Do you know the differences between African a...

Do you know the differences between African and Asian elephants？African elephants have larger ears，and both male and female African elephants have tusks（象牙）while only male Asian elephants have tusks.

African elephants have very useful trunks！Since they live where it’s always really hot，they get a trunk full of water and spray it on their backs. Then，they do the same thing with dust. The ends of their trunks work like little fingers. They use them to pick berries，grass，and other plants to eat. To drink，African elephants can suck up to two gallons of water in their trunks，then blow it into their mouths. If they sense danger，they use their trunks to make a loud warning sound. They even hug other elephants with their trunks.

Do you know that the closest relative of elephants are manatees（海牛）？They can weigh up to 1，300 pounds and they are good swimmers. If they’re in really shallow water，they use their front flippers（鳍状肢）to walk while they eat sea plants and grasses. Because they are so slow and like warm，shallow water，manatees often get hurt by a part of the boat when the drivers don’t see them.

Manatees are sea mammals like whales and dolphins. They live in water，but they need to breathe air，so they often go to the surface of water. They can stay underwater for up to 15 minutes.

1.From Paragraph 1 we know that＿＿＿＿＿＿.

A. male African elephants have longer tusks than female one

B. African elephants have smaller ears than Asian elephants

C. female Asian elephants don’t have tusks

D. Asian elephants are larger than African elephants

2.What is Paragraph 2 mainly about？

A. The way African elephants drink and eat.

B. How African elephants use their trunks for protection

C. The shape of African elephants’ trunks.

D. The use of African elephants’ trunks.

3.Why do manatees often go to the surface of water？

A. Because they can stay underwater for only 5 minutes.

B. Because they want to watch out for danger.

C. Because they need to breathe air.

D. Because they want to look for food.

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Elephants are able to know the difference between a man and a woman, and can tell an adult (成年人) from a child—all from the sound of a human voice. This is according to a study in which researchers played voice recordings to wild African elephants.

The animals showed more fear when they heard the voices of adult Masai men. Usually Masai people hunt elephants, and this suggests that animals have grown to listen for and avoid them.

Prof. Karen McComb and Dr Graeme Shannon from the University of Sussex led the study. They explained that in former research they had used similar experiments to show that elephants could tell—from the sound of a lion—whether the animal was a female (雌性) or a more dangerous male (雄性).

Prof. McComb wanted to find out if the animals used their very sharp sense of hearing to recognize danger from humans.

The scientists recorded Masai men, women and children saying, in their own language, “Look, look over there, a group of elephants are coming.” They also recorded Kamba men saying this phrase.

Masai people often come across elephants, which can result in violent (暴力的) hunting. Kamba people, however, mainly feed on agriculture, which does not generally bring them into violent touch with the animals.

When the team played recordings of these different voices through a hidden speaker, they found that elephant family groups showed more fear in response to the voice of a Masai man, than to a Kamba man’s voice. And the adult male Masai voices caused far more violent response than the voices of women or boys.

1.An elephant can tell a man from a woman by sense of ________.

A. touch B. sight C. smell D. hearing

2.How did the researchers get to know the elephants’ special ability?

A. By watching the elephants in the zoo. B. By playing voice recordings to them.

C. By recording the behaviors of elephants. D. By communicating with them in a special way.

3.We can learn from the passage that elephants are especially afraid of ________.

A. Masai men B. Masai women C. Kamba men D. Kamba women

4.What is the best title for the passage?

A. Elephants and Human Beings B. Differences Between Human Voices

C. Elephants Recognize Human Voices D. Elephants at War with Human Beings

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There's a big difference between saying you'll do something and________doing it.

A. actually     B. frequently       C. gradually        D. certainly

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There’ s a big difference between saying you’ll do something and ________doing it.

A．frequently　　 B．gradually

C．fluently　　　　 D．actually

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1.Who has written a book that talks about cultural differences?

A. Micheal White.　　　　 B. Adrian Vickers.

C. Atul Gawande.　　 　　 D. Nadine Gordimer.

2.What do The Pickup and The Checklist Manifesto have in common?

A. They have the same price cut.

B. Their list prices are the same.

C. Their authors are introduced in detail.

D. They share the same publisher.

3. In the book Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer Newton _____.

A. is a great but not perfect man

B. lives a meaningful and colorful life

C. is the same as what we commonly know

D. is an old-time gifted scientist and magician

4.Which of the following books offers the biggest price cut?

A. The pickup.

B. Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer.

C. A History of Modern Indonesia.

D. The Checklist Manifesto : How to Get Things Right

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— How do you deal with the disagreement between the company and the customers?

— The key _____ the problem is to meet the demand _____ by the customers.

A. to solving; making　　　　　　　　　　　 B. to solve; making

C. to solving; made　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. to solve; made

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---How do you find the match between Spain and Switzerland?

---It's 　　　　　 ！ Powerful Spain lost the game by 0∶1.

A. puzzling　　　　     B. amazing

C. tiring　　　　　　　     D. moving

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—How do you find the football match between Brazil and Argentina?

—It’s only _______. Nothing special.

A.average B.ordinary

C.common D.usual

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______ surprise us most is that she doesn’t even know ______ the difference between the two lies.

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________ surprises us most is that she doesn’t even know _______ the difference between the two opinions lies.

A. It; which　　 B. What; what

C. What; where　　 D. That; where

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