【文章內容簡介】 expect Find your answers from factsnot start with an expectation of what you will find. Stephen Jacobsen believed what he was taught: that water on Earth came from icy ets（封星） or planets which hit into Earth. However, by studying a special rock, he discovered that it acted like a sponge（海綿）. This suggested that Earth39。s water might have e from inside, driven to the surface to form the oceans, by geological activity. I had a pretty hard time making others believe it, he said. But thinking about the fact that you may be the first person to see something for the first time doesn39。t happen very often. When it does, it39。s amazing. Lesson 3: A little luck goes a long way Years of planning went into a recent achievement in space travel. The European Space Agency39。s Philae, a robot landing craft, met up with Comet 67P, which was 480 million kilometres away. The trip from Earth by Philae had taken ten years! The scientists had no idea what the surface of the et would be like. If the landing failed, it would be impossible to get information from the spacecraft. Twenty years of work would have been wasted. When Philae tried to land, it bounced（彈起） away from the et39。s icy surface twice. Luckily, however, Philae landed successfully and began sending information back to Earth. （1）Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg left college because____________. A.they preferred to learn by themselvesB.they needed standard ways of teachingC.their teachers didn39。t like their new ideasD.their teachers weren39。t able to teach them（2）In Lesson 2, the writer mainly wants to tell us that___________. A.we should get answers from factsB.we can believe what we are taughtC.it39。s hard to make others believe somethingD.an expectation can help get an answer in research（3）The example of Philae in Lesson 3 shows that________. A.Comet 67P was not far away from EarthB.it took Philae2o years to reach Comet 67PC.Philae landed on Comet 67P with a little luckD.scientists know nothing about the surface of Comet 67P（4）The best title for this passage is_____. A.Ways of learningB.Lessons for successC.Ways of being specialD.Lessons for experiments7．閱讀理解 Everyone has eaten instant noodles（方便面）. It is very easy to cook it instantly by putting the noodles into the boiling water and adding in ingredient packets, together with other food like eggs or vegetables. However, have you ever wondered whether this is the correct way of cooking it? When you first take out the noodles from the packaging, you will notice that the noodles are joined together nicely as a piece. In order to make the noodles joined together nicely side by side, it needs some form of wax coating（石蠟涂層） to achieve an attractive instant noodles in front of us. However, researches have shown that the layer of wax coating on the noodles is quite harmful to our body and we should not eat it too often. It is advisable to have a break of 23 days before we start to eat another packet of instant noodles as our body need about 3 days to clear that layer of wax coating away from our body system. Do you know the danger of having too much wax coating stored in our stomach? It will lead to CANCER. There are two key points to take note while preparing instant noodles: （1） Wash the instant noodles with warm water first, stir it and pour away the water containing the wax coating. （2）Repeat Step 1 and try to stir the noodles again to wash away the wax coating on the noodles before cooking it in a new pot of water. Hope this article will help you when you choose to eat instant noodles.（1）The function of the wax coating in the instant noodles is to_______. A.make the noodles more delicious and tastyB.make it easier to cook for the consumersC.make the instant noodles healthier and more attractive to the consumersD.make the noodles joined in a piece and avoid them sticking together（2）What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about? A.The hidden dangers of the instant noodles.B.The way of how our body clears the wax coating.C.How to cook instant noodles.D.Researches on advantages of the wax coating.（3）What does the underlined word contain mean? A.去除B.包含C.儲存D.需要（4）What is the purpose of the writer to write the passage? A.To tell us the dangers of instant noodles.B.To tell us how to cook instant noodles.C.To tell us something about the layer of wax coating on the noodles.D.To tell us how to eat instant noodles safely and healthily.8．閱讀理解 To protect the environment, we are on the way. Here are a few things we can do. Unwanted gifts? Give them away! Have you ever received a gift that you didn39。t like? Did you throw it away? If so, you can have another choice now. Two British panies hopes people will give away their unwanted gifts to them. And they will resell the gifts to raise money for the poor. In this way, the gifts can be refused and have a future life. And people can make a difference to the world. Wear the trousers that reduce（減少） pollution! A chemistry scientist and a fashion designer（時裝設計師） have created a new kind of trousers. The trousers are made of a new material which can help reduce air pollution around us. Scientists have tested the material. The result shows that it isn39。t harmful to human. This new kind of trousers may appear at the market in two years. Professor Ryan said, If thousands of people wear the trousers, the air quality will be improved. Plant trees with Felix Felix Finkbeiner, a 14yearold German boy, is not famous as a child actor but an environment hero. At the age of 9, Felix got the idea that children could do something to protect the environment. So he started a club. Felix soon got support from children all over the world. Some of them have bee his good friends. The club has an aim of planting 212 million trees. They have planted over million trees all around the world. Felix said, The answer to controlling global （全球的 ） warming is treeslots of trees!”（1）The panies resell the unwanted gifts . A.to make the unwanted gifts usefulB.to help people learn to think carefullyC.to save money from itD.to make money for themselves（2）The trousers mentioned in the passag