【正文】 t do easily．Our country asks everyone to learn to use puters except the old people． Today more and more families own puters．Parents buy puters for their children． They hope puters can help them improve(提高)their studies in schoo1．But many of the children use puters to play games，to watch video or to sing Karaoke．instead of studying．So many teachers and parents plain that puters can not help children to study but make them fall behind．So puters are locked by parents in the boxes． In some other countries，even some scientists hate puters．Thy say puters let millions of people lost their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble． Will puters really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness? It will be decided by people themselves．1. Why do we say the puter is a useful machine? Because ． A．our country asks us to learn it B．it can help us a lot C．we can use it to play games D．it can help us to find jobs2. What do many teachers and parents plain about? A．Their students and children use puters to play games． B．Computers let them lost their jobs． C．Computers make the students and children fall behind． D．Computers bring people a lot of trouble．3. In this passage we know puters ________． A．a(chǎn)lso bring us trouble B．bring us happiness only C．a(chǎn)re hated by people D．a(chǎn)re bad for people’ health4. What does the underlined word “plain” mean? A．抱怨 B．贊賞 　　 C．考慮 　 D．解釋5. How do you understand the last sentence of this passage? A．Computers are used by people B．People can live well without puters C．One must d。m always at the bottom of the class．What do you advise me to do? Molly．A: I advise you to try to improve your grades in one subject at first．Next, try to improve your grades in another subject．If you do this, by the end of the year you should be quite a long way up from the bottom in all your subjects．1. What is the main idea of the passage?A. The town newspaper has an advice column．B. The advice column in the newspaper in very popular．C. Sara finds it difficult to make friends．D. Tommy wrote to the school newspaper to ask for advice．2. What is Tommy39。t be late so often．Q: I find it difficult to make friends．What do you think I should do? Sara．A: I can39。t help it．Please advise me about what to do．Tommy．A: You are probably late for school because you don39。(十六)One of the most popular items (項) in the school newspaper is the advice column (專欄)．Here are some of the questions asked and their answers Q: I39。Bears, hedgehogs, chipmunks, pigs and frogs hibernate.Mother bears can’t give birth to babies during hibernation.7.Bears don’t go to the toilet during their hibernation.5.During hibernation, animals don’t breathe at all.3. They can eat for 20 hours in a day!Bears can go into a very deep sleep. It can last from three months to half a year. During that time they do not eat, drink or go to the toilet. A mother bear can give birth to babies during her hibernation.Other animals sleep less. Sometimes they wake up to eat, or take a walk. Then they go to sleep again.根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容判斷正誤：1.How do people sled? Describe the process.5.What kind of animals can pull sleds?3. Winter is a time for many exciting sports: sledding (雪橇), skating and skiing. Skating and skiing needs lots of skills (技巧). Sledding gives you good exercise and is lots of fun!A sled looks like a boat. It can move easily over snow or ice. Early sleds were made of wood. Now some better sleds are made of glass.Sleds can be pulled by animals. In some very cold parts of the world, people make animals like dogs, horses, and reindeer (馴鹿) pull goods or people in sleds.People also sled for sports and fun. Driving a sled does not need much skill. The driver gives a kick (踢) in the snow to start the sled. He or she can also ask someone else for help. In a sled, there can be one person or several.Usually, you have to lie on your back, feet first in a sled. As you travel, you move your body and feet to keep it in the right direction (方向).There is a special sled called the skeleton sled (骨架雪橇). It’s very different.On a skeleton, you lie on your stomach and drive the sled in a headfirst way. It is very fast! Many are afraid to ride it. But once they try it they want to do it again!閱讀短文，回答下列問題：1.C. flowersThe “ice crystals” in the third paragraph refers to “____”.B. He was too serious.What kind of person do you think Bentley was?C. He was the first person to take photos of snowflakes.A. He didn’t get any kind of education as a child.D. a school teacher3.B. a funny manWe can tell from the story that Bentley’s father was ____.C. Long and Hard WintersA. Snowflake Photos Look at the light and beautiful snowflakes (雪花) falling. Ever wanted to hold them in your hands? They are always lost when they meet your hands.Well, this isn’t just a problem for you. It was a problem for Wilson Bentley, too.In the 1870s, Wilson Bentley was just a teenager. His family lived in a small town in northeast America. Winters there were long and hard. Bentley’s mother was once a school teacher. She taught him at home. Bentley didn’t go to school until he was 14. He was a quiet boy, and loved reading his mother’s books.But it was his mother’s microscope (顯微鏡) that interested him. When the other boys were playing with balls, little Bentley was studying things like drops of water, flowers and snowflakes. Bentley loved watching snowflakes. For the next two years young Bentley spent many winter days in a cold room watching these ice crystals (晶體) under his microscope.The boy thought they were so beautiful that he started to draw pictures of them. But there were so many snowflakes that he couldn’t draw them all.How could he keep their beauty forever? Bentley thought of buying a camera.The boy and his mother asked his father to buy one. But, his father didn’t a