There are about 80,000,000 mines*  under the ground in more . than 60 countries. It is difficult and dangerous to clear these rnines, About 50  people including many children were’ killed ‘or htirt each iay.  In 2003,  APOPO,  a Dutch research com pan y that uains the an imals, came up with the-idea of s\ng rats to search for the mines.
The animal trainers ‘found that a kind of rats from Africa were clever and had.a sharp*  sense of smell.  The rats were about 75 cm long and.weighed about l.35 kg, light enough to run across a minefield without setting off the mines.
In January 2004, the APOPO started this project. First, the trainers let the 4-week-old baby rats get familiar with humans. A few weeks later, the rats were no Ionger afraid of people and ‘the things around them. Then they were trained to connect a click* sound with food. After the rats had leamed that, the trainers then taught them to tell the difference between the smell of mines and other smells. When the rats could do it, the click was sounded and they were given a bit of banana.  The method was called clicker training. “The training isn’t easy, said trainer Abdullah Mchomvu. “You have to be patient. Sometimes I get angry, but then again, I tell myself these are animals.”
After nine months’  training, the rats were taken to a minefiel山  They’ran across the minefield, stopped, sat and scratched the ground to tell the deminers*  that they smelt out’a mine.  Then the mine was cleared. It had  taken two ‘deminers  a day to clear a 200㎡ . minefield,  but with the help of two rats ‘they could finish it in two hours.
The rats and ~he deminers saved thousands of lives, “The rats did this job much better than we expected. So far they have helped to make almost 2,000,000㎡ of land safe. They are heroes,” said Bart Weeqens, the head of the APOPO.
【小题1】 The APOPO trained the rats to search for     .

A．children

B．animals

C．mines

D．bananas

【小题2】 While training the rats, the trainers have to be

A．patient

B．clever

C．brave

D．serious

【小题3】 How long did the training last?

A．Two hours.

B．One day.

C．Four weeks.

D．Nine months.

【小题4】Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A．Each day about 200 people were killed or hurt by mines,

B．The APOPO started to train the rats in January 2004.

C．The trainers gave the rats food after they smelt out a mine.

D．The rats and the deminers saved thousands of lives.

The giant panda is one of the most popular animals in the world. A giant panda can grow up to 1.5 meters long and weigh up to 160kg. People think the giant panda is very lovely. ①So it is not surprising that the World Wide Fund for Nature chose the giant panda as its symbol. The WWF tells people about animals that they are in danger and raises money to save them.[来源:Zxxk.Com]

The giant panda only lives in the wild in China. In the early 1980s, were only 1,000 left in the wild. The main reason why pandas are endangered is that the area where pandas can live has become smaller.

The WWF works to help giant pandas in the wild in many ways. One of the ways that helps them is to increase the size of panda reserves(自然保护区). Some reserves need to be joined together by planting bamboo between them to make “corridors”. These are paths that lead from one reserve to another. No one may harm the pandas in these areas. The corridors let pandas move from one habitat (栖息地) to another to look for food. ②People are working very hard to make sure the giant panda does not die out.

1. How long and heavy can a giant panda grow to be?

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2. 将文中划线的句子①改为被动句。

   So it is not surprising that _____________________by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

3.Why are the giant pandas endangered?

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4. Give a way to help the giant pandas in the wild, please.

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5. 将文中划线的句子②翻译成中文。

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Happiness is for everyone. You don't need to care about the rich. Though they have beautiful houses with large gardens and swimming pools, they may often feel lonely.

In fact, happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it. When you are in trouble at school, your teachers will help you; when you do something wrong, people around you feel unhappy; when you succeed in something, your friends will say congratulations to you. All these are your happiness. If you notice a bit of them, you can see that happiness is always around you.

Happiness is not the same as money. It is a feeling(感觉) of your heart. Although you are poor, you can also say you are very happy. Money is not everything. You have something else that money can't buy. When you meet with difficulties, you can loudly say you are very happy because you have more chances to challenge(挑战) yourself. So you can not always say you are poor and you have bad luck. If you take every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person.

1.______may often feel lonely even though they have beautiful houses with large gardens.

A．Teachers          B．Parents           C．Old people        D．Rich people

2.What will your friends say to you when you make great progress?

A．Congratulations.                        B．That's all right.

C．It's very nice of you.                     D．Not at all.

3.When you have more chances to challenge yourself, you may feel_______.

A．proud            B．lonely            C．happy            D．excited

4.You can make yourself happy by______.

A．making much money                     B．taking every chance you have

C．owning beautiful big houses               D．having nice cars

5.We can learn from the passage that_______.

A．poor people are unhappy because they don't have money to buy big houses

B．we can find happiness around us even if we don't have much money

C．no one will help you if you are poor

D．rich people are very proud because they have big houses and nice cars