外研版六年级英语下册Module 8 Unit 1 习题

A. have special sound B. be ordinary

C. have no meaning D. be unknown

42. Mr. Li uses his new name when he__________.

A. stays with his family B. is at his job

C. is among Chinese friends D. comes back to China

43. What is the best title(标题)of this passage?

A. Family Names B. Women’s Names

C. Changing Names D. Special Names

C

Steve Ballmer is always exciting, as he was this time in front of over 2,000 students from Qinghua University and Beijing University.

Ballmer, president(总裁)of Microsoft Corp. ,received a warm welcome at Qinghua University when he gave a talk on the next generation(一代)of the Internet on September 19th. He came to China last week for a two - day visit, during which he slept only four hours and had many meetings with government officials(政府官员)and men of business. After all those business matters, he came to Qinghua and was asked thousands of questions from the excited students.

Ballmer, who joined Microsoft in 1980, is the first business manager hired(聘用 )by Bill Gates, a schoolmate of Ballmer at Harvard. Gates first dropped out of school to start Microsoft and Ballmer was still studying, but he also gave up his studies and joined Bill Gates’five year-old Microsoft in 1980.

In his talk to the students, Ballmer described what the Internet will bring to their life. He said there are several hundred Qinghua graduates now working or being trained at Microsoft both in China and in the US.

He also warned the students not to drop out of school and follow the examples of Bill Gates and himself.

44. Ballmer gave a talk on ________ at Qinghua.

A. the future of the Internet

B. how to use the software made in his company

C. what computers will bring to universities

D. his own experience from Harvard to Microsoft

45. It seemed that Ballmer came to China mainly ________.

A. to meet some government officials

B. to give a talk at Qinghua University

C. to manage business matters

D. to visit places of interest

46. He encouraged Chinese students ________.

A. to work for Microsoft in China or in America

B. to follow the examples of Bill Gates and himself

C. to work on software

D. to go on and finish their college education

47. From the passage we know Steve Ballmer ________.

A. graduated from Harvard University

B. asked the students a lot of questions

C. is president of Microsoft Corp.

D. started Microsoft Corp. in 1980

D

In the summer of 1978 an English man named Steven was driving his tractor through a field of wheat when he discovered something strange. Some of his wheat was lying on the ground. The flattened wheat formed(形成)a circle about six meters across. Around this circle were four smaller circles of flattened wheat.

There years later a farmer who lived nearby discovered almost the same circles in one of his fields. These circles were larger—nearly 15 meters across. That same year, another English farmer discovered three circles of flattened wheat on his lined—one large circle between two small circles. During the following years, farmers in England found circles in their fields more and more often.

The circles are called“crop circles” because they usually appear in fields of Wheat or com. The wheat in the circles lies on the ground but is never broken; it keeps on growing, and the farmers can later harvest it. Farmers always discover the crop circles in the morning, so the circles probably form at night. They appear only in the months from May to September. What causes the crop circles?

At first, people thought that some kids were making them as a joke, or that farmers were making them to attract tourists. (In fact, in 1991, two men said they made the circles themselves, but many scientists don’t believe them. )People tried to copy them: They tried to make circles exactly like the ones the farmers had found. They couldn’t do it. They couldn’t enter a field of wheat without leaving tracks, and they couldn’t flatten the wheat without breaking it.

Several times people reported seeing strange objects near the fields where crop circles later appeared. Many people believe that these crop circles are the messages sent by living things from outer space(外屋空间)or the marks left by their spaceships.

Scientists who have studied the crop circles try to find out what causes them. In the summer of 1990 some scientists spent three weeks in the part of England where many circles have appeared. They had all the latest high-tech equipment(最新高科技设备). The equipment—worth 1.8 million dollars —got nothing. But one night, as the scientists were watching a field, crop circles formed in the field behind them, which were quite different from the others. The scientists had neither seen nor heard anything.

When Steven discovered the crop circles on his land in 1978,he said, “It was just like something that had landed in the field from the air and gone back up again. I don’t know what to make of these things.”

Crop circles have appeared in England, Japan. the United States and Russia. Experts from all over the world have studied them, and they say what Steven said: They don’t know what to make of these things.

48. Which picture is probably the one formed in the field behind the scientists?

49. “Flattened wheat”means ________.

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