One of the best airport workers at Cherry Capitol Airport in Traverse City, Michigan, is also one of the cutest. Piper is a border collie(博德牧羊犬), a type of dog that is good for herding(畜牧) animals. These dogs were often used on farms to herd animals like sheep, but Piper’s job is to help control wildlife at the airport. This is a necessary job because accidental collisions(碰撞) between planes and animals are dangerous and can destroy the plane. Although it’s not common to see dogs at work on runways(跑道), controlling wildlife in this way is a great idea!
Piper works with Brian Edwards, his trainer. When the control tower calls to tell Brian about geese, ducks, owls, foxes or other animals on the runway, Brian puts Piper in his car and they drive to the area. Then Piper runs after the animals and chases them so planes can take off safely. That is natural for him and he enjoys himself very much during work. Even though this seems easy, Piper had lots of training to get him used to airplanes. Piper also needs special equipment to do this job. He wears goggles(护目镜) with reflective lenses to protect his eyes from flying objects on the runway and from the sun. Piper also has ear muffs to protect his hearing.
Piper is now an important part of the Cherry Capital airport because ________.
1. What is Piper’s job at Cherry Capitol Airport?2. Why is Piper’s job so necessary?
3. It’s not common to see dogs at work on runways, is it?
4. What does Piper do to enable planes to take off safely?
5. Complete the sentence in the last paragraph according to the context.
Piper is now an important part of the Cherry Capital airport because
Humans can go to the hospital when they’re ill. But as for animals, what should they do to stay healthy? Animals have their own ways to heal（治愈）themselves. Now let’s get to know their special skills.
Skill One
Have you ever seen your dog or cat lick（舔）its wounds? Why do they do it? It probably feels good, but it’s good medicine. Licking cleans a wound, and saliva（唾液）has chemicals that kill germs（细菌）.
Skill Two
To avoid diseases, many animals have good living habits. They hate to be dirty. Most animals separate their pooping（排便）areas from their eating areas. Horses poop far away from the grass they eat. Rabbits put their poop in special pooping areas.
Skill Three
Have you ever heard of the expression “starve（使挨饿）a fever”? Many animals stop eating when they’re ill. When a sick animal stops eating, it can stop germs from getting necessary things.
Skill Four
Another way that animals heal themselves is to raise their body temperature. High temperatures can kill germs. Warm-blooded animals (like us) get fevers to fight with germs. Cold-blooded animals (like snakes) look for pieces of wood or rocks heated by the sun.Fish move to warmer waters.
1. How does a cat heal himself? （回答问题）2. How do horses and rabbits avoid diseases? （回答问题）
3. What does “starve a fever” mean? （回答问题）
4. 请将文中画线的句子翻译成汉语。
5. 请给短文拟一个适当的英文标题。
3 . Bella and her family live in Africa. They are the tallest animals on land. They have long necks and legs. They are gentle and polite. They never fight with other①companies. Bella is thirteen years old now. And she lives on grass.
Joy comes from Africa. She and her family are the biggest animals on land.They live together. They can play with water. And they can carry things for people. Their ivory is rare and expensive, so some people hunt Joy and her family for it.She lives on grass and leaves.
Bob lives in South Africa. He is nineteen years old. He and his family often find food at night. Bob is 3.1 meters long. His tail is one meter long. He is brown. He lives on meat.
Channy is black and white.②它来自哪里?它来自中国。They have been in the world at least 800 years. They are cute animals. They live in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu. And they live on bamboo.
There are only ③more than 1, 000 left in China.We must save them.
1. 根据短文内容, 将下列图片与相关信息匹配, 将字母代号写在横线上。
①Bella
2. Who usually eats grass?
3. 选出划线①处单词词义_________
| A．同学 | B．同伴 | C．亲戚 | D．敌人 |
5. 把划线②汉语句子翻译成英文。
6. 用一个词替换划线③处的词组
Do you know there is a special (特别的) job? The worker is not a man but a dog. They’re a kind of dog. They are like the eyes of blind (盲的) people. So we call them “seeing eye dogs”.
These dogs usually need to learn for two or three years. And then they live with blind people. Their job is to help blind people walk around (四处走). They know how to cross the street. They can also avoid (避免) dangers, like cars and bikes in the street.
Sometimes you can see these dogs with blind people. Just like other dogs, seeing eye dogs are very cute. But they are not only pets. They work hard. They can do a lot of things for blind people. They are blind people’s good friends.
1. Seeing eye dogs need to learn for two or three2. For whom do seeing eye dogs can do a lot of things?
3. Why do people call the dogs “seeing eye dogs”?
4. Seeing eye dogs are very cute. But they are not only pets.
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Can dolphins talk? Maybe they can’t talk with words, but they talk with sounds. 1. They show their feelings with sounds.
Dolphins travel(旅行) in a group. We call a group of fish a “school”. 2. 它们不学习， 但是它们一起旅行。 Dolphins are not fish, but they swim together(一起) in a school. Dolphins are mammals(哺乳动物), that is to say, they give birth to live babies, not eggs.
Dolphins talk to the other dolphins in the school. They give information(信息). 3. 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.
Some people catch(捉) dolphins for a large aquarium. (An aquarium is a zoo for fish.) People can watch the dolphins in a show.4. Dolphins don’t want to leave their family or friends. They don’t like living in the aquarium. They are unhappy.
5. 我喜欢阅读关于海豚的故事。 They help people. They are our friends. Many people say that dolphins bring good luck to us. Do you like dolphins?
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6 . Carli Davidson is a reporter from www.australianlabradoodlebook.com. Her hobby is to take photos. Now she writes a new book with a lot of pictures of her dog, Duncan Lou. The book mainly talks about her dog.
When Duncan Lou was born, he only had two healthy legs. What happened to the other two legs? Carli Davidson was very sad at this.
In fact, Duncan Lou also had two back legs, but they were badly disabled. When he was 8 weeks old, the owner took him to a nearby hospital. The doctors said they had no way to save (救) them. At last, they had to cut his back legs when he was just 12 weeks old. Later the poor dog had to practice running.
Luckily, Duncan Lou is a happy dog. He never thinks he is different from other dogs. He tries to run every day. He is now 16 weeks old. He can run as fast as normal dog. The other day, a warm-hearted man gave him a wheel-chair. Now he can go out easily with the help of his wheel-chair. You see, Duncan Lou is a dog that never gives up.
1—2题完成句子，3题简略回答问题，4题找出最后一段主题句，5题将文中划线句子译成汉语。
1. Carli Davidson’s hobby is to
2. When Duncan Lou was born, his back legs
3. What happened to Duncan Lou when he was 12 weeks old?
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In many places, wildfires destroy（毁灭）thousands of square kilometers of forest and farmland each year. They can spread out of control and put homes and sometimes whole towns in danger. To keep the homes and towns safe, wild grass and brush（柴枝）must be cleared. This need has led to an interesting solution（办法）, which has many advantages.
First, goats and sheep spend all their time eating grass. When they arrive in an area, they can clear an acre（英亩）in as little as three days. Besides, they are more environmentally friendly than machines, and they can clear grass on hills where people and machines cannot arrive.
Goats have been widely used in California for clearing brush around farms, neighborhoods, and cities. An example is the city of Anaheim, which is home to Disneyland. The city uses goats to clear the nearby hills all year round. The goats can have their stomachs filled, and the city can be out of danger. It is really a win-win!
1. Why do people have to clear wild grass and brush?（根据短文内容回答问题）2. How many advantages of the interesting solution does the writer mention（提到）?（根据短文内容回答问题）
3. Where are goats widely used for clearing brush?（根据短文内容回答问题）
4. In the passage, the underlined word “they” refers to（指）“
5. Which sentence in Paragraph 3 shows the writer’s attitude（态度）towards the way that goats clear grass?（按要求在短文中找到并写出该句）
8 . Wolves live in the northern half of the world. They can live in forests on open plains, or in the snows of the Arctic(北极). They look like big dogs (A) ________ long legs and a wide head.
In fact, all of our dogs probably came from wolves many years ago.①
They are about two meters long and three quarters of a meter tall. If a wolf gets enough food, it can weigh about 40 to 50 kilograms. Wolves usually eat small animals such as rabbits. But they also hunt together to try to kill big animals. If they catch and kill a big animal, they eat as much as they can.②
Wolves live in groups. (B) 每组中大约有六至八匹狼。Only one pair of wolves will have cubs(幼崽), (C) but all the members of the group will help to look after the cubs patiently. If the cubs are in danger, the whole group will protect them.③
People often think that wolves are dangerous animals, (D) ________ this is not true. Wild wolves are usually afraid of humans. If you are in a forest and see a wolf, it will probably run away from you.
1. 在文中(A)和(D)的空白处填入适当的单词：2. 将文中画线部分(B)译成英语：
3. 将文中画线部分(C)改写为：but all the members of the group will help to take
4. 在文中①②③选出能够填入“Then they may not eat for up to two weeks.”的位置：
5. 从文中找出描述wolves栖息的两处地点：
Two frogs lived in a village all their lives. They would like to go and see the big city that was about ten miles (英里) away. They talked about it for a long time, and at last they (A) set off to see the big city.
It was a hot day, and they soon began to feel tired. They went only a short way and then one said to the other, “We must be nearly there. Can you see the city?”
“No,” said the other frog, “but if I climb on your back, maybe I can see it.”
(B) So he jumped up on the back of the other frog and stood up.
But they didn’t know: a frog’s eyes are on the top of its head. When they stood up, they could only see what was behind, and not what was in front. What he saw was still their village.
“Can you see the city?” asked the frog who was below.
“Yes,” answered the frog who climbed up. “I can see it. It looks just like our village.”
Then the frogs thought that it was not worth (值得) going any farther. They went back and told the frogs around the village that they saw the city, and it was just like theirs.
How far is it from their village to the city?
1. 根据短文内容猜测(A)处划线短语set off 的汉语意思，并将字母代号填在答题卡的相应位置。| A．出发 | B．放弃 | C．完成 |
3. 根据文中故事的发展顺序将下列句子排序。
① ________ ② ________ ③ ________ ④ ________
| A．They began to feel tired. |
| B．They went back to the village. |
| C．The frogs set off to see the city. |
| D．The frogs decided not to go any farther. |
Good morning. I’m Tom. This is my room. There is a desk in it. My bag is on it. A pen, a pencil and a book are on it, too. Next to the desk is a chair. The chair is white. It’s nice. A cat is on it. The cat is white, too. 3. 这个用英语怎么说？Oh, it’s a bird.
2. Where (哪里) is the cat?
3. 将划线的句子翻译成英语。
4. 在文中的空白处填一个恰当的特殊疑问词。
5. What colour is the cat?
