徐汇区初三英语第一学期期末质量抽查试卷

. Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题)：(12 )

There was a man who had a little boy that he loved very much. Every day after work the man would come home and play with the little boy. He would always spend all his extra time playing with the little boy .

One night, the man had extra work to do, and he wouldn’t be able to play with his little boy. However, he wanted to give the boy something to keep him busy. So, looking around his office, he saw a magazine with a large map of the world on the cover. He got an idea. He tore(撕) the map up into small pieces. Then he put all the pieces in his coat pocket.

When he got home, the little boy came running to him and was ready to play. The man said that he had extra work to do and couldn’t play at the moment. He took out all the pieces of the map, and said, “It is a map of the world. By the time you put it back together, my extra work will have been finished, and we can play together.” Surely this would keep the child busy for hours, he thought.

About half an hour later, the boy came to the man and said ,”Okay, it’s finished. Can we play now ?”

The man was surprised and said, “ That’s impossible. Let’s go and see.” And sure enough, there was the picture of the world, and every piece was in its place.

The man asked, “How did you do that?” The boy said, “It was simple. On the back of the map was a picture of a man. When I put the man together, the whole world fell into piece.”

93. How would the man always spend his extra time after work?

The man ____________________________________________.

94. Why wasn’t the man be able to play with the boy one night?

Because he _________________________________________.

95. The man brought back a magazine and asked the boy to read, didn’t he?

__________, _________________________________

96. What did the man do to keep the boy busy?

He ________________________________________________________

97. How much time did it take the boy to put the map of the world back together?

It _________________________________________________________

98. What do you think of the boy?

I think _________________________________________________

杨浦区初三英语第一学期期末质量抽查试卷

Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题)：(12分)

A different kind of alarm clock

When Matty Sallin, 34, was studying art and technology at New York University, he got an interesting task for the final exam: Create something for the ordinary family. He decided to create an alarm clock.

"To get up in time, many people have to use an alarm clock every morning. But the sound of the clock is extremely noisy and unpleasant," he says. So before he started to design the new clock, he asked different people what they'd like to wake up to in the morning. A lot of them said, "The smell of bacon (培根肉)."

So Sallin and his two classmates invented a new kind of alarm clock: a wooden box with a pig face and a digital (数码的) clock that uses the smell of cooking bacon to wake people up. He explains, "There's no danger of burning, because I built it carefully. It uses special light bulbs(灯泡) instead of a fire for cooking and rums off automatically after ten minutes." Just a few easy steps are required to set the "alarm".

"What you do is to put a few pieces of bacon meat inside the box the night before, then you set the alarm," says Sallin. "If you set the alarm for 8:00, it will turn on at 7:50 and slow cook for ten minutes under the bulbs. Then the bulbs rum off and a fan blows the smell out through the nose of the pig.

"So the pleasant smell of bacon will wake you up. There will be no more noisy alarms," says Sallin. "Then you can open the door on the side and pull the bacon out and eat it."

When Sallin was a kid, he spent a lot of time making drawings of inventions. "I wanted to make a lift in my back yard and a special tree house," he says. "But I never really thought I'd become an inventor!"

Sallin got an A for his alarm clock and went on to invent other things—but people continue to email him every day asking where they can buy his alarm clock. If he decides to produce and sell his special alarm clock, maybe he can build a successful business out of it.

93. What was Matty Sallin?

94. How many people worked together on the new alarm clock?

95. How long did it take to cook the bacon?

96. Why are light bulbs used for cooking bacon instead of a fire?

Because                                .

97. What's special about Sallin's alarm clock?

wakes people up instead of the loud alarm.

98. What do you think of the new alarm clock?