A bird diary is a record of all the birds you have seen. Here’s how you can prepare information for your bird diary:
●Find a quiet place where there are lots of birds. Birds like places where they can find food and water.
●Sit in a place where you will stay quiet. Don’t scare the birds with sudden movements or loud noises.
●Make notes about the birds. Look at one bird at a time. What can you see? Write about it in a small notebook. At home copy your notes up clearly into your bird diary.
●Draw pictures of the birds. Do quick drawings in your notebook. You can also take photos of the birds. At home, copy the drawings into your bird diary. Put photos into your bird diary, too.
It’s easy to forget things. Here are some questions you should ask yourself:
●What color is the bird? Some birds have bright colors to attract (吸引) other birds. Some birds are the same color as the land they live on, so that enemies don’t see them.
● ______? Some birds have wide powerful wings. Others have small wings that move quickly when they fly. You can stick feathers (羽毛) in your bird diary. Remember never to steal eggs from them.
●What is the bird’s beak like? Birds with short beaks, like finches (雀类), eat seeds. Some birds, like hoopoes (戴胜鸟), have long sharp beaks to catch worms. Hawks and eagles (鹰) have strong beaks. They eat meat.
●What are the bird’s feet like? Can they catch the tree? Are they good for walking or swimming?
| Bird:The Bald Eagle (鹰) Place:Grand Canyon Date and Time:5 p.m.August 5th Weather:warm and sunny I saw a bald eagle. It had a white head and a white neck and tail. Its body was about 100 cm long. It had large wings. Its beak was yellow and like a hook (钩). The number of bald eagles is very small. It was trying to catch fish I found this feather in the grass. —A bird diary from Jane |
1. Which of the following is TRUE about the preparation for the bird diary?
| A．We can play with birds. |
| B．We can take a camera. |
| C．We should find a busy place to watch birds. |
| D．We should make notes only in the bird diary. |
3. Which of the following questions can be put in the blank?
| A．Where do birds live? |
| B．What food do birds like? |
| C．What shape are the bird’s wings? |
| D．How do birds catch food? |
①the looks of the bird ②the place to catch the bird
③the kind of the bird ④the weather ⑤the bird’s activity
| A．①②③④ | B．①③④⑤ |
| C．①②④⑤ | D．②③④⑤ |
| A．A story. | B．A poem. |
| C．An interview. | D．An introduction. |
（Answer the questions in no more than eight words.）
He was the only grey cub (幼崽) the she-wolf had. The other cubs had red in their hair. He was grey like his father. He was also the strongest cub.
There were living things and non-living things in the forest. He learned that most living things ran away from him. By accident, he ate some baby birds. The taste was good. They were the first meat he found for himself.
He met an animal about his own size. It was a weasel, a rat-like animal. It ran at him and bit him. He tried to shake the weasel off, but it held on, soon he was nearly dead. The she-wolf arrived just in time and killed it and ate it. She bent down and took care of her cub. He followed her back to the cave. When he felt strong again, he left the cave and went into the forest. He knew the forest could be dangerous. A large bird nearly killed him. It came out of the sky and caught a squirrel near him. He knew he must watch out for it.
He began hunting for his own food, but he was not good at hunting yet. He still needed food from his mother. One day, she brought him a lynx kitten. He was eating it when he heard a great noise from the mouth of the cave. The kitten’s mother followed the she-wolf to the cave. The she-wolf and the she-lynx started to fight. They would fight to the death. The cub ran forward. He bit one of the lynx’s legs. It was not a big bite, but it was enough to give the she-wolf the chance she needed. Soon the lynx was dead, but the she-wolf was badly hurt. For a week, she did not move. The grey cub had to find food for both of them.
Without his mother to take care of him, he learned what life was about. It was about meat. Without meat there was no life. Animals had to eat other animals to survive. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. It was a hard life.
—Taken from White Fang
1. What colour is the cub’s hair?2. What were the first meat he found for himself?
3. Why was the cub afraid of the large bird?
4. How did the cub help his mother fight the lynx?
5. What is the cub’s life like, according to the passage?
Have you ever read the famous novel Robinson Crusoe (《鲁滨逊漂流记》)? Do you know that it was based on a real life story of a Scottish sailor, Alexander Selkirk？
Selkirk was born in Scotland in 1676. As he grew up, he became a sailor (海员). One day, he was asked to fight around South America, while the ship was damaged by the Spanish. He was surprised that the ship would sink, so he tried to land on the next island. The island was Mas a Tierra and it is known as “Robinson Crusoe Island” today.
The island in the Pacific was far away, with nobody around, but Selkirk managed to live there alone for over 4 years. At first, he didn’t realize it would be more than 4 years. He mainly passed the time by reading his Bible (圣经). Though there was nobody else on the island, there were animals, including rats, cats and goats. The rats were such fierce animals that he had to use wild cats to protect himself during the night. During the days on the island, there were at least two ships coming close. Unluckily, they were not friendly and even opened fire on Selkirk, but he escaped successfully.
Finally, on the first of February 1709, when two British ships arrived at the island, Selkirk was rescued. It turned out that his choice was right because no long after his landing on the island, the ship sank. The archaeologists (考古学家) today discovered a campsite of a European on this island and it proved the story true.
1. How old was Selkirk when he was rescued from the island?2. How did Selkirk spend his early days on the island?
3. What happened to the ship after Selkirk landed on the island?
4. If you are left on an island with nobody around, can you live there for 4 years? Why or why not? Write 30 words or more.
A rich man had only one son. The man loved his son very much. He sent his son to the best school in his city. But the son made some bad friends at school and he had many bad habits.
The man was worried about the habits of his son. He tried his best to correct his habits, but he could not succeed. One day he thought of a plan to teach his son a lesson. He went to the market and bought some fresh apples and a rotten (烂的) one. He came back to his home and called his son. He asked his son to put all the apples along with the rotten one in a box.
The son did the same. After some days the man asked his son to bring the apples. As the son opened the box, he was surprised to notice that all the apples have become rotten. He felt very sad.
The father told him to see how one rotten apple had spoiled (毁掉) all the rest. In the same way, one bad person could spoil all others. The father’s advice had the expected effect (效果). The boy left his bad friends and became good again.
1. What did the son do at school? (根据短文内容回答问题)2. Why did the man also buy a rotten apple? (根据短文内容回答问题)
3. Where did the man ask his son to put the apples? (根据短文内容回答问题)
4. 从短文中找出与下列句子画线部分意思相近的单词或短语。
In the same way, one bad person could spoil all others.
5. What do you think of the rich man?
5 . One year, a British expedition(探险队) got lost while going across the Sahara Desert. The Sahara Desert was an unfriendly environment. During the daytime, the sun was burning hot and at night it was sometimes very cold. After walking for several days, everyone finally ran out of water. If they made a wrong decision, then they could all die soon.
At that time, the leader of the team came up with an idea. He took out a water kettle(壶)and said, “I found a kettle of water in my bag. But before we walk across the desert, nobody is allowed to drink it.” The kettle of water became the faith(信心) for everyone to cross the desert. Excitedly, every member of the team passed the only “heavy” kettle. Many times some of them wanted to give up, thinking of the kettle they fought on.
Finally the expedition made it out of the desert. With tears of joy and excitement, they opened the kettle with shaking hands,but what they poured out was nothing but sand! In fact life has never been a real dead end for anyone. Was it a kettle of sand that really saved them in the desert?The answer is NO. Their deep faith in the hope of survival(生存), like a seed, had grown in their hearts, bloomed and bore much fruit finally. That is what led them out of the terrible and dangerous station in the end.
根据短文内容,回答下列问题。
1. Where did the British expedition get lost?
2. What did the leader take out when everyone ran out of water?
3. How did the members of the team feel when the kettle of water was passed on?
4. Did the expedition go out of the desert at last?
5. What saved them in the end, a kettle of sand or their deep faith?
6 . Once upon a time there lived a king in southern India named Sri Rana Charya.
One day he called out a group of courtiers (朝臣) and said, “Go and bring the person knowing about the secret of work." The courtiers walked away.
First they saw a woodcutter (樵夫) cutting down trees, and then they went to him and said, “Do you like this job, sir?"
The woodcutter answered, “No, I do it because this work comes from our ancestors (祖先)，so my parents asked me to do this job."
The courtiers said goodbye to the woodcutter and walked away. While traveling farther, the courtiers saw an angry washerman and they decided to talk to him.
One of them asked, “Hello, sir! We've come to visit our friend Ram living somewhere nearby. Could you please tell us his address?"
The washerman said, “Are you mad (疯的)? Can't you see what I am doing? I am doing a tiring job.”
The courtiers said sorry to him and went away. They made up their minds to leave the job and send a message to the king that no one in the village knew about the secret of work.
But suddenly, they saw a teacher studying a science book in a school. They went inside and asked the teacher the same question.
The teacher answered, "I love this job and it gives me satisfaction and happiness to teach so many children."
Hearing this, the courtiers took the teacher to the king and the king appreciated (欣赏) him for knowing the secret of work and soon he became the best teacher in the village and was given an award (奖品)，and soon a big school was built.
阅读短文，根据短文内容回答下列问题。
1. Does the woodcutter like his job?
2. What did the washerman think of his job?
3. Who knew the secret of work according to the passage?
4. How many persons did the courtiers see?
5. What is the secret of work?
One June evening, Sylvia, a nine-year-old girl, was driving her cow through the dark woods, following a path that led to her grandmother's home.
Suddenly the air was cut by a sharp whistle*not far away. Sylvia left the cow and stepped carefully behind a tree, shaking. But she was too late.
"Halloa, little girl!" a young man called out cheerfully," How far is it from the mainroad?"
Sylvia whispered "two miles". She didn't dare to directly look at the young man with a gun, but she came out and again drove the cow. The young man walked with her.
"I've been hunting for birds," he explained, "but I've lost."
Sylvia said nothing but was glad they were almost home. She could see her grandmother standing in the doorway. The man greeted her grandmother, and asked if he could have a night's lodging*."Yes." her grandmother said, "We don't have much, ____________________."
After eating, the man said he was an ornithologist, who collected birds.
"Do you cage them up?" asked her grandmother doubtfully.
"No, I shoot them and make specimens* of them.'
"Sylvia knows a lot about birds, too." her grandmother said proudly.
"Great! I saw a white heron* a few miles from here, and followed it in this direction, but can't find it."
The man turned to look at Sylvia with the hope of discovering that she knew the rare bird.
But Sylvia was silent.
The man continued eagerly. "I would give ten dollars to anybody who could show it to me."
Sylvia's heart gave a wild beat. That night, she could decide all the wonderful things she and her grandmother could buy for ten dollars. When it was almost time for the sun to rise, she quietly left her home and got to a huge tree, so tall it could be seen for many miles around. She climbed to the top with fingers stiff and clumsy. Suddenly Sylvia's eyes caught a flash of white growing larger and larger. It flew past Sylvia and landed on their nest in a nearby tree. The white heron smoothed its feathers and called to its mate. Then it lifted its wings and flew away.
Sylvia gave a long sigh*. Slowly she came home. The young man stood up as she came into the kitchen. His kind eyes looked deeply into Sylvia's dark ones. But Sylvia was silent.
1. When Sylvia drove her cow home one evening,| A．she left the cow in the woods |
| B．she was frightened by a whistle |
| C．she wanted to help a young man |
| D．she was followed by a young man |
| A．although we have raised a lot of birds |
| B．and you had better give us some money |
| C．but you're welcome to share what we've got |
| D．so you can go out to the mainroad two miles away |
| A．The white heron treated Sylvia as its good friend. |
| B．Sylvia went to search for the white heron secretly. |
| C．Sylvia's grandmother was proud of knowing a lot about birds. |
| D．The young man asked Sylvia to catch the white heron for him. |
When my brother and I were children, we spent a few weeks each summer in the countryside with our uncle. He was a geologist and loved to go on long walks to find stones to add to his collection at the university. More often than not, we followed him.
One day, we left early and this time, our uncle gave us two backpacks. "You can help me carry the samples, " he explained.
Sure, why not? The whole day, we walked around the countryside, and every now and then,our uncle put stones in our bags.We were a bit surprised that sometimes he also took some stones out from our bags, but thought he had just found better samples.
We reached the house in the late afternoon. The backpacks were so heavy that we were really tired out when we put them on the ground. Yet our uncle's backpack was half-empty.
"Why did you give us so many stones? " we asked. "I didn't. You did, " he said, waiting for a while before continuing. "You did not know it, but made you go through a little attitude test today."
"What do you mean an 'attitude test'?" we wanted to know.
"It is something someone once did to me. You see, I listened to every word you said. And whenever you complained about anyone or anything, I added a stone to your bags. And whenever you talked about something in an attitude of positive thinking, I took out a stone. And now look at your backpacks.
We did. They were full. "I hope you remember this little attitude test. You see, your negative thoughts are like stones. You carry them in your mind just like those stones in a backpack. The more negative thoughts you have, the heavier your mind is. So look at those bags and start paying attention to what you say and how you say things."
This little lesson was one of the most important I ever had. And I remember my uncle with great love for teaching us one of the most important lessons in life—the power of attitude.
1. A geologist is a person who _______| A．grows plants | B．studies the earth | C．sells stones | D．draws pictures |
| A．they were tired but happy that they had helped their uncle |
| B．they wished they could collect more sample stones |
| C．they found that their bags were filled with stones |
| D．they were angry to find their uncle's bag half-empty |
| A．By giving examples of good stones. |
| B．By asking questions about the stones |
| C．By using famous sayings about stones. |
| D．By comparing negative thoughts to stones. |
9 . When people become rich, more and more cars can be found on the road. More people would like to go out by car. But things changed in 2016. Mobike, a company put its shared orange bikes onto the streets in Shanghai. Other coloured shared bikes soon followed. The sidewalks (人行道 )of the cities in China soon became colourful. More and more people started to go out by riding the shared bikes. They are convenient(方便的)!
In just one year, more than 10 million shared bikes from over 30 companies have been placed on the streets, and the population of the people using the bikes is about 100 million, according to a report from Xinhua News Agency.
Users can easily unlock (解锁)a shared bike by using their smart phones, and it's cheap to ride a shared bike in a short time. Also, people can easily find one bike and never worry about where to park it.
根据短文内容完成下列各题：
1. Which city did Mobike put its shared bikes in first?
2. What does the underlined word “They” refer to(指的是)?
3. Is it expensive to ride a shared bike?
4. How many shared bikes are put on the streets in one year?
5. Is the passage from a newspaper or a storybook?
Sue and Jim were neighbours for five years but they were never interested in each other. Then one day, Sue saw Jim’s music collection. She noticed a rare punk rock CD that she also owned. At that moment, she realized that they both had the same interest in music and they started talking. Sue said, “I thought we had nothing in common until I saw his CD by the New York Dolls.” They are now married and living with each other.
Some psychologists (心理学家) think that your taste in music is related to (有联系的) your personality. As part of a test at the University of Texas, Austin, USA, volunteers created a CD of their favourite songs. The volunteers then listened to each other’s CDs and made guesses about the CD creator’s personality—outgoing, adventurous, happy, and so on. These strangers correctly guessed much more about each other’s personalities through their CDs than through their clothes or taste in films. For example, Sue and Jim love punk music, which means they have outgoing personalities.
The psychologists who did the test found Snoop Dogg (hip-hop) fans are likely to be energetic and talkative. People who like U2 (rock/pop music) are generally independent and adventurous.
The psychologists also found that Louis Armstrong(jazz) fans tend to(倾向于) be shy. The psychologists were surprised to find that rap and heavy metal fans were also shier and quieter than many other music lovers.
Title: Music and | |
An opinion | *Your |
Findings | *One’s clothes or taste in films is *It is likely that hip-hop fans are energetic and talkative. *People who like rock or pop music are usually independent and adventurous. *Jazz fans tend to be serious and intelligent. *It’s surprising that rap and heavy metal fans are shier and quieter than many other music lovers. |
An | * Through Sue and Jim were neighbours for five years, they were never interested in each other. *After Sue noticed they both had rare punk rock CDs, she found they had *They are now married and living with each other. |
