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A. Many people like animals and take them as their pets. Pet hospitals are very busy. Kind persons who love animals are needed to work in busy animal hospitals. They will teach you the job.
B. Scientists think that pets will probably be much smaller, because people in the future will be living in much smaller spaces. Scientists are already working on making very small farm animals. The same things might be done to make smaller cats and dogs.
C. might have to start turning wild(野生的)animals into pets. This might be the only way to save them from dying out.
D. What about a robot(机器人)for a pet? This may sound silly, but it could become true. Robot dogs have been made to get things, to bark like real dogs. These “pets” might become more and more popular in the future. After all, robots don’t lose hair or eat things the way real pets do.
E. Lots of people miss their pets while they are on holiday. One hotel in Minnesota has solved this problem. They lend cats to their guests. Many experts(专家)believe this idea will become more and more popular. It is very possible that in the future you will be able to have a pet while in a hotel.Pet Hotels.
Smaller Pets.
Robots for Pets.
A Panther for Pet.
People Needed in Pet Hospital.
In the UK, most children have their lunches at school, but in some schools, parents can choose what their children eat. The children can have a school dinner — a hot, cooked meal; or they can take a packed (包装的)lunch with them, which usually includes cold food like sandwiches.
Often parents know what their children want. Cath, a mother of three children, told us, “My children have packed lunches because they say they hate school dinners. So I make three packed lunches every morning.”
However, another mother, Susan, made a different choice. She said, “My daughters have always had school dinners. I think they probably get healthier food at school than a few sandwiches I make of them.”
But how healthy are school dinners? Kaz, a father, thought poorly of them. He said, “Fizzy (起泡的) drinks were offered and I think there were lot of chips.”
Jamie Oliver spent a year working in a school kitchen. He was worried about the unhealthy food which included burgers, pizzas and chips. So he tried to cook healthy food such as good stews and curries for the children instead.
So Janie improved the school dinners, and trained the dinner ladies to cook healthy food in that school. Then he advised the government to improve school food across the country. And it seems that the changes have begun.
Anna, a pupil, told us, “we used to have a fast food window where you got chips and coke, but they stopped that this year. There’s salad restaurant, which is good, so it’s healthier than it was.”How many meals do most children in the UK have at school?
A.One | B.Two | C.Three | D.Four |
____ would like the children to have the school meals.
A.Cath | B.Susan | C.Kaz | D.Jamie |
Jamie thought ______ were healthy food
A.stews and curries | B.burgers and pizzas |
C.chips and fizzy drinks | D.sandwiches and coke |
The last two paragraphs (段落) show that________.
A.There’s a salad restaurant in every school |
B.salad is the only healthy food for students |
C.schools have begun to cook healthier food |
D.the government doesn’t care about school dinners |
What is the best title for this text?
A.Healthy Food | B.Unhealthy Food |
C.Packed Lunches | D.School Dinners |
In nature, you may see many insects (昆虫)and animals of different colors. Have you ever wondered why?
Locusts are super delicious food for birds,but it is not always an easy job for birds to catch them.It is neither because locusts are good jumpers or runners nor because they are smarter than their enemies. The reason is that the colors of locusts change with the colors of crops(庄稼). When crops are young,locusts look green. But when autumn comes, locusts change to the yellow and brown color as crops do.
Brown bears,tigers and other animals move quietly through forests. They can’t be seen easily by their enemies. This is because they have colors similar to the trees. For the same reason, polar bears that live on a land of snow and ice are white. Butterflies and bees living among the flowers are colorful like flowers. Soil insects are mostly dark-colored and they live under the soil(土壤) in a dark and wet environment. However, insects with colors different from plants can easily be found and eaten by others. So in order to survive,they have to hide themselves in the daytime and appear only at night.
Have you ever noticed some even stranger acts? The ink fish in the sea can send out some very black ink when it faces danger. As the ink spreads over , its enemies will find themselves suddenly in a dark world. At the same time the ink fish immediately swims away. That is how it keeps itself safe though it is not strong at all.It is not easy for birds to catch locusts because____________.
A.locusts are good runners |
B.locusts can jump very high |
C.locusts are smarter than birds |
D.locusts can change their color |
According to the passage, most soil insects_________
A.do not have bright colors |
B.change their colors with the soil |
C.do not live in a dark and wet environment |
D.Eat colorful insects like butterflies and bees |
What’s the meaning of the underlined word”survive” in the passage
A.繁殖 | B.产卵 | C.觅食 | D.生存 |
The ink fish_______so that its enemies will not see it
A.changes its color | B.makes the water around it black |
C.appears only at night | D.hides itself in the sea rocks |
What is the main ides of this passage
A.Some insects and animals have different skills. |
B.Some insects and animals are clever than we think. |
C.Some insects and animals use colors to protect themselves. |
D.Some insects and animals can get used to the environment easily. |
I was 15 months old, a happy and carefree kid, until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a piece of glass that cut my eye badly. from then on, my injured, sightless, cloudy gray eye lived on with me. Sometimes people asked me embarrassing(使人难堪的)questions. Whenever kids played games, I was the "monster". I was always imagining that everyone looked down on(瞧不起)me.
Yet mum would say to me, "Hold your head up high and face the world." I began to depend on that saying.
As a child, I thought mun meant, "Be careful, or you will fall down or bump into something because you are not looking." As a teenager, I usually looked down to hide my shame. But I found that when I held my head up high, People liked me.
In high school I even became the class president, but on the inside I still felt like a monster. All I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would cry to my mun and she would look at me with loving eyes and say, “Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the beauty that is inside instead of your appearance(外貌).”
My mum's love was the sunshine that made me bright. I had faced hard times, and learned not only to be confident(自信的) but also to have deep compassion(同情)for others.
“Hold your head up high” has been heard many times in my home. I say it to my children. The gift my mum gave me will live on.The underlined word “carefree” in the first line probably means“ ______” in Chinese.
A.无忧无虑的 | B.无拘无束的 |
C.小心翼翼的 | D.与众不同的 |
Why did the writer imagine that everyone looked down on her?
A.She felt bad about her appearance. |
B.She found it hard to act as a monster. |
C.Kids refused to play games with her. |
D.People always asked her embarrassing questions. |
Why did the writer's mum say “Hold your head up high”to her?
A.To tell her to be careful. |
B.To help her hide the shame. |
C.To stop her from getting hurt. |
D.To make her more confident. |
From the story, we can know that ______.
A.the writer understood the saying very well as a child |
B.the writer felt like everyone else in high school. |
C.the writer is living with a warm and brave heart now |
D.the writer has deep compassion for others all her life |
The passage is mainly about ______.
A.what the writer experienced when she was 15 |
B.what the writer did to show thanks for mum's gift |
C.how the writer changed herself with mum's love |
D.how the writer became confident with her great efforts |
If you are like most people ,your intelligence (智力) changes with the seasons ,You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of year . A famous scientist ,Ellsworth Huntington (1876—1947),concluded (总结) from other men’s work and his own among people in different climates that climate and temperature have an effect (作用) on your mental abilities (智力).
He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative (激活) thinking than summer heat .This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year. It does mean, however , that the mental abilities of large numbers of people tend to be lowest in the summer .
Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking One reason may be that in the spring man’s mental abilities are affected(受影响)by the same factors (因素) that bring about great changes in nature .
Fall is the next-best season ,then winter .As for summer ,it seems to be a good time to take a long vacation from thinking . Ellsworth Huntington decided that climate and temperature have ______
A.a great effect on everyone’s intelligence |
B.some effect on most persons’ intelligence |
C.some effect on a few persons’ intelligence |
D.no effect on most persons’ intelligence |
Why is spring the best season for thinking ? Because _______________.
A.all nature ,including man ,is growing then |
B.it lasts longer than the other seasons |
C.it is not too warm and not too cold |
D.both B and C |
The two best seasons for thinking seem to be _____________.
A.spring and fall | B.winter and summer |
C.summer and spring | D.fall and winter |
According to the passage, any vacation from thinking should be taken_____________ .
A.several times throughout the year | B.during the winter |
C.during the summer | D.as seldom as possible |
The main idea of this passage is that ____________.
A.most people’s intelligence changes with seasons |
B.seasons are the reason of the changing intelligence |
C.spring is the best season for thinking |
D.summer is the best season for taking a long vacation |
I think the Buddy Club is great. I really enjoy talking with the older students about school life and growing up. They can tell me a lot. One student told me how he relaxed before exams. Another student told me about great websites about learning History and English.
The Buddy Club is also a good place to just forget about school altogether! One of the older students taught us origami (日本折纸). We made paper planes, birds and hats together. The table tennis tournament(锦标赛) was a great idea. I didn’t do very well, but I learnt a lot from watching the doubles tournament won by a fourteen-year-old girl and a seventeen-year-old boy.
Last year, we had the annual (每年的) Buddy Club Picnic. Everyone enjoyed the games we played. After I learnt how to fish, I caught two fish in the lake. I think it might be a good idea to change the Buddy Club Picnic to a weekend camping trip. We could learn how to put up tents and how to find our way through a forest. Many of the older students know how to do this already, and I think they would like to teach the younger students.
I want to say again how much I enjoy the club. When I’m older, I will make friends with younger students. Then, I can tell them all about school life and growing up.What does the writer enjoy doing at the club?
A.Learning Japanese. | B.Talking to older students. |
C.Losing at table tennis. | D.Surfing the Internet. |
Did the writer win the table tennis tournament?
A.No, and he was very unhappy. | B.No, but came second. |
C.Yes, he won the doubles. | D.No, but he enjoyed watching it. |
How does the writer want to change the picnic?
A.He wants more fish to be caught. |
B.He wants to make it shorter. |
C.he wants to have it in a tent. |
D.He wants to change it to a camping trip. |
What does the writer want to learn?
A.How to put up a tent and make a fire. |
B.How to put up a tent and find his way through a forest. |
C.How to make clean water and find his way through a forest. |
D.How to find his way through a forest and climb a mountain. |