SCIENCE NEWS FOR KIDS

　　Welcome to log on a new website-SCIENCE NEWS FOR KIDS!

　　Our goal is to offer timely items of interest to kids, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, Web resources, and other useful materials.

　　Our emphasis is on making the website appealing by offering kids opportunities to comment on and grade the subject matter, get ideas for science projects, and try out mathematical puzzles. At the same time, we offer teachers creative ways of using science news in their classrooms.

　　The Science News for Kids Web, founded by grants from several corporations and foundations, enhances the usefulness of Science News in the middle-school classroom and offers recreational reading and activities for students interested in science.

　　A section of the Science News for Kids Web is devoted to particular interests. At present, we have six such zones: a weekly brainteaser for those who enjoy solving and inventing puzzles (PuzzleZone), entertaining science-fiction composition exercises for those interested in writing (SciFiZone), and weekly science fair profiles along with science project ideas and tips (ScienceFair Zone). The GameZone contains a small selection of logic and memory games, implemented as Java applets (小應(yīng)用程序). The TeacherZone has materials, including question sheets related to the feature article of the week, so that teachers can bring science news topics to the classroom. The LabZone features a weekly hands-on activity or science project idea. In the future, we might add additional zones, for example, for kids interested in robotics, the environment, computers, mathematics, or veterinary medicine(獸醫(yī))and animals.

　　Contact us at editor@ snkids. com.

　　Science News for Kids

　　1719 N Street, N. W.

　　Washington, DC 20036

　　Phone:202-785-2255

　　Fax:202-659-3065

(1) Science News for Kids is a website mainly devoted to________.

[　　]

A．introductions to the newly-published science books

B．useful teaching materials for teachers in schools

C．electronic games for those interested in computers

D．timely news for children interested in science

(2) Where is the Science News for Kids Web-site located in?

[　　]

A．New York

B．Washington, DC

C．Los Angeles

D．Philadelphia

(3) What makes the website an attractive one to the children?

[　　]

A．Offering recreational reading materials in science.

B．Trying out interesting and challenging mathematical puzzles.

C．Offering kids opportunities to com-ment on and grade the subject matter.

D．All of the facts mentioned above.

(4) Which of the following messages can't you find on Science News for Kids？

[　　]

A．Brazil's Air Traffic Contr0llers Back at Work After 6-H0ur Strike.

B．Taking a big bite isn't always the best strategy in this two-player game.

C．Astronomers have discovered a“family”of related objects in a region 0f the solar system.

D．Whatis 0ne-half of two-thirds of three-quarters of four-fifths of five-sixths of seven-eighths of eight-ninths of nine-tenths of 10000.

(5) Jenny has much imaginati0n and sense of w0nder and intendS t0 be a writer in the future. Which seCtion of the website is she likely to be interested in？

[　　]

A．PuzzleZone

B．LabZone

C．SciFiZone

D．ScienceFairZone

答案：D;B;D;A;C
解析：

(1) 從第二段第一句Our goal is to offer timely items of interest to kids可知，Science News for Kids這個(gè)網(wǎng)站的主要目的是向孩子們提供及時(shí)有趣的科技新聞。

(2) 從文章后面附的聯(lián)系地址和電話號(hào)碼部分可以得知，這個(gè)網(wǎng)站位于Washington，DC。

(3) 綜合文章第二和第三段內(nèi)容可知。

(4) 通讀全文可知，這個(gè)網(wǎng)站主要是關(guān)于科學(xué)技術(shù)方面的內(nèi)容，為了增加趣味性還設(shè)計(jì)了一些數(shù)學(xué)智力測(cè)驗(yàn)和一些益智游戲，B，C，D三項(xiàng)對(duì)應(yīng)上述內(nèi)容。只有A項(xiàng)“巴西空中交通管理員經(jīng)過(guò)六個(gè)小時(shí)的罷工后復(fù)工”與這個(gè)網(wǎng)站內(nèi)容無(wú)關(guān)。

(5) 從第五段介紹的entertaining science-fiction composition exercises for those interested in writing(SciFiZone)可知，SciFiZone(科幻區(qū))有一些有趣的科幻寫(xiě)作練習(xí)，專為愛(ài)好寫(xiě)作的孩子設(shè)計(jì)，因此適合Jenny的情況。


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