Compared to dogs, cats are often considered t...

Compared to dogs, cats are often considered to be aloof (冷漠的)with respect to their human owners. It is usual for them to be indifferent (无动于衷的)when humans call their names. Are we sure that they don’t understand human voices at all?

A recent study published in the journal of Scientific Reports suggests that we’ve been fooled. Japanese scientists found that cats can recognize their names if their owners regularly use them. In the study, scientists recruited 78 domestic cats. They played recordings of voices of their owners saying five words: the first four words were random nouns that sounded similar to their names while the final word was the cat’s name. Then they observed the cats’ responses, if there were any.

Most of cats moved their ears or heads when they heard their names, while they made no response to other words. That suggested, “cats were paying attention to you, what you say and what you do,” John Bradshaw, an expert on human-animal interactions (互动) at the University of Bristol, UK, told The Times. “And cats were just as good as dogs at learning,” she added.

In the study, when people called their names, cats often associated　 (联系)　 the words with rewards, such as food or play, or with “punishments” such as having a bath or going to the vet . This made cats sensitive (敏感的) to words. After the cats had been called several times, they could respond to the words. But the scientists added that while dogs have evolved (进化) to follow their owners’ orders, cats have not. Although cats appear to be aloof, they do have special relationships with their owners.

According to study co-author Atsuko Saito, cats have evolved not to show their emotions as a survival method. One example is illness, which they tend to hide because “in the wild, no one can rescue them” and predators (捕食性动物) are more likely to pay attention to them, Saito explained.

However, technology may help bridge the communication gap between cats and us. There are now mobile apps available to explain what their meows mean. So, the next time you hear “meow, meow”, your cat may be telling you: “Hi, you haven’t cleaned my litter box recently.”

1.What did the recent study find about cats?

A.Cats learn more slowly than dogs. B.Cats are cleverer than dogs.

C.Cats can recognize their names. D.Cats are willing to follow orders.

2.Why do cats appear aloof?

A.They want to protect themselves from harm.

B.They associate words with punishments.

C.They are not sensitive to the human voice.

D.They don’t pay much attention to their surroundings.

3.What does the last paragraph tell us?

A.It is difficult to understand cats’ meows.

B.Interaction with your cats is very important.

C.Cats do have good relationships with their owners.

D.We may know cats better with the help of technology.

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Froli Cat Dart

While cats require less attention compared to dogs, that doesn’t mean you can just leave them at home all day long. No sir, they too, need some level of attention and will have to keep themselves occupied mentally and physically too. Well, FroliCat Dart makes it possible. Just what is the FroliCat Dart all about? Well, for starters, this device delivers 360° rotation (旋转) that will project laser patterns on the floor, letting your feline (猫科动物) friend chase after it.

Portable USB Power Supply

With modern gadgets, running out of juice happens to some of us more often, simply because today’s devices seem to suck up more juice than before. That’s why the Portable USB Power Supply comes in handy, being a best emergency charger for cell phones and other devices. Capable of holding a charge for up to three months when in standby, it will ship with adapter tips that cater for a certain variety of cell phone brands.

Battery Powered Gloves

For those living in the northern hemisphere(半球)，we are pretty sure that you have already stocked up on your winter supplies to make sure you remain nice and warm throughout the upcoming freezing months. Well, wearing a pair of the Battery Powered Hand Warming Gloves is necessary so as to keep your palms and fingers warm. These gloves come with battery-powered integral (不可缺的) heating elements which is capable of keeping your hands nice and warm for up to eight hours. It requires a quartet of AA batteries in each glove, and since both gloves are fully lined with a waterproof, breathable material, they might just come in handy during your next snowball fight. Too bad it comes only in one color—black.

1.How does FroliCat Dart work?

A．It can make cats run around your house.

B．It can project laser patterns to make cats chase.

C．It can make cats much sleepier than before.

D．It can provide food and drink for cats.

2.From the second paragraph, we know that________

A．Lack of power happens to some of us less often than before.

B．The adapter tips cater for all kinds of cell phone brands.

C．The Portable USB Power Supply can charge for some phones.

D．The Portable USB Power Supply can only last for three months.

3.Where do the Battery Powered Gloves sell well?

A. Iceland        B. India       C. Australia      D Singapore

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If you have a cat, you already know that a cat isn’t a dog that doesn’t have to be walked. If you’re about to bring a cat into your family, you need to understand that basic fact. The common wisdom is that dogs are friendlier than casts.

In recent years, scientists who have done DNA studies have offered a better way to understand cats. Unlike other animals that people feed, cats domesticated themselves, and, in a way, trained humans. Cats decided to live close to humans because doing so benefited the casts themselves.

Studies show that cats have lived with humans for about 12,000 years, since people first settled down and started farming. When people started storing grain, mice arrived and started eating the grain. Clever cats figured out that mice settlements where people stored grain were easy for hunting, so they started hanging around. Cats did what they needed to do to get the people to let them stay, but they kept up their independence. Over time, cats allowed humans to get a bit closer to them. Later, the farmers did befriend the cats. Certainly, it didn’t do them any harm because they could see the cats were really helping them out by eating mice.

Today, about a third of American families have cats. In most of those homes, the cats are still more interested in pleasing themselves than in pleasing their human families. A dog may do anything it can to make you happy, but kitty will teach you to make kitty happy.

1.Compared with dogs, cats are______.

A. colder　　 B. friendlier

C. more warm-hearted　　 D. more frightening

2.According to the text, why do cats decide to stay close to humans?

A. To be useful to themselves　　 B. To protect grain from mice

C. To rely on humans for food　　 D. To keep up their independence

3.What may be the best title for the text?

A. A common point between dogs and cats

B. The reasons why people like dogs

C. A disadvantage of raising cats

D. The basic fact about cats.

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The English are often considered as unfriendly people who don't talk to strangers, but not London taxi drivers. I once asked a cabbie to describe his life to me and he didn't stop talking until I arrived home half an hour later. He told me many interesting stories and this is one of them: “Some very strange things happen late at night. The other day I was taking a woman home from a party. She had a little dog with her. When we got to her house she found that she'd lost her key. So, I waited in the cab with the dog while she climbed up the window.” “ I waited … and waited … After half an hour of ringing the bell I decided to find out what was going on. I tied the dog to a tree and started to climb up the window. The next thing I knew was that the police came. They thought that I was trying to rob the house! Luckily, the woman came downstairs, she'd gone to sleep and forgotten about me and the dog. I was in such a hurry to get away that I forgot to ask her for the fare (车费).”

1.In the writer’s opinion, London taxi drivers are _____________.

A. unfriendly       B. talkative           C. helpful      D. strange enough

2. From the passage we guess that the writer ______.

A. is the driver of the taxi                    B. often travels by taxi

C. is a foreigner visiting London           D. lives in London

3.What does the underlined word “cabbie” mean in this passage?

A. Conductor          B. Stranger       C. Taxi driver      D. author

4.The man was waiting outside the woman's house because ______.

A. he began to like the woman and her dog at the first sight

B. the woman had not paid him

C. he wanted to know what would happen when the police came

D. he was trying to go on talking with her

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Do you often play with your pet dog or cat? Do you like touching wild animals such as squirrels? They are cute. But be careful. If they bite you, you may get a terrible disease——rabies.

Believe it or not, in the last five months, rabies killed more people in China than any other disease. 2,254 people got rabies in the first nine months of this year. In September, 318 people died of rabies. That is 37 per cent more than last September.

Animals like dogs, cats, squirrels and bats can have rabies. If they bite or scratch（抓）someone, rabies could infect（感染）the person’s nervous system（神经系统）. The person could even die. It’s important to get the right treatment as soon as possible.

Every year, more than 50,000 people around the world die of rabies. Most of them are from developing countries. India has the most deaths. China is second.

1.Rabies is the name of _____.

2.Paragraphs two and three _____.

3.Which of the following animals might NOT have rabies?

4.The Chinese for the underlined word “treatment” probably is _____.

5.What the best title for the passage?

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When people think of working animals，what often comes to mind are dogs that watch sheep，horses that work on farms and animals that perform in movies.But there are lots of other jobs animals have had over the years.

Dogs have greater sense of smell than humans.This made dogs the traditional hunting partners，making their owners able to follow foxes and other animals.Police departments have taken advantage of this skill to help find missing people and escaped criminals.Recently，dogs have been trained to find drugs and explosives (爆炸物).

The honey－guide lives in the southeast African nation of Mozambique.It has developed a win－win relationship with a group called the Yao.If a Yao member makes a certain sound，the honey－guide will fly from tree to tree directing him to a hidden bee box.Once the box is discovered，the person breaks open the box for honey，and the honey－guide could enjoy the honey，too.

Ferrets (雪貂) are cute and furry animals that are from 1.5 to 4 pounds.People　 have taken advantage of a ferret’s natural ability to run through tiny space.Ferrets wear a special harness(甲胄) that makes them able to pull a string through hundreds of feet of tiny space，which is then used to pull computer wires through tiny space.

Baby flies are called maggots.The job of a maggot is to eat and grow until it turns into a fly.This is similar to how a caterpillar eats and grows until it becomes a butterfly.However，there is a big difference between these insects.Caterpillars feed on plants，while maggots eat meat.Actually，they only enjoy bad meat.Maggots are used with patients who get serious infections that can’t be treated with antibiotics (抗生素).The maggots are used to the infected area for a number of days.They eat the dead part but leave the living part alone，thereby helping patients recover from the infection.

1.From the passage，we can learn that dogs ________.

A.are the friendly friends of sheep

B.have developed a win－win relationship with people

C.have greater sense of smell than foxes and other animals

D.help human beings a lot in many areas

2.With the help of the honey－guide，the Yao member can ________.

A.find the hidden bee box

B.develop a great relationship with bees

C.pay attention to dangerous things

D.stay away from criminals

3.What can we know from the passage?

A.The honey－guide can be used as medicine.

B.People can learn much from dogs and horses.

C.Ferrets are good at running through tiny space.

D.The baby fly is　 always called the caterpillar.

4.People can take advantage of the baby flies to treat ________.

A.burns caused by explosives

B.terrible cancers

C.harm caused by bees

D.serious infections

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Concerts should be a fun and enjoyable occasion for everyone attending them, including the musicians. No matter what type of concert one is attending, he is still expected to follow the rules of concert etiquette(礼仪).1.

Classical music concerts are often events when concert etiquette is considered to be very important. One should generally arrive a few minutes before the show starts, so he can be in his seat at the beginning of the first musical performance. If he arrives late, it may be considered rude to walk in and take his seat in the middle of a musical performance.2.In this way, he will not influence other audiences while the music is being played.

3..Take jazz concerts for example. People are usually not criticized (批评) for making a small amount of noise, as long as it is not troubling other audiences. For example, they may talk quietly during a performance.

Rock and heavy metal concert etiquette is very relaxed4.However,audiences are still expected to show some good manners during a performance.Also, rock concerts are often very crowded, particularly in the areas surrounding the stage.

5.But one should still pay attention to his surroundings.Stepping on someone's foot repeatedly may cause a fight as well.

A.This will usually be announced before the concert begins.

B.Instead, he should wait for one song to end before taking his seat.

C.Rock concert goers, on the other hand, can usually get a little louder.

D.People are not usually discouraged from talking at these types of concerts

E.In large groups of people like this, it is not unusual to touch others at times.

F.Concert etiquette for other types of concerts is usually a little more relaxed.

G.And the concert etiquette can be different, depending on what type of concert it is.

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Theresa Furrer's experience with making pet hair thread(线) began after her own painful experience. When she lost her pet cat in 2012, she decided to _______ it with the help of an expert. But she ended up _______ for nine months to get her cat's body back. She said the waiting was also _______. That was the time when she started _______ other ways of keeping the dead pet's body.

She bought a spinning wheel(纺车), and _______ working with cotton, to get familiar with the process. Then she set about working with the fur of cats and dogs. Her first _______ was the black fur of a dog. She described the work as a _______, but later the fear was gone.

At first, Furrer always started a(n) _______ about her hobby with “Don't think I'm mad.” But most people really didn't _______her mad at all. ________ , many of them had long been looking for that service. And then Furrer ________ that pet hair thread could be a ________of service business for her.

Furrer ________ three spinning wheels in her house now. In the ________ stages of the thread making process of up to ten different projects, she often washes the thread, and sometimes ________ it with a supporting fiber to produce usable mixed thread. Cat hair is very ________ to work with, but she has found ways to manage it over the years, because she doesn't like saying “no” to those ________ owners who have lost their beloved pets.

Furrer has made hundreds of animal hair thread ________ over the last eight years. She can ________ the thread into all kinds of ________, like hats and bracelets (手镯).

1.A.ruin B.preserve C.pack D. calm

2.A.accounting B.apologizing C.waiting D.allowing

3.A.painful B.magical C.rare D.entertaining

4.A.giving up B.spying on C.turning down D.thinking about

5.A.started B.missed C.admired D.disliked

6.A.relief B.protection C.project D.application

7.A.terror B.puzzle C.joy D.fantasy

8.A.organization B.discovery C.approach D.conversation

9.A.hear B.consider C.keep D.drive

10.A.Impossibly B.Regretfully C.Unfortunately D.Actually

11.A.reminded B.realized C.regretted D.misunderstood

12.A.fault B.chance C.limit D.story

13.A.decorates B.hates C.owns D.mends

14.A.various B.false C.same D.worthless

15.A.swap B.describe C.mix D.replace

16.A.relaxing B.simple C.amusing D.hard

17.A.pet B.house C.plant D.factory

18.A.toys B.dogs C.products D.cats

19.A.push B.turn C.throw D.put

20.A.nests B.cartoons C.minerals D.items

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Samuel L. Clemens, also known as Mark Twain, started off his writing career (事业) in 1865 with his big hit story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County — a story-within- a-story told to a listener by an old California miner. From that day on, the works of the great humorist always had different animals.

Some members of Twain’s literary (文学的) animals were based on real animals, such as the Clemens family’s named pet cats. Some were imaginary, like that celebrated jumping frog.

As a boy in Missouri, he got pleasure from knowing the animals of the woods; in old age,　 he felt a deep relationship with the animals large and small that he met in his travels. His cats, family dog, horses, donkeys, and calf also won his three daughters’ love at their Hartford home. On March 22, 2018, to mark this part of Twain’s personal life, The Mark Twain House & Museum opened a new exhibition (展览), Tails of Twain: How Animals Shaped the Man & His Work. The exhibition was rich with exhibits from the museum’s collections.

The king of the animals in Twain’s world was the cat, “the only creature in heaven or earth or anywhere that don’t have to obey (听从) somebody or other, including the angels.” He was known to be the proud pet parent of 19 cats during his childhood. As an adult, the Clemens　 home always had a named cat. Even on vacation, the Clemens family borrowed cats from locals to live with them. Dogs were considered second-class pets, but Twain liked them. Twain once wrote an ode (颂诗) to his dead dog Burns: “She lived a quiet harmless life in Hartford ...”

In true Twainism, humans were not as loved as the “Higher Animals”. Even the most low- down animal, however, was superior in Twain’s eyes to “the human race.” After all, he did write once “Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel.”

1.What can we learn about The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County?

A.It tells a story of Twain’s family pet.

B.It was written for Twain’s three daughters.

C.It made Twain pay attention to animals.

D.It was Twain’s first great success as a writer.

2.What’s the main purpose of the new exhibition?

A.To introduce how Twain spent his childhood.

B.To exhibit some of Twain’s best-sellers.

C.To show Twain’s different hobbies.

D.To show Twain’s love for animals.

3.What does the underlined word “superior” in the last paragraph probably mean?

A.richer B.better

C.quieter D.stronger

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Dogs have a very good ______ of smell and are often used to search for survivors in an earthquake.

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