融化) and the melted things are made for new coke cans.
4. Recover
When you buy a box of apples, there may be a few rotten（腐烂的）apples. You have two choices: one is to throw the whole apple away, or you could cut off the rotten parts and eat the good parts. In this way, you are recovering the eatable parts of food.
5. Repair
If one of the legs of your table is broken, you can repair it instead of throwing it away. If you want to change for better ones, It is better for you to sell the old things or give them to other people who can use them after doing some repair. It is true that North America is a “throw-away” society（社会）. But the time has come to change our way of life so that we can protect our environment. Every one of us should try our best.
【小题1】_______ can be recycled.
| A．Only hard things | B．Many things | C．Few soft things | D．All things |
| A．to throw waste things away |
| B．to cover waste things with earth |
| C．to get back the useful parts |
| D．to throw the whole things away |
| A．China | B．Japan | C．Australia | D．America |
| A．We will have no resources（资源） of nature unless we can do with the waste. |
| B．Recycling is the best way to save resources. |
| C．If we waste less, we can save more resources of nature. |
| D．More things are wasted in developed countries than in developing ones. |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012届福建省厦门市翔安区初三质量检测考试英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Scientists believe in the near future a new kind of car that can not only drive on the road, but also fly in the sky will serve the people, it is called “flying-driving vehicle”.
Since the turn of the 20th century, there have been many hundreds of designs for flying-driving vehicles. And some of them have actually been built and flown. But “Transition” is the closest to people.
Transition was designed in 2006, and the first road and flight tests took place in 2009. Transition is designed to really be a general airplane, which can fold up（折叠）fully its wings, drive down the road and park in a single-car garage（车库）.
Transition can climb to more than 3000 meters high. It can carry two people at speeds over 160 kilometers an hour in the air. And on the ground it can drive at highway speeds, about 113 kilometers an hour.
Scientists expect Transition to reach market at the end of 2012, at a price of around 25, 0000 dollars. Mr. Carl Dietrich says nearly 100 people have already signed up as buyers. He hopes to sell as many as 1000 a year in the near future.
【小题1】We learn from the passage that Transition is ________.
A. a flying car B. a helicopter C. a high-speed plane
【小题2】________ shows us the way of Transition driving down the road.
A. B. C.
【小题3】According to the passage, Transition ________.
A. takes up small room
B. can park over the water
C. flies in the sky only
【小题4】Which of the following statements is TRUE according to this passage?
A. Transition can carry 2 people at speeds over 113 km/h in the air.
B. Mr. Carl Dietrich has sold as many as 1000 Transition so far.
C. Scientists expect Transition to serve the people at the end of 2012
【小题5】The fourth paragraph(段落) mainly tells us about the __________ of Transition.
A. price B. speed C. Design
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012届江苏省苏州工业园区星海中学初三中考二模英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Look at the centre circles of Diagram (图)A and Diagram B. Which of the centre circles looks larger? In fact, they are exactly the same size.
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 never see them at the same time.
“What’s happening? Is something wrong with my eyes?” You may wonder at what you see. Don’t worry. Here is how it goes:
When we look at things, our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains interpret（解读）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(视觉错误)”.
Movie makers often make use of visual 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 Parkand Honey I shrunk the kids just make use of visual illusions.
【小题1】Why does the centre circle in Diagram A look smaller than that in Diagram B?
| A．something is wrong with our eyes |
| B．the two circles are not the same size |
| C．our brains interpret the information in a wrong way |
| D．the two pictures change quickly from one to the other |
| A．To help the actors look better |
| B．To make the actors much braver |
| C．To help the actors become stronger |
| D．To make the actors seem different in size |
| A．a d b c | B．c a b d | C．a c d b | D．b c a d |
| A．A letter | B．An English newspaper |
| C．A science book | D．An advertisement |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2012届山东省潍坊市初中学业水平考试二模英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
In the early 1990s the word “Internet” was strange to most people. But today, Internet has become a useful tool for people all over the world. Maybe Internet has been the greatest invention in the field of communication in the history of mankind. Communicating with others on the Internet is much faster. We can chat with a person who is sitting in the other part of the world. We can e-mail our friends and they can read the e-mails within a minute.
Giving all kinds of information is probably the biggest advantage of the Internet. We can use search engines to find the information we need. Just type in a keyword or keywords and the search engine will give us a list of suitable websites to look at.
We can enjoy a lot on the Internet by downloading games, visiting chat rooms or surfing(浏览)websites. There are some games for free. We can meet new and interesting people in the chat now. We can also listen to music and see films.
Now, there is a lot of service on the Internet such as online banking, job finding and ticket buying. We can also do shopping and find nearly all kinds of goods. Sometimes we can find something that is quite good but very cheap.
【小题1】How many main advantages of the Internet are talked about in the last passage?
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six. |
| A．We can find almost anything we want to know on the Internet. |
| B．Some games on the Internet are free. |
| C．We can buy most things we need on the Internet. |
| D．Goods on the Internet are more expensive than those in real shops. |
| A．Online Shopping |
| B．Exchanging Information on the Internet |
| C．The Advantages of the Internet |
| D．Surfing the Websites on the Internet |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2011-2012学年江苏省兴化市四校初二第三次月考英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
The sea looks very beautiful when the sun is shining on it. But it can be very terrible when there is a strong wind. The sea is very big. It covers three quarters of the earth. The sea is also very deep in some places. In one place, the sea is about 11 kilometres deep. The highest mountain(山) in the world is about nine kilornetres high. If that mountain was put into the sea at that place, there would still be two kilometres of water above it!
In most parts of the sea,there are plenty of fishes and plants (植物). Some live near the top of the sea.Others live deep down. There are also a lot of small living things,and lots of fish live by eating them. The sea can be very cold. When people go down, the sea becomes colder and colder. Only some men can go down into the deep sea. But,in 1970,five women scientists lived in the deep sea for fourteen days.
【小题1】This writing is ________.
| A．a short story | B．about the sea |
| C．a news report | D．a poem |
| A．The sea is usually very beautiful when it is sunny. |
| B．The sea is very terrible when the wind blows hard. |
| C．The highest mountain is in the deepest place of the sea. |
| D．The deeper the people go into the sea, the colder they would feel there. |
| A．1/3 | B．2/3 | C．1/4 | D．3/4 |
| A．they live by eating fish | B．they live to eat apples |
| C．they are good food for fish | D．they are too small for fish to catch |
| A．not only men can go down into the deep sea |
| B．women wanted to swim in the sea |
| C．women could go deeper into the sea than men |
| D．women liked living in the sea |
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科目：初中英语 来源：2013届安徽省桐城市黄冈初中九年第一次月考英语试卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
As we know, Meizhou Island is a famous place of interest in Putian. My pen pal from Australia, Sam, would like to visit it very much. He is coming here for a holiday next week. He is planning to stay here for seven days. He has never come to Putian before, so he needs to know something about it. The weather is the most important thing that he would like to know. He wants to know what he should get ready for the trip and what kinds of clothes he has to take with him. Here is the seven-day weather report for Putian.
【小题1】How long will Sam stay in Putian?
| A．Two days. | B．Five days. | C．A week. | D．A month. |
| A．The food in Putian. | B．The history of Putian. |
| C．The traffic in Putian. | D．The weather in Putian. |
| A．Sunny. | B．Cloudy. | C．windy. | D．Rainy. |
| A．26℃ | B．28℃ | C．32℃ | D．36℃ |
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