【1】你想告诉老师，学习英语时你总是犯语法错误，你会说:

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【2】你想知道你的外国朋友们喜欢泼水节的什么方面，你会这样问他:

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【3】你想感叹中秋晚上的月亮多美啊，你会说:

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【4】你不知道附近哪里可以买到药，你会如何礼貌地向别人求助:

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【5】你想去邮局，但是不知道怎么走，你会如何札貌地向别人求助:

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Our grandparents seem to have magic powers sometimes. Give them a Chinese lunar calendar, and they will know what weather will be like days or even months later.

【1】 They are following the 24 Solar Terms(节气), which is an important part of Chinese culture. And on Nov. 30th, 2016, the United Nations (UN）added it to the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity（人类非物质文化遗产）.

The 24 Solar terms came into being during the Qin （211-206BC） and Han （206BC-AD220） dynasties. 【2】 So, weather changes were important. But of course, they had no satellite, Internet or weather broadcast to help them.

【3】 They studied the sun’s movement with a sundial（日冕仪）.They also paid attention to other natural changes such as temperature, water and crops growth. In the end, they worked out the 24 Solar terms to mark the changes.

【4】 For example, the solar terms jingzhe（惊蛰）is when insects wake up from a long sleep in the cold winter. Farmers take it as a sign of warm weather and get busy working.

The 24 Solar Terms is honored as China’s fifth great invention, after papennaking, printing, the compass and gunpowder.【5】 For example, people will say, “Do not show your feet after Hanlu(寒露).” Why? It’s because the solar term “Hanlu” marks the coming of the cold days.

A.Now, people still use the solar terms in daily life，

B.But people found a way.

C.The terms became their guide to farming work.

D.What’s the secret?

E.At the time, most Chinese people made their living on farms.

Canadian biophysicist Andrew Pelling used an apple to grow a human ear. He thinks fruit and vegetables can be used to cheaply repair human body parts in the future.

Scientists have been trying to grow organs in labs to replace our old ones. But it‘s a hard job. In the past, scientists have used man-made materials, animal parts and even dead people as scaffolds（支架）. But that has proved to be difficult and expensive.

Pelling and his team, however, found the apple to be a cheap and easy-to-use scaffolds.They first cut an apple into the shape of an ear. Then they used a special way to take out the apple‘s cells（细胞）and make it a scaffold. The team then added human cells to the apple, and watched it grow. “You can implant（移植）these scaffold into the body, and the body will send in cells and a blood supply and actually keep these things alive, ” Pelling said during a Ted Talk speech.

The team put the apple scaffold inside a living mouse and the mouse’s cells slowly take over the pieces of the apple.

Now Pelling is thinking of the other fruit, plants or vegetables to use.

【1】Andrew Pelling is a scientist who studies

A.body and organsB.biology and organ

C.physic and bodyD.biology and physics

【2】What did Pelling and his team use as scaffolds?

A.Fruits.B.Animals.C.dead peopleD.man-made

【3】According to Paragraph 4, the right order is________.

①Make the apple a scaffold.

②Cut an apple into the shape of an ear.

③Implant this scaffold into the human body.

④Add human cells to the apple scaffold.

A.①④②③B.②①④③C.②①③④D.④①③②

【4】How will the body keep the implanted scaffolds alive?

A.By repairing the scaffolds.B.By replacing the scaffolds.

C.By taking over the scaffolds.D.By sending in cells and a blood supply

【5】What‘s the best title of the passage?

A.Scaffolds and cellsB.Organs and cells

C.Organs Made of ApplesD.Scientists and apples

A.where you wentB.what did you shopC.what you did

—Really? ________exciting news!

A.What aB.WhatC.How

—A typhoon is coming. I’m not sure ________the road to the mountain will be dosed.

A.whetherB.thatC.why

—Maybe he asked his grandpa to pay for them, I think.

A.whereB.whenC.how

―________else. I think we have got everything ready.

A.NothingB.AnythingC.Something

—Sure. Walk straight and then turn right. Go ________a bookstore. The bank is next to it.

A.throughB.intoC.past

—“Well, tomorrow is my birthday. I ________if you’d like to come to my birthday party.”

A.hopeB.wonderC.believe