Different weather makes people feel different. It influences health, intelligence (智力) and feelings. In
August, it is very hot and wet in the southern part of the United States. People there have heart trouble
and other kinds of health problems during this month. In the northeast and the Middle West, it is very hot
at some times and very cold at other times. People in these states have more heart trouble after the weather
changes in February or March.
    The weather can also influence intelligence. For example, in a 1983 report by scientists that IQ of a
group of students was very high when a very strong wind came, but after the strong wind, their IQ was
10% below. The wind can help people have more intelligence. Very hot weather, on the other hand, can
make it lower. Students in many schools of the United States often get worse on exams in the hot months
of the year (July and August).
    Weather also has a strong influence on people's feelings. Winter may be a bad time for thin people. They
usually feel cold during these months. They might feel unhappy during cold weather. But fat people may
have a hard time in hot summer. At about 18℃, people become stronger.
    Low air pressure (氣壓) may make people forgetful. People leave more bags on buses and in shops on
low pressure days. There is "good weather" for work and health. People feel best at a temperature of
about 18℃.
    Are you feeling sad, tired, forgetful, or unhappy today? It may be the weather's problem.

1. ______ can have a bad influence on health.

A. Hot weather
B. Good weather
C. Warm weather
D. High intelligence

2. People may have more intelligence when ______ comes.

3. Low air pressure may make people ______.

A. forgetful
B. said
C. angry
D. tired

4. In "good weather" of 18℃, ______.

A. people are very forgetful
B. people can't do their work well
C. thin people feel cold
D. people are in better health

A. hot and cold weather influence all people in the same way
B. weather influences people's lives
C. IQ never changes when weather changes
D. there is a good kind of weather for people's work and health

      "Teenager" means people from 13 to 19 years old. Although they're young, they have to make many
important choices by themselves. They need to think about questions like these: Should we go to college?
What kind of jobs do I want? However, other people also influence their choices. Who influences teenagers?
      It depends on the kind of choice. When teenagers buy things,friends are the most important influence.
This is especially true for clothes and music. TV shows, advertisements and parents also influence teenagers.
In more serious things, parents are probably the most important influence. Some teenagers say it's best to
regard both parents and friends as influences. James, a seventeen-year-old boy says he's "just a crazy man",
he also says, "Parents are really important because they can tell you what's right and wrong. " But teenagers
also feel they need to make choices-to make their own mistakes. As one teenager girl said, "If our parents
don't let us make our own choices, maybe in the future we don't know how to do it. " And they feel friends
can often be a big help, especially because friends sometimes know more about their situation than their  
parents do.
      Do you depend on parents or others when you decide what to do and how to do it? Whoever you depend
on, the correct choice is the most important. Your future is in your hand.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，判斷句子正(T)誤(F)。
(     )1. People from 13 to 19 can be called teenagers.
(     )2. When teenagers buy clothes and music, friends are the most important influence.
(     )3. TV shows and advertisements can't influence teenagers.
(     )4. In more serious things, friends are probably the most important influence.
(     )5. Sometimes friends know more about teenagers' situation than their parents.

     The car you buy in the future may be very different from your parents' car. Their car has four wheels,
but your car may have two wings (翅膀). New Scientists Magazine says American Aviation Company is
going to test a flying car.
     The Skycar looks like a red bat mobile (蝙蝠狀的可移動(dòng)物). It seats about four people and has a top
speed of over 600 km per hour. At that speed, a 200-km trip only takes about 20 minutes. It will be able to
take off and land up and down, like a helicopter (直升飛機(jī)). During its first test, the Skycar will rise to a
height of 2 meters, hover (盤(pán)旋) for one minute, and then land.
    The Skycar is hand-built and cost about $1 million. The company thinks that one day the Skycar will
cost about $60,000.

1. What does the Skycar look like?
    ________________________________________________
2. How long will it take if you take a 360-km trip in a Skycar?
    ________________________________________________
3. What's the top speed of the Skycar?
    ________________________________________________
4. How many people can a Skycar carry?
    ________________________________________________
5. How much will a Skycar cost one day?
    ________________________________________________

     Different weather makes people feel different. It influences (影響) health, intelligence (智力) and
feelings.
     In August, it is very hot and wet in the southern part of the United States. People there have heart
trouble and other kinds of health problems during this month In the Northeast and the Middle West it
is very hot sometimes and very cold at other times. 1.           
    The weather can also influence intelligence. For example, in a 1983 report by scientists, the IQ (智商)
of a group of students was very high when a very strong wind came, but after that, their IQ was 1096
below. The wind can help people have more intelligence. 2.           Students in many schools of the
United States often get worse on exams in the hot months of the year (July and August).
     3.            Winter may be a bad time for thin people. They usually feel cold during these months.
They might feel unhappy during cold weather. 4.            Low air pressure (壓力) may make people
forgetful. People leave more bags on buses and in shops on low pressure days. People feel best at a
temperature of about 18℃.
     Are you feeling sad, tired, forgetful, or unhappy today? The weather may be the reason.

A. People in these places have more heart trouble after the weather changes in February or March.
B. But fat people may have a hard time in hot summer.
C. Very hot weather, on the other hand, can make it lower.
D. Weather also has a strong influence on people's feelings.

A. Weather Influences People's Life
B. Weather and IQ
C. Weather and Feelings
D. Health and Intelligence

     An apple a day keeps a doctor away. Have you ever heard anyone say this? Do you think if people eat
one or two apples a day they won't get sick? 
     Last year some scientists wanted to find out if this old saying is true. They divided a college class into
two groups. The first group ate 2 apples a day. The second group didn't eat apples. After six months they
added up the times the young people got sick. The apple eaters turned out to be healthier than those who
hadn't eaten apples. It seemed to show that an apple a day does keep people healthy.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，判斷正（T）誤（F）。
(     )1. An apple a day can make you strong enough to drive a strong doctor away.
(     )2. If people eat an apple a day without eating other food they won't get sick at all.
(     )3. Scientists found out that the old saying is true.
(     )4. The second group was not as healthy as the first group.
(     )5. Nowadays the old saying doesn't work any more.

     Here is a page from a magazine called Future. Read the following information about things that may
happen in ten years.
     Cars will run on solar power (太陽(yáng)能) and will be much cleaner. They will be much safer. For example,
if you are too close to another car or if you are driving dangerously, your car will slow down or stop by
itself.
     New cities will have to be built in the sea. Some cities on water will have two levels (層). People will live
on the upper level; the lower level will be used for traffic, shops and factories.
     Biotechnology (生物技術(shù)) will make food better and healthier. Plants without insects or illnesses (病蟲(chóng)害)
will be developed. The taste of fruit and vegetables will be better and food will be kept longer.
     Many new ways to cure (治愈) illnesses will be found. People will use products of genetic engineering
(基因產(chǎn)品) to cure more illnesses. However, some new illnesses will appear.

1. What will happen in the future according to the passage?

[     ]

A. The air won't be much cleaner.
B. Cars will run by itself without a driver.
C. It'll be much more dangerous to drive a car.
D. There'll be fewer accidents and less pollution (污染).

2. Where will new cities have to be built in the future?

[     ]

3. What will be made better and healthier by biotechnology?

[     ]

A. Medicine.
B. Toys.
C. Food.
D. Clothes.

4. Genetic engineering will help doctors to cure more ______.

[     ]

A. cold
B. illnesses
C. cancer
D. headache

[     ]

A. Cars in the future.
B. Get ready for the future.
C. How to keep food longer?
D. Where will people live in the future?

     Many textbooks are not written in the kind of English that we speak every day. In fact, sometimes
the reading is so difficult that it almost seems like a foreign language. In a way, it is-the language of
science. You should not expect to be able to read a difficult science passage the same way you read an
interesting story; you should not expect to read it easily and all at once. Instead, you may have to read it
several times through, catching on the meaning of difficult words, going back over difficult sentences,
and finally putting the whole thing together. Do not be discouraged if the whole passage don't make sense
to you at first. You need to pick it apart patiently until you can understand it.
     These are the steps to follow when you are reading something difficult:
1. Start to read normally until you run into a sentence that doesn't make sense to you.
2. When a sentence doesn't make sense, go back and read it again more slowly.
3. Look for any word you don't know in the sentence. Try to understand their meanings using word parts
    and context clues (上下文線(xiàn)索). If necessary, look them up in the dictionary.
4. Look at the next few sentences to see if they explain more about the sentence you are working on. Do
    not read very much farther ahead until you understand what is being said.
5. Finally, read the sentence again. Try to put it into simpler words.
6. Read through the passage once. Try to understand all the hard parts well. Then read the whole passage
    once more at a usual speed. This helps you to put all ides together. The stops sound a lot harder than
    they are. It is really just the normal way good readers understand anything that is difficult to read. After
    you have done the best you can this way, you should always feel free to ask for help from your teacher,
    if you have one.

1. The underlined phrase "run into" means ______.

A. work out
B. come across
C. look into
D. pass by

2. From the passage, we can know ______.

3. The massage is mainly about ______.

A. steps of studying science
B. difficulties in reading science
C. ways of reading science passages
D. researches on science and English

     If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they become weak; when you start using them
again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows that 1.             
     When someone says that he has a good memory (記憶力), he really means that he keeps his memory in
practice by using it. 2.            .
     If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault (過(guò)錯(cuò)). But if he tells
us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame (受責(zé)備). 3.             
     Have you ever found that some people can't read or write but usually they have better memories? 
4.            They have to remember days, names, songs and stories; so their memory is being trained all
the time.
     So if you want to have a good memory, learn from the people who have kept on practicing
remembering.

A. This is because they cannot read or write them down in a little notebook.
B. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means chances to become strong.
C. Yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way.
D. And few of us know that it is just his own fault.

5. What is the best title for this passage?

A. Don't Stop Using Your Arms or Legs.
B. How to Have a Good Memory.
C. Strong Arms and Good Memory.
D. Learn From the People.

     Plants are very important living things. Life could not go on if there were no plants. This is because
plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals and men can't make food from air, water and
sunlight. Animals get their food by eating plants and other animals. Therefore, animals and men need plants
in order to live. This is the reason why we find so many plants around us.
    If you look carefully at the plants around you, you will find that there are many kinds of plants. Some
plants are large while others are small. Most plants are green.
    Some plants have many small leaves. Others have only a few. There are many kinds of leaves. Leaves
are of different shapes and colors.
     Leaves are also different in other ways. Some leaves have long thin parts at the end, we call them leaf
stalks, some have short leaf stalks, others even have no leaf stalks. The leaf edges are also different. Some
leaves have smooth (平滑) edges. Some have a wave-shaped edges. Others have edges like the teeth of a
saw (鋸子).

1. Which of the following shows the right relation (關(guān)系) according to the first paragraph?

2. Plants are important because ______.

3. We know from the passage that ______.

A. all leaves have leaf stalks
B. all leaves have smooth edges
C. plants are different in shapes but have the same color
D. leaves are different in shapes and colors

4.The underlined word "leaf stalks" in the last paragraph means ______.

A. 葉邊
B. 葉紋
C. 葉柄
D. 葉尖

A. how plants help men and animals
B. plants are important and they are quite different
C. plants are more important than air, water and sunlight
D. why we find so many plants and around us.