When we are reading, we often see one or two graphics in a text. Have you ever thought about these questions: Why are they there? What information do they give? Do they help with our reading and understanding?

Graphics are things like pictures, maps, charts and tables. They give information to readers. Very often, we can see different kinds of graphics in books, magazines and newspapers. Writers use graphics to get the readers'attention and give them some particular(特別的)information. Graphics help to understand the given information in a text. And graphics put the information in a particular order so that it's easy to understand when we take a quick look.

It is not always true that a picture is worth a thousand words. But many things are easier to show than to tell and they may also be easier to understand. Graphics are just the right things that give a great deal of information but it doesn’t take much time to read and understand.

The right way to read and understand a graphic is to look at the picture and the words together. In a graphic, only a few words are used to explain what the picture shows you. Sometimes, numbers and percentages(百分比) are also given to go with the words to explain things.

Now look at the graphic on the right. It is how a researcher used a graphic to show the number of hours spent sleeping by British teenagers each day. Can you understand it?

【1】Which of the following is mentioned as a graphic?

A. A letter.

B. A poem.

C. A map.

D. A name card.

【2】The writer thinks graphics are important because ____________.

A. less space is taken on a page

B. a picture is worth a thousand words

C. a lot of time can be saved for writers

D. many things are easier to show than to tell

【3】When we read a graphic, we should ______.

A. find out if there are any tables in it

B. put the information in the right order

C. count how many words there are in it

D. look at the picture and the words together

【4】The graphic given in the passage tells us that ________.

A. 5 British teenagers sleep for 8-9 hours every day

B. Chinese 18-year-olds spend 5-6 hours sleeping every day

C. 17% of the British teenagers sleep for 3-4 hours each day

D. 42% of the Chinese teenagers spend 6-7 hours sleeping each day

Electronic (電子的) books, or e-books, have changed the way many of us read. Now electronic textbooks are 【1】 the way many students learn. Many schools in Washington have begun using e-books. Rather than use a regular(正規(guī)的) textbook, it’s all online. “Our students are ready to use resources (資源) from different 【2】,” said the head teacher Peter Norman. He talked about the advantages of electronic textbooks to a reporter, “The world is changing 【3】. Online textbooks are popular. Besides, electronic textbooks cost 【4】 than regular textbooks. Every term our students need to pay about $150 for regular textbooks, but now they only need to 【5】 about $100 on electronic textbooks. Students have different ideas about the change,【6】 most like it.

“I don’t have to carry a textbook around, so that is nice,” said a high school student 【7】 Melanie Reuter. Maria didn’t 【8】. She said, “I don’t like it because the Internet sometimes doesn’t work.”

Some students don’t have a 【9】 or can’t go online at home. Stephen is one of them. But he said, “I can go to the 【10】 or a friend’s house to surf the Internet.”

—________．

A．Yes，please

B．Yes，I’d love to

C．No，please

D．No，I’d love to

A．in

B．to

C．of

D．with

A、well B、good C、to be good

A．porridge；noodle

B．chicken：tomatoes

C．potatos；bananas

A. make; to write B. making; writing

C. to make; to write D. make; writing

—Would you like some ________？

A．noodles

B．meat

C．water

D．bread

【題目】

How do ants know when another ant is dead? Ed Wilson, now the most famous ant scholar in the world, wanted to know.

When Ed Wilson was a young assitant professor at Harvard in 1950s , he found that when ants die, they just lie there, sometimes upside down, feet in the air, while their sister ants- almost all ants in a colony are ladies—walk right by without a look. Unitl about two days later, the dead body starts to send out a chemical signal that changes the living ants’ behaviour greatly.

All of a sudden what was once a pile of gunk(黏糊糊的東西) on the floor becomes a “Problem to Be solved”. Once the signal is in the air, any ant that happens to pass by picks up the dead body and carries it through her colony to a refuse pile and puts it on a pile of also dead ants.

Ed, who would continue the study of ants by studying their ability to communicate with smell, decided to find out what things equal “I am dead.” to an ant. Finally, after much checking and mixing, Ed discovered that a kind of acid was all the ants have to think “DEAD!” One day he took a drop of the acid and put it on an ant that had the bad luck of walking by. Then the next ant that came near grabbed it, put it on its back and put it into the refuse pile though the ant was still alive.

Though it tried to clean itself over and over, the minute it returned to the colony, it was caught and carried back on the pile. At last, it took the ant about an hour or two to get clean enough to return to regular business.

【1】The author says the question was no one on everybody’s lips because ____.

A. it is easy to answer B. it is a foolish and difficult question

C. it is less talked about D. only scientists ask such a question

【2】The underlined word “a refuse pile” probably means the place where _____.

A. injured ants were treated B. other ants lived

C. food was stored D. dead ants were buried

【3】What caught Ed Wilson’s attention when he was at Harvard in the 1950s?

A. An ant wasn’t carried away immediately when it died.

B. Ant died with feet in the air.

C. Sister ants didn’t look after each other at all.

D. Ant’s dead bodies didn’t catch others’ attention.

【4】The ant with acid tries to clean itself over and over ____.

A. to avoid being killed by the acid

B. to avoid being treated as the dead ant

C. to find out more food than anyone else

D. to find out where it got the acid

【5】Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A. Dead is what you smell, not what you see

B. It’s funny to carry a living ant.

C. The secret in an ant colony

D. Study ants’ ability to communicate

【1】What is the passage mainly about?

A. Popular ads

B. Useful machines

C. Strange pictures.

D. Teenage inventions

【2】The earthworm robot by David Cohen can ______.

A. make things stay fresh

B. help people wash clothes

C. go into the smallest places

D. take care of the old people

【3】Which of the following is TRUE

A. Plates and cups are made of fresh banana leaves.

B. Remya's washing machine can also keep people fit.

C. David Cohen is a middle school student from India.

D. Kenneth's wearable sensors will keep old people at home.