Are you facing a situation that looks impossible to fix?

In 1969, the pollution was terrible along the Cuyahoga River near Cleveland, Ohio. It 51.________(be) unimaginable that it could ever be cleaned up. The river was so polluted that it 52.________(actual) caught fire and burned. Now, years later, this river is one of 53.________ most outstanding examples of environmental clean­up.

54．________the river wasn't changed in a few days or even a few months. It took years of work 55.________(reduce) the industrial pollution and clean the water. Finally, that hard work paid off and now the water in the river is 56.________(clean) than ever.

Maybe you are facing an impossible situation. Maybe you have a habit 57.________ is driving your family crazy. Possibly you drink too much or don't know how to control your credit card use. When you face such an impossible situation, don't you want a quick fix and something to change immediately?

While there are 58.________(amaze) stories of instant transformation, for most of us the 59.________(change) are gradual and require a lot of effort and work, like cleaning up a polluted river. Just be 60.________(patience)．

71．Minibuses with seats for 12 passengers offer an a        to expensive taxis and crowded public transport in some areas.

72．Not surprisingly, customs v       from culture to culture when it comes to table manners.

73．After what seemed a long time, we eventually arrived at the d      , where we would stay for the whole national holiday.

74．I have tried every possible means to find a s      to the problem, but in vain.

75．Nearly three months had gone by before the seriously injured firefighter showed a      (轻微的) sign of recovery.

76．All the job applicants should fill the form hand the form to the manager, with a photo a        to it.

77．To our great astonishment, the young man should get i        in an international crime.

78．The number of wild animals has been dropping over the last decade,      （威胁）the balance of eco-system.

79．As evidence began to accumulate, we all believed what he had stated was d       right.

80．I admire my English teacher, who is always           (乐观的) about life, no matter what happens.

Scientists often see the first ten years of a child’s life as the “window of opportunity”.  36 And studies show that the following activities can benefit their brain greatly.

37 

Free playtime has always been an important part of “being a kid”, but it is also important to a child’s development. “Free play” not only helps kids develop different skills, it also helps them develop into happy healthy adults in the future.

Read with kids

       Reading has long been known to improve children’s intelligence.  38 For parents who don’t have much time, just surrounding your kids with books goes a long way too.

Put kids to bed early

39  Preschool children should get at least eleven hours of sleep and kids up to age 12 should try to get at least ten hours of sleep.

Learn a second language

       Early studies in this field have shown that bilingual (双语的) kids can perform better under pressure. Young children can learn new language with nearly perfect fluency and pronunciation.

Praise good effort not intelligence.

       Your kids may be smart but you should mainly praise the effort they put into tasks. Kids, who are praised on intelligence, often feel it is a fixed quality, and mistakes or failures badly hurt their self-confidence. Kids who are praised on effort often focus more on learning.  40 

A.     Give them enough playtime.

B.     Everything at this time is very important to the development of a person’s brain.

C.    And they are not afraid to fail and try again.

D. Kids still need time away from the TV to do homework.

E. Studies show that kids with regular bedtimes are better at languages, math and reading.

F. Play some helpful game.

G.    Kids who read often develop earlier writing and number skills as well.

     Thomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest genius（天才） of his age. There are only a few men in all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius.“ There is no such thing as genius,”Edison said.He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work.
      But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker..From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature.Nature, he often said,is full of secrets.He tried to understand them;then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.
Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.
      Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “ Work,” he answered. “Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.
1.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
  A. Edison invented the electric light.
  B. Many other people have changed Edison’s life.
  C. Edison has changed the life of many other people.
  D. Few men in history can change other people’s life.
2.Edison thought              .
  A.he could be happy if he was a genius
  B.genius plays the most important part in one’s success
  C.hard work could do better than genius
  D.genius could do better than hard work
3.Edison was              .
  A.very much interested in nature
  B.interested in discovering the secrets of nature
  C.interested in changing people’s ideas
  D.uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature
4.In Edison’s opinion,            .
  A.thinking can supply people with enjoyment and pleasure as well as help
  B.people’s successs lies mostly in genius
  C.hard work is the second important thing in making people successful
  D.there are few secrets for him to discover later
5.The last sentence in the passage most probably implies           .
   A.life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings
 B.Edison made 100 inventions in his life
 C.Edison was able to live and work for 100 years 
 D.People of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 years’ work

Americans are a strange people. They work like mad, then give away much of what they earn. They play until they are exhausted, and call this a vacation. They live to think of themselves as hard-hearted business men, yet they are push-overs for any hard luck story. They have the biggest of nearly everything including government, motor cars and debts. Yet they like to think of themselves as little people, average men, and they would like to cut everything down to their own size. They show off their tall buildings, high mountains, long rivers, big state, the best country, the best world, the best heaven. Yet they also have the most traffic deaths, the most waste, and the most liars.

When they meet, they are always telling each other, “Take it easy,” then they rush off like crazy in opposite directions. They play games as if they were fighting a war, and fight wars as if playing a game. They marry more, and go broken more often. They love children, animals, mother, work, excitement, noise, nature, television shows, comedy, high pace, sports, the underdog, the hero, the flag, Christmas, jazz, shapely women and muscular men, classical recordings, crowds, comics, cigarettes, warm houses in winter and cool ones in summer, thick beefsteaks, coffee, ice cream, informal dress, plenty of running water, do-it-yourself, and a working week limited to forty hours or less.

They crowd their highways with cars while complaining about the traffic, troop to movies and television while blaming the quality and the advertisements, go to church but don’t care much for sermons (布道), and drink too much in the hope of relaxing—only to find themselves drunk into even bigger dreams.

There is of course, no typical American. But if you added them all together and then divided by 226, 000, 000 they would look something like what this chapter has tried to describe.

28. What may be the best title of the passage? ______.

    A. The Americans.       B. Life in America.    C. Strange people.      D. Great America

29. What is the meaning of the underlined sentence in Para.1? ______.

    A. They like listening to bad luck stories.

    B. They push the interesting stories away.

    C. They can easily be moved by sad stories.

    D. They are informed of good luck stories often.

30. Which one of the following is probably NOT what the Americans love? ______.

    A. noise                B. advertisement        C. smoking          D. fresh water

31. In what way did the author write this passage? ______.

    A. By comparison.                           B. By giving examples. 

C. By experimenting.                        D. By telling stories.

I teach biology at UNLV three times per week. Last Monday, at the beginning of class, I cheerfully asked my   1   how their weekend had been. One young man said that his weekend had not been so   2  . He had his wisdom teeth removed. Then he went on to ask me why I always seemed to be so   3  .

His question   4   me of something I'd read somewhere before: “Every morning when you get up, you have a   5   about how you want to deal with life that day,” I said. “I choose to be cheerful.” 

“Let me give you an example,” I   6  , addressing (对...强调)all sixty students in the class. “In   7   to teaching here at UNLV, I also teach out at a   8   in Henderson, 17 miles down the   9   from where I live. One day a few weeks ago I drove those 17 miles to Henderson. I exited the highway and turned onto College Drive. I only had to drive another quarter mile down the road to the college. But just then my car   10  . I tried to start it again, but the   11   wouldn't work.   12   I turned my flashers on, took my books, and   13   down the road to the college.

 “As soon as I got there, I called and   14   for a tow truck to meet me at my car after   15  . The secretary there asked me what had happened. “This is my   16   day,” I replied, smiling.

She was   17  . “What do you mean?”

“My car could have broken down anywhere along the highway. It didn't.” I replied. “  18  , it broke down in the perfect place: off the highway,   19   walking distance of here. I'm still able to teach my class, and I've been able to arrange for the tow truck to meet me after class. If my car was meant to break down today, it couldn't have been arranged in a more convenient   20  .”

I ended my story. In spite of the early hour, no one in my class seemed to be asleep. Somehow, my story had touched them. …

1. A. schoolmates       B. children             C. teachers         D. students

2. A. bad           B. good                 C. sad              D. free

3. A. curious           B. false                C. grateful         D. cheerful

4. A. overcame      B. rid              C. reminded         D. warned

5. A. decision          B. choice           C. preference           D. judgment

6. A. laughed       B. demanded        C.continued          D.smiled

7. A. contribution      B. devotion         C. application          D. addition

8. A. school            B. college          C. university           D. institute

9. A. highway       B. railway          C. road                 D. path

10. A. broke            B. died             C. reduced          D. finished

11. A. instrument       B. wheel                C. light                D. engine

12. A. But          B. And              C. So               D. Or

13. A. marched      B. drove                C. rode             D. followed

14. A. prepared         B. looked               C. waited               D. arranged

15. A. class            B. work                 C. study                D. lunch

16. A. lucky            B. unusual          C. precious             D. worthy

17. A. astonished       B. excited          C. puzzled          D. pleased

18. A. Anyway       B. Instead          C. Also                 D. Still

19. A. within           B. beyond           C. without          D. along

20. A. order            B. need             C. way              D. situation

76. No one wants to make friends with him, because he likes to play t__________ on others.

77. My parents lent me money. O __________, I couldn’t have afforded the trip.

78. When I listened to the song, it r__________ me of my hometown.

79. When we got to the top of the mountain, we took a deep b__________ of fresh air.

80. He was afraid of failure because he did not want to I__________ face before his classmates.

81. At least 30 miners were killed, 22 i__________ （受伤）and 8 trapped in the earthquake.

82. If the pain continues, c__________（咨询） your doctor without delay,

83. It’s rude to__________(盯着) at strangers in public.

84. What he said__________(使信服) me that I was mistaken.

85. Her child was missing. No__________(难怪) she was upset.

    Did you know that there is a fruit juice that you can cook with, wash. with and   41   things with? What is it? It's olive oil, of course, and it's fast becoming the most popular   42   in the world.

      43   people in Mediterranean countries such as Greece, Italy and Spain have been using olive oil for over 4,000 years, it has only recently become   44   in other parts of the world. In fact, people beyond the Mediterranean used to think of olive oil as a(n)  45   but expensive treat.   46  , recent studies linking an olive oil-rich   47   with low rates of heart disease have made the rest of the world sit up and   48  . As a result, more and more people have come to realize the many health and nutritional   49   of giving up other oils and using

olive oil instead. As well as tasting delicious and being the   50   cooking oil available, olive oil has many other   51  . It is used.in many cosmetics(化妆品), hair conditioners and soaps. It also has a wide variety of lesser-known uses, such as fixing noisy doors and   52    polishing diamonds. It's a also a preservative (防腐剂), and will keep fish and cheese   53   for years.

    Perhaps more important, though, is olive oil's value as   54  . Not only can eating olive oil   55   the risk of serious diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, it can also have a   56   effect on many stomach disorders. On top of this, Mediterranean people have traditionally used it to   57   minor wounds and illnesses. This could explain why people in Mediterranean countries tend to   58   longer. So the next time you go shopping, don't  59  to add olive oil to your list. It will make your food   60   better and your life last longer! 

41. A. mix              B. fill             C. cover        D. preserve

42.A.fruit              B.oil           C.juice             D.plant

43. A. Because          B. Although         C. When         D. Since

44. A. popular          B. natural          C. nutritional      D. expensive

45. A. native       B. common       C. familiar         D. unusual

46. A. Besides          B. Otherwise    C. Therefore    D. However

47. A. diet             B. soap         C. cheese       D. stomach

48. A. stay hungry      B. keep calm    C. make faces       D. take notice

49. A. problems         B. benefits         C. goals        D. challenges

50. A. cheapest         B. latest       C. healthiest       D. earliest

51.A. uses              B.ways              C. origins          D. sources

52. A. still            B. once         C. even         D. again

53. A. clean            B. fresh        C. safe             D. dry

54. A. food             B. treasure         C. drink        D. medicine

55. A. face             B. increase         C. lower        D. measure

56. A. good             B. limited          C. slight       D. negative

57. A. check            B. spread       C. develop          D. treat

58. A. sleep            B. live             C. eat              D. walk

59. A. choose       B. forget       C. agree        D. expect

60. A. feel             B. look             C. taste            D. grow

4月23日是“世界读书日”（World Reading Day），假如你是班长，请你起草一份倡仪书，号召全班同学以实际行动迎接“世界读书日”的到来，为创建“书香校园”，多读书、读好书，养成课外读书的好习惯。字数120左右。

倡仪书应包括以下内容：

1．现状（ 看电视、上网时间更多）

2．列举一些阅读的好处；(丰富知识，完善自我)

3．建议每位同学每学期至少读1—2本好书。

开头已给，不计入词数。

Good morning! Boys and girls

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INDEPENDENCE

Most people in the US believe that independence is very important. They do not think of themselves as

representatives of their families, communities, or social class. Students think those who depend on their family are dependent. Teachers expect students to be independent, to work alone, and to produce original work.

EQUALITY

The Declaration of Independence states, “All men are created equal." In many ways, people believe this; you can see equality in such common practices as waiting in line. When you go to the bank or to the post office, you will be asked to take a number and wait. No matter how important you are, you will be treated like anyone else; first come, first served. You can also see equality in the classroom. All students are the same in the eyes of the professors. Similarly, professors sometimes ask students to call them by their first names.

PUNCTUALITY （准时）

Many people in the US are very punctual and organize their activities around schedules. Being late is rude. If you cannot be on time， tell the people who are waiting for you. For business appointments, you should arrive a few minutes early. For social appointments, you should arrive 10-15 minutes after the appointed time.

MATERIALISM （物质主义）

Success in the US is often measured in dollars. Many people in the US think more about money and material possessions than people in other countries. As a result, you may think that people ignore those more important things in life, like love and friendship. This is not true: like people in every country, most people in the US still value friendship or love more than wealth.

28. Professors ask students to call them by their first names in order to _____.

A. show that they are all equal                 B show that they are respectable

C. prove that they love the students                D. give the students freedom.

29. If one earns lot f money in the US, he or she _____.

A. will never think of earning more money       B. will be regarded as a successful person

C. will consider wealth to be less important        D. will ignore love and friendship

30. According to the text, Americans _____.

A. are the most punctual people in the worldB. always arrive early for appointments

C. encourage students to cooperate with othersD. look down on those who rely on their parents

31. The text mainly tells readers _____.

A. that America is a very independent countryB. about the important characteristics of Americans

C. how Americans live, work and study      D. that Americans are all very punctual

71.You have _________ (暴露) the soldiers to risks in fact.

72.I wonder if you have any interest in _____________ （建筑艺术）.

73.He is a man who is _________（缺乏）in responsibility.

74. I think that we have reason to be ____________（乐观的）.

75.Mr. Wang is just one of the ____________ （受害者）；the thieves stole money

from their houses.

76.The boy was badly injured in the traffic accident. As a result, he was a        

   by three nurses.

77.I keep my reference books near my desk for c            .

78.P       the button, and then the machine will work.

79.I wish to turn on the light. Where is the s          ?

80.When it comes to the job interviews, first i            are very important.

假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加出加一个漏字(∧),并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意： 1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Dear Ms Smith,

I am secretary of the City Student Union (CSU). We were organizing an art exhibition for high school student in city. This will be hold on the 9th of July in the Exhibition Hall of Beihai. More than 1000 paining will be on show, but high school students from all the eight districts will come to the event. As you are very popularly with us Chinese high school students, we'd like to invite for you to the exhibition. We would be grateful when you could join them that day. Looking forward to hear from you soon.

Yours,

Li Hua

 Cowboy or spaceman? A dilemma for a children’s party, perhaps. But also a question for economists, argued Kenneth Boulding, a British economist, in an essay published in 1966. We have run our economies, he warned, like cowboys on the open grassland: taking and using the world’s resources, confident that more lies over the horizon. But the Earth is less a grassland than a spaceship—a closed system, alone in space, carrying limited supplies. We need, said Boulding, an economics that takes seriously the idea of environmental limits. In the half century since his essay, a new movement has responded to his challenge. “Ecological economists”, as they call themselves, want to revolutionise its aims and assumptions. What do they say—and will their ideas achieve lift-off?

To its advocators, ecological economics is neither ecology nor economics, but a mix of both. Their starting point is to recognise that the human economy is part of the natural world. Our environment, they note, is both a source of resources and a sink for wastes. But it is ignored in conventional textbooks, where neat diagrams trace the flows between firms, households and the government as though nature did not exist. That is a mistake, say ecological economists.

There are two ways our economies can grow, ecological economists point out: through technological change, or through more intensive use of resources. Only the former, they say, is worth having. They are suspicious of GDP, a crude measure which does not take account of resource exhaustion, unpaid work, and countless other factors. In its place they advocate moreholistic(全面的) approaches, such as the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), a composite index(复合指标) that includes things like the cost of pollution, deforestation and car accidents. While GDP has kept growing, global GPI per person peaked in 1978: by destroying our environment we are making ourselves poorer, not richer. The solution, says Herman Daly, a former World Bank economist and eco-guru, is a “steady-state” economy, where the use of materials and energy is held constant.

Mainstream economists are unimpressed. The GPI, they point out, is a subjective measure. And talk of limits to growth has had a bad press since the days of Thomas Malthus, a gloomy 18th century cleric who predicted, wrongly, that overpopulation would lead to famine. Human beings find solutions to some of the most annoying problems. But ecological economists warn against self-satisfaction. In 2009 a paper in Nature, a scientific journal, argued that human activity is already overstepping safe planetary boundaries on issues such as biodiversity(生物多样性) and climate change. That suggests that ecological economists are at least asking some important questions, even if their answers turn out to be wrong.

74. Kenneth Boulding and the content of his essay at the beginning of this passage are meant to  .

A. point out how ignorant of nature the cowboys are

B. blame human beings for their exploitation of nature

C. ask people to take seriously the environment limits

D. introduce ecological economists and ecologist economics

75. According to ecological economists, what is the mistake existing in conventional textbooks?

A. Ecology and economics are not mixed together

B. Human economy isn’t recognized as parts of nature

C. The environment has both resources and wastes

D. Diagrams connect firms, households and the government

76. The comparison between GDP and GPI data in 1978 has warned us that     .

A. GDP is crude measure that is not worth using

B. car accident should by all means include in GDP

C. we are gaining material wealth by destroying nature

D. resources and energy will one day be totally used up

77. Which in the following will the author probably agree?

A. the aims and assumptions of economics need to be revolutionized

B. GDP and GPI should be both accepted by mainstream economists

C. Human beings can always find solutions to all the annoying problems

D. Ecological economists’ concerns about the world are worth noticing.

 To keep up with their work, the vast majority of office clerks today must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, to say _______ of newspapers and magazines.

  A. everything                 B. anything                 C. something              D. nothing

假如你是李华， 是北京欢乐谷的一名导游。请你根据以下要点， 向一个英国中学生旅游团进行简单的景点介绍：

1.北京欢乐谷主题公园占地100万平方米， 于2006年7月对外开放；

2.游客可以参与多项活动， 有多种设施可以满足不同年龄段人群的需要；

3.可以观看多种精彩表演；

4.参观时要注意安全。

注意：1.次数100左右；

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3.参考词汇： Happy Valley 欢乐谷   facility 设施

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 I couldn’t do my homework with all that scream ______.

     A. going on             B. goes on         C. went on         D. to go on

                 SOS 呼救信号

When a light passenger（乘客） plane flew off course(偏离航线) some time ago, it crashed（坠毁） in the mountains and its pilot（飞行员） was killed.   36     .It was the middle of the winter.    37      The woman knew that the nearest village was miles away. When it grew dark, she turned（变） a suitcase into a bed and put the children inside it, covering（覆盖） them with all the clothes she could find.   38    The women kept as near as she could to the children and even tried to get into case herself, but it was too small. Early next morning, she heard planes passing overhead （头上）and wondered how she could send a signal(信号) . Then she had an idea.        39      Fortunately, a pilot saw the signal and sent a message by radio to the nearest town.      40       .

备选答案

A. During the night, it turned terribly cold.

B. It was not long before a helicopter（直升机） arrived on the scene（现场） to rescue（营救） the survivors of the plane crash.

C. Snow lay thick（厚的） on the ground.

D. Experiment have proved that children can be instructed in swimming at a very early age.

E. She stamped out（踩出） the letters ‘SOS’ in the snow.

F. The children compete against each other to reach the other end of the pool.

G. The only passengers, a young woman and her two baby daughters, were unhurt.

Americans use many expressions with the word dog. People in the United States love their dogs and treat them well. They take their dogs for walks, let them play outside and give them good food and medical care. However, dogs without owners to care for them lead a different kind of life. The expression, to lead a dog's life, describes a person who has an unhappy life. 
    Some people say we live in a dog-eat-dog world. That means many people are competing for the same things, like good jobs. They say that to be successful, a person has to work like a dog. This means they have to work very, very hard. Such hard work can make people dog-tired. And, the situation would be even worse if they became sick as a dog. 
    Still, people say every dog has its day. This means that every person enjoys a successful period during his or her life. To be successful, people often have to learn new skills. Yet, some people say that you can never teach an old dog new tricks. They believe that older people do not like to learn new things and will not change the way they do things. 
    Some people are compared to dogs in bad ways. People who are unkind or uncaring can be described as meaner than a junkyard dog. Junkyard dogs live in places where people throw away things they do not want. But mean dogs are often used to guard this property(财产). They bark or attack people who try to enter the property. However, sometimes a person who appears to be mean and threatening is really not so bad. We say his bark is worse than his bite. 
　　　　Dog expressions also are used to describe the weather. The dog days of summer are the hottest days of the year. A rainstorm may cool the weather. But we do not want it to rain too hard. We do not want it to rain cats and dogs. 29. A person who lives an unhappy life can be described as “_______”.

A．becoming sick as a dog           B．leading a dog’s life

C．living in a dog-eat-dog world        D．Working like a dog

30. The underlined word “mean” in Paragraph 4 most probably means “_______”.

A．violent（暴力的）    B．rich C．free D．poor

31. What can we learn from the text?

A．Everyone can be successful if he learns from the old.

B．It might be difficult for the young to learn new skills.

C．Junkyard dogs are careful in money arrangement.

D．Fierce(凶猛的) persons aren’t so awful as their appearance sometimes.

   假如你是李华，是高三某班班长。为了丰富同学们的课外生活，班级准备成立一个自行车俱乐部(cycling club)。请你根据活动的背景及下面的提示，用英语写一则口头通知。

1.       每周训练一次，由体育老师辅导，安排在每周三下午第三节的课外活动时间；

2.       器材自备，活动免费。

3.       是放松的好机会，希望大家加入。

注意：1. 可适当增加细节以使行文连贯；

      2. 词数100 左右（不包含已给的开头和结尾）。

Attention, please, everyone. Ever since we entered Senior 3, ___________________________

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    That’s all. Thank you.

Welcome to your future life!

You get up in the morning and look into the mirror. Your face is firm and young-looking. In 2035, medical technology is better than ever. Many people your age could live to be 150, so at 40, you’re not old at all. And your parents just had an anti-aging(抗衰老的)  treatment. Now, all three of you look the same age!

You say to your shirt, “Turn red.” It changes from blue to red. In 2035,“smart clothes” contain particles(粒子) much smaller than the cells in your body. The particles can be programmed to change your clothes’ color or pattern.

You walk into the kitchen. You pick up the milk, but a voice says,“ You shouldn’t drink that!” Your fridge has read the chip (芯片) that contains information about the milk , and it knows the milk is old . In 2035, every article of food in the grocery store has such a chip.

    It’s time to go to work. In 2035, cars drive themselves. Just tell your “smart car” where to go. On the way, you can call a friend using your jacket sleeve. Such“smart technology” is all around you.

    So will all these things come true? “For new technology to succeed,” says scientist Andrew Zolli ,”it has to be so much better that it replaces what we have already.” The Internet is one example—what will be the next?

8. We can learn from the text that in the future__________.

A .people will never get old                                B. everyone will look the same

C. clothes will be able to change their pattern      D. red will be the most popular color

9. What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?

A. Milk will be harmful to health.       

B. More drinks will be available for sale.

C. Milk in the grocery store will stay fresh much longer. 

D. Food in the grocery store will carry electronic information.

10. Which of the following is mentioned in the text?

A. Nothing can replace the Internet.                   B. Fridges will know what people need.

C. Jacket sleeves can be used as a guide.            D. Cars will be able to drive automatically.