Town Lake Animal Center is the largest animal shelter in Central Texas, providing shelter for more than 23,000 animals each year and animal control services for all of Austin and Travis County. In the shelter, no animal will be turned away.（拒绝）
Hours of Working:
Shelter
Monday - Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday - Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Closed on City Holidays
Homeless or unwanted animals can be safely dropped off at the shelter.
Animal Protection and Control
Monday - Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday - Sunday, 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
City Holidays, 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Officers on-call overnight to react to emergencies
Administrative Offices
Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Closed on City Holidays
Location: 1156 W. Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78703
Mailing address: Town Lake Animal Centre, PO Box 1088, Austin, TX 78767
What’s New:
Animal Cruelty(虐待) Prevention Classes
Purpose: To teach people how to recognize(辨认) and report animal cruelty.
Who:  All citizens are encouraged to take this class.
Cause: Usually animal cruelty is relation to (涉及到) family cruelty.People who hurt animals often move on to hurt human beings.If you’re able to recognize and report animal cruelty,you can help prevent cruelty from spreading throughout your area.
【小题1】What is Town Lake Animal Center?
A. It is the largest animal shelter in the USA.
B. It offers many services to animals.
C. It is a place to kill homeless animals.   
D. It is a place to raise animals for food.
【小题2】If you meet a badly hurt pet dog at night, which is the best choice according to the passage?

A．Send it to Shelter immediately.

B．Send it to Administrative Offices at once.

C．Send it to Animal Protection and Control at once.

D．Call Animal Protection and Control quickly.

【小题3】Animal Cruelty Prevention Classes is held to _________.

A．protect and save more animals

B．collect as many animals as possible

C．earn money for Town Lake Animal Center

D．attract more volunteers to Town Lake Animal Center

Sally: an animal doctor What’s the worst thing that’s ever happened in your job? Probably the dog that bit me. It wasn’t a big one - I don’t mind the big ones. The small ones are the worst. It gave me a very nasty bite. Have you ever done any other jobs? Yes, I did different kinds of jobs when I was a student. One summer I did fruit-picking in Spain. What’s the worst job you’ve ever done? In order to improve my English, I worked for a rich family in New York. I never had a day off and I had to do everything – cooking, cleaning, shopping- and look after their horrible children. I left after two weeks and managed to get a job as a waitress in an Italian restaurant. Leo: an actor What’s the worst thing that’s ever happened in your job? So many bad things have happened-but I think my worst moment was when I read my first bad review in the newspaper. They wrote terrible things about me, and I was so upset. After that I didn’t read my reviews any more. Have you ever done any other jobs? Oh yes, it’s hard to make a living as an actor. So I’ve done lots of part-time jobs over the years. For example, I’ve worked in a shop, sold ice cream at the beach and handed out publicity flyers in the street. What’s the worst job you’ve ever done? The worst job I’ve ever done was at an egg-packing factory. Working conditions are terrible-you stand for hours at the end of a belt, putting eggs into boxes. You can’t have a break, and if you want to go to the toilet, you have to ask for permission. And worst of all, the smell was terrible- I’ve never eaten an egg since then.

【小题1】The underlined word “one” refers to “__________”.

A．dog	B．bite
C．event	D．job

【小题2】Sally has done the following jobs EXCEPT __________.

A．picking fruit in Spain

B．working for a rich family

C．looking after sick animals

D．cooking in an Italian restaurant

【小题3】After reading his first bad review in the newspaper, Leo __________.

A．wrote more reviews

B．replied to every review

C．gave up his job as an actor

D．stopped reading any of his reviews

【小题4】What does Leo think of being an actor?

A．It’s hard to make a living.

B．It’s helpful to read his reviews.

C．It’s easy to make lots of money.

D．It’s fun to have different experiences.

【小题5】What did Leo hate most when working at an egg-packing factory?

A．No breaks.	B．Standing for too long.
C．The bad smell.	D．Putting eggs into boxes.

【小题6】The best title of the passage might be __________.

A．An Animal Doctor	B．Terrible Job Experiences
C．How to Find a Part-time Job	D．Reviews of Sally a nd Leo

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1. When does the plane reach Milan?

A. At 11:30  B. At 14:35  C. At 10:00  D. At 18:00

2. Where can you have fun and watch displays?

A. In Flight No. BA564      B. In people’s Education Press 

C. At Zhonglu Hotel        D. In Deeside Animal Park

3. If you want to buy English books, you’d better call the number_______.

A. (8610) 64622288       B. (010) 67661423 

C. (8610) 64612502       D. (024)46364148

4. If you travel to Beijing, you’d better live in ________.

A. Milan         B. PEP Teaching Materials Center

C. Zhonglu Hotel   D. Southdene

5. From the information, we can guess Yang Kai is ________.

A. a bookseller  B. a student  C. a waiter  D. a teacher

 

A rabbit is running into its hole. You may ask, “What happened?”
Well, when a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs away. Its tail moves up and down as it runs. When other rabbits see this tail moving up and down, they run too. They know that there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making a sound. It has given them a signal.
Many other animals use this kind of language. When a bee found some food, it goes back to his home. It cannot tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does a little dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is.
Some animals say things by making sounds. A dog barks, for example, when a stranger
comes near. A cat purrs (发出呼噜呼噜的声音)when pleased. Some birds make several different sounds, each with its own meaning.
But human beings have something that no animals have –-- a large number of words about things, actions, feelings or ideas. We are able to give each other information, to tell or inform other people what is in our mind or how we feel. By writing words down we can remind ourselves of the things what have happened, or send messages to people far away. No animals can do this. No animals has the wonderful power of language.
No one knows how man learned to make words. Somehow he learned to make them. As centuries went by, he made more and more new words. This is what we mean by language.  People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. A very large English dictionary, for example,  contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not know all these. The words we know are called vocabulary. We should try to make our vocabulary larger. Read as many books as possible. When we meet a new word, look it up in the dictionary. A dictionary is the Most useful book.
【小题1】 When a rabbit gives the other rabbits a signal of danger, it _______.

A．runs into its hole

B．stops to move its tail

C．runs with its tail moving up and down

D．stops moving its tail up and down as it runs

【小题2】 A dog can  tell something ________.

A．by giving signals	B．by making different sounds
C．by purring	D．by barking

【小题3】 It has been proved that no animal is able to _______.

A．give the others information

B．tell others how it feels

C．express it actions and feelings with words

D． make different sounds, each with its own meaning

【小题4】Generally speaking, what we mean by “vocabulary” is _________.

A．all the words that we know

B．more and more words we use

C．all the words we need

D．the dictionary which contains thousands of words

【小题5】 What must we do in order to make our vocabulary large?

A．Make more and more new words.

B． Learn more languages.

C． Look up any new words in a dictionary.

D． Try to read as many books as possible.

Tigers are terrible animals, but a cat is a cute animal.    As a mother, the Chinese-American writer Amy Chua is just a tiger . Her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (《虎妈战歌》), tells us how she gives her two children education.    She says that being strict is the only way to train a child’s talent. Her kids had to obey the following rules. To begin with, her kids weren’t allowed to watch TV or play computer games. Then, they were not allowed to “ hang out ” with other kids after school. They had to be the top students in their class. And they had to practice the piano and the violin for hours every day. Of course, she believes this has brought a lot of problems for herself and her kids. But she doesn’t mind because her kids have become great. Chua says, like her, most Asian mothers are tigers because they believe their children can achieve a lot if they’re pushed hard enough. She says American mothers are really cats. They care more about their children’s self-respect (自尊). They don’t want to be strict with their kids because this may hurt their feelings. With soft words and understanding, they encourage their children to choose for themselves. So is a tiger mom better than a cat mom? It may also depend on the child.
【小题1】The writer of this passage wants to  _________.

A．tell that Tigers are terrible animals, but a cat is a cute animal.

B．tell us Amy Chua how to give children education.

C．tell the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is about animals.

D．tell that most Asian mothers are cats

【小题2】What does Amy Chua think of training a child’s talent?

A．She says that being strict is the only way to train a child’s talent

B．She says that being soft is the best way to train a child’s talent

C．She says that teaching is the only way to train a child’s talent

D．She says that making the rules is the only way to train a child’s talent

【小题3】To begin with, her kids weren’t allowed to

A．watch TV.

B． play computer games

C．“ hang out ” with other kids after school.

D． Above of all

【小题4】She doesn’t mind because her kids have become great.  does  she?

A．Yes, she does	B．No, she doesn’t
C．Yes, she doesn’t	D．No, she does.

【小题5】From the passage, we can know which one is Not true

A．most Asian mothers are tigers because they believe their children can achieve a lot.

B．American mothers don’t want to be strict with their kids because this may hurt their feelings

C．So is a tiger mom better than a cat mom? It may also depend on the child.

D．American mothers are like cats. They care less about their children’s self-respect (自尊).