Once you open the book, you will become a good speaker. Susan Weinschenk’s excellent ideas on how to make a perfect speech are very helpful to you. With the help of the book, you will be confident to know how to give your speech. Also, you will learn how to attract your audience during the speech.

Car and Driver is the world’s most popular automotive magazine. The people who like cars can get information and entertainment from it. It offers the best vehicle (机动车) tests in the business. The magazine also covers the latest developments in car technology.

There are four parts in IELTS: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Listening is very important. Are you confident? Have you made good preparation? The book IELTS Listening is helpful for your preparation for IELTS.

The book offers healthy and delicious food. These dishes can all be completed in less than half an hour, and in many cases, in just a few minutes. Sisson and Meier show you how to delight your family or guests every time with quick, delicious meals using local materials: meats, healthy fats (yes, and real butter) and common herbs and spices.

 

1.Who wrote Designing Effective Speech Interfaces?

A. Susan Weinschenk         B. Sisson            C. Meier              D. Jack Smith

2.Suppose you are going to join in an English talk show, which of the following can you refer to (参考)？

A. IELTS Listening      B. Car and Driver

C. Quick & Easy Meals.   D. Designing Effective Speech Interfaces.

3.We can find the latest developments in car technology in the _________ of Car and Driver.

A. newspaper            B. Magazine

C. passage              D. article

4.The book Quick & Easy Meals teaches us how to make ____________ in a short time.

A. Chinese food   B. junk food

C. common herbs and spices        D. healthy and delicious food

5.What’s the meaning of the word “delight” in Quick & Easy Meals?

A. To cook the food well   B. To turn on the light

C. To make people happy   D. To show people how to cook.

 

The driver didn’t leave until the last ____________ /' pæsinʤə / got off the bus.

    A. physics           B. passenger          C. passage            D. palace

Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in their daily life. For example, They can help people to save much time to do much work, and they can help people to work out many problems they can’t do easily. Our country asked everyone except the old people, to learn to use computers before the twenty-first century.
Today more and more families own computers. Parents buy computers for their children. They hope computers can help them improve their studies in school. Yet, many of the children use computers to play games, to watch videos or to sing karaoke, instead of studying. So many teachers and parents complain that computers can’t help children to study but make them fall behind. So computers are locked in boxes by parents.
In some other countries, even some scientists also hate computers. They say computers make millions of people lose their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble.
Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness? It will be decided by today’s students themselves!
【小题1】Our country asked everyone to learn to use computers except the ________ .

A．young people

B．old people

C．students

D．adults

【小题2】 Why do we say the computer is a useful machine? Because _____

A．Our country asks us to learn it.	B．it can help us to do a lot of things.
C．We can use it to play games only.	D．it can help us to find jobs only.

【小题3】What do many teachers and parents complain about? They complain about _____ .

A．their students and children use computers to learn well.

B．computers let them lose their jobs

C．computers make their students and children fall behind

D．computers bring people a lot of trouble

【小题4】In this passage we know computers _____

A．also bring us trouble	B．bring us happiness only
C．are hated by people	D．are good for people’s health

【小题5】How do you understand the last sentence of this passage? It means ____

A．computers are used by people

B．people can live well without computers

C．one must decide how to use computers

D．computers are strange machine

Mr. Smith has two cats. One is big and the other is small. He likes them very much. One day his good friend Mr. White comes to see him. He is very surprised(惊奇的).He finds there are two holes(洞) in the door, a big hole and a small hole. He says, “My dear friend, why are there two holes in your door?” “To let them in and out.” Mr. Black answers. “But why are there two holes?” his friend asks, “How can the big cat go through the small hole?”
【小题1】Mr. Smith has _______.

A．two small cats	B．two big cats
C．a big cat and a small one	D．a cat and a bird

【小题2】Mr. White comes to see______. 

A．Mr. Smith

B．Mrs. Black

C．the cats

D．the holes

【小题3】According to this passage. _______ is not necessary(必要的).

A．The big hole

B．The small hole

C．The big door.

D．The small door.