Paper is very good for keeping you warm. You have perhaps seen homeless men asleep on a large number of newspapers. In Finland, it is sometimes -40℃ in winter. The farmers wear paper boots（靴子）in the snow. Nothing could be warmer.
Each year, more and more things are made of paper. We have had paper cups and plates for a long time. But now we hear that chairs, tables, and even beds can be made of paper. With paper boots and shoes, you can also wear paper hats, paper dresses, and paper raincoats. When you have used them once, you throw them away and buy new ones.
The latest use of paper seems to be paper houses. These are not small houses for children to play in, but real, big houses for people to live in. You can buy a house with three rooms for about 500 dollars. You can put it up by yourself in a few hours, and you can use it for about five years.
【小题1】Before we began to use paper to make chairs, tables and beds, ___________.
| A．we could buy paper boots and shoes in paper shops |
| B．we could wear paper hats and paper dresses |
| C．we had already had paper cups and plates |
| D．we had no paper cups and no paper plates |
| A．not big and strong enough to live in |
| B．made for children to play in or for homeless men to live in |
| C．made only for the rich people |
| D．not expensive and easy to build up |
| A．use it for a long time | B．sell it to others |
| C．lend it to others | D．throw it away |
Larry Schwarz started, his career (事业) as an inventor many years ago—when he was a kid, actually, and he had a habit of taking his toys apart and making them into new toys.
Schwarz comes up with ideas all the time. In fact, he filled 26 notebooks while in law school.
“Ideas come to me all the time, just from where I am in my life or what happened to me in the past,” shares Schwarz.
The point is to look for ideas wherever and whenever you can. Schwarz, who often gives inventing talks at primary schools, likes to tell kids “to look at objects they see every day and see how they could be improved”.
| A．How is he able to keep coming up with fresh ideas when most people find it hard to get just one? |
| B．And that’s surely what an inventor should do. |
| C．For example, the Monster In My Closet toy was a result of Schwarz's childhood fear of monsters (怪物). |
| D．Even when he was in law school, Schwarz couldn’t help drawing his toy ideas on notebook paper. |
| E．He wants kids to be surprised, and the toys to be unpredictable (难以预料的). |
Chinese researchers have developed a robot to help doctors treat(治疗) COVID-19(新冠肺炎) and other highly contagious(传染的) diseases.
The machine can do some of the same medical examination tasks as doctors. Cameras record the robot's activities, which are controlled far away so doctors can avoid coming in close contact(接触) with infected(感染) patients.
The robot's main designer is Zheng Gangtie, an engineer and professor at Tsinghua University. He said that he got the idea for the robot in January. At that time, the number of cases of the COVID-19 virus was rising quickly in Wuhan Zheng said a friend of his is the head of a hospital in Beijing. His friend told him that one of the biggest problems in dealing with COVID-19 was that healthcare workers were getting infected themselves. Zheng said he wanted to do something to help this situation.
So the engineer set up a team and went to work on it. The new robot is almost completely automated(自动化的). "Doctors are all very brave," Zheng said. "But this virus is just too contagious...We can use robots to do the most dangerous tasks." However, Zheng said he had heard from some doctors that it would be better not to build such robots to be fully automatic. This is because many patients still desire(渴望) a human medical worker to help calm them during treatment.
The team has made two automatic robots by now and both have been tested by doctors at hospitals in Beijing. One machine was taken to Wuhan's Union Hospital, where doctors there were being trained to use it.
【小题1】According to the passage, the two robots __________.| A．were almost fully automatic | B．were both taken to Wuhan |
| C．were both made in January | D．can only help fight COVID-19 |
| A．Because his friend is the head of a hospital in Beijing. |
| B．Because the doctors are afraid to be in contact with patients. |
| C．Because many patients want robots to calm them during treatment. |
| D．Because doctors may get infected themselves when treating patients. |
| A．Zheng Gangtie made the robots alone in Beijing. |
| B．Zheng Gangtie made lots of money by making robots. |
| C．Not all the doctors want the robots to be fully automatic. |
| D．The infected patients would like robot doctors to treat them. |
| A．an advertisement | B．a textbook | C．a storybook | D．a newspaper |
The pencil is a very simple object. However, it took hundreds of people over centuries to make it what it’s like today.
The story of the pencil starts with graphite (石墨).
When pencils were handmade, they were made round. Then an American Joseph Dixon developed machines to make pencils.
There is a pencil for everyone and every pencil has a story. The Blackwing (黑翼) 602 is famous for being used by a lot of writers. And then, you have the Dixon Pencil Company.
In my opinion, there’s nothing that can be done to make the pencil better than it is.
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| A．However, since the graphite is too soft, the pencils were easy to break. |
| B．It’s what people think of when they think of a pencil and what they most probably will buy when their children are about to learn to write. |
| C．People cut it into small sticks and used them to write or draw. |
| D．Later people found out it was easier and less wasteful to make a pencil which has six sides. |
| E．To this day, the method is still used in making pencils. |
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