In America, when people say“man's best friend”, they don't mean another person. Instead, they are talking about a lovely animal—a dog! These words show the friendship(友谊) between people and animals. Dogs and other pets can give joy to people's lives. Some people think of their pets as their children. Some people even leave all their money to their pets when they die!
Animals can help people, too. Dogs can be taught to be the“eyes”for a blind person (盲人) or“ears”for a deaf(耳聋) person. Scientists have found that pets help people live longer! They make people happier, too. Because of that, they bring animals into hospitals for“visits”.
Americans hold“Be Kind to Animals Week”in the first week of May. Pet shows are held during the week. Even if you don't live in America, you, too, can do this. How? First think about how animals make your life richer. If you have a pet, take more time this week to play with it. Remember to give it delicious food.
If you don't have a pet, be kind to animals around you. For example, if you see a street dog, just leave it alone, or make friends with it. If others around you do bad things to animals, try to speak up. As people, we must protect(保护) animals who can't speak for themselves.“Some people even leave all their money to their pets when they die!”is used to prove(证明) that .
A.pets have the right(权利) to inherit(继承) money |
B.money can make pets happy |
C.it's the best way to spend money |
D.some pets are as important to their owners as their children |
According(依照) to the passage, scientists bring the dogs to hospital because .
A.they are ill and they need to see the doctor |
B.they can make the patients(病人) happier |
C.they can help the doctor find out the problems |
D.the doctors can do experiment(试验) on them |
During the“Be Kind to Animals Week”, the people in America .
A.hold pet shows |
B.play with the pets the whole week |
C.cook delicious food for pets |
D.make friends with other people's pets |
Which of the following statements(陈述) is NOT true?
A.Dogs can help people in many ways. |
B.Dogs can help people live happier. |
C.Dogs can help people make everything |
D.Dogs can make people's lives richer. |
What is the main idea of the passage?
A.A lot of people are interested in dogs. |
B.Dogs can help people do many things. |
C.Pets are lovely and need care and protection(保护). |
D.We have done a lot of things for pets. |
It's Saturday morning and Tony's sitting at the kitchen table, staring(凝视)into space and playing with a piece of bread. He's not even hungry. Is he ill? No, but he does have a problem. He has nothing to do and there's just one reason: the Internet is down and Tony has nothing to do.
When he woke up this morning, Tony was feeling great. He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend ahead. It would be a weekend like any other—a great weekend. But that was before he turned on his computer and wasn’t able to go online. No Internet changed everything.
Just as Tony is wondering how he can possibly have a normal weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the kitchen. “Is everything OK?” she asks. “No, mum, everything is not OK,” her sad son replies. “I can't go online and I have homework to finish.” His mum laughs, “The word program is still working, so what's the problem?”
What's the problem? Tony can't believe his own mother isn’t able to see how serious the problem really is. To start with, he still needs to do research for his homework. He knows his mum will tell him to go to the library but he hates the library. It's so dark and uncomfortable. And forget homework—what about the rest of his weekend! Every weekend, he goes online to email friends. Then he reads the news to catch up on what's happening in the world. He plays a few online games and finishes the weekend off with an online chess game with his cousin Helen. The wonderful weekend-online! Now it's Saturday morning and he's not going to have access to(进入)the Internet for two whole days.Tony stared into space and played with a piece of bread __________.
A.because he was hungry |
B.because he was hungry |
C.because he was alone at home |
D.because the Internet was down |
When he found he couldn’t surf the Internet,Tony felt __________.
A.great | B.excited | C.sad | D.relaxed |
Tony’s mother may ask him to__________.
A.go to the library for work |
B.get the Internet fixed |
C.play his friends outside |
D.play chess with his cousin |
The writer just wants to show us __________ with the story.
A.how to surf the Internet |
B.what to do on the Internet |
C.how the Internet influences teenagers’ life |
D.why teenagers should go online |
Are you taking good care of your hair and using the right products? Could your shampoo be damaging your hair? Should you brush your hair more or less? The following are a few tips to help you keep your hair healthy and shining.
★A balanced diet will help you have nice-looking hair. Try to eat more green vegetables, eggs and beans every day.
★Wash your hair every day, or every two days. Always use cool, clean water to wash the shampoo out of your hair.
★Use shampoo that is specially designed for your hair type (dry, oily, etc.).When using shampoo, be sure to massage your hair, including the roots, softly.
★Allow your hair to dry naturally whenever possible. Hair is at its weakest when it is wet, so never brush or comb your wet hair hard, and use a wide-toothed comb.
★Give your hair a good brushing before going to bed. Do this by bending over so that your head is hanging down, and brush from back to front. This will help remove the dirt from your hair.
★Strong sunlight is bad for your hair. So remember to wear a hat to protect it on hot summer days.According to the passage,we should wash our hair___________.
A.every one or two days | B.once a week |
C.every four or five days | D.three times a month |
We can know that hair is at its weakest when it is __________.
A.dirty | B.dry | C.long | D.wet |
We should brush our hair ___________before going to bed.
A.from left to right | B.from back to front |
C.from front to back | D.from right to left |
Thousands of people have been killed in a massive(大规模的) earthquake in Japan. The quake -- the most powerful to hit Japan in more than 100 years -- caused massive damage and many people are missing and feared dead.
The 8.9 magnitude quake struck Friday(March 11) off Japan's eastern coast, and prompted(引发) tsunami warnings(海啸警报)across the Pacific as far away as South America and the U.S. West Coast. Several days after a 8.9-magnitude earthquake and resulting 10-meter-high tsunami devastated the coastline. The United States Geological Survey says it was the fifth largest earthquake since 1900. The largest, with a 9.5 magnitude, shook Chile(智利) in 1960.
In Japan, the tsunami swept away boats, cars and hundreds of houses in coastal areas north of Tokyo. The quake shook buildings in the Japanese capital and caused several fires. All train and subway traffic in Tokyo has been stopped, and thousands of people there were unable to get back home. People are just trying to find clean water. Food supplies are running out. In the convenience stores, there are no rice balls left. There is no bottled water left. People are facing a really serious situation in the days ahead for these people that are living in areas that were only moderately(普通的) damaged. The final death toll could range from the thousands to tens of thousands, depending on how many of these communities are gone.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the government would do everything it can to minimize(使降到最低) the effects of the disaster. And in Washington, President Obama said the United States is ready to help the people of Japan.The underline word damage means_____________ in the article.
A.illness | B.disaster |
C.terror | D.danger |
Which is true according to the passage?
A.Thousands of people have been killed in a massive earthquake in Japan. |
B.Only people in areas that were only moderately damaged are facing a really serious situation in the days. |
C.The tsunami devastated not only the coastline in Japan, but also the areas across the Pacific as far away as South America and the U.S. West Coast. |
D.The massive earthquake caused the tsunami. |
According to the passage, which earthquake is the largest one since 1990 ?
A.the one happened in Japan on March 11, 2011 |
B.the one in Chile in 1960 |
C.the fifth largest earthquake since 1900 |
D.We don't know. |
If you're in Tokyo these days, what you can't get from the convenience store?
A.newspapers and magazines |
B.some medicine |
C.paper napkins and toothpastes |
D.rice balls and bottled water |
The passage can't be in/on __________.
A.March 10th newspapers | B.TV |
C.Internet | D.Radios |
No one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon(外科医生) and part of it is taken out. Today, however, we needn't worry about feeling pain during the operation. The sick person falls into a kind of sleep, and when he awakes, the operation is finished. But these happy conditions are fairly new. It is not many years since a man who had to have an operation felt all its pain.
Long ago, operations had usually to be done while the sick man could feel everything. The sick man had to be held down on a table by force while the doctors did their best for him. He could feel all the pain if his leg or arm was being cut off, and his fearful cries filled the room and the hearts of those who watched.
Soon after 1770, Josept Priestley discovered a gas which is now called "laughing gas". Laughing gas became known in America. Young men and women went to parties to try it. Most of them spent their time laughing, but one man at a party, Horace Wells, noticed that people didn't seem to feel pain when they were using this gas. He decided to make an experiment on himself. He asked a friend to help him.
Wells took some of the gas, and his friend pulled out one of Well's teeth. Wells felt no pain at all. As he didn't know enough about laughing gas, he gave a man less gas than he should have. The man cried out with pain when his tooth was being pulled out.
Wells tried again, but this time he gave too much of the gas, and the man died. Wells never forgot this terrible event.It is ____ since a man being operated felt all the pain.
A.a few more years | B.not very long |
C.few years | D.two thousand years |
Long ago, when the sick man was operated on, he ____.
A.could feel nothing | B.could not want anything |
C.could feel all the pain | D.could do anything |
Using the laughing gas, the people did not seem to ____.
A.be afraid of anything | B.feel pain |
C.want to go to the parties | D.be ill |
If a man took less laughing gas than he should have when an operation went on, he ____.
A.felt nothing | B.felt very comfortable |
C.still felt pain | D.would die |
65. One who took too much of the laughing gas ____.
A.would laugh all the time | B.would die |
C.would never feel again | D.would be very calm |
America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon. They don’t feel hurt. If the same two people meet again, even years later, they pick up the friendship .This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand .Friendships between us develop more slowly but may become lifelong feelings, extending(延伸)deeply into both families.
There is another difficult point for us to understand .Although Americans treat friends warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to them if it requires a great deal of time. But in China, we are usually generous with our time. We, as hosts, will appear at an airport even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take day off from our work to act as guides to our friends. It is opposite in America, Americans can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily plans. They will probably expect the visitors to get themselves from the airport to the hotels. And they expect the visitors will phone them from there. Once the visitors arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real.
For Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants, except for business matters. Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. So accept their hospitality(好客)at home and enjoy your visit in America!The underlined phrase “pick up” in Paragraph 1 may mean “_______”.
A.keep out | B.give up |
C.pay no attention to | D.continue |
Which of the following is the typical (典型的)way of American hospitality?
A.Treating friends at home. |
B.Taking days off to be with friends. |
C.Meeting friends at the airport at midnight. |
D.Sharing everything they have. |
Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?
A.Americans are always generous with their time. |
B.Americans don’t feel hurt if their friendships disappear soon. |
C.Chinese friendships develop more slowly but will never disappear. |
D.Chinese friendships are more sincere than American friendships. |
The way that Americans and Chinese treat friendship are different, how many differences are mentioned in the passage?
A Two B. Three C. Four D. FiveThis passage is most probably written for _______.
A.American students |
B.Chinese students |
C.Chinese visitors to America |
D.American visitors to China |