1 . 阅读下面短文，按要求完成各题。

Dogs like living with people. They are very friendly. They can do many things for people.

Some dogs help people take care of sheep, and other dogs help them find the lost children. Some of the dogs can even help the blind.

There is a kind of dog “Seeing Eye dog”. Now we can see this kind of dog all over the world. They work for the blind. The Seeing Eye dogs are strong and easy to train. They help the blind to walk from place to place. Before a dog becomes a Seeing Eye dog, he must go to a training school for about three months. The dog has many things to learn. First, he has to learn to sit or stay when he hears the trainer’s call. In his next lesson, the dog learns to take his trainer across busy streets. At the end of the training school, he must take tests. When he passes the tests, the Seeing Eye dog will do things by himself. Now he can help the blind people. The new owner may be a man, a woman, or even a child. It takes the dog and his blind owner about a month to learn to work and live together.

1. Now, we can see the Seeing Eye dogs ________________________________________.
2. A Seeing Eye dog must _______________________ before he can do things by himself.
3. Who does the Seeing Eye dog work for? ______________________________________
4. Where must a dog go before he becomes a Seeing Eye dog? _______________________
5. How long will it take the dog and his owner to learn to work and live together?
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2 . How Fast Can Animals Shake?

When we get wet, we need a towel (毛巾) to get ourselves dry. When a dog gets wet, all it needs is to shake its body. A study shows that a wet dog can shake off half the water on its body in less than a second. In fact, this common act of a dog works better than a washing machine.

The study found that animal shaking begins with the head and ends with the tail. During a shake, the animal’s head and skin all move. Smaller animals must shake faster than bigger animals to get water off. For example, in one second, a rat can shake 18 times, a dog 6 times, and a bear 4 times. Bigger animals can get their body with fewer shakes.

For animals, shaking is not just about getting themselves dry. It is also about saving their lives. Being wet makes animals heavier, and that makes them harder to run. In the animal world, how fast an animal can run often decides whether it will live or not. Maybe that is why the “wet-dog shake” has become a common habit of many animals.

阅读短文，根据其内容完成以下任务。
1. 任务一：回答问题。
What should we do when we get wet according to the passage?
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2. What did the study find?
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3. 任务二：列举一条有关动物的事实性信息。（用英语列举）
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4. 任务三：根据短文最后一段补全句子。
Being wet is bad for animals, because it will bring them ________ when they run.
5. 任务四：根据材料内容，完成以下柱状图。

4 . Ni Nan is a ninth-grade student in Sunshine Middle School. The following picture is his biology homework this week.

1. Ni Nan is in ____________ (what grade).
2. A butterfly lays its eggs _________________ (where).
3. A butterfly can fly after ___________________.
4. The English word “_______________” means “周期”in the text.
5. There are some mistakes in the sentences in the text. I can correct one of them like this.
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5 . 阅读下面文本，完成1至5小题。

Sea turtles (海龟) live in the sea most of the time. The beaches in Florida are home to sea turtles. Female sea turtles come here from the ocean to lay eggs. Then they return to the ocean. However, the number of some of these turtles is falling. They are in danger. So people in Florida work together as a community to protect them.

Some volunteers take direct action to help the turtles. They look closely at the sand to find out where the sea turtles lay their eggs. Then they help bury (埋藏) the eggs in order to save them from being killed. They also help people who are studying sea turtles.

Florida’s government has passed laws to save the turtles. One of these laws is “Florida’s Marine Turtle Protection Act”. This law stops anyone from killing sea turtles or taking away their eggs. It helps protect the turtles from dying out.

People also work together to save the turtles through organizations like the Sea Turtle Conservancy. For example, the bright light from buildings near the beach can influence sea turtles. The baby turtles may get lost. Many of them do not make it to the ocean and die. The Sea Turtle Conservancy works with house owners to make the lighting in their building’s sea turtle friendly. They also advise people to turn off their lights at night if they live close to a beach.

In a word, everyone can do their part to protect sea turtles and their living places. People in Florida can work as volunteers to clean up the beaches and pick up their own litter. Everyone in the community has the power to make a difference!

1. What is the Chinese meaning of the underlined word Female in Paragraph One?
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2. What does “It” refer to (指的是) in the third paragraph?
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3. Which sentence in the passage has the similar meaning to the following one?
Besides, the volunteers ask the people whose home is near the beach not to turn on the lights during night.
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4. Please list two other ways to protect sea turtles except the ways in the passage.
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5. 请根据短文内容填空，每空不超过2个单词。

Most of the sea turtles can live in the sea or on land. They return to the sea when the eggs ①________ in the beach. When the light is too bright, it is ②________ for the baby turtles to find their way to the sea. Everyone in the world should do their best ③________ the sea turtles.

8 . A giant panda is a kind of bear. It has a white face with black patches around its eyes. It also has black ears, shoulders and legs. The（A）________ of its body is white.

Home

Pandas live high up in the mountains of Central and Western China. They live in the bamboo forests（B）there.

Food

Pandas in the wild usually eat bamboo. In zoos, their menu includes bamboo, apples and carrots. A giant panda can eat as（C）________ as 30 kilograms of bamboo a day.

Behaviour

Pandas like to live（D）on their own. They need to eat a lot to stay healthy, so they spend more than 12 hours a day eating. Although they are big and heavy, it is（E）not difficult for them to climb trees.（F）They are strong enough to protect themselves.

Life

Pandas live for about 20 years in the wild, but in zoos they can live for 35 years.

The future

People are cutting down forests, so the pandas are losing their homes. Some people are killing them for their fur.（G）他们这么做很残忍. There are not many pandas in the world now.（H）Protecting them is important.

1. 请在（A）和（C）处填入适当的单词：________；________
2. 请写出（B）和（F）分别指代的是：________；________
3. 请写出（D）和（E）的同义词：________；________
4. 请将（G）翻译成英语：________________________
5. 请将（H）改成同义句：
________ important ________ ________ them.

9 . 阅读下面材料，并按要求完成1至5小题。

Helping Birds in a Changing World

Do you think birds are interesting? Do you like spending time outdoors? Do you care about wildlife and the environment? If you answered yes to these questions. you might think about becoming a bird biologist. Bird biologists are scientists who study birds.

Birds are interesting for many reasons. Birds have a lot in common, but at the same time, they can be very different from one another. All birds have feathers (羽毛), and most of them can fly. They are in different sizes from hummingbirds (蜂鸟) smaller than your fist (拳头) to ostriches (舵鸟) taller than the tallest person. Ostriches can’t fly, but they can run up to 70 kilometers an hour! Bird biologists work to understand more about birds, their habits, and their homes. Some kinds of birds are dying off because they travel a long way during migration (迁徙). In North America, birds travel to northern places in the summer and to more southern places for the winter. Bird biologists are studying how and where birds get hurt along the way and trying to help them. But that’s not all bird biologists do! Beth Flint is a bird biologist in a wildlife refuge (保护区) near Hawaii. She tracks (追踪) all the different kinds of seabirds in the refuge. She enjoys working outside, but she also works in an office. She reads research studies about all the animals in the wildlife refuge, and makes plans to help protect them, especially the birds. She talks to volunteers about the wildlife in the refuge, too.

To become a bird biologist, Dr. Flint studied many fields that all connect. She learned about wildlife, forestry, biology, zoology (the study of animals), botany (the study of plants) and ecology (生态学). Her interest in seabirds started when she was a student. She saw a photo of Atlantic Puffins on arock and wanted to learn more about them.

You never know where your interests may lead (引领) you. They may lead you to become a scientist who studies wildlife!

阅读短文，根据其内容完成以下任务。

任务一：回答问题。

1. How fast can ostriches run?

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2. What does Beth Flint do outside in the wildlife refuge?

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任务二：列举出一条某些鸟类灭绝的原因。（用英语列举）

3. __________________________________________________________________________________________

任务三：根据短文信息补全下面句子。

4. Beth Flint learned about ______ to become a bird biologist.
5. 任务四：填写以下信息卡中所缺的内容（______上填写一词）

Species: Birds Feature: All birds have feathers. Most of them can fly. They have different sizes. Protection: Establishing wildlife refuge and prohibition (禁止) of ______