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First of all, we must remember the whole universe is in motion. If we want to go back to yesterday, our "time machine" has to move back in time and space. If someone claimed he was at home when he suddenly travelled 200 years back in time, he either had an illusion or made the story up. Two hundred years ago, Earth was in a different place in space, so how can you travel back 200 years without moving in space? Don"t get me wrong. I am not knocking the genius of science fiction writers. H.G. Wells"s "The Time Machine" is a great work of fiction, but that’s all. I have read many other time travelling science fiction stories since reading H.G. Wells, but none address this problem of displacement.
My own argument for the im
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ossibility of time travel is that physical states of the past no longer exist and those of the future are not here yet. To be able to move back and forth in time requires everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen everywhere in the whole universe at every single moment in time－past, present, and future－to be stored as a "reality" somewhere－like the save game file of a computer game that contains every single byte of information of the game at the point it was saved, but you would need an almost extremely large file and almost extremely many of them－so it can be re-entered and communicated with, and not just light signals for viewing. To me, I don’t buy it.小题1:Which of the following can be the best title?
| A．How to make time travel possible? |
| B．Why am I fascinated by time travel? |
| C．Why do I think time travel is not possible? |
| D．How to explain the possibility of time travel? |
| A．success | B．dream | C．switch | D．support |
| A．We can go back to the past by time travel. |
| B．People can travel to the future by moving in space. |
| C．“The Time Machine” is nothing more than a science fiction. |
| D．Everything that happened, is happening and will happen can be stored somewhere. |
| A．people could combine romance with reasoning |
| B．people could stop the movement of the whole universe |
| C．people could use time machine under the instruction of H.G. Wells |
| D．people could “save” everything in the past, present and future in a certain space |
答案
小题1:C
小题1:B
小题1:C
小题1:D
解析
核心考点
试题【I love science and science fiction. Like many science fiction fans, I am fascina】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Researchers recruited（招募） participants from views of the BBC’s science show Bang Goes the Theory．More than 8,600 people aged 18 to 60 were asked to play online brain games designed by the researchers to improve their memory, reasoning and other skills, for at least 10 minutes a day, three times a week．
小题1:What’s the purpose of online brain games according to the designers?
| A．To take part in the study. |
| B．To draw public attention to computer. |
| C．To provide free service to teenagers. |
| D．To improve players’ IQ. |
| A．About 60. | B．Only 2700. | C．8600 or so. | D．Around 11,300. |
| A．Those who didn’t play online games felt disappointed. |
| B．Those who played online games proved smarter. |
| C．Online games don’t improve the players’ skills at all. |
| D．Online games will be more popular than before. |
A． Don’t Play Games Any More | B．New Study of IQ |
| C．Brain Games Don’t Raise IQ | D．Brain Games and Super Mario |
Handwriting was for the students in lower grades. Although most of them couldn’t write so well, they were all very careful about it. In the show window, there were a lot of colorful handwritten papers. They copied some articles from books or newspapers. And then they decorated them with pictures in different colors, and some even put their own photos on them. How cute and lovely they looked!
Story writing was for students in Grade 7 and Grade 8. These students are always fond of cartoons, so they got interested in this activity. Reading the stories they made up, all the visitors couldn’t help speaking highly of them.
The most important event was the English show on the last day. The students and teachers presented(上演) a lot of English songs and English operas. Each program won storms of applause.
One week is not very long, but all the students and teachers learned a lot. Just as the headmaster said, “It is a helpful week. It will certainly lead us to enjoy and learn more from our English studies.”
小题1:In this passage, the English week is described as__________.
| A．surprising | B．boring | C．enjoyable | D．serious |
| A．All the students took part in the handwriting contest. |
| B．The story writing contest was for students in Grade 7 and Grade 8. |
| C．The English show was the most important event. |
| D．Teachers also took part in the English week. |
| A．Noise | B．Cheer | C．Sound | D．Music |
| A．The activities are a good way to learn English. |
| B．Students usually don’t like English. |
| C．The activities last longer. |
| D．Learning English in the classroom is invaluable. |
At a garage, the mechanic promised our Mercury Sable would be repaired by the next week．Meanwhile, John tried to find us a rental car．After many phone calls, John finally found a car．Luckily, our auto club would pick up the tab．We ended up arriving there three hours behind schedule．We tried every ride and met Mickey．
At the end of the long weekend we called the garage to check on our car．It turned out that the mechanic hadn"t even looked at it yet! John got on the phone again．He found it would cost more than $ l, 100 to rent a car to drive home．That plus a plane ticket for him to go pick up our own car and we"d be out over $2,000!
I wailed（痛哭） and asked John, "What are we going to do?" He said, "It"ll work out．" John encouraged me not to lose heart and he insisted on trying to find a way out．Amazingly, John found a car transport company that had a car we could drive home, paying only for gas! But all the way home I couldn"t stop thinking about the money we"d still need for John"s trip back to the garage and another long driving home．
When we got home, the high school student who had fed our cats asked how our trip was．I gave him the rundown, "Things worked out okay except that our car"s still stuck in Georgia．" "No problem," he said．"I"m heading to Florida for a spring break with my parents．We"ll be glad to stop in Georgia on the way back and pick up your car．"
We ended up spending only $50 more than we"d budgeted．The next week, our car was back, and I had a new understanding of dealing with trouble．Whatever happens, if you never give up, a good solution will come out at last．
小题1:From the passage we can learn that ．
| A．Disney World is located in Georgia |
| B．Mercury Sable is the name of the mechanic |
| C．the couple budgeted for their trip carefully |
| D．repairing their car needed a lot of money |
| A．pay the expense of renting a car |
| B．find a taxi for the club members |
| C．give somebody a lift on the way |
| D．take someone home free of charge |
| A．They didn"t have enough money to rent a car to go home． |
| B．They spent $2,000 more than they had budgeted． |
| C．They didn"t enjoy themselves in Disney World． |
| D．They found their car hadn"t been repaired at all． |
| A．the car transport company usually had its cars rented |
| B．the couple had to drive the company"s car to an appointed place |
| C．the car transport company charged the couple some money |
| D．a student helped the couple return the car to the company ． |
I had an interesting conversation with a reporter recently --- one who works for you. In fact, he’s one of your best reporters. He wants to leave.
Your reporter gave me a copy of his resume(简历) and photocopies of six stories that he wrote for you. The headlines showed you played them proudly. With great enthusiasm, he talked about how he finds issues(问题), approaches them, and writes about them, which tells me he is one of your best. I’m sure you would hate to lose him. Surprisingly, your reporter is not unhappy. In fact, he told me he really likes his job. He has a great assignment (分工), and said you run a great paper. It would be easy for you to keep him, he said. He knows that the paper values him. He appreciates the responsibility you’ve given him, takes ownership of his profession, and enjoys his freedom.
So why is he looking for a way out?
He talked to me because he wants his editors to demand so much more of him. He wants to be pushed, challenged, coached to new heights.
The reporter believes that good stories spring from good questions, but his editors usually ask how long the story will be, when it will be in, where it can play, and what the budget is.
He longs for conversations with an editor who will help him turn his good ideas into great ones. He wants someone to get excited about what he’s doing and to help him turn his story idea upside down and inside out, exploring the best ways to report it. He wants to be more valuable for your paper. That’s what you want for him, too, isn’t it?
So your reporter has set me thinking.
Our best hope in keeping our best reporters, copy editors, photographers, artists --- everyone --- is to work harder to make sure they get the help they are demanding to reach their potential. If we can’t do it, they’ll find someone who can.
小题1:What does the writer think of the reporter?
| A．Optimistic. | B．Imaginative. | C．Ambitious. | D．Proud. |
| A．Finding the news value of his stories. | B．Giving him financial support. |
| C．Helping him to find issues. | D．Improving his good ideas. |
| A．An editor. | B．An artist. | C．A reporter. | D．A reader. |
| A．keep their best reporters at all costs |
| B．give more freedom to their reporters |
| C．be aware of their reporters’ professional development |
| D．appreciate their reporters’ working styles and attitudes |
Any owner will tell you how much joy a pet brings. For some, an animal provides more comfort than a husband/wife. A 2002 study by Karen Allen of the State University of New York measured stress (紧张) levels and blood pressure in people ---half of them pet owners ---while they performed 5 minutes of mental arithmetic (算术) or held a hand in ice water. Subjects completed the tasks alone, with a husband/wife, a close friend or with a pet. People with pets did it best. Those tested with their animal friends had smaller change in blood pressure and returned most quickly to baseline heart rates. With pets in the room, people also made fewer math mistakes than when doing in front of other companions. It seems people feel more relaxed (放松)around pets, says Allen, who thinks it may be because pets don’t judge.
A study reported last fall suggests that having a pet dog not only raises your spirits but may also have an effect on your eating habits. Researchers at Northwestern Memorial Hospital spent a year studying 36 fat people and their equally fat dogs on diet-and-exercise programs; a separate group of 56 people without pets were put on a diet program. On average, people lost about I1 pounds, or 5% of their body weight. Their dogs did even better, losing an average of 12 pounds, more than 15% of their body weight. Dog owners didn’t lose any more weight than those without dogs but, say researchers, got more exercise overall---mostly with their dogs --- and found it worth doing.
小题1:What does the text mainly discuss?
| A．What pets bring to their owners. |
| B．How pets help people calm down. |
| C．People’s opinions of keeping pets. |
| D．Pet’s value in medical research. |
| A．he has a pet companion |
| B．he has less stress of work |
| C．he often does mental arithmetic |
| D．he is taken care of by his family |
| A．They have lower blood pressure. |
| B．They become more patient. |
| C．They are less nervous. |
| D．They are in higher spirits. |
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