Reading can provide lots of fun for children and teens during summer vacation. Children who read during the summer are better prepared for school when they return to classes in the fall. Public libraries throughout Wisconsin will host summer events to encourage children and young adults to include reading in their summer fun.
●All Star Readers
The Milwaukee Public Library will host its 2007 Summer Reading Club for kids from 3 to 18. Signing up starts on June 1 at all Milwaukee public libraries and bookmobile sites.
Children aged 6 to 12 are invited to become “All Star Readers” at the Milwaukee library when they sign up for the Summer Reading Club. Children can score a point by reading 10 books or 1,000 pages. When they reach the reading goal, they will win a bag full of prizes.
●Sparkey Spots the Ball
Children up to 5 years old can join the read-to-me club, “Sparkey Spots the Ball”. They will receive their own reading folders to record the books read to them by parents, brothers and sisters or relatives. Once they have listened to 20 books, they will win a baseball and a coupon（优惠券）for McDonald’s ice cream.
●X-treme Read
Teens between the age of 13 and 18 can join in their own reading program called “X-treme Read”. Teens can read to win movie passes, CDs and more.
The library also plans extreme bike races by C4BMX at four libraries in June and July. Check with your local library or Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for the exact dates, times, and places of the demonstrations (集会).
小题1:Students who take part in the reading club can _________.| A．take part in extreme bike races | | B．get a good mark in the final exam | | C．get better prepared for the new term | | D．finish their homework ahead of time |
小题2:In order to become “All Star Readers” and win a lot of prizes, you _________.| A．should be 19 years old | | B．should be at least 5years old | | C．must read at least 1,000 pages or 10 books | | D．should listen to 20 books. |
小题3:Which of the following is TRUE according to this passage?| A．Children up to 5 can not join in the read –to- me club. | | B．Children can score two points by reading 10 books or 1,000 pages.. | | C．Teens between the age of 6 and 12can join in “X-treme Read”. | | D．There are extreme bike races by C4BMX at four libraries in June and July. |
小题4:In which club will they win a baseball and a coupon for McDonald’s ice cream.?| A．2007 Summer Reading Club | B．Sparkey Spots the Ball | | C．X-treme Read | D．All Star Readers |
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小题1:C
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试题分析：本文介绍了暑假期间公立图书馆给孩子们准备的多项活动以及每项活动的具体细节。
小题1:C 细节题。根据文章第2行Children who read during the summer are better prepared for school when they return to classes in the fall.说明C正确。
小题2:C 细节题。根据文章第二部分最后两行Children can score a point by reading 10 books or 1,000 pages. When they reach the reading goal, they will win a bag full of prizes.说明C正确。
小题3:D 细节题。根据文章最后一段第一行The library also plans extreme bike races by C4BMX at four libraries in June and July.说明D项正确。
小题4:B 细节题。根据●Sparkey Spots the Ball部分的Once they have listened to 20 books, they will win a baseball and a coupon（优惠券）for McDonald’s ice cream说明在Sparkey Spots the Ball里可以得到a baseball and a coupon for McDonald’s ice cream故B正确。
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IMAGINE if there was a device that could do everything for you – wake you up every morning, chat with you and type your e-mails.
The piece of technology in question would be smart, able to tell you about the weather and where the nearest restaurants are.
The good thing is you no longer need to wonder, because something like this already exists. And its name is Siri.
Siri is a voice recognition application designed for Apple products and the concept has been around for almost a year.
When Siri first came out it could only speak English, but now it has “learned” lots of new languages, including Chinese, Cantonese and Taiwanese, reported The Wall Street Journal. So, you can give it orders in your mother tongue.
But how could a cell phone or a computer “hear” what you are saying and understand it? This is all because of voice recognition technology.
When you speak, your voice creates vibrations (振动) in the air – a bit like waves in the water when you throw a rock into the lake. The microphone receives the vibrations and the computer changes them into digital data that is then divided into many parts. They are analyzed one by one to see what pronunciations each part stands for. The computer then puts these pronunciations together into possible words according to its built-in dictionary.
But figuring out the words is far from enough; building words into meaningful sentences is the most difficult part. The computer has to compare what it hears to a large library of known phrases and sentences to determine what the user is saying.
However, people don’t always talk in the most standard way and sometimes make grammatical mistakes. This is why traditional voice recognition software always requires you to remember keywords and to speak in a certain way.
Fortunately, Siri isn’t like that. It’s not just “voice recognition”; it’s “natural language understanding (NLU)”. You can ask it things like “Do I need an umbrella today?” and it will know that you are asking about the weather, according to ABC News.
“The key thing is NLU – understanding what you mean and what you want,” Neil Grant from Nuance, a software company in the US, told The Guardian. “Historically, you had to learn a huge long list of commands . As NLU progresses, you can say what you want in a way that’s natural to you.”
小题1:What is the function of the first two paragraphs?| A．To show that invention usually results from need. | | B．To clear doubts about voice recognition technology. | | C．To introduce something that offers these helpful services. | | D．To show how the voice recognition works. |
小题2:Which step is the most complicated in the process of voice recognition according to the article?| A．Changing the received vibrations into digital data. | | B．Analyzing the digital data to see what pronunciations it represents. | | C．Putting the pronunciations together into possible words. | | D．Figuring out meaningful sentences based on the words. |
小题3:How can you get Siri to respond according to the article?| A．You can speak in a natural way as you would to a person. | | B．You can only speak English and Chinese. | | C．You have to say things in a certain way. | | D．You have to remember keywords and speak specific commands. |
小题4:What can be concluded from the article?| A．Siri can record and save what you say frequently into a computer dictionary. | | B．Siri will fail to understand what you say if you make grammatical mistakes. | | C．The biggest advantage of Siri is that it’s NLU is rather than just voice recognition. | | D．Since first applied to Apple products a year ago, Siri has made great improvements. |
小题5:The text is mainly about ________.| A．the convenience of future life. | | B．an introduction to the Apple products. | | C．the working system of voice recognition | | D．the introduction to Siri |
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After a long day at school, I walked home with my heavy schoolbag. Sleepy and 1 , I threw my things on the sofa and picked something from the 2 to eat. I passed by the living room and wished I could watch TV, but I knew my 3 would take me the whole night. I took my schoolbag and went 4 to my room. I tried to understand chemistry and 5 sleepiness at the same time. I tried to keep my eyes 6 and I wanted something to cheer me up.
Later, I 7 the sound of the front door opening. And I waited for it—the sound of my mom singing. Though she sang off-key(跑调), 8 made me excited that she was here. I ran down to 9 my mom. We hugged each other and talked for a while. I like it when my mom was happy. Her 10 seemed to flow down to me and I got the strength to 11 the stress (压力) again.
Sometimes, I wonder how my mom can still be 12 after coming back from work. Every weekday, she wakes up 13 in the morning to go to work and spends all hour on the bus before getting downtown. At a 14 factory, she works standing for the whole day and draws patterns(图案) for clothes over and over. After work, my mom at times gets stuck(被困) in 15 for two hours on her way back home. When I 16 my school life with her work life, I should not be the one to 17 . At least I have some interesting things to do at school, but one mistake at work can cost my mom her job. I 18 that my mom has a positive (积极的) attitude and lives her life with a joyous heart, which encourages me to do my work well, 19 there may be difficulties. Seeing her happy makes me feel 20 , too.
| 小题1: | | A．heavy | B．busy | C．hungry | D．unlucky |
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| 小题2: | | A．classroom | B．kitchen | C．bedroom | D．apartment |
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| 小题3: | | A．dream | B．supper | C．homework | D．experience |
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| 小题4: | | A．downstairs | B．outside | C．upstairs | D．inside |
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| 小题5: | | A．break | B．put | C．get | D．fight |
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| 小题6: | | A．opening | B．opened | C．open | D．closing |
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| 小题7: | | A．felt | B．listened | C．raised | D．heard |
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| 小题9: | | A．look | B．greet | C．said to | D．help |
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| 小题10: | | A．need | B．idea | C．faith | D．energy |
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| 小题11: | | A．face | B．change | C．accept | D．1eave |
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| 小题12: | | A．creative | B．sensitive | C．competitive | D．positive |
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| 小题13: | | A．early | B．soon | C．fast | D．1ate |
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| 小题14: | | A．furniture | B．shoe | C．car | D．clothing |
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| 小题15: | | A．chat | B．traffic | C．duty | D．task |
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| 小题16: | | A．replace | B．exchange | C．decorate | D．compare |
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| 小题17: | | A．complain | B．decide | C．study | D．play |
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| 小题18: | | A．achieve | B．notice | C．admire | D．improve |
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| 小题19: | | A．however | B．though | C．despite | D．at least |
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| 小题20: | | A．good | B．skillful | C．successful | D．important |
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The common cold is the world"s most widespread illness, which is a serious infection that man receives.
The most widespread mistake of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by touching directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in separate Arctic (北极的)areas, explorers have reported being free from colds until touching again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.
During the First World War, soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches, cold and wet, seldom caught colds.
In the Second World War, prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp, bare and starved, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.
At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for a long time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in a room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.
If then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in winter? Despite the most hard research, no one has yet found out the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and that makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.
No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain-killers such as aspirin, but all that they do is to reduce the symptoms.
小题1:The writer thinks the cause of catching cold is due to_______.| A．touching anyone directly | | B．touching anyone indirectly | | C．cold weather | | D．getting viruses from person to person |
小题2:Arctic explorers may catch colds when___.| A．they are working in the separate Arctic areas | | B．they are writing reports in terribly cold weather | | C．they are free from work in the isolated Arctic regions | | D．they are coming into touch again with the outside world |
小题3:Volunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Research Unit___.| A．suffered a lot | B．never caught colds | | C．often caught colds | D．became very strong |
小题4:The passage mainly discusses___.| A．the experiments on the common cold | | B．the mistake about the common cold | | C．the reason and the way people catch colds | | D．the continued spread of common colds |
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Scientists are trying to make the deserts into good land again．They want to bring water to the deserts，so people can live and grow food．They are learning a lot about the deserts．But more and more of the earth is becoming desert all the time．Scientists may not be able to change the desert in time．
Why is more and more land becoming desert？Scientists think that people make deserts．People are doing bad things to the earth．
Some places on the earth don’t get much rain． But they still don’t become deserts． This is because some green plants are growing there． Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places． Plants don’t let the sun make the earth even drier． Plants do not let the wind blow the dirt away． When a bit of rain falls， the plants hold the water． Without plants， the land can become desert more easily．
小题1:Deserts ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ． | A．never have any plants or animals in them | | B．can all be turned into good land before long | | C．are becoming smaller and smaller | | D．get very little rain |
小题2:Small green plants are very important to dry places because ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ ． | A．they don’t let the sun make the earth even drier | | B．they don’t let the wind blow the soil away | | C．they hold water | | D．All of the above． |
小题3:Land is becoming desert little by little because ＿＿＿＿＿＿． | A．plants can’t grow there | | B．there is not enough rain | | C．people haven’t done what scientists wish them to do | | D．scientists know little about the deserts |
小题4:Why is more and more land becoming desert according to this passage？| A．Earthquakes make deserts. | B．Wind makes deserts. | | C． Lack of water makes deserts. | D．People make deserts． |
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For thousands of years, man has enjoyed the taste of apples. Apples, which are about 85 percent water, grow almost everywhere in the world but the hottest and coldest areas. Among the leading countries in apple production are China, France and the United States.
There are various kinds of apples, but a very few make up the majority of those grown for sale. The three most common kinds grown in the United States are Delicious, Golden Delicious, and McIntosh..
Apples are different in color, size and taste. The color of the skin may be red, green or yellow. They have various sizes, with Delicious apples being among the largest. The taste may be sweet or tart(酸的). Generally, sweet apples are tasted fresh while tart apples are used to make applesauce(果酱).
Apple trees may grow as tall as twelve meters. They do best in areas that have very cold winters. Although no fruit is yielded during the winter, this cold period is good for the tree.
小题1:It can be learned from the text that Delicious apples are_______.| A．grown in France | B．sold everywhere | C．very big | D．quite sweet |
小题2:Cold winter weather is good for________.| A．the growth of apple trees | B．producing large apples | | C．improving the taste of apples | D．the increase of water in apples |
小题3:China, France and the United States are considered to_______.| A．be small producers of apples | | B．be large producers of applesauce | | C．have the longest history in apple production | | D．have the coldest winter among apple production |
小题4:The word yielded in the last sentence means________.| A．improved | B．increased | C．produced | D．sold |
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