1 . In Canada you can find dogs, cats, horses, etc. in almost every family. These are their pets. People love these pets and have them as their good friends. Before they keep them in their houses, they take them to animal hospitals to give them injections(注射) so that they won’t carry disease. They have special animal food stores, though they can get animal food in almost every kind of store. Some people spend around two hundred Canadian dollars a month on animal food. When you visit people’s houses, they would be very glad to show you their pets and they are very proud of them. You will also find that almost every family has a feeding place for birds in their garden. All kinds of birds are welcomed to come and have a good meal. They are free to come and go and nobody is allowed to kill any animal in Canada. They have a law against killing wild animals. ①If you killed an animal, you would be punished. If an animal happened to get run over by a car, people would be very sad about it.②
People in Canada have many reasons to like animals. One of them might be that their family ties are not as close as ours.③ When children grow up, they leave their parents and start their own life. Then the old will feel lonely, but pets can solve this problem. They can be good friends and never leave them alone.
1. The passage mainly talks about____ .A.how to keep disease from pets | B.pets in Canada |
C.how to take good care of pets | D.life of the old in Canada |
A.the pets are sick |
B.the pets are wild |
C.they want to stop them from getting sick |
D.they want them to sleep on the way home |
A.they don’t love their parents any more |
B.they can only find jobs far from their parents |
C.their parents houses are too small |
D.they wouldn’t depend on their parents any more |
A.People buy animal food only at the animal food stores. |
B.Pets eat better than people. |
C.Almost every family has a birdcage in his house. |
D.Any bird can come to the bird feeders to eat. |
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After school, was about to enter into my apartment when I saw a little dirty dog lie beside the dustbin. He looked extremely weak. Immediately the homeless dog filled me of sympathy. So I decided to take him home. I gave him some food and a bath. After the bath he looked energy and refreshed. What a lovely dog!
When my parents got home, I asked that I could keep the dog. To my surprised and joy, they agreed. Up to now, he has become member of our family and everyone had enjoyed his company. Looked at the cute and happy dog today, I realize that I was right to help him. I offered him a shelter and he brought ourselves great happiness and laughter.
3 . England, Wales and Scotland make up the island of Great Britain,
About 58 million people live in the United Kingdom. Few other countries are so
The mice decided to hold a ____ to find a way of stopping themselves from being in____.One day,when the cat was out,mice of all ages____into the meeting room.
“Let’s build a big trap,”one mouse____.When this idea was____,another said,“What about poisoning(毒死)her?”But ____knew where to buy the poison. One young mouse,whose mother had become the cat’s food,____said,“Let’s cut her teeth,so she can do no more harm.” But the meeting did not accept his____.
At last,one mouse,____than the rest,jumped onto a table. Waving a bell,he called for____,“Be quiet!We’ll tie this bell to the cat’s tail,so we’ll always know___ she is!We’ll have____ to escape,and the slower and weaker mice will hear her coming and be able to____!”Hearing the words,everyone got____ and they congratulated him on his good idea.“We’ll tie it so tightly(紧紧地)that it will never___!”
“She’ll never be able to walk____ again!Why,the other day,she suddenly appeared right in front of me!Just imagine...”
However,the wise mouse said,“We must____who is going to tie it on her tail.” There was not a sound in the room. Nobody was___ enough to put the plan into action. The meeting ended without any decision being made.
It’s often very____to have bright ideas,but putting them into practice is a more difficult matter.1.
A.trained | B.taught | C.caught | D.invited |
A.party | B.test | C.game | D.meeting |
A.return | B.danger | C.fact | D.need |
A.rushed | B.swam | C.flew | D.stepped |
A.questioned | B.explained | C.suggested | D.answered |
A.supported | B.discussed | C.accepted | D.refused |
A.everybody | B.nobody | C.somebody | D.anybody |
A.angrily | B.happily | C.carefully | D.slowly |
A.present | B.reason | C.idea | D.excuse |
A.younger | B.longer | C.stronger | D.wiser |
A.pleasure | B.silence | C.help | D.information |
A.where | B.what | C.how | D.who |
A.experience | B.power | C.time | D.space |
A.shout | B.watch | C.stay | D.hide |
A.worried | B.excited | C.surprised | D.tired |
A.drop off | B.turn up | C.get up | D.put off |
A.gladly | B.quickly | C.quietly | D.directly |
A.believe | B.learn | C.imagine | D.decide |
A.honest | B.brave | C.rich | D.old |
A.easy | B.difficult | C.strange | D.important |
5 . Are you facing a situation that looks impossible to fix?
In 1969,the pollution was terrible along the Cuyahoga River Cleveland, Ohio. It
But the river wasn’t changed in a few days
Maybe you are facing an impossible situation. Maybe you have a habit
While there are
6 . Passenger pigeons (旅鸽) once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers. Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks(群) so large that they darkened the sky for hours.
It was calculated that when its population reached its highest point, there were more than 3 billion passenger pigeons—a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.
Sadly the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where the birds were most abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands. Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.
By the closing decades of the 19th century, the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by American’s need for wood, which scattered (驱散) the flocks and forced the birds to go farther north, where cold temperatures and storms contributed to their decline. Soon the great flocks were gone, never to be seen again.
In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons but by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last confirmed wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County, Ohio, in 1900. For a time, a few birds survived under human care. The last of them, known affectionately as Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden on September 1, 1914.
1. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, passenger pigeons ________.A.were the biggest bird in the world |
B.lived mainly in the south of America |
C.did great harm to the natural environment |
D.were the largest bird ![]() |
A.escape | B.ruin |
C.liberation | D.evolution |
A.To seek pleasure. | B.To save other birds. |
C.To make money. | D.To protect crops. |
A.It was ignored by the public. | B.It was declared too late. |
C.It was unfair. | D.It was strict. |
7 . Since the first Earth Day in 1970, Americans have gotten a lot “greener” toward the environment. “We didn’t know at that time there even was an environment, let alone that there was a problem with it,” says Bruce Anderson, president of Earth Day USA.
But what began as nothing important in public affairs has grown into a social movement .Business people, political leaders, university professors, and especially millions of grass-roots Americans are taking part in the movement. “The understanding has increased many, many times,” says Gaylord Nelson, the former governor from Wisconsin, who thought up the first. According to US government reports, emissions (排放)from cars and trucks have dropped from 10.3 million tons a year to 5.5 tons .The number of cities producing CO beyond the standard has been reduced from 40 to 9. Although serious problems still remain and need to be dealt with, the world is a safer and healthier place. A kind of “Green thinking” has become part of practices.
Great improvement has been achieved. In 1988 there were only 600 recycling programs; today in 1995 there are about 6,600. Advanced lights, motors, and building designs have helped save a lot of energy and therefore prevented pollution.
Twenty –five years ago, there were hardly any education programs for environment. Today, it’s hard to find a public school, university, or law school that does not have such a kind of program. “Until we do that, nothing else will change!” says Bruce Anderson.
1. According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about ___.A.the social movement | B.recycling techniques |
C.environmental problems | D.the importance of Earth Day |
A.The grass –roots level. | B.The business circle. |
C.Government officials. | D.University professors. |
A.They have cut car emissions to the lowest. |
B.They have settled their environmental problems. |
C.They have lowered their CO levels in forty cities. |
D.They have reduced pollution through effective measures. |
A.Education. | B.Planning |
C.Green living | D.CO reduction |
There are thousands of coral reefs (珊瑚礁) in the world; Unfortunately, however, they are now in serious danger. More than one-third are in such bad shape that they could die within ten years.
The first cause is pollution on land. The pollutants run with rainwater into rivers and streams, which carry the poisons into the ocean.
The last factor contributing to the disappearance of coral reefs is people. People sometimes crash into reefs with their boats, breaking off large blocks of coral.
A.Global warming is another reason. |
B.Many might not even last that long! |
C.Divers who walk on reefs can also do serious damage. |
D.Reefs provide a home for 25% of the fish in the ocean. |
E.Chemicals from the poisons kill reefs or make them weak. |
F.Steps must be taken now to stop over-fishing and pollution of the oceans. |
G.When the algae die, the coral loses its color and it also dies in the end. |
9 . Can dogs and cats live in peace in the same home? People who are thinking about adopting a dog as a friend for their cat are worried that they will fight. A recent research has found a new way for success. According to the study, if the cat is adopted before the dog, and if they are introduced when still young (less than 6 months for cats, a year for dogs), it is highly probable that the two pets will get along swimmingly. Twothirds of the homes interviewed reported a positive relationship between their cat and dog.
However, it wasn’t all sweetness and light. There was a reported coldness between the cat and dog in 25% of the homes, while attacking and fighting were observed in 10% of the homes. One reason for this is probably that some of their body signals are just opposite. For example, when a cat turns its head away it signals attack, while a dog doing the same signals admitting defeat.
In homes with cats and dogs living peacefully, researchers observed a surprising behaviour. They are learning how to talk each other’s language. It is a surprise that cats can learn how to talk “dog”, and dogs can learn how to talk “cat”.
What’s interesting is that both cats and dogs have appeared to develop their intelligence. They can learn to read each other’s body signals, suggesting that the two may have more in common than was previously thought. Once familiar with each other’s presence and body language, cats and dogs can play together, greet each other nose to nose, and enjoy sleeping together on the sofa. They can easily share the same water bowl and in some cases groom (梳理) each other.
The advantage of this research on cats and dogs may not only about pets — to people who don’t get along, including neighbors, colleagues at work, and even world superpowers. If cats and dogs can learn to get along, surely people have a good chance.
1. The underlined word “swimmingly” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to .A.early | B.sweetly |
C.quickly | D.suprisingly |
A.they are cold to each other |
B.they look away from each other |
C.they understand each other’s signals in a wrong way |
D.they are introduced at an early age |
A.They eat and sleep together. |
B.They observe each other’s behaviors. |
C.They learn to speak each other’s language. |
D.They know something from each other’s voices. |
A.We should learn to live in peace. |
B.We should know more about animals. |
C.We should live in peace with animals. |
D.We should learn more body languages. |
10 . Sharks have lived in the world’s oceans for millions of years. A shark has a very good sense of smell. It can find small amounts of substances in water, such as blood, body liquids and chemicals produced by animals. These powerful senses help sharks find their food.
Sharks grow slowly. About forty percent of all sharks lay eggs.
People hunt sharks for sport, food, medicine and their skin. Experts say the international market for some kinds of sharks has increased because many parts of a shark are valuable.
Sharks are among the oldest animals on Earth.
A.The others give birth to their young. |
B.Sharks are important for the world’s oceans. |
C.This is a threat to other forms of life in the ocean. |
D.Collectors pay thousands of dollars for the Jaws of a shark. |
E.Sharks are valuable to us and we can make full use of them. |
F.But some sharks are in danger of disappearing from Earth. |
G.Sharks cat fish, other sharks, and plants that live in the ocean. |