I bent down in the shade under a sixty-foot-tall cactus（仙人掌）, waiting for them to appear. The time was eight thirty in the morning. For seven mornings I had come to the same distant spot in the Sonoran Desert, in southern Arizona. I was here to watch the roadrunner, a small fast-running bird.
I spotted two birds under a bush with red flowers. The roadrunners rushed out from under it. The birds moved rapidly on long skinny legs. Their feathers were brown and black. Their tails were seven inches long. Roadrunners use the tail for balance when running.
That day, the roadrunners performed a courtship（求婚）dance. They ran in wild circles. Suddenly, one stopped and stood still, its round eyes full of light. The second bird took hold of a small stick off the ground and presented it to the first, a gift serving as a symbol of their partnership.
I returned to the spot each day, leaving bits of boiled chicken hoping they would return. Roadrunners eat snakes, lizards, mice, beetles, and spiders. Food is in short supply in the desert, so my offerings were welcome. The pair grew used to me.
Soon after the pair finished building their nest six white eggs appeared in the nest bowl. In about three weeks, six roadrunner chicks, skin as black as coal, cried for food. Their parents brought food such as fence lizards and stink bugs. They fed their young until they were a month and a half old.
Early one morning, a coyote（丛林狼）came around, nose to the ground, for fresh bird meat. The roadrunners fearlessly drove the coyote away, but it was soon back. After three attacks the coyote went away for good, tail between its legs.
I stopped watching the nest when the little roadrunners, at two months of age, were ready to live on their own. It was hard to break away from “my roadrunner family.” Whenever I see a roadrunner now, rushing over the ground, I say hello to it as an old friend.
1.The author went to the Sonoran Desert to .
A. go on a tour of the desert
B. carry out research into some animals in the desert
C. make an observation about a kind of bird
D. enjoy an adventure in southern Arizona
2.What can we learn about roadrunners from the text?
A. They have short tails and legs.
B. They move at a fast pace.
C. Their feathers are red and brown.
D. They don’t like boiled chicken.
3.We can learn from the last but one paragraph that the roadrunners were .
A. brave B. clever C. easily-frightened D. lazy
4.Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. How do roadrunners seek a partner?
B. My close friendship with roadrunners.
C. Roadrunner family in the Sonoran Desert.
D. How did I find roadrunners in Arizona?
Einstein was the greatest scientist of his age. But he was almost as strange as his Theory of Relativity.
Once, while riding a street car in Berlin, he told the conductor that he had been given too much change. The conductor counted the change again and found it to be correct, so he handed it back to Einstein, saying “The trouble with you is you don’t know your figures.”
He had nothing and thought little of the things most people set their hearts on— fame and money. He didn’t want money or praise. He made his own happiness out of such simple things as his work and playing the violin and sailing his boat. Einstein’s violin brought him more joy than anything else in life.
He led a very simple sort of life, went around in old clothes that needed pressing, seldom wore a hat, He shaved （刮胡子）with the same soap that he used for his bath. The man who was trying to solve the most difficult problems of the universe said that using two kinds of soap made his life completely too complicated（复杂的）.
1.From the second paragraph we know Einstein _____.
A. wasn’t good at maths
B. enjoyed playing jokes
C. had some trouble with figures
D. didn’t care about money at all
2.Einstein was most interested in ______ in life.
A. sailing his boat B. fame and money
C. playing the violin D. work
3.“…using two kinds of soap made his life completely too complicated” in the last paragraph suggests that Einstein ______.
A. preferred to live a simple life
B. was a man of humor
C. was too poor to buy more soaps
D. liked to do something different
______ it is to listen to music when you are free.
A. What fun B. What a fun C. How fun D. How funny
—What are you going to do this weekend?
—_______. If time permits, I may go to Shanghai with my friends.
A. Don’t mention it B. It doesn’t matter C. It depends D. Forget it
下表是对某中学高二某班50个学生健康问题的调查表。请根据表格内容，综述学生当前存在的健康问题，并就中学生如何保持身心健康提出自己的建议。
|
问题类型 |
学习焦虑 |
逆反心理 |
缺乏交往 |
睡眠不足 |
缺乏锻炼 |
视力不佳 |
|
人数 |
35 |
20 |
15 |
40 |
25 |
35 |
|
比例 |
70% |
40% |
30% |
80% |
50% |
70% |
注意：1. 词数：120左右 2．参考词汇：学习焦虑learning anxiety
3．首句已给，不计入总词数。
As is apparently shown in the chart above, many middle school students have problems both physically and mentally, ______
阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示; 2)首字母提示；3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确。
At the present time, the Internet is very popular all over the world,
e in some big cities. But do you know the history of the
Internet? ______（建造）in 1960s, the Internet was only a network
of computers which shared simple _______（信息）. If one of the
computers ______ down, the whole network would be unable to work,
_______（导致）continual problems. At first, just the government had
a_______ to the Internet, using it for communications among different
branches. ______ 1970s it had been used in universities, banks and hospitals.
At the beginning of 1990s computers became c for common people,
_______ increased the use of the Internet. Now tens of millions of people
log on every day, making _______ the most important part of people's life.
