“If you want to see a thing well, reach out and touch it!”

　　That may seem a strange thing to say. But touching things can help you to see them better. Your eyes can tell you that a glass ball is round. But by holding it in your hands, you can feel how smooth（光滑）and cool the ball is. You can feel how heavy the glass ball is. When you feel all these about the ball, you really see it. With your skin, you can feel better. For example, your fingers can tell the difference between two coins in your pocket. You can feel a little drop of water on the back of your hand, too.

　　All children soon learn what “Don't touch!” means. They hear it often. Yet most of us keep on touching things as we grow up. In shops, we touch things as we might buy: food, clothes. To see something well, we have to touch it.

　　There are ways of learning to see well by feeling. One way is to close your eyes and try to feel everything that is touching your skin. Feel the shoes on your feet, the clothes on your body, the air on your skin. At first, it is not easy to feel these things. You are too used to（习惯于）them!

　　Most museums are just for looking. But today some museums have some things to touch. Their signs say, “Do touch!” There you can feel everything on show. If we want to see better, reach out and touch. Then you will really see!

A．you will have a strange feeling

B．you will learn how to reach out your hand

C．you can tell the difference of the things

D．you can tell what colours they are

A．try them on first

B．keep their right hands on them

C．ask about them

D．feel and touch them

(3)Why does it say“At first, it is not easy to feel these things”? Because __________.

A．the things are used by people, too

B．people feel the things too often

C．people know how to use the things

D．the things are easy to feel

A．Touching is more important than seeing.

B．Our feet, fingers, hands and skin can help us buy food.

C．People have to learn to see by feeling as they grow up.

D．Visitors can feel the things on show in some museums.

废物利用，加强环保意识，是当今提倡社会公德、文明礼貌建设的又一热门话题，该篇短文围绕这一中心内容加以介绍并设题．

　　“Did you know”, Randy's teacher asked, “that many of the things we throw away can be used again? Using old papers, cans, and bottles to make new things is called recycling.”

　　The class decided to set up their own recycling centre. They made some big boxes, painted(油漆) them and set them out near the school. Red boxes were for bottles and blue ones were for cans. Others were for newspapers students and their families put garbage(垃圾) in the boxes. When the boxes were full, trucks came and took the garbage to factories. There, it was used to make new bottles, cans and newspapers. The factories even paid the class for the garbage.

1．The writer mainly(主要地) tells us that ________.

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A．old things should be kept well

B．red boxes are for bottles and blue ones are for cans

C．many old things can be used to make new things

D．garbage boxes should be set out near the school

2．The underlined word “recycling” means ________.

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3．Which of the following is true?

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A．The class made some colour boxes for different kinds of garbage.

B．The students took the garbage to factories themselves.

C．They found doing this job was more interesting than having classes.

D．Everyone was paid for this job.

4．In which order did the following happen?

a．Painting the boxes.

b．Setting up a class recycling centre.

c．Setting the boxes out near the school.

d．Making some big boxes.

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5．From this passage we know ________.

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A．how the teacher taught the class

B．how the students painted the boxes

C．how the class did this job

D．how the factories did with the garbage

根据短文内容，用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，使文章通顺、完整。（每词限用一次）

“Cool” is a word with many _____1.. Its old meaning is used to express a temperature that is a little bit ____2. As the world has ___3., the word has had many different meanings.

“Cool” can be used to express ____4._ of interest in almost anything.

When you see a famous car in the street, maybe you will say, “It’s cool.” You may think, “He’s so cool,” when you see your favorite singer.

We all maximize the meaning of “cool”. You can use it instead ___5._ many words such __6.__ “new” or “surprising”. Here’s an _7.story we can use to show the way the word is used. A teacher asked her students ___8. about the waterfall they had visited. On one ____9.paper was just one sentence, “It’s cool.” Maybe he thought it was the best way to show he saw and felt.

Can you think of many other words that make your life as ______10. as the word “cool”? I can. And I think they are also very cool.

阅读下面短文，补全表格中所缺的信息。

Hi! I’m Jack from New York. I am 15 years old. I’m in No.7 Middle School to learn Chinese. I can speak and write Chinese! I think I can be a Chinese teacher one day(某一天).

I like to swim best. Li Ling is my friend. she is a Chinese girl. She is 14. Li Ling is in my school, too. She thinks she may be a painter. Because she likes painting very much. She can paint well. Basketball is her favorite sport. She thinks it’s very interesting.