One Sunday evening, Mr and Mrs Hunt were walking by the lake after a dinner party. They saw a bird under a tree. It couldn’t fly. They went over to have a look at it. It was a nice parrot. Its wings were broken and it was saying some numbers. They were surprised. They knew birds could say a few words, but they didn’t know birds could say some numbers. They took the parrot home. It said numbers again. They listened carefully. The bird was saying the same numbers! Mrs Hunt said, “Is this bird saying a telephone number?” Then she wrote the number down and dialed the number on the telephone. It was really a right telephone number. A woman was answering the telephone. She said that the bird was hers. She taught the bird to say the number. The woman came to Mrs Hunt’s house to take her bird back. She thanked Mr and Mrs Hunt very much.
1. When did the Hunts see the bird under the tree?They saw the bird when
2. Where did the Hunts find the bird?
They found it
3. Why couldn’t the bird fly?
Because
4. What made Mr and Mrs Hunt feel surprised?
It was that
5. What did Mrs Hunt do after she wrote the number down?
She
6. Who taught the parrot to say the telephone number?
2 . Hi! My name is Rachel. I’m a boy of 14 years old and I’m in the 8th grade. I live on a dairy farm（奶牛场） in Michigan with my dad, mom, grandma and my 12-year-old brother, Andy. I want to tell you what life is like living on a dairy farm!
On our dairy farm, we milk about 55 cows twice a day — at 5 o’clock in the morning and 5 o’clock in the afternoon. In addition to (除……之外) the milking herd, we have several calves, some bulls, and dry cows(不产乳的母牛). Calves are babies, bulls are the males, and dry cows are the adult females who are pregnant (怀孕), and close to having their calves. So we don’t milk the dry cows. Counting(点……的数目) the milking herd, calves, bulls and dry cows, we have about 130 cattle (牛) on our farm.
My brother and I help my dad with evening housework on school days. My mum works for the Michigan Department of Agriculture（农业）, so she helps out on the weekends. Since the rest of us are at school or work during the week, my grandma helps my dad with milking and feeding the animals on weekday mornings. It’s a busy schedule（日程安排） for all of us, but we wouldn’t trade（交易） farm life for anything!
My favourite part of living on the farm is taking care of the baby animals. My least favourite thing is getting up so early, especially(尤其) on weekends!
1. Is Rachel 12 years old?2. How many people are there in Rachel’s family?
3. How often do Rachel’s family members milk the cows?
4. Who helps Dad with the milking and feeding the animals on weekday mornings?
5. What do you think of Rachel’s farm life?
There are two mice. They are called John and Mike. They are good friends. One mouse lives in the country, the other mouse lives in the city. On a sunny day, they met in the street.
Mike: Hi, John! Have a look at my house in the country. I’m sure you can enjoy yourself.
John: I’d love to. But I hear that the food is not delicious, and your house is not good. Is that true?
Mike: No, that’s not true. Go and see!
Then John goes to the countryside with Mike.
John: Why do you live in a hole in the field? You should come and live in the city, You would live in a nice house made of stone. You can have better food to eat. You must come and see me at my house in the city.
Mike: Thanks! Maybe you are right. I’ll visit your house one day.
Several days later, Mike went to John’s house in the city. The house was big and beautiful. They sat in the living room, having a big dinner comfortably. Suddenly, there was a big noise.
John: Run! Run! The cat is coming!
Mike: Oh, no! It’s terrible! Both the house and the food are nice, but I do not like living in the city. I enjoy living in my hole in the field, for it is better to be poor but happy than to be rich but afraid.
John: But each day is exciting, right?
1. What’s the relationship （关系） between John and Mike?2. Where does John live?
3. Why doesn’t Mike like living in the city?
4. Which one do you want to be, the mouse living in the city or the one living in the country? Why?
A crow (乌鸦) is in the forest (森林), and he is happy every day. But one day, he sees a swan (天鹅). He is not happy.
“You are so white, but I am so black. You must be very happy,” says the crow.
The swan says, “I’m not happy. I just have one color. Peacocks (孔雀) have many colors. They look beautiful. I think they are happy."
Then the crow goes to the zoo (动物园) to see a peacock. “You are so beautiful. I think you are very happy,” says the crow.
“No, I’m not happy. I have no friends,” says the peacock. “You can play with your friends everywhere. But it’s difficult for me.”
1. What color is the swan?2. Who has lots of colors?
3. Where is the peacock?
4. Why is the peacock not happy?
5. Is it difficult for the crow to play with friends everywhere?
5 . Jane is very happy today because her mother takes her to the zoo. There are many different kinds of animals in it. It is so interesting to go there. First, Jane and her mother go to see tigers and lions. Lions and tigers are scary animals, so when they are in zoos, they live in strong cages. They eat a lot of meat every day. There are also two big elephants and a baby. The elephants are friendly and kind. Jane rides on an elephant and she is so happy. In the zoo there are also some lovely pandas. They are fat and shy. So people need to be very quiet when they go near them. There are five giraffes(长颈鹿) in the zoo, too. They come from Africa. They are interesting and exciting. They like eating grass and leaves very much.
1. What does Jane do today?2. How many kinds of animals in the zoo?
3. What do the lions and tigers eat?
4. How many elephants does Jane see?
5. Where are the giraffes from?
6 . Men are the cleverest and most dangerous animals on the earth. Rats come second. Men kill many beasts, and they've even killed millions of men since very long ago, but rats kill more men. Rats carry many diseases and these diseases have killed and are still killing thousands and thousands of men today in many countries. Rats are dangerous not only in one way. They not only carry diseases into men's homes, they also eat up men's food. They eat 33 million tons of grain every year. Men starve because rats eat their food. Rats are clever, too. They have good leaders to tell them the food is terrible when men put poison in it. There are a lot of rats in our cities and villages today. We can go to the moon, but we can not kill all these terrible animals. Is this dangerous enemy too clever and grows too fast, or are we not clever enough and not clean enough?
1. Why are people thought to be the most dangerous animals in the world?__________________________________________________________________
2. How do rats kill men?
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3. How much grain do rats eat in a year?
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4. How do rats know there is some poison in the food?
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5. What does the writer want to tell us in the passage?
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7 . Can dolphins talk? Maybe they can't talk with words, but they talk 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 other dolphins in the 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 high. Scientists make tapes of the sounds and study them. Sometimes people catch a dolphin for a large aquarium(水族馆). People watch the dolphins in a show. Dolphins don't like to be away from their school. In the aquarium they are sad and lonely. There are many stories about dolphins. They can help people. Sometimes they save somebody's life. Dolphin meat is good but people don't like to kill them. They say that dolphins bring good luck. Many people believe this.
1. What is a school of dolpins?2. When do dolphins talk to others?
3. When do they say “ Welcome” ?
4. Do they make more sounds above or under water?
5. Can people hear dolphin sounds? Why ?
6. How does a dolphin feel in a aquarium?
The crow（乌鸦） is an ordinary bird. It is black all over. Crows are dirty birds because they live on bad food. Crows eat a lot of waste food. In this way they are more useful to us than any other bird. Crows are always hungry. They look for food all day long and in the evening you can see them in large numbers flying back to their homes in the trees.
Crows are much noisier than other birds. A lot of crows often get together on one house and talk. Sometimes they talk together, and sometimes they do it by turns. It is easy to know if they are happy or angry from crows’ sounds. Perhaps crow talk a lot because they are friendly birds. A couple（夫妇） of crows will live together all their lives, and if one of them dies, the other becomes very sad and quiet for the rest of its life and sometimes dies, too.
1. What colour are crows?
They
2. Why are crows more useful to us than any other bird?
Because
3. Do crows look for food all day and all night?
4. How do we know crows are happy or not?
From
5. What may happen if one of the couple dies?
6. Do you like crows? Why or why not?
9 . My pet dog Bobby
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Hi everyone. Look at this photo. This is my pet dog. His name is Bobby. Bobby is two years old. He has short yellow fur and a long tail. He's very friendly. Bobby lives with my family in our flat. He's from a pet shop. There are a lot of baby dogs in the pet shop. We call baby dogs “puppies”. Bobby is cute（可爱的）. He loves playing with toys. Bobby says "Woof!" when he's hungry. Bobby is my best friend. I love Bobby very much. |
1. What does Bobby look like?
2. Where is Bobby from?
3. What do we call baby dogs?
4. What does Bobby love doing?
5. When does Bobby say "Woof!"?
10 . “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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