Twelve years ago, a young traveler named Rhett Butler from San Francisco, California, visited the Sabah rainforest on Malaysian Borneo. In one area of the rainforest, he watched a bird flying through the trees. The beautiful sight left quite an impression on him. But weeks later, back home, Rhett Butler got the news that trees had been cut down in the area he visited.
To keep his website going, he travels around the world on several major trips each year. His working tools are a laptop computer, cameras and sometimes diving equipment. He often calls on experts for information. For example, he interviewed Alison Jolly, a top experts on lemurs(狐猴). He interviewed Rodney Jackson, a biologist who established the Snow Leopard Conservancy.
Stories like these have made Mongabay a favorite place on the Internet for researchers, students and teachers. In April, Time.Com named it one of the fifteen top climate and environment websites in the world.
1. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. Rhett Butler and his website.
B. Rainforest on Malaysian Borneo.
C. How Rhett Butler protected rare animals.
D. How Rhett Butler made his website popular.
2.Rhett Butler didn’t publish his book about rainforests because _______.
A. making websites earns more money than writing books
B. he didn’t want to become a writer
C. the book was not about rainforest protection
D. he wanted to use the information to create a website
3.Which of the followings is NOT true about the Mongabay. Com?
A. It was set up in 1999.
B. It attracted many advertisers.
C. At least two related websites grew from it.
D. Rhett Butler made a lot of money from it.
4.To keep his website going, Rhett Butler ________.
A. kept visiting the rainforest
B. traveled around and interviewed experts
C. raised rare snow leopards
D. made a great number of advertisements
5.We can learn from the passage that _________.
A. Mongabay.Com was loved by researchers as well as students
B. kids. Mongabay.Com. has many stories written by kids
C. WildMadagascar.org is better known than Mongabay.Com
D. Rodney Jackson was once a businessman
Your children’s teacher will be providing extra time for test preparation. This school year’s test will be held on January 8 and 9. The test preparation time is open to all students, and we strongly encourage your children to attend.
This year we are changing the time for our test preparation: it will be on Thursday mornings from 8:10 to 8:50. This helps children who ride the bus and cannot stay for the after-school period. It also helps avoid conflicts with after-school activities.
Danielle and Marina will be working with the recent new test takers 6 days on the following Thursdays: 15th, Nov; 29th, Nov; 6th, Dec; 13th, Dec.; 20th, Dec. and 3rd, Jan.
Besides the test preparation lectures on these dates, teachers are already putting test preparation into their usual courses. We are finding that we can help our students to be both skillful and whole-hearted readers and test takers — after all, we all know that the best test preparation is good reading and writing training.
What can you do at home? Again, the best and most effective test preparation for the ELA test is reading and more reading. The research is quite clear — students who do well in the tests are those who are good readers. Reading not only builds reading ability, it also helps build confidence — important for successful test taking! But do discourage your children from spending too much time on books that are too hard or even a bit too hard. Children best develop comprehension skills when they are reading books just right for them (too easy doesn’t hurt here either).
Finally, on Friday, December 7, we will have a morning lecture on the ELA. Please pay attention!
1.The text is mainly about ________.
A. how teachers will provide more time for test preparation
B. the reason why time for test preparation will be changed
C. how teachers have put test preparation into their usual courses
D. test preparation information that parents should know about
2.The time for test preparation has been changed to _________.
A. make it more convenient for the students to attend
B. help the new test-takers have more time to read
C. avoid disagreement in time between different years of students
D. avoid conflicts between preparation time and the usual courses
3.From the passage, we know that ________.
A. Danielle will help students prepare for different tests
B. the school year test will be on a Tuesday
C. all the children must take part in the test preparation
D. the students can learn how to write well in the test preparation
4. Parents should _____ at home.
A. prepare good meals for their children
B. read more books with their children
C. ask their children not to spend too much time on reading
D. encourage their children to read more books fit for them
5.Why did the school encourage all the students to take part in the test preparation?
A. Test preparation is what they always do.
B. The students will learn what will be included in the final exam.
C. Test preparation helps students to be more interested in reading and confident.
D. The test is a long way off and there are better things to do.
By now you may be thinking, “Enough with the sad songs, already!” Ok, then how about a cowboy song? Gene Autry was one of America’s most famous singing cowboys. He recorded When It’s Springtime in the Rockies in 1937.
And finally, we’ll leave you with a sunny song called Up Jumped Spring. Freddie Hubbard wrote this jazz song in 1977 and Billy Taylor Trio performs it.
1.If you are in a bad mood, you’d better listen to _____.
A. Up Jumped Spring B. I Dream of Spring
C. Spring Is Here D. Spring Will be a Little Late This Year
2.It Might as Well Be Spring is a song that ______.
A. is also called State Fair B. is sung by Ella Fitzgerald
C. has a lonely feeling D. was written by two people
3.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A. Most songs about spring are written by Italian composers.
B. K.D. Lang was good at writing happy songs.
C. Sarah Vaughn sang the song Up Jumped Spring first.
D. Gene Autry was a famous cowboy singer before K.D. Lang.
4.Which of the following songs was first written or recorded?
A. Spring.
B. I Dream of Spring.
C. When It’s Springtime in the Rockies.
D. Spring Will be a Little Late This Year.
5. What’s the purpose of the author to write the passage?
A. Introduce some songs about spring.
B. Introduce some wonderful music.
C. Introduce some famous singers.
D. Express his/ her love to spring
If your father never says to you “I love you” when you are a child, it 36 to be more and more difficult for him to say the words as he grows 37
I do not 38 hearing the words from my father when I was growing up. 39 , I could not recall(回忆) when I had 40 said those words to him either.
One day, I decided to _41_ the ice and make the first 42_ . So in our next phone conversation I gathered all my _ 43 and let out the words in a low voice, “Dad… I love you!”
There was a 44 at the other end and he awkwardly 45 _, “Well, same back at you!”
I was unexpectedly 46 and my voice was raised, “Dad, I know you love me, and I know when you are ready, you will say what you want to say.”
Fifteen minutes later my mother called and 47 asked, “Paul, is everything okay?”
A few weeks later, Dad 48 our phone conversation with the words, “Paul, I love you.” I was so moved that tears were rolling down my cheeks as I finally “__49 ” the love. As I sat there in tears I realized that this 50 moment had taken our father-and-son relationship to a new 51 .Shortly afterwards, my father narrowly 52 death following heart surgery（外科手术）. Many times __53 , I have 54 if I had not taken the first step and Dad not 55 the surgery, I would have never “heard” the love.
1.A. works out B. breaks out C. comes out D. turns out
2. A. wiser B. busier C. weaker D. older
3.A. remember B. enjoy C. mind D. regret
4.A. Truthfully B. Fortunately C. Naturally D. Obviously
5.A. only B. last C. never D. first
6.A. melt B. break C. strike D. build
7.A. complaint B. promise C. move D. impression
8.A. strength B. ideas C. words D. attention
9.A. sigh B. silence C. voice D. cry
10.A. refused B. shouted C. replied D. explained
11.A. touched B. frightened C. shocked D. annoyed
12.A. excitedly B. nervously C. willingly D. sadly
13.A. continued B. checked C. ended D. interrupted
14. A. accepted B. expected C. learned D. heard
15. A. quiet B. difficult C. special D. different
16.A. level B. idea C. world D. end
17.A. managed B. escaped C. avoided D. faced
18.A. then B. ago C. before D. since
19.A. realized B. found C. doubted D. wondered
20.A. challenged B. experienced C. survived D. received
I have bought two ball pens ,______ writes well.
A. none of them B. neither of them C. neither of which D. none of which
——I let my secretary call you several times. Do you know that?
——I _____in a meeting. I’m sorry.
A. had been B. was C. am D. have been
