Sue Hendrickson is a self-taught fossil（化石）hu...

Sue Hendrickson is a self-taught fossil（化石）hunter. As a kid, Sue Hendrickson often walked with her head down. “People said, ‘Look up. Smile!” she says. “Now, I realize I was born to look for things and just didn’t know it.”

Sue Hendrickson does more than look—she finds valuable things: Shipwrecks（沉船）with treasure, ancient sunken cities, and in 1990, she found Sue, the world’s largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex（霸王龙）. Is Hendrickson lucky? Well, maybe. But she also knows how to look.

“I limit the area where I’m going to look,” she says. No one knew the location of the sunken ship San Diego in the Philippines. For a year, Hendrickson and other researchers searched papers and sailors’ diaries. “The descriptions of the ship’s sailors led us to the wreck,” she says. The team also used a tool that can respond to metal. This tool found the San Diego. All the work paid off. The 400-year-old ship was complete, with valuable gold and silver coins.

To find the dinosaur she calls “the biggest animal that ever walked on earth,” Hendrickson started with maps made to search for oil. What Hendrickson found was the largest and most complete T-rex found to date. The T-rex is 42 feet long with 200 bones! Because it is so complete, scientists were able to infer that Sue walked at about 6 miles per hour and did not run faster than 15 miles an hour. Before Sue was discovered, they thought T-rex was much faster. To learn more about T-rex Sue, go to the Field Museum in Chicago.

There’s plenty left to be found, Hendrickson says, including answers to mysterious such as how T-rex lived. “I tell kids that they need to grow up and work them out because all of us old persons haven’t yet!”

1.What’s Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A. An ancient city.　　 B. Hendrickson’s hobby.

C. The world’s largest T-rex.　　 D. Hendrickson’s great findings.

2.How did Hendrickson find the sunken ship San Diego?

A. With a self made tool.　　 B. By starting with research.

C. By following sailor’s lead.　　 D. With the help of oil maps.

3.What can we learn about T-rex Sue?

A. It helped scientists learn new things about T-rex.

B. It ran faster than any other T-rex.

C. It let people know how T-rex lived.

D. It was the biggest dinosaur.

4.What does Hendrickson advise kids to do?

A. Find more details.　　 B. Explore mysteries.

C. Visit the Field Museum.　　 D. Respect scientific research.

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To many youngsters of today, a computer is ____ a gun is to hunters, as is well known.

A  as             B like          C what          D that

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Mary Anning was an English fossil(化石)collector，dealer and paleontologist(古生物学家).Her fossil-hunting helped change the way people thought about the world.

Mary was born into a poor family in England on May 21, 1799. She lived in the seaside town of Lyme Regis, in Dorset. The family had nine children. Only Mary and her brother Joseph grew up. Mary's father took his children along the beach. They picked up shells and stones to sell to visitors. Mary did not go to school much. Her family was too poor. And schools did not teach children about fossils. Mary could read and write. She taught herself. She learned about rocks and how bodies are made.

In 1811 when Mary and Joseph were fossil hunting, Joseph saw a bone sticking out of the rock. Mary had a hammer to chip away at the rock. Very carefully she uncovered it. She found the first complete fossil of the ichthyosaur(鱼龙).

Since then, Mary became crazy about fossil hunting. She liked to hunt on the beach after a storm. The wind, rain and waves made the rocks crumble. It was easy to spot fossils. Most days Mary went fossil hunting with her dog, Tray.

Rich friends helped Mary by selling fossils for her. They sent her money. Scientists wrote letters and came to see her. One good friend was William Buckland, a professor at Oxford University. Mary also opened a shop to sell fossils, stones and shells. She chatted with visitors.

Mary Anning died in1847. How evolution(进化)works was explained by Charles Darwin not long after Mary died. Her fossils had helped scientists understand how things began.

1.Why did Mary’s father take his children along the beach?

A. To enjoy life. B. To make a living. C. To look for fossils. D. To teach them about fossils.

2.What can we learn about Mary?

A. Her father was a paleontologist. B. Her father educated her at home.

C. She had nine brothers and sisters in all. D. She might be popular at that time.

3.Who was the first one to catch sight of the rock containing the first complete ichthyosaur fossil?

A. Charles Darwin. B. Mary's dog. C. Joseph. D. Mary.

4.What does the underlined word crumble in the fourth paragraph means ?

A. break B. shake C. float D. dive

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School activities for kids and teens

July is a month of fun-filled activities for kids and teens as long as you know where to find them. When you want some fun activities for July, consider these ideas happening in this month.

1.Alec is strongly interested in space life. He may go to ________.

A. Magic Class　　 B. Science with Me

C. The Search for Life　　 D. Secret of the Dragon

2.John and his 10-year-old twins want to watch Secret of the Dragon. How much should they pay?

A. 7.40　　 B. 11.10

C. 14.80　　 D. 23.20

3.What do the four activities have in common?

A. They can all be booked by phone.

B. They happen in the same place.

C. They are all weekend activities.

D. They are all free.

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July is a month of fun-filled activities for kids and teens as long as you know where to find them. When you want some fun activities for July, consider these ideas happening in this month.

1. Alec is strongly interested in space life. He may go to ________.

A. Magic Class　　　　 　　　 B. Science with Me

C. Secret of the Dragon　　 D. The Search for Life

2.John and his 10-year-old son want to watch Secret of the Dragon. How much should they pay?

A. $7.40.　　　 B. $11.10.

C. $14.80.　　　 D. $23.20.

3.What do the four activities have in common?

A. They are all free.

B. They happen in the same place.

C. They are all weekend activities.

D. They can all be booked on phone.

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July is a month of fun-filled activities for kids and teens as long as you know where to find them. When you want some fun activities for July, consider these ideas happening in this month.

1.Alec is strongly interested in space life. He may go to ________

A. Magic Class.　　 B. Science with Me.

C. Secret of the Dragon.　　 D. The Search for Life.

2.John and his 10-year-old son want to watch Secret of the Dragon. How much should they pay?

A. $7.40.　　 B. $11.10.

C. $14.80.　　 D. $23.20.

3.What do the four activities have in common?

A. They are all free.

B. They happen in the same place.

C. They are all weekend activities.

D. They can all be booked on phone.

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As ________ matter of fact, ________number of young couples who plan to have a second kid is increasing rapidly.

A. the; a　　　　 B. a; the　　　　 C. a; a　　　　　 D. 不填；the

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The event happened to Hunter as if it were yesterday when he was working in a fancy French restaurant in Denver. The ice cream he was serving fell onto the white dress of a rich and important woman.

Thirty years have passed, but Hunter can't get the memory out of his mind, nor the woman’s kind reaction. She was shocked, regained calmness and, in a kind voice, told the young Hunter, “It’s OK. It wasn't your fault.” When she left the restaurant, she also left the future Fortune 500 CEO with a life lesson. You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she treats the waiter.

Hunter isn't the only CEO to have made this discovery. Rather, it seems to be one of those few laws of the land that every CEO learns on the way up. It's hard to get a dozen CEOS to agree about anything, but most agree with the Waiter Rule. They say how others treat the CEO says nothing. But how others treat the waiter is like a window into the soul.

Watch out for anyone who pulls out the power card to say something like, “I could buy this place and fire you,” or “I know the owner and I could have you fired.” Those who say such things have shown more about their character than about their wealth and power.

The CEO who came up with it, or at least first wrote it down, is Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson. He wrote a best-selling book called Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management.

“A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person,” Swanson says. “I will never offer a job to the person who is sweet to the boss but turns rude to someone cleaning the tables.”

1.What happened after Hunter dropped the ice cream onto the woman’s dress?

A.He was fired. B.He was blamed.

C.The woman comforted him. D.The woman left the restaurant at once.

2.Hunter learned one of his life lessons from____________.

A.his experience as a waiter. B.the advice given by the CEOS.

C.an article in Fortune. D.an interesting best-selling book.

3.Most CEOS have the same opinion about_________ depending on the text.

A.Fortune 500 companies. B.the Management Rules.

C.Swanson’s book. D.the Waiter Rule.

4.From the text we can learn that________________.

A.one should be nicer to important people.

B.CEOS often show their power before others.

C.one should respect others no matter who they are.

D.CEOS often have meals in expensive restaurants.

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Tigers of this kind are _____ hunting because hunters are ______ their skin. As a result, they will be ______ soon.

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-What do you think of the book？

-It's ______ a book．It serves as a really good guide to job hunters．

A. other than B. more than

C. rather than D. less than

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