【正文】 le, but also educate and improve each other. Austen is often called the greatest romanti writer,so it is surprising she remained unmarried. ?Maybe she was too romantic, waiting for the perfect man,‖ Jenkyns says. ( )1. From Paragraph 1and Paragraph 2,we can know . A. Jane Austen passed away in her fifties B. Austen‘s works remain popular today C. all of Austen‘s works have been made into Hollywood films. D. Austen‘s works are mostly about war and the family. ( )2. Which of the following sentences is True? A. Elizabeth and Darcy fall in love at first sight. B. Elizabeth has a bette r family background than Darcy. has a first good impression of Elizabeth‘s family. D. Elizabeth and Darcy bee a romantic couple in the end. ( )3. What does the underlined word‖vulgar‖ in Paragraph 3 mean? ( )4. From what Jenkyns says,we can learn __________. A. opposites can attract each other B. lovers should improve each other. C. Austen‘s works go beyond her times married a perfect man at last B Is your TV connected to the Inter? What about your chair,or your fridge? Probably they are not. But in the future, most things in your home may be connected, thanks to the socalled ―Inter of things‖. The Inter of things may be ing sooner than you think. Earlier this year, Aamsung CEO spent a lot of time talking abput the Inter things. He said that five years from now,every Samsung product will be part of the Inter of things,no matter whether it‘s a remote control or a washing machine. So, how do household(家用的 ) objects that are part of the Inter of things work? Well,think of a mon chair. When connected to the Inter, the chair warms up when it knows the user has just walked into the room and is feeling cold. An Interconnected camera could help people feel safer in their homes. It can know people‘s faces and has an infrared sensr(紅外傳感器 ),so even if it‘s dark it can see wh en someone passes by and send you a message on your smartphone to let you know who‘s there. If the person is someone you don‘t know,it can tell you that ,too. But according to MIT Technology Roview, whether panies are connecting dog food bowls or security systems to the Inter, there may be some problems. For example, many early connectedhome objects don‘t have much builtin security, which means they could be hacked(被黑客攻擊 ). Morever, it could be difficult to get these new machines to work together especially when they are made by different panies. To fight this ,many panies have joined the Open Interconnect Consortium, which had 45 menbers by late 2020. So, picture this: you enter your temperature changes to make you feel fortable. Your favorite music starts playing for you. Do you think that this would be a good thing? I t may happen sooner than you think. ( )5. What does the article mainly talk about? A. Advantages of living with the Internte of living with the Internte C. The ing ‖ Inter of things‖ imposslble ‖ Inter of things‖ ( )6. Which of the following can support the idea ―how will household objects connected to the Inter work?‖ A. A warm chair connected to the Internte B. Dog food bowls connected to the Internte C. A remote trol made by the Samsung Company D. An Interconnected camera with an infrared sensor. ( )7. Paragraph 5 is mainly about _________ A. the possible problems of‖ the Internte of things‖ B. the problems with early connectenhome objects C. how to get different new machines working together D. how to solve the ‖ the Internte of things‖ problems ( )8. Which of the following words best describes the writer‘s tone(語氣 ) in the article? A. Doubtful B. Hopeful C. Humorous D. Worried C A habit is any action that we have performed so often that it bees something that we do almost without thinking. Some of them are thought to be bad habits. People spend countless hours and dollars each year trying to get rid of these bad habits but often fail. Why? Change is hard work and there is no shortcut to achieve it. However, there is still some advice for you to follow. First, look at why you do it. In other words, what‘s the result of doing this thing? If your bad habit is shouting at people when you are unhappy or under pressure, what do you get from it? It may make you feel a little better for the moment. Or maybe you have a bad habit of leaving your homew