If you travel in some areas of India, you'll be lucky enough to be waited on by special guides - monkeys. These monkeys are always ready to serve you. Hungry, you just need to point to your own stomach and they'll lead you to the nearest restaurant. Thirsty, the monkeys will lead you to a bar. Tired, you put both of your hands behind your head and the monkeys will take you to the nearest hotel. Don't feel surprised when they put out their hairy hands to you after the service is done. They are just asking for a little money as a tip. After that, they will wave their hands as if they are saying goodbye to you.
Believe it or not, these monkeys are from the school for monkeys in India, where they were trained for one year. They are not the only monkey students in the world. Some are being trained as nurses in an American medical college. These monkeys are about to look after patients and help-them with their housework.
A three-year-old monkey named Helen has learned to turn on TV, turn off lights, and open doors and windows when she is told to. Once the job is done, she will rush to her master, hoping to get some food as a reward.When you're thirsty, the monkey will lead you to_______.
| A．a bar | B．a hotel | C．a restaurant | D．a shop |
According to the passage, monkeys aren't trained to_______.
| A．open doors | B．buy food |
| C．turn off lights | D．look after patients |
What is probably the best title for this passage?'
| A．Funny Monkeys | B．Lovely Guides |
| C．Special Nurses | D．Good Helpers |
Are you still using text messages or QQ to chat with your family or friends? If your answer is “yes”, we have to say you are out. A new way of communicating called “WeChat” has been more and more popular in the past three years.
WeChat is a mobile text and voice messaging communication service developed by Tencent in China, first released in January 2011. With WeChat, we can communicate with friends by sending text messages, voice messages, we can share our photos or videos, share our location, we can even chat with lots of friends at the same time. More important, it is free for the users.
In May 2011, WeChat had four to five million users, and by the end of 2011, it had 50 million users.WeChat had more than 100 million users by March 2012. In April 2012, Weixin changes its name as WeChat for the international market. In September 2012, WeChat had more than 200 million users according to Tencent CEO,Ma Huateng. Today WeChat has influence not only inMainland China,HK,Taiwan,South-East Asia, butChinese Peopleareas around the world. In July 2013, Tencent announced WeChat had 70 million users outside China and Lionel Messi, the famous Argentine football player became the latest product ambassador of WeChat.
In a word, WeChat is a lifestyle now. Do you WeChat today?According to the passage, we can do many things with WeChat EXCEPT ______.
A. text messages
B. share location
C. shop for freeThe underline word “release” here means ________ in Chinese.
A. 发布B. 设置C. 释放How many users did WeChat have outside China in July 2013?
A. 70 million.
B. 50 million.
C. 100 million.Who is the CEO of Tencent?
A. Lionel Messi.B. Ma Yun. C. Ma Huateng.Where do you probably read this message?
A. National Geography.
B. Trend & Health.
C. New Science and Technology.
The trees have been on the earth for millions of years. Disease(疾病) is destroying trees. For example, in the 1970s, many trees in Europe were killed by disease.
This new danger attacks all the forests and woods of Europe from northern Sweden to southern Italy. First the branches turn yellow and brown. Then the trees’ leaves fall. The roots and the trunk shrink(萎缩). Finally the trees die. In the Black Forest in southern Germany, 75％of the trees have been destroyed or killed．
Nobody knows exactly, but it is probably air pollution or acid rain(酸雨). Factories, power stations and cars give off tons of smoke with acid into the air. Sunlight turns these into something harmful which fall with rain or snow onto the trees.
What can be done about acid rain?
Acid rain doesn’t always fall on the countries which produce the pollution. The wind carries it from one country to another. Badly, the governments don’ t want to spend money on it if it won’ t harm the trees in their own countries.The rainforests of Asia and South America are being cut down for firewood and building materials. Something must be done. If the trees die, we will, too.
根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，使短文意思通顺，内容完整。
| A．What is killing the trees? |
| B．But today trees are in great danger. |
| C．Trees are also killed by people. |
| D．Now an even greater danger is destroying trees. |
E. Why don’t the governments do something to save the trees?
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. Who can’t go dancing in Ticky’s Disco?
| A．A 15-year-old student. | B．A 40-year-old worker. |
| C．A 30-year-old teacher. | D．A 21-year-old assistant. |
. If you have lunch in Karma, who will serve you at the table?
| A．The waiter. | B．Yourself. |
| C．Your Friend. | D．The waitress. |
Who will tell you the information about the basketball match?
| A．Lakers. | B．Bulls. |
| C．Paul Burton. | D．The Club assistant. |
. Which of the following foods can you have at Karma?
| A．Fish. | B．Tomatoes. |
| C．Chicken. | D．Beef. |
. You can see these advertisements in the ________.
| A．hospital | B．library |
| C．museum | D．newspapers |
A sign is another kind of language. Here are some of them that you can see on the roads.
Number One is a sign with the number forty on it. When driver see this sign, they must not go at more than forty kilometers one hour. We see this sign when we are getting near a town. Number Two is a sign that we’re near a crossing. We must drive carefully. Number Three is a sign that there is a bend (弯道) on the road. Again, we must drive slowly and carefully. It is not safe to go round a bend very fast. Number Four is a sign that there is another road coming in from the right. There is a junction(交叉点) at this place.
Number Five is a sign that there is a dangerous mountain road and Number Six is a sign that the road gets narrow. Drivers must go slowly and carefully when they see these signs. Number Seven is a sign that there is a school at the side of the street or the road. Perhaps there are children going to or leaving school. So drivers must look carefully and go slowly. Number Eight is a sign with a letter “P” on it. The letter “P” means “Parking”. At some places, there are signs “NO PARKING” or “NO WAITING”. If a driver leaves his car near one of these signs, a policeman may come and write down the number of his car.. At the place where you see Sign 1, ________.
| A．you are already out of the town |
| B．you still have forty kilometers to go |
| C．there must be a town forty kilometers away |
| D．there must be many houses and buildings not far away |
There stands Sign 2 near a place where ________.
| A．two roads cross | B．the road gets narrow |
| C．there are no traffic lights | D．people can cross the road |
You have to drive not only slowly but also carefully when you find ________ according to the passage.
| A．either of signs 2 and 3 | B．all of signs 3, 5, 6 and 7 |
| C．each of the eight signs | D．any of signs 3, 6, 7 and 8 |
A driver can leave his car ________.
| A．near Sign 8 at any time |
| B．near a sign with “NO PARKING” on it |
| C．near Sign 3 in the daytime |
| D．near a sign with “NO WAITING” if there’re no police there |
People put these signs on the roads to ________.
| A．show drivers the way | B．stop cars going too fast |
| C．make driving even safer | D．learn another kind of language |
One day, a young man visited a small farm in the countryside. As he got closer to the farm, he saw many chickens and an eagle (鹰) playing together.
He then went up to the farm house and talked to the farmer, “Sir, I was just passing by and I saw that you have many chickens and an eagle.” The farmer smiled and said, “That’s not an eagle. It’s a chicken.” The young man kept saying that it was an eagle. He said to the farmer, “Sir, that is an eagle! I can proveit to you.” The farmer laughed, “Sure, go ahead.”
The young man then pulled that big bird out and climbed a high mountain. He held the bird in his hands and said, “You are an eagle, fly!” But the bird failed. The young man tried the second time. He said to the bird, “I don’t care you have been raised as a chicken for those years. But I know what you were created to be. You are an eagle, now fly!” After the young man tried another three times, the bird began to flap (拍打) its wings. Finally, it flew high and began to fly around the farm.
It is true to us. Some people around us have continued to keep us down by lying to us. Over all of those years, we were told to be a failure, not to be good enough and to accept the “reality”. They are wrong. We should try our best to reach our highest potential (潜能) to prove that we are eagles. The underlined word “raised” probably has the similar meaning to the word “”.
| A．kept | B．treated |
| C．trained | D．regarded |
How many times did the young man try before the bird flapped its wings?
| A．Four. | B．Five. |
| C．Three. | D．Six. |
According to the passage, during all of those years, “we” were told all of the following EXCEPT.
| A．to be a failure | B．not to be good enough |
| C．to accept the "reality" | D．to prove that we are eagles |
. Why did the young man pull that bird out?
| A．Because he wanted to kill the bird. |
| B．Because the farmer asked him to do it. |
| C．Because he wanted to prove something to the farmer. |
| D．Because the farmer wanted the young man to throw the bird away. |
What is the best title for the story?
| A．You Are an Eagle | B．Chickens And an Eagle |
| C．How to Prove the Eagle | D．A Farmer And a Young Man |