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On January 28, 1958, a man named Godtfred Kirk Christiansen created the plastic building bricks that can now be found in almost every child’s toy box. The simple building block has become one of the most well-known and popular toys around the world.
"The Lego brick continues to be very attractive, because it allows children, and others, to develop their creativity and imagination," said Charlotte Simonsen, a spokeswoman of the Danish Lego company.
The company’s building brick allows an infinite number of links. With just two bricks there are 24 different links, and with six, there are 915 million possibilities, according to Lego.
A half-century after its creation, more than 400 million children and adults spend five billion hours a year putting the bricks together and pulling them apart. Also, the bricks made today can still interlock with those made in 1958.
Lego bricks are not just child’s play: they also attract the interest of adults. South Korean adventurer, Heo Young-Ho, who climbed Mount Everest in 1987, left a Lego toy behind in the snow during his climb.
After its great success Lego experienced a severe crisis at the end of the 1990s, hit hard by fierce competition from electronic games. This so-called "Toy of the Century" then suffered a dark period that lasted several years.
With great efforts, the company began to prosper again, and in 2006 it earned about 1.5 billion dollars in 130 countries. Seven boxes of Lego are now sold every second around the world, and 19 billion bricks are produced each year: enough to encircle the Earth five times！
小题1:The Lego bricks have remained popular in the past 50 years as a result of _______.
| A．attracting many children worldwide | B．brought imagination to the children worldwide |
| C．making the children and even adults worldwide creative and imaginative | |
| D．having infinite links that bring many imagination |
| A．Heo Youn-Ho also loved playing Lego bricks |
| B．the Lego bricks made him a mountain climber |
| C．the Lego bricks not only interest children but also adults |
| D．the Lego bricks are a must when on goes on an adventure |
| A．there are 915 different links with just 6 bricks |
| B．the Lego Bricks Company has made a lot of money from the people worldwide |
| C．the Lego Bricks can’t compare with computer games |
| D．the bricks made today don’t change much compared with those made in 1958 |
| A．defeated in a fight or a competition |
| B．have a crash in an accident or a fight |
| C．get known through a song |
| D．attacksomebodyin a fight |
| A．Lego bricks: brilliant past and struggling future |
| B．Lego bricks: an attraction of both children and adults |
| C．Lego bricks: making creativity and imagination |
| D．Lego bricks: making billions of money every year |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:A
小题5:A
解析
小题1:细节理解题。从文章第二段可知it allows children, and others, to develop their creativity and imagination，因此选C。
小题2:推理判断题。作者在第六段为了证实“乐高”积木老少皆宜的事实，引用了韩国登山家Heo Young-Ho也喜爱玩“乐高”积木的例子。
小题3:推理判断题。文章第五段说the bricks made today can still interlock with those made in 1958，从中可以推断五十年过去了，“乐高”积木的风格没有多大的变化。这或许是它的持久魅力所在吧。
小题4:词义考查题。hit在本文中的意思为“失败，输给对手”。
小题5:主旨大意题。本文介绍了“乐高”积木五十年的辉煌历史，但面对电脑游戏的激烈竞争，“乐高”还有很艰难的路要走。
核心考点
试题【Lego, the inventor of those colorful bricks that have inspired kids’ imagination】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
Green symbolizes life, health and energy. Nowadays, people demand healthy and fresh food. Having enough food to eat is only a basic requirement, and they need more than this. They want to enjoy unpolluted, safe and nutritious food and eat comfortably. So the government does this through a set of “from the land to the dinner table” quality controls. It requires to change China’s traditional agricultural structures and ensure the food of high quality.
Safe vegetables refers to products without substances harmful to humans. Growing such vegetables requires no strong poisons, thus guaranteeing vegetables fresh and clean. There are strict regulations in place for even applying fertilizer(肥料). The examination of vegetables should reach the state food hygiene(卫生) standard. The following conditions for green food are regulated by the China Green Food Development Center. Firstly, products or raw materials must reach the green ecological environment standard set by the Ministry of Agriculture. Secondly, crop planting, livestock raising, fish breeding and food processing must follow green food operating procedures set by the Ministry. Products must be up to the green food hygiene standard. External packing must be pasted with national standard universal labels, special green food packing decoration and tag regulations.
However, by now, our goal hasn’t been completely realized. When you return home with a full basket, you are still worried about whether what you have bought is green and healthy. Indeed, for the sake of our health, we still have a long way to go.
小题1: According to the passage, we know that green food __________.
| A．means the color of food is green |
| B．mainly refers to green vegetables |
| C．doesn’t need to be fertilized |
| D．is examined by a series of standards |
| A．Green food must not cause ecological destruction. |
| B．Green food should agree with green food operating procedures. |
| C．Green food itself should be labeled with special packing decoration. |
| D．Green food should meet the green food hygiene standard. |
| A．which governs agriculture |
| B．which sells food and vegetables |
| C．which plants green food |
| D．which examines food standards |
| A．Green food and health |
| B．The green food project |
| C．The future of green food |
| D．The regulations of green food |
The Street"s Ashley Peacock and Toyah Battersby know all their neighbors. But the Royal Mail survey shows that real-life under35s wouldn"t dream of popping next door for a chat or to borrow a cup of sugar.
Three out of ten say they wouldn"t know their neighbors if they saw them in the street. The same proportion would only offer to help neighbors if absolutely necessary, while thirty-onepercent don"t want to get to know them better. Twenty-six percent rarely or never speak to the person next door. Thirty-five percent only talk to neighbors occasionally, and six percent actively dislike them. The older generation are still sociable, with seventy percent of over55s taking time to chat to people next door. The report says: “In the past, the British tradition of village green gossip（闲聊）between neighbors was celebrated worldwide. But there"s been a clear shift away from local links by the young generation.” Londoners are least likely to be neighbors, with a third rarely or never chatting over the garden fence. People in the Midlands—where 65 percent often speak to their neighbors are most friendly.
Sociologist Jane Blakeman said: “People are working longer hours than ever before, and are traveling further to work. It leaves them far less time at home.”
小题1:Almost a third of young people_______.
| A．know their neighbours quite well |
| B．have no idea who lives next door to them |
| C．talk to their neighbours when they want to borrow something |
| D．spend time chatting with neighbours like their parents |
| A．important roles in a popular TV series |
| B．famous stars in TV programmes |
| C．old soap operas |
| D．members of royal family |
| A．people under35s | B．people between 35 and 55 |
| C．people over55s | D．people of different ages |
_______.
| A．would help their neighbours only when necessary |
| B．are less likely to have good relations with their neighbours |
| C．wouldn"t travel far and find more time to chat with neighbours |
| D．are more likely to keep up the old British tradition of having a chat over garden fence |
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, reared a group of rats in an environment of continuous background noise and found that their brain circuits that receive and interpret (解释) sound did not develop at the same rate as animals that were raised in a quieter environment.
Edward F. Chang and Michael Merzenich, co-authors of the study appearing in the journal Science, said that the continuous noise delayed the organization of auditory neurons (神经细胞) during a critical two-to-three-week period after the rat pups were born.
For rats not exposed to the noise, the auditory cortex(皮层) neurons during this period gathered into a smaller area and began developing a selective response to sounds.
But for the noiseexposed rats, this organization was slowed, causing a delay in the development of the ability to discriminate(辨别) specific sound tones. The researchers said it took three or four times longer for the rats raised in a noisy environment to reach the basic bench marks (基准) of auditory development seen in the rat pups not exposed to noises.
Although the rat is not a perfect model for what happens in humans, the authors note, the study does suggest that high levels of noise might possibly affect some language learning in babies.
“These findings suggest that environmental noise, which is commonly present in contemporary child-rearing environments, can potentially contribute to auditory and language-related development delays,”the authors wrote in Science.
The authors noted that although the brain development was delayed in rats exposed to the noise, their brains did eventually mature (成熟的) normally.
小题1:The scientists at California University studied rats_______.
| A．of different age groups | B．with different habits |
| C．in different environments | D．from different areas |
| A．were more sensitive | B．were duller |
| C．grew up more slowly | D．gathered together more quickly |
| A．delays brain development | B．stops baby growth |
| C．affects speech and language | D．destroys brains |
| A．causes of noises | B．medical science |
| C．other living things | D．human babies |
NASA have announced the finds of a 2-year study that suggested the common indoor plants may provide a natural way of helping fight against “Sick Building Syndrome(综合症)”.
Research into the use of biological processes as a means of solving environmental problems, both on Earth and in space habitats, has been carried out for many years by Dr. Bill Wloverton, a senior research scientist at NASA.
Based on preliminary evaluations(初步评估) of the use of common indoor plants for indoor air purification(净化),NASA funded a study using about a dozen popular varieties of attractive plants to determine their effectiveness in removing several key pollutants linked with indoor air pollution. NASA research on indoor has found that living plants are so efficient at absorbing pollutants in the air that some will be launched into space as part of the biological life support system aboard future orbiting space stations.
While more research is needed, Wolverton says the study has shown that common indoor plants can remove certain pollutants from the indoor environment. “We feel that future results will provide an even stronger argument that common indoor plants can be a very effective part of a system used to provide pollution free homes and work places,” he concludes.
“Combining nature with technology can increase the effectiveness of plants in removing air pollutants,” he said.
NASA research has always shown that living, green and flowering plants can remove several poisonous chemicals from the air inside buildings. You can use plant in your home or office to improve the quality of the air to make it a more pleasant place to live and work—where people feel better, perform better, and enjoy life more.
小题1:The main idea of the passage is _______.
| A．plants are very useful to human beings |
| B．indoor plants can help remove indoor air pollution |
| C．indoor plants should be raised in both homes and offices |
| D．NASA have studied indoor plants for many years |
| A．Some indoor plants would be used in space stations. |
| B．They want to find a way to cure Sick Building Syndrome. |
| C．They need indoor plants to carry out their experiments. |
| D．Indoor plants are pretty and attractive. |
| A．some kinds of indoor plants | B．ways to solve air pollution |
| C．research on indoor plants | D．poisonous chemicals in the air |
Forever Young
It"s Girls Night Out:Mom Edition, and I"m a player in a whole new game. It occurs to me that I really don"t know these 36 women. We"ve been circling 37 for about three years, ever since our kids started 38 .We"d bump into each other in the parking 39 ,at Valentine"s Day parties, and later as one or the other shyly 40 we all sign our kids up for softball, gymnastics or dance. Who knows 41 the five of us clumped together more than 42 of us clumped with other mothers. I suppose it happens 43 ,friendship circles spiraling in and around and about and anew.
This is the 44 time we"ve gathered without the kids, and I am having a 45 time saying “Janice”, as opposed to “Zoe"s mom” or “Susan”, 46 “Kaitlin"s mom”, and so I have decided, for tonight, not to 47 any names at all.
The 48 has already taken our drink order. I can"t believe nobody 49 beer.Nope, this is a Diet Coke and iced tea crowd. In the back of my mind I"m 50 if I"m going to be the naughty 51 who corrupts this group.
There is so much 52 to take care of when you are just getting to 53 people as people. One of the things we are doing is 54 dates, the years that each of us 55 from this or that. I see where this is going.
36. A. five B. three C. Four D. two
37. A. each other B. one another C. all of us D. some of us
38. A. primary school B. university C. high school D. preschool
39. A. lot B. Station C. line D. square
40. A. said B. suggested C. informed D. found
41.A. what B. that C. how D. why
42. A. some B. none C. any D. all
43. A. all the time B. all of a sudden C. at the same time D. once and for all
44. A. last B. first C. Usual D. only
45. A. spare B. good C. difficult D. pleasant
46. A. instead of B. as well as C. in case of D. in the name of
47. A. call B. use C. forget D. tell
48. A. kid B. mother C. Friend D. waitress
49. A. brought B. liked C. ordered D. drank
50. A. wondering B. fearing C. Speaking D. asking
51. A. girl B. mother C. One D. kid
52. A. trouble B. business C. time D. food
53. A. regard B. name C. Find D. know
54. A. comparing B. making C. Deciding D. discussing
55. A. came B. changed C. graduated D. got
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