Have you ever dreamed of visiting a planet in the Milk Way? While the trip sounds exciting, it would take years and years to reach your destination. So in the future, bedtime for astronauts may be more than a few hours of regular shut-eye. They would have to sleep for years.

European researchers are now conducting hibernation experiments. The study may help them understand whether humans could ever sleep through the years it would take for a space flight to distant planets. "If there was an effective technology, it could make deep-space travel a reality," said Mark Ayre of the European Space Agency last month.

What seems like science fiction is not completely unlikely. Researchers have been able to use chemicals to put living cells into a sleep-like state where they don't age. They have now moved on to small, non-hibernating mammals like rats. The results will be out by the end of 2004.

A major challenge is the fact that cells can be very simple systems, whereas body organs are far more complex.

"It's like moving from a simple Apple computer to a supercomputer," said Marco Biggiogera, a hibernation researcher at Italy's University of Pavia.

Just like bears and frogs, the hibernation of human beings would cause a person's metabolism (新陈代谢) to lower so they would need less energy.

Medical research, however, is just half of a space flight hibernation system.

There is the challenge of designing a suitable protective shelter. Such a shelter would provide the proper environment for hibernation, such as the proper temperature. It would also have to monitor (监控) life functions and serve the physiological needs of the hibernator.

According to Ayre, the six-person Human Outer Planets Exploration Mission to Jupiter's moon (木星的卫星) Callisto, could be an opportunity to use human hibernation. The mission aims to send six humans on a five-year flight to Callisto, where they will spend 30 days, in 2045.

9. European researchers are conducting hibernation experiments to ________.

A. ensure astronauts to get a complete sleep  B. find the secret of some creatures

C. make preparations for the journey to Jupiter’s moon Callisto

D. know if man can sleep for years

 10. The sentence “What seems like science fiction is not completely unlikely” means ______.

A. Science fiction is people’s imagination.

B. Science fiction is imaginative, but it can be realized.

C. Things seem impossible may come true.

D. Things described in science fiction are sure to become true.

11. The passage is implied but doesn’t states that ________.

A. putting living cells into a sleep-like state is full of failure

B. Biggiogera is confident with the experiment

C. human’s hibernation needs no energy

D. medical research is the key to space flight hibernation system

12. By designing a suitable protective shelter, astronauts can ________.

A. have a good hibernation        B. lessen the pressure of traveling in space

C. feed themselves in spaceship    D. moinitor their body changes

13. What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Six humans to fly to Callisto  B. Human hibernation improves health

C. Space travel attracts people   D. Deep sleep for deep space travel

When I was seven my father gave me a Timex, my first watch. I loved it, wore it for years, and haven’t had another one since it stopped ticking a decade ago. Why? Because I don’t need one. I have a mobile phone and I’m always near someone with an iPod or something like that. All these devices（装置）tell the time — which is why, if you look around, you’ll see lots of empty wrists; sales of watches to young adults have been going down since 2007.

But while the wise have realized that they don’t need them, others—apparently including some distinguished men of our time—are spending total fortunes on them. Brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe and Breitling command shocking prices, up to ￡250,000 for a piece.

This is ridiculous. Expensive cars go faster than cheap cars. Expensive clothes hang better than cheap clothes. But these days all watches tell the time as well as all other watches. Expensive watches come with extra functions — but who needs them? How often do you dive to 300 metres into the sea or need to find your direction in the area around the South Pole? So why pay that much of five years’ school fees for watches that allow you to do these things?

If justice were done, the Swiss watch industry should have closed down when the Japanese discovered how to make accurate watches for a five-pound note. Instead the Swiss reinvented the watch, with the aid of millions of pounds’ worth of advertising, as a message about the man wearing it. Rolexes are for those who spend their weekends climbing icy mountains; a Patek Philippe is for one from a rich or noble family; a Breitling suggests you like to pilot planes across the world.

Watches are now classified as “investments”（投资）. A 1994 Patek Philippe recently sold for nearly ￡350,000, while 1960s Rolexes have gone from ￡15,000 to ￡30,000 plus in a year. But a watch is not an investment. It’s a toy for self-satisfaction, a matter of fashion. Prices may keep going up—they’ve been rising for 15 years. But when fashion moves on, the owner of that ￡350,000 beauty will suddenly find his pride and joy is no more a good investment than my childhood Timex.

The sales of watches to young people have fallen because they______.        

A. have other devices to tell the time                      B. think watches too expensive

C. prefer to wear an iPod                                      D. have no sense of time

It seems ridiculous to the writer that ______.

A. people dive 300 metres into the sea

B. expensive clothes sell better than cheap ones

C. cheap cars don’t run as fast as expensive ones

D. expensive watches with unnecessary functions still sell

What can be learnt about Swiss watch industry from the passage?

A. It targets rich people as its potential customers.

B. It’s hard for the industry to beat its competitors.

C. It wastes a huge amount of money in advertising.

D. It’s easy for the industry to reinvent cheap watches.

Which would be the best title for the passage?

A. Timex or Rolex?                                      B. My Childhood Timex

C. Watches? Not for Me!                               D. Watches — a Valuable Collection

Senior First Aid

Registration(注册) Details: PARASOL EMT Pty Limited (ABN 39 072 488 914)

Recognition Period: 01/01/1997 to 30/03/2008

Purpose: The aim of this course is to develop a student’s competence(胜任) and confidence in providing emergency first aid. This includes calling for help, the ability to respond to first aid situations, decision-making, and basic life support functions. This course covers adult and child conditions.

Target Audience: This course is suitable for anyone requiring a first aid certificate(证书) for the workplace, recreational purposes, sporting, or home use.

Format(形式): A mixture of theoretical and practical elements(成分), with at least 50% of time spent on practical skills.

Requirements: Be at least 14 years of age.

Learning Objectives: 

● Apply(运用) Life Support Skills

● Apply First Aid Management Skills for Burns

● Demonstrate the identification and management of bleeding and wounds.

● Describe the recognition and management of internal bleeding

● Manage an Emergency (Basic)

● Apply First Aid Management for bone and joint(关节) injuries

● Manage Emergency Situations

● Apply First Aid Management skills for bites, stings and poisoning.

● Manage an acute illness

● Describe the recognition and management of an eye injury

● Describe the basic structure and function of the human body.

● Apply First Aid Management skills for chest, abdominal(腹部的) and head injuries

1.The underlined part “target audience” probably means _______.

A．what performance the audience want to see

B．all kinds of audience who are to be attracted by the course

C．people are suitable to be engaged in first aid work

D．a limited group that the course is aimed at

2.According to the ads after you finish this course, you will probably do all the following EXCEPT _______.

A．you can deal with common animals’ bites and stings

B．you can do an operation on the chest and head

C．you can give first aid when someone hurt his leg badly

D．you can tell whether a person is bleeding inside his body

3.What is the main purpose of the advertisement?

A．To make a person competent to give first aid.

B．To develop the students’ ability to give first aid.

C．To persuade the students to take part in the first aid course.

D．To tell the students more about basic structure and function of the human body.

 

 Just now, I entered the website “Topic for Today”. I feel    1   (interest) in the report on middle school students’ using cell-phones on campus. In fact, more students now come to school  2   cell-phones. My schoolmates have different opinions. Some think   3   is convenient to get in touch with others with the cell-phone, which also makes you feel safe especially in time of trouble.  4   , it is nice to enjoy_____5__(variety)functions of different cell-phones.  6   think differently. First, the cell-phone is not   7  must in school, as  there are some IC phones there,  8    _(make) it easy to call others. Second, many students often play e-games and send e-massages with their cell-phones, even in class, 9 ___will surely have bad effects on their study. What’s more, it ___10_____(result) in a great waste of time and money. In my opinion, the cell-phone is a useful tool in our daily life. But it doesn’t mean we can use freely in school.

 

 

       ①It’s “laughably absurd” on one blog and a “magical revolution” on another．Bloggers are talking about the same device—the Apple iPad, which hit store shelves last week．

       ②Tech-heads hate the iPad because it has many functions—you can e-mail, browse the Web, read books—but it has no specialty．There are other devices on the market that do all its functions faster, cheaper and more efficiently．Get a Blackberry to scan e-mails or any old laptop to access the Internet．

       ③This first version of the iPad lacks many basic features．Tech-heads dislike the device not because of what it offers, but because of what it doesn’t offer．It doesn’t have Flash, and it doesn’t have a camera．It can’t access many of the world’s mobile applications, and it has a very restricted apple store．Based on purely technological grounds, the iPad is said to lack more than it gives．

       ④But if you are not a crazy tech-head, and you love the iPod and iPhone, “this device is for you,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO．The iPad will take online activities truly mobile．It will allow you to read the news in bed, check a recipe in a busy kitchen or view a large-scale Google map．

       ⑤Perhaps most important to the masses, it is a traditional computer without trouble．There are wireless, but it’s totally mobile．You press a button and it comes on in seconds．To add a program, you just download it from the Internet．Since almost everyone uses a computer in the office or at school, the need for the traditional desktop model at home is disappearing．Slate Magazine’s Farhad Manjoo calls the iPad the perfect alternative to the home computer system．

       ⑥But no matter how you feel about the iPad, as a tech-head or an everyman, there’s no arguing with its appeal．Love it or hate it, the iPad sold over 600,000 units on its opening weekend, surpassing the iPhone’s record sales in 2007．

1．What can be the best title for the text?

       A．Loving and hating the iPad      B．An exciting invention

       C．A home computer substitute        D．The iPad—a wise choice

2．According to the text, which of the following is Not true of the iPad?

       A．It can access the Internet．          B．It is wireless but portable．

       C．It can play any online video．       D．It can help you scan e-mail．

3．Which of the following best shows the structure of the text?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4．Farhad Manjoo’s attitude towards the iPad might be that of ______．

       A．doubt      B．unconcern       C．sympathy      D．support

5．Tech-heads dislike the iPad because of ______．

       A．its after-sale services               B．its high price

       C．its function shortages   D．its slow speed