Sudha Chandran was a dancer from India．She lost her chance to be a  1 when her right leg had to be cut off after a car accident．

Though the  2  brought her bright career to a stop，she didn’t  3 ．In the terrible months that followed，she met a doctor  4  had developed an artificial limb(假肢)．

After she was fitted with an artificial leg，she decided to go back to  5  ．

Sudha believed that she could  6   her dream come true．Then she did   7  for her

dream．

After every public show，she would ask her dad about her act．“You  8  have a long way to go．”was the answer she used to get  9  her father．

In January 2004．Sudha made an important return by  10  a public show in Bombay．She gave a show in such an amazing manner  11  it moved everyone to tears．In the end，she  12 the final prize of the show．

That evening，when she asked her dad the  13  question，he didn’t say  14  ．He just touched her feet as praise to a great artist.

When someone asked Sudha  15   she could dance again with her artificial limb，she said quite simply．“I don’t need feet to dance．”

1.                A．runner         B．player          C．star  D．moon

 

2.                A．chance         B．accident        C．dancer   D．leg

 

3.                A．give up         B．give away       C．give in    D．give out

 

4.                A．which          B．where          C．what     D．who

 

5.                A．sing           B．dance          C．cut D．stop

 

6.                A．take           B．bring           C．make     D．keep

 

7.                A．a lot           B．a few           C．a little    D．a bit

 

8.                A．still            B．only           C．just D．ever

 

9.                A．in             B．to             C．from     D．for

 

10.               A．going          B．giving          C．getting    D．watching

 

11.               A．and            B．so             C．but   D．that

 

12.               A．won           B．beat           C．had   D．told

 

13.               A．different       B．unusual        C．usual D．strange

 

14.               A．something      B．anything        C．everything     D．nothirig

 

15.               A．what           B．how           C．why  D．when

 

 

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.

1. The APOPO trained the rats to search for     .

A. children    B. animals      C. mines     D. bananas

2. While training the rats, the trainers have to be

A. patient     B. clever        C. brave         D. serious

3. How long did the training last?

A. Two hours.    B. One day.    C. Four weeks.    D. Nine months.

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 seasons in Australia are not like ours. When it is winter in china, it is summer there. Australia is a southern country, it is in the south of the world. July and August are the winter months; September, October and November are spring, the summer is in January, February and December, and March, April and May are the autumn months. The north of the country is hotter than the south.
A very large part of this country has no rain at all. The east coast (海岸地区)has rain all year, and there are no dry months there. The southeast winds blows(吹) here all the year. They bring rain from the sea. There is not much rain on the west side. The southeastern part of Australia has summer rain from the southeast winds. They only blow here in summer.
The southwestern part of Australia has winter rain. The west winds blow over the southwest in winter only. In summer, the southwest of the country has no rain. In the north of Australia, there is no rain in winter. The rain comes in summer. The northwest winds bring it.
【小题1】In October, it is ______ in Australia.

A．spring

B．summer

C．autumn

D．winter

【小题2】It is ____ in the south than in the north in Australia.

A．warmer

B．hotter

C．colder

D．cooler

【小题3】The ______ part of Australia has the most rain.

A．eastern

B．southeastern

C．southern

D．northern

【小题4】 The west winds only come over the ____ of the country in winter.

A．east

B．west

C．northwest

D．southeast

【小题5】There is _____ rain in winter in the north of Australia.

A．enough

B．a heavy

C．more

D．no

Dick lived in England. One day in January he said to his wife, "I'm going to fly to New York next week because I've got some work there." "Where are you going to stay there?" his wife asked. "I don't know yet." Dick answered. "Please send me your address from there in a telegram (电报)," his wife said. "All right," Dick answered.

He flew to New York on January 31st and found a nice hotel in the center of the city. He put his things in his room and then he sent his wife a telegram. He put the address of his hotel in it.

In the evening he didn't have any work, so he went to a cinema. He came out at nine o'clock and said, "Now I'm going back to my hotel and have a nice dinner."

He found a taxi (出租车) and the driver said, "Where do you want to go?" But Dick didn't remember the name and address of his hotel.

"Which hotel are my things in?" he said, "And what am I going to do tonight?" But the driver of the taxi did not know. So Dick got out and went into a post office. There he sent his wife another telegram, and in it he wrote, "Please send me my address at this post office."

1. Dick flew to New York because ___.

A．he went there for a holiday	B．he had work there
C．he went there for sightseeing (观光)	D．his home was there

2.Why did his wife want a telegram from him?

A．Because she didn't know his address yet

B．Because she wanted to go to New York, too

C．Because she might send him another telegram

D．Because she couldn't leave her husband by himself in New York

3.Who would send him the name and address of his hotel?

A．The manager (经理) of his hotel.

B．The police office.

C．The taxi driver.

D．His wife.

 

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February 11th is the birthday of the most famous American inventor,Thomas Alva Edison.Edison was born in 1847.He was not a good student when he was a young boy.His teacher said he was one of the most dumb headed(笨头笨脑的)students .He did badly in many subjects and left school after only three months.So his mother took him home and taught him herself.Edison didn’t like school at all,but he loved science.He liked to ask questions.

One day his father found him sitting on some eggs.His father asked him why.The boy didn’t answer.He asked his father instead,“Why can’t I hatch(孵化)chickens,but hens can?”

Edison invented 1328 things in his life,and these things made our lives more comfortable(舒适的)and the world more beautiful.People will never forget him.

1.Edison was born     .

A．in winter

B．one hundred years ago

C．in Canada

D．in January

2.Edison’s teacher said      .

A．he was one of the cleverest boys	B．he was a good student
C．he was not a good student	D．he could learn many things

3.Edison’s mother      .

A．taught him at home	B．taught him at school
C．was a teacher	D．took him to another school

4.One day Edison sat on some eggs.He        .

A．liked to sit there	B．wanted to break the eggs
C．wanted his father to look for him	D．wanted to hatch chickens

5.We now know Edison      .

A．was a good student	B．was a dumb headed student
C．was very clever	D．wasn’t famous