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The dream of flying like Buzz Lightyear never dies. For years, space-age inventors have tested one wearable jet pack after another. And time after time, the designs have been grounded by dangerous fuels, excessive weight, or very loud noise levels. Now a Canadian inventor has sidestepped those weaknesses with an aquatic jet pack. Designed for travel over lakes or oceans, it’s driven by pressurized water, not burning rocket fuel.
When Raymond Li first told the idea for the aquatic jet pack to his friends, they said he must be nuts. How could a jet pack carry that much water? Its thrust-to-weight rate would be so low and it would never become airborne. Thrust-to-weight rate is a measure of the forward force produced compared with the weight of the vehicle. A vehicle with a low thrust-to-weight rate is relatively heavy for the amount of force it generates.
Li's genius idea was to place the jet pack’s engine and its water pump in a separate boat. The pump would draw water from the lake the boat was floating on. It would then force the water under pressure through a hose connected to the jet pack. The hose would be long enough to let the pack go up as high as 8.5 meters (28 feet) in the air.
Today, Li's invention, the Jetlev-Flyer, is ready to go into production. The pack itself, complete with jet nozzles （管嘴） and handlebars, weighs just 14 kilograms. The 
boat is a floating pod. To take off, the operator hits a trigger on a handlebar, which starts the pump, and then turns the throttle. Two streams of high-velocity water shoot through the hose and out the nozzles, lifting the operator into the air. The operator hovers there or pushes down on the handlebars, zooming forward at speeds of up to 64 kilometers per hour, pulling the pod behind.
【小題1】All the following factors contribute to the failure of inventing a wearable jet pack EXCEPT ______.
| A．excessive water | B．unbearable noise | C．unsafe fuels | D．too much weight |
| A．improved | B．reduced | C．a(chǎn)voided | D．solved |
| A．exciting | B．crazy | C．realistic | D．creative |
| A．His friends encouraged him to do the invention. |
| B．He put the engine and its water pump in the same boat. |
| C．The success of his invention lies in his bravery. |
| D．His invention finally succeeded and will go into production. |
| A．c, e, a, d, b | B．c, e, a, b, d | C．e, c, d, b, a | D．e, a, c, d, b |
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A. Goods for auction (拍賣) sales
B. Definition of bidding
C. Way to sell more goods by auction
D. Auction sales in history
E. Brief introduction to auctions
F. Making a larger profit as an auctioneer
1.______
Auctions are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asks the crowd assembled in the auction-room to make offers, or “bids”, for the various items on sale. He encourages buyers to bid higher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called “knocking down” the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer strikes a small hammer on a table at which he stands.
2. ______
The ancient Roman probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes from the Latin auction, meaning “increasing”. The Romans usually sold in this way the goods taken in war. In England in the eighteenth centuries, goods were often sold “by the candle”: a short candle was lit by the auctioneer, and bids could be made while it stayed alight.
3. ______
Practically all goods whose qualities vary are sold by auction. Among these are coffee, skins, wool, tea, furs, silk and wines. Auction sales are also usual for land and property, furniture, pictures, rare books, old china and similar works of art.
4. ______
An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by potential buyers. If the advertisement cannot give full details, catalogues are printed, and each group of goods to be sold together, called a “l(fā)ot”, is usually given a number. The auctioneer need not begin with Lot 1 and continue in the order of numbers: he may wait until he notices the fact that certain buyers are in the room and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in.
5. ______
The auctioneer’s services are paid for in the form of a percentage of the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding as high as possible. He will not waste time by starting the bidding too low. He will also play on the opponents among his buyers and succeed in getting a high price by encouraging two business competitors to bid against each other.
Chinese tennis is entering a golden time. In recent years there has been an explosion of __36__ female tennis players bursting onto the global scene. And this couldn’t have come at a _37_ time with the 2008 Beijing Olympics .
These young girls have _38__ strong will and talent. _39 the way is Li Na, who may have the _40_name in women’s tennis, but she has a big reputation. Li Na is China’s top ranked player and the first to have _41_into the world’s top 20.
After _42_ nearly six months of the season with a serious injury, the 25-year-old_ 43_ an impressive comeback by winning the Australian Women’s Hardcourt Tennis Championships.
In the world of professional tennis, Li’s refreshing sense of humor proved to be a hit both on and _44_ the court.
“My husband said he had a special gift for me _45_I won,” Li Na said after lifting the prize cup. “That’s _46__ I tried so hard today. I wanted a special gift.”
The Wuhan girl __47_ tennis at the age of eight after being discovered by a coach who had _48_ her playing badminton. After years of hard training, Li Na turned __49_ in 1999 and has become one of the most successful Chinese tennis players.
With her solid groundstroke and aggressive mindset, she _50 the first Chinese tennis player to win a WTA Tour _51_. Then two years later, she was the first Chinese to make __52_ into the last 16 of Wimbledon, which led to her being _53_ number 16 in the world last January.
Li is now looking forward to winning a _54_at the Olympics. “The Olympics are very important for us, ” she said. “I am more motivated after my recovery _55_ I feel my desire for the Olympics is bigger than ever before.”
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The Intel Science Talent Search is the top science competition for high school students in the US. The 40 finalists were honored in Washington last week. They met with scientists and politicians. President Obama welcomed them to the White House.
These 40 students were selected from almost 2,000 contestants nationwide. They had to present original research to be judged by professional scientists. The students showed their research projects on large posters. The winners were announced on March 15th, 2011.
Wendy Hawkins is executive director of the Intel Foundation, who says the 40 finalists represented excellence across many areas of science.
Selena Li is from Fair Oaks, California. She wanted to find a more effective treatment for liver cancer. She began her research four years ago. A scientist at the University of California, Davis, taught her how to design and do experimental work in the laboratory. Ms. Li placed 5th in the Intel Science Talent Search and was awarded 30,000 dollars.
Scott Boisvert lives near Phoenix, Arizona. He began using a laboratory at the University of Arizona at the age of 14. Over four years, he completed a project studying a fungus(真菌) linked to the decrease in amphibians（兩棲動物）around the world. He was trying to find out if different chemicals and substances in the water could kill the fungus. He collected and tested water samples across Arizona. He says, “My results were able to identify a list of chemicals that were significant in the growth and in the movement of the fungus.” He placed10th in the Intel competition and was awarded 20,000 dollars.
Evan O’Dorney of Danville, California, won the top award of 100,000 dollars in this year’s Intel Science Talent Search. For his mathematical project, he compared two ways to estimate the square root of an integer (整數(shù)) , a number with no fractional parts.
Wendy Hawkins at the Intel Foundation says these young people represent the next generation of scientists who will help shape America’s future.
【小題1】According to the passage, if you want to win the Intel Science Talent Search, you must________.
| A．have high academic achievement |
| B．be excellent in all areas of science |
| C．offer original research |
| D．do many experiments in a university lab |
| A．Wendy Hawkins. | B．Selena Li. |
| C．Scott Boisvert. | D．Evan O’Dorney |
| A．Scott Boisvert found a new fungus linked to the decease in amphibians. |
| B．The 1st, 5th and 10th students in the competition come from California. |
| C．Scott Boisvert is the youngest winner among the 40 students. |
| D．The Intel Science Talent Search is an intense competition. |
| A．critical | B．negative | C．positive | D．mixed |
Zhao Wenxuan，a film star from Taiwan，has been fond of seeing films since his childhood. He would sometimes go to the cinema for the same film four or five times. He also enjoys literature and art. Before he took the film acting as his career，he had worked in an airline in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan Province. His change of job to acting was quite by chance.
One day，he came across in the paper an advertisement for a leading actor to appear in the film named “Wedding Feast.” Full of excitement，he answered the job ad by telephoning the director of the film — Mr. Li An. It was this telephone call that had changed all his life. At last the director decided him to be the very person for the role. That he could be chosen owed much to his good command of English，natural manners and low pay for his work in the film.
The film “Wedding Feast” proved to be a hit. It won the German Golden Bear Award and entered the competition for one of the Oscar Academy Awards. Also, it was the first Taiwan film that was permitted to be shown in the U. S. Thanks to the film，Zhao Wenxuan became popular in Taiwan, Hong Kong and southeast Asia.
In 1994，Mr. Zhao acted as a leading role in the Hong Kong film，“Red Rose and White Rose”，in which many film stars like Ms Chen Chong from U. S. and Ms Ye Yuqing from the local area participated. This film was named for 10 prizes of the Taiwan Golden Horse Prize and at last it was awarded five prizes for the best play，actress and music. Zhao has regarded the film as one of his favorite films since he stepped into the acting circle.
Since 1993，Mr. Zhao has taken part in the shootings of 13 films， most of which are thought highly of.
Mr. Zhao said the that Taiwan should think to cooperate much with the mainland in the film producing industry and it would benefit each other. In recent years he often came to the mainland for film shooting. He has just completed his performance in the film “Love Affairs” directed by Mr. LiXin，a director from Shanghai Film Studio.
【小題1】Why could Zhao Wenxuan play the leading role in the movie “Wedding Feast”？
| A．Because he liked to see films very much. |
| B．Because he was a famous actor at that time. |
| C．Because he could speak English very well，acted naturally and gave no thought to the pay for his work in the movie. |
| D．Because the director of the movie knew him very well. |
| A．“Wedding Feast” is just an ordinary film |
| B．the film “Wedding Feast” disappointed people greatly |
| C．Zhao Wenxuan became a famous movie star because of the film “Wedding Feast” |
| D．A lot of the Taiwan films are shown in the U. S. every year |
| A．d，b，f，a，e，c | B．a(chǎn)，b，d，f，e，c |
| C．b，e，f，a，d，c | D．c，b，e，a，f，d |
| A．one’s success is frequently (often) closely connected with a favorable chance |
| B．it is never too late to learn |
| C．know the enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat |
| D．there is no limit to knowledge |
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On a sunny day in April, we organized a community environmental program called “Love Our Community” in order to create a cleaner and more harmonious community.
In the morning, we went to clean the streets and wash the windows in the community. We swept up the fallen leaves and the rubbish, and put them into the dustbins. After that, we learned from an experienced gardener about how to trim trees and bushes. We carefully observed the gardener and then we did it by ourselves. In the afternoon, we gave a lecture about the environment for the residents of the community. They listened very carefully. Obviously, they liked our lecture very much. Meanwhile, we handed out environmental leaflets to passers-by in the community.
From this program, we have learned a lot about how to protect our environment and make more people realize the significance of protecting the environment.
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