Don’t. Rescue yourself! Obviously.”
Knightley added that she had also forbidden The Little Mermaid, the 1989 cartoon. “This is the one that I’m quite annoyed about because I really like the film. I mean, the songs are great, but do not give up your voice for a man. Well, that’s a little difficult to handle, but I’m keeping to it.”
Bell, the star of Frozen, expressed her disapproval of the Snow White fairy tale, which became a classic Disney cartoon in 1938. In an interview with parents, Bell said: “I look at my girls and ask, ‘Don’t you think it’s very unusual that Snow White didn’t ask the old witch why she needed to eat the apple? Or where she got that apple?’ I say, ‘I would never take food from a stranger, would you?’ And my kids respond, ‘No!’ And I think I’m doing something right.”
Bell, who played a Disney princess in Frozen, said she also used the story to illustrate issues about permission. She says that she asked her children: “Don’t you think that it’s very strange that the prince kisses Snow White without her permission? … Because you cannot kiss someone if they’re sleeping!”
Bell later responded to criticism on social media. To one user she wrote: “Everything is a message to our children, because they are sponges(海绵) that soak up everything and are learning how to be adults through what they see. I want my girls to see and practice critical thinking and respectful behavior.” 24.Why did Knightley stop her daughter from watching The Little Mermaid?
A. Because Knightley disliked it. B. Because the little mermaid was tricky. C. Because the film showed wrong values. D. Because the songs in the film were annoying. 25.What can we infer about Bell from Paragraph 4?
A. Bell thought Snow White behaved well. B. Bell didn’t know how to persuade her kids. C. Bell wanted her kids to learn from Snow White.
D. Bell believed her kids should be critical about the film. 26. What qualities do Knightley and Bell expect their children to have?
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A. Curious and hard-working. B. Smart and generous.
C. Independent and good-mannered. D. Critical and proud.
27. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Say No to Disney Princesses B. Rescue Yourselves C. Doing Something Right D. Practice Critical Thinking
C
With the average American going through more than 700 pounds of paper per year, many firms are looking for ways to discourage their employees from over-using the office printer.
Toshiba America Business Solutions has come up with an alternative idea. It has introduced the e-STUDI04508LP, a printer that gives users the option to print with erasable toner (墨粉) — allowing a single piece of paper to be reused several times.
To reuse a piece of paper, the printer basically uses the same process as a normal printer, but in reverse (反过来), said Bill Melo, chief marketing executive for Toshiba America Business Solutions. Paper printed with the erasable toner is fed back into the printer, superheated, and the toner gets removed and put in a discard tank.
There are a couple of catches. All of the printouts using the erasable toner have to be in blue ink, which is the only color in which erasable toner is now available. And the company said that people may want to stop reusing the printouts after five times through the eraser because small traces of erased text will build up over time.
The $15,420 printer is aimed at offices and schools, where there are often large numbers of printouts that outlive their usefulness quickly. With the erasable toner, it' s possible to load any short-lived handouts back onto the printer to be erased and then reused.
Still, convincing customers to commit to erasable toner isn't always easy. Melo said not all its customers were happy about only having the erasable option.
The model, Melo said, should better serve the needs of those who want to be
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environmentally conscious but also may need something more permanent on occasion. 28. What' s special about Toshiba' s printer?
A. It' s low-priced. C. It' s lightweight. eco-friendly.
29. What' s the key to making the printer work?
A. A discard tank.
B. Light colored ink.
D. A high enough
B. It' s fashionable.
D.
It'
s
C. Special writing paper. temperature.
30. What does the underlined word \
A. Theories. C. Problems.
B. Differences. D. Characteristics.
31. How did the public respond to the printer?
A. They asked for more patterns. B. Some expressed dissatisfaction.
C. They considered it hard to operate. D. Some worried about its recycling.
D
Researchers in China and the United States have developed a new cataract(白内障)treatment with cells that has restored vision in babies in a trial and may eventually be used in adults.
The treatment －by doctors and staff members at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Sichuan and Sun Yat-sen universities in China－was published in March 9 edition of the scientific journal Nature.
A cataract is a clouding of the normally clear lens (晶体) of an eye. Typical cataract operation involves the removal of the cloudy lens and the insertion of an artificial one. The new operation has been tested in animals and during a small, human trial. It resulted in fewer complications (并发症) than the current harmful operation, and in regrown lenses with superior visual function in all 12 of the baby cataract patients who received the procedure.
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A congenital cataract－lens clouding that occurs at birth or shortly after- is important cause of blindness in children. In the new research, Kand Zhang, head of ophthalmic genetics at US San Diego’s Shiley Eye Institute, and his colleagues relied on the regrown potential of endogenous (同源的)stem cells.
According to Zhang, endogenous stem cells are different from other stem cells that are typically grown in a laboratory, transplanted into a patient, and can have risks of immune (免疫的) rejection, infection or cancers. Zhang told CBS News, “We invented a new operation to make a very small opening at the side of a cataractous lens bag, remove the cataract inside, allow the opening to heal, and promote potential lens stem cells to regrow an entirely new lens with vision.”
The human trial involved 12 babies under the age of 2 who were treated with the new method, while 25 babies received the standard operation care. The latter group experienced a higher incidence of post- operation danger, early－ onset eye high blood pressure and increased lens clouding. The scientists reported fewer complications and faster healing among the 12 babies who has the new procedure. 32. What is the text mainly about?
A. A new cataract treatment with stem cells B. The concept of the cataract
C. Bad effects of post-operation in the cataract D. Thereasons why the cataract comes into being
33. Which of the following best describe the new cataract treatment according to the passage?
A. Convenient B. Comfortable
C. Safe
D. Cheap
34. What can we learn about the new cataract treatment?
A. It may be used widely
B. It has more risks
D. It can only restore vision in
C. It has been put into practice widely
babies
35. What does the underlined word “congenital” in the fourth paragraph mean?
A. Strange
B. Born
C. Serious
D. Dangerous.
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