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牛津深圳版初中英语九年级上册Module 1 Unit 1 单元测试题
Most people around the world are right-handed. This also seems to be true in history. In 1799, scientists studied works of art made at different times from 1,500 B.C. to the 1950s. Most of the people shown in these works are right-handed, so the scientists guessed that right-handedness has always been common through history. Today, only about 10% to 15% of the world's population is left-handed.
Why are there more right-handed people than left-handed ones? Scientists now know that a person's two hands each have their own jobs. For most people, the left hand is used to find things or hold things. The right hand is used to work with things. This is because of the different work of the two sides of the brain. The right side of the brain, which makes a person's hands and eyes work together, controls the left hand. The left side of the brain, which controls the right hand, is the centre for thinking and doing problems. These findings show that more artists should be left-handed, and studies have found that left-handedness is twice as common among artists as among people in other jobs.
No one really knows what makes a person become right-handed instead of left-handed. Scientists have found that almost 40% of the people become left-handed because their main brain is damaged when they are born. However, this doesn't happen to everyone, so scientists guess there must be another reason why people become left-handed. One idea is that people usually get right-handed from their parents. If a person does not receive the gene (基因) for right-handedness, he / she may become either right-handed or left-handed according to the chance and the people they work or live with.
Though right-handedness is more common than left-handedness, people no longer think left-handed people are strange or unusual. A long time ago, left-handed children were made to use their right hands like other children, but today they don't have to.
Did you know that cigarette butts(烟头) are the most common form of rubbish in our lives? People throw about 4.5 trillion(万亿) of them into the environment every year. Cigarette butts can kill fish, and they have been found in the stomachs of sea turtles, birds and other wildlife. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.
Now, Dutch company TechTics plans to help solve the cigarette problem with its BeachBot (BB).{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Even part of the butt hidden in the sand can be found. At just 80 centimeters wide, BB has four wheels, two cameras and two arms to pick up cigarette butts. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}Once it finds cigarette butts, BB just needs to place them into a bin(垃圾箱) that it carries. After it finishes cleaning, people deal with the waste properly.
However, BB still needs help to tell the difference between things like a cigarette butt and a small seashell(海贝壳).{#blank#}4{#/blank#}Using this app, anyone with a smartphone can send BB photos of cigarette butts to help the robot learn to know them. Besides that, TechTics works on a pair of smaller robots that can look for cigarette butts. They tell the larger robot where the butts are so it can pick them up.
{#blank#}5{#/blank#}But while the robot works well without wasting time, TechTics wants to get people to litter less. If people stop throwing their cigarette butts onto the beach, robots like BB wouldn't be necessary.
A. The way this robot works is very simple. B. To do this, the company turns to Microsoft Trove. C. It is a beach-cleaning robot that uses AI to find cigarette butts. D. During its first demo, BB picked up 20cigarette butts in 30 minutes. E. Though they're everywhere, people don't notice them because they're so small. |
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Chinese people had hotpot as early as the Shang Dynasty. At that time, people boiled foods in bronze cauldrons(青铜鼎), which had two parts — one was the pot to cook foods in soup, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the other part was a space inside the cauldron to hold firewood.
People started to have lattice (分格的) hotpot {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the Han Dynasty. They divided pots into several parts to enjoy different tastes.
Yuan Mei was a poet who was very fond of food in the Qing Dynasty. He mentioned huoguo, the Chinese name for hotpot, in {#blank#}3{#/blank#} book about all kinds of food. At that time, hotpo t was very popular. People put all kinds of meat and vegetables into the hotpot. They also used different {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to make pots such as copper(铜) and iron.
It's said that Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty {#blank#}5{#/blank#} hotpot. He had it for almost every meal. He once held a big hotpot party and invited more than 5,000 people to enjoy 1,550 hotpots.
A．Don't use lift. The lift may get trapped between floors. Use the stairs and leave the building at once. B．Use hot water. Use hot water to clean the cut. Then go to see a doctor. C．Wash the cut. Wash the cut under cold running water. Cover the broken part, if there is any, with a piece of clean cloth. Then see a doctor as soon as possible. D．Press hard. You should press on the bleeding point with a piece of cloth and hold up the part of the body which is bleeding. E．Mouth to mouth. You should lay the person on his/her back and breathe into his/her mouth. F．Use the lift. Lift is convenient. Take the lift to the first floor and you can go to see the doctor quickly. G．Cool the burnt. Run cool（not cold） water over the burn until it is less painful. Put a piece of dry clean cloth over the burnt part. |
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