Traveling has been popular with people for a long time. Many of today’s travelers are trying to find an unusual experience or adventure. Hiking may be a good choice.

Instead of spending your vacation on a bus, in a hotel or sitting on the beach, you may want to try hiking. Hiking is a great way to travel. You will get close to nature and take exercise at the same time. Hiking is easy to do and doesn’t have to be very expensive. The basic equipments you need for hiking are simple: good shoes, clothes and a backpack. You can hike in the mountains, in a forest or along a river. You can also go for a hike in the city.

Hiking is fun and exciting, but you shouldn’t forget safety. Here are some basic tips for successful hiking:

※        Don’t hike alone.

※        Bring water, a good map and a mobile phone.

※        Wear a hat to protect yourself from the sun.

Answer the questions according to the passage.

1.Is hiking a good way to get close to nature?

2.What basic equipments do you need if you go hiking?

3.Where can you hike according to the passage?

4.How many tips on hiking are there in the passage?

5.What shouldn’t you forget during a hiking?

Two famous cartoons

The Lion Kings

Mufasa , the king of the lions , has a baby son called Simba .Mufasa has a brother , Scar , who hates Simba and his father because he wants to be king . With the help of some hyenas Simba（土狼）.Scar kills Mufasa , but very cleverly makes Simba believe that he killed his father .

Simba leaves and goes far away and Scar becomes king . But as Simba becomes older, he understands what really happened , and returns home with his friends . He fights Scar and becomes king of the lions .

Shrek,

Farquaad，the ruler of a country called Duloc , decides that all the characters from fantasy stories must leave the country . There is a a very big , ugly monster called Shrek who lives in a forest and all the fantasy characters hide in his home , although Shrek doesn’t want them to .

Shrek visits Farquaad . Farquaad agrees that the fantasy characters can come back if Shrek can find the beautiful princess (公主)that Farquaad wants to marry .Shrek goes to look for the princess called Fiona . He finds her and discovers that at night she becomes as ugly as him .When Farquaad discovers that Fiona is ugly , he doesn’t want to marry her . The monster and the princess marry , and the princess（公主）decides to stay ugly all the time for love !

阅读短文，根据短文内容完成句子。(每空一词，共10分)

1.Mufasa’s son is called ______________.

2.Scar ________ Simba and his father because he wants to be __________ of the lions .

3.Simba goes back home and fights Scar when he _______ _________.

4.Shrek ,a very big, ugly _______, visits Farquaad because he wants to help all the ________ _________.

5.Farquaad wants to ________ the beautiful princess called Fiona .

6.At last the princess and Shrek gets married for _______ .

A big, mighty(高大的) tree stood in a forest. Its branches(树枝) spread out and its roots (根) went deep in the earth. A lot of people came here to have a rest under it. And a lot of birds stood on its branches to sing and dance. The big tree was very proud all the time.
At the foot of the tree, there was a little plant. The plant was thin, and seemed to be blown down by any of a little wind.
One day, the two neighbors were having a little chat.
“Well, little one,” said the tree to the plant, “why not put your feet deeply in the earth, and raise your head high in the air as I do?”
“I see there is no need to do so,” said the plant with a smile. “In fact, I think I may be safer in this way.”
“Safer?” said the tree. “Are you safer than I am? Do you know how deep my roots are in the earth and how strong my branches are? Who can possibly pull me out by the roots or bow my head to the ground?” And the tree didn’t want to say anything to the weak plant.
But the tree was to regret its words very soon. One evening, a great hurricane(飓风) came. It blew the trees off their roots and almost destroyed the forest completely. It uprooted（将……连根拔起）the mighty tree and blew it away with great force.
When the storm had gone, the villagers living nearby came to check the damage. The mighty tree lay on the ground, but the little plant still stood there.
【小题1】Who was the big tree’s neighbor?

Fire can help people in many ways. But it can also be very harmful. Fire can make water hot and house warm, give light and cook food. But fire can burn (燃烧) things, too. It can make trees, houses, animals and other things catch fire (起火). If some people can't run away from fire, it can kill them. This happens in every country every year.

Sometimes big fire can burn forests. A month ago, a large forest fire broke out in Yunnan Province. It lasted nearly half a month. The forest in Heilongjiang Province and the grassland in Inner Mongolia caught fire in May, 2006. After more than ten days' fight, over 30,000 people and soldiers put out (扑灭) the fire at last.

Nobody knows clearly when people began to make fire, but there are many interesting stories about the first time a man or a woman started a fire. One story from Australia tells about a man who went to the sun and brought fire down a long time ago. Today people know how to make a fire with matches (火柴). Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous. The match can burn a piece of paper and then it can burn a house. A small fire can become a big fire, and destroy many things. Fire kills many people every year. So you must be careful with fire.

1.The main idea of the passage is that _________.

2.Matches can be dangerous because _________.

3.The word “destroy” in the passage means ________in Chinese.

4.The writer of the passage wants to tell us that ________.

They were walking ________ a forest after they swam _______ the river .