Is the whale the world’s largest fish? No. It looks like a fish, but it is really a mammal. （哺乳动物）Then what’s the world’s largest fish? It’s the whale shark.
Although the whale shark is our biggest fish and lives in many oceans around the world, few people have ever heard of it. Scientists have not been studying whale sharks for very long. Much more needs to be learned about them.
A whale shark is sometimes called a “gentle giant”. It likes to be alone and doesn’t care a bit about divers or humans. The biggest whale shark weighed 24,250 pounds and was nearly 40 feet long. This makes it heavier and longer than a school bus.
Inside its huge mouth are great numbers of very small teeth. To count all of them, you’ll need to do some maths. The whale shark’s teeth are arranged in rows. There are between eleven and thirteen rows on each jaw (颚) and around three hundred teeth in each row.
However, the whale shark rarely uses its teeth. It does not chew or bite its food. Large amounts of water are pulled into its mouth and then pushed out through its gills (鳃).
For a few months every year, a group of whale sharks comes to Ningaloo Reef, off Western Australia. This gives scientists a wonderful chance to study the large fish. Whale sharks do live in other oceans of the world, but no one knows their population. It is possible that our biggest fish may need protecting. It is one of the reasons why scientists continue to learn all they can about these gentle giants.
根据短文内容选择最佳答案
1.The underlined word “rarely” in the passage means “________”in Chinese.
A. 过多地 B.稀有地 C. 很少地
2.Picture shows the head bone of the whale shark.
3.Which sentence can tell us that whale sharks are gentle?
A. They have large mouths.
B. They leave divers alone.
C. They live in many oceans.
4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Little is known about whale sharks because scientists have studied them for a long time
B. The fifth paragraph is mainly about how a whale shark eats.its food.
C. The writer helps us know what the whale shark’s mouth looks like by comparing sizes.
5.The best title for the article should be ___________.
A. Gentle Giants
B. The Diary of a Sailor
C. The Largest Animal
On her second or third day behind the counter, Cynthia received a phone call from her nine-year-old son, Jessie. He needed a baseball glove for Little League. She explained that as a single mother, money was very tight, and her first check would have to go for paying bills. Perhaps she could buy his baseball glove with her second or third check. When Cynthia arrived for work the next morning, Patricia, the store manager, asked her to come to the small room in the back of the store that served as an office. Cynthia wondered if she had done something wrong or left some part of her job incomplete from the day before. She was concerned and confused.
Patricia handed her a box. “I overheard（无意中听到）you talking to your son yesterday,” she said, “and I know that it is hard to explain things to kids. This is a baseball glove for Jessie because he may not understand how important he is, even though you have to pay bills before you can buy gloves. You know we can’t pay good people like you as much as we would like to, but we do care, and I want you to know you are important to us.”
The selflessness（无私）and love of this convenience store manager proves that people remember more how much an employer cares than how much the employer pays.
根据短文内容判断正、误。
(注意：考生将答题卡相应位置涂黑。正确的涂“A”，错误的涂“B”)
1.Jessie needed a baseball glove for Little League.
2.Patricia, the store manager and her employer began to talk in the small room in the back of the store that served as an office.
3.Jessie was going to take part in Little League，but his father didn’t have enough money to buy things like a baseball glove.
4.When Cynthia was asked to go to the office, she was happy and moved.
5.From the story we know sometimes people cares one another more important than many things even wealth.
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1.The above reading is most probably ________.
A. a menu
B. a food report
C. an advertisement
2.It’s clear that the restaurant ________.
A. offers Chinese food
B. was set up 22 years ago
C. gets no awards at all
3.At 12:00 a.m., customers can ________.
A. find the restaurant closed
B. have a good meal in the restaurant
C. enjoy the awards in the restaurant
4.The reading doesn’t tell us ________.
A. the address of the restaurant
B. the price of food
C. the way to order food
5.Which country does the restaurant belong to?
A. China. B. India. C. Canada
It was a rainy evening. A man didn’t take his umbrella, so he wanted to call his wife to tell her he would go home late. Then he called home, however, the maid(女仆) answered the phone instead of his wife.
He said, “Can I speak to my wife?”
The maid replied, “Sorry，she’s upstairs with her boyfriend.”
He was surprised and at once very angry. He shouted, “Hurry up, go to the hall closet and take out my shotgun.”
The maid asked in surprise, “What do you need me to do?”
The man shouted crazily, “Go upstairs and kill them both.”
The maid said, “But I have never killed a man before.” Being the loyal maid, she says, “OK!”
Five minutes later, the maid picked up the phone and said, “OK，I follow your order. They are both dead now. ___________________” The man said, “Throw them into the pool, and I will take care of them when I get home. ”
“But we don’t have a pool.” the maid said.
The man asked nervously, “Is this 555—4532?”
Immediately, the terrible yells came from the house.
根据短文内容选择最佳答案
1.The underlined word “loyal” in the passage most probably means______.
A.false to one’s master
B. true to one’s master
C.dishonest to one’s master
2.The maid killed them because__________________.
A.she was afraid of his host.
B.she obeyed the orders of his host very much.
C.she loved his host.
3. _________________ would happen at the end of the story.
A.Both the man and the maid would be punished by the law.
B.The man and the maid would be happy for what they have done.
C.The maid would marry the man.
4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the story?
A.The man felt afraid when he asked the maid her host’s telephone number.
B. It was the man’s house, so the man felt happy after his wife was dead.
C. There wasn’t a pool in the house.
5. “___________________” is the missing sentence in the passage .
A.You can go home now.
B.What should I do with their bodies?
C.You must be happy, right ?
完形填空(本题共10分，每小题1分）
Mother’s Day is coming. Please do something for your mother. _ can replace a mother’s love .It is she who looks after the helpless you and serves you with all her heart and does everything to make your life _ . Just for a day, at least, we shall stop taking our mothers for granted（想当然）. Let’s remember the most important reasons for which we need to be grateful to our mom.
Since your childhood, in fact, you have watched your mom washing and ironing your clothes, keeping your school uniform spotless(一尘不染), and your shirts without a single crease(褶皱).You have been _______ to be picked or dropped to and from your school every single day right from your first day at school.Whenever you had a fight or if you needed a reason to cry on someone’s shoulders, your mom was the one giving you the comfort and _ listening to all your heartburns.Just remember the innumerable(数不尽的) times you wanted a fresh new set of clothes and your mother dug out her pocket money to _ your wish.Just think of hundreds of delicious dishes she prepared _ you, the tasty lunchboxes she cooked for you. It even makes your mouth water even now.Your mother is the person you can _ whenever you need her.She is always there for you through your life.
So___is time to do something for your mother.Spend more time with her instead of playing computer games or watching TV alone.If you do so,she will be happy. Don’t feel bored that she talks a lot. Put_____in her shoes.Do your best at no matter what you do.When you do your best ,you’ll make her proud of you .It makes her happy to see that you’re turning into ______a great kid.
A mother’s love never changes.So he is truly happy who makes his mother happy.Please take action from now on!
根据短文内容选择最佳答案。
1.A. SomethingB. EverythingC. Nothing
2.A. classicalB. comfortableC. clever
3.A. enough luckB. lucky enoughC. enough lucky
4.A.patientlyB. differentlyC. carelessly
5.A. stopB. realizeC. promise
6.A. toB. withC. for
7.A. come onB. depend onC. hold on
8.A. thatB. thisC. it
9.A. ourselvesB. yourselfC. themselves
10.A. soB. veryC. such
Which stress of the following is different from the others?
A. except B. realize C. recent
