In Canada you can find dogs，cats，horses，etc．in almost every family．These are their pets．People love these pets and have them as their good friends．Before they keep them in their houses，they take them to animal hospitals to give them injections so that they won’t carry disease．They have special animal food stores，though they can get animal food in almost every kind of store．Some people spend around two hundred Canadian dollars a month on animal food．When you visit people’s houses，they would be very glad to show you their pets and they are very proud of them．You will also find that almost every family has a bird feeder in their garden．All kinds of birds are welcomed to come and have a good meal．They are free to come and go and nobody is allowed to kill any animal in Canada．They have a law against killing wild animals．If you killed an animal，you would be punished．If an animal happened to get run over by a car，people would be very sad about it．
People in Canada have many reasons to like animals．One of them might be：Their family ties are not as close as ours．When children grow up， they leave their parents and start their own life．Then the old will feel lonely．But pets can solve this problem．They can be good friends and never leave them alone．（词数242）
1.The passage mainly talks about ．
A. how to keep disease from pets B. pets in Canada
C. how to take good care of pets D. life of the old in Canada
2.In Canada，children leave their parents when they grow up because ．
A. they don’t love their parents any more
B. they can only find jobs far from their parents
C. their parents’ houses are too small
D. they wouldn’t depend on their parents any more
3.Which of the following is TRUE？
A. People buy animal food only at the animal food stores.
B. Pets eat better than people．
C. Almost every family has a birdcage in his house．
D. Any bird can come to the bird feeders to eat．
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There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But 1a few of them are very 2.English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the U.S.A., but in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a 3language. Many millions are 4to do so. Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different 5Have you ever 6ads of this kind in the newspapers or magazines? "Learn English in six weeks, or your 7back..." "Easy and funny! Our records and tapes 8you master your English in a month. 9the first day your 10will be excellent. Just send …"Of course, it never 11quite like this.
The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should 12that we all learned our own language well when we were 13. If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. 14what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it, 15in it all the time. Just imagine how much 16that gets!
So it is 17to say that learning English is easy, because a good command of English 18upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and 19much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will 20. But they cannot do the student's work for him.（词数278）
1.A. not B. quite C. only D. very
2.A. difficult B. important C. necessary D. easy
3.A. native B. foreign C. useful D. mother
4.A. learning B. enjoying C. trying D. liking
5.A. questions B. problems C. ideas D. answers
6.A. found B. watched C. noticed D. known
7.A. knowledge B. time C. money D. English
8.A. make B. help C. let D. allow
9.A. From B. On C. Since D. After
10.A. spelling B. grammar C. English D. pronunciation
11.A. happened B. looked C. seemed D. felt
12.A. know B. remember C. understand D. think
13.A. students B. children C. babies D. grown-ups
14.A. Imagine B. Mind C. Do D. Think of
15.A. using B. thinking C. trying D. practicing
16.A. time B. money C. language D. practice
17.A. hard B. easy C. funny D. silly
18.A. depends B. tries C. has D. takes
19.A. uses B. takes C. gets D. costs
20.A. do B. work C. help D. master
My friends and I are making an area to encourage birds _________.
A. come and feed and lay their eggs safely
B. to come and feed and lie their eggs safely
C. to come and feed and lay their eggs safety
D. to come and feed and lay their eggs safely
_________that we will _______free computer training during the holidays.
A. It has been decided…be given B. It has decided…be given
C. That has been decided…be given D. It has been decided… give
Sadly a woman was discovered, _______brought a serious problem to the Games.
A. who B. what C. that D. which
Digging down into the earth is like reading _______of a book.
A. a page after a page B. a page after page
C. page after page D. the page after the page
