Nick Petrels is a doctor in Montreal.He works 60 hours a week.He takes care of 159 patients a week in the hospital and at his office.He’s been a doctor for ten years.
Dr Petrels gives his patients good medical advices.But he doesn’t just tell his patients when to do.He also sings to them on television.Dr Petrels has his own TV show.The show is in Italia,English and French.The doctor starts the show with a song and then gives medical advice.He explains a medical problem or disease in simple language.After that,he sings another song.
Dr Petrels produces and performs in his own show every week.The program is very popular with his patients and with people who enjoy his singing.His dream is to perform in Las Vegas.His favorite songs are love songs,and he has a compact disk of love songs that he wrote.Dr Petrels says,“I always love to sing.All my problems are gone when I sing.”But when Dr Petrels was young,his father didn’t want him to be a singer,so he went to a medical school.
Some people tell Dr Petrels he can help people more as a doctor.But Dr Petrels says he helps people when he sings,too.“I like to make people smile.Sometimes it’s difficult to make a sick person smile.Medicine and entertainment (娛樂)both try to do the same thing.They try to make people feel good.”
1.Dr Petrels works 60 hours a week,because he________.
When I was a child, I spent more than ten years learn the violin.Therefore, I couldn't understand "real music".After I graduated at high school, a friend of mine suggested that we started to learn the guitar because we all thought it was cool.l will never forget the day on that we went to buy guitars in the guitar store. There I saw a guitar player playing the guitar, which I really enjoyed.He became my the first guitar teacher.It took me such a long time choose a guitar among several wonderful model.Now the guitar is the most importantly part of my life and I practice it every day.
A person should eat right,get some exercise,or he or she will look terrible in 25 years.And if the person drinks and smokes? Even____.That's the message from Blue Cross Blue Shield.The ____,called “Future You”,uses a digital camera and computer to compare a person's current image with his or her future ____ without changes in bad habits.
“Smoking can ___ your skin,” said Anna,a creative operation manager,“You can see what the results of the toxins(毒素) and the chemicals in_____are.” Along with the potentially______sight of one's older self,F(xiàn)uture You offers sciencebased_____on what to eat,how much to exercise and other ways to ______ your health.But will it work? Too ____ to tell was the verdict(意見) of Anna.“I want to see some data!” she said.
Generally,Anna said,men show_______concern about their appearance than women.“Women say,‘That looks like my ______on the screen,’” she said.“Men are more likely to _____,‘Yeah,go ahead.Put it on Facebook.’” The project was raised more than a year ago to improve the overall(總體的) health of the people who are _____ of this company.In addition,the growth in the ranks of _____customers would bring down the overall cost of health care.In coming weeks,two new ones will be ______ in locations such as the American Tobacco Campus and the Museum of Natural Science.If users ____,their information will be stored as secrets without names to create a database of good and bad ______.
The process is free and the response is not _______,at least according to Valencia Robertson,one of a line of people who waited to _____ the instrument on Thursday.“I'm good,” Robertson said after ____ her future image.“It's not going to be a big difference.”
We grew up with the familiar toy bricks (積木) that gave us the imagination to build towers and castles. Generations have been attracted by this toy that lets children and adults alike create anything and everything. But with over 200 millions sets being sold a year in over 100 countries, the question remains — where did Lego actually come from?
Lego was born from the creative mind of Danish carpenter (木匠), Ole Kirk Christiansen, back in the early 1930s. He established a small business in Denmark. He and his team built a variety of household goods like ironing boards along with wooden toys. The Lego name was adopted in 1934, formed from the Danish words “Leg Godt” or “play well”, which means “I study” or “I put together” in Latin.
Christiansen’s company continued to make wooden toys until 1942 when fire struck — the entire Lego factory burned to the ground. Unwilling to give in, the factory was rebuilt and the production line restarted soon after. By 1954, Christiansen’s son, Godtfred, had become the junior managing director of the Lego Group. It was during his conversation with an overseas buyer that he was struck by the idea of a toy system.
For over 30 years, the Lego Company made only toys and related goods. Then, in 1968, the company opened its first Legoland in Denmark. Combining the Lego building bricks with a computer, the Robotics Invention System 1.5 is now the most advanced toy in the Lego Company, which is targeted at users aged twelve and above, and that includes any parents or grandparents that want to join in.
Now the Lego Company is expanding its production lines to include lights, cameras and so on. Lego Company has done a lot to entertain many children around the world.
1.The author presents the text by ________.
A. telling an interesting story
B. showing the process in different stages
C. introducing a practical method
D. describing many different activities
2.Which of the following is NOT true about the Robotics Invention System 1.5?
A. It is the most advanced toy in the Lego Company.
B. It combines the Lego building bricks with a computer.
C. It is intended for users aged twelve and above.
D. It is the most expensive toy invented since 1968.
3.What is the correct order of the following events in the development of Lego?
a. The entire Lego factory burned to the ground.
b. The company and its products adopted the name Lego.
c. The company opened its first Legoland in Denmark.
d. Godtfred had become the junior managing director of the Lego Group.
A. cadb B. cbad C. abcd D. badc
4.What can we learn from the text?
A. The Lego Company expands its production lines with computers.
B. The author thinks highly of Lego, which entertains many children.
C. The name Lego means “I put together” in the Danish language.
D. Lego enjoys the greatest popularity among children of 12.