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Many children love to play with snow in winter. But Long Chuan has come to hate it.
This year his hometown suffered from snowstorms (遭受暴风雪) for nearly a month. The heavy snow stopped cars and trains, broke the electricity (电) tower and turned tap water to ice.
Every day Long Chuan had to walk several kilometers to carry drinking water. “I couldn’t ride a bike and it took me 3 hours to walk to school. I can’t remember how many times I slipped (滑倒) on the hard ice, ” said Long Chuan.
Long is not alone. This year millions of people in central and southern China had a freezing winter without enough water and electricity. The biggest snowstorms in 50 years killed more than 100 people. They also cost the country 111.1 billion yuan.
Experts (专家) say a special type of climate condition (气候条件), La Nina, caused the storms. During a La Nina, the water in the Pacific Ocean (太平洋) near the equator (赤道) becomes colder than usual. It changes the weather around the world.
Besides China, Canada, the US and Middle Eastern countries also met with heavy snowstorms this winter. The special climate caused the recent flooding (洪水) in Australia, too.
However, experts say that people have destroyed the environment (环境). Global warming (全球变暖) may be causing these terrible weather events to happen more and more often.
【小题1】What took place in Long Chuan’s hometown last winter?
A.Earthquake. | B.Flooding. | C.Traffic Accident. | D.Heavy snowstorms. |
A.had to walk to carry drinking water | B.had to ride a bike to school |
C.couldn’t go to school on foot | D.couldn’t play with snow |
A.killed millions of Chinese | B.cost China 111.1 billion yuan |
C.used too much electricity | D.lasted more than three hours |
A.China is the only country which suffered from the heavy snow |
B.La Nina is said to have caused the snowstorms |
C.La Nina also caused hot summer in Australia |
D.the snowstorms have nothing to do with global warming |
A.to wear more clothes in winter | B.to stop riding bikes on the hard ice |
C.to protect (保护) the environment | D.to save water and electricity |
(A) Have you ever had an embarrassing(尴尬的)experience?
Tony: I had just started teaching in a Liverpool secondary school. One morning my alarm clock didn't ring. I woke up at half past eight and school began at nine. I quickly washed, dressed, jumped into my car and rushed to school. When I arrived, the students had already gone into class. I went straight into class. After two or three minutes the students began laughing and laughing! Why? Suddenly I looked down and understood. I had put on one black shoe and one brown shoe!
Henry: After seeing a film, we decided to walk along the street. The street was very busy and we started holding hands. Suddenly my wife saw a dress that she liked in a shop window, and stopped. I started looking at some watches in the next window. After a minute or two I reached for my wife's hand. There was a loud scream(尖叫), and a girl slapped(掴) my face!I hadn't taken my wife's hand. I'd taken the hand of a girl!
James: I had decided to buy a new house, and I'd made an appointment (约定)to see our bank manager. I'd never met him before. I was lucky enough to find a parking space outside the bank. I'd just started reversing(倒车) into the space when another car made its way into it. I was so angry! I shouted at the man in the car. He ignored(不理) me and walked away. It took me twenty minutes to find another place. I was ten minutes late for my appointment. I went to the manager's office, knocked and walked in. The manager was sitting behind his desk. He was the man who had taken my parking space!
【小题1】Tony is ______.
A.a student |
B.lazy |
C.a teacher who has taught for years |
D.a young teacher. |
A.wearing a wrong shoe | B.carrying an alarm clock |
C.looking down suddenly | D.rushing into the classroom |
A.heard his wife screaming in the street |
B.slapped the girl in the face |
C.took the hand of a complete stranger |
D.knocked over some watches in the shop |
A.put money in the bank | B.meet the bank manager |
C.look for a job | D.buy a new car |
A.James couldn’t borrow money from the bank, because the manager was angry with him. |
B.In the office, when the manager saw James, he ignored James and walked away. |
C.James didn’t dare to meet the bank manager |
D.We don’t know what will happen next. |
根据句意,写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。
1.As it was even __________ (fog), it took me longer to get to school.
2.The little dog grew up healthily under different mother __________ (wolf) protection.
3.I can’t work out the problem __________ (easy) without your help.
4.Be careful with the knives, children, or you may hurt ___________ (you).
Give this memory test a try. Mix up 52 playing cards. Now look at the top seven for a second. Can you remember them in order?
Players at the World Memory Championships can. In fact, the 2002 champion (冠军), Andi, memorized the order of 1196 cards after looking at them for only an hour! And a German girl, Lara, only ten years old, memorized 75 faces and names in fifteen minutes!
In 1987, a Japanese man, Mr. Tomoyori, wanted to prove that his memory was the best in the world by remembering by heart pi (π), a number in math which starts 3.14159…This number never repeats itself or ends. He recited pi to 40,000 decimal places (小数位). It took the fifty-five-year-old man more than twelve hours to say the numbers, but he did it without making a mistake!
To remember pi, Mr. Tomoyori connected each number with a sound. He then made up stories to help him remember the words he made from the sounds. In an interview after his achievement, he said, “I decided to go ahead and memorize the value of pi up to one thousand places. But it wasn’t easy – in fact, it took me three years. To get to 40,000 decimal places it took me about ten years.”
Unluckily for Mr. Tomoyori, his record was broken in 1995, when another Japanese man, Mr. Goto, memorized pi to 42,195 places.
【小题1】Why was Lara’s success special?
A.She was just a little girl. | B.She was the 2002 champion. |
C.She was from Germany. | D.She remembered more words. |
A.He found pi easy to remember. |
B.His memory was the best in the world. |
C.He used stories to help remember words. |
D.He only made one mistake while saying pi. |
A.Andi. | B.Lara. | C.Mr. Goto. | D.Mr. Tomoyori. |
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