1 . While some say school safety depends on guns, cameras or alarms in classrooms, Mark Gomer and Kristi Schiller think specially trained dogs should play an important role in preventing violence in schools.

Gomer’s for-profit company has sent a gun-and-drug detecting dog to patrol (巡查) the halls of an Ohio high school, while Schiller is launching a nonprofit program in Houston to give schools the trained dogs for free.

Gomer’s first full-time safety dog is a three-year-old Dutch shepherd named Atticus, who is reported to duty this school year at Oak Hills High School in Green Township in southwest Ohio. The dog was trained at the school before the summer break, said Gomer, co-owner of American Success Dog Training in Bridgetown, Ohio. Atticus has won over students, parents, teachers and district Superintendent Todd Yohey, who initially worried what people would think of him spending $10,000 on a dog. Gomer has talked to a lot of parents and faculty, and they are saying it was money well-spent, he said.

For her part Schiller is looking to provide safety dogs to schools free of charge. She hopes her new initiative, program “K9S4KIDS”, does for schools what her program “K9S4COPS” did for police departments. She has placed more than 60 dogs with agencies in three years. “These dogs are extremely social, yet highly qualified warriors that are accustomed to going straight to the source of a threat or shooter and disengaging the suspect armed with the weapon,” said Schiller.

As the programs get up and running, questions remain about possible health problems and distractions the dogs can cause.

A school safety expert said those are concerns parents and schools will have to work out. Ken Trump, president of the Cleveland-based National School Safety and Security Services consulting firm, discussed the issue in general because he was not familiar with either program.

He said the dogs would have to be extremely social to deal with students’ initial excitement “Kids are going to like those dogs,” Trump said, “There are concerns to work around, but with the right dogs and right handler and the right policies and procedures, they should be very beneficial. The dog might be a distraction in the beginning, but they will become part of what students expect to see when they go to school.” “There is so much these dogs can do,” said Ted Dahlin, a deputy who serves on the K9S4COPS board of directors. “If I were going to pick a school to make trouble, it would be one that I knew didn’t have a dog.”

1. Which of the following statements is TRUE about Gomer’s program?

A．Atticus is only welcomed by students.

B．Atticus is provided to the schools free of charge.

C．The main job of Atticus is to patrol a school in Houston.

D．Parents and faculty think the money spent on Atticus is worthwhile.

2. Schiller’s comment on the dogs she provides indicate that ________.

A．dogs have a sharp sense of threat and danger

B．she is confident that the dogs are helpful in schools

C．dogs are a kind of helpful, loyal and qualified animal

D．even suspects armed with weapons are afraid of dogs

3. We can conclude that Ken Trump ________.

A．believes that dogs can be part of students’ school life

B．is a school safety expert supporting one of the programs

C．doesn’t approve of students’ attitudes about dogs in schools

D．agrees that the concerns outweigh the benefits of the program

4. What Ted Dahlin has said implies that ________.

A．he is not going to make trouble in schools

B．having a dog strengthens a school’s safety

C．he likes dogs and really wants to have one

D．more should be considered for planning a crime

2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．They thinned their coffee crops.

B．They planted too much coffee crops.

C．They occupied Venezuela’s mountains.

D．They drove away red siskins from the forest.

2.

A．They can get funds from the government.

B．They can sell the coffee beans at a higher price.

C．They can prevent coffee plants from disappearing.

D．They can attract more consumers with the quality beans.

3.

A．Organic coffee beans developed to increase the production.

B．Coffee farmers who are devoted to bird protection.

C．A project intended to save an endangered bird.

D．A private zoo serving as a breeding center.

5 .

The connection we have to cats is so strong it feels almost as though they can read our thoughts, study our moods, and even judge how to behave based on our needs. But what really goes on in their sweet, furry heads?

Research suggests that cats don’t necessarily see us as any different from them. While cats understand that their human caretakers are larger than they are, they continue to behave around us in the same way as if they were around other cats. The only key difference is that cats meow to humans, not other cats.

Owners wondering about what the cats are thinking about should turn to cat body language. Since these are the ways your cat primarily communicates with you, studying their body language can help you understand then on a deeper level and you may start with tails:

We may think we have great insight into “cat thinking”, but we may never fully understand them. There exist lots of misunderstandings about cats, most notably:

*Cats try to be alien and prefer to be alone. No! They are actually social animals who hope for close relationship.

*Purring (making a low continuous sound) only means happiness…In fact, it can also suggest pressure, fear, or pain.   Keep an eye out for illness, and be prepared in the case of an unexpected accident.

*Cats scratch (抓) to anger people. Wrong again! Cats need to act out this to give themselves great pleasure and comfort.

A recent study concluded that cats, when given a choice between playing with certain toys or having interactive fun with a human being, decisively choose to play with a person. For us here at Cat Care of Vinings, it’s two-sided!

As always, please call us with any questions or concerns. Or, let us know what you believe cat thinking is all about!

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1. We may find this passage from a ______.

A．newspaper

B．poster

C．magazine

D．website

2. If the owner gives the cat its favorite food, what will it probably do?

A．Keep its tail low.

B．Hook its tail.

C．Hide its tail.

D．Shake its tail.

3. The cat may prefer to ______.

A．interact with people	B．purr to suggest anger
C．keep away from man-made toys	D．scratch to attract attention

6 . Clementine seemed to be missing apiece from her life’s puzzle for most of her life. Dropped off as a 3-year-old homeless dog near New Orleans, the dog stayed in the shelter for four months before being moved to Texas.

While living at an adoption center in Texas, the dog was adopted out twice to different families. Sadly, neither of those adoptions were successful. It turned out Clementine didn’t get along with smaller pets, and she had too much energy for the second family.

Meanwhile, Captain Robert Moree wanted to add a fire dog to the station. He’d just read a study about how dogs help firefighter scope with the pressure of their jobs, and he was eager to give the study a real life trial run! With the permission of the chief and other firefighters, he and a few colleagues visited the shelter. As soon as they met Clementine, they were smitten!

“They introduced us to Clementine,” Captain Moree recalled. “She started to like us, and we liked her instantly. Later that day, my driver, Bryan Wallen, and I decided to get her.”

Captain Moree officially adopted Clementine, but she definitely belonged to every person in the firehouse. She loved to hug the firefighters in between calls, and she was always nearby whenever anyone was preparing food. “She rides on the truck when we go out on calls” said Captain Moree. “She not only makes the station feel more like home during our 24-hour shifts but also keeps us excited to come to the station.”

Clementine has made such an amazing journey from a homeless dog to a hero dog. She was named Dog of the Year at the 2022 ASPCA Humane Awards!

1. Why did Clementine fail to stay in the second family?

A．She liked fire.

B．She was too active.

C．She ate too much.

D．She hated other pets.

2. What does the underlined word “smitten” probably mean?

A．moved

B．puzzled

C．attracted

D．surprised

3. What did Captain Moree expect a fire dog to do?

A．Help put out fires.	B．Guard the firehouse.
C．Stay excited day and night	D．Reduce stress of firefighters.

4. What can be inferred about Clementine from the last two paragraphs?

A．She risked her life as a fire dog.

B．She has got many important awards.

C．She did an excellent job as a fire dog.

D．She remained homeless in her whole life.

7 .

A．Bring flowers.	B．Take a pot plant.
C．Buy postcards.	D．Send fruits.

8 .

A．The hunting is to blame for the disappearance of the birds.

B．The cause of the decline in the ducks’ number is uncertain.

C．She is unhappy with the climate change throughout the world.

D．The man should find more scientific evidence for the birds’ extinction.

10 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Worst man extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains

The birth of a mountain range in     1     is now South Africa may have helped to drive one of the most severe mass extinctions in Earth’s history.

The Permian extinction     2    (strike) about 252 million years ago. It is traditionally thought     3    (wipe) out at least 80 percent of species in the sea and on land.

But we have discovered that another mass extinction happened not long before, with most of the land extinctions happening during the     4    (early) period, roughly 260 million years ago at the end of the Capitanian Age by leaving ecosystems depleted of species,     5    (make) them vulnerable to disruptions from the volcanic eruptions.

The extinction on land was huge, says Spencer Lucas at the New Mexico museum of Natural History. The team he led studied the fossilized teeth of DiictodonFelikeys,     6     plant-eating, mammal-like reptile that was common at that time. But there was no sign     7     temperatures rose during that period. The team was puzzled     8     they realized the fossils     9    (date) back to that period belonged to South Africa’s Cape Fold mountains, which may once have been as the Himalayas are today.

The mountains could have stopped moisture     10     the sea reaching Pangaea’s interior, thus leading to drying and ultimately die-offs — without a corresponding increase in temperature.