How Do Animals Catch Their ZZZ’s?
Different creatures have developed some pretty creative ways to get their rest and stay safe. The lizard（蜥蝎）likes to sleep at the far end of small branches hanging out over a pond or lake in the rain forest. If a snake tries to slither up the branch to eat it, it will shake the branch and knock the lizard off , and the lizard will fall safely into the water. Chameleons （变色龙）can change color to match their surroundings in order to hide even while sleeping.
Corillas（大猩猩）like to sleep high in the trees. They build a new bed every night, sometimes taking up to half an hour to pile branches, twigs, and leaves into a comfortable bed. Birds also find it safe to sleep in the trees, but unless they have eggs or young chicks, they don’t use a nest. They just lock their feet around a branch and hang on. A special tendon（腱）in their legs is automatically tight when they are at rest, so they won’t let go and fall.
Dolphins(海豚) live underwater, but must come to the surface to breathe. Scientists now believe that dolphins may sleep with only half their brain, while the other half stays awake to keep them safe and breathing. Seals (海豹) also do this，lying on their sides on the surface of the water with one flipper underwater paddling to keep their noses above the surface. Some ducks may also have this ability, and actually sleep with one eye closed and one eye open. (281 words)
1.How many animals are mentioned in this passage?
A．6. B．7. C．8. D．9.
2.How does a chameleon protect itself while sleeping?
A．By changing its body colors. B．By hinging out over a pond.
C．By sleeping with half their brain. D．By making beds with branches.
3.Why will not birds fall when they are at rest?
A．They build nests and sleep in them. B．They fall asleep automatically.
C．They have a loose tendon in their legs D．They lock their feet around a branch.
4.What does the writer intend to tell us?
A．The cleverest animal is the gorilla because it can make beds.
B．Differences in habitat could lead to different living habits.
C．The ways animals catch their ZZZ’s are pretty much the same .
D．In order to protect themselves most animals choose not to sleep.
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1.The four books can mostly satisfy .
A. teachers B. children C. adults D. parents
2.If you want to improve your ability to study, you’ll probably choose .
A. Basic Study Manual B. Study Skills for Life
C. Learning How to Learn D. How to Use a Dictionary Picture Book for Children
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C. encourage people to buy the books D. enlarge students’ knowledge about books
When I was a small child, during the war, we were very poor and we lived in a faraway village. One day, on the road, I found the __36__ pieces of a mirror. There was a German motorcycle accident.
I tried to find all the pieces and put them __37__, but it was not possible, so I kept only the __38__ piece and I made it round. I began to __39__ with it as a toy and became greatly attracted by the __40__ that I could reflect（反射）light to dark places where the sun would never shine in __41___holes and some other dark places. It became a __42__ for me to get light into the darkest places I could find.
I __43__ the little mirror, and, as I ___44__ up, I would take it out when I had nothing to do and __45__ the game. As I became a __46__, I grew to understand that this was not __47__a child’s game but a metaphor（象征）for what I might do with my life. I came to __48___ that I am not the light or the source（来源）of light, but light—truth, understanding, knowledge—is __49___, and it will shine in many dark places only if I reflect it.
I am just a single piece of a mirror whose ___50__ design and shape I do not know. __51___, with what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this __52__， into the black places in the___53__ of men—and change some things __54___ some people. Perhaps others may see and do the same. This is what I am about. This is the __55___ of my life. （269 words）
1.A. broken B. dropped C. pointed D. sharpened
2.A. back B. down C. together D. up
3.A. best B. longest C. smallest D. largest
4.A. talk B. play C. flash D. share
5.A. idea B. fact C. decision D. reason
6.A. deep B. big C. pretty D. empty
7.A. job B. task C. game D. trouble
8.A. kept B. hid C. forgot D. lost
9.A. came B. stood C. grew D. went
10.A. watch B. continue C. remember D. change
11.A. man B. boy C. father D. grandfather
12.A. always B. completely C. really D. just
13.A. announce B. doubt C. understand D. expect
14.A. absent B. home C. far D. there
15.A. whole B. most C. half D. other
16.A. So B. However C. Besides D. Certainly
17.A. country B. village C. world D. city
18.A. hands B. brains C. eyes D. hearts
19.A. on B. in C. with D. like
20.A. way B. standard C. quality D. meaning
—Honey, let’s go out for dinner.
— I don’t have to cook.
A. Forgot it! B. That’s great! C. Why? D. Go ahead!
—Did you see who the driver was?
—No, so quickly that I couldn’t get a good look at his face．
A．does the car speed by B．the car speeds by
C．the car speed by D．did the car speed by
—Did you meet with the famous star?
—______ I had come here earlier.
A. Only if B. If only C. But for D. As long as
