1 . Last night my husband and I were walking when we saw a man bent over on the ground, crushing (碾碎) something with a rock. He was so focused on his
| A．idea | B．task | C．hand | D．food |
| A．discovered | B．learned | C．realized | D．wondered |
| A．Finally | B．Suddenly | C．Immediately | D．Instead |
| A．bought | B．saved | C．made | D．collected |
| A．necessary | B．difficult | C．welcome | D．possible |
| A．morning | B．noon | C．night | D．afternoon |
| A．carefully | B．strictly | C．nervously | D．proudly |
| A．pleased | B．satisfied | C．moved | D．puzzled |
| A．disappointed | B．sorry | C．afraid | D．surprised |
| A．deal | B．present | C．dream | D．decision |
| A．At the aquarium. | B．At the man’s house. | C．Along a river. |
An international team of astronomers used a database combining observations from the best telescopes in the world
The Milky Way Galaxy
To test this theory, astronomers look at distant galaxies. Due to the limited speed of light, it takes time for light to travel across the void of space. The light we saw last night from an object 10 billion light years away
1. What is the weather like today?
| A．Nice. | B．Cold. | C．Hot. |
| A．It’s six o’clock. | B．It’s eleven o’clock. | C．It’s twelve o’clock. |
| A．Go shopping. | B．Go working. | C．Listen to the radio. |
5 . Everybody loves a fat pay rise. Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he has a reputation for slacking, you might even be angry. Such behaviour is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance. But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.
The researchers studied the behaviour of female brown capuchin monkeys. They look cute. They are good-natured, co-cooperative creatures, and they share their food readily. Above all, like their female human counterparts, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.
Such characteristics make them perfect candidates for Dr. Brosnan’s and Dr. de Waal’s study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for slices of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate but adjoining chambers, so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock, their behaviour became markedly different.
In the world of capuchins, grapes are luxury goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either tossed her own token at the researcher or out of the chamber, or refused to accept the slice of cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other chamber (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to induce resentment in a female capuchin.
The researchers suggest that capuchin monkeys, like humans, are guided by social emotions. In the wild, they are a co-operative, group-living species. Such co-operation is likely to be stable only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of righteous indignation(义愤填膺), it seems, are not the preserve of people alone. Refusing a lesser reward completely makes these feelings abundantly clear to other members of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems from the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question.
1. In the opening paragraph, the author introduces his topic by ________.| A．posing a question |
| B．justifying an assumption |
| C．making a comparison |
| D．explaining a phenomenon |
| A．monkeys are also angered by slack rivals |
| B．hating unfairness is also monkeys’ nature |
| C．monkeys, like humans, tend to be jealous of each other |
| D．no animals other than monkeys can develop such emotions |
| A．more inclined to weigh what they get |
| B．attentive to researchers’ instructions |
| C．nice in both appearance and temperament |
| D．more generous than their male companions |
| A．Monkeys can be trained to develop social emotions. |
| B．Human anger evolved from an uncertain source. |
| C．Animals usually show their feelings openly as human do. |
| D．Cooperation among monkeys remains stable only in the wild. |
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Save energy in the home
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Lizard (蜥蜴) Problems
My problems started when I learned that Mrs. Smith would be my fourth-grade teacher. She had a lizard in her classroom, and lizards were on my list of terrifying things.
Worse, Richard was in my class again. He knows I’m afraid of spiders (蜘蛛), and all year he pretended to put them in my hair. If he found out lizards were on my list, I’d be finished.
On the first day of school I tried not to look at the glass container in the corner, but Mrs. Smith pulled out the lizard and set him against her shoulder like a baby. “This is Ripley”, she said.
Richard whispered, “Bet you’re scared of him.” “I am not!” I said. Mrs. Smith looked toward Richard and me. “What’s wrong?” she asked.
“Amy’s scared of Ripley” Richard announced. “No, I’m not.” My chest tightened. “I love lizards. They’re my favorite animals.”
Mrs. Smith smiled. “I was going to ask for a volunteer to feed Ripley at recess (课间休息), but since you’re a lizard lover, how would you like the job?”
She probably thought I was speechless with joy.
Before recess, Mrs. Smith showed me Ripley’s bag of greens. I can handle that, I told myself. I’ll just lift the container lid (盖子), drop in the greens, and run.
As Mrs. Smith led the class out the door, I was frozen in a block of ice. I wanted to cry, but my tears were frozen, too. Ripley sat still watching. I knew he was waiting to jump at me the second I lifted the lid. I just stood there for a long time, staring back at Ripley.
Voices in the hall told me recess was over. I closed my eyes, lifted the lid, threw in the greens, and shut the lid. Mrs. Smith said, “You must be enjoying your job, Amy You didn’t come out for recess at all.”
Richard’s eyes got wide. I’d fooled him. But now I’d have to spend every recess with a lizard.
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After a few weeks, Richard said “Why does Amy always get to feed Ripley? I want a turn.”
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________I meant for Richard to put Ripley down inside the container, but Richard set him on the floor and ran outside.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________1. What will the weather be like later today?
| A．Rainy. | B．Cloudy. | C．Windy. |
| A．10℃. | B．18℃. | C．28℃. |
| A．Take an umbrella. | B．Follow the forecast. | C．Put on more clothes. |
1. What is the main idea of the conversation?
| A．How to help keep our environment clean. |
| B．How to open a recycling store. |
| C．How to change the city. |
| A．In China. | B．In France. | C．In England. |
| A．Broken cups. | B．Broken recycling bins. | C．Broken electronic items. |
