北语18秋《阅读》II作业4Word格式.docx

1、 one row of hooks and eyes slotting neatly into another row by means of a tab. Yet it took 22 years, many improvements and another inventor to make the zipper really practical.Before Judson invented the zipper, people found buttoning clothes to be （ ）A: interestingB: burdensomeC: easyD: comfortable:

2、 ） 2: In the （haze） I saw two of my trek mates. darkness light thin mist heavy smog） 3: The 12th lunar month in Chinese is called layue（the month to worship all the deities）.The 8th day of the 12the lunar month is the Laba Festival.It is treated as the beginning of the Chinese holiday season.After t

3、he Laba Festival,people enter into the busy preparation for the Lunar New Year.The main activity of the Laba Festival is cooking and sharing the special laba gruel（laba-zhou）.Most people believe it has a close relation to Sakyamuni,the Buddha.He left his comfortable home and set off in search of the

4、 final enlightenment.After days of travelling without rest,he collapsed near a river in northern India.He was revived by a wandering shepherdess,who offered him her lunch of family leftovers consisting of sticky cereal,glutinous rice,dates,chestnuts and wild fruit.After consuming this repast,Sakyamu

5、ni took a batch and sat under a tree for meditation,where he finally attained enlightenment.The very day was the 8th day of the last lunar month.The meal was the original laba gruel. Sakyamuni ate a meal which was made of all the following except（ ） wild fruit rice cereal meat） 4: Astronomers can te

6、ll just how hot the surface of the moon gets.The side of the moon toward the sun gets two degrees hotter than boiling water.The night side reaches 243 degrees below zero.In an eclipse,the earths shadow falls on the moon.Then the moons temperature may drop 300 degrees in a very short time.A temperatu

7、re change like this cannot happen on the earth.Why does it happen on the moon?Astronomers think that the surface of the moon is dust.On the earth,rocks store heat from the sun.When the sun goes down,the rocks stay warm.But the dust of the moon cannot store heat.So when the moon gets dark,the heat es

8、capes quickly.The moon gets very cold. Astronomers have found that the moons surface is always hotter than boiling water either very hot or very cold usually many degrees below zero about the same as that of the earth） 5: While I was working as a child psychologist,a principal phoned me.Im baffled,h

9、e said.A child has written an essay called The Properties of the Nucleus.His teacher cant understand it.Neither can I.I went to the school and met Mark,an eight-year-old with ginger hair and freckles.He looked like a very ordinary boy to me.I proceeded with the intelligence test.What is Mars?I asked

10、.Most children his age say,A chocolate bar.He described the planet in detail.He quickly completed the tests,including a math test for much older children.Then he looked at me as if to say:Cant you come up with something more difficult?I had seen gifted children before,but this boy was off the mapas

11、far as assessing his IQ was concerned.Marks principle and arranged for Mark to be tutored by a science teacher.But in many ways he was just a normal child.We wanted him to be socially adjusted as well as intellectually outstanding.So we also encouraged him to join the Club Scouts and we kept him in

12、class with kids of his age for the time being.I asked Marks parents what they thought of him.He can be a pain in the neck,his mother said.He asks such impossible questions,she smiled.But we love him dearly.This was crucial.Like the rest of us,gifted children need to be loved.He gained a first-class

13、honors degree from Cambridge,is now chairman of his own computer company and is happily married with two children. The boys parents looked upon their son as （ ） a real genius a normal boy a mischievous boy a boy that needs love） 6: Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and applepie