4. A. informationB. show C. sign D. sight

3. A. terribleB. uncomfortable

C. unusualD. bad

2. A. lonelyB. alone C. away D. busily

1. A. byB. toC. withD. for

4. Which of the following is TRUE？

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

B. Pets eat better than people.

C. Almost every family has a birdcage in his house.

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

难句注释

①They have a law against killing wild animals.

他们有一项不准捕杀野生动物的法律。

②If an animal happened to get run over by a car,

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people would be very sad about it. 如果动物不巧被车轧了，人们就会很伤心。

③One of them might be that their family ties are not as close as ours.

原因之一可能是他们的家庭不像我们这样联系密切。

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On Thursday afternoon Mrs Clarke locked the door and went to the women?s club as usual. It was a pleasant way of passing time 1 an old woman who lived 2 .

When she came home she sensed something 3 . Had someone got in? The back door and the windows were all locked and there was no 4 of forced entry (进入). Had anything been taken? She went from room to room, 5 , and found her camera and spare watch missing.①

The following Thursday she went out at her usual time, but didn?t go to the club. 6 , she took a short walk in a park nearby and came home, 7 herself in through the back door. She settled down to wait and see② what would 8 .

It was 4 o'clock when the front doorbell rang. Mrs Clarke was 9 tea at the time. The bell rang again, and 10 she heard her letterbox being pushed open. 11 the kettle (壶) of boiling water, she moved quietly 12 the door. A piece of wire (金属丝) appeared through the letter?box, and then a 13 . The wire turned and caught around the knob (圆形旋钮) on the door?lock. Mrs Clarke raised the kettle and 14 the water over the hand. 15 was heard outside as the 16 fell to the floor and the hand was pulled back, which was 17 by the sound of running feet.

It wasn?t long 18 the police caught the thief. And Mrs Clarke was greatly 19 at the club for her successful 20 .

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3. In Canada, children leave their parents when they grow up because ____.

A. they don't love their parents any more

B. they can only find jobs far from their parents

C. their parents? houses are too small

D. they wouldn't depend on their parents any more

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

A. the pets are sick

B. the pets are wild

C. they want to stop them from getting sick

D. they want them to sleep on the way home

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. life of the old in Canada

2. On the first two days, ____.

A. the blind man waited for Julia

B. Julia gave the blind man some money

C. the blind man demanded money from Julia

D. Julia gave him nothing