外研版高中英语必修四 Module6

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　　　 Memory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise. If you have the wish and really make a conscious (有意识的) effort, then you can quite easily improve your ability to remember things. But even if you are successful, there are times when your memory seems to play tricks on you.

　　     Sometimes you remember things that really did not happen. One morning last week, for example, I got up and found that I had left the front door unlocked all night, yet I clearly remembered locking it carefully the night before.

　　     Memory “tricks” work the other way as well. Once in a while you remember not doing something and then find out that you did. One day last month, for example, I was sitting in a barbershop( 理发店)  waiting for my turn to get a haircut, and suddenly I realized that I had got a haircut two days before at the barbershop across the street from my office.

　　 We always seem to find something funny and interesting in incidents(事件)　caused by people’s forgetfulness or absent-mindedness. Stories about absent-minded professors have been told for years. Unfortunately, however, absent-mindedness is not always funny. There are times when “tricks”　of our memory can cause us great trouble.

　　1. If you want to have a good memory, _____.

　　    A. you should ask someone else to help you to remember things   B. you should make a conscious effort to practice and exercise

　　    C. you should never stop learning

　　    D. you should try hard to remember things

　　2. In the passage, the writer seems to tell us _____.

　　    A. forgetting things is serious and dangerous

　　    B. always forgetting things is understandable    C. forgetting things at times is natural

　　    D. the ways to protect yourself from memory “tricks”

　　3. The best title for this passage is“_____”.

　　    A. How to Get a Good Memory 

　　    B. Tricks of Memory

　　    C. The Danger of Forgetfulness and Absent-mindedness

　　    D. Get Rid of Absent-mindedness

　　B

　　       EVENTS

　　        Long March exhibit

　　       The Shanghai History Museum is putting on an exhibition to mark the 60th anniversary of the Long March. On show are more than 220 photos and 40 items that explain with pictures how the communist Red Army drew back from its besieged(被围困的) bases in Jiangxi Province and fought its way to northern Shaanxi Province in the mid-1930s. Explanations are all in Chinese. The show will end on November 20.

　　        Eight elephants from Thailand are entertaining visitors at Changfeng Park by riding bikes, playing basketball, balancing on a beam, dancing and blowing a mouth-organ. People are encouraged to have a tug-of-war(拔河比赛)with the animals or lie on the ground and have the elephants walk over them. The elephants give three shows a day at 9:30 am, 3:30 pm and 8:00 pm and there is an additional show at l:30 pm at weekends. The show will end on November 15.

　　  Address: 189 Daduhe Road

　　       Admission: 30-40 yuan

　　        Dancing dolphins

　　        Dolphins jumping from the water to touch a ball, swaying their bodies to music, kissing people and doing math by tapping their tails have made the dolphinarium in Peace Park an attraction for children. Seals and sea

　　lions also perform.

　　        Hours: 10:30 am, 4:00 pm, and 7:30 pm

　　       Admission: 20 yuan for adults and 10 yuan for children.

　　4. If you go to visit the Long March exhibit with an Australian, how much will you pay altogether for the admission?

　　A. 16 yuan.             B. 23 yuan.         C. 30 yuan.             D. 20 yuan.

　　5. At the exhibition, you will see ______.

　　A. many articles written by famous writers 

　　B. many things left by the Red Army

　　C. books on the Long March    

　　       D. many photos and pictures about the Long March

　　6. Which of the following is NOT done by the Thai elephants? 

　　A. Riding bicycles.

　　B. Blowing a mouth-organ.

　　C. Doing maths.

　　D. Having a tug-of-war with people.

　　7. The dolphinarium in Peace Park is a hall where you can see ______.

　　A. not only dolphins but also seals and sea lions perform

　　B. only dolphins perform

　　C. only seals and sea lions perform 

　　      D. only seals perform

　　C

　　When he took office, George W. Bush, son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush,became the first son to follow his father into the White House since John Quiney Adams followed John Adams in the early 19th century.

　　   Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush. Although  George

　　Herbert Walker Bush began his career in the oil industry, he finally served as a congressman(国会议员), and vice(副) president and president of the United States.

　　        At the age of two,Bush moved with his parents from Connecticut to Odessa, Texas, where his father took up the oil business. After a year in Texas, the family moved to California for business reasons. A year later, the family returned to Texas and settled in Midland, where Bush lived from 1950 to 1959.

　　        In 1959, again for business reasons, the family moved  to Houston, Texas. In 1961 Bush left Texas and went to Andover, Massachusetts, to attend Phillips Academy, a  boarding school(寄宿学校) that his father had also attended.

　　        At Phillips, Bush played basketball, baseball, and football. He was best known for being head cheerleader. In 1964 he enrolled at Yale University in Connecticut; his father and grandfather had also attended Yale. At Yale, Bush was considered an average student, but he was popular with his classmates.

　　       Bush graduated from Yale with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1968. Then he joined the Air National Guard and remained in the Guard until 1973. After earning his MBA from Harvard in 1975, Bush returned to Midland. Like his father, he first entered the oil industry as a “landsman(新手)”. However, Bush’s oil companies never enjoyed great success. He took more interest in politics. He helped his father to become president and in 1994 he himself was elected governor of Texas.

　　        In the summer of 1999, Bush began to run for the president of the USA and on January 20, 2001, George W. Bush, hand raised, took the oath(宣誓) of office to become the 43rd president of the US.

　　8. What does the writer intend to tell us in the first paragraph?

　　A. George W. Bush is the first son in American history to follow his father into the White House.

　　B. George W. Bush is the first son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush.

　　C. John Quincy Adams and his father were both former American presidents.

　　D. George W. Bush is the second one in American history to follow his father into the White House.

　　9. We may learn from the text that young Bush ______.

　　     A. got on very well at the universities  

　　     B. was very good at basketball, baseball and football

　　     C. did everything as his father had done   

　　      D. was a very successful politician like his father

　　10. Which of the following is NOT true about George W. Bush?

　　    A. Young Bush lived with his family in Texas from 1948 to 1961.

　　    B. He once studied at a university that his father and grandfather had also attended.

　　    C. He once ruled over an American state before he entered the White House.

　　    D. He once served at the Air National Guard for about five years.

　　D

　　As a teenager in 1972 , Bill Gates boasted that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 20. While he did not quite achieve that goal（目标） , only 15 years later he was a billionaire . And in 1992, as head of the Microsoft company , he became the richest man in America with assets (资产) of about US$6.3 billion .

　　Born in Seattle, Washington on 28, October 1956 , Gates was named William Henry after his father and grandfather . From the beginning he was an extremely energetic(精力充沛的)and intelligent（聪明的）child . He had read the entire world encyclopedia（百科全书）by the age of nine . His favourite subjects at school were science and maths and his favourite pastime was thinking .

　　Gates first started to play with computers at the age of 13 , when one was installed（安装）in his school . At that time , computers were large ,awkward （笨重的）machines . Operators were required to learn complex（复杂的）computer languages before the machines could be used . Even then , a great deal of time and effort was needed to perform the simplest functions . Before long ,Gates was expert at the school’s computer . After his graduation from the secondary school , Gates was accepted by the three top universities in the USA—Princeton , Harvard and Yale . He chose Harvard and began classes there the next autumn , majoring in maths . But he was still obsessed （占据心思的）with computer laboratories as he did in the lecture halls .

　　By 1975 , Gates and a partner , Paul Allen , had developed a software program called BASIC. This was not the first program ever created , but its inventors were the first to decide that people who wanted to use it should pay for it .

　　BASIC was a success because until it came along there had been no efficient（有效的）way of getting computers to carry out instructions . Although he had not yet completed his degree , Gates left university and went to work full time for the new company he had formed called DOS , short for Disk Operating System , and it was purchased（购买）by IBM in 1980 . Today it is the operating system used in more than 1 million personal computers around the world .

　　AS chief executive officer（首席执行官）of Microsoft , Gates is known as a bright man , but the one who is not easily satisfied . He is quick to criticize（批评）his staff and hates to be questioned about decisions he has made . He was regarded as a loner , an unfashionable（不入时的） boring computer nut until his marriage to Microsoft manager Melinda French on New Year’s Day 1994. Yet to most people now Gates is a person who is , in spite of his great wealth , humble（谦和的）and ordinary . He spends his money carefully . He eats in fast-food restaurants and flies in economy（经济）class . And when praised for Microsoft’s great success , he has been heard to say , “All we do is put software in a box and if people see it in the stores and like it , they buy it .”

　　11．When he was a teenager , Bill Gates wanted to be a

　　.

　　A．teacher

　　B．doctor

　　C．businessman

　　D．professor

　　．When Gates went to Harvard, he

　　.

　　A．was interested only in maths

　　B．spent most of his time in computer laboratories

　　C．developed the first computer laboratories

　　D．divided his time between his maths study and the computer laboratories

　　．Before the development of BASIC,

　　.

　　A．no one was interested in computer software

　　B．software programs were not considered commercial（商业的）projects

　　C．software programs were very expensive

　　D．no one wanted to pay for computer software

　　. When the writer says “Bill was regarded as an unfashionable boring computer nut,” he means__________.

　　.

　　A．Bill was so strong-minded that no one could change his mind

　　B．The only thing that could interest Bill in his life was computer

　　C．Bill was such a boring young man that nobody would like to talk to him

　　D．Bill couldn’t work out the boring computer programs .

　　15. Most people think Gates is _________.

　　.

　　A．a craze person

　　B．a person obsessed with making money

　　C．someone who spends money freely

　　D．a quite common , normal person

　　E

　　There was once a large , fat woman who had a small, thin husband .He had a job in a big company and was given his weekly pay every Friday evening. As soon as he got home on Fridays, his wife used to make him give her all his money, and then she used to give him back only enough to buy his lunch in the office every day. One day the small man came home very excited. He hurried into the living-room. His wife was listening to the radio and eating chocolates there. "You will never guess what happened to me today, dear." he said. He waited for a few seconds and then added," I won ten thousand pounds on the lottery（抽彩大奖）!" "That's wonderful!" said his wife delightedly. But then she thought for a few seconds and added angrily," But wait a moment! How could you afford to buy the lottery ticket?" 16. How much money was the husband allowed to keep every day?

　　A. Just enough to buy chocolates.

　　B. Just enough to buy a sandwich.

　　C. Just enough to buy his lunch in a restaurant.

　　D. Just enough to buy his lunch in the office. 17. One day the husband was very excited because he___________

　　A. won a lottery

　　B. was praised by his wife

　　C. got a higher pay

　　D. won a prize 18. Which of the following is not true?

　　A. The woman liked to eat chocolates.

　　B. The man was afraid of his wife.

　　C. The woman never gave any money to her husband.

　　D. The man got his pay every Friday. 19. When she heard her husband's news the woman_________ A. could hardly believe it

　　B. was pleased yet not satisfied

　　C. was happy and then angry

　　D. never thought it was true 20. Which of the following is implied（suggested暗示） in the passage? A. the couple were not rich.

　　B. The woman never believed her husband

　　C. The man had put some money aside for himself.

　　D. The man had to give almost all his money to his wife every week.

　　F

　　The Bermuda Triangle is in the Atlantic Ocean, Near Florida in the USA. During the past 60 years more than 1000 seamen in ships and pilots in the planes have lost their lives. It is known as The Triangle of Death for its strange sea water and storms. What’s the strangest is the light of the sea water which looks so bright that it can be seen even from the outer space.

　　At 2.00 p.m. on December 5,1945, five planes took off in fine weather from the airport of Florida, on a training task. Two hours later, the leader in the sky radioed that he was completely lost. Then there was silence. Another plane was sent to look for them and it also disappeared.

　　One of the largest ships that had disappeared in the Triangle was an American coal ship, 500 meters long. The weather was good, and there were no messages for help before it was gone. No broken ships or dead bodies have been found so far.

　　No one is able to tell how all these accidents have happened. A group of Japanese scientists went there to see what it was really like in 1995,but nothing has been heard of them ever since.

　　21.What is the passage mainly about?

　　How the Bermuda Triangle ate up the planes and ships.

　　Why many of the planes and ships have disappeared

　　Strange accident happened in the Triangle , no one can tell why.

　　When the Bermuda Triangle was formed very strangely

　　22. How many planes have lost in December,1945?

　　A. Five

　　B. Six

　　C. Seven

　　D. Eight

　　23. What does the underlined word radioed mean?

　　Wrote sound messages using a radio.

　　Listened to sound messages using a radio.

　　Sent sound messages using a radio.

　　Received sound messages using a radio.

　　24. Why was the leader in the plane lost?

　　He met with terrible weather.

　　He was losing the right direction.

　　Airport didn’t give him an answer. The reasons are still unknown.

　　25. What about the group of Japanese scientists who went to Bermuda?

　　They have also disappeared very strangely.

　　They have not heard of anything important.

　　They are still working hard in Bermuda.

　　They’ve come back, knowing nothing about it.

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