For over a quarter of century, scientists have been making better computers. Now a computer can do a lot of everyday job wonderfully. It is wildly used in factories, hospitals and banks. A computer can report, decide and control（控制）in almost every field. Many computer scientists are now thinking of making the computer“think” like a man. With the help of a person, a computer can draw pictures, write music, talk with people, translate languages and so on. Perhaps computers one day can really think and feel. Do you think that people will be afraid when they find that the computers are too clever to listen to and serve the people?

(2) According（根據）to the passage, we know that one day computers can ________.

　　Rockefeller was a millionaire（百萬富翁）. One day he went to stay at a hotel in New York. He hoped to have the cheapest room to live in. Rockefeller asked, “What price is the room?” The boss told him “And which floor is it on?” Again the boss told him.

　　“Is that your cheapest room you have? I'm staying here by myself and only need a room.” The boss said, “That room is the smallest and cheapest we have but why do you choose a poor room like that? When your son stays here, he always stays in our dearest room, yours is our cheapest.”“Yes,” said Rockefeller, “his father is a very rich man. But mine isn't.”

　　At the Olmpic Games, people from all over the world have contests（競賽）, you see the Olympic Flag. It's white, and it has five rings in the middle. The rings are blue, yellow, black, green and red. You can see at least one of these colors in every flag in the world. The rings are locked together to show the friendship of the people at the games.

　　At the United nations you see another flag that stands for many countries. It is a blue flag with a map of the world in the middle. On each side of the map is an olive（橄欖樹）branch. The olive branches stand for peace

A．everyone wants to get the first prize

B．people should work together to make the games successful

C．players should work hard for their country

D．players should break world records

A．a blue flag with a map of the world

B．a blue flag with people

C．a blue flag with olive branches

D．both A and C

A．the uncooked food tasted much better

B．wild animals kept warm near a fire

C．wild animals enjoyed the cooked food

D．the cooked food tasted better than the uncooked food

A．it rained now and then

B．they were not able to make a fire

C．they liked to wait for lightening

D．they didn't want to make a fire again

A．learned how to make a fire as time went by

B．didn't know how to make a fire until now

C．waited for lightening till now

D．didn't need fire because the weather was hot

　　Long ago there lived in Greece a learned man. He was so well-known for his good knowledge that lots of people from all over the country came to learn from him. The great man taught his students with great patience （耐心）

　　One day a student asked him, “My dear teacher, didn't you say you yourself have much more questions about things than we do? But I think we students have far more than you “

　　With a smile on his face, the teacher drew two circles, one as large as a big cake, the other smaller. Then he said, “of course, I've learned much more．But it's wrong to think that a teacher has fewer questions than his students. now look at these two circles. The inside of the bigger one is my knowledge of things, and inside of the smaller one is yours. out of the circles is what is still unknown to us all. Since mine is larger, I have to use the longer line to draw the bigger circle． That means I have more opportunities（機會）to face what is unknown. And that's why l myself have more questions than you do. The more you learn, the more questions you have. You'll never learn enough, you know “

A．he was a man of great patience.

B．he was a man of great knowledge.

C．he could draw circles to show how much knowledge he had got.

D．he was a man of great experience

A．he was good at drawing.

B．his knowledge had something to do with the circles.

C．why he had more questions than his students.

D．how he could get more knowledge.

A．the teacher had so many questions as a learned man.

B．students had so many questions as the students.

C．students had fewer questions than teachers.

D．students had more questions than teachers.

A．the more questions we have, the more knowledge we may get.

B．it is never too old to learn.

C．everyone of us should try to be a learned person.

D．teachers may get puzzled when they have many questions.

　　The words you know are called your vocabulary（詞匯）. You should try to make your vocabulary bigger Read as many books as you can There are plenty of books written in easy English for you to read. You will enjoy them when you meet a new word, find it your dictionary your dictionary is your most useful book.

A．only about two thousand words.

B．five hundred thousand words.

C．three or four thousand words.

D．only over one thousand words.

A．two thousand words.

B．hundreds of words.

C．different kinds of words.

D．many thousands of words.

A．read as many books as possible.

B．get as many dictionaries as you can.

C．buy plenty of books.

D．have a very large English dictionary.

A．your vocabulary.

B．the books written in easy English.

C．your dictionary.

D．finding new words in a dictionary.

　　One day Luce drove along the street He stopped in front of a house. There was a small boy beside the door Luce opened the window of his lorry（運貨汽車）and called to the boy.“Hello. Is your mother at home?”

　　The boy looked at him. Then he answered, “Yes, she is “

“That's good, “Luce said. He got out of his lorry, took shoes and went to the door of the house. He knocked at the door and waited for a few minutes, but nobody came to answer the door.

　　Then Luce looked at the small boy and said angrily, “Your mother is NOT at home!”

　　“She is,”the small boy said.

　　“Why didn't she open the door?” Luce asked.

　　“Because this isn't my house,” the small boy answered.

A．sell the shoes to the boy.

B．sell the shoes to the boy's mother.

C．ask his mother for something to eat.

D．drink some water.

A．Luce drove a lorry when he sold shoes.

B．The boy's mother wasn't at home.

C．The boy was an honest（誠實的）one.

D．The shoes were selling well.

A．Because the mother wasn't at home.

B．Because it was not the boy's house.

C．Because Luce didn't make enough noise.

D．Because there was no one in the house.

　　Isaac Newton was a great English scientist. He was one of the greatest men in history（歷史）. But when he was thinking hard about his work, he often forgot other things.

　　One morning, Newton got up early. He began to work at once． When it was time for breakfast, he was still thinking it hard, so he didn't have breakfast Mary was going to boil the egg for him. But Newton wanted to stay by himself. He said, “You can put the egg on the table I'll boil it.” Mary put the egg beside Newton's watch on the table and came out of the room.

　　An hour later, Mary went to his room again. What did she see? Newton was standing by the pan（平底鍋）, having the egg in his hand. He had put the watch in the pan and was boiling it. But he did not know what he was doing.

　　Visitors to London often eat in restaurants. The owners (主人) and workers in them are all from other countries. The visitors say in these restaurants they don't feel they are in England. Most of English people eat at home as much as they can. Sometimes they themselves will think they are in another country when they are in restaurants. When an Englishman goes out of a restaurant, he may find that he doesn't understand why everything is written in French and Italian.

A．why everything comes from France and Italy

B．why people write everything in French and Italian

C．everything in restaurant

D．everyone in restaurant

A．In order to (為了) get more food

B．In order to have much food

C．In order to get good food

D．In order to have enough food

　　“Tea” means two things. It is a drink and a meal! Some people have afternoon tea, with sandwiches, cakes and a cup of tea.

　　On Sundays many families have a traditional (傳統(tǒng)的) lunch. They have beef, chicken, or pork with potatoes (馬鈴薯) and vegetables.

　　The English like food from other countries, too, especially (特別地) French, Chinese, Italian and Indian. People often get take-away meals--they buy the food outside and then take it home to eat.

A．a lot; quickly

B．little; at home

C．a lot; at home

D．little; at school or in their office

(3)In England “tea”can mean_______.

A．a drink in the morning

B．supper

C．a drink and a meal

D．only drinking nice tea with friends

A．on Saturdays

B．on Sundays

C．by eating take--away food

D．by eating food from other countries