A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it’s sent sprawling (四脚朝天).
When it doesn’t get up, what the mother has done is repeated again and again. The struggle (挣扎) to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off again. Why? She wants it to remember how it can get up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there’s safety.
Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying great people, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.
Stone was once asked if he had found something unusual about these great people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They’re beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they’ve realized some small parts of what they set out (着手) to do.”The expression “a tall order” in Paragraph 1 most probably means ______.
| A．a happy thing | B．a difficult task |
| C．a big dream | D．a beautiful place |
A View from the Zoo is a book written by .
| A．Gary Richmond | B．Charles Darwin |
| C．Irving Stone | D．Vincent van Gogh |
The mother giraffe puts herself over her child and throws her long leg and kicks her baby because she .
| A．is an unkind mother |
| B．likes watching her bay sprawling |
| C．doesn’t want her baby to live with her |
| D．wants to train her baby to get up in this way |
The writer mainly wants to tell the readers that .
| A．the giraffe is an unusual animal |
| B．we should learn to be a careful writer |
| C．learning to get up leads to success |
| D．A View from the Zoo is a good book to read |
Bruno was a boy of eight. His father worked in a cinema and his mother worked in a shop. He lived not far from his school. He always walked there and walked home. On his way to school he had to pass a playground. It was very wet after it rained. One day, when he got home, his clothes were all wet. His mother became angry and said, “Don‘t play in the water on your way home from school!” On the next day Bruno came home with wet and dirty clothes. His mother became even angrier. “I ‘ll tell your father if you come back wet again.” said his mother. “He will punish you, you know.”
The third day the little boy was dry when he came home.
“You ‘re a good boy today.” His mother said happily. “You didn’t play in the water.”
“No, ”the boy said unhappily. “There were too many older boys in the water when i got there this afternoon. There wasn’t any room for me at all.”Bruno went to school __________ every day.
| A．by bike | B．by bus | C．by car | D．on foot |
The playground was between ____________.
| A．two classrooms | B．the cinema and shop |
| C．Bruno’s house and school | D．the shop and Bruno’s |
The little boy liked to play on the playground ___________.
| A．when it snowed |
| B．when there was some water there |
| C．when the children played football there |
| D．When his father was busy with his work |
Bruno was afraid of ______________ the most.
| A．his father | B．his mother | C．his teacher | D．the older boys |
That afternoon, the boy’s clothes were dry because __________.
| A．nobody made room for him in the water. |
| B．there was no water on the playground |
| C．He took off his clothes before he played there. |
| D．He played in the water carefully. |
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Yang Cangxu has recently become hot on the Internet. He is considered as a hero, and known as "A Professional Life Saviour", because he has saved 24 people's lives during the past 26 years. Yang, a typical Chinese farmer, lives in Baoji, Shanxi Province. He is good at
swimming, which is also his favorite. When he was young, he joined the army. The life in the army had a great influence on him. It also helped to form one of his characters(性格) --being ready to help others. Just seven to eight meters away from his home flows a channel(水渠). The water is very deep and flows fast. There is a bridge over the channel. Walking across the bridge is not an easy thing. From time to time, people fall into the water. If this happens, the person must be saved in time. Otherwise, he or she will be washed away by the water.
Yang Cangxu is always the first one to rush to the channel to save the drowning (溺水)person. We must learn from him.What does Yang Cangxu do ?__________________________________________
Why is he considered as a hero? __________________________________________
Does he like swimming best? __________________________________________
A punctual person is in the habit of doing a thing at the correct time and is never late for anything.
An unpunctual man never does what he has to do at the right time. He is always in a hurry and in the end loses both time and his good name. A lost thing may be found again, but lost time can never be got back. Time is more useful than material things. In fact, time is life itself. An unpunctual man is always wasting his most important things as well as others'. An unpunctual person is always saying unhappily that he finds no time to answer letters or return calls. But the man who really has much to do is very careful of his time. He knows that he can not finish all his work unless he carefully does every piece of work.
Being unpunctual is the sign of disrespect (不尊重_) towards others. If a person is invited to dinner and arrives later than the time when he should be there, he keeps all the other guests (客人)waiting for him. Usually this will be thought as a great disrespect to the host and all the other guests.
Not like a punctual person, an unpunctual one can't do his duty wonderfully, whether it is public or personal. Imagine how it would be if those who should do important tasks failed to be on time. A man who is known to be often unpunctual is never believed by his friends or fellow men.The Chinese meaning of the word "punctual" in this passage is probably “ ”.
| A．守时的 | B．听话的 | C．守纪律的 | D．能干的 |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．An unpunctual person often has more time. |
| B．A punctual person often does his work wonderfully |
| C．A punctual person often has a busy life. |
| D．An unpunctual person has more work to do. |
When you are invited to dinner, you'd better arrive there .
| A．in a hurry | B．after the host |
| C．at the decided time | D．before other guests |
From the passage, we learn that an unpunctual man usually in the end.
| A．saves time for others |
| B．leaves his family and friends |
| C．gets his chances and knowledge |
| D．loses his time and good name |
Today there are policemen everywhere, but in 1700, London had no policemen at all. A few old men used to protect the city streets at night and they were not paid.
About 300 years ago, London was starting to get bigger and more and more people began to live there. The city was very dirty and many people were poor. There were so many thieves who stole money in the streets that people stayed in their homes as much as possible.
In 1750,Henry Fielding started to pay a group of people to stop thieves. They were like policemen and were called “Bow Street Runners” because they worked near Bow Street.
Fifty years later, there were 120 “Bow Street Runners”, but London had become very big and needed more policemen. So in 1829 , the first Metropolitan(or London)Police Force was started with 3,000 officers. Most of the men worked on foot, but a few rode horses. Until 1920 all the police in London were men.
Today, London police are quite well paid and for the few police officers who still ride horses, the pay is even better than for the others.In 1700, the men who protected the streets were paid .
| A．a few | B．nothing | C．a little | D．a lot |
About 300 years ago, many people .
| A．wanted to leave London |
| B．had big houses in London |
| C．became policemen |
| D．came to live in London |
People didn’t leave their houses because .
| A．they had no money |
| B．they were afraid of losing money |
| C．the city was not clean |
| D．they liked homes |
The “Bow Street Runners” .
| A．stopped people stealing |
| B．stole money |
| C．paid people to steal |
| D．stopped people riding horses |
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Lost dog Medium size, spotted white short hair..Answer you when you call it David. Many thanks for returning it. Call Susan at 7328059. |
| Taxi driver wanted Full time. Experience and good knowledge of the city are necessary. Under 45 years old. Call Mr. White at 5132683 |
Apartment for sale Two bedrooms, a kitchen and a bathroom. Hot water 8:00 - 18:00. Beautiful sights out of the windows. E-mail: sdgt@ 163.com. |
If you want to ______,you can make a call. The number is 67895532.
| A．take guitar lessons | B．employ a musician |
| C．learn to drive | D．sell your guitar |
Who should you call if you find the lost dog ?
| A．Larry | B．David | C．Mr. White | D．Susan |
When is hot water provided in the apartment?
| A．At any time. | B．At night. |
| C．In the day time. | D．Only in the morning |
The four passages above are ______.
| A．pieces of news | B．letters |
| C．telephone messages | D．advertisements |
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