thousands of men and women, boys and girls are busy studying them. All around us are birds, animals,
trees and flowers. The facts about how they live and grow are interesting.
Do you know that one of the greatest presidents of the USA spent hours and hours studying birds?
A businessman who lived near New York City became so interesting in insects that he began to collect
them. He now has over one thousand different kinds of insects. He kept them carefully in glass boxes.
Then, come with me, and I will help you find some of the nature"s secrets. Let us go quietly through
the forests and fields. Here we shall find how a hare tells the other hares where the danger is. We shall
follow a mother bear and her young babies as they try to look for food and get ready for their long
winter sleep. We shall watch bees dancing in the air to tell the other bees where they can find food. I"ll
show you many other interesting things. But please remember to use your eyes and ears carefully when
you go out of the doors. Nature tells the secrets only to people who look and listen carefully.
B. thousands of students
C. thousands of boys and girls
D. Both A and C
B. A president of the USA
C. A businessman near New York City
D. A businessman near Washington
B. where their home is
C. where the food is
D. where they can sleep
B. bees
C. bears
D. snakes
B. by collecting many kinds of insects.
C. by being interesting in them
D. by looking and listening carefully out of doors.
is not always the case (情形). High school may not have asked for it, so good listening and note-taking
skills may need to be developed.
TRY | Being a possible, active listener. | ||||||||||||||||||||
HOW? | Sit down in front and do not read or talk. Pay special attention during the second 20 minutes (when you probably lose it) and to the last minutes when a summary (总结) might be given. | ||||||||||||||||||||
TRY | Being a confident, active learner. | ||||||||||||||||||||
How? | Come to class with an interest in the material (材料) and with questions to be answered. You can develop these by thinking about and preparing for the lesson and by pre-reading the text (This is especially helpful if you find yourself having difficulties keeping up with the material). | ||||||||||||||||||||
TRY | Getting correct notes, with special attention to the main ideas. | ||||||||||||||||||||
HOW? | There may be an overhead projector (投影仪); if so, get that material down. Besides, look for important points-from the teacher"s verbal (文字) language, or careful reading of his notes. If you still feel you"re missing the main points, try showing your notes to classmates or to the teacher. | ||||||||||||||||||||
TRY | Leaving lots of space between ideas. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Most people do not like to think about disasters (灾难), so they do not prepare for them. This is a deadly mistake. Whether you can be alive or not is decided by preparation. Here are somc tips that could savc your life. 1. Getting through the first hour Choose an out-of-town person that each family member can call after the disaster if you become alone. Besides, choose two nearby places where family members know to meet. One should be close to your home. The other should be outside your neighborhood. Keep your important papers at the bank or another safe place. Leave a disaster-supply kit (一套装备) (see Part 5) near the front door. Make sure you keep it filled with fresh food and water. If you are advised to move to the safe place, leave the area right away. 2. The disaster-ready home You may have some time to prepare before certain types of disasters. Take hurricanes (飓风) as an example. Bring in anything that could fly around or blow away. Prepare your car for leaving. Fill bottles with drinking water. Keep your radio on for weather information. 3. The safest places Hurricane: stay in an inside space with no windows. Glass could break and hurt you. Earthquake (地震): get under the nearest heavy desk or table. This will protect you from falling things. 4. Preparing for the worst- do this now! Hurricane: during the hurricane season, keep a two-week supply of drugs. Have wood and nails (钉子) ready to cover windows. Earthquake: move beds away from windows, heavy pictures or mirrors. Place large and/or heavy objects on lower shelves. Learn how to shut off the electricity and water. 5. Your disaster-supply kit First-aid (急救用的) kit and drugs; spare clothes; a radio; car keys; important phone numbers. 1. Should you leave when you are asked to move? ______________________________________________________________________ 2. What do you know is a deadly mistake from the passage? ______________________________________________________________________ 3. Why should you keep your radio on before certain types of disasters? ______________________________________________________________________ 4. Where can you stay to keep safe when hurricanes happen? ______________________________________________________________________ 5. What can you do to prepare for the earthquake according to the passage? (At least 3 points.) _______________________________________________________________________ | |||||||||||||||||||||
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In some science fiction movies, the robots are just like humans. They help with the housework and do the most 1 jobs. Some scientists believe that there will be such robots in the future. 2 , they agree it may 3 hundreds of years. Scientists are now trying to make robots 4 people and do the same things as us. But robot scientist James White 5 . He thinks that it will be 6 for a robot to do the same things as a person. 7 , it"s easy for a child to wake up and know where they are. Mr White thinks that robots won"t be able to do this. But other scientists disagree. They think that robots will be able to talk to people 8 25 to 50 years. Robot scientists are not just trying to make robots look like people. For example, there are already robots 9 in factories. They do simple jobs over and over again. People would not like to do such jobs and would get bored. But robots will 10 get bored. In the future, there will be more robots everywhere, and humans will have 11 work to do. New robots will have many different 12 . Some will look like humans, and 13 might look like snakes. After an earthquake (地震), a snake robot could help look for people under buildings. That may not seem possible now, but computers, space rockets and even electric toothbrushes 14 impossible a hundred years ago. We never know 15 will happen in the future! | |||||||||||||||||||||
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