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An old man was seating in an armchair at home, reading his newspaper. Beside him lay a dog sleep soundly. The old man decided to leaving home for a while, and he couldn’t go out with his slippers on. So he woke up the dog and let it fetched the shoes for him. Out of its expectation, the dog didn’t even stand, but just barked with two eyes closed again. He was complete puzzled. As he was wondering what was happening, a cat appeared in the front of him. Why do you think a cat came there?

2 . In the middle of the 20th century people were worried about whales.The number of whales killed worldwide came up to 66,000 per year.However,people weren't worried about the whale as an endangered animal.Instead,they were worried about the whale industry,which would disappear if there were no whales.In 1946,the International Whaling Commission was established.It limited the whale hunting for every country and controlled the whale industry.But the commission recognized that the limitation wasn't enough.They set a worldwide law against hunting whales with only two exceptions: the hunt for scientific research and "aboriginal whaling".Aboriginal whaling allows some countries to hunt a limited number of whales because it is a part of their culture.Some countries like Japan and Norway don't care about the law;they make excuses to hunt whales and sell the products.They only care about the money.

Many fishermen complain that dolphins,also a kind of whale,steal their fish.Therefore,they kill thousands of them.In fact,this is not the truth.In reality there are so many fishermen who steal the fish from each other.Some whale hunters say that they catch the animals for scientists.They have to research what whales are eating.For that, they kill them and look into their stomach.The truth is that they only want to sell the meat.Today scientists want to observe live whales for their research.

Many whale families are not protected and thousands of them are killed.Nobody knows if all whale families would survive,even if humans end all whale hunting today.The pollution of the oceans increases fast and the poison gets into the bodies of the animals.Many of them get sick and die.The human being has killed 90%-95% of many whale families.Others are already extinct.

Today some international organizations try to protect whales.They make reports to explain how important and endangered whales are.Now people are becoming more interested in whales and a complete new industry has developed,whale watching,which you may want to learn about.

1. The text is mainly about      .

A．whale industry	B．whale research
C．whale product	D．whale protection

2. In the middle of the 20th century,what people really worried was that      .

A．more whales would be killed worldwide per year

B．the whale would become an endangered animal

C．the whale industry would disappear

D．the law against hunting whales would come into effect

3. Why does Aboriginal whaling allow some countries to hunt a limited number of whales?

A．Because there are many whales in their countries.

B．Because hunting whales is a part of their culture.

C．Because they only care about money.

D．Because they live on hunting whales.

4. Why do many fishermen complain about dolphins?

A．Because dolphins steal their fish.

B．Because they want to make an excuse for killing dolphins.

C．Because there are so few dolphins for them to hunt.

D．Because people have misunderstood their purpose of hunting dolphins.

3 . One day, Daisy dreamed a strange dream. She flew in a wonderful carpet to talk with an antelope in Tibet. The antelope told her they were hunted because of their fur which can be used to make sweaters like hers.
Later, she flew to Zimbabwe where she talked with an elephant and got to know the farmers there no longer hunted them. That’s because the government decided to help and the farmers finally made a lot of money.
At last, she arrived at the thick rainforest where a monkey told her “no rain forest, no animals and no drugs.” Although finally everything was gone, she hadlearned so much.
1. How many places has Daisy been to?

A．2

B．3

C．4

D．5

2. Why the antelopes were hunted in Tibet?

A．Because their fur can be made into sweaters.

B．Because the number of them is large.

C．Because they are not wild animals.

D．Because they are not important.

3. Why the farmers in Zimbabwe no longer hunted elephants?

A．Because farmers knew the importance of wildlife protection.

B．Because elephants were endangered animals.

C．Because the government helped farmers to make money.

D．Because elephants and farmers lived in peace.

4 . Plants are very important living things. Life could not go on if there were no plants. This is because plants can make food from air,water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals get their food by eating plants and other animals. Therefore animals and man need plants in order to live. This is why we find that there are so many plants around us. If you look carefully at the plants around you， you will find that there are two kinds of plants: flowering plants and non-flowering plants. Flowering plants can make seeds. The seeds are protected by the fruits. Some fruits have one seed， some have two, three or four, and some have many seeds. But a few fruits have no seeds at all. An example of a fruit without seeds is the banana fruit. Most non-flowering plants do not grow from seeds. They grow from spores（胚芽）。 Spores are very small. Some spores are so small and light that they can float in the air. We may say that spores are quite the same as seeds. When these spores are all on wet and shady places， they usually grow into new plants.
1. The main idea of the first paragraph is that ______.

A．plants are important for life

B．plants cannot grow without air

C．there are many plants in the world

D．we can not live without water

2. Plants can make food from______.

A．flower,water and air	B．water,sunlight and air
C．air,water and soil	D．air,sun and light

3. What can we infer(推断) from the passage ?

A．Of all living things animals are most important

B．Without plants,man will die out

C．All fruits of flowering plants have seeds

D．Spores are seeds

4. This passage may be taken from______.

A．a medicine book	B．a science magazine
C．a novel	D．an experiment report

5 . Haikou—A shark was killed after being dragged to shore at Yalong Berth beach in Sanya, South China’s Hainan Province, on Sunday afternoon.

It was the first time a shark had been caught in the beach area, a popular tourist site in Hainan.

Local fishermen said they caught the 3-meter-long, l-ton shark by chance when they were fishing in sea water 1,000 metres deep near the beach.

Police temporarily protected the shark while oceanographers(海洋学家) decided whether it was a species belonging to State protection.

Fishermen later killed and sold the shark after oceanographers confirmed that it was a whale shark and therefore not under State protection.

The shark was believed to have drifted into the area from the deep sea due to strong waves caused last week by Typhoon Imbudo. It had no open injuries but experts said they believed it suffered from internal bleeding.

Local police officer Fu Chenggeng said beachgoers should not feel threatened by sharks because the fish never attack human beings on their own initiative. Fu said he had never heard of any shark attacks at the Sanya beach since he first started work there eight years ago.

However, police said they will improve the security system to safeguard tourists’ safety on the beach.

1. A possible title of the article should be______.

A．Tourists in Danger

B．Killing Whale Shark

C．Shark Caught in Beach Area

D．Whale Shark in Danger

2. From the article it can be learned______.

A．the shark was caught because of obvious injuries

B．the number of the whale shark may be small

C．typhoon Imbudo may have brought the shark to the area

D．it’s not unusual to see a shark on the beach

3. The underlined word“confirmed”probably means______.

A．said	B．believed
C．thought	D．made sure

6 . 阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。

In a memory – based competition between you and a chimp (猩猩); who do you think would win? If you put yourself on top, you might want to guess again.

In a test that challenged participants to remember numbers, a young chimp performed better than Japanese college students.

Here's how the test worked. At Kyoto University in Japan, human students and chimpanzee participants sat in front of a computer. Five numbers, ranging from 1 to 9, were combined with one another and then, they appeared at random places on the screen.

The numbers stayed on the screen for less than a second. In the first test, for example, participants saw the numbers for 650 milliseconds (about two- thirds of a second).

Then, each number disappeared and they saw a white square instead. Participants had to touch the squares in numerical order, based on the numbers that had been there a moment before.

In this test, the students touched the boxes in the correct order about 80 percent of the time. A young chimp named Ayumu performed equally well.

During a harder test, participants were only able to see the numbers for 210 milliseconds.

This time, students only succeeded in putting the boxes in the correct order about 40 percent of the time. But Ayumustill could select the boxes in the right order nearly 80 percent of the time.

Some people have what's called a "photographic memory", which allows them to remember a surprising number of details after just a quick glimpse of something. Ayumu's memory might work in a similar way, says lead researcher Tetsuro Matsuzawa.

The chimp's young age might have something to do with his impressive performance, too. In previous tests, the Japanese researchers found that young chimps performed better than their mothers.

The scientists are interested to see whether Ayumu loses his strong memory as he arrows older. They already know that young children sometimes have sharp memories when offered something photographical, but they lose this ability over time.

Topic	A     1     competition between human beings and chimps
Purpose	To judge whose memory is better
The    2     of the first test	◆A chimp and some Japanese students participated in the competition and sat before a computer. ◆Different     3       of five numbers appeared on the screen. ◆Each of the number was     4     by a white square.
The results of the second test	◆Students     5       to put the boxes in the right order about 40% of the time. ◆Ayumu got the right order     6     the time of the students
Conclusion	◆Some people have “photographic memory”,     7     some people to remember numbers after they     8     at something. ◆The chimps have the similar     9     to human beings’. ◆Young children, just like chimps, have strong memory but they’ll lose it when they    10    .

7 . Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

(A)

The elephant was lying heavily on its side, fast asleep. A few dogs started barking at it. The elephant woke up in a terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety.

That didn’t stop the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati, the elephant princess.

Parbati Barua’s father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer. He taught Parbati to ride an elephant before she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant round-up — how to catch wild elephants.

Parbati hasn’t always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with her father, she was sent to boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she went back to her old fife. “Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for days after the chase,” she says.

But Parbati doesn’t catch elephants just for fun. “My work,” she says, “is to rescue man from the elephants, and to keep the elephants safe from man.” And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for many years. Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever wild elephants enter a tea garden or a village, Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle before they can kill.

The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. “Eventually they grow to love their tamers and never forget them. They are also more loyal than humans,” she said, as she climbed up one of her elephants and sat on the giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!

1. For Parbati, catching elephants is mainly to             .

A．get long lasting excitement	B．keep both man and elephants safe
C．send them back to the jungle	D．make the angry elephants tame

2. Before Parbati studied in a boarding school,            .

A．she spent her time hunting with her father	B．she learned how to sing love songs
C．she had already been called an elephant princess	D．she was taught how to hunt tigers

3. Indian elephants are getting increasingly angry and they revenge because __________.

A．they are caught and sent for heavy work	B．illegal hunters capture them and kill them
C．they are attacked and their land gets limited	D．dogs often bark at them and chase them

4. The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that in India _________.

A．people easily fall victim to elephants’ attacks	B．the man-elephant relationship is getting worse
C．elephant tamers are in short supply	D．dogs are as powerful as elephants

8 . Sea turtles have been on Earth for millions of years, but they may soon die out. The main_______ to them is people who kill them for food, according to Dr. Wallace J. Nichols of the University of California.

But the latest news may_______turtle hunting: Dr. Nichols has found that sea turtles_______a lot of pollution from the ocean. This pollution is_______ for both turtles and _______It can cause _______damage to their bodies and lead to death. Research shows that many people get sick and even_______eating sea turtle meat.

In the US, most people have_______eaten turtle. This is because turtles are_______by the United States law, which makes it________to harm or kill these amazing animals.“But many people in other countries still eat them,” explains Nichols. “Our first________was to save turtles; now we must save________ too.”

Davis said he also wants to send out a bigger________that we should protect the oceans.“The ________of the ocean, animals in the ocean, and our own health are all________. A clean ocean is really good for us too because of the food we eat from there.”

1.

A．doubt

B．stream

C．danger

D．worry

2.

A．accelerate

B．slow

C．improve

D．change

3.

A．cause

B．expand

C．absorb

D．reduce

4.

A．beneficial

B．unhealthy

C．unfit

D．annoying

5.

A．animals

B．oceans

C．seas

D．humans

6.

A．accidental

B．occasional

C．unknown

D．serious

7.

A．die from

B．survive from

C．suffer from

D．free from

8.

A．often

B．seldom

C．never

D．rarely

9.

A．qualified

B．protected

C．restricted

D．produced

10.

A．impossible

B．difficult

C．illegal

D．abnormal

11.

A．goal

B．impression

C．difficulty

D．cost

12.

A．earth

B．ocean

C．people

D．animals

13.

A．advertisement

B．message

C．sign

D．problem

14.

A．turtles

B．depths

C．health

D．expansion

15.

A．concerned

B．disturbed

C．developed

D．connected

9 . The need to feed a growing population is putting much pressure on the world’s supply of water. With 97% of the world’s water too salty to be drunk or used in agriculture, the worldwide supply of water needs careful management, especially in agriculture. Although the idea of a water shortage (短缺) seems strange to someone fortunate enough to live in a high rainfull country, many of the world’s agricultural industries experience constant water shortages.
       Although dams can be built to store water for agricultural use in dry areas and dry seasons, the costs of water redistribution (重新分配) are very high. Notonly is there the cost of the engineering itself, but there is also an environmental cost to be considered. Where valleys (山谷) are flooded to create dams, houses are lost and wildlife homes destroyed. Besides, water many flow easily through pipes to fields, but it cannot be transported from one side of the world to the other. Each country must therefore rely on the management of its own water to supply its farming requirements.
       This is particularly troubling to countries with agricultural industries in areas dependent on irrigation (灌溉). In Texas, farmers’ overuse of irrigation water be resulted in a 25% redcution of the water stores. In the Central Valley area of south eastern USA, a huge water engineering project provided water for farming in dry vallege, but much of the water use has been poorly managed.
       Saudi Arabia’s attempts to grow wheat in desert areas have been the pumping of huge quantities of irrigation water from underground reserves. Because there is no rainfall in these areas, such reserves can only decrease, and it is believed that fifty years of pumping will see them run dry.
1. From the first two paragraphs we learn that _______.

A．much of the world’s water is available for use

B．people in high rainfll countries feel lucky

C．the costs of water redistribution should be considered

D．water can be easily carried through pipes across the world

2. Which of the following is true?

A．The water in Texas have been reduced by 75%.

B．Most industries in the world suffer from water shortagers.

C．The underground water in Saudi Arabia might run out in 50 years.

D．Good management of water use resulted from the project in the Central Valley.

3. What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows?

A．Steps to improve water use management.

B．Ways tor redjuce the costs of builing dams.

C．Measures to deal with worldwide water shortages.

D．Applies to handle the pressure on water supply.

4. The text is mainly about____________.

A．water supply and increasing population

B．water use management and agriculture

C．water redistribution and wildlife protection

D．water shortages and environmental protection.

10 . Tom goes everywhere with Catherine Green, a 54-year-old secretary. He moves around her office at work and goes shopping with her. "Most people don't seem to mind Tom," says Catherine, who thinks he is wonderful. "He's my fourth child," she says. She may think of him and treat him that way as her son, buying his food, paying his health bills and his taxes, but in fact Tom is a dog.

Catherine and Tom live in Sweden, a country where everyone is expected to lead an orderly life according to rules laid down by the government, which also provides a high level of care for its people. This level of care costs money.

People in Sweden pay taxes on everything, so aren't surprised to find that owning a dog means yet more taxes. Some people are paying as much as 500 Swedish kronor in taxes a year for the right to keep their dog, money that is spent by the government on dog hospitals and sometimes medical treatment for a dog that falls ill. However, most such treatment is expensive, so owners often decide to offer health and even life premium for their dog.

In Sweden dog owners must pay for any damage their dog does. A Swedish Kennel Club official explains what this means: if your dog runs out on the road and gets hit by a passing car you, as the owner, have to pay for any damage done to the car, even if your dog has been killed in the accident.

1. The money paid as dog taxes is used to            .

A．provide medical care for dogs

B．pay for damage done by dogs

C．keep a high level of care for the people

D．buy insurance for dog owners

2. The underlined world "premium" possibly means            .

A．entertainment expense	B．medical check
C．payment for risks	D．protection fee

3. If a dog causes a car accident and gets killed, who should pay for the damage done to the car?

A．The government.

B．The owner of the car.

C．The insurance company.

D．The owner of the dog.

4. From the text it can be inferred that in Sweden            .

A．people care much about dogs

B．keeping dogs means asking for trouble

C．many car accidents are caused by dogs

D．dogs are welcome in public places