college was having some trouble with its boy students. The weather was bad. They had to stay indoors.
As they could not take part in their usual outdoor sports, they were unhappy, and some of them even
got into fights from time to time. Finally, one of the teachers at the college asked Dr. Naismith to invent
a game so that the students might have something to play. It was not easy to invent a game because it had
to be played indoors, and the court was not very large. Dr. Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast, exciting game with much moving and passing of the ball. Usually two teams played the game., In order to make a score, the ball had to be thrown into a basket ten feet above the floor on the wall. At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first, Dr. Naismith had planned to
have the ball thrown into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets.
Dr. Naismith put two fruit baskets on the walls of both sides. There were nine plavers on each side. The
players tried to throw the ball into the baskets. There were no holes at the bottom of the baskets. When
a ball went into the basket, it stayed there. The game had to stop. A player had to climb up to get the
ball out. Later people used net baskets. Now only ten members play the game. There are five players on
each side. Basketball today is played in many countries.
B. how basketball was invented
C. why people like basketball
D. who played basketball
B. inside the room
C. in many doors
D. inside the doors
B. the basket itself will be no use
C. he lost the game
D. he made a hole at the bottom of the basket
B. the basket itself
C. both the basket and the ball
D. the inventor
B. Ten players on each side play the basketball in a match today.
C. Five players on each side play the basketball in a match today.
D. Eighteen players on each side play the basketball in a match today.
writes it. The students think their teacher does, but it might be a student using a false name.
The students enjoy thinking up problems for the advice column. Here are some of them and their
answers.
ASK THE WISE OWL
Q: I"m always late for school. I try not to be, but I can"t help it. Please advise me what to do. Tommy.
A: You are probably late for school because you don"t really like school. My advice to you is to try
and enjoy school more, then you won"t be late so often.
Q: I find it difficult to make friends. What do you think I should do? Sara.
A: I can"t advise you until I know more about you. Your problem may be that you are shy. On the
other hand, it may be the opposite. You may be too bold. Write and tell me more about yourself.
Q: I"m always at the bottom of the class. What do you advise me to do? Molly.
A: I advise you to concentrate on improving your grades in one subject to start with. If you can do this,
you should move a little way up from the bottom(末位). Next try to improve your grades in another
subject, and so on. If you concentrate on(倾全力于) one subject at a time, by the end of the year you
should be quite a long way up from the bottom in all your classes. The Wise Owl.
B. A student using a false name
C. No one knows
D. Molly
B. he finds it hard to make friends
C. he is always at the bottom of the class
D. he needs help with his homework
B. stop being so bold
C. make more friends
D. give more information about herself
B. a little way up from the bottom
C. quite a long way up from the bottom
D. at the top
B. Tommy wrote to the school newspaper to ask for advice
C. Sara finds it hard to make friends
D. the advice column in the school newspaper is very popular
Let"s see a rabbit. When a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away at once. When it runs, its tail
moves up and down. When others see this, they runs quickly, too. Many other animals use this kind of
language. When a bee finds some food, it goes back to its home. It can"t tell the other bees where the
food is by speaking to them, but it can dance. This may tell the other bees where the food is .
Some animals say things by making sounds like man does. For example, a dog barks when a stranger
comes close. Some birds can make several different sounds, each sound has its own meaning. In a word,
every animal has its own language.
2. The rabbit move their _____ to tell others when they are in danger.
3. The bees _____ to tell the other bees where the food is.
4. Some animals can _____ things by making sounds like man does.
5. When a stranger comes _____ to the house, a dog barks.
supermarkets, department stores… Background music is supposed to influence (影响) your attitudes
(态度) and mood (心情).
Companies pay millions of dollars every year for background music. It"s supposed to make you feel
better about yourself and the people around you. Factories use it a lot. It makes the workers happy and
work better. It is said (据说) that in a factory, music can increase the production by 4.5 percent.
Workers do not easily get tired if they listen to music all day. A worker in San Francisco said:" If the
music stops, somebody always runs to the telephone to complain about it. "Background music was
started during World War II when some factories had their own orchestras to keep workers happy and
calm . Now, of course, the music is piped in (以电讯设备传送) by a machine and different kinds of
music are played at different time in a day. For example, the music they play are faster at 10 than 8,
because workers are usually slower then.
It"s also very interesting that fast music is played in restaurants where hamburger is sold. Before
playing fast music, customers spent 22 minutes eating hamburgers. When they started playing fast music,
they found that a customer spent only 17 minutes eating! So they have more people coming in and out to
buy hamburgers. It"s good for business. You can see why music has become so popular. In Los Angeles
(洛杉矶), for example, 30 different companies are selling background music services.
The Xerox Corporation (静电复印公司) in Rochester, N.Y.(纽约州的罗切斯特市), spends
more than $80,000 a year for background music. Prison warders (狱警) use it. Farmers also use it to
keep their cattle calm. It"s said that background music even influence plants.
A. can possibly make people feel better and influence their attitudes
B. increases the production by 4.5 percent in every factory
C. is sometimes very boring to the workers
2. A worker in San Francisco said if the music stopped, _____.
A. someone would always go to complain about it
B. he himself would call up the background music company
C. people would go and tell the telephone operator about the accident
3. Background music was started in factories _____.
A. in the 1950"s
B. because workers there all liked music very much
C. during World War II
4. The eating time for each hamburger customer is _____ minutes less than before.
A. 5
B. 7
C. 17
5. What can we learn from the passage?
A. We can only hear background music in some public places of foreign countries.
B. The Xerox Corporation in Rochester, N.Y.spend$800 thousand a year for background music.
C. Prison warders and farmers also use background music.
very hard 2 long hours. This is a 3 habit , but it is not a better way to study. A good student must
4 enough sleep, enough food and enough rest. Every 5 you 6 to take a walk or play basketball
or ping-pong or sing a song, When you 7 to your studies, you"ll find yourself 8 than before and
you"ll learn more.
Perhaps we can 9 that learning English is like taking Chinese medicine, we mean that like Chinese
medicine, the effects (效果) of your study _ 10 _ slowly but surely. Learn every day and effects will
come just like Chinese medicine.
( ) 2. A. at
( ) 3. A. best
( ) 4. A. have
( ) 5. A. month
( ) 6. A. want
( ) 7. A. begin
( ) 8. A. stronger
( ) 9. A. say
( ) 10. A. return
B. in
B. better
B. do
B. week
B. hope
B. return
B. weaker
B. guess
B. come
C. for
C. good
C. want
C. hour
C. need
C. go
C. strong
C. talk
C. give
D. with
D. bad
D. make
D. day
D. wish
D. are
D. weak
D. know
D. get
You, of course, know that you will never add vcry rapidly to your vocabulary by merely coming across
words, or by reading or by talking. You must have a plan.
Here is one way to get ahead with words in everyday life. It"s the simplest thing in the world.
Buy a small pocket notebook. When you read a newspaper, a magazine, or a book, or listen to TV or
radio, and come upon a strange word, enter it in your notebook. Then look it up in the dictionary. If you
find that it"s a word too difficult to understand or a highly technical mterm, just pass it by. But if it sounds
like a word that will be helpful to you. take possession of it, make it your own personal possession. Say
it aloud many times. Study its exact meaning, and note its root. Be sure, also, to copy from the dictionary
the example sentence in which it is used, if such is given. Then write your own sentence in line with the
example in the dictionary.
the list in your notebook will grow gradually, as will your command of English.
B. a rapid way to add vocabulary
C. a simplest wav to add daily vocabulary
D. a plan to add technical vocabulary
B.you must look it up in the dictionary and possess it if it will be useful
C. just enter it in your notebook and remember it
D. first look it up, then only the one which is helpful needs to be possessed
B. beside
C. under the line of
D. between the line of
B. to list useful words in your notebook
C. to keep on practicing helpful words in your notebook every day
D. to write down example sentences from the dictionary
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