A spider was looking for a place to make a web. He wanted a suitable place where there were lots of insects. In this way, he could spend his life eating, drinking and relaxing with pleasure.
Soon the spider found a corner in a room. Just when he started making a web, a cat saw him and laughed loudly. The spider asked, “Why are you laughing?” “Can’t you see how clean this corner is? No insects will come here. They like dirty places,” the cat replied. Hearing this, the spider gave up the idea of making a web in that corner. Then he decided to make a web on a window. When he had prepared half of the web, a bird came and said, “Have you lost your mind? A strong wind will blow away your web.”
The spider stopped working. He started looking for another place. The whole day passed. He was tired, hungry and thirsty. He didn’t have any energy left to make a web. Just then an ant went to him and said, “I’ve been watching you since morning. You started making a web and left it incomplete after listening to others, so you didn’t complete your web.”
The spider realized his mistake and started regretting it. He said to himself, “I should have done my work with confidence (自信) and determination (决心).”
1. The spider was looking for a place where there were2. The cat said the corner was so
3. The bird didn’t think it was a good idea to make a web on a(n)
4. The whole day passed and the spider
5. From the story, we can learn that we shouldn’t be easily
Elephants are in great danger. | |
Reasons (原因) | Solutions (解决) |
| Reason 1 People So they are | We must Remember that |
| Reason 2 People Today there are only about | We don’t |
1. Who is the writer?
2. Why do they write the article?
3. Are there any sentences showing the importance of elephants in Thailand?
4. What else can we do to save elephants?
5. When is Thai Elephant Day?
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?2. What does “It” refer to (指的是) in the third paragraph?
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.
4. Please list two other ways to protect sea turtles except the ways in the passage.
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
5 . Asian elephants are getting more and more. In 2021, there were 300 of them. They need more food and they go to villages to find food. Their favorite food is corn and sugarcane. These are the villagers’ plants to sell. The elephants are happy to eat their favorite food, but this brings losses for the villagers. The elephants eat the villagers’ plants so the villagers can’t sell them for money. Sometimes, when the elephants meet people, they are afraid and then hurt (伤害) people. But we still need to be friends with elephants. They are important to the health of the environment (环境).
How can we get on with these Asian elephants? Our country is thinking of some smart ways.
※If the elephants eat the villagers’ plants, villagers can get some money from our country.
※People put fences (栅栏) outside villages and schools. Then the elephants can’t get in.
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根据上面短文，完成1至8小题。1. What bad things do Asian elephants do?
（请列举两件事，用完整的句子表述，每件事不超过6个单词。）
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2. 推测划线单词losses的汉语意思是
3. Why do we need to be friends with elephants?
4. 下面哪一句填在原文※_________ 空白处更合适?（只写字母代号）
| A．People must save the trees and not buy things made of ivory. |
| B．When people see some elephants, they must keep 300 meters away and leave quickly. |
Animals are natural resources (自然资源) that people have wasted all through our history. Animals have been killed for their fur and feather, for food, for sport, and simply because they were in the way. Thousands of kinds of animals have disappeared from the earth forever. Hundreds more are on the danger list today. About 170 kinds in the United States alone are considered in danger.
Why should people care? Because we need animals, and because once they are gone, there will never be any more. Animals are more than just beautiful or interesting. They are more than just a source of food. Every animal has its place in the balance of nature. Destroying one kind of animal can cause many problems. For example, when farmers killed large numbers of hawks (鹰), the farmers’ stores of corn and grain were destroyed by rats and mice. Why? Because hawks eat rats and mice, with no hawks to keep down their numbers, the rats and mice multiplied quickly.
Luckily, some people are working to help save animals. Some groups raise money to let people know about the problem. And they try to get the governments to pass laws protecting animals in danger. However, only 12 countries have passed laws. Slowly, the number of some animals in danger is growing.
1. The number of kinds of animals considered in danger in America2. Importance of animals in nature’s balance
3. The animals that eat rats and mice
4. How to help save animals
5. List another two ways to protect animals (no more than 10 words each)
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Have you ever seen capybaras (水豚)? They were thought to be a kind of pig in the past, but now we know that they are the largest rodents (啮齿动物) on the earth. Guess what? They are new stars on social media now!
Seeing them in the wild, you might be surprised at first because they look like giant guinea pigs, which are in fact one of their closest relatives. Capybaras’ bodies are covered in reddish-brown fur. When swimming around, thanks to their small eyes, noses and hairless cars which are high on their heads, they’re able to see the above-water things around them. That’s why they can protect themselves from danger easily. A capybara weighs around 50 kilograms and it can grow to 1.5 meters in length. Female capybaras are usually a little heavier than the males.
Most of them live in South America and like to stay in comfortable places with lots of water. Pantanal, the world’s largest freshwater wetland, is a perfect place for them to live. Capybaras usually eat grass. But they sometimes eat their own poop (排泄物) because it is helpful for them to get all the things they need.
Capybaras are good swimmers and love to play with water. They usually live in groups of 10 to 20 (and up to 100 during the dry season). They also like chatting with each other very much. They express themselves by making different kinds of sounds, including purring, barking, whistling, cackling and grunting. Each sound has an important meaning, from warning the group of danger to sending signals of leaving. It’s like a capybara language.
With good personalities, capybaras have become increasingly popular on social media. They get along with almost all the other animals and share their homes with birds and turtles, just like a big animal family living together peacefully. They are calm and don’t really care about what goes on around them. Other animals can do whatever they feel like if they don’t hurt the capybaras. But if capybaras are aware of a risk, they may attack others to protect themselves.
Social media’s new stars—Capybaras | |
Introduction | People used to |
| Capybaras look Covered with reddish-brown fur, the male capybaras are not usually as | |
Living conditions & food | Most of them can be They live mainly on grass, while eating their own poop is of some |
Abilities | Capybaras are good at They |
| Personalities | They are friendly, calm, and care They will take action when |
8 . Canada Geese are large blue and white birds. When autumn comes, they have to move to south where the weather is warmer. The winters are so cold in Canada that the birds will die if they stay there.
Last spring, Bill and a man found sixteen young Canada Geese on his farm. They had lost their way. Bill thought, “These young birds won’t know what to do in the autumn.” He had a small plane and he decided to teach the birds to follow him.
All through the summer, he went on short trips in his plane and the young geese new after him.When the cold weather arrived in the autumn, Bill flew to Virginia in the United States, 600 miles South of his home in Canada. The geese followed him all the way. Bill left the geese in Virginia and he returned home.
This spring, Bill was waiting for the birds to come back. They didn’t arrive, so Bill flew to Virginia to get them. He looked for them for two weeks but he couldn’t find them. When he arrived back home, he found the geese waiting for him. They had found their way home without him!
1. What will happen to the geese if they stay in Canada in winter?2. Where did Bill find sixteen young geese last spring?
3. Is it 600 kilometres from Bill's home to Virginia?
4. How long did it take Bill to look for the geese in Virginia?
5. The geese found their way home by themselves, didn’t they?
6. What can we learn from the passage?
iPanda is an online channel. It provides a 24-hour live streaming (视频直播) of giant pandas.
In August 2013, China Network Television (CNTV) started this panda broadcast together with Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding and China Conservation and Research Centre for Giant Panda. They hope to provide people with a window to watch giant pandas’ real life and to solve problems about endangered animals. This panda broadcasting is shown mainly on the official (官方的) website ipanda.com and it is in English, Chinese and German.
CNTV has set up more than 30 high definition (清晰度) video cameras in Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding and also Wolong National Nature Reserve. Through those cameras, a group of program directors (导演) in the control room can watch pandas, and they will choose about 20 cameras for online live streaming. On the website, people can watch pandas in different stages of life including adult pandas, young pandas and baby pandas. Registered users can also make comments (评论) below the live streaming.
Program directors will make 30-minute videos every day as well including panda wiki, panda introductions and panda stories. Those videos will be shown on the YouTube iPanda Channel and also on other social media including Facebook and Instagram.
Knowing iPanda | |
| What iPanda is | It is an online channel |
| It | |
| Where to watch panda broadcasting | People are |
| How to observe pandas | ※Program directors watch pandas through ※People can ※People can |
The following is a true story. It happened in the northern end of Queens land, Australia, where all kinds of animals live in the forests.
Lisa, a 33-year-old woman, went to prepare lunch in the kitchen, leaving Barney, her three-year-old son, playing by himself in the back garden.
Suddenly, a sharp cry of Barney came into the mother’s ears, and Lisa rushed into the backyard in a hurry and found a big snake entwining (缠绕) the little child with its terrible body and trying to eat the boy as its delicious dish! It was a boa (蟒) ! Lisa was terrified and quite angry. She made up her mind to save her son from the snake’s mouth.
It was fearless mother love that made Lisa forget what she faced. She took up an old hoe from the ground and beat the boa with all her might.
One...two... With the hoe, Lisa beat the snake repeatedly, but useless. The little boy’s voice and breath were getting weaker and weaker. Lisa’s heart was broken and she got nearly mad.
Suddenly Lisa put away the hoe and threw herself to the boa, opening her mouth and bit into the boa’s back as if trying to eat a rare steak (牛排). Lisa was really mad!
Blood was spurting (喷射) out of the boa’s body and covered most of Lisa’s body. The boa was so badly wounded that it let go of Barney and moved back into the forest hurriedly. It had never known how a man had such terrible sharp teeth! On halfway home, the boa died.
1. Where was Barney playing by himself while Lisa was preparing lunch in the kitchen?2. What made Lisa rush in hurry?
3. When Lisa found a boa trying to eat her son, what did she want to do?
4. Lisa didn’t fall in fighting against the boa at first, did she?
5. How do you think, did the boa die?
6. What do you learn from the story?
