This past month saw one of the most devastating storms in history brings death and destruction on the Philippines. The number of lives lost is still being calculated, but it is already sitting above five thousand. In the flurryof news about the storm and its after－math, the cries of “I told you so” from environmentalists rang out loud and clear.
　　These scientists were especially vocal during the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which just wrapped up in Warsaw, Poland. The timing of the conference and Typhoon Haiyan was an eerie coincidence, but perhaps the concurrence offered a wakeup call for all.
　　Christiana Figures, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said, “We are witnessing ever more frequent extreme weather events, and the poor and vulnerable are already paying the price.”
　　Scientists claim that storms like Typhoon Haiyan are an inevitable result of the effect greenhouse gases are having on our environment. Environmental analysts claim that rising temperatures around the globe and changing weather patterns are all part of the same problem.
　　This isn’t breaking news. We’ve heard the warnings for years. The UN has been hosting the Climate Change Conference since1995.But the changes that need to be made are huge. Added to this, the developed nations and developing countries have competing interests that are difficult to settle. The issue of who takes responsibility becomes difficult to resolve.
　　We may feel far away from Poland and resolving conflicts between countries, but we mustn’t feel far away from the issue. When we watch neighboring countries suffer in severe weather, when we hear reports of increasing global temperatures, when we walk outside and find it difficult to breathe the Shanghai air, we know we have a very real problem. So what are we going to do about it? Are we making every-day choices that can have a positive impact? Are we reducing our carbon footprint? Are we choosing to walk, ride a bicycle or take public transportation instead of a car? Are we recycling? Are we turning off the lights and electronics whenever possible?
　　The problem is complex, but saving our earth starts with each of us taking simple steps.
小题1:What is the most terrible typhoon in 2013? It is _________.

A．Haiyan

B．Bebinca

C．Danas

D．Cimaron

小题2:Warsaw isn’t in Poland，is it?

A．Yes, it is

B．No, it isn’t

C．Yes, it isn’t

D．No, it is

小题3:How many years have we heard the warnings? For nearly ______years.

A．21

B．18

C．19

D．20

小题4:Which of the following is NOT FALSE?

A．The environment is worse and worse and we have no ideas about it.

B．The environment is worse and we needn’t do anything about it.

C．Saving our environment is not so complex.

D．The environment is a big problem and we must take simple steps

He was 11 years old and went fishing every chance he got from the dock at his family's cabin on an island in the middle of a New Hampshire lake.
On the day before the bass season opened, he and his father were fishing early in the evening, catching sunfish and perch（鲈鱼）with worms. Then he tied on a small silver lure（鱼饵）and practiced casting. The lure struck the water and caused colored ripples in the sunset, then silver ripples as the moon rose over the lake.
When his pole doubled over, he knew something huge was on the other end. Finally, he very gingerly lifted the exhausted fish from the water. It was the largest one he had ever seen, but it was a perch . The boy and his father looked at the handsome fish. Then the father lit a match(火柴) and looked at his watch. It was 10 P.M.--- two hours before the season opened. He looked at the fish, then at the boy.
"You'll have to put it back, son," he said.
"Dad!" cried the boy.
"There will be other fish," said his father.
"Not as big as this one," cried the boy.
He looked around the lake. No other fishermen or boats were anywhere around in the moonlight. He looked again at his father. Even though no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he caught the fish, the boy could know everything by his father's clear voice that the decision could not be changed. He slowly worked the hook(钩) out of the lip of the huge bass and lowered it into the black water.
The creature swished its powerful body and disappeared. The boy suspected that he would never again see such a great fish.
That was 34 years ago. Today, the boy is a successful architect in New York City. His father's cabin is still there on the island in the middle of the lake. He takes his own son and daughters fishing from the same dock.
He was right. He has never again caught such a magnificent fish as the one he landed that night long ago. But he does see that same fish---again and again---every time he comes up against a question of ethics（道德规范）.
小题1:When did the story happen?

A．Early morning

B．Late afternoon

C．Late night

D．In the bass season

小题2: Why did the father ask his son to put the perch back?

A．Because the father disliked the perch.

B．Because the father was afraid of being fined.

C．Because the ethics must be observed.

D．Because the son was more experience in fishing than his father.

小题3:When does the architect (the father’s son) think of that perch put back?

A．When he takes his own son and daughters fishing from the same dock.

B．When he builds many famous buildings.

C．When he pays a visit to his old father.

D．When he faces some problems about ethics.

小题4:Which word can not be used to describe the boy’s father?

A．honest

B．unselfish

C．serious

D．generous

小题5:From the passage, we can learn _________.

A．how we can get the handsome fish

B．how we master some skills of going fishing

C．how we understand our parents’ words is very important

D．how we do things in good and right ways.

Do you think of white when someone talks about a polar bear? In fact, the polar bear does not have white fur. It just appears to be white. Polar bears have a very good sense of smell. It helps them to find food. During summer, polar bears sleep longer, because they are able to find their food more easily at night. Usually, after a meal, polar bears have a short sleep. A polar bear can have 2-3 babies at a time. They live with their mothers until they are about two-and-a-half years old.
However, polar bears will die out soon because of people. There are only 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears in the world. The ones that are left are trying to survive today. The number of polar bears is becoming smaller and smaller because of the loss of sea ice— polar bears mostly inhabit (居住于) the sea ice, not the land ice. This is happening because of global warming (全球气候变暖), pollution, hunting and so on.
Ordinary people don't care, but great people have the power and want to save tigers, fight for giant pandas and save polar bears. Ordinary people will wait, but great people will find a new world. For me, I will not waiting. I will take the bus more often from now on. Join me and save the polar bears, and, of course, the tigers, the giant pandas and...
小题1:According to the passage, which of these answers does NOT make sea ice less?

A．Global warming.	B．Pollution.
C．Hunting.	D．Travelling.

小题2:What can we learn from the passage? 

A．Polar bear fur is white.

B．Perhaps the writer will drive his car less.

C．It's harder for polar bears to find food in summer.

D．Polar bears left have a good, happy life.

小题3:What does the word "ordinary" mean in Chinese?

A．勤劳的

B．聪慧的

C．普通的

D．坚强的

小题4:What is the main idea of this passage?  

A．To show that the number of polar bears is getting smaller.

B．To tell people that polar bears will soon have nowhere to live.

C．To let people know why polar bears are in danger.

D．To talk about polar bears and suggest that people protect animals.

小题5:Where can this passage come from?

A．A magazine about animals.

B．A book about greetings.

C．A poster about working plans.

D．An instruction book.

Here is an interview with a painter. Read and choose the best.
Reporter:Mr Shum, you were one of Taiwan’s most outstanding youths last year. Why was that?
Mr Shum:Well, I can tell you that there are two reasons.First, I am a painter. Second, and more important reason is I am handicapped﹙残疾的﹚。I have no arms and only one leg.
Reporter:Well, how do you paint then if you’ve got no arms? Do you use your foot?
Mr Shum:Hah! For some handicapped people, it’s true and they are able to use their feet.No,I use my mouth. I put my paintbrush or my crayons or pencils or whatever I am using in my mouth. I hold it firmly in my teeth and paint or draw like that. It was a little strange for me at first, but it quickly became very easy.
Reporter:I know you feel that you are first a painter and only secondly that you are a disablbed person, but can we talk first about your handicap?
Mr Shum:Well,in fact I think of myself firstly as a person, secondly as a painter and thirdly as someone with a physical handicap. Can I say that I am not happy with the word “handicapped”?
I am a popular painter because my paintings are good, not because they were painted by a handicapped person. “handicapped”means you can’t do anything. It is difficult for me to do some things like getting dressed.
Reporter: Were you born with your handicap?
Mr Shum:No. An accident happened to me when I was 15 years old.After that I became depressed﹙沮丧﹚and even tried to end my life, but my mother was always there for me.
小题1:Mr Shum is a painter who has no ____.

A．mouth

B．teeth

C．feet

D．arms

小题2:Mr Shum thinks himself first as ____.

A．a person

B．a painter

C．a hit

D．a star

小题3:He doesn’t like the word“handicapped”because it suggests ______.

A．he can do anything

B．there are some things he can’t do

C．there are somethings he can do very well

D．he doesn’t want others to look him down

小题4:What does the underlined word“firmly”in this passage mean?

A．紧紧地

B．随意地

C．缓缓地

D．轻轻地

小题5:What can we learn from Mr Shum’s story?

A．Comfort in living by painting

B．Pleasure of living with a brave mother

C．Help gives people happiness.

D．What really matters is how you face it.

There are seven continents﹙洲﹚in the world. Among them, Antarctica﹙南极洲﹚is the most special one. It is a world of snow and ice all year round. China has sent many scientists there. They try to find resources﹙资源﹚under the icy land and study climate change and sea biology.
What do they eat?
Scientists don’t have many choices on what they eat. About 60% their food is frozen food. It is easy to heat﹙加热﹚。Meat is common on the menu, while vegetables are not usual. Fresh vegetables are hard to grow in the cold weather. Therefore, people often eat dried and canned vegetables.
How do they sleep?
In Antarctica, summer lasts from November to March. During this time, Antarctica faces the sun and gets sunlight 24 hours of the day. In order to get some sleep,scientists cover the window with black cloth to make “night”.
How do they work?
People can wear warm clothes to be against the cold weather, but they can do little with the strong wind. Sometimes, the wind is even stronger than a typhoon. It can easily blow people away.
So there are ropes﹙绳索﹚that connect some research stations. People can hold these ropes to keep balance in strong winds.
How do they keep in touch with others?
There are no cables or Internet on the frozen continent. So mobiles and computers don’t work there. Scientists usually use two-way radios to communicate at work. If they want to say hello to family and friends, they can use the satellite phones.
小题1:What do scientists do in Antarctica?

A．They mostly study on the animals and plants there.

B．They mostly find resources and study climate change and sea biology.

C．They mostly find different kinds of lives under the ice and study them.

D．They mostly study on the ice and geography.

小题2:What kind of vegetables do they usually eat?

A．Fresh vegetables

B．Green vegetables only

C．Dried and canned vegetables

D．They go down the ice to work.

小题3:What do they do when the day lasts for 24 hours?

A．They work all day long.

B．They find a way to make “night”.

C．They stop working on those days.

D．They go down the ice to work.

小题4:How do the scientists work on the terrible windy days?

A．They use ropes to help themselves.

B．They just stay in the houses.

C．They use cars and ships to help.

D．They don’t think the wind brings trouble.

小题5:If scientist wants to say “I love you”to her daughter, what can she use?

A．Mobile phones

B．Tow-way radios

C．Satellite phones

D．Iphones and Ipods.

When you cut your skin, you bleed(流血). If a person loses a lot of blood, he will become ill and may die. Blood is very important. People have always known that. At one time, some people even drank blood to make them strong!
When doctors understand how blood goes around inside the body, they try ways of giving blood to people who need it. They take blood from the healthy people and give it to people who need it. This is called " blood transfusion（输血）". The blood goes from the arm of the healthy person into the arm of the sick person.
But there are two problems. First, it does not always work. Sometimes people die when they have blood transfusion. Later, doctors find that we do not all have the same kind of blood. There are four groups—O, A, B and AB. We all have blood of one of these groups. They also find that they can give any kind of blood to people of group AB. But they find that they must give A-group blood to A-group people and B-group blood to B-group people. I have O-group blood and the doctor told me that I could give blood to anyone else safely.
There is another problem. To give blood of the right kind, doctors have to find a person of the right blood group. Often they can not find a person in time. If they have a way to keep the blood until someone needs it, they can always have the right kind of blood. At first they find they can keep it in bottles for fifteen to twenty days. They do this by making it very cold. Then they find how to keep it longer. In the end they find a way of keeping blood for a very long time.
We call a place where we keep money a "bank". We call a place where we keep blood a "blood bank". One day, when you grow up, you may decide to give blood to a "blood bank". In this way you may stop someone from dying. Or perhaps one day you may become ill. You may need blood. The "blood bank" will give it to you.
小题1:From the passage, we learn that sometimes people die when they have blood transfusions because they __________ .

A．are given the cold blood	B．lose too much blood
C．are given the wrong kind of blood	D．are O-group people

小题2:Which of the following is true? ________

A．We can drink blood to make us strong.

B．Blood transfusion is always safe.

C．The writer has O-group blood and can give blood to anyone.

D．The blood can only be kept for 15to 20 days.

小题3:People set up the "blood bank" so that they can _____________ .

A．give the right kind of blood to the people who need it in time

B．keep different groups of blood as much as possible

C．make it easier to sell or buy blood

D．keep blood for more than twenty hundred years

小题4:From the last paragraph (段落) of the passage, we learn that _____________ .

A．the writer thinks it's good to give blood to a "blood bank"

B．we may become ill if we give blood to a "blood bank"

C．there are many blood banks in the world today.

D．blood is more important than money

小题5:The writer doesn't talk about ____________ in the passage.

A．how important blood is to us	B．the four groups of blood
C．where the blood bank is	D．what "blood transfusion" is

Air is always around us. It is around us when we walk and play. From the time we are born, air is around us. When we sit down, it is around us. When we go to bed, air is also around us. We live in air.
All the animals and plants need air. Living things can’t live without air. We can live without food or water for a few days, but we can not live for more than a few minutes without air. We breathe in air. When we are walking or running, we need more air. When we are asleep, we need less air.
We live in air, but we can’t see it. We can only feel it. We can feel it when it is moving. Moving air is called wind. How can we make air move? Here is one way. Hold and open a book in you hand in front of your face. Close it quickly! What you feel is the air.
小题1:_________ need air.

A．Some of the animals	B．All the things
C．Some of the plants	D．All the animals and plants

小题2:We can live for a few days __________.

A．without air	B．without food or water
C．without food or air	D．without air or water

小题3:We need _________ air when we are asleep.

A．less

B．no

C．most

D．a lot of

小题4:Which of the following sentences is TRUE(对的)?

A．Sometimes we don’t live in air.

B．Air is not around us when we go to bed.

C．We can live happily without air.

D．We need more air when we are working or running.

小题5:We live in air, but we can’t ________ it.

A．look

B．see

C．get

D．feel

Antarctica is in the most southern part of the world. It is like nowhere else on the earth. It is much larger than Europe, and nearly twice the size of Australia. Antarctica is the coldest and windiest place in the world, even colder and windier than the North Pole. In summer, the sun shines for twenty-four hours a day, but in winter it’s completely dark for about three months. Very few plants grow there, but there is some wildlife, including whales, seals and penguins.
When Captain James Cook traveled around Antarctica in the 1770s by ship, he found no one living there. Today, a few scientists work in Antarctica, but they only spend a short time there.
Many scientists are studying the ozone layer, which is getting thinner and thinner worldwide. The biggest “hole” is above Antarctica, and weather there is getting warmer. Scientists think that this cold and lonely place can teach us a lot about the earth and how to keep the earth safe.
小题1:When did Captain James Cook travel around Antarctica?

A．In the 1670s.

B．In the 1760s.

C．In the 1770s.

D．In the 1780s.

小题2:The underlined part “ozone layer” means “________” in Chinese.

A．冻土层

B．大气层

C．臭氧层

D．高压层

小题3:How many kinds of animals are mentioned in the passage?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

D．Five.

小题4:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Antarctica is much bigger than Australia in size.

B．Scientists spend a long time in Antarctica.

C．There is no plant growing in Antarctica.

D．In winter, it’s dark for about 70 days in Antarctica.

小题5:Why is the weather in Antarctica getting warmer and warmer?

A．Because there are more and more people living there.

B．Because the ozone layer is being destroyed.

C．Because the sun shines a long time every day there.

D．Because the weather in other places is getting warmer.

On sunny days we can see the sun in the sky. It looks like a hot and bright plate. But it is a ball. It is much bigger and hotter than any fire. And it is much brighter than all the lights in the world.
The sun is a star but it looks much bigger and brighter than any other star. Many stars are much bigger than the sun. The sun is much nearer to us, so it looks much bigger.
At night we can see the moon and many stars. The moon is a round ball. It is much smaller than the stars. The stars are much farther away from us; so thy look much smaller than the moon. The moon has no light of its own. When the sun shines on it, it looks bright. When the moon is full. It looks very beautiful.
小题1:Why does the sun look bigger than any other star?

A．Because it is bigger than any other star.

B．Because it is hotter than any other star.

C．Because it is brighter than any other star.

D．Because it is nearer to us.

小题2: Which is the nearest to us?
A. The moon.        B. The sun.         C. The stars.
小题3:Why do the stars look smaller than the moon?

A．Because the stars are smaller than the moon.

B．Because the stars are nearer to us.

C．Because the stars are farther away from us.

D．Because the stars are bigger than the moon.

小题4: Why does the moon look bright?

A．Because it is bright.

B．Because it has light of its own.

C．Because the stars shine on it.

D．Because the sun shines on it.

小题5:Which one is not right?

A．The sun looks like a bright plate.

B．Many stars are bigger than the sun.

C．The moon is smaller than the stars.

D．The moon has light of it’s own.

Many animals hide(躲藏) to stay alive. They hide in many ways. Some animals hide in leaves; some animals hide in snow. Usually their colors or shapes(形状) help protect them. It’s hard to see an Arctic bear in snow. Its white fur helps protect it. Chameleons(变色龙) can hide by changing colors. Their skin turns the same color as what is around them. Some chameleons can change colors in five minutes.
Many animals try to look bigger than they are to stay alive. Some animals can make other animals think they are very big. If they look very big, animals that are looking for food will run away. Bears can walk on two legs. They look very, very scary(可怕的). Some animals will run away from them.
Many animals try to stay around other animals. This helps them stay alive. Zebras stay close together so that they can help each other look out of danger. Seeing many stripes(条纹) at once can also confuse(使混乱) animals that want to eat them. Some birds stay in a circle, each toward a different direction. In this way they can also help each other stay alive by looking around for animals that may want to eat one of them.
小题1:Animals have ways to stay alive. Which animal try to look bigger than they are to stay alive in the passage?

A．Zebras.

B．Chameleons.

C．Birds.

D．Bears.

小题2:Why do animals hide?

A．Because they like to play hide-and-seek.

B．Because they are shy.

C．Because they want to catch other.

D．Because they want to protect themselves.

小题3:How do Chameleons hide?

A．They change colors.	B．They change shapes.
C．They hide in snow.	D．They hide in leaves.

小题4:How do zebras hide?

A．Become good friends.	B．Talk to each other.
C．Help each other look out for danger.	D．Eat and play together.

小题5:Why do animals try to look bigger than they are?

A．They want other animals to run away from them.

B．They want other animals to follow them.

C．They want other animals to see them.

D．They want other animals to like them.