If you plan to take your pet on a trip，prepare ahead of time. At least two weeks before you leave，take your pet to a vet. See if he or she is tit for travel and ask if he or she should have any medicine before leaving. The vet may suggest certain pills for sickness or for calming the pet.
Some states or foreign countries have health laws that say animals must have certain injections(注射)before they can be allowed to enter. Your vet may have this information. You can also get help on the United States and Canadian laws from a book published by the Department of Agriculture which some libraries have. For information on foreign countries， check with their consulates (领事馆).You can also ask the airlines on which you are travelling.
Find out if the places where you plan to stay allow pets because many do not.
If you are going by plane or train，ask if pets are allowed. If they are，ask where they will be kept and who will care for them. The big bus lines in this country do not allow pets.
Choose your pet’s box carefully. Plastic boxes are better than cardboard or wooden ones because they can' be chewed(嚼碎).
If going by plane or train during warm weather，try to go in the cooler early morning or evening hours. Also try to avoid (避免)very cold winter weather because pets often suffer from cold. Even in your own car， be careful. Do not leave the animal inside with the windows closed because the car may become too hot or too cold.The main idea of this passage is to_________
| A．warn people to leave their pets at home |
| B．give general information about pet travel |
| C．tell people how to choose their pet boxes |
| D．tell people about foreign pet laws |
When taking a pet on a trip，a pet owner________
| A．doesn' need to make any special plans |
| B．should stay at friends' homes |
| C．should make plans before leaving home |
| D．should travel by bus instead of plane |
From the passage，we can learn that________
| A．it costs too much to take pets on trips |
| B．some pets may not be well enough to travel |
| C．all train lines treat pets exactly the same |
| D．pets are welcome everywhere |
Which person would be the most interested in this passage?
| A．A vet. | B．A pet owner . |
| C．A bus driver. | D．A pet shop owner. |
Anybody can learn to count fast if he knows the secret of following trick.
Ask your friend to write any five-figure (五位) number on the blackboard. Then you write your five-figure number under it. You choose your figures so that each one with the figure above it will make nine.
Tell your friend to put a third five-figure number under your number. Then you write a fourth number in the same way. After he has written the fifth number, you draw a line under it and quickly write the sum.(总和). You may even write it from left to right..
How do you do it ? You take away two from the fifth number and put two in front of your answer. Is it interesting?If your friend’s number is 76815, your number must be_____________________.
| A．23184 | B．54613 | C．93184 | D．99999 |
How many six-figure numbers are there on the blackboard at last?
| A．Three | B．One | C．Five | D．Four |
If the fifth number is 49834, the sum will be_____________________.
| A．249834 | B．298344 | C．298342 | D．249832 |
You cannot go without a pencil when writing or drawing something. You have probably noticed letters H and B printed on your pencils．What，for example，do HB，2H or 3H mean?
Those are letters showing the hardness of the lead(铅)or graphite(石墨)in a pencil．H refers to hard lead．The bigger the Arabic number before the letter H，the harder the lead，and the lighter will be the colour. The hardest pencil has 6H on it．Such pencils are often used in making engineering drawings．People seldom write with them．B stands for soft lead．The bigger the number before the letter B，the softer the lead，and the darker will be the colour, the softest being the 6B pencil．Such pencils are favoured by artists．
The HB pencil has a lead core(中心部分)that is neither too soft nor too hard．Its colour is medium in its blackness．It is most suitable for ordinary(平常的)writing and drawing．The number that goes before the letter H shows_________．
| A．the model of the pencil |
| B．the factory where the pencil is made |
| C．how hard the pencil is |
| D．how long the pencil lasts |
A4B pencil is _______ than a 3B one．
| A．harder | B．softer |
| C．better | D．more expensive |
According to the passage，an HB pencil is best for people like_________．
| A．students | B．artists |
| C．printers | D．engineers |
【2012年湖北黄冈】Going on holidays is best choice for the Europeans to relax themselves, especially in the UK. However, much has changed during the past decades(几十年).
One of the most traditional British holidays was the “seaside holiday”. Families got on a train or into a car and traveled to seaside towns nearby to sunbathe on the beach, buy ice-creams and eat fish and chips and so on.
In the late 1970s, more and more British people started traveling to other countries in Europe for their summer holidays (July-August) because the weather wasn’t very good, even in summer. The “package holiday” was particularly popular with most families.
In the 1980s and 1990s, young people in the UK became wealthier, so many of them traveled to countries all over the world for their holidays.
These years, especially after the world financial crisis(金融危机), most British people can not afford to spend their holidays abroad. They again begin to choose to stay in their own home and go on a few day trips rather than spending money on hotels. They call this sort of vacation a “staycation”.
任务：请阅读上面短文，根据短文内容完成下面表格中的有关信息。
| Time |
Kind of holiday |
Reason |
| Before the late 1970s |
It was a tradition. |
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| In the late 1970s |
Package holiday |
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| Overseas holiday |
Young people became wealthier. |
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| These years |
The world financial crisis. |
【2012年湖北黄冈】Yang Cangxu has recently become hot on the Internet. He is considered as a hero, and known as “A Professional Life Saviour”, because he has saved 24 people’s lives during the past 26 years.
Yang, a typical Chinese farmer, lives in Baoji, Shanxi Province. He is good at swimming, which is also his favorite. When he was young, he joined the army. ① The life in the army had a great influence on him. It also helped to form one of his characters(性格)——being ready to help others.
Just seven to eight meters away from his home flows a channel ( 水渠). The water is very deep and flows fast. There is a bridge over the channel. Walking across the bridge is not an easy thing. From time to time, people fall into the water. If this happens, the person must be rescued in time. ② Otherwise, he or she will be washed away by the water.
③Yang Cangxu is always the first one to rush to the channel to save the drowning person. We must learn from him.将①处翻译成汉语。
_________________________________________________根据②处内容，完成下面的句子。(每空一词)
Otherwise, the water will _________him or her ________.根据③处内容，其将改为定语从句。(每空一词)
Yang Cangxu is always the first one _______ _______ to the channel to save the drowning person.
【2012年山东泰安】阅读下面的短文，并根据文章后的要求答题。（请注意问题后的词数要求）
Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly while you are trying to work or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?
If you do, you need to take control of your feelings. Getting angry with others can cause you to lose friends.
Gary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, has written My Feelings Are Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It tells how to stay cool when bad things happen.
The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. It can never make them better.
“Getting angry is not a natural way to act,” the book says. It is just a bad habit, like smoking.
The book says you can control your anger easily … all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry.
The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry easily. Here are the top three.
●Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and
you will see you get angry too easily.
●Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry.
●Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere
else. Try to laugh.What is this article mainly about? ( no more than 10 words )
_________________________________________________________________What will happen to you if you get angry with others? ( no more than 5 words )
_________________________________________________________________Is getting angry a natural way to act? ( no more than 5 words )
_________________________________________________________________List two tips the book gives on how to control your anger. ( no more than 12 words )
(1) _______________________________
(2) _______________________________Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.（将文中划线句子翻译成汉语。）
_________________________________________________________________