A
The bald eagle is not really bald, and it just has white feathers on its head. The name “bald” is from an old English word that means white.
Bald eagles have a long, yellow beak, and big eyes. They have white feathers on their head and brown feathers on the body. Eagles have about 7,000 feathers. Their feet have knife-like talons.
Bald eagles can fly very fast. They can also swim, because they eat fish. Eagles look for food during the day. They have very good eyesight. Eagles can see a small animal from as far as a mile away. They catch their food with their talons. Their food is min fish. They also eat small animals and some birds.
Eagles can live up to 20 to 30 years. Like most animals, they usually live longer if people keep them.
( )1. The world “bald” means ___ in old English, according to the passage.
A. brown B. white C. black D. with no hair
( )2. Eagles have ____.
A. a short yellow beak B. small but sharp eyes
C. white feathers on the body D. about 7,000 feathers
( )3. ____ are NOT mentioned as eagles’ food in the passage.
A. Fish B. Bananas C. Small animals D. Birds.
( )4. We can learn that ___ from the passage.
A. eagles catch their food with their talons
B. eagles can’t see an animals a mile away
C. eagles can live longer if people don’t keep them.
D. eagles only eat fish
( )5. What is the best title of the passage?
A. How to Keep Birds. B. About the Bald Eagle.
C. What Bald Eagles Eat. D. Bald Eagle’s favorite food.
参:1-5 BDBAB
B
When I was about six years old, I was sure that there were aliens in my bedroom. I was in bed, trying to sleep, when I heard voices near my bed. I screamed for my parents. We looked everywhere but we couldn’t find anything. I tried again. I don’t know how many times my parents came to my bedroom that night, but we finally found that an old radio in my room suddenly began to work. The voices were from it.
Years later, astronauts went into space for the first time. Then I looked out of my bedroom window almost every night, searching for UFOs. I never saw one, but I did see a few shooting stars.
The experience helped create an interest in UFOs and aliens. I even wrote a book, How to Catch a Flying Saucer, about them. You can find out how to be a ufologist in the book. And it tells you a ufologist’s most important work is to ask questions to know exactly what a person may have seen.
( )1. What does the underlined screamed mean?
A. 欢呼 B. 大笑 C. 尖叫 D. 搜寻
( )2. Where was the sound the writer heard from?
A. An alien. B. A TV set C. A computer. D. A radio.
( )3. What did the writer try to find when he looked out of his bedroom window?
A. UFOs. B. Aliens. C. Shooting starts. D. Some astronauts.
( )4. Who is the writer?
A. A reader of How to catch a Flying Saucer.
B. An astronaut who had seen a UFO before.
C. The writer of How to catch a Flying saucer.
D. A person who saw a UFO when he was young.
( )5. Which of the following could be the title of the passage?
A. The story about the UFO and me.
B. The story of astronauts.
C. The story of aliens.
D. The story of a book about aliens.
参:1-5 CDACA
C
Wonderland is the hometown of minifishers. Because the winter there is cold, they go to warmer places for the winter and go back home the next spring to have their babies. Every year, hundreds of minifishers visit Starland. They stay there with their families for several months. They usually sleep during the daytime and wake up in the evening to look for food. Small fish are their favorite.
Minifishers were first found in Starland one hundred years ago. Now Starland has become their most important stopping place for the winter. But this could change soon because people in Starland are thinking of building factories near the minifishers' winter home. Minifishers are shy and do not easily change the way they live. Can we do something to help these friends from the sky? Though making money is important, people in Starland should know the lives of other animals are important, too. Let's work together to help them.
( )1. What may a minifisher be?
A. A fish B. A bird C. A factory worker D. A food seller
( )2. What do Miniifshers usually do in the daytime?
A. Find food. B. Sleep. C. Build their house. D. Walking around.
( )3. Why do minifishers come to Starland?
A. Their babies are born in Starland. B. The winter in Starland is warm.
C. They cannot find their way home. D. They enjoy meeting people in Starland.
( )4. What does the underlined word “this” mean in the second paragraph?
A. The winter home of minifishers will be moved
B. Minifishers were first found in Starland one hundred years ago.
C. Building factories near Starland will scare away the minifishers.
D. Starland is a good place for minifishers to spend the winter.
( )5. What does the writer think of the idea of building factories?
A. The new factories will not be good for the people in Starland.
B. The minifishers’ winter home is a good place for new factories.
C. It takes too much money to build factories
D. People should think about other living things before building factories.
参:1-5 BBBDD
D
You may know all the learning skills, but if you don’t start doing things, you will never learn it If you want to learn to speak English well, you must change your life. Here are some examples of things you will have to do:
∙read a book in English for an hour every day, studying the grammar in sentences and looking up words in an English dictionary
∙listen to recording in English, stopping it frequently(经常地), trying to understand what they are saying, and trying to learn the speakers’ pronunciation
∙carefully write an e-mail message in English, using a dictionary or a Web search every 20 seconds to make sure every word is correct, and taking 5 minutes to write one sentence
∙talking to yourself in English about the things you see around you) .
What kind of person would do all these things? Only one kind. —a person who enjoys doing them.
( )1 To learn English well, _______.
A. we must know all the learning skills.
B. it is no use to know the learning skills.
C. you must start doing something you didn’t like before every day.
D. you must get up early every day.
( )2. What does the underlined phrase “look up” mean?
A. look into the sky B. try to find
C. try to find in a book D. take care of
( )3. When we listen to recording in English, we should stop it frequently to ____
A. make sure we understand what we hear B. try to say most like the recording
C. have a short rest D. A and B
( )4. In order to learn English well, you should _____ when you walk down the street.
A. talk to anyone you meet in English
B. think how to say the things around you in English.
C. talk to yourself what you have just learnt
D. say anything you see around you in English aloud
( )5. What does passage mainly tell us?
A. It is necessary to change our life to learn English well.
B. We should do all kinds of crazy things if we want to learn English well.
C. If we want to learn English well, we should listen to recording in English everyday.
D. We should Read a book in English for an hour every day to learn English well.
参:1-5 CCDBA