1 . Goldfish are good pets. They are funny to watch. But they need the right home. They are not happy if they are living in a bowl. A tank is bigger. It can hold more water and it has more room for goldfish to swim. So a tank is a good place for goldfish. Here are some ways for keeping goldfish in a tank.
Put a tank at home. Do not put it near the window. It could get too warm from the sun. Fill the tank. Put some water in the tank. Wait a few days, check the water and make sure the water is clean. Then put some rocks and plants on the tank bottom for fish to hide behind them.
Get your fish. Bring it home in a bag. The bag must be full of water. Let the bag float in the tank. Wait half an hour. Then open the bag. Let the fish swim out.
Look after the goldfish. First put a cover on the tank. It can keep fish safe. With a cover, nothing can fall into the tank and fish cannot jump out. Do not feed your fish too much! A fish should eat most of its food right away.
Clean the tank each week. To keep the water clean, you must take out old water and add new water.
Your fish will be happy to live in a tank.
1题完成句子；2、3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下文章的主题句；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. Put some rocks and plants in the tank for goldfish to
2. Why can’t we put a tank near the window?
3. How many ways are mentioned (提到) for keeping goldfish in a tank?
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Every Monday a dog goes to Maria’s food store. There is a bag in his mouth. In the bag are a list and some money (一张清单和一些钱).
Maria reads the list, puts the things in the bag and takes the money. The dog then runs off. “The dog is really clever.” Maria says to herself.
One day, after the dog goes out of the store, Maria walks after him. She wants to meet the dog’s owner (主人).
Maria sees the dog go to an old house. It puts the bag on the floor and rings the bell (按门铃) with his nose. A man opens the door and begins yelling (吼叫) at the dog. He goes on and on.
“Stop that!”says Maria. “What are you doing? The dog is so clever.”
“Clever? Ha!”says the man. “He didn’t take the key yesterday (昨天). Today he forgot (忘记) it again.”
1—2题完成句子；3题简略回答问题；4题将文中画线单词it所指代的内容写在下面的答题线上；5题将文中画线句子译成汉语。
1. The dog takes a（n）
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3. Why does Maria walk after the dog?
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3 . ①Can exercise during childhood protect you against memory loss many years later? Exercise early in life seems to have lifelong benefits (好处) for the brain, in rats at least.
②“This is an animal study, but it shows that physical activity at a young age is very important—not just good for your body, but for the mind during ageing,” says Martin of the University of Toronto, Canada. “In humans, it may put off the appearance of Alzheimer’s (阿兹海默症) symptoms, possibly to the point of stopping them.”
③Martin’s team divided 80 young male rats into two groups, and placed running wheels in the cages of one group for six weeks. Around four months later—when the rats had reached middle age—the team taught all the rats to connect an electric shock with being in a specific box. When placed in the box, they froze with fear.
④Two weeks later, the team tested the rats in three situations: exactly the same box in the same room, the same box in a different room , and a completely different box in a different room.
⑤The rats without a running wheel when they were young now froze the same period of time in each of these situations, suggesting they couldn’t remember which one was dangerous. But those that had been able to run when they were young froze 40 to 50 percent less in both changed box settings.
⑥“The results suggest the amount of exercise when we’re young, at least for rats, has influence on brain and health—in the form of better memories—when we’re older,” says Arthur Kramer of Northeastern University in Boston, who has found that, in humans, exercise improves the growth of new brain cells (细胞).
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| A．Exercise when young can stop memories from losing when older in rats. |
| B．Physical activity is important for physical health. |
| C．Using the running wheels is of benefit to the rats’ growth. |
| D．Physical activity can help human’s Alzheimer’s symptoms. |
| A．Study. | B．Animal. | C．Rat. | D．Exercise. |
| A．By listing numbers. | B．By giving an example. |
| C．By telling a study. | D．By showing the process. |
Hi, my name is Duoduo. I’m not a girl, and I’m not a boy. I am a brown dog. I am 4 years old. I’m in a big family and now we are in Lanzhou, China. Here is a photo. You can see me in this photo.
The girl in the photo is Betty Black. She is 13 and her favorite color is red. The boy is Jason Black, Betty’s brother. He likes green. They go to the same school. They are my good friends.
In the photo, you can see their parents and grandparents too. They are very nice. They are good to dogs! I am very lucky（非常幸运）!
1、2回答问题。3将画线句子翻译成汉语。4、5根据短文补全下面句子。
1. What color is Duoduo?
2. Where is Duoduo now?
3.
4. Jason is Betty’s
5. Betty and Jason’s
I have a friend. Her name is Beibei. She comes from America and she is five years old. Beibei is in China now. Her hair is blond, but her ears are white. Her eyes are small, round and black. She has a small nose and a small mouth. Her legs are short. She has four feet, and they are small and white. I want to buy a red coat and a pair of white shoes for her. Guess, who’s my friend? Yes, you’re right. She is a dog (狗).
Now she has two babies (幼崽). They are Huxiao and Langhao. Beibei and they are not the same. They have blond and black hair. Huxiao and Langhao are very nice. They look happy every day. I like them very much.
1. Beibei is2. Beibei’s
3. I want to buy
4. Beibei is
5. What can you learn (学习) from (从) the passage (文章)?
Animals are people’s friends. 3. But many of the wild animals are facing the danger of dying out. The Siberian tiger is one of them. 4. People can find the Siberian tigers in parts of Siberia (西伯利亚) and Northern China. The tigers are becoming extinct (灭绝) because people hurt many of them and are destroying their living places.
Another animal in danger is the Tibetan antelope (藏羚羊). In the early 1990s, there were millions of Tibetan antelopes in China, but by the 1990s, the number of them had fallen to about 50,000. People hunt the antelopes for their wool. The wool of the antelope is soft, light and warm, and it is very expensive all over the world. Hunters can make a lot of money by selling their wool. The Chinese people have begun to protect the animals and seem to be winning. Now the number of the Tibetan antelopes is rising.
It’s important to protect the wild animals. Now many wild zoos have been built in China. In the zoos we can see the animals we have heard of but have never seen. I think we can make friends with them by taking care of them.
A.根据短文内容简要回答问题。
1. Why do people hunt and kill antelopes?
2. How can we protect the wild animals?
B.将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。
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请给短文拟一个适当的英文标题。
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[1]Did you see the movie Kung Fu Panda 3? Do you like the panda in the movie? We can see pandas in many zoos all over the world but they are all from China. Now let me tell you something about the cute pandas.
[2]At birth, a baby panda is as small as a mouse. And it can’t see anything. But an adult panda weighs about 100 kilos and it can eat 10 kilos of food a day. Pandas don’t live very long. The babies often die from ①_________. Adult pandas spend more than twelve hours a day eating bamboo. Many years ago, there were a lot more bamboo forests and pandas in China than there are now. But then humans started to cut down forests, and there was less bamboo for the pandas. Scientists say there are now fewer than 2,000 pandas ②_________ in the forests. Another 300 or so live in zoos or research centers in China and other countries.
[3]Pandas, as well as many other endangered animals are important to us. Luckily,（75）幸运地是越来越多人已经意识到保护野生动物的重要性。They do everything they can to protect these animals. The government is also planting more trees③__________ there will be more forests for wild animals to live in. We hope that in the future there will be much more pandas than now.
1. What does a baby panda look like at birth? （No more than 10 words）2. How much time do adult pandas spend eating bamboo a day? （No more than 6 words）
3. What is the government doing to protect wild animals? （No more than 6 words）
4. Fill in the blank with a proper word.（No more than 1 word for each blank）
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the 3rd paragraph into English.
6. According to the passage, show the reason（s）that there are fewer pandas than many years ago.（list 2 reasons）
Smart, Social Animals
Recently, researchers have found that dolphins know their own names much like people. Dolphins talk to one another with whistles (口哨) and calls. Scientists have known that the animals also use unusual whistles to name each other. They had thought that dolphins only heard each other’s voices. However, the scientists didn’t know that dolphins listen for their names too.
To test this idea, the researchers caught 14 dolphins and recorded their name calls. The scientists then copied each dolphin’s voice. When the changed wordings were played, the dolphins replied strongly to the names of their relatives and close group members. They paid no attention to the names of dolphins they did not know.
Dolphins live in large groups that grow and change. Each dolphin’s unusual whistle helps it quickly find a friend or a family member, or call for help. Understanding their calls requires learning. It’s a skill that’s seen in very few animals, which include humans, elephants and bats.
Elephants, for example, communicate with sound. Their sounds can be heard by other elephants miles away. Dolphins, too, communicate with each other by making sounds like this.
Elephants also communicate by moving their head, feet and trunk. In much the same way, dolphins communicate by their movements. They often touch each other to express friendship.
Unlike dolphins, elephants also communicate by their great sense of smell. They can recognize other elephants by the smells they have.
Why do dolphins and elephants share the gift of communication? Scientists think it may be because they are social and smart animals. Both have strong family relationship. Now, whether they also have nicknames is another question!
根据材料内容回答问题
1. What have researchers found about dolphins recently?
2. Just before the researchers recorded dolphins’ name calls, they
3. When a dolphin gets into trouble, what will it do?
4. What are the differences between dolphins and elephants in communication?
5. What does the underlined word “recognize” mean in Chinese?
We know people can be nice, but what about animals?
Scientists say that some animals are capable(有能力的) of being nice. Animals that live in groups like foxes, chimpanzees(大猩猩), and elephants—follow rules. They have to follow rules to get along and to survive(生存). The animals can act nicely even when they don’t have to. Here are some surprising stories about animal behavior.
Most people usually walk away when someone is unkind to them. Marc Bekoff, a researcher at the University of Colorado, saw a female(母的) red fox do just that. The female fox was unhappy because a male(公的) fox played roughly(粗鲁地) with her. When she walked away, the male fox showed her that he wanted to play nicely. He lowered his head and rolled on his back. The female fox gave him another chance, and this time he played more gently.
Geza Teleki is a scientist who studies chimpanzees in Tanzania. One day, Teleki hiked far away from his campsite. He didn’t have any food. Teleki wanted some fruit from a tree, but the tree was too tall. A young chimpanzee watched him with surprise as he tried to get something to eat. The chimpanzee climbed the tree, picked the fruit and gave it to him!
An elephant in Kenya hurt his trunk(象鼻子). He needed help because he couldn’t put food into his mouth. Researcher Kayhan Ostovar watched silently. He saw the hurt elephant show his sore trunk to a healthy elephant. The healthy elephant didn’t need any more information. He took a bush and put it carefully into his new friend’s mouth.
1. In order to survive, what do animals living in groups have to do?2. What will a female red fox do to show she is unhappy?
3. How did a young chimpanzee help Geza Teleki?
4. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
5. Give the passage a proper title.
Here are two articles from an encyclopaedia.
Da Vinci, Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian painter, inventor, musician, engineer and scientist. Da Vinci was born in the countryside. (A). From an early age, he showed great intelligence and artistic ability. As he grew older, he learnt to do many different things. His paintings are very famous, and one, the Mona Lisa, is (B) perhaps the most famous painting in the world. He also had many inventions. For example, his notebooks include some interesting drawings of flying machines. (See Art)
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs lived on Earth more than 60 million years (C) ________ human beings. They lived (D) everywhere on Earth. Some dinosaurs were as small as chickens. Others were as big as ten elephants. (E) 一些甚至可以飞。 Many dinosaurs ate plants. However, some dinosaurs liked to eat meat. Dinosaurs lived on Earth for more than 150 million years. Then, suddenly, they (F) ________ died out. Nobody knows why. However, we can learn about them from their fossils. (See Earth history)
1. 将文中画线部分（A）改写为：2. 写出文中画线部分（B）和（D）的同义词语或近义词语：
3. 在文中（C）和（F）的空白处填入适当的单词：
4. 将文中画线部分（E）译成英语：
5. 从文中找出两种与恐龙进行比较的动物：
