We’ve talked about snails（蜗牛） and their slow move. But much of the time snails don’t move at all. They are in their shells —sleeping.
Hot sun will dry out a snail’s body. So at the least sign of hot sun, a snail draws its body into his shell. A snail will die in a heavy rain. So when it rains, a snail does the same thing, too. A snail can sleep for as long as it needs to. It spends all the winter months in its shell, asleep.
In the spring the snail wakes up. Its body, about three inches long, comes out from the shell. When hungry, the snail looks for food. Its eyes, at the end of the top feelers, are very weak. But its sense of smell is very strong. It helps the snail to find food and the new greens.
A snail’s mouth is no bigger than the point of a pin. Yet it has 256,000 teeth! The teeth are very small, and you can’t see them. If you put a snail in a hard paper box, it will eat its way out! And if a snail wears out its teeth, it will grow new ones.A snail _________.
| A．moves more slowly at night | B．has thousands of feet |
| C．doesn’t move at all | D．sleeps much of the time |
In the sentence “A snail draws its body into its shell”, the word “draw” means _____.
| A．to make with a pencil | B．to push |
| C．to pull | D．to move away |
From the story, we know _________.
| A．a snail’s shell is very thin |
| B．a snail can’t see well |
| C．a snail’s nose is quite short |
| D．a snail’s body changes in different seasons |
A snail goes to sleep when _____.
| A．it feels hungry | B．it is put into a paper box |
| C．spring is coming | D．it rains heavily |
Which of the following is wrong?
| A．In winter the snail doesn’t eat or move. |
| B．A snail doesn’t like living under the sun. |
| C．The snail’s teeth can’t be worn out. |
| D．The snail’s nose helps to find food. |
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YUXI, China — Many people of this city in southwester China spent Saturday night in tents, too scared to sleep in their homes after an earthquake which killed 188 people early that morning.
Countless homes were destroyed and lots of people became homeless after the earthquake which is believed to have a magnitude of 7.
The quake was not as serious as the 7.9-magnitude earthquake in 2008 that left more than 70,000 people dead in the Wenchuan area. But villagers who work in Chengdu, about 100 miles away, hurried back home Sunday morning, many on foot, the lucky ones on motorbikes, to check on their homes.
Song Yuanqing, 43, a worker, arrived back after a 22-hour trip and found his house was still there but had already been very unstable(摇摇欲坠). “We would like to do something, but we can’t do anything,” Mr. Song said as he sat with neighbors around an outdoor fire built by the village leader in his backyard.
In all, the government sent about 7,000 soldiers and People’s Armed Police officers to the earthquake-hit area. By Saturday evening, there were so many rescue workers in the area that the government asked volunteers to stop coming.
Li Keqiang, China’s prime minister, flew to the area and slept in a tent on Saturday evening in Lushan County.
The earthquake shook Sichuan Province at 8 a.m., when people were getting up a little later than usual because schools and universities were closed.
“We were just getting up and getting dressed in our dormitory when the building shook, and I looked outside from our window and saw a row of houses had collapsed,” Xu Yan, 22, a student at the Agricultural University in Ya’an, said in a telephone interview. “I had never flew down the stairs faster.”
The Chinese government said early Sunday that the death toll was 174, and about 5,700 people had been injured.
The earthquake was also felt in Chengdu, one of China’s biggest cities and the capital of Sichuan Province. People described water getting out of home aquariums and things like balls falling to the floor.
In the town of Longmen, another hard-hit area near Ya’an, a local man, Zhang Yan, said 90 percent of the buildings had collapsed.
“About 100 people died around here,” Ms. Zhang said in a telephone interview. “Rescue teams have not yet arrived. There is no water or electricity.”
In the 2008 quake, many schools of poor quality collapsed and killed thousands of students. This time, many people also expressed their worries about students on their micro-blogs.
Sichuan Province is also one of China’s best-known hometowns for pandas, and at the Bifengxia reserve, about six miles north of Ya’an, workers said that 20 pandas in the park were safe. “We examined the panda area after the quake, and they were not affected,” said Chen Yong, an officer of the reserve. When did the quake take place in Ya’an? On_______________________.
| A．Saturday morning | B．Sunday morning |
| C．Saturday night | D．Sunday night |
Why did many people hurriy home after the earthquake.
| A．They wanted to provide rescue to the hit area and give other people a helping hand as volunteers. |
| B．They wanted to find out the situation of their home. |
| C．They felt it too dangerous to stay where they had been. |
| D．There weren’t enough soldiers in the hit-area. |
What does the underlined sentence mean?
| A．Xu Yan didn’t make it through the stairs. |
| B．Xu Yan get out of the dorm quickly. |
| C．Xu Yan felt the earthquake shaking the stair. |
| D．Xu Yan was scared that he wouldn’t be able to catch up with the stair. |
Which of the following is NOT true.
| A．Tens of thousands of students were killed in Ya’an. |
| B．The earthquake also influenced some other cities. |
| C．The government took very quick actions. |
| D．Most buildings has collapsed in Longmen. |
Where would you most probably read this passage?
| A．Reader. |
| B．A History of China’s Earthquakes |
| C．How to Survive(求生) in an Earthquake |
| D．China Weekly |
The owner of a missing cat is asking for help. “My baby has been missing for over a month now, and I want him back so badly,” said Mrs. Brown, a 56-year-old woman. Mrs. Brown lives by herself in a trailer park near Clovis. She said that Clyde, her 7-year-old cat, didn’t come home for dinner more than a month ago. The next morning he didn’t appear for breakfast either. After Clyde missed an extra-special lunch, she called the police.
When the policeman asked her to describe Clyde, she told him that Clyde had beautiful green eyes, had all his teeth but was missing half of his left ear, and was seven years old and completely white. She then told the officer that Clyde was about a foot high.
A bell went off. “Is Clyde your child or your pet?” the officer suspiciously asked. “Well, he’s my cat, of course,” Mrs. Brown replied. “Lady, you’re supposed to report missing PERSONS, not missing CATS,” said the sppeadeotoned policeman. “Well, who can I report this to?” she asked. “You can’t. You have to ask around your neighborhood or put up flyers,” replied the officer.
Mrs. Brown figured that a billboard would work a lot better than an 8”x11” piece of paper on a telephone pole. There was an empty billboard at the end of her street just off the interstate（州际公路） highway. The billboard had a phone number on it. She called that number, and they told her they could blow up a picture of Clyde (from Mrs. Brown’s family album) and put it on the billboard for all to see.
“But how can people see it when they whiz（快速移动） by on the interstate?” she asked. “Oh, don’t worry, ma’am, they only whiz by between 2 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. The rest of the day, the interstate is so full of commuters that no one moves.” They told her it would cost only $3,000 a month. So she took most of the money out of her savings account and rented the billboard for a month.
The month has passed, but Clyde has not appeared. Because she has almost no money in savings, Mrs. Brown called the local newspaper to see if anyone could help her rent the billboard for just one more month. She is waiting but, so far, no one has stepped forward.How long has the cat been missing?
| A．More than a month | B．More than two months |
| C．More than three months | D．It’s been back. |
Who did the old lady finally turn to for help?
| A．A billboard company | B．The police |
| C．The phone company | D．The interstate telephone line |
How is the old lady like?
| A．Stupid | B．Loving | C．Smart | D．Decisive(有决断力的) |
The underlined word was mistyped（打错了）. But we can still guess it’s most probable meaning:____________.
| A．angry | B．surprised | C．happy | D．excited |
What’s the best title for this passage?
| A．An advertisement | B．A missing cat |
| C．A pet’s story | D．Life without cat |
Born in 1949, Diana Nyad took an early interest in swimming as a sport and was a Florida State High School swimming champion（冠军）. Like many young trainers, she had Olympic dreams, but a serious illness prevented her from competing in the Games. The disappointment didn’t stop her from going forward. Instead, she became interested in marathon swimming.
For ten years Nyad devoted herself to becoming one of the world’s best long-distance swimmers. In 1970, she swam a ten-mile marathon in Lake Ontario, setting the women’s record for the course. In 1972 she set another record by swimming 102.5 miles from an island in the Bahamas to the coast of Florida. Then she broke a third record when swimming around Manhattan Island in 1975.
Nyad attempted to swim the distance between Florida and Cuba in 1978. Though the span(跨度) of water is less than 100 miles wide, it is rough and dangerous. After battling(与---作战) the water for two days, she had to give up for the sake of her own health and safety. Even so, she impressed the world with her courage and strong desire to succeed. It did not matter that her swim came up short; she believed she had touched the other shore.
When Nyad ended her career as a swimmer, she continued to try new things---travelling the world as a reporter, writing books and giving public speeches about her life. Diana Nyad works to inspire others, just as she did when she swam the waters of the world.What was Nyad’s early interest?
When did Nyad set the record for a ten-mile marathon swimming?
According to the passage, how many times did Nyad join the long-distance swimming?
What did Nyad do after she finished swimming?
What can we learn from the passage?
One summer vacation in my college, my roommate Ted asked to me to work on his father’s farm in Argentina. The idea was exciting. Then I had second thoughts. I had never been far from New England, and I had been homesick my first few weeks at college. What about the language? The more I thought about it, the more the idea worried me.
Finally, I turned down the invitation. Then I realized I had turned down something I wanted to do because I was scared and felt depressed(沮丧). That experience taught me a valuable lesson and I developed a rule for myself: do what makes you anxious(焦虑); don’t do what makes you depressed.
In my senior year, I wanted to be a writer. But my professor wanted me to teach. I hesitated. The idea of writing was much scarier than spending a summer in Argentina. Back and forth I went, making my decision, unmaking it. Suddenly I realized that every time I gave up the idea of writing, that downhearted feeling went through me.
Giving up writing really depressed me. Then I learned another lesson. To avoid the depression meant having to bear much worry and concern.
When I first began writing articles, I often interviewed big names. Before each interview I would get butterflies in the stomach. One of them was the great composer Duke Ellington. On the stage and on television, he seemed very confident. Then I learned Ellington still got stage fright（害怕）. If Ellington still had anxiety attacks, how could I avoid them? I went on doing those frightening interviews. Little by little, I was even looking forward to the interviews. Where were those butterflies?
In truth, they were still there, but fewer of them. I had learned from a process psychologists（心理学家） call “extinction”. If you put an individual in an anxious situation often, finally there isn’t anything to be worried about, which brings me to a conclusion: you’ll never get rid of anxiety by avoiding the things that caused it.
The point is that the new, the different, is definitely scary. But each time you try something, you learn, and as the learning piles up, the world opens to you. We can infer from the passage that the author________.
| A．finds it difficult to make decision |
| B．has found out what causes anxiety |
| C．was encouraged by Duke Ellington’s stage fright |
| D．no longer feels anxious about new experiences |
What does the word “extinction” in Paragraph 6 means?
| A．a person’s loss of confidence little by little |
| B．the natural development of a child’s abilities |
| C．the inborn ability to avoid anxious situations |
| D．the process of losing fear by keeping facing anxiety |
Which of the following opinions does the writer probably accept?
| A．Anxiety can be a positive drive |
| B．Hesitation leads to depression. |
| C．Avoiding anxiety reduces depression. |
| D．Depression is a signal that one is growing up. |
What's the best title for the passage?
| A．Confidence: Key to Success |
| B．Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name |
| C．Depression: A Psychological Appearance |
| D．Success: A Trip Through Anxiety and Depression |