As with any house guests, indoor plants require a certain amount of basic, regular attention if they are going to feel at home. The first consideration when purchasing plants is to make reasonably sure that they are suitable for the condition in which they are going to be housed.
A general rule for most plants being brought indoors for the first time is to ensure that they have reasonable temperature of not less than 60 degrees Fahrenheit, a position out of cold air, safe from pets and not exposed to strong sunlight.
Plants love company. When plants are growing together, they create an atmosphere of damp around themselves which is far more beneficial than hot dry conditions. A group of plants will also present a more pleasing picture and provide an opportunity for a creative arrangement. There is no secret to this. Just rely on your natural feeling for harmony.
Watering and feeding plants are probably the two areas of care that are the least well understood, but, again, if you follow a few simple rules, your plants should do well. Cold slightly warm water is therefore the answer. It is usually better to pour water on to the soil on the surface of the pot rather than put the water into the pot holder at the bottom. Avoid giving small amount of water at regular intervals- it is much better to wet the soil right through the pot in one go and then to allow it to dry noticeably before giving it a further watering.
The majority of indoor plants will be in active growth from March until October, and during this time, the established ones will benefit from regular feeding. This may mean feeding with a weak liquid fertilizer(肥料) at each watering or at intervals of a week or ten days with fertilizer at a standard strength. It is important, however, to ensure that plants are not fed when growth is inactive, when the soil in the pot is dry, or too soon after the plants has been potted up.
1.In Paragraph 2, the author mainly tells us to___________.
A. buy plants that help clean indoor air
B. create a new environment with plants
C. put plants on the sunny side of the room
D. make sure of suitable conditions for plants
2.What’s the benefit of plants growing together?
A. It provides owners good company.
B. It makes it convenient to look after them.
C. It helps the air around them slightly wet.
D. It allows owners to draw a pleasant picture.
3.While watering the plants, what should we remember to do?
A. Use water that is a little warm.
B. Pour the water into the pot holder.
C. Give small amount of water at one time.
D. Consider further watering in wet weather.
4.What is the best time to feed the plants?
A. When the soil is dry.
B. When the temperature is high.
C. When their growth is active.
D. When they have just been planted.
A Swedish man was dug out alive after being snowed in his car on a forest track for two months with no food, police and local media reported on Saturday.
The 45-year-old from southern Sweden was found on Friday, February17, too weak to say more than a few words.
He was found not far from the city of Umea in the north of Sweden by snowmobilers who thought they had come across a ruined car until they dug their way to a window and saw movement inside.
The man, who was lying in the back seat in a sleeping bag, said he had been in the car since December 19.
“Just incredible that he’s alive considering that he had no food, but also since it’s been really cold for some time after Christmas,” a rescue team member told regional daily Vasterbottens- Kuriren, which broke the news. Ebbe Nyberg, duty officer at the Umea police, said police saw no reason to doubt that the man had been stuck in the car for a very long time.
“We would not make up something like this. The rescue services were on site too and saw the same as us.” he told Vasterbottens-Kuriren.Umea University Hospital, where the man is recovering after being rescued by police and a rescue team, said in a statement he was doing well considering the circumstances.
Doctors at the hospital said humans would normally be able to survive for about four weeks without food. Besides eating snow, the man probably survived by going into a dormant-like(休眠似的) state, physician Stefan Branth told Vasterbottens-Kuriren.
“A bit like a bear that hibernates. Humans can do that.” he said. “He probably had a body temperature of around 31 degrees which the body adjusted to. Due to the low temperature, not much energy was used up.”
“Why the man ended up under the snow in the forest remains unknown,” police said.
1.Who found the Swedish man in the snow?
A.Snowmobilers. B.The police.
C.A rescue team. D.Local people.
2.“Police saw no reason to doubt that the man had been stuck in the car for a very long time.”
Implies that________.
A.police didn’t think it true
B. police were sure of the fact
C.police had some doubt on the fact
D. police had reasons to doubt the fact
3.The reason why the man could survive was most probably that______.
A.he was only forty-five years old
B. he slept in the sleeping bag
C. he was in a dormant-like state
D.he did not use any energy
4.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?
A.A Traffic Accident
B.A Successful Rescue
C.A Long Sleep in Winter
D. An Incredible Survival
Most people go to a doctor in their own town or suburb . But people in the Australian outback can’t get to a doctor quickly. The nearest doctor is sometimes hundreds of kilometers away so they have to call him on a two-way radio. This special doctor is called the “flying doctor”. He visits sick people by plane.
When someone is very sick, the doctor has to fly to the person’s home. His plane lands on a flat piece of ground near the person’s house. Sometimes the doctor has to take the patient to hospital. Flying doctors take about 8,600 people to hospital each year.
However, most of the time the person isn’t very sick, and the doctor doesn’t have to visit. He can give advice on the radio from the office at the flying doctor center. He can tell the patient to use some medicine from a special medicine chest (箱子). There is one of these chests in every home in the outback. Each bottle, tube and packet in the chest has a number. The doctor often says something like this,” take two tablets from bottle 5 every four hours.”
1.Some people in the Australian outback can’t get to a doctor quickly. Because_________
A. there are few doctors there
B. the nearest doctor is sometimes very far away from them
C. there is always heavy traffic on the road
D. they don’t want to see a doctor
2.The doctor there usually goes to visit his patient _____.
A. by sea B. in a car
C. on foot D. by air
3.From the passage we know that_________.
A. every family in the outback has a special medicine chest
B. people in Australia are seldom ill
C. a “flying doctor” is a man who flies people to hospital
D. there are very few hospitals in Australia
书面表达
杭州是一座美丽的城市，一年四季有宾客前去旅游。请写一篇100词左右文章，要点如下：
1.杭州位于中国的东南，东临东海，以其美丽的西湖而闻名于世。
2.环绕西湖有许多公园和名胜古迹。
3.节假日人们在西湖上荡浆，到公园游玩，度过愉快的时光。
4.杭州自改革开放(the reforming and opening)以来，发生了巨大变化，呈现出新面貌，许多高楼大厦拔地而起。
短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（╲）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My soccer coach retired in last week. I wanted to do anything special for him at his retirement party. My mum makes the better biscuits in the world, so I decide to ask her for help. Mum taught me some basic step of baking. I insisted on doing most of the baking myself. I thought the biscuits were really well. My only mistake was that I dropped some on the floor after I was packing them up.
At a party, my coach, with a biscuit in his mouth, asked surprisingly who made them and joked, “I might have to retire again next year just get some more of these biscuits.”
My favorite picture at the party is of my coach and me enjoy the biscuits with happy laughter!
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Anna had a car accident when she was a teenager. She lost her arms because of that. What’s worse, when she was twenty years old, she lost her parents. Her elder sister, who is ten years older 1. her, told her she’d take care of her. However, Anna refused 2. (live) with her. Instead, she said she would take care of 3. (she). She managed to enter college and 4. (study) very hard. Four years later, she graduated and 5. (offer) work. Once she wrote in her diary, “I am quite lucky. 6. I lost my arms, I still have my legs.”
Anna lost her arms, but she chose to face it in a positive way. Instead of 7. (feel) sad every day, she decided not to let it hold her back. She has taught us 8. good lesson.
When something bad happens to us, we have two 9. (choose). One is to complain, and the other is to face it 10. (brave). If we choose to escape, it will always follow us wherever we go. If we decided to be strong, new hopes will come. So choose wisely.
