Panda is the name of an Asian animal. A panda is a large, black and white bear-like animal. It belongs to bear family. It lives in bamboo forests on upper mountain slopes（斜坡） of south-western China.
The giant panda has a white body with black legs and a broad band across the shoulders. It has a large round head, small black ears and a white face with a black patch（斑） around each eye. The panda grows from 1 meter to 1.5 meters tall and has a short tail. Most weigh from 90 to 136 kilos. Giant pandas are like bears in shape and size in the slow clumsy（笨拙） they walk. Like bears they can stand up on their hind legs. The female gives birth to one or two baby pandas once a year.
A giant panda eats mainly bamboo shoots. Though it eats other plants as well. A giant panda may eat as much as 9 kilos of food a day.
| Living area | The mountain of ① China |
| Subject of animal | The ② family |
| Height of panda : 1 to ③ meters | ④ of panda: One hundred kilos more or less |
| Main food to survival | ⑤ shoots |
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News B: Many people like animals and begin to keep them as pets, so pet hospital are very busy. They need some people who love animals to work for them.
News C: It’s said that some day you might own a tiger as a pet. Scientists might have to change wild（野生） animals into pets, because this might be the only way to save them from dying out.
News D: What about keeping a robot（机器人） as a pet? It sounds impossible, but it may become possible one day. Robot dogs can carry things for people and bark like real dogs. People might like these unusual pets more, because robots don’t drop（掉落） their hair everywhere in the house or bite people like real animals.
News E: Scientists think that pets might become much smaller, because people in the future（将来） will live in smaller space.
| News about pets | |
| News A | The workers of a hotel in the |
| News B | Pet hospital are very |
| News C | You might keep a |
| News D | It may be |
| News E | Pets might be |
Have you ever seen guides letting you get close to elephants and even offering you rides? Don’t do this, we’re here to explain why you should not ride an elephant.
Humans often think it’s OK to have elephants under their control (控制). Many people in Southeast Asia buy and sell elephants illegally (违法地). But elephants are wild animals. Humans shouldn’t do that.
Elephants are smart. They can feel sad and happy. Wild elephants won’t let humans ride on top of them. So in order to control them, humans catch baby elephants and train them in pretty bad ways. These all cause a lot of pain for their spirit and bodies.
Although elephants have large bodies, their spines (脊椎) are not strong enough to carry humans. And many of them die as a result of years of carrying humans on their backs.
Asian elephants are in danger. The United Nations says that only about 35,000 Asian elephants are left in the wild now. Riding elephants is one of the main causes (原因) to their death.
Why shouldn’t we ride elephants? | |
| Reason 1 Many Southeast Asians | Reason 2 Elephants are smart. They can feel Humans’ |
| Reason 3 Elephants have large bodies, but their spines are not very | Reason 4 Asian elephants are in danger. There are only about |
Dolphins live their whole lives in water. But they are not fish. They are mammals (哺乳动物) that live in water. That’s why a dolphin comes to the top of the water so often. It has to breathe air. A dolphin’s nose isn’t easy to be seen. It’s just a small hole on top of its head. The hole is called a blowhole (喷水孔).
A dolphin comes up every half minute or so to breathe. It opens its blowhole and take in air. Then it closes its blowhole and dives under the water again. But a dolphin can stay under the water for six or seven minutes if it has to. It can hold its breath.
A dolphin listens with two ears. It can hear all kinds of noises under water. It can hear small stones rolling. It can hear the sound that fish and other dolphins make. A dolphin’s ears may be small, but its mouth is big. It has to be big. It holds almost one hundred teeth. These teeth are all the same shape and size. They are used for catching food, but not for chewing. A dolphin opens its big mouth and seizes a fish firmly between its two rows of teeth. Then it swallows the whole fish.
A dolphin swims very fast. It is said that a dolphin swims faster than anything else in the water. So men are trying to study their skin and shape. They are learning ways to make boats go faster through the water. Most people believe that dolphins are very clever. Some scientists say they are cleverer than dogs. But dolphins are not all alike. Some are shy. Some like to show off. Some are clever. Some are a little slow to learn. Some are very friendly. Some like to be left alone.
1. Do dolphins live on land most of the time?
2. Why does a dolphin come to the top of water?
3. How long can a dolphin stay under the water?
4. What are the dolphin’s teeth used for?
5. What do you think of the dolphins?
Imagine walking into a movie theater without being greeted by the smell of popcorn. It’s hard to believe, isn’t it? For many people, popcorn goes hand in hand with movies. They can’t have one without the other. But how did this happen?
The relationship (关系) between the two is younger than you may think. In the mid-1800s, popcorn was already a popular snack in the USA. Vendors (小贩) sold it on the streets. People, especially kids, loved this street food. In the early 1900s, vendors started to sell popcorn outside movie theaters.
However, theater owners were against popcorn. They believed it would make the experience of watching a movie less enjoyable. Eating it would make too much noise during the silent movies.
About 20 years later, when movies added sounds, the eating noise problem went away. More and more people went to the movies. Some of them even secretly took popcorn into the theaters. Later, more movie theaters opened. People were allowed (允许) to eat popcorn in some of the theaters while they were watching movies.
In the 1930s, the theater owners realized that people didn’t need to buy popcorn from street vendors. Because popcorn was easy to make, they could make and sell it on their own. They did that and the smell of popcorn drew more people to their theaters. The owners made a lot of money, and people enjoyed themselves at the movies.
Today, popcorn is still an important part of the movie-going experience. Roles, a man who once ate three bags of popcorn, said, “People come to theaters sometimes just for the popcorn. They don’t even care what is playing!”
Relationship Between Popcorn and | |
In the mid-1800s | Popcorn was already so popular in |
In the early 1900s | Vendors started to sell popcorn outside movie theaters. |
| However, theater owners didn’t let people take popcorn in theaters The movies were silent while eating popcorn was too | |
In the 1920s | Later the movies had sounds and the eating noise was not a |
| More movie theaters opened, and people | |
In the 1930s | Some theater owners realized that they could make and sell popcorn by |
| Popcorn could be made | |
Today | Popcorn is still of great |
| Some people even like popcorn | |
【推荐2】April Fool’s Day is traditionally a day to play jokes on others. No one knows how this holiday began but it was thought to be stared in France.
| The Origin of April Fool’s Day The earliest celebration of April Fool’s Day was in 1582 in France New Year’s Day was celebrated on March 25 and celebrations lasted until April 1st. When New Year’s Day changed from March 25 to January 1st in the mid-1560s by King Charles IX, there were some people who still celebrated it on April 1st and those people were called April Fools. |
Some of the tricks on April Fool’s Day are very simple, such as saying, “Your shoe’s untied!” Some are carefully planned. Setting a roommate’s alarm clock back an hour is a common trick. Some newspapers, TV channels and well-known companies publish false news stories to fool people on April 1st. For example, a British short film once shown on April Fool’s Day was about spaghetti farmers and how they harvest their crop from the spaghetti trees. Whatever the trick is, the trickster usually ends it by yelling to his victim (受害者), “April Fool!”
Each country celebrates April Fool’s Day differently. In France, the April Fool’s Day is called “April Fish”. The French fool their friends by sticking a paper fish on their friends’ backs and when someone discovers this trick, they will yell “April Fish!”. In England, tricks can be played only in the morning. You must play your April Fool’s Day joke before midday, otherwise you will be the fool. If a trick is played on you, you will be called a “noodle”.
April Fool’s Day is a “for-fun-only” holiday. Nobody is expected to buy gifts for friends or to take their friends out to eat in a fancy restaurant. Nobody gets off work or school. It’s simply a fun holiday. But it’s a holiday on which one must remain forever vigilant (警惕的), for he or she may be the next April Fool!
1. Where did April Fool’s Day begin?2. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
3. Why is the April Fool’s Day called “April Fish” in France?
4. When can tricks be played in England?
5. How will you keep yourselves from being the next April Fool?
6. Do you love April Fool’s Day? Why or why not?
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We all know June 1st is Children’s Day. But it is the World Milk Day, too. People in other (其他的) countries started to drink milk about 8,000 years ago. And in China people started to drink it about 1000 years ago. Why do people drink milk? Let’s know more about it.
Milk is great, because it has a lot of calcium (钙). Calcium can help us grow taller and calcium is good for our teeth and bones. So we should all get into the habit of drinking milk. Then when should we drink milk? Breakfast is very important for a day’s study and work. It’s good to drink a cup of milk for breakfast in the morning. A cup of warm milk helps us have a good sleep. So drinking some milk in the evening is good, too. Adults (成人) need to drink as much as 300ml of milk, and children need to drink 500ml of milk every day. How much milk do you drink every day? Health always comes first in our life, so, let’s drink milk every day!
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5. What other healthy food do you like eating? (请用完整的句子回答)
