1 . 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

There is a zoo in our city. My parents often take me there on _______. I like animals. I have a lot of _______ animals in my room. In the _______ I can see tigers, elephants, monkeys, pandas, bears, snakes and many other _______. Some animals are friendly but some are not. Tigers, bears, lions are _______. That is why they have to stay in _______. But I do not think it is good for animals to stay in cages. They should be free. The animals in cages can’t be _______.

I think the most interesting animals in the zoo are the dolphins. I like _______ them swim and jump. They swim so fast and jump so high. They can play with a ball. They can stand up and walk _______ the water! They are very ________ to people. If you fall into the water and can’t swim, they may come to help you.

1.

A．summer

B．weekends

C．weekdays

2.

A．real

B．ugly

C．toy

3.

A．zoo

B．library

C．bank

4.

A．people

B．animals

C．friends

5.

A．dangerous

B．ugly

C．interesting

6.

A．houses

B．pools

C．cages

7.

A．sorry

B．happy

C．sad

8.

A．looking

B．listening

C．watching

9.

A．in

B．on

C．at

10.

A．friendly

B．shy

C．cold

3 . Do you see elephants with your own eyes? Do you know about elephants? Elephants are very big and strong.     1     They are usually gray. They have long trunks(象鼻) and tusks(象牙).     2     They have poor eyesight(视力), but very good hearing. Elephants are very friendly to each other and to their neighbors.     3     They never live alone. Young elephants do not leave the group until they are about 12 years old.

    4     Elephants eat roots(树根), grass and fruit. An adult elephant can eat up to I36 kilos of food every day. These hungry animals do not sleep much, and they often travel very long to look for food.

    5     The number of elephants is becoming smaller and smaller because they have less and less land to live on. Also, people kill them for their tusks.

A．Usually they live in a group.

B．They are bigger than any other animal on land.

C．They can lift heavy things with their trunks.

D．Now, there are very few elephants in the world.

E．What do elephants feed on?

4 . Some years ago there was an old woman. She had no children because she did not like children at all. But she loved cats. She had mother eats and baby cats. She had black cats and white cats. The children in the neighborhood came to her house to play with the cats. More and more cats came to the old woman’s house. There were too many cats. The old woman couldn’t (不能) feed them all. Then she had an idea (主意). “The children love my cats,” she thought (想). So she gave each child a cat. Then she was very happy. And the children were very happy, too. And the cats were pleased, too, because they each had a room.

1. The old woman didn’t like ________.

A．old cats

B．baby cats

C．children

2. Why did the children come to the woman’s house?

A．To look at her house.

B．To help the old woman.

C．To play with the cats.

3. The word “feed” in the passage means “________”.

A．give food to

B．look after

C．live with

4. The woman gave each child a cat because ________.

A．the children liked the cats

B．she couldn’t feed so many cats

C．more cats came to her house

5. Finally (最后) the woman ________.

A．began to love children

B．sold (卖掉) all her cats to children

C．could get enough (足够的) food for the cats in her house

5 . It is known to us all that elephants are the biggest animals on land. There are two kinds of elephants: African elephants and Indian elephants.

The African elephant has a round head and very big ears. It has long teeth. Each of them can be as long as 3.4 meters and as heavy as 103 kilograms. African elephants live in forests in Africa. They eat leaves, roots and fruits.

Indian elephants are smaller than African elephants. They are found in forests in India, Malaysia and some other countries in Southeast Asia. They live on grass. They can be trained to do a lot of heavy work and amuse (逗乐) people.

An African elephant lives as long as a man does. But an Indian elephant does not live that long.

1. How many types of elephants are mentioned in the article?

A．3.

B．4.

C．2.

D．1.

2. All the following about elephants are mentioned except ________.

A．appearance

B．living environment

C．eating habit

D．interest

3. From the passage, we know that ________.

A．African elephants live on grass

B．Indian elephants has a round head and very big ears

C．Indian elephants live in Thailand

D．all of the elephants can amuse people

6 . Last Saturday, I went to the beach with my family. We had a good time there. I ________ a starfish (海星) on the beach. It was white and very beautiful. I wanted to learn about starfish. So I began to read the ________ about starfish on the Internet.

Of course, starfish ________ really stars. They just look like stars. They live in the sea, ________ they aren’t fish. There are about 1,800 different kinds of starfish all over the world. Hundreds of starfish are of different ________. The most common starfish are red, orange or yellow.

Starfish can take care of ________ when they are young. Young starfish know ________ to eat, and they know where to find their food as well. They move by using their arms and tube feet (管足). A starfish has no head. A common starfish has five arms. If an arm falls off, it grows right back.

________ all these things, the starfish is my favorite animal now.

1.

A．found

B．printed

C．brought

2.

A．news

B．information

C．friends

3.

A．weren’t

B．isn’t

C．aren’t

4.

A．but

B．and

C．or

5.

A．songs

B．colors

C．reasons

6.

A．her

B．us

C．themselves

7.

A．why

B．who

C．what

8.

A．Because of

B．Because

C．Though

8 . 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 a “school”. They don’t study, but they travel together. Dolphins are mammals, not fish, but they swim together in a school. Dolphins talk to the other dolphins in a school. They give information. They tell when they are happy or sad or afraid. They say “welcome” when a dolphin comes back to the school. They talk when they play. They make a few sounds above water. They make many more sounds under water. People can’t hear these sounds because they are very, very high. Scientists make tapes of the sounds and study them. Sometimes people catch a dolphin for a large aquarium. People can watch the dolphins in a show. Dolphins don’t like to be away from their school at an aquarium. They are sad and lonely. There are many stories about dolphins. They help people. Sometimes they save somebody’s life. Dolphin’s meat is good. But people don’t like to kill them. They say that dolphins bring good luck. Many people believe this.

1. Dolphins talk with ________.

A．words

B．sounds

C．their hands

2. Dolphins talk when they ________.

A．play

B．show

C．listen

3. They make the most sounds ________.

A．above water

B．for tapes

C．under water

4. Dolphins like to be ________.

A．in the river

B．alone

C．in their school

5. Which sentence is NOT true?

A．Dolphins can save people’s life.

B．People like to watch dolphins.

C．Dolphins always bring bad luck.

9 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

We usually think fish can’t talk. But there are a lot of sounds under the sea. In fact, scientists believe that all sea animals, or more than 250,000     1     (kind), can “speak”! “We can hear animals all around us,” UK scientist Steve Simpson told the BBC.

Recorders (录音机) help scientists match sounds with sea life. Of all the sea animals, coral reefs (珊瑚礁) are the     2     (loud) in the ocean. Scientists can tell if it’s healthy after     3     (listen) to it. When some coral reefs     4     (die) in 2015 and 2016, they became quiet.

Clownfish (小丑鱼) make short sounds when going after small clownfish, because they want to show they are strong. Damselfish (小热带鱼) surprise other fish by     5     (quick) opening and closing its mouth. Mother dolphins (海豚) can use a special sound to talk to     6     (they) babies. The sound is just the same     7     “I’m here”.

Now scientists are building     8     online library to get sounds from all over the world. They plan       9     (study) the sounds. Humans also need to understand the sounds from underwater animals     10     they die out (灭绝).

10 . 听一段材料，回答下面两个小题。
1. What animal does the girl like best?

A．Pandas.

B．Koalas.

C．Tigers.

2. Why does the boy like lions?

A．Cute.

B．Friendly.

C．Cool.