In Canada you can find dogs, cats, birds, etc. in almost every family. These are their pets. People love these pets and have them as their good friends. Before they keep them in their houses, they take them to animal hospitals to give them injections so that they won’t carry disease. They have special animal food stores, though they can get animal food in almost every store. Some people spend about two hundred Canadian dollars a month on animal food. When you visit people’s homes, they would be very glad to show you their pets and they are very proud of them. You will also find that almost every family has a bird feeder in their garden. All kinds of birds are welcomed to come and have a good meal. They are free to come and go and nobody is allowed to kill any animals in Canada. They have a law against killing wild animals. If you kill an animal, you will be punished. If an animal happened to get run over by a car, people would be very sad about it.

    People in Canada have many reasons to like animals. One of them might be：Their family tie is not as close as ours. When children grow up, they leave their parents and start their own life. Then the old will feel lonely. But pets can solve this problem. They can be good friends and never leave them alone.

1. The passage mainly talks about            .

   A. how to keep disease from pets              B. pets in Canada

   C. how to take good care of pets               D.1ife of the old in Canada

2. They give their pets injections before keeping them at their houses because            .

   A. he pets are sick

   B. the pets aren’t healthy

   C. they want to stop them from carrying disease

   D. they want to stop them from hurting people

3. The phrase “get run over” means            .

    A. be hit          B. run to          C. be driven           D. be looked over

4. Children leave their parents when they grow up because            .

    A. they don’t love their parents any more

    B. they wouldn’t depend on (依赖) their parents any-more

    C. their parents’ houses are not large enough

    D. they can only find jobs far from their parents

5. Which of the following is true?

    A. People buy animal food only at the animal food stores.

    B. Pets eat better than people in Canada.

    C. Every family has a bird cage in his house.

    D. Any bird can come to the bird feeders to eat.

A goal for life
Do you have a goal for life? What is it? Do you want to become a great writer, a1singer or just become a rich person?
A survey2that in modern society (现代社会), most people choose practical3such as “making money to buy a house and a car”, “making one’s life better” or “finding a good job”.
Wang You4in a small company in Nanjing 3 years ago. The job was good and he didn’t need to work on Saturday or Sunday. However, he felt the work wasn’t5at all and the life was6. So he gave up his job and went to Beijing in February, 2009. When he7in Beijing, he had his new8as finding a good job.
Now9people want to live a better life. This fact shows that the society is making progress10people’s life goals have become more practical. One researcher says, “Everybody11his or her own life goal. If one man is poor,12life goal will be to make more money. If one man doesn’t13a diploma (文凭), studying hard to get a diploma will become his life goal. And if one man doesn’t have love, his life goal will be to look14it. If one man has no life goal, he15idle away (虚度) his lifetime.”

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      showed
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Traveling to work by car gets more expensive today. People can do nothing about the world’s price of petrol(汽油). They have to work, so that they can pay. However, some people are trying to stop driving to work..

　 People have found out that it is a good idea to ride a bike to work. More and more people return to bikes.

　 Children often go tot school by bike. But now businessmen are going to work by bike, too. “The bike is easy to use,” says Molly, “and it is also very cheap. It is a good way for those who do business like me. You can buy thirty bikes at the price of a small car. A bike doesn’t use expensive petrol. A 10-year-old child can learn to use a bike. And most bikes can be used for a long time.”

　 Mr Brown goes to his hospital by bike every day. He says, “A bike doesn’t cost a lot of money, and most families can have two or more ones. Bike-riding is good for our health. Today most people get fat because they don’t get enough exercise. So I tell my patients(病人) to buy bikes. In addition, in big cities it’s usually quicker to travel by bike than by bus or by car. Drivers can’t do anything but get angry when there is a traffic jam.(交通堵塞).”

11. Some people don’t want to drive to work because _______________.

　 A. the cares are getting expensive　　　　 B. the petrol is getting expensive

　 C. the care are difficult to take care of　　 D. petrol is hard to buy

12. In the second paragraph(段落), “return to bikes” means ____________.

　 A. begin to ride bikes again　　　　　 B. give bikes back to others

　 C. go back by bike　　　　　　　　 D. borrow bike from others

13. After reading, we know that Molly is a _____________.

　 A. doctor　　　　 B. student　　　　 C. patient　　　　　 D. businesswoman

14. Mr Brow thinks that bike-riding has _________ good points.

　 A. two　　 B. three　　　 C. four　　　　 D. five

15. This passage tells us about _________________.

　 A. cars and petrol　 B. expensive petrol　

C. back to bike time　 D. bike-riding for a long life