北语18秋《阅读》II作业4.docx

1、北语18秋阅读II作业4() 1: No one thought of anything even a little bit like the zipper until Whitecomb L.Judson came along. There were buttons and button-holes, hooks and eyes, laces and buckles. They all took an irritatingly long time to do up, especially when men wore high-laced boots and fashionable ladi

2、es squeezed themselves into long corsets. Whitecomb L.Judsons slide-fastener was an out-of-the-blue invention, and no one knows what gave him the idea. No one even knows much about him, except that he was a mechanical engineer living in Chicago and that he patented other inventions, to do with a str

3、eet railway system and motor-cars. Judson invented the first zipper(called, at the time, a Clasp Locker or Unlocker)in 1891. This ingenious little device looks so simple, and the principle behind it is simple: one row of hooks and eyes slotting neatly into another row by means of a tab. Yet it took

4、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: In the (haze) I saw two of my trek mates.A: darknessB: lightC: thin mistD: heavy smo

5、g: () 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 the Laba Festival,people enter into the busy preparation for the Lunar New Year.

6、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 final enlightenment.After days of travelling without rest,he collapsed near a

7、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,Sakyamuni took a batch and sat under a tree for meditation,where he finally attained e

8、nlightenment.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( )A: wild fruitB: riceC: cerealD: meat: () 4: Astronomers can tell just how hot the surface of the moon gets.The side of the moon to

9、ward 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 temperature change like this cannot happen on the earth.Why does it happen on

10、 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 escapes quickly.The moon gets very cold. Astronomers have found that t

11、he moons surface is A: always hotter than boiling waterB: either very hot or very coldC: usually many degrees below zeroD: about the same as that of the earth: () 5: While I was working as a child psychologist,a principal phoned me.Im baffled,he said.A child has written an essay called The Propertie

12、s 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.Most children his age say,A chocolate bar.He described

13、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 far as assessing his IQ was concerned.Marks principle an

14、d 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 class with kids of his age for the time being.I asked Ma

15、rks 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 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: a real geniusB: a normal boyC: a mischievous boyD: a boy that needs love: () 6: Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and applepie