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Price: $ 14.9 Number of pages: 127
Storyline: Bean and her best friend, Ivy, decide to create their own camp. They think up all the activities and, of course, they make the rules…
Recommendation: I’d give this book a 10 because I love the characters. They are funny and creative.
Price: $ 15.9 Number of pages: 128
Storyline: Zoe and Alice’s mother might just have the coolest job ever. She saves great pyrenees dogs(大白熊犬)…
Recommendation: I’d give this book an 8 because it is a little sad. I think kids who love animals and a good story will really like it.
Price: $ 12.9 Number of pages: 192
Storyline: A dog lives in an empty pipe under Highway 16. He has four dog friends. One day, they decide to go on an adventure to steal the food from a human family…
Recommendation: I’d give this book a 9. It is funny. I was laughing out loud at all the funny scenes.
Price: $ 15.9 Number of pages: 160
Storyline: After their parents are killed in a car accident. Jayna and her elder brother Rob are each other’s only family. Soon, Rob goes off to serve in the navy.
Recommendation: I’d give this book a 9. I’m interested in romantic novels and science fiction, but not so much in historical fiction. Gingersnap really changed my opinion.
1._______ has the most pages.
A. Ivy and Bean Make the Rules B. White Fur Flying
C. Stick Dog D. Gingersnap
2.White Fur Flying ___________.
A. tells us about the life of four dogs B. is a historical fiction
C. is a book about saving dogs D. shows us the camp life
3.Tom wants to buy a copy of Ivy and Bean Make the Rules and a copy of Gingersnap. He should pay ______ for the two books.
A. $ 14.9 B. $30.8 C. $ 12.9 D. $15.9
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Miss Bailey taught me English in Junior school. She cycled to school, and then when entering the school gate, she would gave her bicycle to anyone of us to park it for her. It was a privilege（特别恩典）when Miss Bailey gave her bicycle to you. One day Shankar stood at the gate, Shankar was a hunchback（驼背的人）.
We laughed and said, “Move out of the way, Shankar! Miss Bailey is going to enter!” Miss Bailey drove in and we all rushed to offer our hands to her. But Miss Bailey looked past us all. “Will you park it for me?” she asked. We looked back to see who it was and were surprised to see it was towards Shankar. “I don’t think so, Miss Bailey!” stammered （结结巴巴地说）Shankar. “Why! You lazy fellow!” said Miss Bailey playfully. “You don’t want to help your teacher, do you?” “ Of course I want to, Miss Bailey!” whispered Shankar. “But I might drop your cycle!” “ If you drop it ,you pick it up!” said the teacher with a smile.
With that she gave her cycle to Shankar and didn’t look to see how he’d manage. Pretending she had confidence in his abilities, Miss Bailey turned and walked to class. We watched Shankar as he held her bike, we held our breath as we thought it was going to fall. Dines rushed to help. “Leave it!” Shankar said, and we all stopped. It seemed that his hump（驼背）disappeared as he drew himself up to his full height, and then with growing confidence, he pushed Miss Bailey’s cycle to the parking lot. The school bell rang, and we rushed to class. Shankar was the last to enter, but we were surprised; it was a different boy who walked in.
Miss Bailey didn’t even look at him as he walked to her and handed her the key. From that day on, Shankar was ready to answer the questions in class, his grades went up and a smile appeared on his face.
1.Miss Bailey go to school________.
A. by bus B. by bike. C. by taxi. D. on foot
2.When Shankar entered the classroom after parking the bike, ________
A. Miss Bailey praised him
B. his classmates cheered
C. his hump disappeared
D. he was full of confidence
3.It can be inferred（推断）from the passage that Bailey _______.
A. lived a comfortable life
B. had no pity on Shankar
C. was hard on her students
D. treated every student fairly
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Elephants losing tusks
People killing elephants for their tusks has long been a problem worldwide. Although laws have been introduced to ban the selling of tusks, they have not been enough to save the elephants.
But the giant animals have now “developed” their own solution to stay safe from hunters----by not growing tusks at all.
Scientists found that among female African elephants, as many as 98 percent of them now have no tusks, reported The Independent newspaper. The number was 15 percent in 1998 and only 1 percent in 1930, according to the BBC.
But this solution has less been developed by elephants themselves, and more by evolution.
Evolution is all about natural selection（选择）. When an environment changes, for example, animals and plants that can deal with the change will stay alive while others won’t. And for elephants, the change came when hunters started killing them for their tusks. As a result, elephants with big tusks couldn’t stay alive because hunters wanted to shoot them. Those born with tusks managed to stay alive and give their “tuskless” genes（基因）to their babies. As a result, more and more elephants are now being born without tusks.
But this solution, as effective（有效地）as it might be, is a high price to pay for elephants. Tusks are important and play a number of roles, especially for male elephants, including fighting with other males, lifting and digging things up.
This is why scientists hope there can be other ways to protect elephants against hunters. They believe that when they are less likely to be killed , elephants will be able to grow tusks again.
To David Cowdrey, head of Policy and Campaigns at the International Found for Animal Welfare UK, however, this is not very likely to happen in the near future.
“Unfortunately, it comes down to the markets,” he told The Guardian. “As long as people will pay high prices for products that come from endangered animal and plants, they’re going to have price on them and that causes the hunting.”
1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Elephants learned to lift and dig things up without tusks.
B. Elephants chose not to grow tusks because of their dangerous environment.
C. Elephants with no tusks had a greater chance of passing down their genes.
D. A tuskless elephant gives birth to more baby elephants than an elephant with big tusks.
2.The underlined word “evolution” in paragraph 4 means “_________” ?
A. gradual change B. sudden development C. complete loss D. rapid growth
3.What can you learn from the last two paragraphs?
A. We should work out a better solution to protect elephants.
B. People should pay lower prices for products made with elephant tusks.
C. Elephants’ living environments will soon be improved.
D. The key to elephant protection is stopping the trade in tusk products.
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Just like rice and noodles are different from bread, snacks in China are a world apart from those in the UK and the US. For one thing, I never imagined that sunflower seeds(瓜子) would be so popular here. I spotted people having them while waiting for tables outside restaurants, before dinner and, of course, while watching TV. I also saw that a plate of sunflower seeds is always on offer during the Spring Festival holidays.
I had seldom tried sunflower seeds when I came to China. In the UK, though, young people love their snacks. In fact, young people in Britain eat more snacks than people of the same age in other European countries. A recent survey has discovered that 64 percent of under 20-year-olds snack between meals, according to an article on the British Council website. In comparison,58.7 percent of young people snack in Germany, 53 percent in France, and only 40.7 percent in Spain.
British snacks are generally unhealthy. Our favorites are probably potato chips, which we call crisps, and chocolate bars. From a very young age, we always looked forward to our crisps and chocolate bars after school, perhaps even included with sandwiches and fruit in our school lunches that our parents made for us.
Snacks are also popular in the US. One of the things that I found the most extraordinary(特别的) when I first visited the US was the number of snacks in their supermarkets; I was surprised to find huge aisles(过道) just for snacks that were bigger than some stores I’d been to in the UK. Snack tastes in the US are much the same as those in the UK, except there’s much more choice —— every kind of fatty, sugary food is available to everyone all the time.
All in all, it’s probably best for your health if you like sunflower seeds rather than potato chips and chocolate. But eating these delicious treats at times couldn’t possibly be wrong, could it?
1.According to the article, snacks are the most popular among young people in ______
A. Britain B. Germany C. France D. Spain
2.What surprised the author when he went to supermarkets in the US?
A. How the snacks tasted.
B. The size of the snacks’ packages.
C. The lack of choice when it came to snacks.
D. The large number of snacks.
3.What does the author think of potato chips and chocolate?
A. They don’t taste as good as sunflower seeds.
B. They are unhealthy, so people should stop eating them.
C. It’s better to eat them with sandwiches and fruit.
D. It’s fine to enjoy them from time to time although they are unhealthy.
4.What is the article mainly about?
A. The most popular snack in China.
B. Snacks in the UK and the US.
C. Snacks young western people like.
D. Some tips for choosing snacks in the UK.
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