英语阅读

One clever ch-app

英国青少年发明畅销手机应用程序。

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WHILE most teenagers were spending their time searching for useful smartphone applications, a 17-year-old student in London was developing his own.

Nick D?Aloisio, who has been li kened (被比作) to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, launched a top-selling app that provides easy-to-read summaries of news stories. Launched earlier this month, it became number nine in Apple?s app store just two hours after its release in the US.

The app, called Summly, condenses (浓缩) online news articles into three key paragraphs that fit onto an iPhone screen. Users can customize (定制) the news categories and link to the original article if they like the summary.

The young creator knew it would be p opular even before it went on sale. “People are not scrolling (翻阅) through 1,000-word articles – they want snack-sized information,” he told the BBC.

The app has attracted fans ranging from Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, who invested (投资) around $250,000 for its development, to US media giant Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation has already signed a deal to share payrolled (付费的) content with the teenager.

Son of a lawyer and an investment banker, D?Aloisio is obsessed with design. He said he has been designing apps for mobiles in his bedroom since he was 12.

“I?m described as a Net native, so I was born when the Internet was founded and have only known a world with the Internet,” he told The Telegraph.

He came up with his hit idea when he was using Google. He found that there were so many results to scroll through that it was really inefficient.

“So I built an algorithm (操作模式) that shared them and trimmed (删减) them. Then it just transformed into the idea of: …Why not just summarize news in general??” He told the British newspaper.

D?Aloisio took time off school to develop his idea for a smartp hone application. As an app entrepreneur (企业家), instead of coming home from school he came home from work at 6 pm. And instead of doing homework, he was reading e-mails or testing his product. “I get just as stressed with Summly as I did with exams,” he sa id.

But the schoolboy plans to return to King?s College School in London, where he is yet to take his A-levels (大学入学科目考试). He would like to study philosophy (哲学) or history at university because he sees the value of a “balanced education”.

高考词汇

obsessed adj. 着迷的，痴迷的

She became more and more obsessed with the project.

Fear of fiction

惊悚小说为何深受英国青少年欢迎？

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ONCE upon a time it was boarding school adventures and mysteries solved by tweed-wearing detectives that fired you ng readers? imaginations. Now, it seems, it is the promise of tales of blood sucking vampires (吸血鬼), unstoppable zombies (僵尸), howling werewolves and terrifying beasts that inspires young audiences to pick up a book.

Teen horror is a genre (体裁) that seems to be going from strength to strength, with titles like The Demonata and The Saga of Larten Crepsey by Irish born writer, Darren Shan, topping the charts. Indeed Darren Shan?s success has earned him the title of “Master of Children?s Horror” and his bo oks, which also include The Thin Executioner and the vampire series The Saga of Darren Shan, have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.

But what is it about horror fiction that so appeals to young readers, and just how scary do they like it?

“I think horror allows teenagers to focus on real-life issues in a fantastical (空想的) way, helping them analyse and make sense of the world as they are coming to a greater understanding of it,” says Darren. “In my book, Lord Loss, the main character?s paren ts and sister are slaughtered (残杀) by demons (恶魔). While that?s obviously not going to happen to anyone in the real world, many children will lose people they love during their formative years, whether it?s grandparents dying of old age, or friends or rela tives in accidents. A book like this can hopefully help them prepare for when death strikes at them in real life. Good horror is always about helping us prepare for the darker aspects of life –and since we can?t avoid them, we might as well turn them into entertainment!”

Darren tours frequently, attending events in schools and libraries, and talking to young readers helps him gauge (判断) what they can and can?t take in terms of frightening content. He explains: “When I?m writing an especially grisly (可怕的) scene, I imagine myself reading it out in a live environment, and ask myself if I would feel comfortable doing so. If not, I?ll go back and tweak (微调) the scene. I have no set formula (准则) for deciding what is suitable and what is not. I simply go with my gut instinct (直觉).”

Activity:

Unscramble the words below to find different genres of stories.

a) mnceaor

b) etvedicte

c) enccsie onitfci

d) uerdavtne

Answers: romance; detective; science fiction; adventure.

Keeping track of time

为什么快乐的时光总是如此短暂？

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TICK, tick, tick… you are sitting in the classroom, trying hard to focus on the teacher, but the noise of the clock on the wall keeps reminding you how slowly time is moving. Meanwhile, you think of the exciting weekend you just had and ask yourself how it has come and gone so fast.

Why do we sense time so differently? To understand that we first need to look at how our brain keeps track of time.

Without looking at a clock or seeing where the sun is, humans can still figure out how much time has passed. This is because we keep an independent sense of time in our brain, according to Live Science.

To understand this ability, researchers from the University of Minnesota, US, trained two rhesus monkeys (猕猴) to move their eyes between two dots in regular one-second intervals. After three months, the monkeys learned to move their eyes at a speed of about one second without any cues (提示) in the room that could help them tell time.

The researchers then measured the electrical signals sent from the monkey?s brain neurons (神经元) and found that the activity of these cells decreased between each eye movement in a regular way, which helped the monkey sense the right length of time.υBut whenever the decrease slowed down, it corresponded with the monkeys overestimating (高估) the length of a second, while a faster rate of decrease meant they would move their eyes before the time was up.?

“The animals? timing varied after these neurons were more, or less, active. It?s as if the activity of these neurons was serving as an internal (内部的) hourglass (沙漏),” Professor Geoffrey Ghose, the lead researcher, told Live Science.

Not only did this experiment reveal how the brain has the ability to keep time, it also gave an explanation as to why, under certain conditions, our sense of time feels different.

An individual?s stress level, for example, affects that amou nt of certain chemicals, such as adrenalin (肾上腺素), in the brain and this affects the rate of neuronal activity.

This study suggests that scientists may one day be able to control how we experience time by changing the neuronal activities in our brain. This could make the one-hour commute (通勤) from home to school feel more bearable.

Power of a voice

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GROWING up in Kenya was amazing because I learned so much, though the poverty and lack of resources were sometimes frustra ting. I knew I didn?t have much, but I was happy. There was only one thing I wasn?t happy with: education. I wanted to go to high school and university. I had the drive, the will and the grades, but I didn?t have the resources. Even basic things like food, water and shelter weren?t readily available.

Young people in poverty have little or no access to high schools and universities. Where I lived, it was challenging unless someone helped.

When I left primary school, I was in the same situation as many other financially disadvantaged youth. Luckily, during that year, a charitable high school for girls, Starehe Girls Centre, was founded and I received a scholarship (奖学金). Today, I am on record as being the first student to be enrolled (招收) in this school.

In 2006, my school joined The Global Give Back Circle, a not-for-profit organization for disadvantaged girls to complete their education and gain employable skills. I was assigned to a mentor (导师), Charlotte Gower. After graduating from high school, I was given access to a nine-month IT course. In addition, its give-back attitude had taught us to not only care about ourselves but other people.

With this in mind, 10 of us created a website called “Hey Sister, Get Clued-Up”. Through this educational website, aimed at networking 10,000 African girls worldwide, all Sisters commit to sending information to their villages.υ This can be to promote financial freedoms, advance information related to health issues and provide knowledge about social networking behavior.

“Hey Sister, Get Clued-Up” is only available to those girls who can access the Internet, which highlights (突出) the huge challenge in narrowing the divide between the haves and have-nots.? But our plan is that these girls will spread what they learn to other girls through the “power of their voice”.

Words in focus

drive n. determination and energy to succeed 精力，干劲，决心

She is an ambitious young woman, full of drive and determination.

access n./vt. (a way of being able to) use or get sth 接近，使用

We have access to the Internet at the library.

assign vt. send (sb) to a particular group or place as part of a job 指派，分配She was assigned to the embassy in India.

commit to say that (sb or sth) will definitely do sth 承诺，作出保证

The contract commits the company to finishing the bridge by next fall.

promote vt. help (sth) happen, develop, or increase 促进，提升

Good soil promotes plant growth.

Sentence bank

释义：这个教育网站旨在建立一个全球万名非洲女孩的联络网，所有参与的“姐妹”都承诺要向同村的村民传递信息。

分析：句中aimed at…，意思是“旨在，目的是……”，作伴随状语；network，此处作动词，意思是“建立人际关系网”。

释义：只有那些能够上网的女孩能够利用“嗨姐妹，把头脑武装起来”这个网站，这就突出了巨大的挑战：要缩小富人和穷人的差距。

分析：句中who引导的定语从句修饰先行词those girls，which引导的非限制性定语从句指代逗号前面的整句话。Haves和have-nots分别表示富人和穷人。

QUIZ TIME

One clever ch-app (P1)

Choose the best answer:

1. Acc ording to the article, the app that D?Aloisio designed ______.

A. was directed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg

B. has been an instant hit in the US since it was released

C. attracted a wide range of fans before it went on sale

D. is free at present but will charge fees in the future

2. What is the unique characteristic of Summly?

A. It especially meets the taste of teenagers.

B. It offers users summaries of news stories.

C. It enables users to customize the news categories.

D. It collects snack-sized information from major US news media.

3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the article?

A. D?Aloisio owes his success to his family.

B. D?Aloisio enjoyed working on the app and had no problems.

C. D?Aloisio wants to major in Internet technology at college.

D. D?Aloisio considers the Internet to be an essential part of his life.

4. Which of the following words best describe D?Aloisio?

A. Creative and ambitious.

B. Devoted and cautious.

C. Determined and humorous.

D. Responsible and passionate.

Fear of fiction (P4)

Choose the best answer:

1. What is the point of the article?

A. To recommend some popular horror books.

B. To analyze why horror fiction fascinates young people.

C. To explore how horror fiction benefits young readers.

D. To introduce how Darren creates horror books.

2. The underlined phrase “going from strength to strength” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning

to ______.

A. failing to attract attention

B. improving imagination

C. getting darker and scarier

D. becoming increasingly successful?

3. Darren Shan thinks that his books interest young people because ______.

A. they are exciting and inspiring

B. they are about the darker aspects of life

C. they deal with real-life issues in a fantastical way

D. they teach people how to deal with real-life problems

4. What can we conclude from the last paragraph?

A. Teenagers feel comfortable with Darren?s imagination.

B. The more frightening a book is, the better it sells.

C. Darren visits schools from time to time to promote his books.

D. Darren sometimes changes his stories to make them less scary.

Keeping track of time (P5)

Choose the best answer:

1. What is the point of the article?

A. To introduce what helps people tell time in different conditions.

B. To inform what can be done to improve our ability to keep time.

C. To analyze what factors affect the neural activities in our brain.

D. To explain why our sense of time changes in different situations.

2. In the experiment, when the monkey overestimated the length of a second, ______.

A. they would move their eyes after the time was up

B. they would move their eyes before the time was up

C. the activity of their brain neurons decreased faster

D. the activity of their brain neurons increased faster

3. According to the article, the changing rate of neural activities in our brain _____.

A. changes our stress level

B. makes our sense of time feel different

C. affects the amount of adrenalin in our body

D. affects the amount of electrical signals the brain receives

Power of a voice (P6)

Choose the best answer:

1. When the author was at primary school, ______.

A. she was eager to further her education

B. she was always unhappy because of the poverty

C. she didn?t learn much due to lack of resources

D. she received scholarships from time to time

2. Whose support enabled the author to study at high school?

A. Charlotte Gower?s.

B. An educational website?s.

C. Starehe Girls Centre?s.

D. The Global Give Back Circle?s.

3. What did the author get from The Global Give Back Circle?

a. Computer skills.

b. A full scholarship.

c. Assistance from a mentor.

d. The spirit of being kind and thankful.

A. cd

B. acd

C. abc

D. abcd

4. What can we conclude about the website “Hey Sister, Get Clued-Up” from the last two paragraphs?

A. It calls on girls to get together to fight against prejudice.

B. It wants to narrow the financial gap between the rich and poor.

C. It intends to spread knowledge to girls in the African community.

D. The author wants to help more girls to go to school with this website.

Day 5

从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

1. ______ for her tuition, she spent two years working as a cleaner for a rich family in Vancouver.

A. Paying

B. Paid

C. To pay

D. Being paid

2. In critics? eyes, Mo Yan?s works are dramatic, ______ sharp language and color ful characters.

A. besides

B. in

C. beyond

D. with

3. His leg was badly injured in the accident and it still ______ the marks.

A. bears

B. appears

C. contains

D. maintains

4. The headmaster will not permit the change in the course, nor ______ it a thought.

A. does he even give

B. he even gives

C. will he even give

D. he will even give

5. We had lots of good applicants for the job, but one ______ from the rest.

A. set out

B. stood out

C. made out

D. turned out

6. He?s welcome to come along, ______ he behaves himself.

A. if only

B. now that

C. in case

D. provided that

7. The system has been designed to give students quick and easy ______ to the digital resources of the library.

A. access

B. passage

C. way

D. approach

8. ______ Daley has always been the focus of much media attention, he tries to lead a normal life.

A. As

B. While

C. Since

D. Before

9. Now that she is out of a job, Lucy ______ going back to school, but she hasn?t decided yet.

A. had considered

B. has been considering

C. considered

D. is going to consider

10. When we hear a deep and loud noise we ______ it with a large object, even though the sound itself has no size or weight.

A. compare

B. combine

C. associate

D. attach

D1 1-4 BBDA D2 1-4 BDCD D3 1-3 DAB

D4 1-4 ACBC D5 1-5 CDACB 6-10 DABBC

小学三年级英语阅读短文带翻译

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如何上好一堂高中英语阅读课

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