It was a cool spring morning back in 2009 and I had just started a morning shift as a school crossing guard. Looking out for the children, I suddenly noticed something at sideways. Behind me I first thought it was a small, overweight dog heading towards me. I didn't think much about it, and looked carefully at any approaching children, as well as enjoying the morning sun.
What is wrong with that dog? I thought later on, as I looked back to check on the small dog—it was moving much too fast for itself.
A few minutes later, I felt as if I was being watched, I looked behind me, but the dog had disappeared. Then, as I slowly turned my attention back to the road, I was greatly surprised to see a large koala at my feet and staring right up at me. A number of different solutions crossed my mind. But staying calm was the best. "Are you waiting to cross the road?" I asked the sweet koala. Miss Koala looked away, and scratched (抓挠) behind her ear.
Then it got up on all four feet and impatiently started to cross the road. I quickly checked for any cars, then walked to the road with my stop sign held high, whistle (吹哨) to my lips, and held my breath.
The koala made it to the other side of the street, then continued following the path through the trees and disappeared into bushes.
So why did the koala cross at the school crossing? To safely get to the trees on the other side!
1. Is the writer a school crossing guard or an animal protection volunteer?2. Where did the writer notice the little animal?
3. What did the writer choose among the different solutions?
4. Which word showed that koala didn't realize the danger when crossing the road?
5. How did the writer help koala cross the road?
6. What do you think of the koala cross at the school crossing? Why?
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When I was alone at home one day, I was more excited than being afraid. My parents had gone for an invitation and left me behind. I was feeling free like a bird for the first time in my life.
I read a storybook for about an hour and then decided to take a break. I sat on the sofa and watched TV. It was around 7:30 p.m. and I was watching my favorite program when the lights went off. I found myself in darkness. “What bad luck,” I thought to myself. I was feeling a bit afraid in the dark. Suddenly I heard a loud sound on the door. Then again another loud knock! My heart beat fast! I called my neighbor immediately. At that time, the electricity was on again. I didn’t feel calm until my neighbor came.
We heard some noises in the kitchen. When we walked closer, we saw two monkeys sitting on the table. I pulled out a large bag from the shelf and threw it on the animal. My neighbor was quick to pounce on it and quickly tied up the bag. The other monkey ran away through the window and now we had caught one!
The next day the workers from the zoo came and took the monkey away. People in my neighborhood were now talking about my story. I felt proud that I was now the hero of the town.
1. What was the writer doing when the lights went off?（不超过15个词）2. Where did the noises the writer heard come from?（不超过15个词）
3. How many monkeys were sent to the zoo?（不超过15个词）
Dolphins are wonderful. They are socially skilled, smart, quick, joyful, and playful animals that share many similar feelings with humans.
Where do dolphins live?
Dolphins live in the world’s seas and oceans and in some rivers too. Some dolphins like to live in coastal areas, others like shallow water.
Orcas are the only dolphins which live in the Arctic（北极）and Antarctic（南极）.Their large size means that they have more protection against the cold of the freezing seas.
Can dolphins live in fresh water?
River dolphins such as the Amazon River dolphin and South Asian river dolphins live their lives only in fresh water rivers and lakes, a long way from the ocean; they are sometimes known as the “true river dolphins”.
Can dolphins talk?
Maybe they can’t talk with words, but they talk with sounds. They show their feelings with sounds. Dolphins travel in a group. We call a group of fish “school.” They don’t study, but they travel together. Dolphins are mammals, not fish, but they swim together in a school.
Dolphin talk to the other dolphins in the school. They give information. They tell when they are happy or sad or afraid. They say “Welcome” when a dolphin come back to the school. They talk when they play.
They make a few sounds above water. They make many more sounds under water. People cannot hear these sounds because the sounds are very, very high. Scientists make tapes of the sounds and study them. Sometimes people catch dolphins for a large aquarium.（An aquarium is a zoo for fish）
People can watch the dolphin in a show. Dolphins don’t like to be away from their school in an aquarium. They are sad and lonely. There are many stories about dolphins. They help people. Sometimes they save somebody’s life. Dolphin meat is good, but people don’t like to kill them. They say that dolphins bring good luck. Many people believe this.
1. Which kind of dolphin live in the Arctic（北极）and Antarctic（南极）?2. Where do river dolphins live?
3. How do dolphins show their feelings?
4. Why can’t people hear the dolphin’s sounds?
5. What do many people believe that dolphins can bring?
【推荐3】Bella and her family live in Africa. They are the tallest animals on land. They have long necks and legs. They are gentle and polite. They never fight with other companies. Bella is thirteen years old now. And she lives on grass.
Joy comes from Africa. She and her family are the biggest animals on land. They live together. They can play with water. And they can carry things for people. Their ivory is rare and expensive, so some people hunt Joy and her family for it. She lives on grass and leaves.
Bob lives in South Africa. He is nineteen years old. He and his family often find food at night. Bob is 3.1 meters long. His tail is one meter long. He is brown. He lives on meat.
Channy is black and white. They have been in the world at least 800 years. They are cute animals. They live in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu. And they live on bamboo.
1. 根据短文内容，将下列图片与相关信息匹配，将字母代号写在横线上。A
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(1) Bella
2. Who usually eats grass?
3. When do Bob and his family often find food?
4. Why do some people hunt Joy and her family?
5. Where can we find Channy and his family?
【推荐1】Every year from May to August on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原), Tibetan antelopes (藏羚羊) go far to have their babies.
Their trip is hard. They have to cross railways and roads. Some die because of accidents (事故). To make their trip easier, people have made “wildlife corridors (走廊)”. A wildlife corridor can be natural or man-made. If railways or roads get in the animals’ way, they can still move freely and safely through the corridor.
To work with animals’ habits, corridors around the world are different. Tibetan antelopes are careful about dangers around them. So, China has made corridors under highways or railways. The corridors are big. Antelopes can easily look around when they pass through. In Europe, there are small and dark tunnels (隧道) for small animals, like mice. In the US, people make bridges between trees for animals that like climbing.
Just give them a little more space. They can have a good chance to live well with us humans. So you can see, it is not hard to do that.
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef(大堡礁)is the world’s largest reef system. It is over 2, 600 kilometers long. The reef is home to many animals: fish, birds, turtles, sharks and even whales. Unluckily, the reef that all these animals call home is in danger.
Climate(气候)change, over-fishing, storms and water pollution are doing harm to the reef year after year. Coral(珊瑚)reef experts at Australian universities say that if we are not serious about this, the coral reef could be broken before the year 2030.
Daily activities like driving cars, using electricity and running factories send greenhouse gases into the air. These gases make Earth warmer and warmer. This is a problem for the Great Barrier Reef and other reefs around the world.
Coral needs to be protected. Even a small increase in water temperature two degrees—is enough to kill it, according to a reef researcher at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Not only coral but also twenty-five percent of all sea life that lives on coral reefs is in danger. If air pollution is not reduced or stopped, if the water temperature doesn’t go down, if the water warms by 3 degrees in the next 20 years, according to reef experts in a report from the University of Queensland, this would spell the end for the Great Barrier Reef and all its sea life.
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We all need purpose in our lives. And so do dogs. Work is good for us. While holidays are great, after a while, we can miss our sense of routine, of duty and purpose. This is what happened to the German Shepherd, Dorka. She was a bomb-detection (探测炸弹的) dog with the US Army in Afghanistan. Every day, with her owner Monte, she would look for bombs to protect the soldiers.
When the dog and her owner’s duties were over, Monte brought Dorka home with him. But he soon found that Dorka was sad. She missed her job and the sense of purpose it gave her. Her owner tried different ways to cheer her up but they didn’t work. Then he had an idea.
He began hiding objects for Dorka to find. The objects had a similar smell to what Dorka had been trained to look for. He’d hide them under parked cars or other hidden places. On their walks, it would be Dorka’s job to find these hidden objects. Soon, Monte noticed Dorka’s ears stand up and that her youthful energy had returned.
“I immediately saw she was back to her happy self,” said Monte in a video he made for their TikTok channel, shared by the animal lovers’ site, The Douyin. “Seeing her happy makes me happy,” said Monte in the video.
But why did this make Dorka so happy? It seems that she once again felt her purpose in life. Dorka had kept Monte safe in the war, and now Monte was looking after Dorka. What a beautiful friendship Monte and Dorka share!
1. What did the German Shepherd do with the US Army in Afghanistan?（根据短文回答问题）2. Why did Dorka feel sad at home?（根据短文回答问题）
3. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 into Chinese.（将第二段划线句子译成汉语）
4. How did Monte know that Dorka was back to her happy self?（根据短文回答问题）
5. What can you learn from the passage?（列举两条）
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On 8th August, 1914, 27 men who had replied to an advertisement in The Times got on a ship leaving for the Antarctic. The name of the ship was the Endurance and the captain was an Irishman called Ernest Shackleton.
The goal of the journey was to cross the frozen continent through the South Pole- a journey of 1, 800 miles. Shackleton thought the journey would last six months.
But when land came into sight, the Endurance became trapped in the ice. At that time, there was nothing they could do. And soon, pulling three lifeboats behind them.
After six days, bad weather forced them to give up and the men set up camps on a huge piece of ice which began slowly moving across the Antarctic Circle.
They survived on the ice for five months. Then, on 16th April, 1915, but much better than a floating piece of ice. When they reached the island, Shackleton came up with an idea - it was a risk but he would have to take it. He and five men would take one of the lifeboats and sail 800 miles to South Georgia.
It took Shackleton 17 days to reach South Georgia. Unluckily, he landed on the wrong side of the island and had to walk 36 hours over mountains to reach the camp. The whale hunters at the camp couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw the six men walking down from the mountains.
Shackleton kept his promise. More than three months later, he returned to Elephant Island to rescue the crew he had been forced to leave on the island. He had failed to reach the pole but he had saved the lives of all his men successfully.
1. The first two paragraphs tell us ________.| A．the goal of the journey | B．the bad result of the journey |
| C．the possible difficulties in the journey | D．the background information of the journey |
a.The Endurance was trapped and broke up.
b.Shackleton reached Elephant Island with his men.
c.Camps were set up on the ice which moved slowly.
d.The six men took a lifeboat and sailed to South Georgia.
e.Shackleton and his men pulled three lifeboats towards north
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| A．Shackleton would take all of the crew to South Georgia. |
| B．Shackleton would return to Elephant Island to save the rest crew. |
| C．Shackleton would manage to reach the pole with the crew next time. |
| D．Shackleton would return to South Georgia to thank the whale hunters. |
Dear Gina,
Happy new year! I am in Harbin with my parents now. This winter is one of the most popular places in China. And I have a great time here. Let me tell you something about it.
The average temperature (平均气温) in January here is -19.4℃. So it’s very cold. But we enjoy ourselves on Songhua River. Skating here is great fun. We also like looking around at Central Avenue or Santa Sophia Church. But my favorite place is the Ice and Snow World.
In the Ice and Snow World, we can enjoy the beautiful ice and snow spectacles (奇观). And we can also experience (体验) many ice and snow activities, such as looking for the treasure (宝物) and playing snow football. We have fun with about 30 cultures here and we feel that we are in the paradise (天堂).
People in Harbin are also very nice. They call us Southern Petites (南方小土豆). Why? Because they think the girls in south China are really cute.
We like playing and shopping here very much.
Yours,
Wang Ting
1. Who is the letter to?2. Where is Wang Ting now?
3. What can people do in the Ice and Snow World?
4. Why does people in Harbm call them Southern Petites?
