Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning. Others read them as soon as they have free time during the day so that they learn what is （发生）in the world. Sometimes we are so busy that we don't have any time to read all the news. So we just take a quick look at the front page. At other times, we may be in such a hurry that we often have a few minutes to look at the names of the passages.
(1) 我们在世界各地都能找到报纸。 We can get many kinds of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountain villages we can see few newspapers.
Some newspapers are publish
ed（出版）once a week, but most of the papers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day. You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers, some like world news, and others prefer short stories. They only choose what they like.(2) Everyday newspapers in English have the largest number of readers in the world. The English page is so popular that many Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as China Daily or 21st Century. They bring us more and more messages together with the Internet.
1.将(1)句译成英语。
2.将(2)句译成汉语。
3.根据上下文，在文中空白处各填入一个适当的词语，使之完整。 、
4.在文中找出此句的同义句：we are too busy to have time to read all the news at times．
5.找出全文的主题句。
根据所给的汉语意思填空，完成下面的句子。 (每小题2分，共10分)
1.很多森林正在不断消失，这意味着野生动物生存空间的减少。
Many forests are disappearing. This means the .
2.人们不应该用老虎的骨头做药。
People should never .
3.政府应该鼓励更多的人采取行动，拯救动物。
The government should encourage more people to save animals.
4.因为大雪，这些熊猫找不到食物。
These pandas can’t find their food .
5.不像人类，野生动物从来不以狩猎为乐。
Unlike humans, wild animals .
从方框里选择合适的单词(词组)并用其正确形式填空，完成下面的对话。
peace, lose one’s life, grow up, on one’s own, in the wild |
Eric: Did you watch the tiger show yesterday?
Diana: Yes, I did. But I felt sorry for the tiger.
Eric: So did I. The tiger’s family members 1. because of an illness.
Diana: And he had to live 2. when he was 2 years old. He 3. without his parents’ care and love.
Eric: The tiger must have gone through a bad time.
Diana: Yes. And I just think it is cruel (残忍) of people to make it perform for us. Tigers should live 4. .
Eric: That’s true. Tigers should live a quiet and5. life in forests.
Diana: But the fact is, how can a tiger find a suitable home outside zoos?
填空 （每小题1分，共15分）
A.根据所给的汉语意思，用合适的单词填空。
1.A fire burnt all the trees, and many animals had (无处) to live.
2.Children d
islike too much homework and too many (考试).
3.I feel very (口渴) after the long walk.
4.Every year, lots of （旅行者）go to the small town to watch birds..
5.The local（本地）____________( 政府 ) should take actions to protect animals at once.
B. 用所给单词的合适形式填空。
6.My mother looked ____________ (angry) at my brother without saying a word.
7.Dogs have much better _________ (hear) than man.
8.If people keep _________ (cut) down trees, the result will be terrible.
9.Zebras mainly eat grass and tree _________ (leaf).
10.I bought a pair of trainers so I could run ______________ (comfort) in PE lessons.
A crow(乌鸦) is about twenty inches(英寸) long and black all over. Crows are dirty birds because they live on bad food. Crows eat a lot of waste food. In this way they are more useful to us than any birds. They clean up the dirty things in our streets. Crows are always hungry. They look fo
r food all day, and in the evening you can see them in large numbers flying back to their nests(巢) in
the trees. They sleep there at night.
Crows are much noisier than other birds. Very often a large number of crows will get together on one house and talk. Sometimes they talk together, and sometimes they do it by turns(轮流) like human beings(人类). It is easy to tell(判断) from crow’s sound if they are pleased or angry. Perhaps crows talk a lot because they are friendly birds. A pair of crows will live together all their lives, and if one of them dies, the other one becomes very sad and quiet for the rest of its life and some time later it dies too.
1.Crows “live on bad food” means “ ______
___ ”.
A. Crows eat old bad food.
B. Old bad food is crows’ nests.
C. Crows make their nests on old bad food.
D. Crows sleep on old bad food.
2.Crows are more useful to us because they ________________.
A. are clean birds B. can move away waste food
C. can make our streets clean D. aren’t dirty
3.Crows always look for food _________.
A. in the evening B. all day C. in the morning D. at night
4.People can’t hear crow talk __________.
A. together B. by turns C. noisily D. quietly
5.If a pair of crows loves each other, ________
A. they will not live together. B. neither of them can live alone happily.
C. they will die D. one of them will die
Look at the plant in the picture. It looks beautiful, right? Can you imagine (想象) it kills?
The Venus flytrap is a kindof meat-eating plant. It grows in very few places, like wetlands near the sea in North Carolina in America.
The Venus flytrap is not a large plant. It grows to be o
nly about a foot tall. The plant has white flowers in the spring, but it is the plant’s leaves that make it so interesting. The ends of the leaves have folding parts with stiff, tiny hairs (带小硬刺的可折叠部分). These are the plant’s “traps (捕捉器)”.
What does the Venus flytrap eat? As you might guess, the Venus flytrap eats flies (苍蝇). It also eats spiders, ants and crickets (蟋蟀). The Venus flytrap makes most of its food with sun, air and water, just like other plants. Living things just give it extra nutrition (额外营养) to grow well in wetlands.
How does this plant trap and eat living things? The Venus flytrap uses a sweet liquid (液体) to attract its food. When a fly lands on one of the plant’s open traps, hairs on the surface make the trap close. And when the trap closes, the fly is dinner!
If you want to have your own Venus flytrap at home, you have to buy the plant from a special place. You can’t take a Venus flytrap from where it grows! There are laws about taking it out of the wild.
1.Where does the Venus flytrap grow?
A. In the wetlands.B. In the desert. C. In the rocks.D. In the sea.
2.About the Venus flytrap, which of the following is true?
A. It is a large plant.
B. It only eats spiders.
C. It has white flowers.
D. It can fly in the sky.
3.Which is the right order of the 
following events i
n Paragraph 5?
a. The trap of the Venus flytrap closes.
b. A fly lands on one of the plant’s open traps.
c. The fly is kept in the trap as the food of the plant.
d. The Venus flytrap uses a sweet liquid to attract its food.
A. d-b-a-c B. a-b-c-d
C. b-d-a-c D. d-b-c-a
4.How can people get a Venus flytrap?
A. They can get it from where it grows.
B. They can buy it from a special place.
C. They can grow it in their gardens.
D. T
hey can buy it in a park.
5.Why does the Venus flytrap kill?
A. Because it needs extra nutrition.
B. Because it hates flies.
C. Because insects are its main food.
D. Because it kills for fun.
