Do you know all birds protect themselves by always listening and watching out for danger? At the smallest sign of it, they will fly away. Birds that cannot fly are often able to swim fast, or run quickly.
Some birds make themselves look bigger and more dangerous by fluffing (动) their feathers. Another important protection for many birds is their colors. Their feathers often have colors that match the things around their nests (巢) . Some birds change colors with the seasons. In the winter they are white to match the snow. In the summer they are brown to match the ground.
People sometimes kill birds without meaning to. When people cut down forests to build houses and factories, they destroy the homes and food of birds. If the birds have nowhere else to go and nothing to eat, they will die out. Pollution may cause some birds to die. Birds that catch fish from polluted water get poison in their bodies. Then they cannot lay healthy eggs. New birds can’t be born.
Now people protect birds by passing the laws to control hunting and pollution, by setting up some special parks where all the birds are safe from hunters, and by teaching people to care about birds rather than kill them.
| How do birds protect themselves? | By By fluffing their feathers. By having colors that By changing colors with the seasons. |
| Why do some birds | People sometimes kill birds without meaning to. |
| How do people protect birds? | By passing the laws to control hunting and pollution. By setting up some special parks. By teaching people |
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【推荐1】In our city, there is a big zoo. There are a lot of different animals in it. There are some scary tigers and lions. They like eating meat and they eat much meat every day. There are also two big elephants and a baby one. Children like to ride one of them. The elephants are very kind and friendly. They eat much grass(草) and bananas. In the zoo, we can see different kinds of bears, brown bears, black bears and white bears. They are all slow and clumsy(慢而笨拙). They stand on their back legs and lift their front legs to ask for food. They like cakes very much.
Do you like pandas? There’s only one in the zoo. Her name is Lingling. She is very cute, She likes eating bamboos very much. She is kind of shy. She’s very interesting and lovely.
1. What do the tigers and lions like eating?2. How many elephants are there in the zoo?
3. What color are the bears?
4. Do the bears like eating bananas very much?
5. What is the panda like?
【推荐2】A brown owl（猫头鹰）sat on a branch and watched. He was good at watching. His big eyes blinked (眨眼睛). Down below, a white rabbit played in the grass. The rabbit was very fast，and it was too fast to catch. Every time the owl tried to catch the rabbit, the rabbit ran away.
The owl was hungry, but he had to find a way to catch the rabbit. How could he catch the fast rabbit? If he flew down on top of him, the rabbit would see his shadow(影子) and run into his hole. What could he do? Suddenly, the owl had an idea. His eyes got really big, because he was excited. A moment later, he took off. When the owl was flying, he made sure to stay away from the rabbit. The owl didn’t want the rabbit to know he was coming. Then, when he came close to the rabbit, he spread his body to change the shape of his shadow!
The white rabbit stopped eating grass and looked. Suddenly, there was an black rabbit next to him. The white rabbit looked at it. He didn’t know there was an owl near his home. It looked like he could make a new friend! Suddenly, the black rabbit disappeared, and in its place was the owl.
The rabbit cried out and tried to run for his hole, but the owl was waiting for him. The rabbit ran right into the owl’s claws and became his dinner. Sometimes, when you try something new, you can surprise yourself and others.
1. Why couldn’t the owl catch the rabbit at first?2. What did the owl do when he came close to the rabbit?
3. Did the rabbit know there was an owl near his home?
4. What was the black rabbit actually be?
5. Where did the rabbit try to run?
Chimpanzees are not only social animals living in communities and working together, but they are smart in many different ways. For over 40 years, people have been studying chimps both in the wild and in captivity (圈养). One thing they have learned is that chimpanzees and their natural habitats—or where they live in the wild-need to be protected.
In 1960, a researcher named Jane Goodall began to live with and study wild chimpanzees in Africa. She learned that they are highly intelligent animals that communicate with gestures and physical contact. They make tools to find food, they possess innate (天生的) decision-making skills, and they make choices about which groups to join and what foods to eat. Chimps cooperate to hunt and often share the food they have caught. In captivity, where they live in zoos and science centers, they can be taught American Sign Language so that they can communicate with their hands. There have even been experiments which show that a few chimpanzees have learned to use computers and to play games! Some scientists argue that chimpanzees can show emotions such as happiness or sadness.
Although chimpanzees are impressive and intelligent animals, their safety is in danger every day. In the wild they can be found in 21 different African countries, living in forests. Chimpanzees are able to adapt (适应) to changes in their environment. They can move to a new place, make new nests, and find new foods. Yet people are destroying their natural habitats. By cutting down trees for firewood and using the space to build houses, humans leave chimpanzees with smaller areas to live in.
Chimpanzees are in danger, and all eyes should be on them. Fortunately many organizations and researchers have started to take steps to protect them. Everyone should be aware of their work and it is important to help these amazing animals.
阅读短文，回答下列问题。
1. Where did Jane Goodall begin to live with and study wild chimpanzees in 1960?
2. How do chimpanzees communicate in their natural habitats?
3. How do chimpanzees adapt to changes in their environment?
4. Chimpanzees aren’t in danger, are they?
5. What can you do for chimpanzees? （请自拟一句话作答，不少于10个词）
Hello. We are students from Thailand, and we want to save the elephants. The elephant is one of Thailand’s symbols. Our first flag had a white elephant on it. This is a symbol of good luck.
Elephants are smart animals. They can play soccer or music. They can also draw very well. People say that “an elephant never forgets”. Elephants can walk for a long time and never get lost. They can also remember places with food and water. This helps them to live.
But elephants are in great danger. People cut down many trees so elephants are losing their homes. People also kill elephants for their ivory. Today there are only about 3000 elephants (over 100,000 before). We must save the trees and not buy things made of ivory. Remember that March 13th is Thai Elephant Day.
1. Elephants are losing their homes because2. 任务二：简略回答问题；
What can we do to save elephants?
3. What can elephants do?
4. 任务三：将文中划线句子译成汉语；
5. 任务四：给文章选择最佳标题
| A．What is an elephant? | B．Let’s save the elephants. | C．Elephants are good pets. |
【推荐2】Whether your garden is on a city windowsill or in a big backyard getting kids involved in tending to plants can be a powerful teaching tool for subjects like science, math and reading. Here’s how your garden can grow responsibility, kindness and other values in your kids.
Being patient is hard for many children, but it can be important for their future. It can also help kids stay calm in stressful situations. You know good stuff comes at the end of a growing season — like yummy fruit or pretty flowers — kids have to wait for it. For instance a carrot seed can take between 70 and 80 days to mature (成熟). When kids develop a garden, for longer-growth plants they can create a garden journal to record the progress of their seedling with words drawings or photos.
Studies suggest that kindness can help kids develop empathy (同理心). “Being kind helps children develop positive relationships,” scientists say. “It can also help them manage feelings of anxiety and depression.” When kids realize that a garden is full of living things that need their help to grow, they would like to pay more attention to caring about them. Let kids plant garden helpers like thyme and tansy, which both keep away bad bugs. Kids can also release good ladybugs which eat aphids (蚜虫) on plants like roses.
Children who see themselves as more responsible often feel better about themselves. And learning to take responsibility for their choices teaches kids how to choose between right and wrong. Looking after any kind of garden — even a small window box — need constant (不断的) hard work to make sure that the plants grow well. Allow kids to be in charge of a single container or a small part of a bigger garden for which they’re totally responsible.
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【推荐3】“The zoo has some trouble,” Grandmother Sandy said.
Angel listened. She heard that Garden Town Zoo didn’t have enough money to take care of its animals. Angel loved animals. She planned to study them when she grew up. Angel’s family had four cats. Angel took good care of them and made sure that they always had food and water.
Angel felt sorry for the zoo animals. She decided to write a letter to show how
she felt. At the end of the letter, she wrote, "Give a dollar, help an animal," She sent a letter and a dollar to The Garden Bee, a local (当地) newspaper.
A few days after that, Angel's letter was published (发布). Almost immediately, people began sending in money. Angel's letter was having effect (效果)!
At school, Angel went to each classroom to read her letter and asked students in her school to give money to the zoo. She was invited to be on a popular talk show. The workers in the zoo were very happy. Ray is the person most responsible (有责任的)for the animals. He said, “Angel let us see that people can make a difference.”
1. Garden Town Zoo had enough money to take care of its animals, didn’t it?____________________________________________________________________
2. How did Angel feel for the zoo animals?
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3. What did she send to a local newspaper?
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4. Where did Angel read her letter?
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5. What do you think of Angel? Why?
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Folk music is a kind of popular music. It comes from the people of any country. Folk music began centuries ago. And people write folk songs. They want to express their feelings and ideas.
The word “folk” means “people”. Folk songs tell stories about people. For example, the songs tell about their jobs and work, their friends, and their lives. They also express ideas such as love and war. The words in the songs are an important part of the music.
Folk music became very popular during the 1960s. Fans listened to folk singers performing at concerts. The singer told stories, sang, and played the guitar. Fans listened to the music and often sang along with the performer. Some of the folk singers during this time were the Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, Pete Seeger and the Weavers.
Later, people began to play this kind of music themselves at schools, at parties, and at home alone. Today fans can still hear folk music at concerts. They can listen to folk music on the Internet.
1. The time when folk music began:2. The reason why people want to write folk songs:
3. An important part of folk songs:
4. The places where people enjoyed folk music in the 1960s:
5. List other kinds of music you like:
How do we know about things that happened thousands of years ago when there were no videos or photos? One answer is written records. The earliest written records of Chinese civilization are known as oracle bone inscriptions (甲骨文).
More than 3,000 years ago, people in the Shang Dynasty (about 16th—11th century BC) liked to ask fortune tellers (占卜师) about the future. For example, what will the weather be like next week? Where should I go to make money? Will my wife give birth to a boy or a girl? From work to love, people asked questions about many topics. The fortune teller would write the question on an oracle bone, heat it up, and then read the cracks (裂纹) in it to find an answer.
Tens of thousands of oracle bones have been found so far. They can tell us a great deal about how people lived during the Shang Dynasty. “They help us understand the origins of Chinese philosophy (哲学) and thought, and figure out where our culture comes from,” Song Zhenhao, a leading oracle bone expert, told China Daily.
In addition to telling us about ancient Chinese culture, the oracle bones are also key to understanding the growth and development of the written form of the Chinese language. Many of the characters we use today are similar to those used 3,000 years ago. “The oracle bone inscriptions, as the earliest-known mature (成熟的) form of Chinese characters, represent the beauty and uniqueness (唯一) of a language that has been passed down,” said Chen Nan, a professor at Tsinghua University.
In 2017, UNESCO added oracle bone inscriptions to its Memory of the World Register (世界记忆名录). They are indeed a valuable memory of ancient China.
1. According to the passage, who could tell the people in the Shang Dynasty the future?2. What does the underlined word “They” in the third paragraph refer to?
3. What do the oracle bone inscriptions stand for according to Chen Nan?
4. When did UNESCO add oracle bone inscriptions to its Memory of the World Register?
5. What do you think of oracle bone inscriptions? (请自拟一句话作答)
When the world fought against the COVID-19, many museums took action to remember life under lockdown (封锁): “When we knew there was going to be a lockdown, we talked about what we could collect for the future, ”said Beatrice Behlen. The Museum of London then began a plan which asks Londoners to give it things that could show their life during the COVD-19. It could be something about a new skill they have learned, such as cooking or making masks for medical workers.
What about people’s feelings, such as sadness, fear, hope and love during the lockdowm? How could they be collected? The Museum of Home, also in London, got an idea. It was asking people to send it videos. One family had recorded how they set up a screen in front of their table so they could share a meal with other family members through the Internet.
In Sweden, the Nordiska Museet, the country’s largest museum of cultural history, was collecting information about how children’ daily life had changed and how they thought about the future. In Austria, photos of a birthday party in lockdown were being collected by Vienna’s Wien Museum.
1. What’s the purpose (目的) of these museums? (不超过10个词)2. What did the Museum of Home ask people to do? (不超过10个词)
3. How many museums are mentioned (被提及) in this passage? (不超过5个词)
