Unit 3 Under the sea 知识点题库

— No, he didn't．he isn't strong enough even ______ it.

          It was the end of my junior year，the weekend before a party．I was1around that night with some friends，and a2got passed around the car．Everyone was taking swigs(大口喝)．Then the bottle got to me．I took a swig．That was the biggest3of my life，I had to drive4 later that night.

         About a mile from my house，a policeman turned his light bar on and I5over and waited for him to come to my door.“Can I see your6and registration please，Miss？”He took them and went back to his car for a while．When he returned，he asked if I had7

         “Yes sir，”I said．He asked me to step out of my car.

         All of a sudden I felt cold metal on my wrists.He8 me right then and there.As I was sitting in the back seat of his car，all I could think was，“God，I'm in so much9my parents are going to10me.”

         The cop drove me to a town twenty minutes from my home．Being arrested was so11.The next week I got a lawyer and I went to12two months after that．I got $ 700 in fines，forty hours of community13 ， and had to attend a MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) meeting．I'll be on probation(缓刑)for a year，and I have to14driver's  education again．And I 15my license for a whole year!

          This has been a huge 16 experience for me．It opened my eyes to how17 it is to make a 18decision.I want everyone reading this to know that it's not19 to drink and drive，and it20isn't worth losing your license．

          The very last topic any parent wants to discuss is cancer.In fact，wouldn't it be wonderful if ，few among us haven't been touched，in some way，by the disease.

          One teacher at Howell's Land O'Pines School decided last year to make a learning experience out of cancer awareness，and with the help of his fellow teachers, he succeeded in taking a terrible subject and turning it into something that allows the children to make a difference while helping others.

          The Hats On Day project began a decade ago in Missouri when a fifth-grade class wanted to raise money to help a fellow classmate battling cancer.The children wanted to raise awareness about the effects of chemotherapy(化疗)and decided to wear hats to show their support for people who lose their hair while undergoing treatment for cancer.

          During the 10 years since the first Hats On Day，the project has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for children with cancer.Raymond Gredder，a fifth-grade teacher at Land O'Pines，heads up the program locally.As part of the project，Land O'Pines students are asked to bring in monetary donations this week that will be contributed to the Foundation for Children with Cancer.

          This is the second year Land O'Pines is participating in the Hats On Day project.Last year the Student Council organized the weeklong collection and raised more than $2000.This year Gredder is running the program through the fifth grade health curriculum.He believes it is extremely important for children to be involved in events such as Hats On Day that promote an awareness and understanding of people in need.

    Thanks for signing up for the 2016 Black Friday Turkey Trot! This email will provide some basics about the race and some great news!

    First, your race packet (参赛物品包) is ready and can be picked up at the Fleet Feet Sports Tulsa location you've specified during registration.

    Hours for pickup.

    Tuesday, 10 am to 8 pm (Fleet Feet Kings Point)

    Tuesday, 10 am to 7 pm (Fleet Feet Blue Dome)

    Wednesday, 10 am to 5 pm (both stores, closing early for Thanksgiving)

    Packets can also be picked up on the race day at BOK Center, beginning at 8:30 am.

    Race Start Times

    1)  5 mile, 8:30 am        2) 1 mile fun run, 9:30 am

    Parking

    There is surface parking to the east of the BOK Center, and some surface parking to the west of the Convention Center. Many lots will be pay-lots. Please pay attention to the signs. We suggest arriving early to find parking.

Racing Timing

    The 5 km run will be timed using the BIB-TAG system. Your race number will have a timing device attached to the back of the race number; don't remove or bend this device. Simply wear the Bib on the front of your body on the outside of your clothing so it is visible and facing forward. You don't need to return the Bib, which is disposable.

The Turkey Trot is also a kick-off event for our weekend long “FITNATIC” celebration—we also have a huge number of events and specials all weekend. For more information, please visit //www.fleetfeettulsa.fitnatic.com.

See you on Friday.

    As a general rule, all forms of activity lead to boredom when they are performed on a routine(常规)basis. As a matter of fact, we can see this 1 at work in people of all 2. For example, on Christmas morning, children are excited about3 with their new toys. But their4soon wears off and by January those5toys can be found put away in the basement. The world is full of 6stamp albums and unfinished models, each standing as a monument to someone's 7 interest. When parents bring home a pet, their child 8bathes it and brushes its fur. Within a short time, however, the 9of caring for the animal is handed over to the parents. Adolescents enter high school with great 10but are soon looking forward to11. The same is true of the young adults going to college. And then, how many12, who  now complain (抱怨) about the long drives to work, 13drove for hours at a time when they first 14their driver's license (执照)? Before people retire, they usually 15to do a lot of 16things, which they never had17to do while working. But18after retirement , the golfing, the fishing, the reading and all of the other pastimes become as boring as the jobs they19. And , like the child in January, they go searching for new 20.

,he won't have time to go shopping this morning.(with)

It grows well .(where)

    There are many dangerous sea creatures in the world. The following are some examples.

    The needlefish are commonly seen living near the surface of tropical (热带的) waters. But they can also break cover the water，and once in the air they can become dangerous flying swords. Though it is rare，people have been seriously hurt and even killed by the fish．Night fishermen in small boats are at particular risk because their lights may attract the fish.

    Saltwater crocodiles are the world's largest crocodiles，sometimes reaching 23 feet in length and topping 2，200 pounds. Yet these crocodiles hunt quietly，lying in wait below shoreline waters to attack turtles and thirsty animals that have come to drink. Saltwater crocodiles kill a number of people each year.

    There is no doubt that the great white shark sits atop the ocean food chain. The world's largest fish can weigh at over 5，000 pounds and reach lengths of more than 20 feet. Great white sharks have about 3，000 teeth，which they typically sink into sea lions，seals，and sea turtles. These sharks are responsible for a third to a half of the 100 shark attacks on humans every year.

    The sea anemone (海葵) may look like the beautiful flower for which it's named，but fish that swim too close may regret it. The sea anemone，which lives on the sea floor，uses its poisonous tentacles (触须) to stab passing creatures with a kind of poison—making them helpless and fit to be eaten.

    The surgeonfish (刺尾鱼) is an attractive reef fish that is poisonous. Scientists believe that the world's seas hold some 1, 200 different surgeonfish species and think that they injure about

    50，000 people per year. But the surgeonfish poison can also bring great benefit—they are useful in the development of new drugs.

    At first, muffled (听不太清的)conversations made researchers at a San Diego aquarium puzzled, but when a diver thought he was being told to get “out” of the water they realized the conversations were coming from a white whale.

    Noc was about one year old when he was caught off the Pacific coast of Canada. He was kept in an open-ocean pen (围栏) at the US National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego, California. After seven years at the Foundation, he began, automatically, to make unusual sounds, a report in the latest issue of the journal, Current Biology, said.

    “We thought of the whale' s vocalizations(发出的声音) as an attempt to imitate humans. Whale vocalizations often sounded as if two people were talking just out of the range of our understanding,” the authors said. “ 'These conversations' were heard several times before we finally realized the whale was the source.” The researchers realized it was Noc when a diver surfaced and asked, “Who told me to get out?” It was then that they realized the word “out”, which was repeated several times, had come from Noc. Later, his speech-like sounds were recorded in the air and underwater.

    Noc started making the sounds after seven years in the open-ocean pen, and continued making them for another four years. He died five years ago. Researchers have now analyzed the sound recordings. It was the first time that sound recordings had shown how such sounds imitated speech and were different from the usual calls of the species.

    The speech-like sounds were lower than normal whale sounds and much closer to those of the human voice. Also, whales talk to each other by blowing air through their noses, rather than using a larynx(喉), as people do.

    “We don't claim that our whale was a good imitator compared to such well-known imitators as parrots,” the researchers said. “However, the behavior we observed is an example of vocal learning by the white whale. It seems that Noc's close association with humans played a role in how often and how well he employed his human voice.”

    Before I studied psychology, I used to think that people would laugh when funny things occurred. While I was right about that, I discovered there are lots of other psychological factors that make people laugh other than the funny part of a joke. When someone laughs at a joke, there will usually be more than one reason that makes him laugh—and the more reasons there are, the more powerful the joke will be.

    I was attending a stand-up comedy show in Egypt, and when the man started to make fun of pedestrians crossing streets, everyone laughed their hearts out. The main reason those people strongly laughed was that almost all of them felt angry towards pedestrians who crossed streets carelessly. The joke wasn't only funny, it also made the audience feel that they were right about being angry at those pedestrians. That is, people were laughing both because of the funny joke and because of the happiness experienced as a result of the psychological support they got.

    The better a joke makes a person feel, and the more it includes other psychological factors, the more the person will like it. For example, if you envy one of your friends, and someone tells a joke that is funny and, at the same time, makes your friend seem stupid, then you will probably laugh at it louder than if you weren't jealous of him.

    In short, we don't laugh only when we hear something funny; we also laugh when we experience some kind of happiness that results from the other psychological factors involved in the joke. I strongly discourage making fun of anyone or belittling someone to make someone else laugh. All I want to explain is that if your joke supports a person's emotions, he will certainly like it a lot.