picture a bicycle? Well, yes, Jason"s human-powered machine, With its two wheels, is, of course, a bicycle.
Every year, a very important humanpowered bicycle is held in Nevada, USA. The speed of a bike is
measured (测定) for only 200-metres, but players take more than a kilometre to get their bikes going fast. Jason
Queally"s fastest speed for the 200metre race was 103.5 kilometres an hour.
At this year"s race, Jason failed to reach the finishing line. He was speeding along at about 70 kilometres
an hour when he began to lose control of his bike. When he tried to slow down, it began to smoke.Soon the
inside of his bike was filled with smoke.He couldn"t see, and he couldn"t breathe. At 70 kilometres an hour, a
crash could be very serious. Jason was frightened, but he managed to stop the bike safely. He would rapair his
bicycle and try again another time to be the world"s fastest man on a bike. Better luck next time, Jason.
Maybe you"re surprised that these bikes go so quickly, but is it useful? It could be. Cars are becoming
more and more popular, and they are very safe, comfortable and easy to drive, but they also pollute the air in
our cities. Scientists and engineers are learning from fast racing bikes how to make human-powered vehicles
that might be uesful for daily travel.
1. Is Jason"s human-powered machine a bicycle?
2. How often is the human-powered bicycle race held in Nevada?
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3. Did Jason stop his bike safely or was he badly hurt?
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4. Why did he lose this year"s race?
5. What is the best vehicle for daily travel like according to the writer?
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2. Every year.
3. He stopped his bike safely.
4. There"s something wrong with the bike and he lose control of the bike.
5. A human powered bicycle.
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Many places in the world need more fresh water. Every country is trying to find ways to turn salt water
into fresh. Why aren"t there many factories like the Symi factory?
In some places, the sun is not hot enough. Or it does not shine every day. In such places, other ways of
heating sea water can be used. These ways cost more money, but they work faster than the sun. By boiling sea
water with high heat, a lot of fresh water can be made quickly.
But heating is not the only way to get fresh water from salt water. Other ways are tried. One way is
freezing. The fresh part of salt water freezes (冷至结冰) first. To get fresh water, the bits of ice are taken out.
Which way is the best? The one that gives the most water for the least money. It may be a different way
for each place.
Symi"s way seems very good for small, hot places. It doesn"t make very much water at a time. But the
factory is easy to build and costs little. That is why people in many dry places talk about Symi!
Scientists are trying to turn deserts into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts, so
people can live and grow food there. However, more and more land is becoming desert. Why? Scientists think
that people are doing bad things to turn good land into desert.
①地球上的一些地方雨量不足, but they still do not become deserts. This is because green plants are
growing there. Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places. Plants do not let the hot sun
make the earth even drier.②Plants do not let the wind blow the soil away. When rain falls, plants hold the
water.③Without plants, land can become desert much more easily.
1、将①处的汉语译成英文.
2、将②处的英文译成汉语.
3、将③处的英文译成汉语.
4、What should we do in order to protect good land?
life to every living thing. Without it we can not live. Bad air makes people ill. We must have fresh air to
keep us in good health.
In the city there are a great many people and there are too many cars running on the roads. The gas
which the cars spread out is full of poison. Everyday we breathe it in again and again. This makes us feel
sick. Therefore people should go out of door as much as they can.
Besides so many cars, there are many factories too. From the chimneys of these factories, we get the
smoke usually in black or grey colour. This kind of smoke, when it mixes the air, is dangerous to our health.
It is because smoke contains many small poisonous solids and gases. So in order to keep us healthy we have
to go out to the countryside to breathe more fresh air. Or we can go up hills to get more fresh air.
B: Fresh Air
C: Breathing Air
D: The Use of Air
Do you plan to go to Hong Kong Disneyland with your family? If your dad smokes, you must ask him
to be careful. From January 1, 2007, Hong Kong bans smoking in most public places.
The places include restaurants, workplaces, schools and karaoke rooms. Even smoking in some outdoor
places like beaches, sports grounds, museums and parks is against the law.
Hong Kong hopes the ban can prevent passive smoking. It does great harm to people"s health. And it"ll be
better if more people in Hong Kong give up smoking because of the ban.
Hong Kong has 7 million people. Among them, about 840,000 people aged 15 or above are smokers.
Amy Choi, 27, a student, agrees to the smoking ban."I don"t like people smoking next to me. It"s so smoky
and smelly," she said.
If someone breaks the ban, he will have to pay up to HK$5,000.The ban does not include nightclubs, bars
or bathhouses yet. But these places will have to ban smoking by July, 2009.
Hong Kong is not the first Asian city to have a smoking ban. On January 1, 2006, Singapore banned
smoking in most public places.
B. in schools
C. in karaoke rooms
D. none of the above
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