【小题1】If you answer the questions    ___  (correct), you will get the present.
【小题2】The fans could not hide their ___________(excite) when they saw their favourite singer.
【小题3】The _______(wife) of the policemen usually do most of the housework because their husbands are too busy.
【小题4】People ___________(clap) their hands and shouting in the TV room now.
【小题5】The Changjiang Bridge       ___  (build) in the 1950s.
【小题6】Some birds fly to the            (south) part of China in autumn.
【小题7】The goal of Project Hope is _______(help) students and schools in poor areas.
【小题8】----______ your father __________(fly) abroad recently?
---Yes, he has been in Singapore for a week.
【小题9】 The vegetables _________(grow) in the backyard by my mother every spring.
【小题10】“Can I win the English speech contest?” I kept asking ____________(I).
【小题11】My aunt                  (buy) the car two days ago.
【小题12】English is ________ (wide) used in many kinds of fields.
【小题13】There          (be) much rain in my hometown since the beginning of this month.
【小题14】What our life will be like if we have no computers in our______(day) life?
【小题15】They are celebrating their daughter’s ____________(twenty-one) birthday in the Garden Hotel.

When people want to know about the weather, they usually go to their radios, TVs, newspapers, or to the Internet. However, you can also find many weather signs among wildlife, because of their highly developed senses. Drops in air pressure produce an effect on small animals in many ways. Mice and deer are good weather indicators. People who spend a lot of time outdoors have observed that, before a storm, field mice come out of their holes and run around. Deer leave high ground and come down from the mountains.

Birds are especially good weather indicators because they also show the effect of a pressure drop in many ways. For example, some birds become irritable(暴躁) and quarrelsome and will fight over a piece of bread. Other birds chirp and sing just before a storm. It seems they know they won’t get another chance for an hour or two. Birds also look for safe places before a storm. You will sometimes see birds settling in trees or gathering together on a wire close to a building. Pre-storm low pressure make the air so thin that birds have difficulty flying.

It is unusual to see many birds flying overhead in the summertime, rather than during the periods in the spring or autumn. Watch for other weather signs if you see this. If they fly in the wrong direction, they may be flying ahead of a storm.

By paying closer attention to some important signs in nature, we can become better prepared for any kind of weather.

【小题 1】The word “indicators” in paragraph 1 probably means          .

A. maps                 B. services             C. signs        D. stations

【小题 2】How can birds sense the coming of a storm?

A. By feeling a drop in air temperature.

B. By noticing the change of wind directions.

C. By feeling a drop in air pressure.

D. By noticing the movements of other animals.

【小题3 】The best title for the text would be         .

  A. Signs of a Storm                           B. Drops in Air Pressure

  C. Animals’ Sharp Senses                     D. Nature’s Weather Signs

Many animals hide to stay alive. They hide in many ways. Some animals hide in leaves; some animals hide in snow. Usually their colors or shapes 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. 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 at once can also confuse 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 many want to eat one of them.

1.Animals have ways to stay alive. How many of them are mentioned in the passage ?

A. One          B. Two          C. Three       D. Five

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.

3.How do Chameleons hide ?

A. They change colors.     ?? B. They change shapes.    

C. They hide in snow.    ??? D. They hide in leaves.

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

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.

Mr Black was walking in the forest（森林） He was scared when he heard a terrible noise. But he could not get out of the forest. His friends were waiting for him in a village outside the forest. They would give him a lot of money if he took a tiger to them, or they were going to laugh at him.
Mr Black liked hunting(打猎). He usually killed some birds and animals. But a week ago, after he drank too much, he called himself a brave hunter. So his friends bet(打赌) him twenty thousand dollars if he could kill a tiger.
Suddenly, he heard a little noise. He ran to a big tree,and climbed up it quickly.He didn’t come down until he saw it was a farmer. He went close to him and asked, “Excuse me, sir.Are there any tigers in the forest?”
“Yes,” said the farmer. “I saw a lot of tigers’ tracks（足迹）about a kilometer north near here.”
“Good!”Mr Black said in a hurry. “Which way is to the south,then?”
【小题1】Mr Black was good at________
A drinking   B hunting small animals  C running   D betting
【小题2】Which is NOT true?
A Mr Black was a brave hunter.
B Mr Black was scared of tigers.
C He thought a tiger was close to him, so he climbed up the big tree quickly.
D Mr Black asked the farmer the way to run away.
【小题3】We can guess ________ finally.
A Mr Black got twenty thousand dollars
B his friends would think he was very brave
C Mr Black won the bet
D Mr Black lost the bet

Mr Black was walking in the forest（森林） He was scared when he heard a terrible noise. But he could not get out of the forest. His friends were waiting for him in a village outside the forest. They would give him a lot of money if he took a tiger to them, or they were going to laugh at him.

Mr Black liked hunting(打猎). He usually killed some birds and animals. But a week ago, after he drank too much, he called himself a brave hunter. So his friends bet(打赌) him twenty thousand dollars if he could kill a tiger.

Suddenly, he heard a little noise. He ran to a big tree,and climbed up it quickly.He didn’t come down until he saw it was a farmer. He went close to him and asked, “Excuse me, sir.Are there any tigers in the forest?”

“Yes,” said the farmer. “I saw a lot of tigers’ tracks（足迹）about a kilometer north near here.”

“Good!”Mr Black said in a hurry. “Which way is to the south,then?”

1.Mr Black was good at________

A drinking   B hunting small animals  C running   D betting

2.Which is NOT true?

A Mr Black was a brave hunter.

B Mr Black was scared of tigers.

C He thought a tiger was close to him, so he climbed up the big tree quickly.

D Mr Black asked the farmer the way to run away.

3.We can guess ________ finally.

A Mr Black got twenty thousand dollars

B his friends would think he was very brave

C Mr Black won the bet

D Mr Black lost the bet