Animal experts in Croatia say a bear has learned how to trick people to let him in by knocking at the door.
They believe the 220- kilogram brown bear probably learned the trick while nudging (轻推) a door to get it to open.
Experts have a guess that the nudging was mistaken by the owners for knocking and that the bear, pleased by the result, repeated the trick.
The Loknar family from Gerovo in western Croatia said the bear had knocked at their door three times and they were now refusing to answer the door.
‘‘We jumped out of the window as he came in through the door and went into the kitchen to take some food for the first time.” Mum Nevenka Loknar told a reporter from a local newspaper. “I opened the door and saw him standing there and I didn’t believe my eyes at first, then I ran for it as he walked in as if it was the most normal- thing in the world.”
Bears are a common thing in the woods around here, but no one has ever heard of a bear that knocks at the door.
Mum Nevenka Loknar said, “The bear is so intelligent. It’s incredible. We’ve tried to put up lots of obstacles to stop him coming in, like a wire fence but he still gets through. I wouldn’t be surprised if he knew how to use wire cutters.”
【小题1】According to experts in Croatia, how did the bear learn the trick?

Animal experts in Croatia say a bear has learned how to trick people to let him in by knocking at the door.

They believe the 220- kilogram brown bear probably learned the trick while nudging (轻推) a door to get it to open.

Experts have a guess that the nudging was mistaken by the owners for knocking and that the bear, pleased by the result, repeated the trick.

The Loknar family from Gerovo in western Croatia said the bear had knocked at their door three times and they were now refusing to answer the door.

‘‘We jumped out of the window as he came in through the door and went into the kitchen to take some food for the first time.” Mum Nevenka Loknar told a reporter from a local newspaper. “I opened the door and saw him standing there and I didn’t believe my eyes at first, then I ran for it as he walked in as if it was the most normal- thing in the world.”

Bears are a common thing in the woods around here, but no one has ever heard of a bear that knocks at the door.

Mum Nevenka Loknar said, “The bear is so intelligent. It’s incredible. We’ve tried to put up lots of obstacles to stop him coming in, like a wire fence but he still gets through. I wouldn’t be surprised if he knew how to use wire cutters.”

1.According to experts in Croatia, how did the bear learn the trick?

A．By knocking at the door several times.       B．By accident.

C．By learning from the owner of a family.       D．By imitation.

2.What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 5 refers to?

A．Eating at the kitchen.                     B．Knocking at the door.

C．Walking into the house.                   D．Answering the door.

3.It is ________ in Gerovo that a bear knocks at the door.

A．unusual           B．a troubling problem  C．common          D．an exciting experience

4.Mum Nevenka Loknar was surprised that the bear ________.

A．didn’t attack her family

B．knew how to use wire cutters

C．jumped across her wire fence three times

D．was clever at getting through the obstacles

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  The trees arrived by post, a half-open parcel. They were thin and straight, rather like arrows but with shiny leaves at one end and muddy roots at the other. Terry and his father took them down the garden and planted them in their prepared places. Terry had great hopes of the middle tree, now set in the memorial spot where Herry, his cat, run over, had been laid to rest a year before. The pine trees made an avenue down one side of the garden, where there was already a fifteen-foot stone wall between the garden and the back-yards of the Jenkins Street houses.

    “Why do we want a row of trees as well as a wall?”Terry asked his father.

    His father said,“For privacy. These trees grow very thickly.”

    His father's love of privacy often puzzled Terry, who was not one to keep himself to himself, but he could see part of the point here. The houses in Jenkins Street were on higher ground. His friend Leslie lived in number twelve, and Leslie had only to stand on a box to see right over the wall.

    “Will the trees grow higher than the wall?” Terry asked then.

    “Oh yes, twice as high if not more. It'll take a few years but they'll grow.”

    So they were going to have nine trees thirty feet tall, to keep them from being overlooked. Terry wondered why this was so desirable. He said, “Our garden is very pretty. Why can't we let the people over the wall see it? That wouldn't be showing off, would it?”

    “No, I don't think it would be,” his father said. “Yet some people might feel a bit less happy if they can always see a good thing that isn't theirs. We don't want to be the cause of any jealousy if we can help it.”

    This consideration for other people's feelings must be a grown-up thing, Terry thought. It was not his idea of how to run things. He said, “These trees? It seems a lot of trouble to go just to stop people being jealous of us.”

    His father looked at him. “It isn't much trouble, Terry,” he said. “These trees will grow without help from us. They'll be beautiful. And listen to them. You can already hear them whispering to us in the wind.”

(1) The passage mainly deals with the topic of ________.

[　　]

A．protection of environment

B．relationship between neighbours

C．generation gap

D．cause of jealousy

(2) Part of the garden is called a memorial spot because ________.

[　　]

A．a cat was buried there

B．Herry had been run over there

C．Terry's own tree was planted there

D．it was in front of Leslie's house

(3) The word “privacy” in the third paragraph most probably means “________”.

[　　]

A．to keep away from thieves

B．to avoid being disturbed

C．to keep the air fresh

D．to avoid being polluted

(4) Terry's father was a man who ________.

[　　]

A．was proud of his garden and liked showing it off

B．was very sociable towards his neighbours

C．preferred to keep himself to himself

D．felt jealous of the people in Jenkins street

(5) What did Terry not approve of?

[　　]

A．Letting outsiders see the garden.

B．The height of the houses in Jenkins Street.

C．The way Leslie managed to look over the wall.

D．His father's concern for other people's feelings.

We have been driving in fog all morning，but the fog is lifting now.The little seaside villages are ____，one by one.“There is my grandmother's house，” I say，____ across the bay to a shabby old house.

I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage(朝圣) with Lise，my granddaughter，seeking roots for her，retracing(追溯) ____ memory for me.Lise was one of the mobile children，____ from house to house in childhood.She longs for a sense of ___，and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors ____ for 200 years.

We soon ___ by the house and I tell her what it was like here，the memories ____ back，swift as the tide(潮水)．

Suddenly，I long to walk again in the ____ where I was once so gloriously a child.It still ____ a member of the family，but has not been lived in for a while.We cannot go into the house，but I can still walk ____ the rooms in memory.Here，my mother ____ in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary.I can still see the enthusiastic family ____ into and out of the house.I could never have enough of being ____ them.However，that was long after those childhood days.Lise ____ attentively as I talk and then says，“So this is where I ____；where I belong.”

She has ___ her roots.To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human ____.To be rooted is “to have an origin”．We need ____ origin.Looking backward，we discover what is unique in us；learn the ___ of “I”．We must all go home again—in reality or memory.

1.A.appearing? ????????????? B．moving?

C．exposing? ????????????? D．expanding

2.A.referring? B．travelling? C．pointing? D．coming

3.A.shared? B．short? C．fresh? D．treasured

4.A.passed? B．raised? C．moved? D．sent

5.A.home? B．duty? C．reality? D．relief

6.A.built? B．lived? C．remained? D．explored

7.A.catch up? ????????????? B．pull up

C．step down? ????????????? D．come down

8.A.falling? B．turning? C．rushing? D．bringing

9.A.yard? B．village? C．room? D．house

10.A.adapts to? ????????????? B．appeals to

C．belongs to? ????????????? D．occurs to

11.．A.across? B．through? C．along? D．past

12.A.lay? B．played? C．stood? D．sat

13.A.marching? B．looking? C．breaking? D．pouring

14.A.between? B．with? C．near? D．behind

15.A.wonders? B．listens? C．reacts? D．agrees

16.A.began? B．grew? C．studied? D．stayed

17.A.deepened? B．recognized? C．accepted? D．found

18.A.heart? ????????????? B．rights?

C．interest? ????????????? D．behaviors

19.A.one? B．its? C．that? D．every

20.A.meaning? ????????????? B．expression?

C．connection? ????????????? D．background