A. when B. where C. until D. while

Before emojis, there were emoticons. The word is a mixture(混合) of emotion(感情) and icon(圖標). Emoticons are made of the signs you can find on your keyboard, for example:-) for a smiley or @};---for a rose. The first use of :-)was in 1982 and it was called “joke marker”. Emoji is a Japanese word which means pictograph: e(picture) +moji (character). Emojis are real pictures, for example，or.There are 1851emojis that can be used on mobile phones and other devices. There are all kinds of emojis, from faces and weather to things in the kitchen and animal.

In England, we have a saying: A picture paints a thousand words. For many people, an emoji is like a punctuation mark(標點). It’s like the tone of voice when we speak on the phone, or hand movements(gestures) used in conversation. Emojis are also changing the way we write. The more we use emojis, the less we use slang(俚語), such as LOL or OMG.

When someone speaks and looks serious, we try to look serious, too, and when someone smiles, we smile as well. This is how we show empathy(同感) and make friends(and enemies!). But when we’re online, we can’t see the person’s face and there’s no emotion. The invention of emojis changed that! Scientists in Australia have discovered that when we look at a smiley face online, the same parts of the brain start working as when we look at a real smiley face. Our mood changes, and we try to change our face to match the emoji. This is something we learn as we get older. Our brains have developed this ability over the last two or three years. This means that emojis have created a new brain pattern(模式)in us!

【1】Where does the writer of this passage possibly come from?

A.AustraliaB.JapaneseC.AmericaD.Britain

【2】What is NOT true about Paragraph 3?

A.Some slang is used less often because of emojis.

B.We no more need words.

C.An Emoji adds emotions to our messages.

D.An Emoji makes people feel face to face.

【3】What is (=￣ω￣=) according to the passage?

A.an emojiB.a pictureC.an emoticonD.a sound

【4】What can we learn from the passage?

A.Emojis will make our words disappear.

B.Emojis have greatly influenced us in many ways.

C.We don’t need to speak to others or meet others any more.

D.Scientists are worried about this invention of emojis.

—A scientist. So I'm studying math hard.

A. when B. before C. although D. because

A. when B. as C. while D. since

—________. It's his favorite subject.

A. Yes, he is B. No, he isn't

C. Yes, he does D. No, he doesn't

A. Once; 不填 B. Though; but C. Although; 不填

A. buys B. is buying

C. bought D. is going to buy

A. anything B. something C. nothing

A.him B. he C. his D. himself

【題目】

On a freezing January morning, Myron opened the library in Iowa. She heard a cat cry and finally found a yellow kitten in a pile of books.

“His little feet were frozen,” recalls Myron. “We gave him a bath to warm him up and he purred the whole time so that we know he liked us very much.” That was 1988 and it was a story for Dewey, the cat who has lived happily among the books ever since. “His story has a life of its own, we have people drive hundreds of miles out of their way just to see Dewey. We even had a Japanese public television crew come here to make a short film of him. ”Shortly after the kitten’s rescue, a photo of the library’s “new employee” appeared in local newspapers. Local people were invited to vote for the name of the kitten. “We have never had such a big crowd for a contest and there wasn’t even a prize,” Myron says with a laugh.

Dewey grew from a popular local “l(fā)ibrary employee” to a national star with his pictures on calendars. However, he is not the only cat who lives among books. Library cats greet people in about 125 libraries across America. Most live and “work” comfortable, small town libraries where they don’t get lost in the books. Library cats used to make a living by catching rats, but library cats have more duties: to a make the library a pleasant place.

“Library cats just create a nice, warm atmosphere（氣氛）, ”says Gary Roma, producer of Puss in Books, the film about library cats. “The cats attract children to the library and the elderly who maybe can’t have pets in their apartments, ”says Roma, “Books, libraries, and cats just go together.”

【1】The cat Dewey was found by Myron in the ___________ of 1988.

A.springB.summerC.autumnD.winter

【2】The underlined word “purred”in the second paragraph means “___________”.

A.felt angryB.felt happyC.felt hungryD.felt sleepy

【3】A contest was held after the kitten’s rescue to ___________ the cat.

A.winB.nameC.filmD.feed

【4】Library cats can do many things, including ___________.

A.acting for a filmB.catching rats

C.making people pleasedD.All of the above

【5】Puss in Books was ___________.

A.a book about catsB.a film about Dewey

C.a film about library catsD.a film about popular libraries

【6】From the passage we can infer（推斷）that ___________.

A.library cats only attract children and old people

B.Dewey is one of the cats who live among books.

C.library cats are not as popular as they used to be

D.every library in America has at least one cat