Squirrels (松鼠）are getting ready for winter. They are looking for nuts and seeds，digging holes in the ground or finding holes in trees. That’s where they store the food they will need during the coming months, when the weather is cold and sometimes snowy.
Squirrels spend a lot of time in trees, which are like restaurants for them. Among their favorite things to eat are nuts and other parts of trees，like tender buds(花苞).
Squirrels may also eat com, insects and other animals. And, as anyone who has a bird knows, squirrels love bird food!
Squirrels stay active all winter, so they need plenty of food to help keep up their energy. Squirrels tend to bury food underground, piece by piece. Some squirrels may gather food into piles that they put at the base of trees or bury underground.
When they need food, squirrels use their memory and smell to help them find what they buried. Sometimes，you’ll even see them digging through the snow.
Squirrels make nests in trees. Some squirrels spend much of the winter in underground tunnels(地道)where it is warmer.
When spring comes, squirrels change their eating habits to new plant growth, like buds and leaves. Sometimes they forget to dig up all their buried nuts.
That’s why you’ll sometimes find a little tree growing in a place where neither you nor your family planted it. It must have been the squirrels.
1. To get ready for winter, squirrels do all of the following EXCEPT .| A．store leaves to keep warm | B．look for nuts and seeds |
| C．find holes in trees | D．dig holes in the ground |
| A．Because they can keep warm in trees. | B．Because they can find bird food there. |
| C．Because their favorite food is there. | D．Because they can find insects there. |
| A．never bury | B．seldom bury | C．usually bury | D．hardly bury |
| A．squirrels do not eat any other animals |
| B．squirrels sleep all the time during winter |
| C．squirrels plant young trees when spring comes |
| D．squirrels sometimes fail to find all of their buried nuts |
| A．what squirrels are like | B．how squirrels spend winter |
| C．where squirrels bury food | D．why squirrels store food for winter |
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【推荐1】We know that many animals do not stay in one place. Bird, fish and other animals move from one place to another at a certain time. They move for different reasons: most of them move to find food more easily, but others move to get away from places that are too crowded.
When cold weather comes, many birds move to warmer places to find food. Some fishes give birth in warm water and move to cold water to feed. The most famous migration（迁徙）is probably the migration of the fish, which is called “salmon”. This fish is born in fresh water, but it travels many miles to salt water. There it spends its life because they can get food easily there. When it is old, it returns to its birthplace in fresh water. Then it gives birth and dies. In northern Europe, there is a kind of mice. They live their mountain homes when they become too crowded. They move down to the low land. Sometimes they move all the way to the seaside, and many of them are killed when they fall into the sea.
Recently, scientists have studied the migration of a kind of lobsters（龙虾）. Every year, when the season of the bad weather arrives, the lobsters get into a long line and start to walk across the floor of the ocean. Nobody knows why they do this, and nobody knows where they go. So, sometimes we know why humans and animals move from one place to another, but at other times, we don’t. Maybe living things just like to move.
1. According to the passage, the following statements are reasons for animals’ moving from one place to another EXCEPT（除了） .| A．finding warmer place to give birth | B．leaving the crowded places |
| C．finding food more easily | D．finding their parents |
| A．giving examples | B．using numbers | C．listing reasons | D．telling a story |
| A．The fish called “salmon” spends a long life in salt water. |
| B．The mice in northern Europe move when the place gets too crowded. |
| C．Lobsters move across the floor of ocean to give birth. |
| D．Scientists sometimes don’t know the reason for migration of some animals. |
| A．Culture. | B．Sports. | C．History. | D．Science. |
【推荐2】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 (象牙). Today there are only about 3,000 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. There is a _______ on Thailand's first flag.| A．tiger | B．white elephant | C．panda | D．dog |
| A．They can play soccer or music. | B．They can also draw very well. |
| C．They can dance. | D．A and B. |
| A．Because elephants are in great danger. |
| B．People kill elephants for meat. |
| C．People kill elephants for their ivory. |
| D．People hate elephants. |
| A．100,000 | B．3,000 | C．10,000 | D．1,000 |
| A．Elephants are good pets | B．Let’s save the elephants |
| C．Come to Thailand | D．Let’s kill the elephants |
【推荐3】Do you know the reason why we feel tired in the middle of a class? Maybe you would say it is because the teacher’s class is boring.
Purpose of sleep
Sleep time
Enough sleep is important to us. How much sleep do we need? New-born babies sleep most of the time. They can sleep 20-22 hours a day. Children need 10-12 hours of sleep a day. Teenagers need 8-10 hours of sleep a day because they need lots of energy to grow into their adult bodies. Grown-ups usually need 6-8 hours of sleep to keep active.
Interesting facts
Almost everyone has their dreams while they sleep, but not all of them can tell their dreams clearly when they wake up.
Sleepy animals
It’s not just people that love to snooze（打盹）.
| A．In fact, many animals have unusual or surprising sleeping habits. |
| B．Why do we need sleep? |
| C．Some people talk in their dreams. |
| D．Some people never dream while they sleep. |
| E．However, the real reason is probably that we don’t have enough sleep. |
| F．The older you get, the less sleep you will need. |
