“I asked him if there was any news from the sea. That’s all.”
“Well, what did the fish say?” asked Mr Hill.
“He said he didn’t know the latest news, because he was away from the sea for over two weeks.”
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51. The story happened on a sunny morning.
52. David went into the store and chose a fish carefully.
53. Mr Hill was happy to see David smell the fish.
54. In fact, David didn’t talk to the fish while smelling it.
55. David’s last sentence means the fish was not fresh.
B
During the outbreak of COVID-19(新冠肺炎爆发), new technology plays an important role in guarding people’s lives.
Inventors in Israel have developed a special mask(口罩). It lets customers eat food without taking it off in restaurants. They say it can make a visit to a restaurant less risky.
New technology from MIT(麻省理工学院), the USA, shows that drones(无人机) are controlled just by hand and arm gestures, a kind of body language. This
makes drone users safer.
One local park in Singapore is trying a new way to get its visitors to stay
away from each other. Spot, a yellow and black robot dog, goes around the
park. It plays a video and warns visitors not to get too close to each other. And it also helps count the visitors in the park with its camera.
Drones are also put to use in China. The technology helps look carefully through large crowds and see if someone is in need of medical attention. In Wuhan,
self-driving robots are used to bring things to medical workers. These robots
look like small cars. They don’t travel too long, but protect medical workers and postmen.
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56. People can eat food without taking off the special masks in .
A. China
B. the USA
C. Israel
D. Singapore
57. According to the new technology, is used to control drones.
A. a video
B. a small car
C. a camera
D. body language
58. In Singapore, warns visitors not to get too close to each other.
A. a drone
B. a robot dog
C. a special mask
D. a self-driving robot
59. Drones are used to in China.
A. find out someone in need of medical attention
B. play a video and take photos around the park
C. help to protect medical workers and postmen
D. help customers in restaurants buy special masks
60. In the passage, countries use new technology during the outbreak of COVID-19.
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five
C
①When someone says you’re humorous, it means you are given a great gift—a sense of humor. It is generally considered the most valuable personality(个性). A person without humor is just like a spring without flowers, or like a dish without salt. In a way, your personality lies in your sense of humor.
②Humor answers your question and makes you think outside the box. One day, a young painter went to visit the famous German painter Adolpyh Menzel and said to him, “I can’t understand why I only spend one day on a painting but have to wait for one year to sell it out?” Menzel said, “My dear, please try to turn upside down your mind. If you spend one year on it, you can sell it in a da y.” With these humorous words, your worries may go away like smoke, and you could be full of energy once again.
③Humor can help you when you are under provocation. Sometimes, people make trouble on purpose. One day the famous German poet Goethe met a critic(批评家) in a small road. The critic said to Goethe, “You know, I’ve never given a way to a stupid man.” Goethe answered, “But I am the opposite of you.” Then he moved on his side and let the critic pass by. As you see, humor gives a lesson to those who want to laugh at others.
④People with a good sense of humor may become wise and creative. People with a good sense of humor look happier and healthier. A sense of humor is really one of the keys to happiness. It gives hope and pleasure to life to make it worth living.
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61. According to Paragraph①, humor is __________.
A. difficult
B. relaxing
C. important
D. expensive
62. What does the underlined word “provocation” in Paragraph③mean in Chinese?
A. 挑衅
B. 感化
C. 怂恿
D. 教训
63. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A. Humor cannot cheer you up easily.
B. Humor helps you think in the same way.
C. Humor guides you to happiness and health.
D. Humor gives a lesson to those who can’t help laughing.
64. Which picture shows the structure(结构) of the passage?
A B C D
65. What is the best title of the passage?
A. The Pleasure of Life
B. The Value of Humor
C. The Stories of Happiness
D. The Stories of Humorous People
D
If you’ve ever taken a bus, you’ve pro bably found someone sleeping in the seat near you. Maybe this even happens to you. You might think you need more coffee, but it won’t help much.
The natural vibration(振动) of buses and subways makes us feel sleepy, according to a new story in Science Alert.
Why? It’s all about the information going to your brain. On a bus, your senses give you continuous(持续的) and repeating information. For example, the air conditioner and engine(引擎) create continuous white noise. At the same time, you’re sitting still and the things around you don’t change. The vibrations of the engine are also continuous. Your brain has almost no new information to deal with.
The repeating information will make your brain enter a low-energy state. The fact that you fall asleep quickly when closing your eyes on a bus is because your brain gets used to all of it.
“When you’re tired, it doesn’t take much to start nodding off. But we’ve found that as you drive, the
gentle vibrations made by car seats can make you sleepy,” said Stephen Robins on, a researcher from the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Robinson’s team invited 15 volunteers to do a test. They were required to sit in a driving machine. And the researchers kept watching their HRV(心率变异度)—a well-known indicator(标志) of sleepiness. Over the course of two 60-minute periods, volunteers were tested once with vibrations and once without. In the period with vibrations, their HRVs were much lower compared with the period without vibrations. During 15 minutes, volunteers showed signs of sleepiness. During 30 minutes, that sleepiness was very easy to be noticed, increasing up until the end of the test.
This line of research can offer help in the development of the car industry. Robinson believed the research could be helpful for improvi ng road safety. “We hope that future car seats can be built to fight against vibration and to make the sleepiness weaker,” he said.
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66. Which is NOT the continuous information on a bus according to Paragraph 3?
A. The white noise of the engine.
B. The changing things around you.
C. The vibrations of the engine.
D. The white noise of the air conditioner.
67. If you don’t want to sleep on a bus, what should you do?
A. Stand up and move your body.
B. Take more coffee with you.
C. Stop talking and keep silent.
D. Listen to the same song.
68. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refer to(指的是) ?
A. A low-energy state.
B. The noisy environment.
C. The repeating information.
D. Someone sleeping in the seat.
69. What can we learn from the test?
A. With vibrations, the volunteers’ HRVs increased up.
B. The volunteers’ HRVs didn’t change during the whole test.
