Norm Pethrick, a 36-year-old man in Australia’s northern city Darwin, was praised on Thursday for jumping onto a crocodile’s back to save his wife Wendy at Litchfield National Park, a popular tourist spot southwest of Darwin, a local newspaper reported.
Ms. Pethrick was standing on a river bank Wednesday afternoon when the saltwater crocodile lunged (扑), locking its jaws on both her legs as it tried to drag her underwater.
Norm Pethrick, who with his wife had been collecting water, immediately went to help her. He jumped onto the back, poked (戳) the eyes of the crocodile and finally got his wife free.
Ms. Pethrick was later taken to Royal Darwin Hospital for a medical treatment. The doctors said she was suffering eight puncture wounds in her right leg, a puncture wound in her left leg and a serious cut to one of her fingers.
“This could have been a fatal and tragic situation,” said the general manager of Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH), Dr. Len Notaras, according to a local report.
He said Ms. Pethrick was saved by her husband’s “quick and diligent actions”. Dr. Notaras also said she would remain in hospital for three to four days and have an operation to clean the wounds, which are easy to get infected because of bacteria on the teeth of the crocodile.
1.This passage is most likely to be found in ______.
A.a travel guide B.a textbook
C.a novel D.a newspaper
2.The crocodile attacked Ms. Pethrick when she was ______.
A.swimming in the river
B.standing on the river bank
C.watching the crocodile
D.fishing in the water
3.Which of the following statements is TRUE about Ms. Pethrick?
A.One of the crocodile’s teeth was found in her leg.
B.She had eight wounds altogether.
C.One of her fingers also got hurt.
D.Her eyes were badly poked.
4.Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?
A.The husband should save the wife
B.Human beings can beat crocodiles sometimes
C.A crocodile is not so dangerous as people imagine
D.A man saves wife’s life from crocodile’s jaws
假如你是李华，假期观看了主题是人与自然的电影《狼图腾》 (Wolf Totem)深有感触。你写了一篇观后感准备给你们学校的校报英语版投稿，现在你通过电子邮件将这篇观后感发给英国笔友Tom，请他帮忙在下周三之前完成修改，并把这部电影推荐给他。
注意:1.词数100左右:
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Tom,
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Yours,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧), 并在其下面写出该加的词。
刪除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下画划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意: 1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
The number and species of fish had dropped sharply in the past few decades. It is human behavior which is to blame.Industrial and agricultural waste is pouring. into the ocean, which seriously pollutes the water. To make things bad, overfishing destroys the balance of life in the ocean.
It is a high time that measures should be taken to deal with this situation. The government should make law to keep people overfishing. At the same time, anyone who causes water pollution should be strict punished. All of us should try our best to protecting the fish in the ocean. After all, that is everyone's duty to protect the environment around us.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
1.(suffer) many failures, Rio Olympics gold medalist table tennis player Ding Ning rose to the peak of her sport, In 2006, Ding's ranking in the national team was the last but one,2.within several years of practice, she raised her level little by little to become China's number one player.
Things don't always go so 3.(smooth). In 2010, when taking part in the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Moscow, Ding was beaten by a duo(搭档) from Singapore in the woman's doubles final,4.made her burst into tears. The experience gave her a heavy blow. Drying her eyes, Ding worked harder5.(relieve) herself of the pressure of the failure. In 2011, Ding harvested her first world championship in the woman's singles during the World Table Tennis Championships 6. (hold) in Rotterdam, Netherlands, which helped her step out of the shadow of the Moscow7.(lose).
However, when she competed during the 2012 London Olympics, one of her playing techniques8.(judge) repeatedly as & breach(违犯) of rules. At last she returned 9. a silver, The setback let her suffer a heavier blow.
“But all these failures are my most precious resources. They10. (give) me a lesson about table tennis, life and healthy growth," said Ding.
To this day, I remember my mum’s letters. It all ______ in December 1941. Every night she wrote to my brother Johnny, who had been ______ that summer. We had not heard from him since the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Mum claimed that there was a direct ______ from the brain to the written word that was just as strong as the light God has granted us. She trusted that this light would ______ Johnny. I don’t know if she said that to ______ her mind or all of ours. But I do know that it helped us ______ together, and one day a letter from Jonny really did arrive. Johnny was alive on an island.
I had always been amused by the fact that mum ______ her letters, “Cecilia Capuzzi”, and I ______ her about why she didn’t just write “Mum”. I hadn’t been aware that she ______ thought of herself as Cecilia Capuzzi. Not as Mum. I began seeing her in a new light, this small _____ yet strong woman. We often sat recalling the days when our family was filled with laughter of four boys. They had all moved away from home to work, enrolled in the ______, or got married. All except me. Around next spring mum had got two more sons to ______. Little by little, the rumour about mum’s letters ______. One day a small woman knocked at our door. She opened her bag and ______ a pile of airmail letters, begging mum to read them from her son who was a soldier in Europe. Mum read the letters one by one. The woman’s eyes ______ with tears. A few days later the woman returned with a friend, then another one and yet another one—they all needed letters. Mum had become the _______ in our town.
“All people in this world are here with one particular ______,” Mum said. “______, mine is to write letters.” She tried to explain why it ______ her so much. “A letter_______ people like nothing else. It can make them cry, it can make them laugh and it makes the world seem very small. My dear, a letter is life itself!”
1.A. gathered B. disappeared C. started D. happened
2.A. called B. drafted C. arrested D. trained
3.A. link B. signal C. route D. result
4.A. warm B. guide C. tell D. find
5.A. focus B. calm C. broaden D. strengthen
6.A. swing B. struggle C. stick D. settle
7.A. began B. answered C. signed D. sealed
8.A. teased B. persuaded C. reminded D. informed
9.A. never B. seldom C. ever D. always
10.A. liberal B. delicate C. reliable D. uneducated
11.A. university B. service C. course D. army
12.A. cater to B. relate to C. write to D. subscribe to
13.A. circulated B. arose C. faded D. ceased
14.A. set out B. pulled out C. put out D. turned out
15.A. sprang up B. welled up C. looked up D. turned up
16.A. writer B. editor C. assistant D. correspondent
17.A. order B. ambition C. letter D. purpose
18.A. Apparently B. Gradually C. Initially D. Eventually
19.A. pushed B. challenged C. absorbed D. relaxed
20.A. unites B. draws C. cheers D. associates
Do you like writing a few paragraphs every day about your experiences, hopes, memories or feelings? If you don’t, it’s time to make a change now. Write just a few paragraphs every day about your experiences, hopes, memories and feelings, and you will immediately begin to experience benefits to your personal growth and potential.
You will gradually become better at expressing yourself. 1. However, when you become lazy with words, you find it is more difficult to describe feelings, share experiences and make yourself understood.
2. As you write about memories, it is like opening an old photo album. Your pen begins to explore feelings and details you have forgotten and dreams you have left behind. You suddenly remember people you would like to contact again. Writing is an activity that avoids distraction(使人分心的事) long enough for you to explore those wonderful moments of the past. Sometimes they are frightening. 3.
Writing about daily experiences and feelings provides a recorded history that will influence how you make future decisions. 4. They learned from what had happened before. Your history is important. Don’t let it be forgotten.
Writing reminds you of your dreams and keeps you moving toward them. It is a means of keeping track of your purpose and the goals that will lead you to achieve them. 5. It shows when you have been distracted and may need to give all your attention again to your writing.
Writing a little every day could provide the material that someday becomes a published book. When I wrote about my depression and my four-year-old granddaughter who got lost in the mountains, I never dreamed it would be in a book.
A. You will remember things long forgotten.
B. Writing keeps you energetic and full of imagination all the time.
C. Sometimes they are wonderful and almost always they are helpful.
D. Sooner or later, you are surely to become a great professional writer.
E. Reviewing what you have written is a perfect way to see your progress.
F. There’s a reason that the greatest leaders in history were students of history.
G. When you write daily, you can always be amazed at how quickly your writing skills improve.
