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Cara Jumper loves the giant saltwater pond on her grandparents Swansea, South Carolina, property(房产). One January afternoon, her grandfather Coy Jumper piled ten-year-old Cara and her sister, Claire, six, and Emma, five, into his Pontiac Sunfire and took them down to the pond. He and the girls walked happily through the pines, checking traps. No luck---they were empty.
As the sun disappeared gradually toward the horizon, the group turned back to head home. But as Coy walked along the bank, he was suddenly unable to put one foot in front of the other. Then Cara saw Coy walk unsteadily and fall backward into the pond’s deep water.
When her grandfather didn’t surface immediately, Cara jumped in. With one hand, Cara grabbed the bank. With the other, she reached for her grandfather, making contact in the dark water.
Coy had suffered a stroke(中风) the year before. Now Cara wondered if he’d had one again. Just 80 pounds to her grandfather’s 230, she held his head and pulled his face out of the water. That woke him, but he was still dead weight. She managed to move Coy towards the three-foot bank and pulled him up onto solid ground.
The winter sun had almost disappeared, and they were all trembling. Cara knew she’d have to get Coy to the car, a quarter mile away. She helped him to his feet. Coy slowly moved forward.
Sixty feet from the car, Coy fell. From there, he crawled, dragging himself under a gate, to the car. His granddaughters helped him into the passenger’s side, and Cara got into the driver’s seat.
“I used to sit on my dad’s lap and drive,” she says now. Coy, too, she says, had let the fifth grader drive through the fields around the house. Still, she felt nervous, but she pushed on the gas and steered(驾驶) them the three miles home. “I was trying to get there fast, but I didn’t want to get us hurt,” Cara says. When she pulled the Sunfire into the garage, her grandmother, Esca was there to meet them.
Coy spent six days in the hospital recovering from a stroke. Says Esca, “If Cara hadn’t helped, she might not have a grandpa anymore.”
1.What happened when Coy and his granddaughters were heading home?
A. Cara walked into traps by accident.
B. Coy jumped into the water suddenly.
C. Cara couldn’t walk upright.
D. Coy suffered a stroke.
2.How did Cara, her grandfather and her sisters get home?
A. She drove them home.
B. Esca went to pick them up.
C. Coy drove home with Cara’s help.
D. Cara and her sister dragged Coy home.
3.Which words can best describe Cara?
A. Honest and optimistic.
B. Confident and generous.
C. Brave and calm.
D. Caring and sensitive.
4.What would be the best title for the text?
A. Love Between Grandfather and Granddaughters
B. Strength Beyond Her Years
C. Help from the Families
D. Rescue Under the Water
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The child was invited by her parents to explore the edges(边缘) of the pond. It was a ____ pond, but rich in life. The adults ____ all kinds of tools along.
They began the exploration ____ the mud at pond’s edge. ____ they searched for tracks by various animals, the parents showed their approval of the child’s natural curiosity and ____ her to touch, smell and play in whatever she wanted. They ____ much time happily. Creatures caught temporarily ____ viewing were kept in the plastic containers. The ____ jars held frogs for a few moments viewing. Smaller jars allowed them to ____ larvas (幼虫) which hid around rocks in the pond. Cares were ____ to honor the truth of the life forms. And the child was ____ told that, “Today we are learning from the creatures, and treating them as friends even the ____ and scary-looking ones.” Eventually a standard picnic ____, but it was clear that she had made a friend with ____ on this day.
More often than not, parents are drawn into outdoor ____ in a fashion that treat the natural offerings of a site ____ as a setting. Parks become a place to use playground ____ , have social gatherings and play team sports like volleyball or badminton. ____ there are priceless chances for studying nature’s ____ in nearly all these settings. The parents ____ above were not naturalists but they somehow knew that nature held gifts that would benefit their child’s life.
1.A. clean B. joyful C. broad D. simple
2.A. showed B. brought C. gathered D. spread
3.A. finding B. making C. using D. hiding
4.A. After B. If C. Since D. As
5.A. encouraged B. forced C. persuaded D. begged
6.A. prepared B. spent C. missed D. offered
7.A. for B. in C. under D. through
8.A. precious B. pretty C. large D. new
9.A. search B. notice C. see D. watch
10.A. taken B. fetched C. caught D. carried
11.A. usually B. frequently C. hardly D. partly
12.A. strange B. pleasant C. ordinary D. general
13.A. turned off B. turned over C. took off D. took over
14.A. edge B. mud C. nature D. jar
15.A. activities B. accidents C. discussions D. exercises
16.A. nearly B. only C. also D. seldom
17.A. tool B. equipment C. device D. subject
18.A. Thus B. So C. Yet D. Then
19.A. loneliness B. friendliness C. quietness D. richness
20.A. created B. compared C. mentioned D. recommended
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The giant panda loves bamboo. An adult panda requires 12.5 kilograms of bamboo, which it 1.(hungry) pulls out with its powerful paws, to satisfy its daily needs. Wild pandas live only in the high bamboo forests of Central China. These mountain forests are cool and wet--just as pandas like it. In the summer, they may climb as high as 4000 meters to help themselves to bamboo 2.(grow) at higher altitudes. Frequently, pandas 3.(see) eating in a relaxed sitting position, with their back legs stretched out before them. 4. they may appear inactive, they are in fact skilled tree-climbers and efficient swimmers.
Giant pandas are unsociable. They have a highly developed sense of smell that males use 5.(avoid) each other and to find females for mating in the spring. After a five-month pregnancy, a female gives birth 6. a cub. The blind baby pandas weigh only 142 grams and cannot crawl(爬行) 7. they reach three months of age.8. are born white, and develop their much loved coloring later.
There are only about 1000 giant pandas left in 9. wild, with perhaps another 100 in zoos. Because they are so rare, much of 10. we know about pandas comes from studying these zoo animals.
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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The giant panda 1. (love) by people throughout the world. Chinese scientists 2. (recent) had a chance to study a wild female panda with a newborn baby. She was a very 3.(care) mother. For 25days, she never left her baby, not even to find something 4. (eat)! She would not let any other pandas come near. She licked the baby constantly to keep it clean. Any smell might attract natural 5.(enemy) that would try to eat the little comforting panda. The mother held the baby in her front paws much the way a human does. 6. it cried, she rocked it back and forth and gave it little comforting pats. The mother continued to care for the young panda 7. more than two years. By that time, the panda no longer needed 8.(it) mother for food. However, it stayed with her and leaned about the ways of the forest. Then, after two and a half years, the mother 9. (drive) the young panda away. It was time for her to have a new baby, 10. it was also time for the young panda to be independent.
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阅读下面材料， 在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
The giant panda 1.(love) by people throughout the world. Chinese scientists 2. (recent) had a chance to study a wild female panda with a newborn baby. She was a very3.(care)mother. For 25days,she never left her baby, not even to find something 4.(eat)!She would not let any other pandas come near. She licked the baby constantly to keep it clean. Any smell might attract natural 5.(enemy)that would try to eat the little comforting pats. The mother held the baby in her front paws much the way a human does. 6. it cried, she rocked it back and forth and gave it little comforting pats, The mother continued to care for the young panda7. more than two years. By that time, the panda no longer needed8. (it)mother for food. However, it stayed with her and leaned about the ways of the forest. Then, after two and a half years, the mother9. (drive) the young panda away. It was time for her to have a new baby, 10.it was also time for the young panda to be independent.
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Sichuan is home to giant pandas, ________ are China’s national treasure loved by people all over the world.
A. whose B. that C. where D. which
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One autumn morning, I spotted a pair of wild geese on our pond. The beautiful sight caught me by _______ because I’d never seen geese there before. Thinking they would soon leave, I _______ the chance to get close to them. I wondered where they came from and why they had chosen our pond.
The next morning, the geese were still my _______. I walked round to the mailbox, showing them I meant no harm. _______. I couldn’t resist getting a _______ look. I hid behind some trees and _______ the handsome pair quietly through the branches. I was surprised to see they were staring at me, too!
As days passed, I started _______ to them on my trips to the mailbox. They craned （伸长） their necks and raised their heads _______. but seemed to realize I was their friend. By then, my curiosity about _______ they were staying so long at the pond changed to ________. As they were feeding in the grass the other day, I discovered the reason for their ________: the male had a broken left wing. He couldn’t ________, and his faithful mate wouldn’t leave him behind. I asked a biologist what to do. He explained that sometimes a ________ wing will heal by itself and suggested letting nature take its course.
On the first day of November, I was working in the neighborhood of the geese with my tractor. As I bent to fasten a chain from the tractor, I ________ some movement from the corner of my eye. Both geese were running towards the pond. Their wings were ________ like crazy, struggling for take off. Gradually, they flew over the pond. They ________ enough altitude to fly past a neighbor’s house, and then circled back towards me, flying no more than 50 feet over my head as if to say goodbye. Then they were out of my ________.
The season’s first snowflakes fell the very next day. The birds must have ________ that winter was coming, and it was time to go. I became fond of them during their ________ visit to our pond, and now I miss them. I’ll never forget their ________ to each other.
1.A. accident B. surprise C. nature D. fortune
2.A. increased B. created C. deserved D. valued
3.A. guests B. puzzles C. fellows D. friends
4.A. Instead B. Therefore C. Still D. Anyhow
5.A. closer B. quicker C. quieter D. broader
6.A. approached B. calmed C. observed D. protected
7.A. turning B. attending C. driving D. talking
8.A. firmly B. cautiously C. warmly D. proudly
9.A. why B. when C. how D. whether
10.A. sympathy B. rescue C. pleasure D. concern
11.A. companion B. visit C. settlement D. care
12.A. recover B. survive C. fly D. return
13.A. weak B. folded C. broken D. flightless
14.A. held B. caught C. directed D. made
15.A. spreading B. sweeping C. trembling D. beating
16.A. gained B. set C. discovered D. lost
17.A. reach B. sight C. control D. help
18.A. concluded B. indicated C. sensed D. confirmed
19.A. unexpected B. casual C. regular D. short
20.A. contribution B. promise C. treat D. devotion
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The London Eye is a giant 135---meter tall Ferris wheel situated on the banks of the River Thames in the British capital. Since 20 January 2011, it has been officially known as the EDF Energy London Eye following a three---year deal with the company. It is the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe, and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom, visited by over 3.5 million people every year. The London Eye is located at the western end of Jubilee Gardens, on the South Bank of the River Thames In the London Borough of Lambeth in England, between Westminster Bridge( which has longer history than the famous Severn Bridge to the west of London) and Hungerford Bridge. When erected in 1999, it was the tallest Ferris wheel in the world, until surpassed first by the 160 m Star of Nanchang in 2006, and the 165m Singapore Flyer in 2008. A breathtaking feat of design and engineering, passengers in the London Eye’s capsules can see up to 40 kilometers in all directions. The London Eye is the vision of David Marks and Julia Barfield, a husband and wife architect team. The wheel design was used as a metaphor for the end of the 20th century, and time turning into the new millennium(千禧年). Back in 2000, the London Eye was known as the Millennium wheel. In 2009, a 4D Film Experience was added as a free extra to enjoy before your ride on the Eye. Once you get high enough and start coming down the other side, you will see people reach for their cameras. Here’s where the good stuff is right at your fingertips(or seems so). Parliament and Big Ben are beneath you, as are so many other historical things . If you are interested in other attractions in London, you can refer to the homepage.
1.Which of the following statements is NOT correct ?
A. It is so popular that every year, more than 3.5 million people visit the London Eye.
B. London Eye is called the EDF Energy London Eye from 2011 because the company bought it.
C. It is designed by David Marks and Julia Barfield, a husband and wife architect team.
D. It is 135---meter tall and is the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe.
2.What cannot be seen from the London Eye ?
A. The beautiful sights of the River Thames.
B. The Westminster Bridge.
C. The famous Seven Bridge.
D. Big Ben
3.We can infer from the passage that___________.
A. London Eye is the third tallest Ferris wheel in the world.
B. London Eye was named the Millennium Wheel at first.
C. London Eye is free of charge, and that's why so many people come here.
D. Before your ride on the London Eye, you can first enjoy a 4D film now.
4.You can find this passage_________.
A. in a magazine B. in a newspaper C. from a guidebook D. on a website
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The London Eye is a giant 135---meter tall Ferris wheel situated on the banks of the River Thames in the British capital. Since 20 January 2011, it has been officially known as the EDF Energy London Eye following a three---year dea
l with the company. It is the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe, and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom, visited by over 3.5 million people every year. The London Eye is located at the western end of Jubilee Gardens, on the South Bank of the River Thames In the London Borough of Lambeth in England, between Westminster Bridge( which has longer history th
an the famous Severn Bridge to the west of London) and Hungerford Bridge. When erected in 1999, it was the tallest Ferris wheel in the world, until surpassed first by the 160 m Star of Nanchang in 2006, and the 165m Singapore Flyer in 2008. A breathtaking feat of design and engineering, passengers in the London Eye’s capsules can see up to 40 kilometers in all directions. The London Eye is the vision of David Marks and Julia Barfield, a husband and wife architect team. The wheel design was used as a metaphor for the end of the 20th century, and time turning into the new millennium(千禧年). Back in 2000, the London Eye was known as the Millennium wheel. In 2009, a 4D Film Experience was added as a free extra to enjoy before your ride on the Eye. Once you get high enough and start coming down the other side, you will see people reach for their cameras. Here’s where the good stuff is right at your fingertips(or seems so). Parliament and Big Ben are beneath you, as are so many other historical things . If you are interested in other attractions inLondon, you can refer to the homepage.
1.Which of the following statements is NOT correct ?
A. It is so popular that every year, more than 3.5 million people visit the London Eye.
B. London Eye is called the
EDF Energy London Eye from 2011 because the company bought it.C. It is designed by David Marks and Julia Barfield, a husband and wife architect team.
D. It is 135---meter tall and is the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe.
2.What cannot be seen from the London Eye ?
A. The beautiful sights of the River Thames.
B. The Westminster Bridge.
C. The famous Seven Bridge.
D. Big Ben
3.We can infer from the passage that___________.
A. London Eye is the third tal
lest Ferris wheel in the world.B. London Eye was named the Millennium Wheel at first.
C. London Eye is free of charge, and that's why so many people come here.
D. Before your ride on the London Eye, you can first enjoy a 4D film now.
4.You can find this passage_________.
A. in a magazine B. in a newspaper
C. from a guidebook D. on a website
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A sun-starved Norwegian town has finally seen the light—by installing giant mirrors on the surrounding mountains to reflect rays onto its market square.
The small town of Rjukan sits deep in the narrow Vestfjord Valley，in the Telemark region south-west of Oslo. The towering peaks that surround it rise to almost 2,000 meters above sea level and block out the sunlight for half the year, meaning Rjukan residents live in a permanent shadow from September to March.
But all that changed this week, with the official launch of a project first proposed a century ago. Three high-tech mirrors，with a combined reflective surface of 50 square meters, have been put into operation on a ridge(山脊) on Gaustatoppen mountain，brightening up the previously gloomy town center by flooding it with up to 600 square meters of sunlight.
Twenty-first century technology has made the $850, 000 project possible, with heliostats—computer-powered mirrors—shifting every 10 seconds to track the movements of the sun during the day.
But the idea to lighten up the dark town actually dates back 100 years. Rjukan was originally founded as a company town for Norsk Hydro, which set up a fertilizer plant here to make use of the hydro power from the nearby 104 meter Rjukanfossen waterfall. The story goes that the aluminum(铝) and renewable energy company’s founder，Sam Eyde，wanted a way to brighten up the existence of his shadowed 1aborers--and also to make them work more effectively during the winter.
The local newspaper published a suggestion by local bookkeeper Oskar Kittelsen to use a mirror to reflect sunlight onto the town，and Eyde picked up on the idea. Technological limitations of the day meant the plan never came to fruition，however, and instead northern Europe’s first cable car was built in 1928 to give Rjukan residents sunlight exposure at the top of the mountain.
1.Rjukan residents used to 1ive in a permanent shadow from September to March .
A. because it sits near the Arctic Circle(北极圈)
B. because it is located in a deep valley
C. because the sunlight was stopped by peaks
D. because it 1ies to the southwest of Oslo
2. The underlined word“flooding”in the third paragraph means .
A. covering B. counting
C. widening D. viewing
3.Norsk Hydro set up Rjukan because .
A. there were quantities of cheaper labors
B. there existed large amounts of hydro power
C. it was very convenient to use water
D. there was rich aluminum and water resources
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l with the company. It is the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe, and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom, visited by over 3.5 million people every year. The London Eye is located at the western end of Jubilee Gardens, on the South Bank of the River Thames In the London Borough of Lambeth in England, between Westminster Bridge( which has longer history th
an the famous Severn Bridge to the west of London) and Hungerford Bridge. When erected in 1999, it was the tallest Ferris wheel in the world, until surpassed first by the 160 m Star of Nanchang in 2006, and the 165m Singapore Flyer in 2008. A breathtaking feat of design and engineering, passengers in the London Eye’s capsules can see up to 40 kilometers in all directions. The London Eye is the vision of David Marks and Julia Barfield, a husband and wife architect team. The wheel design was used as a metaphor for the end of the 20th century, and time turning into the new millennium(千禧年). Back in 2000, the London Eye was known as the Millennium wheel. In 2009, a 4D Film Experience was added as a free extra to enjoy before your ride on the Eye. Once you get high enough and start coming down the other side, you will see people reach for their cameras. 
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