In Canada you can find dogs, cats, horses, etc, in almost every family. These are their pets（宠物）.People love these pets and have them as their good friends. Before they keep them in their houses, they take them to animal hospitals to give them needles so that they won't carry disease（疾病）. They have special（特殊的）animal food stories, though they can get animal food in almost every store. Some people spend around two hundred Canadian dollars（加元）a month on animal food. When you visit people's homes, they will be very glad to show you their pets and they are very proud（自豪的）of them. You will also find that almost every family has a bird feeder（喂食的器皿）in their garden. All kinds of birds are welcomed to come and have a good meal. They are free to come and go and nobody is allowed（允许）to kill any animals in Canada. They have a law against killing wild animals. If you kill（杀死）an animal, you will be punished（惩罚）. If an animal happens to get run over by a car, people will be very sad about it.

　　People in Canada have many reasons（原因）to like animals. One of them may be: Their family tie（关系）is not as close as ours. When children grow up, they leave their parents and start their own life. Then the old will feel lonely. But pets can solve（解决）this problem. They can be good friends and never leave them alone.

A．how to keep disease from pets

B．pets in Canada

C．how to take good cam of pets

A．the pets are sick

B．the pets are wild

C．they want to stop them from carrying disease

A．they don't love their parents any more

B．they can only find jobs far from their parents

C．they wouldn't depend on（依靠）their parents any more

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

B．Pets eat better than people.

C．All kinds of birds can come to the bird feeders to eat.

About the year 1 900，a small dark-haired boy named Charlie Chaplin was often seen waiting

outside the back entrances of London theatres．He1  thin and hungry．He was hoping to get work in show business．He could sing and dance．and above all，he knew how to2  people laugh．But he couldn’t get work and walked up and down in the city．Sometimes he was sent away to a home for children who had no parents．

    But twenty years later，this same Chaplin became the greatest best-known and best loved comedian（喜剧演员）in the world．Any visitor to the cinema3  some of Charlie Chaplin’s films．People everywhere4  while seeing them until the tears ran down their faces．Even people who don’t understand English can enjoy Chaplin’s film because they are mostly5 ．His words in．the films can’t be heard at all，6 his comedy doesn’t depend on（依靠）words or languages．It depends on actions which mean the 7  thing to people all over the world．Performance without words：plays an important part in the dances and plays in many countries．It’s a kind of world language．People in China．Also love his films very much，8  today．We can see some short films on TV acted by Charlie Chaplin．

    Chaplin9  most of his life in America and died in Switzerland on Christmas Day 1 977 at the age of eighty-eight．The whole world was full of sadness at the news of his10 ．

1．A felt                    B．looked              C．looked like          D． liked

2．A．speak                B． tell                C． allow             D． make

3．A． must have seen       B． must see           C． must be seeing    D． must seeing

4．A． saw                 B． smiled             C． cried             D．laughed

5．A． loud          B． quiet              C． noisy             D．silent

6．A． though               B． so                C． but              D．when

7．A． same                B． different           C． funny             D．difficult

8．A． even if                B． even              C． even though       D．though

9．A． spent                B．took               C． paid              D．used

10．A．dead               B．dying              C．death              D．die

Have you ever wondered?

1.      Why do airplanes take longer to fly west than east?

It can take five hours to go west-east from New York (NY) to London but seven hours to travel east-west from London to NY. The reason for the difference is an atmospheric phenomenon (大气现象) known as the jet stream (气流). The jet stream is a very high altitude (=" above" sea level) wind which always blows from the west to the east across the Atlantic. So the planes moving at a constant air speed go faster from the west to the east when they are moving with the wind than in the opposite.

2.      What would happen if the gravity on Earth was suddenly turned off?

Supposing we could magically turn off gravity. Would buildings and other structures（建筑物）float away? What happened would depend on (依靠) how strongly the things were attached (吸附) to the earth. The earth is moving at quite a speed, moving at over a thousand miles per hour. If you turn something around your head on a string, it goes around in a circle until you let go of the string. Then it flies off in a straight line. ‘Turning off’ gravity would be like letting go of the string. Things not attached to the earth would fly off in a straight line. People in buildings would suddenly shoot upwards at a great speed until they hit the ceiling (=" top" surface of a room). Most things outside would fly off into space.

1.What information can we get from the first passage?

2.The underlined word “shoot” in the 2nd paragraph means “_________”.

3.It can be known that without gravity _________.

4.Where can we read this passage?

Do you like chocolate? Maybe most people do. A box of it can be a great gift. Buy one for a friend and give it as a surprise. See how happy that person gets.
Say you just got a box of chocolate. Which piece do you pick first? A man has studied people’s choices. He says they tell something about the person. Did you choose a round piece? You are a person who likes to the party. Did you choose an oval (椭圆形的) shape? (1)You are a person who likes to make things. Picking a square shape shows something else. The person is honest and truthful. You can depend on (依靠) him or her.
(2)What kind of ________ do you ________? Maybe you like milk chocolate. This shows you have warm feelings about the past. Dark chocolate means something else. A person who chooses it looks toward the future. What about white chocolate?  Would you choose it? If so, you may find it hard to make up your mind. Some people like chocolate with nuts (果仁). These are people who like to help others.
Different choices may show different characters（性格）．Do you believe these ideas?
Can candy tell all these things? It doesn’t really matter. There is one sure thing about eaters of chocolate. They eat it because they like it.
【小题1】回答下面问题：
What kind of chocolate may a helpful man choose according to this passage?（不超过5个单词）  
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【小题2】将(1)句译成中文：_____________________________________________________
【小题3】在(2)句的空白处填入适当的词使句意完整、上下文通顺：________，________
【小题4】找出文中与下列句子意思相近的句子：You enjoy singing, dancing and drinking.
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【小题5】找出文中最能表达该短文主题的句子：
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I was 15 months old, a happy and carefree kid, until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I ____ on a piece of glass that cut my eye badly. From then on, my ugly, sightless, cloudy grey eye lived on ____ me.

    Sometimes people asked me embarrassing (使人难堪的) questions. Whenever the kids played ____, I was the "monster". I was always imagining that everyone looked down on me.

    Yet mum would say to me, "Hold your head up high and face the world." I began to depend on that ____.

    As a child, I thought mum meant, "Be careful, or you will fall down or run into something ____ because you are not looking." As a teenager, I usually looked down to ____ my shame. But I found that when I held my head up high, people liked me.

    In high school I even became the ____, but on the inside I still felt like a monster. All I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would ____ to my mum and she would look at me with loving eyes and say, “Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the beauty that is ____ instead of your appearance (外貌).”

    My mum's love was the ____ that made me bright. I had faced hard times, and learned not only to be ____ but also to have deep compassion (同情) for others.

    “Hold your head up high” has been heard many times in my home. I tell ____ to my children. The gift my mum gave me will live on.  286

1.A. stood                   B. landed                     C. found                      D. worked

2.A. for                       B. like                           C. by                   D. with

3.A. games                           B. jokes                        C. toys                          D. sports

4.A. glass                     B. topic                        C. reply                        D. saying

5.A. immediately                 B. accidentally            C.continuously  D. expectedly

6.A. show                    B. meet                        C. behave                    D. hide

7.A. president            B. teacher                   C. teenager                 D. adult

8.A. write                    B. add                          C. cry                           D. face

9.A. beside                           B. outside          C. inside                      D. alongside

10.A. suggestion                 B. experience            C. sunshine                 D. introduction

11.A. confident                   B. unusual                   C. similar                     D. ordinary

12.A. it                                  B. them                        C. that                          D. those