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Many people like to go diving（潜水）when they are on holiday. Jenney, a 14-year-old girl, is getting ready to have a special dive with sharks in the sea of Florida. It’s really expensive for her to do it. Sounds crazy?

Shark diving is a big business in some places and that’s raising a question about how close people should get to them. Some brave divers think it is no problem for them to get close to sharks. Divers   in Florida, for example, often have fun with lemon sharks, which have attacked people a few times before. On the other side, many people are against shark diving. They think no one should go diving with sharks. And it is foolish to feed sharks while diving and bring them close to busy beaches.

Bob Dimond has been a diver for 30 years. He’s worried that sharks may lose their fear of humans. “The reason why people feed sharks is to attract them, but people don’t want to be sharks’ food. However, when sharks learn to connect humans with food, they approach to see if they can find something to eat, Bob says.“ That’s reason enough to stay away from sharks.”

Bob has created the Marine（海洋的）Safety Group. He and his friends believe if people feed a wild animal, they will increase the chance to be attacked. Therefore, their goal is to stop all shark feeding. In fact, shark feeding has never been directly associated with an attack on a human. When a shark strikes, it is usually“hit and run”. It bites and then quickly releases the person and disappears.

Obviously, sharks make shark diving so attractive. For divers such as Jenney, diving with sharks is a once-in-a-life experience. Jenney says,“I actually had a chance to lie down on the bottom of the ocean and the sharks were right in front of me. And I could see their mouths and their eyes and feed them. I used to know only a little about sharks, but now I want more teenagers to join me.”

1. Will Jenney have to pay a lot of money for shark diving?
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2. Who might be against shark diving according to the passage?
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3. What does the underlined word“them”in paragraph 3 refer to?
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4. Why has Bob created the Marine Safety Group?
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5. What does Jenney think of her once-in-a-life experience?
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6. Do you think sharks will welcome people to their world? Why or why not?
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【推荐1】If you go to Egypt, you’ll see a lot of pyramids. The biggest of all is the Great Pyramid. It is about 137 meters high and made of 2,300,000 big stones. Each stone weighs about two and a half tons. The biggest ones even weigh fifteen tons. It took more than 100,000 men twenty years to build it. Nobody can tell just how the men cut, carried and lifted the huge stones without our modern machines. The Egyptian kings told the people to build the pyramids for themselves. They thought they had tombs strong enough to keep their bodies well until they came back to life. But they never thought that about 5,000 years later their bodies would be on show in museums.

1. You can see lots of ________ in ________.
2. People ________ twenty years ________ the Great Pyramid.
3. Pyramids were built for the ________.
4. The kings had the pyramids built to ________ their bodies ________ until they came back to life.
5. The kings didn’t think their bodies would be ________ in museums 5,000 years later.

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，完成下列各题。

Where are you going to travel on your winter vacation? Guangzhou Chimelong Safari Park (长隆野生动物园) is a perfect place to enjoy the beauty of Mother Nature. It has an expanse of a massive 1,333,340 square miles, making it one of the biggest natural parks in China and Guangzhou’s only national 5A grade scenic spot tourism resort. Tips on visiting Chimelong Safari Park: ◆Opening Hours Monday—Friday     9:30 a.m.—6:00 p.m. Saturday—Sunday   9:30 a.m.—6:30 p.m. ◆Rules for Visitors Chimelong Safari Park is the first park in China to introduce a self-drive tour. The self-drive tour allows visitors to view the animals while driving their own car around the park. They can drive slowly and stop to take some photos of them if they like. But they cannot get off in the self-drive area. ◆Animals in Chimelong Safari Park Chimelong Safari Park is the best choice for animal lovers because it’s home for some beautiful and special animals including white tigers, pandas and so on. There are also some individual science centers where animal lovers can learn more about different animals’ behaviors (行为) and their habitats (栖息地). ◆Things must do in the Chimelong Safari Park 1. Visit the Chimelong International Circus (马戏团). 2. Spend quality time with friends and family at the Chimelong hotel and don’t forget to book (预订) online.

1. Is Chimelong Safari Park one of the biggest parks in China?
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2. What can’t visitors do when they are in the self-drive area?
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3. What can animal lovers do in Chimelong Safari Park?
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4. Do you think we must have a circus in Chimelong Safari Park? Why or why not?
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【推荐3】阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，完成下列各题。

Stanford is a world famous university on the west coast of the U.S. It was built by Stanford and his wife in memory of their only son who died of a strange disease.

Tourists are often surprised at the beauty of Stanford. Among the green trees, buildings with yellow walls and red tops make up a beautiful picture. Many tourists wonder why yellow and red were chosen. That’s because they were the favorites of Mrs. Stanford.

The big church is the most important building in Stanford. It stands at the centre. It was built by Mrs. Stanford to remember her husband who devoted (贡献) himself to the university. There, students and teachers can communicate with God and hold great activities, such as concerts and celebrations.

The tallest building in Stanford is Hoover Tower, which is the land mark of the university. A man named Hoover had done a lot for the university. The things he once used can be seen on the first floor. On the top of the tower, tourists can have a good look at the whole campus(校园).

As one of the world top universities, Stanford has many subjects that stand among the top ones in the world. And computer science has been the first for many years. If you want to study computer in a university abroad, maybe it is your best choice.

1. Why did Mr. Stanford build the university?
Because they wanted to remember ________________.
2. What color did Mrs. Stanford like best?
She preferred ________________ to other colors.
3. What does the third paragraph mainly tell us?
It tells us the big church is ________________ in Stanford.
4. Where can visitors see the whole campus of Stanford?
They can see the whole campus on the top of ________________.
5. What does “it” in the last sentence of the passage refer to?
It refers to ________________________________________.